MUSICIAN BACK FROM GERMANY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 170, 19 July 1915, Page 8

MUSICIAN BACK FROM GERMANY.

TV a: mijht '--■ le-icnat-ed a- the war T.e-A i.v Ivan Lan-gstr-..t'n. n'hu •v*r i i-t r-.tume.l t-i h> home city, r-an Francisco, aft' - spendim: So v.-ar-s: i ivinrr under the rna.-t.-ri. of I'.erlin. He s-i '-v much ot" the horror ■■' th>- .'a-, an.. b-- . ioked beneath the surface tv iin-! j the :';. thm of the battle spirit-, he mi* the %ower of music urging rdngine] (•■idn--.- to mam on mile after mie.! never tiring wbiU the i-ui)_ r rang clear:! > s t-onal <ar ennrr'it the harmony of] the united action of a rrreat peoplfi he, ieard trie ba»s oi the cannon, n- piccolo ' of t-1< rifle, mc drum of the Maxim, an 1 he marvelled a: a powerful nation of warriors being directed with the e--r- ' -ta:rrtv with which a maestro wields his; baton in the guiding of a trained. orchestra. Ijanrrstrot-h tra-. born in >-au Francisco.] but fT the las-, five years he has been Btudvinc und-T the ma.-ter- "I Berlin. Pr studied i-omp r 'sition under I'rofessor Hu npeVdinck in tbe mei.-ter class of the Rn al Academy oi Arts, and he studied the piano under Lbevinne. He is now v hou.-e guest at the home- of James Otis. 2.J-U. Broadway, but plans to return to - Berlin at the earliest possible moment. I!,- was visiting friend.- at Rrogyan Cur-tic. in Hungary, when the w-ar roraineiice.l. He was director of the orchestra aid sineers at the opera house in X.-l. and presumed the Avar would c-an-e a .4«sin<r of the opera. *iut the contrary nriived true. <,erman_v has continued to e-i-.v its opera and its plays, he says, w '•_:•:' iiardlv any interruption. In Kiel. Tv-rl.-i and other cities the theatres a-- .... rating as if there had never even