The age-herald., 1901-01-13
ABOUT MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

It is much to Birminghams credit that it has large and well-traned festival chorus permanently organized and ready and willing at all times to assist in any high-class concert given by visiting artists MT. Guckenberger's May Festival Chorus of a hundred and twenty-five or thirty voices is equal in quality to the most cele- brated body of singers in the United States and it's participation in Leonora Jackson's concert at the Auditorium next Thursday night will add greatly to the musical value of that entertainment Miss Jackson is one of the most famous violinists in the world -one of the really great virtuosos-and a concert without any other name on the programme but hers would be a rare ar- tistic treat indeed; but such a brilliant bill as she presents here would be regarded in any of the larger cities as almost imposs- the programme:
 1. Chorus Hail, Bright Aboder-From '"Tannhauser" (Wagner).
 g. Violin concerto, No 4 (VieuXtemps)- Miss Jackson.
 5. Waltz Song (ArditD-Miss Eburna.
 4. Sonata for piano and violin opus 1T (Beethoven): (a) Andante and variations; Np) flndle-GreSto-Mr. GuckenDerger and Miss Jackson.
 5. Chorus, cantata-"Fair Ellen" (Max Bruch)-Mrs. E. G. Chandler, soprano, and MT E. A. Werner baritone.
 G. (a) "Adoratfon," Russian (Borowsky); (b) "Humoresque," Russian CTschaikow- sky); Co 'Madrigale' Italian (SimonettD; (d) Hungarian Danee' (Brahms-Joachim) Miss Jackson.
 T. Female chorus, "Whirl and Twirl" from Flying Dutchman' (Wagner).
 S. Piano solos: (a) "Abends, at Evening" RafD; (b) "Toccatto'' (Sgambati)-Mr. Pratt.
 9. "Ronde des Lutins," Hobgoblin Dance (Baz1lnD-Miss Jackson.
 The fourth number on Miss Jackson's programme is Beethoven's much discussed CT a portion of it. Miss Jackson and MT, Guckenberger had intended playing the en- tire work, but finally decided that 1t was too long for a popular enter tainment, and wisely and with good taste selected two movements-the pathetic sndante with va rations and the gay and sparkling finale In playing all the movements not less than a half hour is consumed. Those parts on the programme require only seventeen or eighteen minutes The reason the Kreut- ger is not often heard on the concert stage
  cause of it's technical difficulties. It is ex- ceedingly difficult, both for the pianist and the violinist, and few violinists there are who can read it with scholarly insight and perform 1t luminousy.
 Three years ago Miss Jackson and Pade- rewski played in a concert together in Lon don. The violinist had but recently com pleted her studies with Joachim in Berlin, but she played with the finish and matured feeling of an experienced musician. It was in that concert that she achieved one of her most notable triumphs The London Telegraph, in its criticism of the two vir- tuosos, said: "The finest pianist in the world cannot extinguish by superior eff fulgence the light of artists such as Miss Leonora Jackson" Herman Klein in the London Times said: Her rendition of this difficult concerto (WieniawskD was so brilliant and 90 mas terly at all points that 1t called to mind the in the same work as Sara sate (for whom 1t was written) of Ysays, l and of the renowned composer himself, | whom heard play it during his Yistt-ta-