The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-17
MUSIC.

chin, Sarasate and Ysaye are all alive,
not to mention the later virtuosi, Ku-
belik and Kocian. But just at pres
ent the critics of Europe are outdoing
each other in praises OF a new star,
who has risen in Paris
Jacques Thibaud was unknown to
fame four years ago. Edouard CO.
Tonne, the famous orchestra conductor,
heard him play In a cafe in the Quar-.
tier Latin of Paris, and gave him
position In his orchestra and intro
duced him as solo player. His sue
agreed that he was phenomenal for,
while he possessed all the qualities
heretofore displayed by other violin
lists, his art embraced certain new
phrases that We're received as little
less than revelations in the most crit
ical music centers of Europe.
Thibaud's triumph in Paris was
electrical In its suddenness and he had
hardly appeared and become the talk
OF the city before he left for Berlin,
and there, in the home Of the UNI
crowned king Of the violin, Josef
Joachim, the critics were unanimous
In their .extravagant praise Of the
young Frenchman. From this debut
dates Thibaud's International fame,
and his march of triumph has gone
steadily on until the present time
when he holds the enviable position
OF the most talked OF artist in entire
Europe.
Jacques Thibaud, besides being the
artst that he is, is also an exception
any handsome man. He is above me-
dunn height and carries himself like
an Adonls. He has a manly figure
ana race so handsome and winning
tnat 1t may be said to be irresistible.
undoubtedly this extraordinary
beauty mas helped to make his sue
cess Sill
elegant, polished and graceful per-.
sonalty and his gracious manner puts
him on terms of friendship with his
audience even before he starts to
play. So .E .lts0
He will make his first appearance
Edouard Colonne, who is COMING over
TO conduct some concerts for the New
York Philharmonic society. Thibaud
Will then make his initial bow to a
New York audience and will appear
IN Minneapolis later in the season in
one or the concerts of the new Min
neapoils symphony orchestra.
GWllym Miles, the barytone singer
who Is to sing in Elijah" with the
Philharmonic club on April s, is
admitted to be the greatest Elijah in
THIS or any other country. His whole
artistic makeup happens to fit him
IN peculiar way for this particular
part. When this oratorio was pro
duced at Ocean Grove, N. j., last Au-
gust, with trained chorus Of $50
voices and Mr.. Miles in the title part,
special train brought hundreds of
people all the way from New York
city: It was one of the finest pro-
auctions that this great oratorio has
ever had and the critics all agreed
that Mr.. Miles was truly magnificent.
Rehearsals for the Apollo club con-
cert, which will take place in the
First Baptist church Nov 4 8, are
numbers chosen are of a brilliant
order, and one or two will be pre-
sented with pipe organ and piano. ac-
compartment. .Ez
Miss Florence Verge will give a;
recital Wednesday, evening, Oct. 2S,s
in Plymouth church. Miss Vierge is
one of the talented young >violinists
of Minneapolis She returned from
Berlin only last spring and this will
pc the first opportunity that her
/ Minneapolis friends have had to hear
her. She will be assisted BY Miss
Clara Williams, Miss Jean Wakeman
and Franklin Krieger Of st. Paul.
Mrs. Bertha Rathbun swart will
give concert in the Linden Hills
Congregational church, Lake Harriet
for the benefit of the church. piano
fund, Friday evening" She will he
assisted by Maud Ulmer Jones, vocal
ISL; Josephine Bonaparte Rice, eIo-
cutioniest; Mrs S. J. Bowler, pianist
and William S. McPhail, violinist. Z:
A touching picture is given Of
beethoven as he composed his last
five sonatas which Mr.. Zoch will NAV
at his sixty-third recital Tuesday ev pns
Ing in the Unitarian church. A1tho
IN MS middle life he was a piano vir-
tuoso as we'll as composer, his in
creaslng deafness did not allow him
TO play such works as these last soma
tas' IN composing them he would trv
some passages on the piano and his
touch was so light in the soft places
that they We're inaudible and so ire
mendous in the louder places as to
make the result terrible. This. wa
made chaotic by his Ignorance When
the piano or violin were drea dfI1l1v
| out Of tune -, $1,000 10y
In his faithful and heroic prepara-
| thirty private rehearsals, at w11ich
some OF his friends were always .nres-
ent, besides working on them every
day FOR the past six months, A snlen,
dld etching of Beethoven, Judged to
De the best likeness of the composer.
'A.ASDS tSpAoouCcu IN nalf.tOne In the
notes to the program.
The faculty of the Northwestern
conservatory Of Music will give the
first of a series of recitals Wednesday
evening in the Unitarian church. The
occasion Is noteworthy as it will he
the last appearance with the faculty
OF Carlo Fischer, violoncellist, and the
first appearance Of Miss DelIone>
harpist. Mr.. Fischer leaves the citv
next month to accept a position IN
| Van der Stuecken's Cincinnati orches-
ira, and Miss Del1one comes to Min
neapolis to fill an engagement with
the philharmonic orchestra.
Inc program will be as follows:
Overturde, "Ruy Bias .Mendelssohn
Mrs. Marsh-Miss Marion.
Sonata In D major for Piano and Cello
! Elegie- Finals ....... Hans Huhe,
Miss Chenevert-Mr. Fischer.
.................. Sch11manr
Romance, Etude in D fiat IJszt
M. Beach.
Old German Love Couplet ... Marshal
Mr.. MARSHALL; cello obligato, Mr.. Fischer
Ituue -. -. - Hensel
Larghetto from F min. Concerto. .Hensel
Miss Dobyns.
Ballad Of the East and West 49,. Ktp1ine