The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-06
NOT WZARDRY
BUT WITCHERY
kubeIik Took the Community
Out of Itself by His
Magic.

The community of culture very large
ly abandoned all avocations yesterday
between twelve and two o'clock and
gave itself up to the pleasure of listen
ing to Jan Kubelik, the great violinist.
Tt was an unusual hour. But it was
an unusual event, and an unusual OPP
portunity. None who attended the con-
cert had aught to say of inconvenience
of the hour
- 1t was a splendid house that greeted
the master of that wonderful instru-
ment, the violin; and Kubelik was gra-
cious enough to say that it was one
of the most appreciative audiences he
had ever faced. Certainly neither
Kubelik nor Miss Mueller could COM
plain of cordiality OF reception or
warmth of enthusiasm.
The concert began with Mendels-
shon's Concerto. It's three movements.
the first stately, the second plaintive,
and the third gay. gave splendid OPP
portunity for wide variety of express
sion Kubelik captivated his audience
at once. storm after storm of applause
followed each of these portions of the
number. His second number. was Wie-
niawski's Faust Fantasia" Kubelik
seemed to put into the weird cadences
of the Poles music the very spirit of
g, e.f k
ing of remorse and hopelessness. Sure
ly 1t was more than Wieniawsh's s
Faust Fantasia Kubelik had added
a depth and power.
Kubelik's last number and the one
with which the program was closed
contained three selections: Wagner's
Preislied from the Meistersinger; HUI
bays Zephyr; and Paganinfs Witches
Dance. In the Preislied he drew from
his violin the very voices of children,
tears and laughter, cadences of merri-
ment, and the touch of pathos- In the
ZEPHYR there was the signing of the
winds. the faint and distant voices or
the sprites and elves and fairies fsthe
oreezes. In Paganini's Witches Dance
&kubelik drew from his bow the very
forms of the gnomes and goblins of the
forest. There was the uncomfortable
sprfghtliness of the invisible creatures
whose sport and pastime was por-
trayed 1t was magic and witehery.
And then, responding TO the storms
of applause he gave Bazzani's La
ronde de Lutins,'- as gay and capri
cfous a thing as could be imagined.
Kubelik has a striking presence ana
manner, happily devoid of mannerlsns.
He stands with his feet well apart Civ
ing himself stable equilibrium which
rarmits> of the freest movement and
swing. There is a freedom, an uncon-
straint, a command, in his handlng OF
both bow and violin that gives pleas
pre. There probably never was such
mastery of technique with so little dis
play of it, In Paganinf's Wltches
Dance, he used with the perfect ease OF
mastery, that expedient first discovered
by Paganini, and which gave MN
among his contemporaries, the reputa-
tion of witehchaft-harmonics and YET
without the least appearance Of musi-
cal gymnastics or pyrotechnics.
Sharing in the pleasure giving OF the |
program was Miss Mueller, an Aus
tralian soprano of magnificent sweep |
and volume of voice and apt manage
paent of it. Her first number was
f5nellfs Aria from A Basso Porto. Her
second number comprised the selec-
uons, Macdowelrs, Thy Beaming /
Eyes" Edward Cigars shepherd |
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