The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-15

Miss Gerrndine Scnitser, Famous Pianiste,
Lovely to Look at as Well as to Listen 10
BY DOLLY DALRNMPLE

Miss Germaine Sehnitzer, the famous
pianiste who appeared here last evening,
under the auspices of "'rhe Music Study
Club belongs to the class whom Hans
Won Bulow would have advised TO go
and get married" they were too
pretty to be great artistes-and this the
young lady in question promptly did, a
very short time after she came out of
school-her husband being DR.. Leo Buer-
ger a we'll known New York surgeon
Int at the same time Miss Setnltzer went
on with her work-growing bigger and
bigger, day by day, until she has finally
reached a position in the musical world
which is enviable in every respect.
Miss Sehnitzer sat in the foyer of the
Tutwiler and chatted with me yesterday
morning. beautifully gownod in violet
colored chiffons and exquisitcly dainty
laces-the warm, bright color in her
cheeks and her sparkling brilliant eyes,
making her very lovely picture OF re-
finement and elegance, attractive ana
fascinating to a degree.
If took to any more foreigners within
the next few weeks you know ! did a
F,rench-y little actress last week, | shall
have to brush up on my broken Eng
lish'' for really linguistic qualifications
are not numbered especially in the list OF
my hunft5le. accomplishments and Miss
Schnitzer Is very foreign and speaks
very properly.
She was born of Austrian parents in
the city of Paris and lived there until
she was II. and then went to vienna
what's the answer?
Miss Sehnitzer talked very charmingly
OF her musical career, her favorite COM
posers and pianists and reversed herself
as very human sort of person, when
she laughingly said that "'e-e--v-e-r-y
piantiste should pay attention to her
gowns because she thought it WAS just as
necessary to be pleasing to- The eye OF
an audience as to the ear.
REALLY / see no reason said Miss
Sehnitzer why pretty clothes shouldn't
appeal to a woman of artistic tempera-
ment as well anybody else l hate frunpy
looking women who wear clothes that
look like the cook. There's no excuse
for IT,
Settling that question at the beginning,
Miss Schnitzer diverged to how her feel
ings were torn between two factions in
the terrible war now waging aboard.
You see my parents being Austrian
and my birth place France, my heart eez
shattered for each! OH 1t eez terrible this
dreadful war When | think of my gay
Paris and my dear Vienna and Berlin-1
shudder!''
''Musically speaking, which city eXcels-
Vienna or Berlin?" l asked.
"Ahl Eat eez "A comparison Eat eez def
ficult to make said Miss Schnltzer.
| "Vienna is like an old aristocrat re-
served, elegant, dignified-while Berlin is
| so young, so fresh so ambitions-do you
see what l mean to say? Yes, Zee praise
zat zee artistic receive in Vienna,
means something, in Berlin nothing, al
| though we all flock dere to concertize.
Dey hear everything and everybody In
Rerljn-it means nothing to appear dere.
I.eipsiuis zee place where praise from zee
critiaue counts Small-but Oh! so Won
derfui eez Leipsic-and when zee student
| come to me, or zee artistic to know where
| to go always say Leipsic.
! I'm regard to your favorite composers,
are three BIS, Bach, Beethoven and
Brahms first on your list?' ] inquired
with Schuinann interpolated, said
Miss Schnitzer. quickly. II put ii Bach,
| Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms
| Schumann means so much to me-every
| note he ever wrote sends "a message TO
my heart and soul. l know every step
| of his life better than do my v-e-e-ry
| own. His music is so romantic. so beau
| tiful so like zee man, and 1t appeals to
| me so tremendously"
Are we getting away from Beethoven
! growing away from him somewhat
the musical public, I mean. You know,
| he is accused of being unpianistic by
some?" / suggested.
"Unpianistic Who said SOP Miss
| Schitzner demanded qnickly.
| 1.-THE critiques, some of them" l OBJ
] served.
"It depends upon what they mean by
| unpianstic. whether with regard to zee
mechanics of zee instrument itself OF
| the ethical or aesthetic side. His earlier
| works-did you know he had writer
! valses, pokannaises rondos - those
| things perhaps are out of zee rach Of zee
| modernsts, but take zee sonatas zee
| symphonies, zee sonata opus 81, No. 8
and with its minuet like a string quar-