The Remenyi Concert.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 125, 1 May 1885, Page 3

The Remenyi Concert.

We remind our renders that the. celebrated Hungarian violinist, Remenyi, will perform m the Town Hall, Pahnerston, to-morrow (Saturday) evening for one night only. It is almost unnecessary to recommend such an artist us this, and praise becomes almost fulsome of one whoso powers aro 90 widely known and appreciated. But the whole tenor of the critiques which have appeared m overy place that Rcincnyi has visited is so unusually unanimous m his flattery that we quote a f ew.'a paragraphs from our exchanges. " The more we see and hear of this wonderful artistu (says an Auckland paper) the more are we convinced that his like has never been before an Auckland public. Whether plnyiug classical or popular music, he holds his audiuuce spell bound m his giant grip, and during a long .twenty minutes' solo not a sound ca.ll bo h«>ard, his audience being mute and still, showing the wouderfu! hold the performer hns over them. Last night's conceit was certainly one of the most enjoyable of the series, the house being well filled, and the audience eventually bent on a night's thorough enjoyment. There is as much curiosity about the man as his music. What manner of genius is this Remenyi, who has thrilled vastaudieuoes all over the world, for a generation, and who, with his' fiddle as a field-marshal's baton, is aeekingother worlds to conquer? An unpretending, rather undersized old man, modestly dressed m an artiste's velvet coat, with loose sleeves and bared wrists, round o;ie of which peeps out a gold' filagree bangle. But the face of the man — that is the study. Remenyi is a Liszt or a Mozart, or some other old master, who has stepped down into this mundane sphere from a familar engraving on canvas."