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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1020, 9 January 1911, Page 6

A good many years since, when Mr. Kreisler first faced a' London audience, the musical critic of the London "Telegraph" remembers seeing his attitude 011 the platform compared by an imaginative writer to that of Ajax defying' the lightning. Apparently it is the gifted artist's fate to conjure up des-' oriptivo flights of fancy of this kind. For, with reference to his recent appearance at a recital in Brighton, one critic wrote, that "when ho strode on to the Dome platform yon at onco saw a man who Was like 110 other great musician y<f\i had known. Six feet high and brawny to boot, with military (jrectness, with something of military imperiousness in. the quick-flashing glance of his eye, ho crossed thn platform, filled with the members of the, .Municipal Orchestra, and he did so with the mien of the captain who is about to lead his men to battle." Continuing the metaphor, the critic says that the violinist "led his cavalry charge when he came-.to the finale „of Max Bruch's Concerto. With a mighty downstroke of his bow that; was litatlio first slash of his sword as it spran'« from its sheath, the violinist was in the saddle of a charging gallop, and behind him thundered the orchestra in emulation."