New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-07
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Antoine Rubinetein, n young Russian, is not onlya
powerful pianist but also delightful composer.
He has more ERE, more enhancement than Kind.
wertb, but perhaps less feeling, less inward ardor
A performer we think him really second to none
but List, and his future career will be marked by
unusual brilliancy He is one of the few wonderful
children whose RYE age does not gise the he 10 the
once promising childhood il was the Gaze with
Handel, Mozart and List, and even at the risk Of
being charged with exsggeration we hope that the
Damc of RubDsten viii ono day be- pronounced
among the most glorious. To those who heard, at
the concert given in his honor by the REUNION des
Arts in Harley street, the quartet, the sonata aud
the Persisehe Li,der composed by him. our apprecia
ton will By no means appear too lofty. There is
much originality in these compositions and We do
not know Of greater praise to be bestowed in our
DAYS of unmeanng and endless writing Of notes.
All the eminent musicians Of London were present
AZ this concert, and among the most delighted we
remarked Ella, Benedict, Ernst Gofre, Hallmark,
Pamie, Witt and Briickmann. Sebastian Bsch's
concerto in c minor, executed on TWO pano'iortes
b1 Rubipstein and KiliBdwortb was truly wonder
f,l and delightful in the utmost. Such performances
arc passed over in silence by the honorable Mr..
Davidson and bis critical followers; hui let us tell
them with Wordsworth:
aye who pore
On the dead letter miss the spirit"
Rubinstein and Kilindworth are not the only for
eign artists in England who may exclam, with as
good right as Ovid
, d" Barbarus bic ego sum, quia non intellsor Ills
Asian speaking of the new school ofmusic, must
not omit to mention that the 35th Musical Festival
of the Rhine has been celebrated at Axa Chapelle,
Il xkoxE ,an NJ tpa tho chosen director. The
fact is important for those who have asked themselves
for number of years: Is there new art are the
ideas Of Richard Wagner propagated by Llszt, des-
fined beside the remarkable works written by
their ardent promoters, TO produce partial or
radical reform in music The programme itself
answered the question. Full of admiration for the
illustrious names of musical Germany, the maestro
of Weimar demands at least liberation and space for
the works of those for whom the hour of pOsterity
has not yet struck After Bach Handel, Beethoven
he inscribes, en- PEASANT, Schubert and Schumann,
and at last come the new names Of Richard Wagner
and Hector Beroz This prospectus is certainly more
eclectic than revolutionary. In spite OF the efforts OF
the classical conservatives, symphony OF Schubert,
Robert Schumanns Sdnger's fiuch, Llszt's Fest
Kldngc, and Wagner's overture OF the Iannhdasr
met with the most genuine success. But BerliOz's
Enfame du Christ was the great .stumbllng-block.
How could such prOfsne romantic appear among
the SACRED crowdl Many enthusiastic Handelists
asked proudly, What is Saul coming to do among
the prophets! ," and would have. deserved the
answer which the witty Julius Weber once returned
to an assembly of straightaced clerWmcn, AGA
"seekng my fathers ass and think have found it,"
Beroz a living composer, and frenchman, too
Tadert Poor Berlioz meets with the same mis-
fortune which Details panOre Jacques in the play
whom people found too old for work and too young
for aims. In Paris they find him too German; at
Ax-h .Chapele, too French. However that may
be- the performers Of the festival entered into con-
spiracy and executed the OratorO SO badly at the
rehears that List was obliged to leave Oft the two
first parts: but in spite of this obstinate aversion, the
third part La Fuite en- Egypte produced such pro.
found sensation that the whole theater applauded
most vigorously. Hector Berlioz has at present
droi. de bOurgeOisie in Germany.
And now, to finish with the Handel festival in the
CRYSTAL Palace at Sydenham-what shall say OF
il! When Voltaire was once asked why he did
not write commentary of Racines tragedies, as
he did for Corneile, he answered. This comment
cary is already written, for you have only to put
"under each page the words admirable, sublime"
We do not exactly share the opinion Of the sarcastic
philosopher on Racine, but still We are unable to
find any other expression beside bis two superative
epithets,. in order to describe our sensations az
this grand execution of the Messiah, Judas Macca-
bans and Israel in Egypt. 1t will be one of the
greatest events in the musical history OF England
and the world for there was never anything to be
compared with such an effect. / do not grudge that
have no space left for detailing my opinion, for
feel inadequate to the task of expressing my ad.
miratiOn in a suitable manner.
can also merely mention that Madame Ristor
has achieved signal triumph in Meded, RoSmnnda
and Gamma at the Lyceum theater; and that Lord
Campbell has given the world another volume of his
Lives of the Chief Justices of England cOmpris.
ing those of Kenyon, Peterborough and Tenterden,
the barber's SOD from Canterbury. The anecdotes
from the Bench are the true witticlsm OF England,
though they not always seasoned with Attic salt.
We extract tie following from the volume before u.s.
"Coleridge in his Table Talk relates that Lord
Kenyon in addressing the jury in blasphemy case,
adOn ed the Gospel, added: Above all, gentlemen,
need name to you the Emperor Julian, who was 80
celebrated for the practice Of every Christian virtue,
that he was called Julian the Apostle SO, 10 the
cole elton Of legal anecdotes, entitled Westminster
Hail. the noble and learned lord is represented as con,
Guiding an elaborate address, on dismissng grand
jury, with the following valedicton: Having thus
discharged your consciences, gentlemen, you may
consciousness Of having performed your duties we'll
snd may lay your heads upon your pillows, saying to
yourselves Ant Cosar AIT nuilus. In exposing the
fal.ehood Ut witness ne n supposed to have sald,
The allegation is as far from truth as old BOoterium
from the Northern Main "a line have heard or
met with God knows whter his mode of pronounce
ing whercl."
Of Lord Peterborough the following traits. are
told:
"a declamatory speaker (Randle Jackson, counsel
for the East India Company, who despised all techn
cates and tried to Storm the Court by the force Of
elcqueIce, once, when uttering these words In
the book Of nature, my Lords. 1t is written
stopped by this question from the ChiefJustice,
will you have the goodness to mention the page,
Sir. if you please
"a witness dressed in fantastical manner having
given very rambling and discreditable evidence, was