New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-22
Nsh ORLEANS 4ailp Grestent.
MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1858.
ThaIberg and vieuxtemps.


The first week of the Thaberg and Vieuxtemps
concerts has passed away and we are enabled to set
down to the distinguished performers the honor of
the most brilliant and complete musical triumph that
has been achieved in our city for many years. The
lively anticpations with which they were at first
received, have been douby realized and the excite
ment which they have aroused in musical circles
amounts to furore, in the genuine, unqualified sense
of the term. And is tlrore which is owing solely
to the artistic merit of the great brothers of the piano
and violin, Independent of any of the extraneous
influences to which mediOcrity too often resorts, in
playing upon public excitability.
Night after night, at Odd Fellows Hail. thousands
Of our most intelligent and fashionable citizens, inelu
ding all the fine musical tastes for which our city is
distinguished, have listened to Thalberg and vieux
temps, and awarded them the applause which belongs
not merely to successful art but to genius TO that
perfection Of art which reaches the limit of musical
perception, and leaves the refined musical nothing
more to desire. The ease the modest grace the gen
tlemanly cOmposure of Thaberg, when performing
his most difficult and wonderful pieces is his chief
fascination with our musical public. There are
nloTceauI Of written music the execution of which
subjects ordinary performers to an appearance of
labor which would destroy the charm of the music,
if it not more or less chaotically rendered
and it is in these particular executions that Thai
bergs laurels lie enshrned above the touch of other
mortal hands. Veuxtemps on the violin, is no less
wonderful than Thalberg As with the great pianist
his music flashes brilliantly and magcally forth, as if
his instrument were part of his animal organization
and subject to his thought direct rather than through
the medium Of his fingers. The singers, Mime
Johannsen, Miss Kemp and Signor Ardavania, are
respectively very good, and have most agreeably
added the charm of variety to the performances OF
| the lion instrumentalists.
Those who have not yet heard Thalberg and Vieux-
temps and the muttudes who have not heard
them enough, will be gratifed with the announce.
ment that two more concerts are to be given one
Wednesday evening, and the other on Friday eve
ming. At the Wednesday concert, Vieuxtemps is to
give his great crowning performance, of fantasia
from Norma" on one string Thalberg and Vieux
temps are to execute duet from " Somnambula >
and the programme will be otherwise made up with
the view of gratifying those who wish to hear the
great artists in many of their brilliant performances
as possible
This week, also, Thalberg and Vieuxtemps alont
are to give three matinees nlusicaies, or morning
concerts, on Thursday and Saturday mornings ant
Thursday morning of next week. These matinee
are limited to subscriptions the price being five dol
lars for three. This will afford families and ladies un
attended by gentlemen, an opportunity of hearing
and studying the great artists at their leisure,
under more favorable circumstances than amidst th'
crowds and excitement of the night concerts.
And, finally, it will crafty everybody to know
that Thalberg and Vieuxtemps have generously pro
posed to the Mayor to give two free concerts to tn
pupils of the public schools of the city and that tn
Mayor has accepted the offer, and made arrangement
to place the Varieties theater at their disposal. Tn
first concerts to be given Tuesday afterloon, a
o'clock, to the pupils of the First and Fourth Dis
trict Schools. The second concert, for the Secon
and Third District Schools will take place soon afte
ward due notice will be given of it.
Tickets to the night concerts and the matinees OF
to be had to-day and every day of the manager, NJ
Grau, at Mr.. Parsons store, No. AZ Camp street. or
Mr.. Elise's, No. rs Chartres street