A WELLINGTON 'CELLIST.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 834, 4 June 1910, Page 14

A WELLINGTON 'CELLIST.

AKNOLD TKOWELL AT BRIGHTON. "Though tho phenomenal skill with which he has been rightly credited is the common property oi practically every cellist or violinist who'hopes to 'hold' any audience he faces, Atr. Arnold lrowell s 'cello playing was (says the Brighton Standard,", of March 8) still a very remarkable and at times quite dazzling demonstration, of his instrument's resources. This young virtuoso from the . Antipodes has tho stamp of cleverness all. over his personality-frail though it be-with thin, ashen-pale features crowned by a mop of more than usually untidy, fluffy, bright auburn hair that waves loosely over his temples as he bends down over the fingerboard. His technical craft is prodigious —and yet, withal, so easy, flexible and unpretentious. He can produce from the cello effects as dainty and gossamer as complex in their fast-fluttering intricacy as anything you have heard from Kulielik's fiddle. And while he has developed this superlative mastery of technique, the artistic instinct within him has clearly not lain fallow. A 'song without words' of his own composition was as full of tho charm of real musical feeling and -gracefully appealing sentiment, and while his'tone, was not particularly robust, it had the purity and velvety texture of an instrument wellmatured by age, Davidoft's 'Am Springbrunnen' ho sent flashing along in a gossamer whirl of dancing iridiscence; his executive resources found ample Mope, in an otherwise' uninteresting 'theme and variations' by Servais, and iin Popper's Hungarian rhapsody he got somo of the national frenzy of tho -Magyar gipsy temperament into a spirited and uncommonly brilliant performance." Mr. Arnold Trowell is- the son of Mr. Thos. Trowell, a violinist and clarinetist, who (aught music in Wellington for many years, and was music instructor to St. Patrick's College, where his sons wcro educated. Young Trowell developed early as a player of the 'cello. One of his admirers was M. Jean Gcrardy, the great 'cellist, who advised that the boy should be sent Home to study for' a professional career. The idea was taken up, and tho youth'was given a start. He studied at Brussels, where he secured the Concours prize. Arnold Trowell has been touring now for a couple of years, and every critic seems impressed with his talent as a 'cello player of tho highest standard.