Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan Australia Tour 1914

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan Australia Tour 1914

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withal weirdly fascinating . It revealed the dancer in the light of a daring and original thinker . It was an effort which tron for her ovational applause As for the Chernjavskys , they were individually and in combination a tower of strength to the entertainment . In the trio with violin , cello , and pianoforte ( Mendel ssohn's No. 1 in D minor ) , Dlessrs . Leo . Jan , and Mischel were never heard to more complete advantage . They played with a sympathy , a warmth , and an artist : c feeling of which it would be difficult to speak too glowingly . It was trto playing under the most favourable conditions , and it aroused pronounced on thusiasm . By way of eacore the artists added Widor's " Serenade , " which beauti fid number they rendered with equally pleasurable results . Mischel Chernjavsky , the ' celist , revealed a beautiful tone , and enviable , command of his instrument in tbe bracketed numbers , kdagio " ( Golterinádo ) , * Musette " ( Offenbach ) , and . “ Papillon " ( Popper ) , adding as an extra Wiegenlied Schubert ) . The Tianist Jan the Recipient of double for his attrac : tive playing of ** Prelude ( Rach ineninoff , Study ( Chopin ) , and Hungarian Rhapsodie , While the violinist Leo met with similar recognition of his brilliant execution of the Faust Fantasie " ( Wienia wgky ) . The three artists were happy in their accompanist , Mr. Frank St. Leger , whose restraint and sympathy contributed materially to the excellence of the results achieved . Та , night there will be an entirely new pro gramme , and it is announced that their ( Excellencies the Governor - General aad Lady Munro - Ferguson hare signified their Intention of being present . was encore a MISS MAUD ALLAN . A splendid reception was given to Miss Maud Allan and the Chernia vsky trio on their opening a short season on Satur day evening at His Majesty's Theatre . The musicians needed no introduction , Previous visits had giren them a strong place in popular regard , and they met an audience which had already learned to admire their varied gifts . The classic dancer , long beralded by an almost unique reputation , however , made her first ap pearance in Brisbane - a circumstance not without its epur to interest . Miss Allan's remarkable qualities , her originality , and her personal charm soon elicited for her warmly expressed admiration . The ene tertainment itrelf tras something abso lutely norel It offered in felicitous com bina tion high art in music , and what may be termed the true poetry of motion . The word dancer does not adequately de scribe Bliss Allen She is that , but she is also a great deal more . As a musician may express emotions or paint tone pie tures by sound , she depicts by motion that she conceives to be the meaning or poetic thoughts of a musical composition , or a classical scene or drama . She is an artist for whom the graceful posing of the body , the expression of the face , the movements of the limbs are at once the colours , and the notation , or the words to which she visualises her ideas . In all this she is wonderfully supple , unfailingiy graceful , extraordinarily mobile , and in tensely interesting . She had the great advantage of the co - operation of the Chernavskys , whose art in accompan ment sustained and provided the essen tial atmosphere . Her first appearance as an exponent of dance poems . These were Schubert's " Am Meer , " Chopin valse , Zendelssohn's " Spring 1 Song , and one of that composer's * Moments Musical . ” The mysticisin of the first , the sensuous grace of the second , the brightness and joyous sense of awakening life in the third , and the fascinating rhythm of the fourth were ex pressed with a remarkable versatility and refinement . The artiste pas recalled with demonstrative enthusiasm again and again . Later on she embodied as it were the spirit of the ball room , in " The Beautiful Blue Danube . " Stratise's ever popular valse . Her poetical conception of the theme was a nymph arising from the water for an hour of freedom , to join in frolic with the land children Erery motion was rinuously graceful , and while the passion of the waltz was suggested , it was relieved or qualified by the spon taneity and playfulness of the fun with the children from first to last it was a most delightful piece of artistic imagery Again the audience made the theatre resound with their applause , and they had their revard in two exquisite added numbers , " The Barcarolle " ( Offenbach ) , and a Brahms vakse . The Vision of Salome , ” which was Miss Alan's con cluding performance , carried her into the region of passion and tragedy . The dance took place in the supposititious palace of Antipas , the Herodian Tetrateh of Galilee , and Perea , whose unlawful marriage with Herodias , granddaughter of Hercd the Great , denounced by John the Baptist . Salome , at her mother's suggestion , asked for the head of John as a reward for her dancing . The dance , with picturesque costume , was as remarkable in conception as it was in execution . It was vivid , voluptuous , sinuous impassioned . harharic , ans was $ 6 was

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