Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-15
Tf1E COURT RECORD.
Court of Common Pleas-Cr1minal
 Side Judge Studley.

Side Judge Studley. In the common pleas court yesterday Burr Benham paid $17 for breach of the peace against Albert Maltby.
 Frankie Raymond keeper of the Red house in Hamden, paid S57 for keeping a house of ill., fame.
 jury was then empannelled and Edward Coleman, formerly waiter at the New Haven
 house. was tried for the theft of $17 from Mrs. Hannah Latham of Factory street. J. Birney Futile appeared for the defendant.
 inf R % d9rty % nufeS the ury nnd Ttn yer tenced to twenty days in jail.
 of assault, was then commenced. Mir Vessel is charged with an assault at the time that grand child of Mrs. Taylor was taken from West Ha- ven. The case is to be resumed this morning. The following are serving as jurors of the Com mon pleas court during the term:
 ron HuH of Madison; Julius Andrews of Meriden; Samue! A. Niles, Ephraim s. Brown, William Scott Of Mddiebury; % Charles F. smith, i Weiling- Orange.
 The Polish Pfanist's American Debut. From New York Tribune.l Let us say that Mir. Paderewski, who effected an entrance on the American con- cert stage last night in the Music hall, was dangerously we'll advertised. Had he failed to satisfy the expectations which had been aroused among the musically inclined peo- pie of New York his failure would have been nothing short of disastrous to his fu- ture in this country and a woeful humilia- tion to his manager. Nobody, not even the most diplomatic of the newspaper reviewers in the city, who have most need of conservatism can have left the Music hall last night without carrying with him most decided conviction touch of his thoughts about the much -heralded new conner. It was case in which Casar's boastful motto would have sounded like an expression of modest self-respect in the mouth of the pianist. He came, he saw, he conquered. So complete, indeed was Pa derewski's success that it is little embar- ture upon an explanation upon the clements which brought it about. "The best kind of criticism," said Schu- mann, 8 critic of keen discern ment and gracious nature, is that which produces in the reader the impressions mads by the performer In the case of Paderewski this would com pei resort to something like that rhspso- die style of utterance which ordinarily is the bane of all writings on art, but it would not only be idle, but foolish, to put such performance as that which he gave to Chopin's ballads in F major upon the dissection table. There would be no in tellectusl gain and the result would dis close nothing of the lovely spirit which throbbed and glowed in the music. Better to let pass with the observation that in thise1quisite composition Paderewski made a proclamation which no one could misun- derstand, that he is poet, an interpreter of gracious gifts, a performer without fault. Only one who has mastered the mechanical part of the piano-forte playing so completely that it has become the willing and eager and unerring servant of his mind and heart could have played this composition as Paderewski played it; only poet accustomed to speak in musical tones could have read Chopin's poem with such consummste, tender and touching grace. Yet this was but one of his achieve ments. and one, moreover, which, 'gs ne eR 1R Gu1 o SUneaps hs great admiration. Those who admire mechanical skill, piano-forte technique for it's own sake will give him opportuni- ties in plenty to marvel at his accomplish ments in this particular. There was be- wildering crispness and clearness of the Chopin study which he played. The dag zing of his finger work i'll the Litz Cam penella which he played on recall, the scintillant scales in Saint Saen's Concerto in c minor, the irresistible rush of his oc- taye passages, 8 hundred things to excite wonder and astonishment at his merely digital ability. But these things would have weighed little had there not been dis closed back of them all the nice dis crimination, the strong, pure, sentimental feeling of the musician. Paderewski preached the gospel of Chopin, with whose music he is in obvious sympathy, by reason of rational fellowship and com munity of sentiment. It was like no other Chopin playing that has been heard here for years, let us say since Ruben stein. It was not the morbid sentimental ist nor the force dramatist, but sweetly sane singer of romantic feelings. It was a musical Chopin, Chopin with finely poetical eyangel which he proclaimed as | revelation at once of profound feeling and l of exquisite beauty. This great artist will l appear in one grand piauaforte recital at | the Hyperion, December 21.
 The sale of seats opens tomorrow, Wednesday, at Steinert & Sons, at g a. m.
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