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Updated: June 22, 2025
In this way no real violinistic genius, whom poverty might otherwise have kept from ever realizing his dreams, was deprived of his chance in life. Among the pupils there in my class, having scholarships, were Kathleen Parlow, Elman, Zimbalist, Heifetz and Seidel. "Violin mastery? To me it represents the sum total of accomplishment on the part of those who live in the history of the Art.
They can already point with pride to violinists who emphatically deserve to be called artists, and another quarter-century of artistic striving may well bring them into the front rank of violinistic achievement!"
And I am proud of it since it shows that my pupils have profited by my encouragement of individual development, and that they become genuine artists, each with a personality of his own, instead of violinistic automats, all bearing a marked family resemblance."
When I first came to him he wanted to know why I did so, and after hearing me play, told me that I did not need any lessons from him. But I knew that there was a certain 'something' which I wished to add to my violinistic make-up, and instinctively felt that he alone could give me what I wanted. I soon found that in many essentials his ideas coincided with those of Hubay.
Though in some of them 'the frame is too large for the picture, and though difficult from a violinistic point of view, 'they lie admirably well up the neck, to use one of Vieuxtemps's expressions, and I take pleasure in calling attention to them.
Sevčik, for instance, has devised a purely mechanical system of this kind, perfect from a purely mechanical standpoint, but one whose consistent use, in my opinion, kills initiative and individuality. I have had experience with Sevčik pupils in quartet playing, and have found that they have no expression. "After all, the teacher can only supply the pupil with the violinistic equipment.
This is the Russian Mlynarski's concerto in D, which I played with the Russian Symphony Orchestra some eight years ago for the first time in this country, as well as a fine 'Romance and Caprice' by Rubinstein. "Is the music a concertmaster is called upon to play always violinistic? Far from it. Symphonic music in as much as the concertmaster is concerned, is usually not idiomatic violin music.
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