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The violinist, 1900
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1"Art follows bread." One of the most popular numbers played by Kubelik on his late American tour was the bravura variations on "Di Tanti Palpiti," by Rossini. The audiences simply "ate it up" in the slang of the day.
3In no branch of the violin art has more progress been made than the art of teaching it, and it is well this is so, since it is quite apparent that all the future progress of an art rests on the skill with which its teachers hand it down to the next generation. Supreme technical perfection is like a lofty mountain; one must have a guide who knows every step by which the summit is to be obtained. Fortunately we have many such guides. It is to their efforts that we enjoy such a great number of well equipped solo violinists. In looking over violin programs from cities all over the United States I have been surprised to see the high class of the compositions played. Within the past six months I have noted that the Mendelssohn, Brahms and the Tschikowski concertos have been played in cities of 10,000 and 15,000 inhabitants in Kansas, Oklahoma and North Dakota. Within a few years past such cities would have been given up to Money Musk, the Devil's Dream and Fisher's Hornpipe.
5Take Sevcik as the modern example of a violin teacher. He formerly taught at Prague in Bohemia. He is now at the head of the Meisterschaft School in Vienna. He has only one eye, as he sustained the loss of his other eye by the snapping of a wire E string with which he was experimenting; but I might add in parenthesis that he can see more with that eye than most violin teachers could with twenty. He became
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