The Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-22

playing the Moonlight Sonata 'Liszt
Rhapsodies, aud SO forth, and cou'dn's
even play the scale of @ major TO be
sure o. the lingering every tune. Now,
l shall be glad L. 1 can attempt those
pieces in four years from now."
So the different girls told of their sx-
perienc and OF their teachers until
Miss smith began to woc der II she
would be put back to tho beginning In
everything-to wonder II all the hard
work she hod done under teachers con-
sidered good would count for nothing.
She began to feel blue aud discouraged.
when one of the ''old girls" spoke up
and said:
"Now, don't you think that when
you come here you must begin at the
frst Of everything. You are put just
exactly where you belong. II you are
playing euch pieces as Paderewski
spends lots and lots OF time on before
he feels as though he could offer them
TO the public, and You don't kuow
even the scales aud can't play in sharp
keys, then you may be quite sure those
pieces will be suatched away from you,
and You will be given a big dose of
scales and such pieces as you cau un-
derstand. You are not put back to go
over what You have all eady learned
You are put back to go over what you
have never learned. 1t is kind of an
| evening up process that you arc put
| through to catch up with youreelf, as
1t were. OF course there arc lots OF pu-
i tic rHo
pared in every way to enter the adj
vauced grades and to go right on with
the same grade Of work they had at
home.
who are your teachers? Mr.. Mnhr
and Madame Hopkins, you say? 1
know you viii like Mr.. Mahr for your
violin teacher. He is one of the most
thorough teachers in the whole Con-
servatory. You wilt hear some one
singing Mr.. Mabr's praises on every
corner. He has lots of fiue pupils, who
have been with him q long time. Yon
know most pupils, after they have
| stu udied with fine teacher 10 Americ 4
for a year or two, then they are crazy
to go to Europe. They think they
II caI:'t t,ee eh-ptset uuieS- -y8sey eaaaAso to
Europe at once. You never hear Mr.
Mahr's pupils talk that way. They
will all tell you that they hope to go to
Europe some time, but that they want
to stay with Mr.. Mahr a few years
longer before they go.
"About Madam Hopekuks She ia a
teacher this year. She Is q well-knowu
concert player and teacher. She teaches
the Lechetitzky method. You know
was the same man Paderewsky and
Fannie Bloomfield Zsigler studied with
She is said to be fine. There are from
fifty to sixty te chers here this fall
One can't know anything about all OF
them"
After supper Miss Smith was taken
to chapel. The chapel exercises were
conducted by one OF the Boston min.
listers. After the half hour at chapel a
visit was made to the library IN the
professor OF literature at Harvard, also
at the New England Conservatory,
gave o lecture on "Books and Read
ing" He expressed 1t as his opinion
that the kind OF novels one liked were
the kind one should read. In his opin-
ion q small library Is. all that Is neces-
sary for one to have; some OF the best
poets, some novels Of the kind one
likes, and a good encyclopedia.
Before Miss Smith separated from her
new made acquaintances, plans had
been made to go to Cambridge, go over
the Harvard buildings, to 90 to Bun
ker Hill, the Public Library, Art Muse
um, and to many other places of inter
est In Boston. She had been told 40
many times about the Symphony con.
certs. the Kneisel Quartet concerts, the
opera, oratiops, lectures and play
houses, that she couldn't remember
anything about any OF them, only that
every one seemed to think that there
was no place like Boston in which to
hear good music, and nothing to com
pare with the Boston Orchestra and
the Kueisel Quartet in any other city.
| Another week 1 will tell you of the
trip to Harvard, and, later, about the
concerts. 1 am afraid there will not
/ ho