Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-04-21
MISS CASLOVA FOR
APRIL FESTIVAL
Noted Niolinist Has Been
Secured by Hyechka Club
for Organ Dedication.

Being cognizant of the growth in
MAGNITUDE and attendance of the
Municipal Festival April 20 and 80,
at which time the pipe organ will be
dedicated in Convention hall. Miss
Marie Caslova, the brilliant young
violini5t, has been secured for the pro-
Eram.
The organ dedication is under the
auspices of the Hyechka club, which
has made the dedicatory services
its ninth annual spring festival of
song and music. The members of
the H%yechka club are now actively at
work selling tickets for the organ re-
citals and should meet with liberal
support at the hands of the general
public and particularly those inter
csted in the Advancement of Tulsa as
a music and educational center.
Miss Caslova, the young violinist,
who will be one of the soloists at the
organ festival. Is an American by
birth, having mccn born in the Ozark
mountains in Missouri in 1895.
At an carly age she was taken to
Europe and placed with the great
Bohemian p%edagogue, Ottckar Sew
elk, famous as the teacher Of Kube-
Xix. Sevcik pronounced Miss Caslova
his most talented pupil of many
years. and freely phophesied the
brilliant future which has since been
hers.
HOnOrcd Abroad.
on May 81, 1911, Miss Caslova was
chosen as one of the two ~soloists for
a large concert given at Tabor, Boz
hemia, under the personal direction
of Professor Sevcik. BY a peculiar
change 1t 50 happens that Miss Cas-
qua 10 10 i, a., IL, Fr,I,a a., ,,.., aaa
certO (Paganini I'D which won for
her such an ovation on that night so
long ago in far off Bohemia, when her
playing of the difficult concerto made
her famous throughout bohemia and
Austria, and Sevcik himself did
homage to the little American girl.
At the banquet following the concert
the wOrld-famouS master left his seat
of honor at the head Of the table, af-
ter all were seated, and going around
to the vacant place by the little ar
fist, made her rise and share the
laurel wreath that had been bestowed
on him by his country. "a pretty trib-
ute from n who rarely bestowed
such honOrS.
Studied in Berlin.
Then came the time when Sevcik
himself declared that technically he
COulu Rulue nef no 1uftner. 80 -Of
her further broadening and develop
ing, Miss Caslova was taken to Ber-
lin and placed with Carl Flesch. OF
this 1t is sufficient to say thai Car.
Fiesch will receive only four pupils
at a time, and has a waiting list OF
over one hundred. Miss Caslova was
the only girl.
Further coaching was done under
ArrigO Serato, the Italian virtuoso
who has just closed a sensational
American tour, and to Serato is du,
much of Miss Caslova's tenderness.
and appealingness in her playing. Hel
tone. while not masculine, has a mos
beautiful quality imaginable, and 10
SET Lehvinne on hearing her play ex
claimed, II Nave never heard sucl
pathos."
The young violipist returned I,
America in 1914. after appearing il
Berlin, Dresden, Leipslc and through.
out Austria. Not only did sh,
triumph in recitals In New York. bu'
she appeared as soloist with such
orchestras as the New York Sym
phony under Damrosch; the st. Loui
Symphony, ETC., and in joint recital
with such artists as Tina Lerner
Lambert Murphy, Oscar Seagle
Christine Miller and Andrea De Sigu
rola. In addition to these Miss Cas-
Iowa was engaged FOR an extende,
joint recital tour with Nine. johanna
Gadski. a tour that served to max
her name and art familiar over
wide territory, and in which sh
shared equal hOnors with the famou
| singer.