Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan Australia Tour 1914

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan Australia Tour 1914

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* Auckland I saw Maude Allan in Christchurch , and have little to add to the criticism written by my confrere in the May number . The failure of so many to appreciate the amazing grace of this artist , the subtle poetry , the poignant significance of gesture , is a great mystery . Miss Allan is evidently a cultivated musician with rare intuitive feeling for rhythm . As a matter of fact , this feeling for rhythm is invariably innate . It cannot be taught . One either has it , or one has it not . Not only is it impossible to teach it to the un rhythmical ; but it is well nigh impossible eve : to A Sharp Tongu ! mu June 10 , 1914 . The Trad ( NZ ) THE " The Thad June 10 1914 The Wellington Choral Society's presentation of Maritana " was a singulvly poor performance all round , and the orchestra's contribution was excessively 2 as usual , absurdly flattering , dismally trite . The championship in this kind must go to the Free Lance , which opined that the second oboeist ought to have been first . Nothing much more preposterous than that was ever penned . The first oboeiet was Mr. Leon Cohen , the second Mr. Charles Norman . Mr. Cohen is a bril liant oboeist , Mr. Norman is ... an oboeist . Any true - comparison of the Itwo must be overpoweringly to the credit of Mr. Cohen . Much more might be said ; June 10 , 1914 make one born without it understand what it is . Miss Allan's dancing is intellectual . Not that she is un emotional ; but her emotion never runs riot .: it is never sloppy or sentimental . Above all , Miss Maude Allan is creative . She is no mimic or imitator of others . She has no prototype in modern times . In fine , her dancing is music made visible . The performance of the Cherniavsky boys was to me frankly disappointing . Not one of the trio has fulfilled the promise of seven years ago . When they were last here , I expressed the opinion that the ' cellist had the richest musical endowment , and I see no reason to alter my opinion . But he is careless at times . Indeed all the boys should get off the road without delay and spend at least two years in serious study . Otherwise they will never realize their destiny . At present they are just frittering away their chances . Jan , the pianist , has a very good technique of sorts , but he has become painfully effeminate and finnicking . His playing lacks breadth and power and brains . I was disappointed with the tone of Leo , the violinist ; but I am told that on the night I heard him , he was playing upon a new fiddle for the first time . I do sincerely trust that the boys will make an effort to give up their present mode of living , and settle down to hard practice for at least two years . If they do , there is a possible future before them ; if not , I am afraid they will just drop out . They are children no longer , and defects which we were able to overlook seven years ago , are to - day quite inexcusable . I have mislaid my programme , and am unable to mention definite examples ; but I am quite certain that my opinion will be endorsed by all capable critics in Europe RIAD but why worry ? I am not disposed at this time to discuss Mr. Helleman as conductor of a choral society . As a conductor of an orchestra he is not ripe for dis cussion in these pages : perhaps never will be . Still one never knows . A miracle happens every sunrise . IN * 米 Ex auckland Public Library , * * 2 Sxeroxos 1. ใน 18 ) " In Fanny's First Play , ” Mr. Bernard Shaw lam pooned the London critice , and now he has astonished England by producing his phonetic farce , “ Pygmalion , in German before submitting it to the critical judgment of the men he has ridiculed . Mr. Bernard Shaw , like Shakspere , is popular in Germany , and " Pygmalion has been enthusiastically received in Berlin and Vienna Now Mrs. Patrick Campbell is to produce the play in England . In New York , " Pygmalion " was also perform in German at Conreid's old playhouse , now ably man aged by Mr Rudolf Christians . " Pygmalion " is Pro ” fessor Henry Higgins , a specialist in phonetics , and his Galatea is Eliza Doolittle - Eliza , a Cockney flower girl from Tottenham Court Road . The professor sets out to turn her into a duchess by phonetics . The Tribune thinks that the translation left much to be desired , and the keen Shavian wit was in the Ger man dulled at times , and lecked that curiously amusing hard Cockney flavour felt in the original lines . " It was felt again in the deliciously droll part of her father , a thoroughly Shavian creation , who solemnly , and with perfect logic , lamented his unsought - for elevation from the ranks of the undeserving poor , to the responsibili ties of the leisure class . " 6