Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-19
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enthusiastic and enraptured that ever
assembled at a musical entertainment,
listened to Vladimir de Pachmann, the
Russian pianist, at the Metropolitan Theater
last night. The night was cold. the theater
gloomy and chilly, the auditorium thinlg
peopled; but in five minutes after Pach-
mann began to play, the audience forgot
all discomforts and for an hour aud half
revealed in music with the artist, who gave
only selections from Chopin. Pach-
mann is wonderful musician. He
is one of the very few who make
awakened in them By the theme, by what
some have termed his ''mannerisms" No
matter, they are charming. Why should
not the piano virtuoso manifest what he
feels by facial expression, by physical en-
phasis, or by visible tribute to the COM
poser he interprets? Pachmann mods
gently and smiles softly when passage he
loves ardently is reached. When some
thing especially beautiful is given by his
art, his face, nearly always turned to the
audience AID seldom to the key board
CLOVIS with emotion. 1t is at times a smile
of joy again rapturous expression; again
devotional light that irradia.es his coun-
tenance. Now he turns 10 the hearers with
eih oPPSd. Ill CNCiy III Cfcly AONG.
m emit, in the very attitude of his body, as
if 10 say, Hear the Master Chopin" Listen
10 this ecstatic passage from the great COM
poser" Again, in delirium of delight,
a1hmann VIII wave his hands before his
face, as if 10 say. 1T surpasses my powers
OF expressicn-it is divine" Call these
mannerisms or antics. but they are not
afectation; they are not inappropriate;
they do not obtrude Pachmann's PERSONAL
ity-they are tributes to Chopin, the most
versatile of composers. Pachmann is I'M
questionably one of the few great artists;
probably monomanisc on music, but an
artist full of surprises and delights in his
methods. To have heard him is an event
in the life of the lover of music not to be
forgotten and always to be recalled with
exquisite pleasure. For be has, as no one
we remember to have heard has, the art,
the magnetism that enables him to i'm
press his work upon the hearers memory
indelibly. He has the delicacy that is in
discribable. the vigor that only masculinity
can manifest. He interprets the many
moods of Chopin's capricious, introverted,
poetic nature with deepest feeling and with
exquisite taste; with impassioned ardor,
with the refinement that can be acquired
only by the inspired artist Whether
Pachmann IS always true, whether he has
not faults of reading or execution; whether
he does not violate conventional rules,
we are not prepared to say. For
his hearers were SO absorbed by the melodic
trance into which be threw them, that they
only knew of effects; they were indeed
filled and almost surfeted with the poetry
of music. Pachmann is sympathetic and
strong; she is all feeling, and marvellous in
execution; he is the prophet of the i'm
sgination, and he realizes the most fan.
clful ideas the music lover can copjure up.
Chopin compositions, in which all things
in music are found, are played more or less
by all who essay to manipulate the key.
board, bu. last night few people heard
them in an unsurpassed style, given with
uLequsled feeling, interpreted by being
whose whole soul appeared 10 be poured
out IN music. 1t was not acting the man
felt all he manifested. No auditor doubted
for an instant that the player was in costa
cies. He filled every individual heart in
the audience with the motif that stirred his
own; he conquered instrumental Difficult
ties with such ease that one forgot they
were difficulties. 1t was all poetic delicacy
and virile force; profound sensibility and
deep emotion it was accomplishment by
wonderfully sensitive musical instinct.
Probably Pachmann has faults of style,
and is open to cold criticism for uuconven-
tional methods, but his auditors were OBJ.
livious TO all but his mastery power to
please. They epplauded him again and
again and still again. They seemed not 10
tire of expressing their pleasare-indeed,
since Sacramento audiences have the repu-
tation Of being cold, they broke the record,
to descend TO commonpiaoe-and became
more than enthusiastic, and Pachmann
felt it, and delighted in it. and at one time
in is midst he waved his hands back and
forth over his head and cried out az they
appaudsd his playing of the mazourka of
op. 80, That is right! II is zee greatest,
zee best OF all zee msZourka3 ~
Al the Metropolitan Thea:er tonight end
to morrow night Frank Daniels aud Bessie
Samson, in Little Puck" will have large
audiences. For Little Puck" though a
faroe-comedy, hiss q purpose, an exquisite
conceit and vein of satire that is as rich
and enjoyable as one could desire. 1t is
the story, in part, Of Professor Ans:ey's
delightful novel, Vice Versa" Daniels is
by nature intended for the leading role,
and Miss Samson is the ideal soubrette
They have excellent support. and the
piece-it is pity that it has not been dig
niied into comedy-bas been outfii!ed with
new songs, dances, character acts and sps-
cialties. 1t has been played here by Daniels
in two engagements, with success. and It
will in this third engagement fill the
theather, for it is the very best of the order
OF plays that draw in these days the largest
audiences.