New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
Two TeutOnic
Players Make
Debuts i'm u. S.
Frau ELY Ney, Advertised
as @sFemale Paderewski,"
> Creates Fine Impression
i'm Beethoven Numbers
Pianist of Good Fiber
Fraulein ROSIE Varady, the
s'Female Casals,'' Seems
on Road to Virtuosoship


present friends but recent enemies
Germany and Austro- -Hungary-madc
their first bids for American favor in
local concert rooms yesterday after
noon. They were equally unknown and
under the same management, though the
efforts 20 provide them with audiences
seemed to have been rather unequally
divided. In the great auditorium of
Carnegie Hall. where Frau ELY Ney
gave recital of pianoforte music,
there was gathered a multitude which
2tstrained its capacity; in Aeoian Hall,
g;'where Fraulein Rosie Varady played
an interesting list of pieces for the
ssviolonccllo. there were only two or
three hundred listeners.
III both cases devices which are, to
say the least a trif1e rocco, had been
used for the purposes of Introduction.
7Frau Ney, we were told, was known
in Europe as the female Paderewski" !"
seFraulein Narady as the female
Casals." There was some appropriate
ness in the sobriquet in the case of the
pianist, though it did not go much be-
aSond her extraordinary coiffure; in
tho case of the violoncellist the title
sshad nothing to recommend it. Miss
49Narady did neither look nor play like
Pablo de Casals. She presented her
woman of charmingly graceful and un
affected platform manners, and to the
ear young musician who is on the
highway to virtues oship. but has yet
several long stages to travel before ar
irving at her destination. The violon-
cello is a capricious mistress. 1t eX-
acts jealous devotion from those who
play it and its literaure is of char
acter so limited that to admire it one
2 passionate practitioner. 1t is the
Tapturous lover in the orchestral COM
-pnny and can sing an angelic canticle
as we'll as sigh a woful ballad. but its
fantastic capering in the pieces writ
s.ten for it as solo instrument are in
toletable if their execution falls bit
short of perfection.
Miss Varady's Program
Miss Varady made laudable effort
to present its most amiable side in a
sonata by Coreli and two movements
from a sonata by HAYDN. She permitted
i to show its antic disposition in q
concerto Gin f minor) by her master,
Pepper, and (f she adhered to his pro-
rram) some shorter pieces by Dirk
Foch, Glazounoff and Won Goens. In
~s:ll this music she had the capable sup
port of Walter Golde pianoforte ac
companist. The admirable features of
Cher playing we're an ample tone drawn
from what seemed TO US an unusually
fine instrument and unaffected and
musicianly style; strong and flexible
manipulation of the bow The chief
drawbacks to complete enjoyment were
occasional impurities Of intonation ard
storminess in passage work. She is
an artist, but one yet in the making.
In addition to being set down a
female Paderewsk Tin itself an un-
necessary reflection on her sex, since
there have been and are many great
ave were some months ago asked to give
p our attention to Frau Ney as the
grand niece of the "bravest of the
brave" among Napoleon's field mar
'-shas. We do not believe that she is
that and cannot understand how it
would help her if she we're. 1t would
only mean that the genius Of her
great grandfather found expression in
-sthe making Of casks, for Marshal Ney's
father was cooper and doubtless a
worthy repre- sentative OF as worth y
and honorable A calling as music-ma ak
ing. What exctes our momcntary won
der ia that such an ancestry should
have been foisted upon artist who
lis a credit to her native city Of Bonn
and the Conservatory Of Cologne
where she was educated That style
OF advertising we thought was out ol
date. 1t ought to have died with tht
impresario Ullmann, who. two genera
tions ago. proclaimed from the house
tops OF New York that the coquettisl
Piccolomini, whom he had engaged tt
sing at the Academy Of Music, wa
=" - not only a member OF the Roman no
bility but also the niece OF a Cardinal
the at-granddaughter of Schiller
- tragic hero Max Piccolomini. and
''lineal descendant of Charlercagne. I
is high time that Barnumisn. be ban
1s.ished from managerial activities W
'>eought not to be expected or asked &
welcome an artist because the Ger
mans have withdrawn themselves from
our love and the artist bears the nam.