K�nstlervereins Palette Evening Entertainment: 1st

“The first musical entertainment of the Künstlervereins ‘Palette’ was given yesterday evening in the society’s elegant club room in the Kurz’schen building on 23rd St. near Broadway. The main room, in which the entertainment took place, was brilliantly lit, and the walls were decorated with a number of oil paintings of various sizes, a critical discussion of which we will save for later in this report. A large and select group gathered over the course of the evening, the ladies mostly in full dress and the gentlemen in fashional black formal suits. Painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians, art connoisseurs, journalists, art critics, art lovers—all segements of soecity which devote themselves to art, or hold interest in it—contributed their share to a cheerful, chattering crowd that filled the hall. The entertainment, which was conducted by Mr. Gerson as maitre de plaisir, did not begin until after nine o’clock. As with all the Palette’s entertainments, there was no fixed program; everything unfolded naturally, in a relaxed way. Because it was a purely private event, individual criticism of the participants is, of course, beyond criticism, but we may be permitted at least to note that almost everything presented was capable of satisfying even the connoisseur. The musical program culminated in a performance by piano virtuoso Fräulein Flora Heilbron, who played a very difficult bravura piece, if we are not mistaken, by Henselt. The young artist played with lightness and virtuosity, overcoming the challenges of the piece and making an astonishing impression. She, as well as all of the other performers, were rewarded with thunderous applause. [Harry Leslie performed a number of fun tricks; a banquet full of witty toatsts and drinking speeches followed the entertainment, then dancing. A Herr Professor Hübner from Dusseldorf was a guest of honor and the Plaette will soon host a special banquet for him.]”

Concludes with a long paragraph about Hübner and the oil paintings at the Palette Club Room. (In the New-Yorker Staatzeitung issue of 11/12/74, p. 5, the paper issues a brief correction about Hubner from this review [not related to music].)