The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-30
TO A VIOLIN,

Musical Club Matinee-A o, U. w. Tenn
pie.
TO A VIOLIN,
The brown house. so frai so strong,
Home Of giadness, tears and song
Sounding from thy Wondrons floors,
Floating through the olrcling doors.
Triumph. sorrow, JOY, despair,
Why has each It's echo there?
Lol shining hope l stand,
Reckoning thee with outstretched hand
Thou wilt fnd In bending near
Loves deep secrets vocal here;
Love is lord my walls Within
] am called violin,
The above lines were brought to
mind at the strictly instrumental mu-
clio concert given to the philharmonic
Club" last Tuesday and the anticipated
pleasure of hearing 'Remengi. the re-
nSwned vlolinIst. next Monday, The
Philharmonic Quartet concert was the
only one OF the past week, The inter-
probation, throughout, of a most diff
ficult programme was good and show
ed that each composer had been care
fully studied. Instrumental music, such
as the great masters have bequeathed,
in their symphonies quartettes and So
natas, is perhaps the only artistic pro-
duction In which the Germans stand
alone, not only without legitimate, but
really without rivals, and the chance
to hear 1t every other Tuesday evening
as delivered by the Philharmonic Quar-
tet, should be Musical Wheeling's
greatest pleasure. The Quartet en-
semble for 1S97-'9S Is the same as last
season, and the appearance of Profess
sor Herman Schockey, Professor Ed
ward Blumenberg, Mr.. A. Farber and
Mr.. Fred Meyer, on the Carroll club
stage, was the occasion for hearty APP
plause.
During the coming week all the clubs,
with the exception of the Woman'5
Club. will pursue the even tenor OF
their way.
Aside from these minor musical oc-
casions, however, three important con-
certs are held in its confines. The
first will take place on Monday night,
and MS the programme to be performed
is not at the disposal OF the writer at
present, and though plenty OF literature
NOUGGAhAHk VIC Nblillllb hhNehA Alalo bNNal
spread broadcast and read byAevery-
one into whose hands it fell. 1t yet
may not be amlss to talk n little about
Remenyi and his instrument, the violin,
as they both are viewed in Famous
Composers" and Music OF the Modern
World" both works, by the way, the
livery best OF their kind now in the
hands of the American public. List
I.-
1880, at Moskolc, In Hungary, the sole
surviving possessor of the esoteric splr.
II OF Gypsy music. recalling Binary. On
his numerous concert tours In all
parts OF the world, he has played mu-
sic Of an schools, but his heart IL with
the Hungarian melodies, which he
plays with deep feeling. The national
Magyar element IS the soul OF his art,
and classical art an acquired taste, yet
his compositions include classical pieces
as well as violin concerto and many
arrangements OF Hungarian airs.
Speaking with one who heard Remen-
vi in this city In 1879. the Questloner
was told that the impression created
that evening by Remenyis interpreted
tlon OF the Carnival de Venice" has
never In all the coming on years been
surpassed A breathless stiffness, 10
be followed by contagious outburst
Of laughter, does seem strange for a
Wheeling audience but It happened in
1879.
AS to his instrument, Remenyl Is the
possessor of Violius which he Ensures
for $4,000, and expects to use one Of
the very finest OF the collection here,
,Tuk -
making may for that reason, he inter-
esting.
The art proper has been conjectured
TO have arisen in the Netherlands
which in all kinds of cabinet and in
Rtrument making had achieved an early
pre-eminence. The names OF the first
Italian makers. such as Duffoprugcar
lend color 20 the theory. But the qeni.
us OF Italy soon elaborated the art az
peculiarly coneenal to itself. Gasparc
da salo and Magglnl, OF Brescla, ANA.
Il. StradIvarius Guarnarius and Der.
gonzi OF Cremona. are names complete.
~ Identified with the art and poetry Of
musical instrument making. Their
Is no special feature OF the violin thai
has not been found in one or another
specimen Of the early viol. The hlstor,
OF the rise OF the Cremonese school o.
making belongs to the Renaissance, ant
the Cremonese violin was created bS
the art OF Italian song seeking mean
OF mechanical expression, the difference
between its quick speech and elastic
carrying tone and the nobier, hu
thicker, less elastic tone quality Of IN,
German stainer models. indicates thu
ineradicable Influence Of national taBtt
and temperament II Ia significant, how
ever, that while the voice OF tho vlolf
found It's perfection IN Italy. the de-
velopment OF the bow pagged from ftal
ian fingers, TO German hands, and vi
timntely found its scientific evolution
IN France. Frances Tourte, In bis Owt
shop. constructed from pcrnambuc,
wood the finest bows that have eve
been made.
Altogether the sweeto0t music obtalnc,
from made Instruments In that to be- got
ten from the violin. Longfellow, Holmes
Taylor and Browning have sung II
praises, while 40 less g novelist thni
Charles Reader became foremost az IL
most Determinations and loving connols
sour.
From violin music, the imitation OF IN
greatest Of all gifts, n Hlrglng voice, W
come 20 the second concert Of the week
This win take place on Thursday might
November 4, In the opera ll1UGo, whlcl
should be packed for II win prove n roa
attraction.
a ladies' vocal qunrtcttc "a nlway
pleasing, bccaune ~ It's UnlquoncsH, bu
The organization due IN Wheeling mex
Thursday, n made up Of slngora who. D
their ensemble work. have created n iro
tnendous furOrc, wherever they have ar
reared. and nfo to-day unequnll7d b
any similar organization IN Am0r.rl.
Mise Zelda slmonH has q soprano vOlc
Of great range. vi a warm, Bympatnoti