New-York tribune., 1917-06-24

rsrory for inoko '"'A
.r.b a case the editorial eve" seems
-, suly pOmpOus, but suprsmely fool
=, and affected. To pay tribute to
-. memory of Teresa Carreno and
..,,;Suts a Bit to her history, am
.s.,.sors constrained to talk also
.sa.. myself, for my recollection of
-. ,un.rb artist goes back more than
-. ..ore years and my admiration for
g.. {. equally old. Our personal
.,,,,.sncs was slight, but pleasant
,.., her return from Europe, some
I.,.v wears ago, I was invited to
-. her at supper given in her
,,,or bu. my duties kept me else
r,.,, till a late hour. and left me no
sr. 70 compare notes with her con-
"-,,y our first professional associa-
.on twenty and more years before;
.,,.Imish. be more exact in the state
u.r., with which wish to supplement
~. ,.,ord Of her early concert tours
:, N. United States, which I find in
n. biographical handbooks and the
,b,.usri.s in the newspapers which
,.v. come under my eye. In them
,,.,. va, an omission of the fact that
=. lad taught Edward A. Mcdowell
.,s, h. was a lad-a deplorable omis-
.;,, ,inee she did much TO spread the
lama Of the American composer by
MANY brilliant performances Of his
,..opd concerto. and was always proud
a, the circumstance that she had had
hand in his artistic development.
The biographers and necrologists also
,svs failed to take account OF some OF
,sr tours In this country or have
riysn their dates incorrectly. Except
n her concerts as a child OF nine or
vn wears Of age, little if any mention
!. made OF her artistic activity in this
country prior 70 1876; yet there is a
strong impression on my mind that
heard her first in 1878. | am just now
s many hundreds of miles away from
nv private records as the summer rus
.iea.or is from the proverbial lemon,
mI might be more exact and positive
IN nv statement. At any rate, il was
before the season of 1S74-'75, for at
the time | had not taken up the pro-
..ssion Of journalism, but was paying
for the concerts which l attended out
Of ny earnings of s. week as clerk
in The office where was reading law
in Cincinnati. have a vivid recollec-
ton Of Nine. Carreno's appearance in
company with Nine. Tietjens, the Ger
man soprano so greatly admired OF
London; but that was in 1876, when
was already musical critic OF The
Cincinnati Gazette
Unless my memory is at fault, Nine
csreno had played in Cincinnati
twice before the occasion last men
toned. Her necrologists seem to have
overlooked the fact that she travelled
n the West with Wieniawsh after the
departure from this country of Rubin
stein. with whom the great Polish vio-
Hnist came in 1872. WieniawsN re-
named here for some time after Ru-
brstein had gone back to Europe, and
extended his tour as far as the Pacific
Coast. Il was in his company that
frs. heard Carreno, and the pair
played Beethoven's "Kreutzer Sonata"
q, one OF the numbers OF the pro-
,ramme. OF Wieniawski's playing
have q vivid recollection; OF Carreno's
scarcely any a. all. For this circum-
stance I can find two explanations. In
The frs. place, was doing some
seripi,g On the violin myself at the
tine and, naturally, more interested
IN that instrument than IN the plano
forte; IN the second I fancy that, like
those Of every young man in Pixies
0iera House on that particular after
noon or evening, my eyes were more
hssily occupied with the young wom-
AIS appearance than ny ears with
Ter performance. ! can AFFORD to con-
fsss that for I was not critic then.
ia bis sketch OF Mme. Carreno's
s,r..r. printed in "The Boston Her
ild,' Mr. Philip Hale quoted a French
rr,sr as saying 81 her when she
;layed IN Paris in 1868 tina. she was
Sbesutiful az Calatea just leaving
re ehissl Of new Pygnalion." What
miserable dabbler in metaphorsl
csreno 20 Galatea? "Hyperion to
Sssyr!" No vision comparable 70
Teresa Carreno q. twenty had ever
ssddened ny sight up 70 that time;
'o' have seen rs equal since. Her
'y.s, large, liquid and luminous, we're
fa7ishing, and there vas snare in
every hair o. the ebon mass which
crowned her head. And what a mad
oehing hahi. she had of turning he-
eyss full upon the audience half the
'.ne While she was playingl Perhaps
" she had no. done that 20 much
i,eaid now, after forty-three years,
lav. IS distirc. recollection of her
paying as have Of the fabulous
s'aecoto q Wieniawski.
/ mink tha. heard her again before
las made tour with Tietjens In 1875.
.hi' ZINE Sagret, the violinis., was in
.as company, and the pair had either
~ been or were about 20 be married.
"sf a'soe.at.on with Tietjens calls up
pleasant memory There was living
Cincinnati AZ the tine q decayed
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