The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-09
For Students of Music.

Hlorro v. OlkoF says. Ii you are
member of band do not play any loud
er than anybody else. The music OF
band or orchestra may be compared
with picture, or with a pipe organ.
Your part represents only one color, Or
only one pipe. If one color shows off too
prominent, it will hurt the effect of 9TH
ers, if not ruin the whole painting, while
one squealing pipe will not only be the
despair of the organist, but "get away"
with all solemn feelings of an entire re-
ligious assembly. Music must come
from the heart to be inspiring. The
says of the clarinet: HE who plays the
clarinet with expression, soul and feeling
seems to make declaration of love, not
only to his hearers, but also to the heav-
emily beings
The sensible and good musician, who
fully conceives the Importance of the
second violin and all other accompany
ing parts, will never consider it a conde-
scension to play accompaniment. 1t is
only the inferior and conceited one who
thinks it below his dignity to play ''ac-
compartment" to any one else. Nothing
is more beneficial to the sense of time
keeping than accompaniment. Every
musician is aware of the fact that the
average piano player is poor time
keeper. Accompaniment without time
is just about like runaway of mad
horse without driver. There are many
PLAYERS who can execute some difficult
passages with ease, but are not capable
of playing simple little air in time not
to speak of taste Or expression. This
cannot be attributed to anything else
but that he has not had sufficient prac-
tice with others. The continual solo
playing makes him careless and inatten-
tive as to time and value of notes. He
should, therefore, lose no opportunity to
accompany other instruments, which can
not but mend these effects to a good ex-
tent.
A band could not exist with solo cor
net players, nor could an orchestra with
only first violinists. The solo playing
alone is not sufficient, as it will never
make an independent, reliable or pro-
ticient performer out of you. The must
clan can not always be a learned scholar,
but as a rule the true musician is always
a lady or gentleman, and fitted to move
in sphere which is considered by others
above his station.
Mr.. Patton says he knows of a fact
that some pupil who had a four weeks
vacation put his instrument so that the |
mice had enlarged way through the
sound hole of the violin and had actually |
built thrae nests inside where six dozen |
of the little fellows had taken up their !
abode ia happy content So you see we
could not learn anything that way.
Rubinstein had once played new
piece for List and his friends, after Ru-
binstein had finished the piece and the |
fellows had heartily applauded and |
praised him, Liszt said: Atom that is |
clever thing, very clever indeed. Let |
me look at it, After glancing over it |
for moment, he said: II should like to |
try my powers on this piece just to see if |
my technic is gone" because List was a |
very old man at that time). Su;ting the |
action to the word, he seated himself at |
the Vienna Grand and actually played |
the piece third faster than Rubinstein |
and without making a single mistake.
All present were greatly astonished and |
delighted at this unexpected exhibition |
of Liszts marvellous powers of reading |
and playing at sight, to say nothing of |
the wonderful technic displayed. They |
all asked him how it was possible for |
him to play so without practice or pre-.
paration. He replied by saying that he !
udu pIdCttCoQ NcT udFu Wucu d young
man. EYES," said he, Il devoted more
hours to technical practice than all you
fellows put together And there were
seven of them and all great players. He
added that whatever he had will to do, |
he would do. That this strong will was |
not natural gift to him, but had been
acquired by strict discipline and persist
emf, hard study like any other art or
science. Many people, he said, thought |!
genius had done more for him than hard |
study, but such was not the fact; though |
no doubt natural aptitude for the pi-
ano, which might be classed by some as
genius had had something to do with it.
No one, however much talent he might |
possess, will make good player without |
much persevering hard work
Dr. F. Ziegfeld, president Chicago |
Music College, says: "The student him
self must have confidence in his in
structor if the teaching is to avail any
thing. II, on suffering from some all |
ment l call in physician to treat my
complaint, it is obvious that at the out
set to question his ability will be to i'm
pede my chances of recovery. He has
good reason to call DR.. because he has
one who has no child in music lessons
as an other would not do"
AUGUST PIPRER,
Mucic Toaohor