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PROFESSOR PAINE gave his first piano recital in Boylston Hall last Wednesday evening. His programme was as follows: Selections from Byrd and Paumann; Suite in G minor, Bach; Nocturne, Op. 15, Chopin; Sonata No. 1., Op. 2, in F minor, Beethoven; Romanza, Schumann; selection from Songs without Words Mendelssohn; Moonlight Sonata, Beethoven. The next recital will be given on Tuesday evening...
...Overture to Coriolanus, in C minor, op. 62.....................BEETHOVEN...
...Recitative and Aria from Fidelio BEETHOVEN...
...overture to Egmont, so suggestive of the spirit of Goethe's great drama, was finely played, and formed a suitable introduction to the recitative and aria, "Abscheulicher," from Beethoven's only opera. We have, however, heard this aria sung with more feeling, and voices of better timbre, on the stage in Germany. Miss Wilde is said to be a fine actress, and to have been more popular once than even Materna. She must have had a fine voice when she was Prima Donna soprano at the Imperial Opera House of Vienna, but fine voices seldom last long. Her greatest merit...
...with great spirit, only it seemed to us that in some parts of the presto the violins were not strong enough to give the melody sufficient prominence. Mr. Thomas is to appear again at the next and last concert of the season, for which, among other things, are promised Beethoven's Overture to Coriolanus, Schumann's Symphony in B flat, and the new duo Concertante for solo violin and 'cello, and orchestra, by Professor Paine, which, as far as can be judged from the piano-score, promises to be a very interesting composition...