MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2109, 28 March 1914, Page 9

MUSIC.

fßt Teebt,e Clbf.l Pachmann tho Eccentric. "Even tho biggest- niaestri •of the p:anofort!> only givo one or two recitals m London (luring a season. It is ', unusual if tliey give more than three, so you sec how ait'icu'v it would be for «' s'Muig. artist to giv-6 reeitelg iii LOll- - with any chance of fiiiandal silccess. Pachmaiiii ami Carreno only give tsre as a tub, Last season Pachmann gave three, and the fact was commented upon." The above remarks were made by Mr, Tljeo Queree, a devotee of niusie and. sister afts., Who has just returned fro in a tri]> to Europe. lie was speaking. apropos o£ the' difficulty of -a yoi;ng artist, h«v<svc'f giitedi'in gi3ftii(g a standing in tie pfo'fpksional world. dentally, Mr. Queieo gate his impressions of tho eccentric l'aelimanii, tho. iinest exponent, of Chopin in tho world, "They told jug that l'aehmami. would auvaso 1110 immensely—that -really I should not nriss.him; ho was sucli a tuimy fellow. Well, -I weftt, aed: \y.as! amused. No ono knows what 'to majto ■ of I'achtnann, He is either an extraordinary eccentric or a great showman. Tiie first time tlj.at 1 heard him, 1m camo iji. frowned, at tlio piano, shook his head, and went- off again. • Then; tw-o men camo on and shifted tho inlitruincnt this way and that, whilst tho old tellow smiled amiably, as rcucli as -to gay:: is all will get it- fixed iii a few minutes!" 'At iist he ordered the. men off, sat down, aiid played—played rapturously—something of Chopin, r And, a& ho played, ho talked io the a whence —actually talked te-tliem! He invited tiie.ni id niaifvfel With l.vfffl at the exquisite beauty of this passage or that, chord, He <iicf not; ap-! pear to bo egotistic in tho least degree —lie just Keemed;to mo to bo en'thralicd wit-h the niusie' itself, and was straining fo- mako his atidionco hear it, wit.l» his ears. Theii he will c.omo to anothov passage and say; as ho ripplc.s it qfi, W^ot ?^i^|ljisS]^ir'ti, 5 ' ana !ffi'nviiT?S' yau'tliai 7 he mea'Tis that, it could bo played a good deal better than he can play it. •. Ho seems io pie to be oveiV" flbrt-itig 7 ' with" iivpathy;. ,iind; yilvoiigli: lie. 'does many quaint and amusing th-nigs, Jie is a great artist where.Chopin is concerned. 1 '

A Distinguished Pfanisi. Messrs. Nicholson and Co.!" ?)!' Sydney,; havo received news that Jacques i'inte'l, ] the Russian pianist, i?' 011 ■ board tho Maiwa. and is duo m Sydney on April' 2. -This distinguished player visited Australia with Mme. Emma Calve in 1910, wheii ho was highly thought. of. Ho was bom at Odessa, and at six years of age was taken to Pubfnstein, Wlio remarked: "Ho is a second I," anci proposed to enter him at once at the St. Petersburg OonServatdritirii,. of wlitch he.Ava's However,, thq parents preferred to keep so young a child at home, but on iiis father's death ho was' taken to. PariSi wjietfe at .lo'-yeirs of .age: ho seeured one or tho only two compet: ti.tive piajio seholarsliij'si available to" foreigners, and studied undoi' Charles do Beriot, sen of Maria Malibraii and Mte famous violinist, In 1!)0Q ho car-. ried off tho "premier puis," and then toured France anil England. He settled in tho latter country about livo years age, and toured wit h Kuhelik, nas soloist with .Mine. Calve, all over tho world, ■ and appeared with, the Queen's' Hall and London Symphony '■ Mr. Pintel now proposes to remain in Sydney as a teacher. Now Zoalandcrs In "Parsifal."

New Zealand was particularly .lionoured in c.oniiection witii the first, pro- : duction ion the operatic, stage) Of Wag-. Wet's opera, "I'ursnal" at Uevent Gar- : deu 011 Fehiuaiy 2, The detailed cast discloses the fact that Miss Kosi.na Huckmanti appeared as <1110 of the six Floiver Jla;dens, and 3Lr. Frank Fester, also, a well-kncwi; New Zealand teniW, appeared, a.s the Fotiftlt^ilsquiriß.! lleinricli llt'iiscl was the &i'sv! ! al';, : and'; is described 111 rhe '.Musical (.'ouricr,". oi New. Yoik; as being "true to 4'il the leqiiiremer.ts os the. pericct ieio type." The Ivundry was .Madame Van der Osten, who sang exee'cdingly wnll. Eegat'd'iug tile Flower iiaideitSj (lie "Cqutier'' says: "In the singing of the lovely flower liiaideu imrsie By the fe-; malo eiiorus,, there has lit tie beauty <,f; tone, in fact it. was all anything hut ; agjceealjle to the eaf. ( . There BJ'e Stjrooi very sharp, shrill, and strident voices among tho cherus members., and they shonia bo eliminated, for they - destroy ill! quality of tone and overpower tho mure agreeaWe voices. And the stage deportment was very cilidc, the .art ol ■ liaXv not to be seo!-u::i ivo -conspicuously' (iispiaved. And with ii:o colour sclieme adopted for tlieso sartie flower niai'dens* tiiciV presence was aiiytliiiig but aesthetically welcome." ' It would hi» migallanf not to assunie that JIiSS Bnc,kma.n.tvs was one of -"the fiiore a,greea : We vwees.'' Mites. Kieanora do CisneroS. who visited Wellington a couple of years ago, sang the role of Oirntla in "Lohengrin" in .Madrid 011 February 7 last. Tho. cast was aiui.oiiT.eed ?is ''all Spafligh." Ci'sneros vras a. Miss B.voadfo'ot befaro she heflailie- the Countess de UisnerOs. There is 510 doubt that Miss Rosina Burirmaii'i, tlie New Zealand soprano, lias made a gc-wiiiic stiecess ifl JSnglavul When Mr. Thoi. Queruo (who has just, resumed from London) first met. Miss Jluckmanii at TloiVie she \v : ;is booked to su'ig at 110 fewer .than eighty concerts.: