Venue(s):
Steinway's Rooms
Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
3 November 2024
“The fourth and last soirée of the series of chamber-music concerts given by Mr. S. B. Mills and Dr. Damrosch, occurred at Steinway Hall, yesterday evening. Giuseppe Tartini’s sonata in G minor, for violin with piano accompaniment—a very interesting work, better known to violin students than to the general public, and all the more welcome on that account; Mozart’s E flat sonata, for piano and violin; and a trio by Schumann, Opus 80, were the morceaux d’ensemble, Mr. Bergner lending his skill as an instrumentalist to the talent of Mr. Mills and Dr. Damrosch in the piece last named. The violinist contributes no solo, but Mr. Mills played a berceuse and a tarantella by Chopin, and a graceful and scholarly composition called ‘Reproach Mélodie,’ by Mr. Frederick Brandeis, who stands almost alone as a composer among local pianists. To say that Mr. Mills recited the three numbers capitally is to do him simple justice; no performance on the key-board could be more finished or more correct than any specimen of the gentleman’s work. The vocalist of the concert was Mr. L. G. Gottschalk, a young baritone with a voice of excellent quality, and with an increasing control of his resources. Mr. Gottschalk had to repeat ‘The Vagabond,’ by Molloy, his first song; toward the close of the evening, he was heard again in Gounod’s ‘Nazareth.’”