Mr. Fritz Giese

WE commented recently on Herr Giese's remarkable talent as a 'cello virtuoso, and at present need only repeat the declaration tliat no performer who has appeared in the United States for many years bas demonstfated an equal mastery over his instrument. For váried and effective bowing, and left hand execution of unimpeachable surety and extraordinary celérity, Herr Giese, in fact, has no superior in any I pari of thé world. - New York Times. At the seventeenth concert of the Boston Symphony Orchesfcra, last Satnrday evening, the soloist was Mr. Fritz Giese, 'cellist, who more than renewed his foriner triumphs. Such 'cello playing really exhausta superlatives. Faultness techníque, admirable beauty and variety of tone, pure intonatifin, inimitable graee of phrasing, wiirinth of pentiment, brilliant and musicianly good taste, were all there to a unique degree. - 'Botton Transcript. Mr. Giese is a revelation ; his 1 nipulation of tlie 'cello being s.iinply marvelons, every difiBculty in the way of elabórate execution being exeeuted i with surpassing skill, while his tone is ful] of volume .''iid purity. [ri bis hands the 'cello s a toy, he does with 1 what he likes ; and the wholc manner of the man, impassioned and i'ull of abandon, shows his genius.- San Franciseo Argonaut. - The ínll text of the "Manzoni Requiem " will be puhlished by the Chora] CíníSn and will be ready for distribution verysoon. This book will eontáin a short analysis of t lie work. The enormoús expenses incurred in offering the brilliant series of concerts incluiled in the First May Festival niakes it impossible for the Chora] Union to give these books to its patrons. Tliey will, however, be sold at a nominal prioe. We advise onr iatrons to secure these libre ttos and tlms bccoino acquainted with the text before the concert.