£200,000 FROM A VIOLIN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1396, 23 March 1912, Page 10

£200,000 FROM A VIOLIN.

Kubelik, who is now aged 32, and has made over J;:>00,000 with his violin, ttnnonnces that ho intends to abandon-stteu-nous money-making tdiirs for a Ufa of rest, "Amassing a fortune and 'gaining fame are not all there is in life,"_ ho said to a representative of tho "Now York American." "Never again will I attempt a hundred concerts in a season,' as 1 hav« done these past ten years. 1 owe iomothing to myself and my family. An artist leads n'double existence. Jlo has his art and his home. His family; has to givo up something to his nit, anil' lie" must give up something to his family. I have gained a fortune. I have, also a vifoand live beautiful children, and I am' through, with srtrcnuous life. I will never desert my art, but I will consider my health and home. Thirty concerts a season are enough for any artist. In this country, it is not the actual playing, but tho travelling that means so much." "Are your childreu violinists " asked tho interviewer. Mrs. Kubelik answered before her husband could 'speak'.', "Our eldest daughters, who are twins, both play tho violin," she said. "They'arc aged seven and ten years, helico you will hear them in .New York, They have inherited their father's genius. X do not say this on my, own account, but because their teachers have told mo so."' Then Kubelik intervened. "My children, have an immense advantage which I never had," be said. "In my profession, as in every other, experience is the great factor. I bad to begin at tho beginning, and all 1 know I have learned myself, but with them it will bo different. I can tell them in a day what it cost me years to discover, I do not actually teach" them violin technique, but I will givo them all I possess. They are at homo in Bohemia studying now, and wo join them immediately my American tour ends in April." Kubelik was compelled to cancel his last three concerts with a loss of .CGOO. becauso of the injury to a finger caused by his own carelessness* in filing his nails, lie allows nobody to do this for him. 110 niado Ilia mistake of filing one nail too short, causing an irritation. ITo refused to play until the nail became normal, which is; now tho case.