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A dance had just come to an end; and the musicians in the gallery had fallen to tuning their violins. The chairs arrayed along the walls were thinly occupied, and as yet the social temperature scarce rose to thawing-point. In fact, the second-rate people had arrived, and from the far end of the room were nervously watching the door for notables.
There was a sudden jostling among the dancers on the floor then an oath, rising high above the riot of talk and laughter a swirl of figures a medley of shouts and women's screams, drowning out the squeak of the musicians' violins and the thump of the tinny piano. Jimmie Dale's jaws locked hard together.
A slower theme follows in the tonic major; it is a jollificational air, dancing from the first violins with a bright use of harmonics. The first two themes return and end the picture. It adds to the usual instruments only the piccolo, the English horn, the tambourine, and triangle and cymbals. The slow introduction gives forth an original theme in the most approved and most fetching darky pattern.
Then, further up, just on the verge of the pavement, three violins and a harp are playing a German waltz to an admiring crowd of attentive spectators. If there is one thing which the Melbourne folk love more than another, it is music. Their fondness for it is only equalled by their admiration for horse-racing.
That afternoon he escorted Jinny Jeffries and her uncle and aunt, the Josiah Pendletons, to tea upon the little island in the Cairo park, where white-robed Arabs brought them tea over the tiny bridge and violins played behind the shrubbery and white swans glided upon the blue lake, and then he carried them off in a victoria to view the sunset from the Citadel heights.
My, I wish ." If George shies at this, it can be tried again later say during an "appassionato" passage for the violins and cellos. As soon as the music starts, all your attention should be directed toward discovering someone who is making a noise whispering or coughing; having once located such a creature, you should immediately "sh-sh" him.
Long did the punkahs waft their breeze over that brave-hued wheel of pleasure, and the sound of the violins quaver and wail out into the morning. Then quickly, as the spangles of dew vanish off grass when the sun rises, all melted away; and in the great rooms were none but flunkeys presiding over the polished surfaces like flamingoes by some lakeside at dawn.
Well, I played the Guarnerius at rehearsal, and when it was over, every one said to me, 'Why, what is the matter with your fiddle? When I brought back the violins to Ysaye I mentioned the circumstance to him, and he was so surprised and interested that he took them from the cases and played a bit, first on one, then on the other, a number of times.
But all said and done it has been a God-send to the violinist who plays in public. On the wire A one cannot get the harmonics; and the aluminum D is objectionable in some violins, though in others not at all. "The main thing no matter what strings are used is for the artist to get his audience into the concert hall, and give it a program which is properly balanced.
I said, I admit tactlessly; and she skimmed away over that to things that sounded wise but weren't really, about violins and the technique of fiddling. Not that I haven't already felt it, the cleavage here in the classes; but this was my first experience of the real thing, the real Junker lady the Koseritzes are Prussians.
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