CARRENO.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 31 July 1907, Page 3

CARRENO.

It is announced that C'nrreno, the «rpnt pianist? will give a recital here on Saturday, August 10. The accounts which have preceded this celebrated player indicate that she holds in captive sway audiences in which nil classes cominglej from the cnthusiatic musical student to the indifferent individual who "makes it r rule to admire nothing." This is how the coming of Oarreno to Australia is described by a Sydney journalist:—"Madame Teresa Carrciio has burst forth on our Austral

horizon like a new planet, clear and commanding. Some are born to obey and others to rule; Madame, by virtue of her majestic presence and magnetic personality, is one of the latter. When she walks on the platform, unheralded and unannounced, nnd utterly without display, she looks round calmly, bows quietly and sits down without using any of that theatrical display which wearies one of so many foreign taught Australians before the strike a note. As for her playing, it was difficult to believe that such thunderous torrents of Bound could come from the finger-tips of a woman; impossible to imagine that such cooing, delicate bird-like trillings could be evoked by a woman and by any other woman. From Madame Carreno we get a piano which sings, and which tells a

wondrous story, and whose lightest note carries to the extremity of the big Sydney Town Hall. In her we greet a great artist, whose technique is unexcelled, whose magnetism a.nd personal charm are enthralling, whose sympathies and simplicity are enchanting, and whose force is as convincing as her repose and refinement arc. indisputable. In her we find genius, enthusiasm, tremendous power and a poetic temperament held in cheek and guided by skilled judgment and a varied experience."