The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-11-17

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mixes % cense s9ss 1G' S Sos GS' brilliant
sfS BEEN mols
the hrs violin, that plays 90 promnent partiD
tn me accompaniment, been out q tune shan we be
fort NJ that ~s Snd
a re sSysn a. ne Il
forte susc and sss ~ 81 sssosd Is scarcely sea less
potent for good showing, % y does, the difference
violin ana the mawklsn ssntinentanty with which
Ole Ban has familiarissd the public. TO hear Ra-
form IN Q frank, business manner as though he
had work to perform and intended to give
p0ps the worth Of their ne makes
over his eyes as the ears OF King Charles spaniel
fall, and then giving hts shaggy Indian head
There is no f sii s glove 's dettantesm about
we are IN Inc ne q n,s ana feel
keys, or perhaps / ought to say the
moment the keys touch his fingers, Tor
Eubnstein seems TO attract them toward him as q
magnet attracts steel filings. His effort to shake
with delight. Though this be fancy, yet to create
it is absolutely true. Force one expects. 1t Is IN
deiicate passages that Rubinstein most astonishes
His touch Is velvet the very heart 81 his instrument
moved as at the sight OF strong man soitened by
noble passion. His staccato Is like the dropping
OF crystal, while his accompaniment In concerted
mnslc without obtrudng, Is so sympathetic as TO
rival the melody Assuredly Rubinstein ia as great
rs his fame and he is wOrthily supported by
Wianiawski, whose tone ana execution III fine but
why, why, why does Mr.. Gran, alter giving US iood
for the gods. insist upon putting before
us unpalatabe dishesp In Otner words
why, after Rublnstein and Wieniawsk, must our
ears endure snch singing as Is more honOred in the
breach than in the observance? In vain does the
programme assure US that both voices are fine and
one lady Is beautiful. Having ears, we hear: hav
ing eyes, we see and botn senses convict Il pro-
gramme OF advertising what Mr. Crau can never
deude anybody into liking. One good vocalist is
worth two that are bad, and tue enterprsing
manager who brought Rist0li to America ought
to realize this quite iOrcbly as an audience that
pays 50 ticket. Rubnsteh and Wicnlawsei cover
multitudes OF SINS, but why should they lie required
to do more than their. legit Innate bustness9 Last,
know Tor our own, Ii an unspcakaDle COMFORT.
Beethoven himself would have nodded approval at
the recent rendering OF his Seventh Symphony ;but
why must two ipcxplicanle incxpcaoshtles IKE
Wagners 'Woton's Absched" anu list1's Me-
phisto Waltz be given on the same evening, one
following the other so rapidly az oproducc musical
| otto frame OF mind? The human head can bear no
more than the human stomach not as much; and
though clever Mr.. Thomas and his admirable
orchestra be equal to the widest eccentricties of
Wagner and List lat one fell swo0p," II ought to
| be remembered that, like tomatoes and olives,
''thc music OF the futnre' requires much cutiva-
manently injure IL not kill the patient. The pro-
2ramme for December % is quite as indgestibe rs
that Of November D Listz and Wagner being pre-
ceded by BerliOZ. We shall do our best to
''bear up agin such reglar knocgdown OF intel
lect;' tut really Mr.. Thomas should be mercia
Beethoyens pastoral may fOrtify us. We SHALL
ing OF Nj. Osgood, whose Interpretation of German
music h such as to rrtate the knowing ana so the
the ignorant into nOdding nightmare. We're sing
ing dependent upon capillary attraction, Mr.. Os-
good would draw an audience by more than sin
gle hair; but, unlike Bottom, We cannot .'see a
voice." FAIR PLAY.