New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-30
The Rubinstefn concerts.


sasion Of the first OF the Eusinsteia con
| cert>.
! The audience was nos only . most fash
! ionable one. but Was also thoroughly
critical assemblage. and Mr.. Rubinstein
! and Mr.. Wi.niawski need no higher COM
| pliment at our hands than the mere state
! ment THAT their efforts were fully appre-
! ciate6 anG enthusiastically !ntorsed from
! first TO last.
| Rubinstsin. Il we except List, IL to-day.
| the creates! !ivin: pianist, and there are
| many OF his admirers who perhaps may
take issue with us touching the exception
| We have seen fit to make. claiming, as many
| of them do, tina. he ma. gone even beyond
| the inspired monk. It 10 not necessary
| here that we should attempt 10 institute d
rigid inquiry a. 10 who is really she greater :,
Rubinstein or List: suffice il shat our
people have the first named among them,
and that they can enjoy him 20 their hearts
! content, and can form in The end their own
opinions concerning his merits.
In the initial performance last evening
Mr.. Rnbinstein gave selections from Bee
| thoven, List. Handel and Mende's ehn with
a power and expression Which carried his
audience at once away with him, and
which gained fov him at the fms such ap-
plause as has eeldom of late years been
heard within the walls Of Che Opera House
applause which was SO enthusiastic and
iong-continued that Che beneficiary was
nhIipaA 70 hafpra Shn faiD
times TO satisfy the audience. II is impos-
sible to put into mere words such q de-
scription OF his style as worfld be intelli-
gible to one who has not heard him. When
We say that he seems to have caught all
the beauties of the styles OF those who have
been before him, and while he absorbed
them within his own to have discarded all
their faults, we only present 10 the mind a
negative picture, and we would but fail in
attempting 10 linn the wonderful evidences
of hi. genius as it flashes out of every
chord and sparkle, upon every note
touched by his magical hand.
Those whs have the good fortune 20 near
Rubinstein will be surprised. we take it, to
find such wonderful power combined with
such exquisite delicacy of touch, and we
doubt if any other performer is so splen-
didly gifted in this respect as he is. The
piano under his touch seems 10 lose its De-
culiar characters tics, and 20 become an
instrument above and beyond che fnere
strings and sounding board. and it is only
when he ceases that we again SEQ the gose.
wood case upon the platform before us.
upon which Mr.. Steinway has painted his
name il letters of gold.
OF Mr.. .sWieniawski. the vi0iinis. Of the
sroape. whose European reputation has
preceded him 80 shis country we can only
speak in terms OK the highest praise. AS
has been said OF him, his tone is OF un.
changing purity ana Of most syn
pathetic quality It is doubtful whether
there 10 more finished siolinis. living
than WieniIwski. nor one who Nnites with
classical sentiment a more exquisite fancy.
Mr.. Fetis. the great European critic, speaks
Of him as the successor of Paganin, and is
mOsJ enthusiastic iii his praises of him.
For his debu. last evening, this artist
gave fantasia from Faust which was most
charmingly rendered, the mpsie of Gonoud
being treated i'll q manner which would have
caused the composer to have risen up and
thanked the performer. had he been pres
ent.
1t is scarcely necessary to add that the re-
ception Of Mr.. Wieniawski was equally as
hatterins as .has extended to MIR. Rubin
stein.
Mile. louise !ebha rt, one of the two
ladies CT the troupe. Mile. Ormeni being
indisposed, sang with considerable express
sion and purity, if not with great power,
angels ever Bright and Fair and also
Robin Adair' and "Ruck, Ruck."
The accompanist, Mons L. Rembielinski,
Was very happy in the assistance, which he
rendered at the piano.
The second concert of the troupe will
take place tomorrow, Friday evening, when
d choice programme will be given, and on
Saturday the frs. and only grand gala
RU6insssin matinee will take place.