ANOTHER LADY VIOLIN-PLAYER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 19, 28 October 1879, Page 3

ANOTHER LADY VIOLIN-PLAYER.

-♦ By the next San Franoisco JVTnil (snyt tho Town and Country) there comes to uf an artiste whose fame has for years resounded through the capitals of Europe, and wherever music finds an echo in the hearts of the people. Lady violinists are ve-y rare, the difficulties to be overcome in attaining anything like proficiency in tho art of playing this instrument being so great as to discourage any but those who have genius, patience, and perseverance; and the number of those who have attained to eminence in the front rank of artistes is small indeed. The sisters Milanolo astonished the world thirty years ago. * Mdle. Neruda (now Madamo Norman Neruda), has long been one of the reigning favourites of the musical world ; later, " our own " (as she was called, having been so great a favorite here) Jenny Claus, are the only names that can be recalled during the present ago; but that of Camilla Urso has reached far and wide as one of the purest and most graceful players that has ever appeared in public. Musical papers speak of her as an artist by nature as well as by skill and culture ; and the greatest masters of music have testified to her bright intellectual powers Desirous of extending her conquests, Camillo Urso has arranged for a toucthrough Australia, and we shall very shortly have the opportunity of appreciating her merits.