Cork Constitution
Monday, April 12, 1875
Cork City, Cork

MISS BELLA M'CARTY'S CONCERT
  We would direct attention to the concert advertised to be given by the above named young lady, at the Munster Hall, on Friday the 16th inst.  From the class of music included in the programme it may be expected to be one of the most refined and classical performances, and at the same time popular, ever given in this city.  Miss M'Carty is the daughter of a much respected fellow-citizen, Mr. J. W. M'Carty, and is a pianist of the highest order, as is evinced by her brilliant career when a student in the Royal Academy of Music, London, she having taken both the silver and bronze medals for pianoforte playing and also a prize in harmony.  Her style and finish as an instrumentalist met with great praise from those who heard her in London, and the musical public of Cork will not be backward in giving her support in her native city.  Miss M'Carty will be assisted by Miss Marie Duval, a young lady who is steadily making a name for herself in England as an accomplished vocalist, while the tenor will be Mr. Pearson, and Mr. J. Sullivan, the well-known Bass, will also appear.  The lovers of instrumental music will also be gratified to learn that an opportunity will be given them of enjoying the beauties of some choice morceaux, among which will be included the late Sir Sterndale Bennett's chamber trio, together with solos and duets for pianoforte, violin, and violoncello, to be executed respectively by Miss M'Carty, Mdlle. Gabrielle Vaillant, and Herr Elsner, the latter of whom is an old favourite in Cork, while Mdlle. Valliant is said to be one of the best female violinists of the day.

 

 

 

Cork Constitution
Tuesday, April 15, 1875
Cork City, Cork


MUNSTER HALL, CORK
MISS BELLA W. M'CARTY'S
GRAND FASHIONABLE
EVENING CONCERT
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 16TH
PROGRAMME

Part I
Trio        "I. Naviganti,"     Randegger
(Miss Duval, Mr. Pearson, and Mr. Sullivan.)
Solo (Violin)      "Romance in F,"          Sainson
(Mdlle. Vaillant.)
Duett "We Two" Smart
(Miss Duval and Mr. Sullivan)
Song, "Once Again," Sullivan
(Mr. Pearson.)
Solo (Pianoforte) "Scherzo a Capriocio,"
Mendelssohn
(Miss Bella M'Carty)
Song, "Only for one" Randegger
(Miss Duval.)
Duett (Pianoforte and Violoncello) "Andante and Allegro Assai" from Sonata in B flat,
Mendelssohn
(Miss M'Carty and Herr Elsner.)
Solo, "Revenge, Timotheus Cries," Handel.
(Mr. Sullivan.)
Trio, "The Hawthorn in the Glade," S. Bennett
(Miss Duval, Mr. Pearson, and Mr. Sullivan.)

Part II
Trio (Piano, Violin, and Violoncello) "Chamber
Trio," S. Bennett
(Miss M'Carty, Mdlle. Vaillant, and Herr Elsner.)
Song, "Little Maid of Arcades," Sullivan.
(Miss Duval.)
Solo (Violoncello), "Sarabande, Gavotte, and
Musette," Bach.
(Herr Eisner.)
Song "The Watchman," Knight
(Mr. Sullivan.)
Solo (Pianoforte) "Don Pasquale," Thalberg.
(Miss Bella M'Carty.)
Solo "Adelaide," Beethoven.
(Mr. Pearson.)
Solo, (Violin) "Andante and Rondo Russe,"
De Beriot.
(Mdlle. Vaillant.)
Duett "Una Notte a Venezia," Incantoni.
(Miss Duval and Mr. Pearson,)
Trio "Zitti, Zitti," Rossini
(Miss Duval, Mr. Pearson, and Mr. Sullivan.)

Doors open at Half-past Seven, to commence at Eight.

Cork Constitution
Monday, April 19, 1875
Cork City, Cork

MISS BELLA M'CARTY'S CONCERT

Rarely has a programme been placed before an audience in this city containing more beautiful gems of tone-poetry than that given by Miss M'Carty, on the occasion of her benefit concert, which took place at the Munster Hall on Friday night.  The music might, indeed, be said to be more suitable to the tastes of those who have made the tone-art their especial study than to those whose musical culture has not been brought to that pitch that would enable them to give due appreciation to those lovely gems of classical art, which so delight the trained musician; and indeed among the numerous audience that assembled, the greater portion seemed thoroughly pleased with both the music itself and also with the manner of its execution.  Miss M'Carty herself is a pianist of no mean ability.  She possesses an exceedingly brilliant and, at the same time, firm and decided touch; while her style at once betrays that keen perception of the ideas of the composer in the music falling to her lot, which always distinguishes a really clever artiste.  Her first solo was a "Scherzo," by Mendelssohn, which she performed with great vigour and finish, which drew forth a hearty encore; and she responded by playing a brilliant fantasia on "Home, Sweet Home."  In her second solo, Thalberg's fantasia, introducing the well-known serenade from "Don Pasquale," she was equally successful and showed how she can master the totally different styles of composition.  Again encored, she gave a couple of Irish melodies, which pleased her hearers greatly.  Mdlle. Gabrielle Vaillant was the violinist, and she clearly proved that ladies can at least handle the greatest of instruments, and compete as performers, with artists of the other sex.  Her style is not, so to speak, dashing; but she can play with that intense expression that appeals to the hearts as well as the ears of the audience and that, with a pure and sympathetic tone, never false or wavering in the slightest.  The "Romance" by Sainton was eminently qualified to exhibit to perfection this style, in which she so excels, and an encore was of course the result.  De Beriot's "Andante and Rondo" also found a thoroughly intelligent exponent in Mdlle. Vaillant.  It is almost needless to speak of Herr Elsner's superb violoncello playing; his name and abilities as an artiste are well known here.  In his solo, Bach's "Sarabande, Gavotte, and Musette," he literally made his instrument sing and had to repeat a portion.  The concerted music was also very beautifully rendered, especially Bennett's Chamber trio, a detailed notice of which appeared in Wednesday's Constitution.  In the vocal department Miss Marie Duval was the soprano voice, which might be made very effective, and she was encored in her second song, "Little Maid of Arcadee."  Mr. Pearson has a strong tenor voice and at times sings extremely well, but Beethoven's "Adelaide" was rather too ambitious a song for him; and he was much more successful in Sullivan's ballad "Once Again," which he sang beautifully, as an encore giving Ascher's well known song "Alice."  Mr. J. Sullivan's fine voice and splendid delivery have frequently been commented upon, and he was never heard better than on Friday night in Handel's splendid aria "Revenge, Timotheus Cries" and also in "Honour and Arms," which he substituted as an encore.  The vocal artistes also contributed some very pleasing pieces, and the accompaniments were played throughout by Mr. John M'Carty, father of the fair beneficiare, who may be congratulated on the success of this, her first concert in her native city.


Submitted by Elizabeth W. Knowlton
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