Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-06
Remenyr Coming.


gratitude to Mr.. James Wood for
his efforts to raise the standard OF
public ainuseInents presented in
Elders Hall.
This first enterprise of the coming
season well deserves support it is
the engagement for one concert of
EDWARD REMENYI, the great vio-
IInist of the day. 1t will not be out
of place to prelude his coming by a
few words as to the school of music
to which ne belongs.
In all art there have always been
and always will be two schools; the
school Of impulse and the school of
intellect. In ancient drama they
have been represented by Eschylus
and Euripides, in modern acting by
Kean and Kemble, among pianists
by Listz and Thalberg. Among
artists the former school has always
been the favorite of the people, the
latter that of the critics; but the
first ranks of art are reserved for
those who with intense emotional
power combine the severest discipline
of art, and OF such, if we can meet
with one In a generation, we are
fortunate. 1t has been the good
fortune of the present writer to meet
with two such artists and two only
in the course of life now not brief,
viz: the vocalist Malibran and the
actor, Macready.
Such an artist, if we are to accept
the unanimous verdict of European
critics, is REMENYI. By natural
constitution he possesses, or is pos
sessed by, the sympathetic and pas
sionate organization of his nation,
which Is Hungary the same flash of
inward fire which gives elan to the
Hungarian cavalry has given us in
musical art Listz, Chopin and a
Gerster; all this Remenyi possesses,
but all this has been disciplined to
the purposes of the highest art by
severe study and training, so that,
while he pours into his own cOmpo-
sitions the widest impulses of his
own impetuous spirit, he devotes
himself to the Interpretation of the
great classical masters, with consci-
entious self-suppressiOn and with
the single purpose of studying and
calculating the genius of the COM
posers. This is Remenyi's reputa-
tiOn in Europe and it has been con-
firmed with the most eager enthusi-
asm in America wherever music is
loved and understood.
Our artist is accompanied in his
tour by Miss Jennie Dutton, soprano,
M. DeCelle, tenor, and AdOlph
Bauer, solo pianist and accompany
ist, all of whom have elected high
enconiums wherever they have APP
peared. But now a word with the
public. Much complaint has been
made OF the trashy character of the
entertainments at Elders Hall. Let
our people demonstrate for them
selves that they desire something bet
ter by liberal patronage ; the charac-
ter of the entertainments given at
any place must be determined by the
taste of those who attend them, and
if shows of a coarse and vulgar char
acter are better patronized than
those which appeal to taste and in
tellect, it will be useless for the
caterers to resist the force of public
opinion so manifested, for managers
do not give entertainments for their
own amusement, they must present
what is patronized or else give up
their occupation.
Let those, therefore, who desire
something better than our average
shows put their desires into prac-
teal shape by filling the hall on the
day of Remenyi's concert, which is
Friday, Oct. 18th. D. F. w.