The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-12-16
Music.
Won BnIOw in e"bcDSiIic-Theto con-
cert and the Audience.

Won BnIow in e"beDyiIie-Thet Con-
cert and the Audience.
On Tuesday evening Won Bulow was
in Sleubenvilc. Ills coming had not
excited much interest in that town. In
fact. even the supper ten seemed to take
his coming rs matter of course, and dis
played an indifference about welcoming
the second best pianist in the world that
hardly Boston public would have dared
to assume. The concert was held IN Gray
and CARROTS Hall and vt s o'clock
about two hundred of the music loving
people of Stcubehville and its neighbor-
hood had assembled there. Of this num-
Der there were about fifty seminary girls
! blocked oil in one corner, and if they
hadn't the appearance of musical rirf"osoS,
they were at least lively, impatient and
full of brilliant anticipations.
At S:l5 o'clock, precisely, Won Bulow,
dapper little fellow. with an egg-shaped
head. moustache and goatee, busted
out on the stage and jerking couple
of stiff bows to the audience, sat himself
at the grand piano on the stage. Bctho-
ven, of course, headed the programme,
and in u sonata. appasSionata, opus o.: in +
minor, DR.. Hans Won Bulow demonstrate
ed that he was great artist. His style
of play is eminently disciplined, smooth
and refined, and his conception, of the
| composers genius and idea is so ioTcible
that even those unfamiliar with classic
music must have thrilled with the
unpaSsioned earnestness with which
he struck every note. Won Bulow's
touch is simply perfect His hand Is
small, but it is trained u absolute ooedi-
ence to his will, and the smallness of his
hand made needful greater use of the
wrist, whose action was truly wonderful.
He never struck wrong notci he never
lost his discipline in a rush of passion he
was always clear cut, refined, vigorous
yet exquisitly delicate; magnificent in
his grasp of the composition in all It's
unity and symmetry, and splendid in his
revelation of it. He WAS "fuultily fault
less, Jelly regular in sl that he did.
Our space will not allow of any cx-
tended mention of the performance, and
We shall only indulge IN few more
gencralities.
The pieces played by the Doctor en-
braced selections from Wagner, Gomez
Bach, Handel, Mozart, List, Rossin
and few others. They were ali played
the same; being finished, intellectual,
elegant and forcibe, except in the case
of Lists compositions, and in these it is
probable that the smalncss Of Won Blu
lows hand, before mentioned prevented
the reckless dash and rapture which is
the heart and soul of LISTS pieces.
But we must say word of Miss Liz
zle Cronyns singing. 1t was mechanl-
cally MS perfect us the voice of Kellogg
or Sister Mary Agnes, but lacked consid-
cradle in expression and power, This
might have been caused by the influence
Of the audience and surroundings, which
were not cheering, to say the least. IN
der other circumstances it Is impossible
to tell what Mss Cronyn
might have accomplished, but ms We were
unfortunate enough to hear her when she
was evidcLtly not inspired, We do not
elaborate on some little faults noticed in
the pieces she sang.
To return again to Won BulOw. He is
musician of undoubted capacity and
genius, and his artistic eccentricites are
perhaps excusable IN him. While he
was playing the spinning Song OF
Waghcr's, we noticed him glaring
over the top of the grand
piano at some men in one
corner of the hall, who had their
hats on. When he got through with the
selection, he came to the front of the
stage and said, in broken English, Gen
clemens, de ladies are in de house, pleazc
take off your hats" and the hats we're
removed in an instant. At another
time he stopped short in the midst Of n
piece, and putting on his eyeglasses,
turned around in his seat, and sharply
quizzed party who were walking across
the hall, and were making considerable
noise with squeaky shoes. There Is no
doubt that Won Bulow is the prince of
pianists, but he is evidently a captious
and cranky fellow.
The Concert, financially, was not u
success.
PosTAL.-W. ~ Moss is appointed
postmaster at Sand Run, Upshur county,
West Va, wee George L. Latham, re-