Pattison Soirée Musicale: 3rd
Event Information
Venue(s):
Steinway Hall
Price: $1.50
Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo), Orchestral
Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
18 March 2019
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
23 Feb 1865, EveningProgram Details
Frida de Gebele, Signor Garibaldi, and Laura Harris were originally scheduled to perform but did not appear.
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Citations
1)
Camille Urso and Laura Harris announced. Pattison’s “freshness and variety of his style” are praised.
3)
Frida de Greble [sic], contralto, and Sig. Garibaldi, bass.
5)
J. H. Barclay, contralto; Ernesto Mongiardini, tenor; Pattison, pf. Works by Chopin and Dreyschock.
6)
“At Steinway’s rooms Mr. Pattison gave one of his agreeable little soirées. He engaged from the opera company Miss de Gebele and Signor Garibaldi, but at a late moment they were withdrawn by one of the high [illeg.] practice. Substitutes, however, were sent in Mrs. Barclay, a [illeg.] contralto and in Mongiardini, the tenor, who sang to the satisfaction of the audience. Mr. Pattison played an etude by Chopin and a ‘rapsodie’ by Dreyshock, very difficult pieces, which, perhaps more than anything he has yet played, show his command of the instrument. His octave passages attracted much attention. He also played his ‘Tannhauser’ fantasia and De Meyer’s ‘Cricket Polka.’
7)
“The third soirée musicale . . . was very largely attended . . . The approbation of the audience at his rendering of the studies from Chopin and Dreyshock was very flattering.”
8)
“Mr. PATTISON is not a musician from inward, spiritual necessity; but as a tradesman selects the business of a baker, shoemaker, tailor, etc., so he has chosen the piano-forte as his business. By means of an industry that does him credit, he has attained a moderate degree of technical facility, sufficient to impose on a certain class of people, but not enough to give him a right to step within the artistic circle, even on the score of an artist’s least qualification, ‘execution.’ His playing is in the highest degree incorrect; he has a hard and disagreeable touch; while in quick passages of chords and octaves it seems almost a matter of indifference to him what keys he strikes. Not the faintest breath of poesy floats through his playing. Pattison has given several ‘Soirées Musicales’ this winter; his repertoire consists in great part of pieces of his own manufacture. But he also honors the compositions of Mendelssohn, Chopin, and others, with his own very peculiar interpretation.”