KREISLER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 124, 28 May 1925, Page 9

KREISLER.

I There Is no rloulit as to trie welcomn thai Aiirkianrt win frlvp u> Krelsli-r, th« iri'Kate.m or llvuifr violinist!). The box I iilTlcp at Lewis 11. Early ami Son's Is ti>llI inir Its own story, Krclsler never yet has I lln hlmsplf [a mi., of iiic shypsl, most retiring or men. His Kißati-sl delight is to fret away in a corner arm play his beloved Cuarnnrius. Illy own pianist, Mr. I.nmpso. loin the writer that he has sat and listened spellbound to the masters impromptu rilaylnfr, and has heen almost broken hearted at the Ihoiiirht that such f'lrortrt were rusrltlve, and would nevp.r h<s hoard by any other ears that his. Kreislcrlives a dream lire. Tho writer doubts ir In , has ever sal with a more nilturnrl i I'lntl'-man. lie inn: romp to consider that imp a-onhis who lived a lire apart rrom th<; I everyday world and fnricot to put. on hl» '■'iliai- when hp was irolnir to the Oppra was t>lll a iieiniTit or the imagination or a novelist. Mm mn-h a man is Krplslnr. ll* will fun PVfrythlnjr lint his violin: bo will >['-iifl priceless hours delving In secondhai..| bookshops anrl searching for ; aiitirjiif.o. anrl t». quite ohllviouß of the fact Unit In' Is to kivr a maimep. that day. But ■ iM.p put that beloved Ouarneritiß In hts Hands and he Incomes like a creature from anolhfr, and better, world. 0. Dp. Cairo* j ri.-ifo, on.' or ihp irrcaie-t of Australian riiti*-*. i- also uni , or the most con- ■ «'-lPnii>iiis or critics. He must sre and , h"ar an artist tierore hp win Ray onp. wnrrl lln In- ravf.nr. Kven men \v writes most i f-narderilv nnil triithrmiy. Yet ii was tin I Hpbti who, al onp mcetjnir with Krelsler at I winch cwiy crliic in Sydney was present writ no to the sri-.-al violinist, anrl, placing , both hand* on his shoulders), said simply. ■ ai"n''' r ' ' V '"' am n " 1 a lnan — yo " are an