Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-27
CRERNIAVSkYS
LAST CONCERT
HERE TONIGHT
Third Appearance Saturday
Made Up of Selections Less
Classical Than First

Everyone who lives for any length
of time in Hawaii draws into his ma
ture a hunger for music, not for the
extravagances of German harmony,
perhaps, but for rich and simple mel
| ody, and 1t was the simplicity and
righteousness of the Cherniavskys'
program at the Opera House Satur-
day night which WIS peculiarly salts
flying to people accustomed to the
light drumming of ukuleles heard
over the water, and voices singing in
the distance.
Their first trio by Arensky set the
| tone of their whole performance. 1t
| was the statement and restatement of
simple theme, passing through in
finite variations, quick changing and
| fun of the bubbling happiness of
youth-the Slavic youth Of immense
and unknown promise. The three mu-
sieians seemed little aware of their
audience. They were playing with an
ear leaned to their own music-they
we're interpreting to themselves, and
lost in their own effort. The elegia-
adagio movement was particularly
rich in soft-blended harmonies, and
the audience was completely satisfied
here was something which they
could understand.
Mischief, following the trio, as usual
won a great burst of applause after
each of his cello solos, from the light
whimsical Romance by Pepper to the
difficult Am Springbrilnnen by David
off, when his rapidly vibrating bow
and running fingers perfectly fmitat-.
ed the purr and ripple of water. -
Jan chose series of solos quite DIFF
ferent from his selections of last
Thursday On that occasion he play
ed Chopin, but Saturday he played
simple and familiar pieces with the
exception, perhaps, of the rather gym
nastic Study in F. sharp major by
Arensky. But the audience was wait
ing breathlessly for his last solo-the
Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody. And he
played it perfectly until the crowd en-
tered wholly into LISTS gay mood OF
light exultation. -, 49,"
Nothing was more impressive than
Leo Cherniaysky's performance in the
violin Concerto by Ernst. He drew a
"long bow" as they used to say some
centuries ago, and he drew, 1t with a.
fierce and almost impatient agrees
iveness. Even to the softer portions
of the Concerto he gave the threat. of
coming vehemence, but Immediately
after he lad concluded the piece,
when the audience called him back
again and again. he finally responded
with an effort of quite a different ma
ture, but almost as beautiful - q
simple and unaffected melody played
upon muted strings. ~
Perhaps not as closely fitted to their
talents as the Tema con VariaZioni,
which they played Thursday, but still
something into which they could enter
with close sympathy, the Peer Gynt
by GI.ieg rounded off and summed up
the evening perfectly. 1t is usually
hard for an audience to understand
Grieg's Interpretation of the Death OF
Ase, that great scene at the close OF
the third act when Peer sits down on
the bed of his dying mother and, har-
Messing up an old chair with strings,
takes a stick for whip and tells his
mother that he is going to drive her
chariot up to heaEen-and does so. I'M
til in the midst of his speech to Saint
Peter at the gates Of heaven, he turns
around to find his mother dead. Most
musicians find in Grieg's music only
the melancholy and hopeless sorrow
ing of deep succeeding chords, but
the Cherniavskys, in some mysterious
manner, broke up monotonous dark
with flashes of light when you could
see the cliffs over which Peers mag
nation was driving. But doubtless
the triumph of the evening was their
Interpretation of In the Hall Of the
Mountain King" beginning with snch
queer broken phrases that you could
fairly see the columns of impS and
sprites dancing silently on to the
stage with fantastic sudden gestures,
and rising perfectly to the wild scene
when the imps attack Peer. and here,
at the climax of climaxes, shrill run
of treble from the piano added the
last touch Of horror to the confusion.
The CheTniayskys tonight, at their
last appearance in Honolulu, will pre-
sent the following program:
Trio for Pianoforte, Violin and
Violoncello No. 2, c minor....
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Mendelssohn
Allegro energ1cO con tuaco.
Andante expressive.
F1nale-Allegro Apassionato.
Leo, Jan and Mischief Cherniavsky
2-NioloncellO Solos
(al SommernaCht ....... Sulzer
lbl Vito ............ Pepper
(C) ScherZo. Van GOenS
Mischief CherniavSky
3-PianofOrte Solos
tai BerCeuse .... Chopin
(bJ Prelude No. % Chopin
(c) PoICnaise in A flat. -. Chopin
Jan Cherniavsky
Interval of 10 minutes.
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