The Tollefsen Trio

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THE TOLLEFSEN TRIO

CARL H. TOLLEFSEN, Violin
Mme. AUGUSTA-TOLLEFSEN, Piano
PAUL KEFER, Violoncello

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THE TOLLEFSEN TRIO

CARL H. TOLLEFSEN, Violin
Mme. AUGUSTA-TOLLEFSEN, Piano
PAUL KEFER, Violoncello

NO chamber-music organization in America can boast so long and so honorable a career as the Tollefsen Trio.  Since 1904, when Carl Tollefsen first formed the trio, the three players have crossed and recrossed the country innumerable times, carrying the message of pure music into many and many a community that had never enjoyed the benefits which only music of this kind may confer, ever appealing to the highest artistic taste and never deviating from the paths of artistic righteousness.  Theirs has been in so many cases missionary work; theirs has been the privilege of stimulating interest in the best that music has to offer.

The course of the Tollefsens' history has been that of steady growth.  From a modest beginning of concerts given in their home-city, Brooklyn, where both Mr. and Mrs. Tollefsen were well-known teachers of music, they have gradually widened their scope of their activities, have from year to year enlarged the field of their concert-giving.  Every passing season has witnessed the names of new cities in which they have played, yet at the same time every year has signalled their return to the familiar places.  It is an acknowledged fact that no organization has enjoyed the number of re-engagements that has marked the course of Tollefsen history.



RECENT PRAISE FROM THE CRITICS

This organization has earned the right to be classed among the foremost of its kind in the country, and its work at this recital was on a consistently high level of excellence and commanded hearty applause.  The placid and charming Mozart work was played with delicacy, finish and classic spirit, with much precision, smoothness and an excellent quality of tone.
The Boellmann Trio, which has been heard here rarely, if ever, is an interesting work; the five-four rhythm of the first movement proved to be fascinating and the broadly sustained melody of the slow movement, with its fine coloring, mas especially effective.  The Scherzo was done with elfin-like delicacy, while the finale, in which the composer employs the device of bringing back portions of the slow movement and Scherzo, made an effective closing movement.  The audience took real enjoyment from the work of the three artists.—

Musical America.



Reginald De Koven in the New York Herald:
Last night that esteemed organization, the Tollefsen Trio, gave an all-Scandinavian program at Aeolian Hall, which was heard by a large audience with enjoyment.  The trio, as such, played a work by Lange-Muller, which is simply and straightforwardly melodious.  Of better musical value was Sjogren's sonata for piano and violin, two movements from which were played by Mme. Schnabel-Tollefsen and Mr. Carl H. Tollefsen with excellent effect.  Mme. Tollefsen also played as a solo Grieg's Ballade Op. 24 and proved herself in this romantic and beautiful number a pianist of taste and accomplishment.


Sylvester Rawling in the Evening World:
The admirable musicianship of the Tollefsen Trio was never more in evidence.


Grenville Vernon in the New York Tribune:
The trio has developed into a well-rounded organization which plays with admirable precision and feeling for ensemble.  The audience was of goodly size and enthusiastic.


James Gibbons Huneker in the New York Times:
The program was entirely Scandinavian.  A well-played trio by Lange-Muller in F minor followed by two movements of a sonata for violin and piano by Sjogren, which was played with much fire and freedom by the Tollefsens.  Mme. Tollefsen then interpreted Grieg's G minor Ballade with its ingenious variations.  She is an excellent pianist, with well-trained fingers and musical temperament.  In rapid passage work her speed and accuracy are commendable.  It was with a pearly touch that she deftly rippled off a charming trifle as an encore, presumably a study by Ole Olsen.  The pleasant musical evening closed with Gade's trio 'Novelletten.'


Felix Borowski in Chicago Herald:
Both works (Rubin Goldmark and Arensky Trios) were excellently performed by Mr. Tollefsen and his colleagues, who evidently had taken thought unto the beauty of a fine ensemble.


James Whittaker in Chicago Examiner:
The Tollefsen Trio is young to the eye, veteran to the ear.  A more maturely accurate and youthfully graceful ensemble than that of their playing of a trio by Rubin Goldmark has not been heard.


Chicago Daily Journal:
They made their performance a desirable example of what chamber-music should be.


Macon Daily Telegraph:
Not since the Kneisels in their finest fettle has a Macon audience heard ensemble music played as the Tollefsen Trio played at Wesleyan College last night.


Nashville Banner:
These artists embody the highest type of chamber-music.  … A marvelous exhibition of perfect ensemble work, in which the Tollefsen Trio is without a peer.


Nashville Tennesseean:
Inaugurating the fourth season of artist recitals, Ward-Belmont last night presented the Tollefsen Trio in a program of wonderful beauty, rendered in a style of the highest artistic excellence.  Nashville may well feel proud that they made their initial bow in Dixie in this city.


Delaware, O., Journal-Herald:
The fine phrasing and delightful interpretation as well as the beautiful tone work of such a finely arranged program showed evidence of the splendid musicianship of each member of the trio.


Greensboro Daily News:
One of the most delightful concerts given to music lovers here.


Raleigh Times:
Gave a program of rare beauty.  The large audience showed their appreciation by enthusiastic and persistent applause.


Detroit Journal (Detroit Chamber Music Society):
The Tollefsens faced an audience whose size and enthusiasm proved a rather pointed answer to the critic who recently published his desire to embalm chamber-music in the museums.  The Arensky Trio met with a particularly enthusiastic reception.


Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Musical of Scottish Rite Bodies):
Year in and year out they have been true to the high ideals which they adopted at the start.  Their perseverance has had its reward in a finish of style that few organizations of the kind can approach.



Clarksburg, West Va., Daily Telegram (Marcato Club):
It was in the Tschaikowsky trio in A minor that the Tollefsens reached the sublime.  Never has anything been heard in our city equal to the interpretation of this great work.  At the conclusion of the program the audience was loath to leave.


Montclair, N. J., The Herald:
It was a performance of style, elegance and utter refinement.


Newark, N. J., Evening News (Catholic Oratorio Society):
The Tollefsen Trio showed an artistry in its performance that furthered the enjoyment of the concert, its playing was well balanced, refined in style and finely expressive of the import of the compositions.



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