The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-06
AT ALL GROCERS,

even having lighted cigar in hi
 mouth while he gives lesson ant
 plays. He doesn't object so much t
 the mistakes one makes, but that h
 has to take his cigar out of his moutl
 to correct them. He has one pupil (
 pretty American girl, who has lots O
 talent, but who is lazy. At one lessor
 she smuggled her kodak into tht
 room, and while Sitt was busy with an.
 other pupil snapped his picture Mex
 lesson she showed 1t to him-cigar
 frown and all. Herr Sitt, after a mo-
 ments startled surprise, burst out into
 a jolly laugh, and ever since has beer
 simply great to this lucky damsel.
 Arno Hilf is another of the fine vio-
 lin teachers. They say he teaches one
 how to make the violin dance, and Sitt
 how to make it sing. Every winter
 Herr Hilf gives a big dinner to his pu- pills. At the last one, his enthusiastic
 scholars took the horses away from his carriage and dragged him home them- selves.
 | Capellmeister Nikisch, Concertmeis- l ter Berber and Robert Teichmuller are l the three men most sschwarmed" af- ter in all Leipzig. Lucky the Con girl l who has Teichmuller as piano teacher. And how she crows over her envying friends. She can actually be near him at her lesson twice week, while her less fortunate friends must tarry in corridors and hang around the Con in the hope of seeing the adored one. But all unconscious of this overwhelming amount of worship, Herr Teichmuller meets girl after girl in the hall, with a pleasant smile for each, never dream Ing that those foolish girls had been waiting there for that one smile for half an hour.
 There are methods galore for study ing the piano, and each one the only natural one, of course-but Herr Teich- muler's pet trick is certainly original. He teacher his pupils to lean on the piano right from the body. He says one get much more volume of tone this way His idea seems to work we'll, for he has several real artists among his pupils.
 Alfred Reisenauer, the piano virtuoso was appointed only last year as teach CT in the Con. He likes to teach the way Liszt used to-gathering his pu- pills around him in a bunch and then playing for them for couple of hours, listening to their enthusiastic admira- tion. The drudgery of teaching, cor recting mistakes in phrasing etc, holds no attraction for him. If al his pupils were artists his method would be very fine, but, unfortuntelyibo both for him and them, he has a number of only moderately advanced pupils
 A very talented young American once went to Resenauer and asked him to take him as q pupil. Reisenauer heard him play and saw that he had fine stuff in him and told him to study a year with Weidenbach and then come back to him and maybe he'd take him The boy goes to Weidenbach and tells him all about it. Weidenbach, | perfectly furious sends back word that l he prepares pupils only for himself. l Weidenbach has been one of the first | teachers in the Con for 25 years and 1 still has a splendid reputation.
 But the man most beloved and rev. | erenced not only in the Con, but prob ably in all Leipzig is Carl Reinecke. |
  and teaches but little. He has a couple of classes in composition of the most advanced and talented students He is studiummeister of the Con, and has practically the run of the whole di- .ectorium. All the teachers and a number of Leipzg's ablest men belong Q the directorium.
 Ever since Reinecke was asked to give up his position as director of the 1ewandhaus orchestra. he has never ,een the same It was five years ago, md happened this way. He had per istenty refused to give any of 3rahms or Grieg's music in the concerts He stuck to the id masters and the directorium didn't ike it. There was a pretty fuss among he people, every one taking one side IF the other. But of course, he re- igned and has never quite recovered rom the blow
 In the Con he is fairly adored and whenever he passes, off goes the hat of , very single student on the spot, and . very one cries out: "Guten tag Herr , , Mendelssohn was the first director of f he Con, away back in 1S43. When he jed in his bequest to the GeWandhaus, ' 6 stipulated that the Con students for fty years were to have free admission , all the public rehearsals of the ( Iewandhaus orchestra I This last winter, as special favor s n Nikischs part, third of the stu C ents got free tickets each time. The f lying out of the tickets was awfully 2 adly managed. After the students a hose turn it was, got their tickets, a hole crowd of about a hundred would t ang around the office door to get the t wv tickets left over. And when the o DOT was opened there was a scramble, t lore like a foot ball game than any t ling else. Girls yelling and fellows ( 1oving, all making for that narrow tile door, just wide enough for one t erson, There was one fat German onde, who invariably got stuck in r lat door, till the crowd damned her e |, Next year, however, 1t will all be p langed for students will get no free t. ckets for the rehearsals. A rate of 1 f ark-haf price-just as the univer- q ty students get them, has been fixed E 9 all the hundreds of concerts given a re every winter, all students get ad- h isSion ,t half Drine