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The Strad; a monthly journal for professionals and amateurs of all stringed instruments played with the bow, 1890
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1show considerable promise of future excellence of a high order.
3Mr. John Dunn, and several other correspondents, to all of whom I tender my best thanks, has kindly answered my question as to when Dvorak's Concerto was first played in England. It occurred at a Philharmonic Concert in London in April, 1886, Ondricek being the soloist. Another correspondent wishes to know of an arrangement of "The Last Rose of Summer" as played some time ago by Mr. John Dunn at Manchester. My correspondent thinks it was "Sul G," it contained a "great deal of pizzicato," and was unaccompanied. Will Mr. Dunn kindly give the required information?
5Gamba.
7The Crichton Club gave their nineteenth annual concert at the St. Martin's Town Hall on May 25th. The club band was well to the fore, opening with the "Egmont Overture," and later on played a Processional Grand March by F. Louis Schneider, a musicianly piece of work, the two trios making variety and the coda well worked up. There might have been a better attack at starting, but the composer who conducted, soon pulled his forces together. Mr. Rene Payne was the violinist, and Mr. Jan Mulder the violoncellist, the latter being heard in a piece of his own composition.
9From our Welsh Correspondent.
11Instrumental music is evidently making headway in Wales as can be seen from the following:—
13At a grand evening concert given by the Pontypridd Male Voice Society at Pontypridd on May 10th, 1894, the Pontypridd String Quartett made their "debut" with great success. They were heard to advantage in (a) "Allegro Con Brio" in G minor by Schubert, and (b) "Largo Assai" Op. 74, No. 3, Haydn, in the first part of the programme. Mr. H. C. Mellon gave two very taking violin solos, namely "Bolero," by E. German, and "Ye Banks and Braes," by Thirlwall. The efforts of the string quartett party were thoroughly appreciated.
15At a recent Eisteddfod held at the town of Brecon, twenty competitors entered for the Violin Solo competition. The best piece was "Largo" by Handel.
17At the Porth Cottage Hospital Eisteddfod held on May the 14th and 15th, a prize of four guineas was offered for the best rendering of Haydn's No. 19 String Quartett. Three parties entered, the Pontypridd String Quartett, the Porth String Quartett, and the Pontypool String Quartett. There was a very good competition and the prize was awarded to the Pontypridd Quartett. The adjudicators were Dr. Turpin, J. H. Robert, Mus. Bac., and Mr. M. O. Jones Treherbert.
19At the National Eisteddfod of Wales to be held in Caernarfon in August, a prize of five guineas is offered for the best rendering of Schubert's String Quartet, No. 1. A number of parties have entered, and no doubt it will be a spirited and interesting contest.
21It is now time that the adjudicators appointed to decide on string instrumental competitions are clever instrumentalists themselves, or at least critics of stringed instruments. The adjudicators for brass bands are now invariably men who make it a special study. Adjudicators who have never had an instrument in their hands are allowed to adjudicate instrumental competitions.
23Violinists Abroad.
25What a pity it is that the English critics are so matter-of-fact, and that they so rarely let themselves loose and indulge in those delightful flights of fancy which we occasionally read in our American contemporaries. For instance, read this annexed paragraph quoted by the Musical Courier, and compare it with the utterances of any London paper. (The notice refers to a prodigy violinist). "The boy is quite unconscious of doing anything out of the ordinary. Music seems to bubble up in his soul with the same exuberance that sparkling waters are thrown up from the depths of living fountains. He loves to play standing by the window, looking out on Mother Nature, and while he watches the birds, the gay flowers, the tender blue of the sky, the drifting clouds and the sunbeams, his violin sings to him." In England we—headed by The Lancet,—say the lad should be playing in the open air at some game. We never burst into poetry—Alas! alack-a-day!
27Mr. Jan Koert has recently been re-engaged by Mr. Walter Damrosch as leader of the New York symphony orchestra, "a position for which he is admirably fitted," say the American journals. Is this violinist the successor of Herr Adolf Brodsky. American papers please inform us.
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