The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-21
IN THE DOMAIN Of MUSIC
CHAT WITH OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
EREWSKPS TEACHER SPEAKS
OF AMERICAN PUPILS
EUROPEAN soUsA IN AMERICA
VIII Play In BrOoIsIyn and New
Xork-Bits OF Gossip Concerns
ing Local Musf-
clans.

Inc chief attraction at Vienna has been
FroI. Leschetftzky, the teacher of Pad
ereWsKl, and perhaps the best known
OF all teachers of piano, says Edward A.
steiner In the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.
he Is moody and impatient, but Is a
prince Of good fellows to the pupil who
SHOWS talent or excesivse industry. He
mas taught most of the great American
planlsts. I visited Prof. Leschetitzky at
MS summer house at Ischl, and during
our conversation he made the following
statements in regard to American music
students which are we'll worth their at
tention:
They ought rot come to US unless they
are musical and know music"
Too many of them don't know how to
touch the piano, and / have neither the
time nor the patience to teach the
scales''
"a talented man or woman ought, by
all means, to come over here, if only to
See how little he or she knows about
music
Your young people lack depth and In
dustry. They are very enthusiastic at
first, but most of them drop off when
the hard work begins.
1t was my method as youth" Les
chettzky says, ''to practice with the
most unflinching resolution, over and
L
more industriously, until 1 had the piece
perfect. often used to play it so fire.
quently that I forgot the number of
times L played 1t, and my thoughts were
So taken up with the music that I had
no means of checking myself Till one
day found six peas In my pocket, and 1
took them out and said: II will use you
to be my arithmetic while I play the
piano So I placed them on the music
q ND hoe !
without mistake. l put one pea in my
pocket. played 1t over a second time
without a mistake. / then put another
pea in my pocket. The third time I
made a mistake. So I put the two peas
back on the music stand and began with
the whole six over again. l plp ed 1t
quite correctly six times now. But had
made a mistake the very last time
would have taken out all the peas from
my pocket and put them back on the
piano until I had satisfied myself that I
could conseientiously transfer them
back to my pocket again.
Miss Alcoft, soprano, has for eight
years been prominent In the progressive
n.usfca' circles of st. Paul. During that
time she has been a member Of TIE FIRST
Baptist church quartette choir. Miss
Alcott has attained special sHcerss in di-
rectiDg choral work and her time is about
equally divided between this and her pri-
vate pupils. Her studio in the chamber
Of commerce building is one of the most
attractive studios in the City,
Herr Edward Strauss and his Vienna
orchestra arrived in New York last week.
An opening concert will be given tomor-
row evening in Brooklyn. The musical
organization under the direction of Herr
Strauss is not unknown to America for
there are doubtless many who remember
Herr Strauss and his interpretations OF
the waltzes and operetta music written
by his late distinguished kinsman, Johann
Strauss, when the,sVienna orchestra APP
peared in this country some eight or ten
years ago. In the European capitals, and
particularly throughout Austria-Hun-
gary, Herr Edward Strauss has gained
much popularity and not a little fame,