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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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1youngest alumnus of the College of Violinists, was most highly spoken of by those who heard her, and her future will be watched with interest.
3Signor Enrico Darmaro, a first-prize winner from the Brussels Conservatoire, now living in Bristol, has been giving a series of concerts at Clifton, the programmes of which testify not only to the skill of the quintet led by Signor Darmaro, but also to the good taste of the arrangers, since classical and modern works only of the best class were given. No composer seems to have been overlooked; Brahms's beautiful C minor trio was played at the sixth concert for the first time in Bristol. This being the case the violinist has a pleasurable opportunity of introducing any number of new works.
5"Mr. W. Henley, the clever young violinist from Birmingham was the chief attraction" at a concert recently given at Northampton, says the chief local journal. Mr. Henley is a pupil of Herr Wilhelmj and met with pronounced success.
7Many thanks, Mr. Park, for the paragraph you have sent me in reply to my query in last month's STRAD. Mr. Willy Hess has been appointed professor of the violin at the famous Cologne Conservatoire. As the cutting says, "England can ill afford to lose a violinist so accomplished," and while congratulating the excellent artist, I cannot but express my regret that a fitting post could not be found for him in England.
9Many thanks also to you, Mr. Carl Fuchs, and the heartiest congratulations on your recent appointment as "Violoncellist to the Grand Duke of Hesse"; also on your great success at Darmstadt when you played the Schumann Concerto so well as to draw from the Frankfurter Journal the remark that your "splendid technique, limpid beauty of tone and warmth of expression charmed all the audience."
11Mr. John Dunn met with great success at Bradford says the Bradford Observer, in Spohr's fine Ninth Concerto; though I refuse to agree with that journal that Bazzini's "study" (which I take to be the Witches' Dance) is eccentric.
13Messrs. E. Herrmann and L. Fowles, who gave a concert at Hendon a short time ago, must have been intensely amused by the "criticism" (save the mark!) of their efforts in a local paper. "One of the chief features of the programme were (sic) the orchestral selections of chamber music"! This is good. Rather better is the remark that a string quartet played the "Adagio and Allegro non tardante" from Mendelssohn's twelfth opera (!) and that Mr. Leonard Fowles, "this true artist" played the Andante from Grieg's thirty-sixth opera, and a barcarolle by Sphor (sic)!
15Why Mr. Harry Hall should express surprise at our ignorance of Mr. Hess's departure we cannot divine. Our time is far too fully occupied to enable us to read even the Manchester Guardian daily. Yet our correspondent suggests that had we done so on Feb. 22nd we would have seen the notice.
17Mr. Dunn has been captivating the Birmingham populace by his fine performances, which "were a succession of triumphs" says the Birmingham Daily Post.
19Mr. Legge has asked me to correct a mistake which occurs in his article on Jean Becker in the March issue of THE STRAD. Mr. A. Kettenus has written most kindly about that article, and so is not dead, as Mr. Legge unhappily stated (on the authority of the book he was translating). When Mr. Kettenus came to England, his departure created a vacancy at Mannheim which was filled by Becker. Mr. Legge is very glad to have this correction on such excellent authority!
21Mr. Henley's Pupils' Concert was again a great success, the proceeds being given to charities—an admirable notion. The programme included among other pieces two compositions by Mr. W. Henley. Twenty-three pupils took part in the performance.
23Miss Hirschbein, who made her début recently in the Queen's Hall, should develop into a really excellent violinist with time and good teaching (which she is likely to obtain under Mr. B. Hollander). At present her intonation is not quite what it might be, but her freedom from mannerisms, her intelligence and artistic phrasing are worthy of warm praise. I really think the young player has a most promising future.
25In the March issue of The Windsor Magazine is a capital picture of Lord Brooke and his sister, holding a violin: this is from a photograph and therefore correctly drawn. But as a writer in the Herts and Essex Observer points out the fancy picture (on another page of the same magazine) of a man fiddling is an illustration of the ignorance of painting-artists of that which pertains to the elder (musical) art. As the paper says, "The performer is apparently playing brilliantly with his chin on the wrong side of the tail-piece"!
27The Norwich School of Music is now a going concern, all the local musical celebrities being connected with it. The violin classes will be looked after by Messrs. Arthur Bent
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