The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-13
Thomas Orchestra Charms
With All-Russian Program

| There was splendid brilliancy
about the all-Russian program pre-
scented by the Theodore Thomas Sym
phony orchestra, Wednesday evening
in the Light Guard armory, and Of all
the cordial receptions given to Con
ductOr Frederick Stock, and his fine
players, in this city, none has been
more enthusiastic and spontaneous
than that of last night.
The appeal OF the Russians music
to the music lover and to the cultivat-
| ed concert audience, Is as potent as
that OF Wagner and whenever one
OF the visiting orchestras has placed
Russian number upon the program,
It has been received with unmistak-
able approval and enjoyment. There
is something wonderfully fascinating
about the brilliancy, the barbaric saw
agery. the gorgeous coloring, and the
daring melOdic treatment found in
the works OF all the Russians. With
the wildness. the passion, the bizarre.
sounds the note of melancholy which
seems inseparable from the music OF
Tschaikowsky, Rimsky Korsakoff,
Glazounow. Borodin. Rachmaninoff
and their fellows. The compositions
chosen for presentation last night. by
Conductor Stock. could not have been
selected more carefully to present to
an audience the Russian nature, the
characteristics and the Kaleidoscope
moods OF the people as expressed in
the music OF the country's great COM
posers.
Following the overture to the opera
Prince Igor" tBorodin), which open
ed the program. Rachmaninoff's Sym
phony In f minor was played The
symphony required nearly an hour 10
perform, and so colossal work must
be heard many times, and studied
carefully before just appreciation OF
II could be ventured. The instrument
tation Is Opulent, the thematic ma
terial rich and plenteous, and the
whole composition so gorgeous in its
beauty as to- thrill and TO stir the
most sluggish musical sense. Rimsky-
Korsakoff's Capriccio Espagnol was
wonderful finale to wonderful
night of music.
Nine. Yolanda Nero. the Hungarian
rianiste, was the soloist, playing
Tschaikowsky's piano concerto in G.
major. with orchestral accompani.
1lt hcIO, q,
dark-eyed, business.like little woman,
Of a considerable number OF pounds.
and remarkably attractive. hands and
arms OF prodigious strength, was
the brilliant star In the brilliant set.
ting. She tore notes of the keyboard
In such whirlwind speed and with
such dazzling facility and surety. as
10 leave her hearers gasping with
amazement. She has mastered all
the details Of the business OF piano
playing and seldom has an artist sat
at piano on Detroit concert stage.
with so much authority. such com.
plete poise and such absolute self.
mastery. Not that Nine Nero Ii az.
gressively superior In her manner but,
simply that, she IL entirely sure OF
herself She responded graciously, TO
the applause and returned To play a
short and familiar caprice. which also
served To show her technical finish
and into which she read new beauties
in Nine. Meros absorption IN her
work, she forgot ali about two mag
ni1cent bouquets Of pink roses pre-
sented to her and the last auditor to
leave the ermory saw the pretty
posies in all their dropping pinkness
living detected and forsaken on the
directors box
The last concert in the Detroit Or.
chestral association series will be
given by the New York Philharmonic
orchestra. "Wednesday evening, April
| 2, the date having been changed from
Wednesday, March 26
ELI.O NAE HAWTHORNE