The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-02
THE PEOPLES CONCERTS.

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musical feast in anticipation, in the
Peoples concert booked for March &c
at the Hyperion, with a matinee to
follow on the eth,
When one considers how much of an
enterprise this fetching special artist
to a town may be, they win fully APP
preciate the splendid program the COM
mittee in charge of this seasons con-
cent is promising its patrons.
The star attraction perhaps, is Emile
Sauret, the eminent violinist. who has
distinguished himself on both sides of
the Atlantic, and While not new in this
country, having visited it during the
early period of his life, came to Amer
lea this year with q fresh number of
| triumphs that -have awakened the in
| terest felt in him years ago, when as a
child prodigy" he first visited us.
Reginald De Koven said of him recent
| ly: "Of the several violinists who have
played here this season, Sauret is be-
You'd all discussion the best. He COM
bines extreme technical facility and
musicianly feeling. His tone is
sweet, pure, limpid, caressing and
refined He phrases with rare art. His
eXpressiveness is superlative. Those
who remember the modest, unassuming
youth who nearly twenty years ago
came to America unheralded and by his
own merits without the aid of puffery
won the public, hardly recognize in
the dignified man, graceful and athori-
tative, the same Sauret."
Sauret is native of France. He was
born at Don-le-R oi on May %, 1852. He
began when only eight years old his
career as a public performer. Rossini
was his first theoretical instructor.
Later he left Rossini for Joncieres,
whose style was more suited to Sau-
ret's passionate artistic nature than
the Palestrina-like simplicity of Ros-
sini's methods. When but fifteen years
of age the illustrious DeBeriot took him
in charge and later still Vieutemps be-
came interested in him. M. Sauret is
distinguished not alone as an artist
but as a composer of violin music of
the highest order, concertos and occa-
sional pieces and studies. His appear
ance in New Haven is one to be looked
| forward to with the greatest interest.
Next in Importance on the program
is the name of Plunket Greene, the
| famous basso, who several seasons ago
appeared in New Haven at a concert
given at Harmonic hall with Henri Mar
teau, the other artist of the evening.
At that time the attendance was limit
| ed, and a great many who otherwise
would have heard him were deprived
the opportunity. 1t is then a specially
happy thought engaging him for the
| Peoples concert his reputation already
! being established here. In his work he
shows a marked versatility, yet his
/ simple ballads seem to please his au-
dience more than any other class of
song.
The beautiful resonant tones of his
voice and the rich flavor of sentiment
he imparts to his ballads are delightful.
Yet his possession, to an uncommon de-
gree OF sentiment and geniality, cor
broad cultivation enable him to sing
all kinds of music successfully, if not
/ equally well.
| The other artist for the evening con-
| cert is Mile Szunsonska a pupil of
Paderewsl<i's, and young woman of
the greatest promise. She visited New
/ Haven early in the winter at the time
of PadereWsl1i's appearance here,
meeting at that time number of So
ciety people at the reception given by
Prof. Sanford at the Art school And
once before she was in town, the guest
of Miss Virginia K. tombstone. Since
then, however, her advancement under
| Paderewskis directions has been so
rapid as to place her in line with the
greatest pianists Of the day She is
down on the program for sonata
with Sauret and for one or two solo
pieces Her recent engagement with
the Boston Symphony easily gives her
a prestige seldom accorded so young
an artist
! For the concert on the afternoon Of
the 9th Mrs. Fanny Bloomfield Zeis-
| Ter, the greatest living woman pianist
| in the world, has been engaged. Mrs.
| Zeisler, who is also pupil of Pader
ewski's, spent a number of years in
Berlin and other European towns, stu
dying always with the most eminent
| teachers. It was in the Rubenstein
concerts that she first astounded the
CIulOItdu CTlllCS. IhuDGnSlelll, Ioi
whom she played it in Dresden declar-
ed she was inspired and that it was the
best performance of his work he had
ever heard. 1t is a composition that
gives Mrs. Zeislers best qualities
chance to display themselves. The first
movement is broad and dramatic, with
a splendid cadenza and most stirring
climax. 1t is in this movement that
/ the brilliant, unfailing technique, al
! most masculine force and intense dra-
matte ability which characterize Mrs.
Zeisler's playing are best shown. There
is not pianist in the country who pos
sesses the same intensity and vitality,
every tone is crisp, every climax well
sustained. Her strength in chords and
octave playing is a marvel You Won
der where she gets it all, she is such
frail-appearing woman.
In Chicago this last month her ap-
! pearance with the Thomas orchestra
was the signal for an enthusiasm that
after her first pieces amounted to
| more spontaneous furore than was ever
accorded even Paderewslli.
| The list of guarantors for the con-
certs to be given in March is larger
than that of last years, and each day
adds new names to it.
| An attempt was made to secure The
odore Thomas orchestra for the 26th,
but owing to a clashing in dates it