Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-27
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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 il was the simplicity and
| righteousness OF the CherniaVskys'
program at the Opera House Satur-
day night which was 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-
sicians seemed little aware of their
| audience. They were playing with an
ear leaned to their own music-they
were 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 Springbrunnen by David
off, when his rapidly vibrating bow
and running fingers perfectly imitat-
ed the purr and ripple of water.
Jan chose a 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.
Nothing was more impressive than
Leo Cherniavsky's performance in the
violin Concerto by Ernst. He drew a
long bow" as they used to say some
centuries ago, and he drew it. with a.
fierce and almost impatient aggress-
iveness. Even to the softer portions
of the Concerto he gave the threat OF
coming vehemence, but Immediately
after he had concluded the piece,
when the audience called him back
again and again, he finally responded
with an effort of quite different ma
ture, but almost as beautiful -
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 Grieg 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 heaVen-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 imag-
ination 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, a shrill run
of treble from the piano added the
last touch of horror to the confusion
The Cherniavskys tonight, at their
last appearance in Honolulu, will pre-
sent the following program:
Trio for Pianoforte, Violin and
Violoncello No. 2, c minor..
Observation-Disclosures. MendelssOhn
Allegro energico con fuaco.
Andante expressive
Finale-Allegro ApassionatO.
Leo, Jan and Mischief Cherniavsky
2-NiOlOncello Solos
Ia( SommernaCht ........ SulZer
to- Vito ........... Pepper
tc) ScherzO. Van Goens
Mischief CherniavSky
%-PianOtOrte Solos
tai BerCeusC ............. Chopin
ChI Prelude 40. 23......... Chopin
lcl PClonaise in y flat. Chopin
Jan Chcrniavsky
Interval of u minutes.
1 Violin Solos
,aD Serenade .TschaikowsKy
rhl CAPRICE NiennOis. FIR. Kre Sler
to- Grand POlOnaisp no. 4......
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