The record-union., 1896-03-03
SACRAMENTO REooRD-UN1oN TUESDAY MARCH 1896.

and root of his success is the sympathy |
theme He not only himself feels the
thought of the composer, but he makes
the auditor experience it. We should
say that Paderewski is a musical think
er. He knows what the potency of mu-
sic means; it was probably given him
to realize that without culture, and his
genius enables him to make it by mu-
sical form, so to speak, incarnate, and
to express the conception as the painter
does his thought and clothe it in a man
ner to command recognition even from
the duller musical taste. How he does
this, what his touch, the method of his
execution, the technical of his style,
matters very little to he who listens
to feel, and has his hope satisfied. It
is enough for the general auditors to
know that here is one who can COM
municate with their sympathies and
awaken response in their feelings. That
his touch is wonderfully delicate; that
his tone is never indistinct; that he
never strains, but that ease sits upon
j him as graceful mantle; that he exc
cutes every description of passage
with equal facility; that he has creative
genius as evinced by his compositions;
that he has the keenest perception of
| the capacity of his instrument; that
| this man has a rich flow of musical
ideas-all these things are not consid
cred by the auditor until the artist has
ceased, and his listener begins to think
of the man as a performer. For while
| he is playing he takes away the desire
to judge and note characteristics and
methods and particular points, be-
cause the hearer has been brought
| into touch and sympathy with the
theme, and cares very little how it is
| done-indeed, takes very small note of
method. There was evidence of this
fact all through the concert last night.
| The musical critics, the highly cultured
and those who know nothing of the
| technicalities of the music art were
alike held in admiring silence and de-
Elightful communion with the spirit and
thought of the music interpreted. Pa
derewski is genius; his is inspired art.
Without inspiration or, if it is pre-
| ferred, endowment and gift, no sort of
culture will enable any human being to
produce such effects. Paderewskis in
spirations are rich, his art is SYM
metrical, his method is wonderfully true
and his execution maryelously brilliant
Unless we mistake greatly, his greatest
triumphs are yet to come, when age
shall have ripened his thought and time
have developed his perceptions to the
fullest possibility of HIS genius.
At the C1unie Opera-house last even
ing Milton and Dollie Mobiles and Wal
ter Hodges, supported by the full
strength of the Hallett Stock Company,
gave an admirable presentation of Mr..
Nobles' Phoenix" a three-act melo-
drama, to a small but thoroughly appre-
ciative audience. Three new sets of
scenery were introduced, and the best
and most realistic IRE scene ever staged
here was presented. The play abounds
/ iii lively climaxeS and does not lag for
moment. The people in it are all alive
| to their work, and the audience is not
| kept long in suspense or annoyed by any
hating. The tableaux are realistic and
| the costumery is BETTING the charac-
ters. The Carroll Graves of Mr.. Mobiles
! is exceedingly well done, but into the
/ character of Leslie Blackburn Mr..
/ Hodges might inject little more cum
| ming. He is a competent actor and
made a good impression. and will be-
come a favorite. Mr.. Hallett's Moses
| Solomon is but another piece of his un-
varyingly good work; ii is not over
drawn CT played to a degree of vulgarity
that is common with many actors per-
scnating a Jewish character Mr..
Brewer took the part of the detective
well, and gave Max Steinle's and John
/ S. Becker's new song SO satisfactorily
that he was the recipient of an enthusi-
astic encore. The air is light and
catchy, easy to memorize and the or
chestral arrangement Is very good, hav-
| ing been arranged by Professor George
| r. Franz, the leader. The ladies all ac-
quilted themselves with credit, though
none of the parts allotted to them are
difficult. The same play tonight and
for the balance of the week, including
! a Saturday matinee.
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