The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-03-29

In Q recent chat With him ahoue his
travels. and particularly - 10 distinguish
ed m2aicsAns that be met In the course Of
them, Il was discovered that he knows a
lot OF people about whom every one has
read There is Brahms. for instance.
Brahms says things right out. ana once in
. while makes . joke about himself.
One day." said Mr.. Ondrscek- "A lady
came 10 visit him. and she brought with
her little dog The dog took 10 Brahms
from the start He was much afYecriona,e
Excuse me that ! English no better can
have never studied 1t. But shah learn.
] shall learn To Brahms said the lady:
On. see how fond OF you is the dog
Yea said the master. He has never
heard anything OF mine
But Of eli the musicians that I knew.
Won Buiow was the wittiest- He will he
remembered by his saying: A tenor Is not
a rnar: tenor is an Illness All. that
has come to this country. Ell, have heard
that here you have so great musical intel
ilsence- Won Bulow was at Frankfor, az
one time. and gave two recitals. AT the
first he played all Beethoven, and he was
master OF Beethoven A so-caIled great
critic for the newspapers was dispieased
with the performance. He said that Won
Balow knew nothing about Beethoven.
The next day the recital was all Ran. The
critic was there. He was pointed out TO
Won Buiow. After IL was all done, he with
others. comes up 20 be presented to the
pianist 1t WAS grand: 1t was maxnifque.
II was just the Interpretation. and so on
All. said Won Bulow. Ran ] knew
personally. but you knew Beethoven
He once conducted a Beethoven con-
cerlo for me- Al the rehearsal the cornet
was very bad II is a difhcuit part We
had gone over IL nine or ten times. and Won
Bulcw was cross. Excuse me for one
minute. Mr. Ondricek.' he said. I must m
troduce this gentleman TO Beethoven's
concerto. Il seems they have not met vet
List knew; have played with Nicola
Rubinstein and / knew Anton Rubinstein.
Tchaikowsky I have met. Goldmark and
Wieniawski / know. and have played for
Nieuxtemps. Antonin Dyorak. whom /
met in New York, is a great personal
friend OF mine. Many long talks
/ have had with him about America. He
thinks that America is a land where they
have much appreciation Of music, and will
yet have more.
Il came over on the same steamer with
the De Reszkes. and We are friends. but
never yet have / heard them sing in opera
At Nine. Modteska's house in London We
have done something. ! have played and
Edouard has sung
When was in Constantinople I played
for the present sultan"
Does ne un0ers,dno anything ABOUT
music!
Mr.. Ondricek blew through his mus
taches and spread his hands. Not much.
Common music. perhaps. But he hears a
great deal OF il from the musicians who
visit Constantinople- i was at q dinner
which was given. A Turkish dinner. Yes.
Through and through
Gould you enjoy it?''
ITO here" Mr.. Ondricek drew his finger
Id
house of a pasha. cannot think of his
name. played wieniawski's polonaise.
The old pasha seized me by the waist and
walfzed with me. l felt silly. All. well:
what would you. II all men behaved SEN
sibly, what a world 1t would be!
Carmen sylvia, the queen OF Roumania.
accompanied me on the piano whom I
visited her at her court. After we had
finished she took the violin on her knees
graph and wrote on the back of II:
''L anne y dort II faut rappeler. Eliza
BETH
That means. He knows how to awaken
the soul that sleeps This diamond ring
is also from her.
Il must tell you a story about an expert
ence I had in a little town in Bohemia. In
the room reserved for the artists at the
concert l found two firemen waiting. I
asked them what they were doing there.
They told me that the department had
heard that j played with a great deal of
fire. and II was thought best to take pre-
cautions"
Mr.. Ondricek said that this was abso-
lutely true. He declared over and over
again that 1t was the fact. But-well.
these musicians,
His violin is a Guarreri. The date on the
label inside is 173s.
He bought it in Odessa.
is there any story about it?'' he was
asked
He threw up his hands and walked across
the room. None, except that il cost me
grea. store of money"