Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-04
SARASATE A GENIUS.
A yiOlinist HOnOred Through.
out All Europe.
PET OF CROWNED HEADS.
But All the FlatIery Has Not Turned
His Head.
HE sHRINKs FROM NoTORIETY.
He sHRINKs FROM NoToRIETY,
At Thirteen He Won Fint Prize at the
Paris Conservatory and = Few Years
Later He Had Gained Fame.

LONDON. Oct. 2e--Few Of the great nu-
aieianu have been without a certain amount
Of The coneeit which hnds expression In long
halr. velvet Iaekois. matrimonial eccentrici-
Ties or newspaper reclame. II Is not often
that one nuda a good. plain, Blatier-of-faot
man OF genins Ike sAsasaie lie has none
OF the little foibles Of genius, and none Of tue
small yaniucs Of The petted artist In fact'
he 10 not only mau; he Is manly man.
Ho cannot even understand that curious fem
mime trait which makes Pa1erewski half q
mountebank sSJi half genius. He Is not
tho sort o. on artist che can make out Of
lion fngefs and a ninbus OF red hair.
sarsato Is Just an everyday man Of &C.
Mus.
lie Is in tho succession Of Paganini and
Vleuxtempa
Indeed. | know OF only ono passage which
describes sarasate's magnificent power. IL
vas Written OF pasanlni by Hsinrch He!no,
II Is 4 long way to 90 for an appreciation,
but the Journey Is amply repaid. Have you
read The Fiorntlua NlghisF After all,
It 10 only poet Who can PUT in words the
epic u tho violin.
Every one knows Of slrasate. No
name is more familiar In Europe, Few
names arc more familiar IN the two hcmI-
ophores. Wherever music Is talked. one
6pealss Of sarasa,e. Aud yet? SO mys;erl-
ousiy has he cioaled himself in his mo1esty
that apart from hts name he "a hardly
known at all. pa1erewsa has given h'm-
seif SO openly 20 the public tha; one knows
him as well as though one had gone
through him will q lighted candle. o. the
Scotch proyerd says. Hut sarasate Is as
severely axeluslys as a Trlnpis, monk. His
mu1lc bsl0aga 10 the world. but when he
has lclt the concert room be belongs 10
him olf 10 Will have nothing 20 do wl-h
such common folk a. journalist. This is
bot because he has any OK the iiidalgo
pride, though be Us indeed an "excalloucy'
10 Spain. It 10 all due TO good, honest,
psrs raj respect Tor himself and his art.
lie has always steadily refused TO push
himself Into social prominence. What lie
is he Is. and be has determined not to
use hi9 genius as jimmy" to break into
h.gh society. lie doesn't care for newspa-
per notorlcty.
A remarkable atlat7 Indeed, do not
bolioyo- there Is another like him In these
respects in tho four quarters Of the earth.
The journalist has unusual opportunities
Of knowing tho littlo yanlues Of the pao-
ple that are famous in the world. saragate
ban absolutely no yunitlos. He Is genial.
! natural. simple. unaffected companionahle.
lie win talk music with you By She hour.
as he smokes iutoTminable Spanish cigar
cites. He VIII play for you. He will dis
cu5s literatur9, anything you please. But
he viii net Be interviewed. In fact, he
has noygr bsen Interviewed IN his life.
| % course he has seen reporters. and the
| reporters have rlddlod him with ques-
| iious and gone away aud written Interest,"
! Ing articles. II you read them you would
! huaGuc that Surasatc had talked about the
| greatness " America, and had explained
Ills methods and described all his personal
1 hlbls Aa matter Of fact, the great
! ylllinHt bad lnokod cigarettes smiled and
/ been cordially lllont during the whole iuter-
I Wow. You see. no Is hopelewly destitute
1 Of U1u.u, aui docs not appreciate news
! paper rQclane, The best interviewer cam
not make much OF such a man,
After all man Of genius can got along
/ very wel without cheap notorlety. when
.