Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-08-19
World Famous Pianist at Glover.
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ural endowments Miss Verne approach
eS that uncanny something called
genius The extraordinary arrange
ment of program alone would have be-
tokened that here was some one out
of the ordinary in piano playing. Miss
Verne opened the concert with a pro-
foundry impressive reading of the Or
gan prelude and fugue of Bach, ar
ranged by List, and she gave it with
such a splendid poise and mastery
grip of it's dignity and grandeur, that
members of the audience invOluntarily
turned to one another in wOnderment
as to the identity of this new pianist.
miss Verne then passed to the
Scherzo of Mendelssohn, which she
gave with inimitable delicacy and
charm. A striking proof Of the uncon-
ventional was afforded in her next
offerings, which consisted of the classic
Couperin and Handel, each number be-
authority. The we'll worn Staccato
Etude (Rubinstein) followed, and
where it has been played with so much
virility it became an interesting and
valuable contribution to musical litera-
ture instead of merely slow piece OF
dexterity and it won from an audience
of musicians recall after recall.
"Miss Verne's next and most i'm
portant number. from the standpoint
of Interpretation, was the Chopin So
nata. 1t was given profoundly i'm
pressive, colorful reading, with the
beauty of the work definitely revealed,
and showed the astonishing mentality
which permits woman to play Chopin
with such a broadly intellectual grasp.
The funeral march was played with
superb poise, and in the pathetic Sec
ond part there was plaintive sadness,
tenderness and pathos which touched
the depths of emotion. And then
without pause came the short, closing
movement of the sonata, in which the
pianist did work that caused those
most intimately acquainted with all
sorts and conditions of great pianism
to sit up and wonder. 1t was an anna
ling piece of work.
AFTER this subjugation of her hear
ers, only the expected happened.
Alkan's descriptive study, 1.-The
Wind" was depicted as no other play
er, to the knowledge of the writer, has
yet been able to depict it. A veritable
whirlwind of technical achievement,
one forgot the cratic nature of the
work in the joy of being given such
perfection of color and picturesque IL
lustration.
"The List Second Rhapsodie was
probably a piece of vanity, for which
the player may be excused, since she
plays it so magnifcently. It certainly
offered a fitting climax technically to
a program which had provided such a
graphic Interpretation of all phases of
piano playing.
Never has a pianist been more
prodigally gifted. Her playing exhib-
its the loftiest intent and she lends
herself to an Interpretation of charac-
ter in the same manner as a great act
or or reader. She has that distinguish
ing personality that makes all her de-
lineations original as to conception and
execution and which invests every.
thing she presents with an intense In
terest.
AGela Verne impresses by her genu'
ineness, by her spontaneity. by hel
strength, forcefulness, and her extra
ordinary distribution of light and shade
She is a great colorist, one who car
be classed with the few great mer
players of the present century: with
the poetry and imagination of woman
and the power and forcefulness of {
man, Adela Verne is probably as re
markable figure in the musical worle
as we are likely to encounter. Tech
nically she can only be ranked will
Carreno, Menter, Hoffman or any on
of those who have forgotten what
technic means. AS Mrs. Cottlow, tn
mother of the eminent young pianist
Augusta Cottlow, was generously heart
to observe to Amy Fay, We'll, Abel;
Verne is a wonder. I"