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The mother wrote to Wieck a letter which is highly creditable to her heart and judgment, and Wieck's reply is equally creditable to him as a friend and teacher. Evidently his powers of penetration led him to entertain the highest hopes for Schumann. Among other things he writes that, with due diligence, Robert should in a few years become one of the greatest pianists of the day.
John's sudden unwelcome surmise must have been legible in his face because March then said earnestly and quite as if the doctor had spoken his thought aloud, "Oh, it isn't that. I mean, I haven't done anything disgraceful. It's only that I know too many musicians as it is professional pianists and such. If they find out I'm back, they'll simply make a slave of me.
His technique is not perfect, and he lacks maturity; but he has a trick of making people dissatisfied with other pianists and anxious to hear him play the same programme." "And he will accompany?" "Ye-es. Sometimes." Beatrix laughed. "I spare your modesty, Mr. Thayer. I think I understand. But really I haven't much influence. If I can help him, though, you can count on my doing it."
But if excess in feeling is objectionable, so too is the "healthy" reading accorded his works by pianists with more brawn than brain. The real Chopin player is born and can never be a product of the schools. Schumann thinks the third study in F less novel in character, although "here the master showed his admirable bravura powers."
While the ensuing pages were compiled with the view of helping the amateur performer quite as much as the student who would become a professional pianist, you will nevertheless find in the expressions of the really great virtuosos a wealth of information and practical advice. Most of the following chapters are the results of many different conferences with the greatest living pianists.
We should lose it as inevitably as the most consummate of pianists will lose his facility if he stops practising. It is therefore a fact of cardinal importance that in the United States the local governments of township, county, and city are left to administer themselves instead of being administered by a great bureau with its head at the state capital.
She was unaware that she had made her mark upon Janet and Charlie so far back as the days of the dancing-classes. And she under-estimated the appeal of her situation as an orphan and a solitary whose mother's death, in its swiftness, had amounted to a tragedy. The scherzo was finished, and Alicia had not returned into the drawing-room. The two pianists sat hesitant. "Where is that infant?"
Slowly he realized that in spite of her pretensions she was not really in sympathy either with him or with her father. He struck into a Liszt rhapsody with all the fervor he could muster. McNally was a good musician. He possessed the power, lacking in many better pianists, of using music as a medium to connect his own and his listener's moods; but to-night he fell short, and he knew it.
In what does the Russian teacher of children take great care? Why are Russian pianists famed for their technical ability? How are examinations conducted in Russia? What would be thought of the Russian pupil who attempted pieces without the proper preliminary scale work? Need the practice of scales be mechanical and uninteresting? Why do some pupils find technical studies tiresome?
For my own part I never advertise, for I can point to hundreds of pupils this is no exaggeration in the least! who are constantly before the public, as concert pianists and successful teachers. "If there is one thing that rouses me deeply, it is the incompetence of so many teachers of piano.
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