The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-17
The Mehrtens Concert.

The music loving people of Palatka
will long remember with pleasure
the treat afforded them in the visit
of the Mehrtens Concert company OF
Savannah on the night of st. Valen-
tines day, 1905.
The company, whose coming had
been heralded by numerous and
highly flattering press notices con-
corning the work of each member,
has left no trace of disappointment.
If anything the work Of the several
members exceeded in pOint of arts
tic merit the most hopeful cxpecta-
tions of our best equipped local mu-
steal judges.
Mrs. Laura Mehrtens, the pianist
of the company, played selections
from Chopin, Moszkowski, List,
Beethoven and Verdi-Liszt, and with
such skill in the mastery of all the
details of Interpretation, touch, ETC.,
as to stamp her an artist of first
merit. Her numbers Were generous
ly applauded by the audience.
Mrs. Wickenberg possesses a So
prano voice OF wonderful power and
sweetness and her every number was
received by storms of applause in
recognition of which she twice gra-
ciously responded.
1t is not in unfavorable contrast
with the other artists when we say
that perhaps the most thoroughly
enjoyable numbers on the program
were those of young Rudolph Jacob
son, the viulinist. Artistic piano
playing and vocal music of a high
order are not uncommon in Palatka,
while artists with supreme control
of, and ability to draw out all the
hidden melodies of the violin are
rare. This young man jacobson is
certainly II great artist now, and
when We consider his youth, it is not
too much to say that under favora-
BILE circumstance he will yet attain
to the fame of an Ole Bull or
Edouard Remenyi. His every num-
Der on Tuesday night was received
with II storm of applause.
The concert was largely attended
and on its commercial side will
yield on II 20 per cent basis Il pretty
sum for the public library. But
there are very many people in Pa
latka who did not attend who should
have shared with those who did in
this musical treat.
There was an impression current
that only classical music would be
rendered, and, as one gen tleman who
loves music, said, II cannot appreci-
ate it," That statement is only par
TALLY true of one who has Il modi-
cum of music in his makeup. The
classics in music are the standards,
or models, set up by the masters,
those whose very souls were cir
cled by melody. They gath
cred music from every rhythmic
sound wave that fell upon their ear
ana moulded or modelled them into
melodies expressive of every human
passion. And when you hear the
artistic rendition of the compositions
of these masters-these model max
ers if you have heart for the bu-
man passions, you have but to listen
and you will hear, perchance, your
mothers lullaby, the laughter of
children, the anthems of the angels,
or, the lashing of the waves, the
sObs of broken heart, the walls of
the lost, the anger of the mob, the
roar of the elements and the cursings
of the damned You get these out
of grand music the kind dubbed
you would get the
varying human emotions from a
tragedy when rem
dered by one who has mastered the
of its loves, the trearh-
cry of its Geceits and the merciess
of its murders.
Then this sort of music is elevat- |
ing. When we hear it we are lifted |