The age-herald., 1902-02-02

Are music making and loving insep- arablaY Must a musician have 'loved and lost' in order to reach true greatness? The intense wish expressed by Jan kube- lik's managers that some charming CO., quette might smash the heart Of the young Bohemian violinist and thus give to his playing increase of emotionality seems to argue that they at least believe that as a man loveth so iddleth he
 And musical history bears them out in this belief. In fact. not only history but nature itself proves the correctness of the theory that music making and loving go hand in hand. Every animal from the fe- line on the fence to the fairest lark in the azure of heaven makes the most musical sound 1t can when 1t knows that the object of It's adoration is close by and lia- be to be impressed by the devotion voiced in that expression of ectasy.
 And that greater animal man, Is in this as in most other things close akin to his fellows lower in the scale. The difference between Tommy's rapturous tribute to Tabby's eyes of green and pelt of silky white and the lovers ardent wari>cng anent the rosy glow upon his lady's cheek. or the perfumed sweetness of his lady's breath, Is but a difference in de- gree.
 Loving Is responsible in both cases for the music making and so identified has the greatest of emotions become with the most emotional of all the arts that he who has not loved canont simulate having loved usually is found lacking in the chief essential of really great mu- sicianship.
 The list of noted composers or perform ha 1forh hao nj to end and 1t will be found that almost without exception from the earliest times to the present day woman has been the inspiration. the shaping influence that has led to great achievement. She herself has at yet created nothing of enduring worth, but were those works of which she by her influence has been the coproducer to be plotted out of musics literature the world would be robbed of nearly all it's masterpieces.
 This influence of hers has been exerted in as many ways as she. the most com plex of creatures, has moods. Her beau- ty, her cleverness, her wit, her voice, or her character has inspired, her helpful ness In hours of Encouragement and seeming defeat has sustained, her cheer fulness when want has oppressed has frightened and even her ''nagging' and her sharp temper have whipped musical incidence into activity. She may have been wire, or mother, or sister, or friend but her power it Is that has been most potent. and she 1t is who Is the chief figtre in the legend and in the history of music.
 Take, for example, Paganini, the master violinist, whom Kubelik is said to re- semble in powers and whom his man. agers evidently would wish him to equal in temperament There Is still told in Vienna today by those whose fathers heard and knew Paganini when he first played there in 1928. the story of how he came to be the wonderful artist he was
 According to the facts. as given by them-and they are ready to stake their lives on the correctness of them-PHga- nini when not yet out of his teens loved and married. The beautiful girl whom he made his bride attracted the attention of a young noble, who, one day passing her on the street, addressed her, and was seeking to win her favor when Pa ganini suddenly appeared. and without a moments hesitation knocked the young rascal down. The noble swore ven geance, Paganini was arrested, and sen fenced to four years imprisonme ent At this time he was violinist of fair but by no means exceptional powers Alone fin prison, with no employment of any kind wherewith to busy mind and | hands. and in ignorance of the fate of his |