THE HOME OF MUSIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4093, 21 April 1892, Page 2

THE HOME OF MUSIC.

Visitors to Wellington should not fail' to inspect the Dresden Piano Company's now warehouse which is now one of the most complete, if not the most complete, establishment of its kind in the Colony, In addition to the magnificent stock of pianos and organs which the Company exhifijt in their spacious showroom there has lately been addpi} a Music Department. Here we see evejy description of music from the sublime compositions of thp old masters such as Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Mo?art, Handel, to tjje more modern productions of Schumann, Eubenstein, Liszt, Warner; and others of their school, the familiar songs of bygone that never lose their pristine freshuegs or become insipid by repetition—instrumental music of every desonption from the stately concerto and dreamy rlmpsodie to the sparkling gavotte, down to the tuneful dance music and evanescent though,pleasing songs of the present day, There is in fact a bjsyiidprifig array of tuusio from the dim past to t|i.e {jresont Jjopr—music to suit the gay'and the grave, thp young and the old, the prince and the peasant. The musio department 'is most ingeniously-arranged,- Here there is po impatient, typing \vhile the dilatory shopman idly turns over pile after pile, looking in vain for the piece required. At the Dresden, if you ask for 3 pipce of music or a song;. you' can be supplied at ppje, for every thing is neatly and methodically arranged in pases lettered and numbered a|j|} the assistant can say in ft jnouient {he piece you are enquiring for -is in stock or potseldom, be it said, js the ansjyer in tjiie ijegative, ' " tl)g Pjanp, Organ, and Rlusip tljo visitor should w v epd his or her way upstairs to the Teaching and Concert Rooms, It is here that Messrs Robert. Parker, A. F. Hill, and other well-known professors of musio, have their teaching rooms, for which every facility and convenience' has been provided. In the large Concert Boom the various musi&al societies of Wellington $4 thojr rohearsals', and the Orchestral pd flarjnonid -Societies' }'fppently give popular gonpertg. in an informal manner, wljigh sfo highly appreciated by the musio' > lovers of the Empire City.. The Dresden Piano .Company are ever'fiif 'tlip' look'out' for novelties. Amongst their Jitest 1 ' aro the Myra Kembie;\yaitz'^namea < ' after celebfate'd 4'iiSj Italian aotress, who is now visiting Wellington—and theDresdina Gavotte. Both are'highly pleasing' and tuneful productions of the modern ' 'school, and lmve met with great suc» cess, rj Last but not by auy means ledst vijiton ckn' 'always be assured, ofa courteous' welcome', atjd tlia'fi is worth great deal in these degenerate days. We must cordially, congratulate ;Mr -M. J . Brookes upon the suecessful'issue which hss attended his . energetic and capable management,