Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-01-21

l The composer, he has collected manuscript :
| from Palestine. Russia. Poland spain and
/ Hungary. His collection. with his own com.
/ mcnts VIII be published In tine nenr futuIp
/ This article pays tribute to u fine new ex-
/ pression of the artistic genius OF the dew
dealing with Dushkln the artist
From time to time there appears on
the horizon of the musical world per.
sonality who conquers not molly the crit.
ical sense of his audience but also its
/ imagination. Such u culorful figure l.
Samuel Duskin, the young Jewish vic.
lin virtuoso. who for the last few years
has ciptivated the American and Con
tinental public.
When Duskin made his Chicago de
but several years ago, Edward Moore.
the sensitive critic OF the Chicago Trib-
une wrote that Dusikin is NOR. like
a younger edition Of kreslcr than any
one except Kreiser himself With this
comparison Moore touched the most
marked characteristic Of this artist
| Truly Dushkin has absorbed the Kreis-
Ter conception Of music and re-cxpresses
IT,
Samuel Dushltin Is cosmopolitan.
Born in Swalk, Russian Poland. raised
/ in America, he has travelled and
studied in most of the musical centres
Of Both hemispheres But Dushkin.
| the restless artist, has not merely
changed professors aud Milieu-he has
] iptl.
| country. He has actively Interested
himself in the various cultures and
searched for any extracted the essence
of nnny civilizations, This is why.
when you meet Samuel Dushkin. You
come in contact with "A finely vibrating
intelligence, not only of receptive
caliber but of digestive and interpretive
capacity IL Dushliin. the violinist.
were NOT uppcrmost in your mind, You
would Ice under the impression that YOU
were meeting one of the intellectual
leaders cf young America Indeed
Dushkin Tie man and Dushkin the
artist, form one harmonious person
ality.
After short stay in America DiIsh
kin became convinced hat Paris offer
ed better opportunities TO II Young
budding talent and back he went
across the seas. In the French capital
he WAS swallowed mp, absorbed in work.
The tense atmosphere of artistic crea-
tive life cnyclopcd him. He studied
with the cid French master Rcmy of
the Conservatory, then went TO Leopold
Aucr and for last polishing or in
spiratiun IL you like. TO Fritz krcislcr.
The young yolinist is keen dia-
guosticiun. Teachers are more than
cachcrs to him-thcy are personalities
! lie had three Remy. Auer and kreis-
lcr These three musical giants all had
strictly independent artist. Comment
ing On his schooling Dushkin remarked
to the writer of this article: kreisler
is ii remarkable man. What person
atty! What humanity, 1t is rare
privilege to study with him. There is
only one danger imitation due to cN-
ccssivc admiration. Aucr however is
the surgeon He operates without
mercy. II you live through It you
emerge II better artist"
Dushkin lived through it, He also
brokc up his career. After seeing ser
vice i'm the British aud American
armies. he again picked up his bow and
toured England and Fruncc. appearing
In rccitlls and as soloist with the prin
cipaI orchestras.
Early in his career Dushlin rec
ogrized II deadcning simcncss about
violin rrcitals The programs were
practically always the same; it was the
PLAYER who changed. The reason for
this mpuotony Is that very little music
was being composed for the violin and
what was written was MI suited for
concerts. While once in Paris DuSh-
kin met Blair Falrchild the American
composer. Fairchld discovered iuI
Dushkin Il great genius of the violin
and he wrote violin music which he
would never have composed otherwise
because to write FOR the violin one must
either hc violniSt or be inspired by
one Fnirchild * not II violinist
Brahms wrote the finest violin conCcrto
in the world for Joachim. S;irasutn III
Spircd Ialo. Tschaikowsd dcdicutc,
his concerto to Aucr and Fnirchild
writes for Dushkin.
Samuel Dushkin has often been called
the Poet of the Violin. could rather
characterize him as the aristorrat CfI
the violiu. Dushkiu holds in contempt
artificial effects While he creates, he
forgcts his'publlc-- refuses to iiirt with
it by his playing. He does not attempt
to dazzle aud blind, He does not Try
to exhibit his marvellous technique. he