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I really believe that hearing Joachim and Rubinstein play was a greater event in my life and did more for me than five years of study!" "Of course you do not regard technic as the main essential of the concert violinist's equipment?" I asked him. "Decidedly not. Sincerity and personality are the first main essentials. Technical equipment is something which should be taken for granted.
One often notes a highly developed left hand technic coupled with a monotonous and oftentimes faulty bowing. The color and variety of a violinist's art must come largely from his intimate acquaintance with all that can be accomplished by the bow arm.
Art is, therefore, an imitation of nature; but it is an intellectual and not a mechanical imitation; and the performances of the camera and the music-box are not to be classed with those of the violinist's bow or the sculptor's chisel.
For twenty years I never failed to play the Bach solo sonatas for violin every day of my life a violinist's 'daily prayer' in its truest sense!
She apprehended quickly all that she was taught, so far as in her lay, and vaguely perceived something still beyond her powers of apprehension, something that still confusedly connected itself with the great church, with the violinist's playing, with the pictures and the music of old days, and which, for the present, in her new life, found its clearest expression, not in the nuns' teaching, for, kind and affectionate as it in truth was, it was marred from the first to Madelon by the inevitable exclamation of wonder and horror that she should not know all about it already not in the questions and answers in her catechism, nor in the religious dogmas and formulas which she accepted, but could hardly appreciate not in all these, but in the little chapel with its gaudy altars, and twinkling lights, its services, and music, and incense.
There came back to him the memory of a drunken cowboy, nudging the violinist's elbow as he played, and shouting: "Give us Dixie give us a white man's tune" and the look of veiled hatred in the slumbrous eyes of the Mexican musician, who had inferred the insult without comprehending the words.
But the fiddle-bow never could have been perfected, because there would have been no call for its tapering delicacy, its calculated balance of lightness and strength, had not the violinist's technique reached such marvellous fineness of power. For it is the accomplished artist who is fastidious as to his tools; the bungling beginner can bungle with anything.
She had told him he was a greater pianist than Rubinstein, because the latter played so many wrong notes. 'Ah, Madame, answered Planté, 'I would rather be able to play Rubinstein's wrong notes than all my own correct ones. A violinist's natural manner of playing is the one he should cultivate; since it is individual, it really represents him.
He looks awfully bored when the violinist is playing, and he fidgets with his watch-chain, and clears his throat very loudly just before he speaks every time. His automobile is bigger and handsomer than the violinist's. Easterbrook's flowers that he sends to Mother are handsomer, too, and lots more of them, than the violinist's. Aunt Hattie has noticed that, too.
It is rather a series of study pieces for the special development of certain difficult phases, musical and technical, of the violinist's art, than a method. They are still valid, and any one who can appreciate the ideals of the Gesangsscene, its beautiful cantilene and pure serenity, may profit by them.
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