JEAN GERARDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 9 August 1901, Page 2

JEAN GERARDY.

Under the melting influence of G«rardy's genius WelTngton musical audiences are losiDg their reputation for stolid indifference, and ate imdted developing an almost astoundicg enthusiasm. At tbe Opera House a full house listened breathlessly to the melody which this young pltyer forced with a master hand from the strings of his violiocello, and then with one accord, the applauded and cheered as if bereft, and brought him bask t'ma after time to minister to their harmonic hungrine«s. Gdrar.ly gave selec'ions from Rubinstein, Boceberini, Saint-Siens, V. Herbeit, D. Popper and Chopin, and for encore numbers contributed Popper's Gavotte, Bach's Aria, and the Bach Gounod Meditation.

The d'bul of this famois playor at tbe Sydney Town Hall proved indeed an occasion of the loftießt interest. The audience was no doubt prepared to hear a great executant in M, Garardy, whose lightning-like rapidity in brilliant passages certainly rivals that of the Spanish violinist on the smaller instrument. But there was yet room fir surprise in the elevation and brevfth of the young artist's style, in the evident preference for the finest classic music, and in the consistently elevated level upon which he maintained his programme from the first number to the last,