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MR. MACDOWElL’S RECITAL.Mr. E. A. MacDowell gave the first of his piano recitals yesterday afternoon in Chicker-ing Hall. The programme was as follows:Couraute ....................Bach* Mac DowellPrelude..................................BachMiuuet. Oi*. 78. JSo. 3 ............ScliubertAllegro, op. 22, ho. I..................SchumannPrelude. Op. 10, No. I...............^shadow Deuce, Op. 30. No. 8.........I^ *■! V1. No. tit.. ........i •••« i v. pfi wellHexentanz, Op. 17, No. 2.............J-MMUOweuThe Kacie. On. 32. No. 1.............1Concert htude. op. 36 ...........)A Sail Little i*irl, Op. 7. No. 4........ ^ »r cfrnnt?Wedding March, Op. 0, No. 5......... S ,The iTiucesd Use....................... P. Getsler'I he Nightingale.....................Alahieif-LisztHungarian Rhapsody........................LisztMr. MacDowell showed yesterday that he is a pianist of the modern school, and in every sense of the phrase. Though teaching and composing are apt to stiffen virtuoso fingers, the hearer was never disposed to question Mr.MacDowell’s facility, and from the technical standpoint his performance was worthy of the wannest praiso. Indeed other thoughts were so constantly suggested during his playing, that the pianist’s admirable mechanism was taken for granted, otherwise the thoughts would not have been suggested.And the chief thought is this: that Mr. MacDowell, even when he plays the pianoforte and composes for it, thinks as a rule of orchestral effects. He is intensely modern ; almost hyper-modem. No doubt as a composer, he has studied and mastered form and knows its value; but he prefers suggestions and hints and dream pictures and sleep-ehas-ings to all attemps to be original in an approved and conventional fashion, Now when he plays, these same tendencies are noticeable, lie loves color, and when yesterday he played his own compositions, whether the number was a Prelude unconditioned, absolute, or %'The Eagle,’’ an attempt to put Tennyson’s lines into music, his purpose was evident; to give an orchestral performance reduced to the proportions of the pianoforte. And at the same time he is thoroughly artistic, for he so realizes the nature of these proportions that he never offends by pounding and he always remembers that the pianoforte is a cold, shy instrument that needs much coaxing before it will sing. Seeing gorgeous or delicate colors and hearing the voices of orchestral instruments, it is no wonder that Mr. MacDowell is a pianist of rare fascination. It is barely possible that he could not play Scarlatti in the ancient spirit, and he feels at home in the works of theliltrn-mnmm if* fidmoL Hlit. his nlavilK? is
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Sat, Nov 07, 1891
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