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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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1(excellent!) Noverre and Brookes and Miss White, the viola and violoncello and double bass also being represented. Mr. Borsdorf is professor of the horn.
3Mr. Winterbottom's 4th symphony concert took place at Stonehouse (Plymouth) last month, when the programme was admirably selected.
5Mr. Gordon Tanner is rapidly making a position for himself as a violinist, The Civil Service Gazette speaking most highly of his performance at a recent concert in London, when he played pieces by Ernst, Saint-Saëns (please, Mr. Tanner, not St. Saëns; the French composer may be a saintly man but he has not yet been canonized!) and Bazzini.
7A correspondent sends the following "Evolution of Music" from the Doncaster Chronicle. "If we were asked how it (Sullivan's In Memoriam overture), was composed, we should say that Sir A. Sullivan, passing through the Zoological Gardens one dark November afternoon, fell a-thinking of the whole collection of wild animals and tame—of beasts and birds lost in one common affliction, and crying aloud in their distress—so wild and savage and appalling is it at times"!
9The last of the present series of "Musical Evenings" given in Leeds by Messrs. Haddock took place on the 19th of March. Dr. Joachim appeared at the Leeds subscription concert on the 13th of March when he led excellent performances of Brahms's sextet and Mendelssohn's B flat quintet.
11Messrs. Haddock raised £40 by means of a concert at Harrogate at the end of February, in aid of the local distress fund. Bravo, Messieurs!
13At a concert given by the Crescent Orchestra at Wood Green on February 28th, Miss Jessie Ford, a clever young violinist, gave as her principal solo Vieuxtemps' "Reverie," which she performed with admirable taste and expression responding to an encore with Papini's "Saltarello."
15At the Birmingham City Hall recently Master Thomas Morris, L.C.V., a very promising young violinist only twelve years of age, played Papini's "Capriccio," Raff's "Cavatina" and an "Andante e Scherzo Capriccioso" by David. It is seldom a child of his age is heard in such solos, and he acquitted himself in a very creditable manner. Master Morris possesses undoubted talent, and will probably be heard more of in the future.
17On the 21st of March at the Ladbroke Hall, Notting Hill, the fourth Bayswater subscription concert was given. A trio by Godard for piano, violin and 'cello, Noel Johnson's Cantilena, Lachner's Tarantelle for violoncello and Svendsen's Romance for violin were performed. The executants were Miss Isabel Hischfeld (piano); Miss Narwrik Nillah (violin); and Mr. Noel Johnson ('cello). All the artists distinguished themselves, the pianist especially.
19Violinists Abroad.
21Our kindly correspondent in South Africa sends us the following account of Madame Camilla Urso in that part of the Dark Continent. Mme. Urso achieved great triumphs in Cape Town; and en route to Johannesburg she gave two concerts at Bloemfontein. Her musical reputation is American, and during the last few years she has introduced at the New York Philharmonic Concerts concertos by Tschaikowsky, Lassen, Bruch (No. III.), Rubinstein and Joachim (No. III.). The great professor has long been a personal friend of Mme. Urso's, and it is at his instigation that she hopes this year or next to give some concerts in Berlin. Mme. Urso's playing is beautiful, her style noble and her technical resources faultless and boundless. The South African journals are unanimous in praising Mme. Urso.
23The last number of the Neue Musik-Zeitung—a most entertaining and instructive—and cheap—magazine, brings before its readers an admirable portrait and biographical sketch of Herr Hugo Heermann, the distinguished Frankfort violin player and teacher. After studying under Ernst Maschek, Heermann had the good fortune to attract the attention of Rossini, who the first time he heard him play, remarked, "Il a de l'âme!" In his younger years Heermann received a good deal of assistance from Rossini, through whose instrumentality he entered the famous Brussels Conservatoire, when after winning the first prize for violin playing he went to Paris. Herr Heermann now enjoys a reputation in England, where his none too frequent visits are always looked forward to.
25Herr Ondrick has been decorated yet once more, this time by the King of Roumania, who has presented him with the Gold Medal of the 1st Class for Art and Science.
27Mr. Henry Such ("Violinist aus London") has been warmly praised for his playing at a
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