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The violinist, 1900
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1azine is meeting with the success it deserves, and wishing you a very happy New Year, I remain,
3Cordially yours,
4ROBERT BRAINE.
6Editor THE VIOLINIST:
7Just a few lines to let you know how we like Berlin. We think it a most beautiful city, and we enjoy the concerts so very much. We were at Mr. Stock's concert, he gave here early in the fall, also Mr. Morley's concert. I suppose you know him as he taught at the Chicago Musical College at one time. Fritz Kreisler, also Mischa Elman, gave concerts before they sailed for America, which we attended; besides, we saw Nikisch with Willy Hess as soloist and many other noted musicians. Of course we attended all three of Mr. Kortschak's concerts. I suppose you have heard of his wonderful success. His criticisms were very fine. He also gave concerts at Munich and Vienna and at the latter place they put in five hundred additional seats and all were filled. Mr. Sevcik was at this concert to hear him. The criticisms from both places were excellent.
9Willard is doing splendid work; better than he ever did before. He has reviewed parts of Kreutzer, Fiorillo, Rode, Dont's 24 Caprices and Gavinies Studies and has reviewed the Mendelssohn, Viextemps and Bruch G minor Concertos, and has taken the Scherzo-Tarantelle by Wieniawski, Bruch Romanze Op. 42, Adagio by Mozart in E major with cadenza by Hugo Heerman, Havaneise by Saint Saëns, also the Ernst Concerto in F minor. All these are new—also the La Ronde des Lutins by Bazzini—new. You see he has accomplished a good deal, as he has only had lessons here about three and a half months.
11The stores are very pretty here at this season of the year and I never saw so many Christmas trees as they have here; each street corner is lined with such pretty evergreen trees that one wonders how they can ever sell so many.
13Mr. Osborne and Willard join me in sending kindest regards and best wishes to you for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
15Yours most sincerely,
16MRS. OSBORNE.
18P. S.—My mother sends us your magazine as she receives it and mails it with other papers.
20Editor THE VIOLINIST:
21Gentlemen: Please find enclosed $1.50 post office money order to pay for another year's subscription to THE VIOLINIST.
22I could not afford to be without your publication for ten times the price.
23Wishing you a prosperous New Year, I beg to remain,
25Yours respectfully,
26CHRISTIAN HANSEN.
28Editor THE VIOLINIST:
29I was very happy to receive the "Analysis and Interpretation of Special Violin Compositions" and I thank you most heartily for it. It is one of the very "best things" I have seen.
31That reminds me that I guess my subscription is due before long. Kindly find $1.50 herewith. Also return card. I am simply a lover of the violin, not a master. Am delighted Mme. Maud Powell will play for us during December. I love to hear her. It is queer the Pacific Coast cannot afford to keep one of the great performers.
33Am playing with 20-30 violinists in a string band here at the University and I have promised to loan the "Analysis and Interpretation of Violin Compositions" to them—will also hand them some copies of THE VIOLINIST. I think some months ago I sent you a list of violinists here that ought to take THE VIOLINIST magazine.
35As always,
36JOHN WINKLER.
38Editor THE VIOLINIST:
39Mr. Oettinger, of Boston, wrote me about a new instrument that is being made there, called the "Choralcello," and of the tests that had been made of woods for sound purposes. He said acousticians and violin makers were greatly surprised at the results.
41I wonder if THE VIOLINIST is going to present its readers with full particulars? It is surely interesting and important.
43Yours truly,
44GEO. M. BARBER.
46Recently one of the great violin makers was visited by a talented musician, who claimed to be a violin maker himself. He
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