The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-10-26

beer. HaIery. offsnbaeh. Blzst.
Goldmark. Sullivan. johannes
strauss. Mar Bruch. George
oershwin and Ernst Bloch.
And among minor composers O.
great merit. r. II. cowen. Colts.
chalk. Hitler. Benedict. Cohen and
Jadassohn Berlin. whose God
Bless America. has caught on
Tremendously.
There are many who also
achieved. renown ~ instrumental.
ists. such a. Wisniawska. master
OF violinists. Moszkowski and the
almost unsurpassed Rublnstein.
one Of the greatest pianists Of al
time. II Is said that the three
greatest planists the nineteenth
century produced were Rubinstein,
Tanzig and List. the first two
being Jews. The name Of Joachim
stands for one OF the greatest
violin pedagogues.
No composition. however great.
could be perpetuated without it
proper Interpretation. It il a well
known fact that Bach's music lay
almost in oblivion. certainly un-
honored. for a century before
Mendelssohn's Tina. II remained
for the jew to bring to the world
the great Christian Passion
Music And in like manner. the
greatest OF violin eoncertos the
Reethoven-was unappreeiatsd un-
til Joachim gave 1t life. perhaps 70
years after itE creation.
Musieal literature teens
with Jewish names 10 con-
found those who endeayor 10
show the contrary. Madison
Peters. In his Justice 10 the
Jew" gays. "that when Wag-
ner produced an opera to
show the Teutonlc superiority
over the Jews. he was dunn
founded when. on the first
night of the performance, all
the first violins were In the
hands Of Jews"
The Jew excels "a an interpreter.
IL Is because he feels so deeply
himself that he is adept In por-
traying the feelings OF others. II
Is because he must express with
voice that which elamors for ex-
preston from within. When he
Is glad. he rejoices with all his
soul and when he Is sorrowful he
sounds the depth of woe.
To mention the names of Joseffy,
Pachman. Hoffman. Rosenthal.
Godowsly. Gabrilowitsch. Bauer.
zeisler, Hamburg. Philip and
xaver scharwenska, Augusta Cott-
low among pianists; David Pepper,
Louis Blumenherg and Hans Kron-
old among cellists and Leopold
Auer. Arthur Hartman. Huber.
mann, Boris Hamburg. Willy
Hess. Mischa Elman, Brodsky,
Arnold Rose. Fleseh and Menuhin
among violinists will be to give
names foremost in the list OF great
soloists the past fifty years.
Among the best conductors are
or were Gerioke, Mailer, Dam.
rosch, Hertz, Henchel and klemp-
erer; while among singers stand
the great Lucea. Braham and
Pasta. Lilli Lehman. Rosa Olitzka
Josephine Jacoby, Bella Alien. and
even Melba IL known to be Of
Jewish descent.
In continuing this list OF jew
great In music. a word Of praise
Is due those impresarios who
musicians themselves. have con
trlbuted largely TO cultivating tbs
taste OF the public. In speaking
of Daniel Mayer, Henry Wolfsohn
Maurice Grsu. Hammerstein. Vol
and couried, we must acknowledg,
that they also are makers o
musical history.
This survey Of the Jews par
In the history of music shows 1
to have been one Of glorious dis
tinetion. His generous eontribu
ton to the art during the pas
$50 years make 1t reasonable I,
expect that with a more liberia
spirit of future generations he vii
produce more literally. Only Civ,