, 1875-10-24
ABROAD.
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DR.. Won Bulow made his debut last Monday
evening in Boston With great success. We t.ke
from the New York Tribune the following sketch
of the player and his playing:
Won Bulow certainly has the most wonderfuly-de-
veloped technique Of any man who over played in
this country. Of that there be no doubt. H. is
| probably . man Of much higher and more widely
extended culture than any musician We have ever
| heard: Pre-eminently MN Of tho world, snd
o gentleman ITO the manner born" There is
itself felt in his playtng. His ease is 80 great
not merely his technical in handling the key
board but bis intellectual grasp Of Whit he
he awakeus In us. Never before did p4noforse-
playing seem so easy. After the first ten bars for
ge entrely that it il von B1low that have
hear ne listen to the music with exclusive In
terest u II We had heard Won Bulow. all our lives,
rather intimate with him than other 6ise and be
teresung Us in 1t. We hnva mover seen PLAYER who
sunk himself In the composer SO completely. Hs
gives you the music. The whole mnaic, and q nothing
seems entirely to forget himself IN playing, 10 do We
forge! him in listening. The composition Is ali In all
70 judge from his playing Of the great Beethoyens
Efat .jor Concerto ue rst pEcce ne raycd), he is
the most entirely satisfying player Of eetaosen that
va haya vet heard. or ll1eel well i1l.e, and
have uy no means forgotten Anton Rubinstelns p.y-
ing Of the Sonata, Opus ILL., From the beginning to
blood such power, SIMPLICITY and total absenre If
striving nfer effect, hardly be imagined Ru IA
stem often gTe1t, often oVerWhem ngiy paa5!on-
ate, sometimes o1agg eratedls bo4gtetous, always
wonderful. No matter waas he did, he left us aston
ishel either at Ais greatness Or our own Ettlcness
Won Buow does not astonish in the e4st ne have
no time to ne usio1Rbed while listening to him. He
claims our whole attention, and riyes II upon the III
sic, not upon the performance. He Is most whole
some, manly pl4yer, q man to hear every day in the
year and grow tirtd Of Not the least Of aensa-
tionanst, even Ia Liszts madcap Hungarian Fantasia,
which ended his part Of the concert lie did not seem
for moment to be showing of. An astounding piece
of composing that Fantasia is brilliant every
where, at times exciting to high degree, at tues
loaded with embroidery! Not Lszt ut his best,
even on his ground. One thing was no
uceahle tn von bulows PLAYING OF It, and AFRO
immense command over the orrheEtra. He was the
lie soul and head-centre Of the whole business. It
,ras interesting to the manner in which he made
the orchestra do his VIII at Ianearsaa; II M Passage
oastratit the panoforte, how ought to Co. and
after few trials seemed impossible for any one TO
play it otherwise. The strength he exhibited at such
times wus positively marvellous and in the for
ussirno tutd p4ssages the orchestra was scarcely
audjbIe above the din OF the p1anoforte- II you
would wonder At Won Bulou, sea him at rehearsal.
The difficulties he has to encounter and his consum-
mate ease in conquering them, become apparent then
ars1cAL NOTES.
OHenbach's new oEeretta, 80 Ii Creole, iB to
be brought out at the Bouffes, Paris.
Irms. formerly an opera-hou1er Of celebrity.
has 4 Younger eister in the came business in
Paris.
After little Lucca Sings in the German prov
,uces next winter. ehe is going to retire to pri
vate life.
It's strange TINT Miss Kellogg manages to |
carry q small fortune away from New York every |
time she viaitz il. md ret the managers Of 1tsl