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Writers of human interest articles for the musical press, last week, had an assignment that warmed their cockles like Chianti. Steinway hall was being abandoned. After 59 years of brave nights, this place, where Charles Dickens, in a shaky voice, read from his notes; where Fritz Kreisler, a shaggy boy of 13, made his Manhattan debut; where sang Christine Nilsson, the Swedish Nightingale; this place of tarnished gilt and outworn elegance, smelling of twilight, was to be left to the bludgeonings of the real-estate auctioneer. The inextinguishable appeal of extinguished gallantry wrung the hearts of the human interest writers...
...called on to interpret a work he can find the idea in his own mind, and yet he invariably realizes the ideal of the author. He always copies from a true model. If he wants to draw an old-fashioned spinet he does not paint a cut down Steinway Grand, but he gets the real article without any regard to trouble or expense. One great reason of his success is his innate personal refinement...
...This instrument was invented almost simultaneously, by three men of different nationalities, about 1715. It was the outcome of the impatience which was felt at the limitations of the other instruments, in which no variation of volume could be secured. After the lecture, Mr. Arthur Freidheim played on a Steinway Concert Grand a number of pieces by Chopin and Liszt, showing the remarkable superiority of the pianoforte over its predecessors, in the matter of varying the amount of tone...
...have a grand piano, I suppose? I prefer Steinway, but Chickering will do. And two horses; and a billiard room? And, of course, you allow six nights a week...
...last Friday evening, the Glee Club gave a concert in Steinway Hall, New York, in aid of the Homoeopathic Hospital of that city. The tickets were sold privately, and the hall was well filled. The audience was enthusiastic and surprised; the latter, because they had acquired a wrong idea of College Glee-Club singing. In the programme, given below, will be recognized many songs which have long been favorites in Cambridge; which were, with one or two exceptions, sung as well as we are accustomed to hear them here. The Club were evidently nervous during the first part...