New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-02-02
The Ruhinstpin Matinee.


day was a brilliant. success. Whatever
doubts these eplendid artists may have pre-
vious!y entertained concerning the desire
OF or proverbially mnsiclovirg people to
! hear their performances, musl have been
dispeled yesterday. Long before the mo
| mant when the concert was announced 10
commence, not only was the parquctte
! filed with ladies and chi3drera baRt che
| dress circle, loqcs griitces and second tier
] chains also blossomed our, all around the
| gilded horseshoe curves, in one unbroken
! border Of beautiful girls ard scarcely less
! beautiful matrOns. attired in fresh and ele-
giant costumes suitable for the oceasion
1t was 4 happy thought to give the young
people an opportunity of listening 10 the
| music made by such performers as those
who charmed and astonished them yes;er-
| day, for the result can not but have the Bi-
feet OF -elevatiYg the tone Of the dome site
circle, where, too often OF late years. very
many Of our children have drifted. for
| want of a more generous and thorough III
| struotOH, into TIE shallowest ci music al
| channels
!
] IN GIanv communities ir our country has
| had the effect before now Of forcing artists
! t& desert the advanced continental stand
! ard, and in order to tickle the ear of super
| iscially trained audiences, TO make sensa
| tiOnal and mediocre selections, such as
wOulG likely be recognized as quickly by
| the gamin III the gallery as by the amateurs
| ! -, =
house ilessieurs Rubinstein and Nieni-
awski. however, who are students Of art
and who aim TO instruct as well as to please,
are beyond such tricl1ery ss this, ard
whether they stand or fall, can Eot be in
duced to prostitute their genius for the sake
| OF gaining the applause and good will OF SO
large a class, who might be DESTROYS OF
having them adopt such a course.
Fer this reason, therefore, when such
artists present themselves before % COM
munity like ours, wkich has always had
the reputation of enjoying an elevated tone
OF musical thought, combined with the
cleveIest critical discrimination, that they
should not only be literally patronized by
connoisseurs and amateurs, but that old
and young, and particularly the young,
many of whom are laboring assduously to
acquire a thorough insight i'll music's ex-
quieite but complicated mysteries, should
have an opportunity to sit under their in
fuence, ard become magnetized, as it were,
into devotees OF art for arts pure sake
alone, stripping it Of all the meretricious
dnery with which superb cial worshpprrs
at its shrine are ever so ready and eager D
bedeck it.
Tie programme yesterday was IL ketp-
ing with the standard adopted from tie
first, Mr.. Rubinstein opening with an "ar
ct variations by Handel, which lie To-.
lowed np as soon as the vocifer0us applause
which greeted him would admit with va
giations serieuses," by that charming com
poser, Mendelssohn, whose very name falls
upon the ear like d double harmony, and
whose literary compositions and letters are
almost as full OF melody "a is his daintiest
music. Mr.. Rubinstein, as might have been
expected, was called out several times after
this initial performance, the little folks
fairly blstcring their little hands i'll their
fraatic Efforts to reward him for what they
even felt was the very perfection Of play
ing.
Mr.. Wieniawskl came next Tor his share
Of applause, which burst in npon him even
at times when he conld have hoped for the
quiet that was necessary for perfect eX-
hihition OF his marvellous skill and delicious
fancy.
As upon former occasion, he gave the
Carnival ot Venice" for an encore, in the
execution Of which be fairly carried the
audience by storm, and all present, as far
as could learn, freely admitted that they
had never before listened to such an extra
ordinary performance.
fn the second part Of the programme Mr.
Rublnstein rendered with cCnsummate skill
and most exquisite effect selections from
Chapin, an author with whom very many
Of the Creole young ladies' present were
familiar and therefore all the more inter
eeted in listening to she rendering OF his
@lsc by snch q master as Mr.. Rubinstein'
st the close this artist gave selections
from LszE and Schubert, finishing MP with
% brilliant barcar03@ ana c?Gvev eGUda 0F his
own compOe'tion,
Nile louise QrY3enS st8J containing in
disposed. Miss Li"bsalt was called upon tO
'io sioubie duty, acquitfing herself V@ry
crcdirably in an air from Mozart in the first
part and an air by Mendelssohn and one
from Kuckan in fhe second Miss Liebhart
was very choice in her costumes, and was
yesterday most becomingiy attirasl IN q
dress whirI drew down upoR her the ap-
proving glances of every lady in the house.
This evening the third grand concert of
the troupe will take place at the Varieties
Theatre. and tomorrow night the t0nIth
concert will be given at the Opera House,
at the usual hour. 0n Thursday next a
second matinee will be given at the Opera
House.
The row between the police commissen
eis and superintendent "f pOiiCe, in
Chicago, finally crlminated on Friday in
th. suspension Of the latter by the former;
whcreupOn the mayer OF the city suspended
the commissioners, and ordered the captains
- report to Washburn as before. The com
mayors power to remove them, as they
were elected by the people. If the captains
conclude 20 disregard the mayors order, as
they probably will, he says he will remove
them and 6ll their places, and will also re
move every patrolmaD who fails to obey