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The violinist, 1900
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1THE VIOLINIST
3CHICAGO VIOLINIST TO ENTERTAIN YSAYE
5A banquet will be tendered to Eugene Ysaye, the Bohemian violinist, during his presence in Chicago by the Chicago chapter of the American Guild of Violinists. The banquet will be held in the Florentine room of the Congress hotel, on the evening of January 26, and it is expected to be a notable event in many ways.
7Not only will there be a large representation of leading Chicago violinists to do honor to this famous artist, but a number of eastern friends is expected to be on hand to add lustre to the gathering.
9Mischa Elman, Zimbalist, the Kneisel and Flonzaley Quartets, and other visiting artists who will be in Chicago at that time will aid in making a thoroughly cosmopolitan gathering of unusual artists and as is seldom seen anywhere.
11"BOHEMIANS" ENTERTAIN YSAYE
13ONE of the most interesting social events in New York this season was the dinner tendered to Eugene Ysaye by "The Bohemians" at the Hotel Astor, December 22, 1912. There were some two hundred musicians present, forming an aggregation that probably has not been duplicated ever before in the violin world. Besides Ysaye there were present Fritz Kreisler, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, Nathan Franco, Alexander Saslavsky, Bernard Sinsheimer, Richard Arnold, Ludwig Marum, Joseph Knecht, Edmund Severn, Victor Flechter, Louis Svecenski, Franz Kneisel, Louis Persinger, etc., violinists; Pasquale Amato, Putnam Griswold, Herbert Witherspoon, Otto Goritz, Albert Rice, William Hinshaw, John McCormick, singers; Victor Herbert, Frank Damrosch, Rubin Goldmark, Rafael Joseffy, Percy Goetchius, Leopold Godowsky, Rudolf Ganz, Richard Aldrich, W. J. Henderson, Max Heinrich, Rudolf Schirmer, Henry Holden Huss, and many others. Mr. Goldmark was toastmaster. Mr. Ysaye made a speech in French and other speakers were Messrs. Henderson and Damrosch.
15Eugene Ysaye
17THE ABSENT MINDED SARASATE
19Mme. Clara De' Rigaud, in a new book of "The Rhenish Musical Festivals," narrates an incident of the stay of Sarasate at her father's home in Aix-la-Chapelle. The great violinist and composer was remarkably absent-minded. When performing his morning ablutions he would hum a new air and would become utterly unconscious, so far as the outside world was concerned. While in this mood he would grab the water pitcher and pour its contents over his head, humming all the while as the water splashed to the floor and submerged rugs and carpet. In this way the artist ruined an elegant hand-painted ceiling below his room. On succeeding visits he was lodged on the ground floor.
21Sweet Melody was once the rage,
22But not in this enlightened age!
23For Harmony now reigns alone
24And Melody afar has flown.
25Themes that abound with charming grace
26Are now considered commonplace;
27While those that are profoundly dense
28Must be admired—they're so "intense"!
30When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers.—O. W. Holmes.
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