Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-01-29
Music Matters OF Interest.

Wheeling will have its operate festival
this week as well as Cincineati; the Ford
Opera Company will give four representa-
tons at the Opera House. There's nothing
small about Wheeling.
There will be a tirst.class entertainment
at the Opera Honse on the 18th of Feb
ruary. Our society ladies have combined
to give the same for the benefit of the poor
of this city.
The members of the Legislature will be
entertained at the Female College on Fri.
day, February 9th, by the musical and
literary soiree given by the pupils of the
College.
]. B. Barnhill, OF Bellaire, has presented
an organ 10 the Episcopal church, :pur-
chased from w. Sheib.
Wilson K Banners new store makes a
most elegant appearance; the ground floor
has no less than eight pianos, viz: one
Baby Grand, three Upright and four
Square Pianos, all manufactured by
Kranich & Bach. The second floor is being
converted into an elegant music room to
used for matinees or other musical en-
tertainments.
Mr.. C.. y. Lucas has rented the store Of
link & Morehead, on Main street, where he
will remove April lst. His store is at pres
ent crowded with an elegant assortment of
pianos and organs.
The ~Steinway Baby Grand Piano, at pres
ent on exhibition at Mr.. Sheib's music
store, has elected the warmest praise from
connoisseurs. Mr.. Sheib expects another
supply of S%teinway pianos in the course OF
the next fortnight.
The Optr a House Orchestra will give a
private rehearsal to the subscribers OF their
society, at the Arion Hall, to which only
those will be aduitted who have received
invitations Tho nrnurlmma consists nj
twelve numbers.
Many of Prof. Carl IIermann'S friends
and admirers will no doubt be surprised to
hear that that gentleman was married two
months ago to an English lady.
The C"eCil:an Society will meet this week
on Friday instead of Thursday, as the
Mwnnerchor Hail is used for a ball on
Thursday.
The interest evinced by Mr.. Herrmann's
friends in sending a letter to the REGISTER,
which appeared last Sunday, and in which
they. defend him by stating that the criti-
cism which appeared in Music and DrGmq
was unjust, has induced another CORES
pOndent to send us the following criticism
which appeared in the Musical Courier OF
the same concert: "Mr. Carl Hermann, late
professor from the Stuttgart Conservatory,
had chosen Beethoven's Fifth Pianoforte
Concert in f fiat major for his New York
debut with orchestra. The great Napoleon
is credited with saying in reference to
the accomplishment of an attempt at
suicide that il would be unfair to punish
the attempt of a crime, the commission OF
which it would be impossible to punish.
As we regard Mr.. Hermann's trying to in
terpret the Emperor concerto as nothing
less than an attempt to kill himself artist
ically, nothing more may be said on this
score. His technique is good and clear, al
though his touch is hard and his tone short
tiaults We have often noticed in the grada-
a,es of the Stuttgart school), but his must
cal conception would hardly do more for
him than carry him safely over Mendels-
sohn's G minor or one of B%eethoven's first
two conccrtos, other concertos of like grade.
Nevertheless, Mr.. Hermann is to be com
plimented on the conscientious way in
which he had evidently studied the work,
every note of which was played neatly and
with certain refinement"
The following ladies are booked for the
Cincinnati operate Festival. Misses Jessie
List, J. B. Wilson and Hattie List, and Mrs.
A. S. Harden; also, Mr.. A. s. List.