Sarasate

New Zealand Tablet, 1 October 1908, Page 23

Sarasate

A cable message in last week's daily papers conveyed this brief announcement of the passing of a star from the musical firmament : ' Sefior Pablo Sarasatc, the famous Spanish violinist died suddenly at Biarritz from internal hemorrhage: a"cd ol years. 1 ~*

n The great Catholic virtuoso won his way lo the pinnacle of musical fame without any adventitious aid beyond the magic of his fingers and the soul of music that was within him Paderewski and Kubelik would have been first-class successes apart altogether from their wonderful head-pieces and their unforgetable faces. These cultivated gifts help to turn the success into an enthusiasm. « Both Paderewski and Kubelik,' says Max O'Rell, ' have heads that attract attention and cannot be forgotten. I maintain that if you possess, or can succeed in making for jourself, such a head that everybody will recognise you ,n the street, jou will be a notoriety; and if, besides you possess great talent )>O u will easily be a firmly-established celebr.U. Ihe Australian impresario who ten years ago engaged Padcrevsski to visit the British colonies, inserted a clause m lhe contract that the eminent pianist would not alter his appearance— in other words, that he would not get his hair cut '