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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 783, 5 April 1910, Page 7

Public favour, in Germany, said Fritz Krejsjer to a of "Musical America" the otljer day, "is not won as it is in America, Here the personality is a great factor and the audiences like to observe individualits-, aside, from the playing, in; the artist, Jfe Germany the slightest individuality, perhaps even a slight swaying as the artist plays, is : enough to cause his condemnation, no matter what his musical abilities may be. There he must efface himself. Why, in Germany they'like an artist better if he does not dress,too well! I do not'mean that he must be unkempt, but it a musjfciaa. appear? in a coat qt the. latest cut, attractive cravats, makes himself personally pleasing, he creates a sentiment that is adverse. A badly-cut coat goes a Jong way toward creating a' favourable and sympathetic attitude jn Germany. I do hot know why this is so, but I suspect that, in a country so many are professional musicians, there is a natural prejudice toward the man who appears too successful." '■; '

• "You should never take ' anything that doesn't agree with you," the physician told Mr. Marks. "If I had always followed that rule, Maria," he remarked to his wife, "where would you bo? , ' '. . Grieg's "Peer Gynt" suite had. never been heard in its entirety in Rome until a few weeks ago, when the famous English conductor, Landqn Ronald, put it on the programme of a concert he gave there. The Romans were so cnthusias.tio that they made him repeat every one of the four movements! There are Many other things by Grieg that audiences in Rome—and every other city in the world—would re-demand enthusiastically, if the players and singers would put. them on their'programmes. But they won't. All advising, pleading, begging, scolding, sneering, is useless. "Gegen die Dummheit kampfen selbst- die Gottor vergebens," wrote Schiller, which, expanded into plain Engliab, means that the gods themselves would struggle in vain ngainst the stupidity of professional musician*.