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Theresa Carreno

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
March
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
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THERESA CARRENO.

ANOTHER GREAT CONCERT IN UNIVERSITY HALL

To be Given by the Choral Union March 7. - A Unique Artist With Magic Touch to Appear.

Another great concert is to be given in University hall March 7, by the Choral Union, when Theresa Carreno will appear before an Ann Arbor audience. This great artist, a true Amazon of the keyboard, is at the very apogee of her fame, her art and her life. Still one of the most fascinating, most striking-appearing women on the concert platform, her charms have mellowed so that her dramatic personality has taken on an added tenderness, a sweetness that is something rare and distinguished.

Carreno was a wonder-child and is a wonder-woman. She has literally grown up before the public for see was in short skirts, a tiny child with appealing eyes, when she came here from Caracas, Venezuela. From Gottschalk she went to Rubinstein and learned from the Russian master the art of piano necromancy. She, too, can control the thunder of the storm, and in youth the impetuosity of her temperament was tremendous. Yet so stern has been her self-discipline that Hans von Bulow was forced to confess that she was the only pianist of the fair sex he had ever heard play Beethoven in a satisfactory manner. Carreno can give her public the glory and glitter of a Liszt rhapsody, and then with philosophic calm read a Bach fugue or interpret the intellectual content of a Beethoven sonata and picture the twilight and sultry splendors of Chopin. Her programs are rich in variety, and various and versatile are her readings of Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin and Brahmas. She is eminently a progressive artist having an instinctive horror have the rut, of the conventional, of main traveled thoroughfares. Her great vitality, warm heart and keen brain give her enormous advantages over the mere virtuoso, while her brilliancy of style, dash and remarkable technic stamp her as the pianist born to wear the purple.

There is a tropical color in her playing - a color that corresponds with her glowing beauty and southern birth. To hear her play the first movement of the Rubinstein D. minor Concerto is to listen to Rubinstein. He said so himself. And with what unparalleled audacity Carreno attacks a Liszt rhapasody! Her native endurance and power of restraint enable her to preserve a fine tone balance and profound sense of repose while riding the whirlwinds of modern masters of the piano. She is an unique artist, an unique individuality.

The price of tickets including reserved seats will be 50 cents. Tickets on sale at the School of Music, E. E. Calkins on State st. and W. W. Wetmore's on S. Main st. Sale of reserved seats begins Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 9 o'clock. The north half of the main floor and the north half of the gallery at Calkins' and the south half of the main floor and the south half of the gallery at Wetmore's.