The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-15
'BRAZIL'S MUSICIANS
LAZY, PIANISTE SAYS
Miss NOvaes Says Orchestra
Leaders Cannot Get Men
to Rehearse.
HER VISIT DUE no WAR

When NJ. II. Hanson, manager OF con.
certs and concert players, ushered a SUN
reporter into the parlor Of the Martha
Washington Hotel yesterday to meet
Miss Guiomar Novaes he whispered in
the reporters ear:
IT'S a good thing + got Miss Novahesh
away from the Hotel Aston. Otherwise
you'd never be able to get a word out OF
her"
Why"
"Becausc'--Mr. Hanson sighed remi-
niscently-"she spent 40 much time
looking out of her window at the lights
of broadway hat I couldn't get her
away to meet two musical critics, three
news reporters nnd one picture artist.
They would have written beautiful
stories, I know
So one of the first questions put to the
twenty-year-old Brazilian pianist, who
made "A remarkably successful debut
here last week. touched upon her inter-
est in the streets OF New York.
"Ah'' she breathed. THE streets .
The kitten tangling the thread The
lights! Br-r-r-r-r-r-r-r! Very amusing.
And the squirrel. There liz nothing like
that in Brazil or in London or Paris"
And there are no Martha Washington
hotels in Brazil. she said they wouldn't
he permitted, for nobody thinks there
Is LANCER from a man In n hotel In
Brazil
Miss Novaes said that she was the
seventeenth child of n family Of nineteen
children. Eleven of her brothers and
sisters are still living, the baby" being
now IL years old. and she has fourteen
nephews and nieces. She IL the only
musical n in the family and she IL
said to have first played the piano when
she was 4 years old. though she cannot
She remembers that she be-
gan studying when she was 6, that she
played concerts in Sac Paulo when she
was 10 and that she won n premiere
prix at the Paris C~onservatoire in 1912,
after which sNe gave concerts In Europe.
She Is here now, for one reason, be-
cause the war in Europe prevented her
touring the Continent. and for another
because Dr. Jose Iiodrigues OF Brazil
came TO Washington to act as arbitrator
in n dispute between Denmark and the
United States and brought her along to
introduce her 10 America.
"Brazilians." she said yesterday IN
French. because her English isn't quite
IN to the mark Yet. ARE exceedingly
artistic. They are fond OF art. but they
will not work. They have a wonderful
symphony orchestra in Brazil. conducted
by Francesca BraEa, but the director
cannot get his men TO practise for
Beethoven they think two rehearsals are
enough. Why? | don't know. Braga
is one OF the three great composers
Brazil has. The others are Oswald and
Nepomuceno. II Braga could get his
orchestra to rehearse he would ave one
OF the finest In the world
There Is a national characte. to
Brazilian music. though the folk songs
and the lighter pieces are much like the
tunes in New York. Brazilians are not
so generally musical az % Americans
are. And modern dances in Brazil Tn
fortunately, yes"
She said that she hasn't decided what
she shall do in this country, but she
want, to play some Brazilian music be-
fore she leaves. She also wants to see
the country-Niagara, the Rocky Noun
tains and California then. too. she
wants to hear the music here this winter,
She calls the United states admirable. -