The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-05

Out and About
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tHls year OF next imam InaJ Oh the
Adamowskis yesterday evening Both
gratitude and congratulations are due
the enterprising club of ladies who
brought them here. The concert was
the biggest affair they have ever I'M
dertaken, but it was so eminently a
success that it is generally hoped they
will essay the role of impresario again
soon.
The program follows:
Trio in A minor (by requesO,
In memory of a great artist, Nicholas
Rubenstein.
Allegro Moderate
Tema con Variazione
Finale
Soil for cello
(a) Elegie Faure
(b) Gavotte No. 2 Fitzenhagen
(Mr J. AdamowskD
Soil for pianoforte
(a) Pastorale Scaratti
(D) Capricc1O SCarlatti
(c) Nocturne in C minor Chopin
Cd Valse Strausse-Tausig
Man lebt nur einmal
Mime. SZumoWska)
Soil for violin
{a( Melodie Paderewski
(b) Fanfalla Sauret
(Mr. T. AdamowskD
Elegia and Scherzo (From trio, op. Az
A. Arensky
Had the program been limited to the
Tschaikowsky trio and one of Mime.
Szumowskas dimpled smiles it would
have made rich evening. 1t was the
first time the Russians work has been
heard in Worcester as it was written,
although as piano duet it was played
last winter by Miss Georgia Bacon and
Mrs. G. H. Prentice at one of the Fri
day Morning club mornings and later
at the club concert. Boston has hea. /
1t twice. No one who hears it given as
it was given last night could convict
Tschaikowsky Of unmelodiousness or
incoherency. This work, with its
haunting sadness, it's barbaric splend-
ors, its wealth of ideas, its variety, its
glorious color, it's orchestral richness
of Instrumentation and above all it's
nobility was given superb rendering
1t was an ideal bit Of ensemble play
ing. Nine. Szumowska in particular
played with a daring and confidence
and Yeuve that made light of the
tremendous technical difficulties of the
trio and captivated the large and
musical audience.
More trio playing and less solo work
would have improved the program ma
terially. Three trios would have been
none too much. Joseph Adamowski is
q good but not q great 'cellist, and his
forte is ensemble, not solo playing. The
"Elegie" by Faure is not an especially
attractive composition, but it was de-
cidedly more musical than the Gavotte
that followed it.
Nine. Szumowsld is the star of the
trio. She is head and shoulders above
her husband, and her brother-in-law
unsteady Her playing is character
lied by remarkably strong, clear
touch that never becomes muddy, even
when it approaches dangerously near
to pounding. and by a technique that
never becomes ragged or wavering. In
the Tschaikowsky trio, she played with
great breadth and seriousness. Her
solo work is marked by unfailing bril-
liancy and finish, and by marvellous re-
finement and delicacy. 1t sometimes
seems as il there were a trif1e too much
glitter and dazzle to it, as if one were
forever to deck oneself in silver and
crystal but this sounds like carping
in the face Of the almost leonine passion
that she put into the Tschaikowsky
trio Nine. Szumowskis playing goes
to the head. but does it ever touch the
heart? Her reading of the Scarlatti
numbers were given with a cleanness
and limpid quality; the Chopin nocturne
was played with authority if with
something of hardness and loss of po-
etry; while the pyrotechnics of the
yalse brought out applause that was
only satisfied when Nine. Szumowska
played Scarlattis Allegrissimo. Her
efforts were admirably seconded by the,
piano, my new Chickering," as she
called it. And it may not be without
interest to know that that was the first
time she had played on the instru-
ment.
Five years ago Timothy Adamowski
was one of the best violinists on the
continent, but last night he was sadly
out of form. From fine Stradivarious
he got only mean, small, thin, sharp,
strident tone that was particularly I'M
pleasant in the Tschaikowsky trio,
and beside he played false notes and
got off the key once or twice. After
playing a graceful dainty melodfe by
Paderewsld, he finished up with a
tawdry thing whose only virtue was
difficulty. The concert closed with
lovely reading of two movements, an
elegy and a scherzo from Arensky's de-
lightful trio, op. A. Altogether it was
a tremendously good evening of music.
The ladies of Piedmont church will
give a Christmas bazar and fair rep
resenting the months of the year 1900,
in the vestry, on the afternoons and
evenings of Dec. IA and Is. Mrs. John
H. Orr, Mrs. Charles A. Hill and Mrs.
Charles M. Booth are the general COM
mittee and the several booths and la
dies in charge are as follows: jan
uary, Miss Georgianna NJ Newton,
Piedmont 1900 calendar; February,
Mrs. Charles F. Marble, the latest and
best Christmas books March, Mrs.
Waldo E. Session, all kinds of choice
homemade candies; April Mrs. Fred
erick S. Hopkins, Aunt Prue's" old
fashioned posy garden; May, Mrs. AL
bert H. Chaffee, art gallery; June, Mrs
E. b. Knowles, palms, ferns, cut flow
ers and holly; July, Miss Helen w.
Lincoln and Mrs. Samuel Porter, ice
cream and cake; August, Misses Hen
derson, lemonade and drinks; Septem-
Der, Mrs. Fl. B. Lincoln, all sorts of
useful domestic articles October, Mrs.
Charles E. Hildreth, perfumes, sachets
and toilet articles of every description;
November, Mrs. Edward F. Green,
fancy articles, silk bags, embroidered
linen, etc; December, Miss Inman,
dolls, toys and games.
The chancel will be transformed into
a Japanese bower where choice teas
preserved fruits and Japanese articles
will be served and sold by girls in
japanese costume. Mrs. Clarence f.
Carroll chairman.
TableauX representing famous paint
ings of children will be under the di-
rection of Mrs. Edward Hall, the char
acters being taken by children of the
Sunday school.
On Thursday evening a salad supper
will be served by Mrs. G. w. Putnam