The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-06

His knowledge of piano music and song &C
compartments is unlimited, and IN the AT
ter he displays all the sympathy pecuiiar .
the bin
The artists recital to be given under
the auspices of the Amphion Club at Tom
linson Hall on Wednesday. May .. intro
ducing the wonderful trio. P~etschnikoh.
Hamburg and Lachaume, will be the
event OF an already brilliant season Inc
greatest interest naturally centers In
Petschnikof. the great Russian viohnisI
whose playing has won the u~nquanneo
praise of the music world. The history
of his boyhood days and his success under
the patronage Of Princess Ourouson n
her daughter, Princess Marie, is exceed
ingly romantic. 1t was the renned' TO
ligious and pure atmosphere OF the pr1n-
cess's household that developed Ia the
youthful Slav. the descendant OF serfs,
the finer qualities or mind ana heare anu
had its reflex on his sympathetic magma
ton. Here IL was that he acquired MS
new renowned appreciation OF Bach ana
Rrahms, and here he learned 10 love the
beautiful Princess Marie, who played with
him daily, and the musical unity establish
ed between them was the wonder OF the
Russian music world. The young princess
also played the piano parts at all OF ms
lrQDOIlanI concerts, iii llCiA AANCA
ton OF some Beethoven and Saint-Saens
numbers at Prague startled the musicai
world. In the midst OF TINS haiycoh NE,
when surrounded with refinement, culture
and wealth, and just before his profession
al career was TO have been abandoned by
his marriage to the Princess Marie. she
died without the smallest premonitioh'
and he reached st. Petersburg, from a
short visit TO Moscow. barely in time TO
be present when she passed away. This
was not very long ago, but PetschnikoH s
life has since been devoted TO music, anc
his many vicissitudes have been the cruel
bile that has refined and made perfect the
artist OF to-day. Hamburg. the young
pianist, who will share with P~etschnikoff
the honors of the evening, had an amusing
experience the other day in P~ittsburg pre-
ceding an engagement. To use his own
words: Every city has its own method
OF welcoming one. Usually when arrive
at a town / And that the people know a
little about me. When / got into Pitts
burg / went to a telephone in one of the
hotels and the telephone lady looked long
and earnestly at me. L wish 1 could see
You play, she said wistfullyy.. Do you play
| Carnegie Hall, / Think I replied. Come
and hear me. I'll see hat you get a ticket.
.Ah. thank you, 1 do love hockey she
had seen my long hair and thought me one
of the Yale champions. / was forced to
blushingly own my humble vocation and
station. Her contemptuous glance wfther.
ed me-" Anne Lachaume. the eminent
French pianist, VINO Is ferscnhikou ac-
companist, and with whom he has beer
giving joint recitals during the season, will
be heard with Hamburg in the great
piano duet, "Danse Macabre," by Saint
| Saens. While Lachaume is a comparative
stranger he is well known in the East
and in European music centers, where he
has been a familiar soloist for the past
| ten years. Born in 1871 he entered the
Paris Conservatory and graduated with
the highest honors in every department
| iE 1890. The Amphion Club will sing but
one number, the sprightly "Salterelie." by
Saint-SaenS.