The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-11
VERDI AND SCHUBERT.
German and Italian Music Com
pared at the Fortnightly.

The Fortnightly Musicales last night
at the residence of Miss Carrie Chesley,
No. 81 Clinton avenue, went through q
programme Of unusual length, made up
Of numbers from three composers, Schu-
bert, Schuman and d little Verdi to froth
up at the top.
1t was such a programme as only artists
attempt. and among its numbers
were compositions whose puolc
The musical world. For example, the
Schumann violin sonata in A minor,
standing as one of the high water marks
of music, bv which the virtuoso alone can
hope to measure his proficiency. Ihls,
the centre of the evening, was played by
Mr.. John Holland, with the Lang &C
It was no hastily prepared selec-
ton, nurriedly thrown together for
the amusement of the room; there
were months of special preparation
behind the performance OF those move.
mebts, and back of that. long years Oh
study abroad and at home, the fruits or
which were gathered for the half-hun-
dred listeners last night. And at the
close of the last movement. that final test
of virtuosiJy, there was a gen
eral uprising to offer sincere
congratulations to the player
for work which in this city at least, he
has never surpassed. The programme
opened with the "Rosamunde" overture,
arranged for four hands, by MIS-. W.
Hunter Brown and Mr.. Louis
A. Dressler. Miss Turner's
| voice showed no signs of fatigue from
| last nights great solo at the Melopoia, as
she sang MY Sweet Repose," Who IS
Sylvia?6 and "Impatience," bringing out
all the Tubdto effect upon which the true
| interpretation of the last named depends5
Il A. E.o,c T a IA rluy0d q Snhntnnnn I'M
promptu, not generally familiar, abound
ing In trills aud runs and melodions nzz-
| gigs (the word is sanctioned by Brown
| ing1, Mr. Edward Groeschel sang "The
Wanderer,, with careful expression OF
the ftfrl moods OF the song.
Mr.. hunter Brown sang three sougs
.Row Gently, My Gondolier." when
| Through the Piazzetta." aud, best OF all,
i.;The Almoud Tree" Mr.. j. Meyer
| played two Nachtstueck with the evident
appreciation of a Schumann enthusiast
Miss Katrina Green was unable TO slug,
| and the Verdi programme began with a
| recitation of faux I;aliens," by Mr.. Ad
| Olson f. Andrews, of New York. Mr.
Andrews is a member of the Schurnann
| Male Ouartette, d composer of no small
| repute and a member Of the New York
| Manuscript Society. His recitation was
accompanied by Mr.. Dressler at the
piano..
Mr.. VIM. f. Brown never sang better
than in the .'Infeiice," from ''Hernani.'
| eminently we'll adapted to display his
full even toned voice. Miss Lucy +. Mel
son closed the formal programme with g
forid aria from "Nebuchaduezzar,'
which her flexible voice can so easily
make delightful.
The impromptu introduced an artist
new to this city. Mr.. Clarence E. Pease OF
New York. Coming unheralded, offer
ing his WORK for Judgment upon its merits
alone, he produced an impression upon
the audience as of at artist Of
no little eminence. HIS voice is of a bar
itone quality, full, round, even in tone
and with a peculiarly sweet and sym
pathic quality, his method mastery, and
his owe Of appreciation such as to rem
der "The Asra" and Lassen's Thine
Eyes SO Blue and Tender" doubly beau.
tiful. Mrs. w. Hunter Brown followed
with The Twelfth Rhapsodie Hogroise
he most elaborate work sht
has performed before the club, which
showed her at her best, and Mrs. Browns
best is something worth going far te
near. Mr.. Groeschel sang a German bal
lad, and as the clock struck twelve, Mrs
Brown aud Miss Carrie Oh esley played
San Saen's "Danse Macabre." With it!
rafting Of skeletons and general ghostli
ness, the evening came to a close.