The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-05
I WIN ARTISTS
DELIGHT IN (
RECITAL
Final Townsend Musicale In
PRODUCES Talented Pianist
and VioIinist
Rx JESSIE MacBRIDE.

Mrs. Townsend's final Musical
Morning at Rauscher's yesterday
forenoon Is again apt to make
musical history in Washington.
The artists new to us, two artists
quite sensational in their art, were
heard and acclaimed with en-.
thusiasm in this intimate music
salon that has been a feature OF
the social mid-season. They were
Zlatko Balokovic, violintst, and
Alexander Brailowsky. pianist 1t
is difficult to give either one prece-
dence.
Unusual Interpreter.
Listen to BraiIowsky play Chopin
and you find not alone kindred
soul, but a poet, a dramatic poet
who has found new meanings, new
BEAUTIES in his text. much as an in.
spired Shakespearean actor reveals
new thoughts beneath the spoken
words of Hamlet. The comparison
is urged because Brailowsky's
Chopin holds so much OF per-
sonaIity. Yet, as an actor gives
his lines, each phrase of the music
holds a poetic command or nys.
terry, given in perfection oil
pianistic art. that pays no heed to
rotes-there are no hinges to matt
the big poetic form, all Is dra-
matte potency.
Brailowsky is the last great
pupil of Leschetizsky, whose first
great pupil was Paderewski. The
Russian, youthful, slender, with
the high cheek bones, the angular
cut of the Russ, invites no COM
parison with the Pole. Again an
individuality is here. It is caught
significantly at each opening
phrase. His rise of the curtain is
as important as his climaxes. de
is a raconteur with a soul. telling
in a vagary of mood tales Of epic
grandeur or gentle beauty.
Here is a technical brilliancy that
is scintilating, in dramatic rhytnlne'
in limpid runs. Sometimes
marked errat!c element, as In the
Chopin Polonaise or in the gay
waterfalls of the Stravinsky Etnte.
There was huge force in the hr'
mer's big octave crescendo, always
there are exquisite incidents. hes
healthy. this poet, and a delight.
BaIOkOvic, a Detailist..
The golden boy" as Balokovic's
mother named him, brings to the
violin world an artist in heart as
we'll as in art. He is a detailist'
colorist, who finds. treasures IN
tone and form. A fresh pure ar
ticulation, no faintest variance from
pitch, and musical sense that is
ingratiating, lie beneath his dig
technical achievement.
His sense of dynamics give a
VEry vital glow to all his music.
There was crescendo that was
new in the Pugnani- Kreisler' "Prel-
ude and Allegro" He soars to
heights in faultless harmonics. He
Is filled with pathos, making =
! simple FiOrillo Adagio rich in feel
ing. impressive in beauty of tone.
Into the Rimsky Korsakow "Ode
to the Sun" he puts the notes OF
the woodwinds on the Pipes O.
Pan he might have played. That
means refreshing imagination to
adorn his music, 1t means that the
unexpected brings added interest
to the listener. That is creative
playing. One felt it in the tip'toe
! delicate haste OF the Kreisler Tam-
bourin Chinois"
Something new in a widows
Lament" o. Manojlovic was given
with a Tchaikowsky lure Of the
waltz. He sang noble peans or
praise in his music, with amazing
double trilIs that scaled the heights.
At the piano was a rare artist IN
Miss Miriam Allen, who was not
alone sympathetic but individually
important.
For encore, BalokoVic played Mrs.
Townsend's own lovely "Berceuse
and Souvenir glamour" of
Checkerbutty. Brailowsky add+t
the Chopin p flat waltz and "Etude
Mignon" of Edouard Schutt.
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