The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-14

tne ---e4e o---o- me olu-r -ay anu talked
music 10 81 illtese sted group. answering
questions frcn1 81 sizes Rllh a rare good
humor, and Z desire 70 he explicit in his
explanations net al al common with
Nirtuosos OF the drst rank His Engiisa
which he learned l. Europe, is remark
ably replete With cur idorls for for
eigner he is quicz in catching al the
shade Of meanl1g and satisfying IL his
replies He has nothing OF boastfuiness
= his nature and neither Is NJ mock mod
est re is al All ti-ne frank.
DO you remember when you first heard
piano. he was asked.
As well as Il IL were yesterday. Il
was in 81. Petersburg. where was born
II was al a concert. 1 heard = performer
ca the piano man. ] was perhaps seven
yeas old. The music and the instrument
enth-aned me. We had 10 piano at home
but I rissed Up one. remember il so
wei. took TWO chairs. put a board
across them, placed books along the board
and then on one end put a candle. on
the other end q candle and sat down and
played on these books The fever had
struck deep. Later, and the first time
ever touched a real piano ! could play
& melody. something had heard"
With ore finger. I suppose" said Col
onel Toler. who vas present
No" said the pianist. i tried TO use
more ard did I mink
Wei, you didn't put in the bass, too ?'
asked Colonel Toler. skeptical.
Yes. / did laughed Hochmann. and
II was fairly good harmony too. as
remember it,
After q years practice the young Hoch-
man gave concerts as a prodigy. period
Of his career h. passes over lightly after
this period be set TO work 10 develop his
musical gift he pracuced from eight
TO nine hours daily.
Did you play Czerny27 he was asked
l. some one knowing the terrors Of the
yoUng girl pianists in wichita.
Yes. 1 played Czerny. and exercises
and exercises. and studied technique. One
must not only praetiee technique. he must
think IL.
For several years HOFFMAN has been
coucertIzing through Germany. Last year
h came 10 America. In June he returns
10 Berlin. his home. and year from now
he viii come 20 America again
Germany he said is great in music.
n Berlin ten OF twelve concerts night
Admission twelve and half cents To
hear the great Philharmonic orchestra.
Music every where
wherein would a program for
Fiauo-recltaI Ia German city differ from
one Tor a Wichita audience
1t would Dot differ SO materially In
Germany there would be a Beethoven So
nata. possibly nor the Moonlight Senate.
but one If the heavy ones The ScIumann
Fantasy. and the Chopin numbers"
How did YOU happen to omit Bee
th5ven from your Wichita program"
--In Difference 10 puhiic taste. or rather
because we think the public would rather
have something Else
why don pianists put Wagner on
their programs
wagner IS magnificent. bslt he is not
piano music He is orchestra The or
chescra can give his music in color; the
piano can not. not in she concert room.
Wagner In tha opera. with the appeal
20 the mind. the ear and the eye is over
vheimine
when you are playing for yourself
alone. DO you play bestg
yes. at times One arrives at effects
the- that he can not repeat or duplicate
. VIII. and. yet again. one plays best
before a sympathetic audience. don't
have stage fright but there IS a sort Of
nervous excitement before an audience
that leads % effects that are the best
there is in one. feel that I grow on the
staee am totally miserable and not
e. myself in parlor recital The best Of
music is the offspring Of the emotions,
OF your temperament You are playing
best when you are pouring your heart
out unsteady. to your audience One
does not cannot play The same thing
twice exactly alike
what about the note repeated pianis-
sirno. until the nearer can not tel Width
e the note is sun being struck or it IS
merely his irnasinats9u2 Do You really
keep on slriklag the notee
THAT" said HOFFMAN. laughing, is
e-a-a patent
and what is the practice Of long
rauses AZ the conclusion Of q movement
with tho pedal down. The German
critics cau that mannerism-
Bat it is effective. isn't it,
..Perh1rs But that sets back to tenn
perarent-to play In you- own way 70
let the music be the vehicle Of your emo
tious 10 feel through it to your audience.
q do nothing false or affected. OF strain
q
Several years ego in The Crawford with
Concert company there PLAYED in Wichita
q Il small audience. q woman pianist
namsd ADELE aus der one. some one
remembered her and asked Hochman II
h knew he-