Matinee Piano Recital: 3rd

Pianist’s farewell recital prior to a professional tour through the western states as far as California.

“The accomplished pianiste bade farewell to the New York public yesterday afternoon, the last of her admirable piano recitals being given in Steinway Hall (the large hall), before a pretty large audience for such an entertainment. The ladies flocked thither despite the blockade in the streets, and testified their appreciation of the fair artist by continued applause. It is no small triumph to secure an audience, and an attractive one at that, to listen to one pianist in a programme of the most severely classical kind. ‘The Lovely Moonlight Sonata [sic],’ a few of Chopin’s nocturnes and waltzes and Liszt’s fantasia on ‘Don Juan’ were the principal works performed, and were worthy of the high reputation of the artist.”

“There are but few artists who are able without any assistance to give a musical entertainment, to attract a large and cultivated audience and to hold it entranced until the end of a protracted programme. Miss Mehlig is one of these. Gottschalk and Thalberg have both done the same thing in this city, but their programmes were of a more miscellaneous, and what is generally termed a ‘popular,’ character. Miss Mehlig at her matinée at Steinway’s yesterday offered only classical selections. She began the list with the Moonlight Sonata, giving this celebrated and charming composition with infinite taste and delicacy. Several of Chopin’s graceful and pointed waltzes were played with refinement and brilliancy. A difficult series of studies by Schumann, closing with a superb triumphal movement, received careful treatment, and the concert closed with Liszt’s ‘Don Juan’ fantasia.”