MUSiC ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 13

MUSiC ABROAD.

AUCKLAND ARTISTE'S VIEWS. ! j__SS BOS-VORTH RETURNS. In June of 1313. under the patronage 0 f Lord Islington, then Governor of jlew Zealand. Miss Ina Bosworth, who, though then quite young, had been giving violin concerts, and displaying exceptional talent in Auckland, left for England to continue her studies. After _»_ years abroad, during which time the artiste ha? isited many countries and been associated with some of the j_ P st famous musicians. Miss Bosworth has returned to Auckland, a finished violinist ''""-" whom the masters and critics have proclaimed a wonderful future in the world of music. Yesterday Miss Bosworth related her experiences to a "Star" representative. Her first master at Home was John Saunders, who at the time, was tbe leading chamber music player in London. " She studied intermittently with him until he died, going on to _auret, the Frenchman. Ireland. Paris, Scandinavia. Denmark, (where she played for Gottchalk and Knudsonl and Italy are some of the countries into which her violin led her. It was in ltaly that Miss Bosworth met the great Maestro Van Loen. a descendant of Beethoven, whom she cannot praise enou _. It was his practice to travel from country to country testing violins, and it was while he was on one ot these tours, in Switzerland, that he died suddenly. Miss Bosworth gave a list of names oi other associates which includes some of the most famous men and women in the music world to-day. When the war came the artiste became well known for her work in entertaining the soldiers in France and in the English hospitals. She played in trains, on railway stations at- late night, early morning, and in the. shellswept areas of France, everywhere gaining a great reception. It was in 1920 that Miss Bosworth studying with Edit ha Knocker gave her first recital followed by a Bach evening at John Saunders Memorial Celebration. That was the commencement of a brilliant career when critics and musicians hailed her with enthusiasm. On her way back to New Zealand the artiste gained further honours when playing in Capetown and Australia. "I strongly advise all young musicians who are at all talented tr. go abroad, and by abroad I mean, not only to London, but to tbe foreign countries. The foreigners have music engrained in them, and understand it fully. You get something abroad that you miss in London. The very atmosphere breathes music. In Germany the humblest homes understand the old masters and all have their busts of Beethoven. London is called the musicians' Mecca." continued Miss Bosworth. "but I met wonderful men abroad who had never been to London and never intended going."' "The musical colleges in London," she stated, "have hundreds on their waiting lists, but I would not advise anyone to attend them-, at least not for more than 12 months grounding work. Pupils are turned out like machines. They are all much of a type." Miss Bosworth paid a tribute to the ; accompanists and orchestras of Enir- i land. "They are," she said, "the ! greatest in the world." The Philiarmonic was the best that could be heard anywhere. At present chamber ! music was the vogue in London. Asked regarding the position in connection with modern music replacing the old masters abroad, the artiste replied that at present it was half and half in England. There seemed to be little melody in most moderns and effects were now been used to provide concatenations .of sounds that were never dreamed of. But they gradually go back to the old masters." Miss Bosworth concluded br sarin, that there were societies in * En-iand at the present time, who had as 'their ideal, the keeping of commercialism oiit of art—an excellent and commendable aim.