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The violinist, 1900
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1MODERN TENDENCIES IN VIOLIN PLAYING
2(Continued from page 14.)
3ager stood to lose money and was in a bad humor. Meeting a friend the latter asked how the concert was going, "Well, you can be your own judge," said the manager, "just take a look in at the stage door." The two looked in. There on the stage stood the violinist playing the Largo by Handel, which you all know is a very slow and solemn affair. The eye of the manager was riveted on the slow moving bow of the violinist. "What do you think of that?" he said to his friend. "Here I'm a payin' that cuss $200 for this concert and look how slow he's a playin'."
5Nothing slower than an allegro furioso movement went in that town.
7At the present day audiences in the United States demand violin compositions of the highest class and they get them too. Foreign violinists have assured me that they have to be fully if not more careful in arranging a program for New York, Chicago or Boston than they do for Paris or Berlin. The American public wants the newest concerto or the latest novelty.
9Nowadays there is a tendency towards good music in the choice of violin compositions for the public, as opposed to shallow compositions composed principally for technical display. Many good things have been resurrected from the earlier days of violin playing by such violinists as Kreisler, Burmester, Elman, Ysaye and others. Kreisler frequently plays the 22d Concerto by Viotti in public, and the last named violinists are often heard in pieces by Tartini, Veracini, Nardini, and many other early writes for the violin. Will Burmester, the famous German violinist, has edited and adapted a great many of these earlier works for modern requirements. At frequent intervals the critics make the discovery that the concertos of Paganini, his Witches Dance, Carneval of Venise, God Save the Queen variations, etc., and all pieces of similar type, are musical rubbish and are to be abandoned by the best violinists. The prediction has not come true and does not seem in any danger of coming true. As long as such pieces as these create a furore with the public they will be played, since,
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