SLMAN STORIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2114, 3 April 1914, Page 7

SLMAN STORIES

Mischa El man, the Kussiait violinist, r has a delightful sense «i hunioui;' for wliieli roas'JU lie lias always a slock' of; amusing t>to.vies, anionix. ; 'the? ./lit which is his oxpevieiico. \vlien ho. playi'd rec.entiy at ihe. Leeds Festival. Every . corner was iinu'cr pull'.'!.' survoillaiico'Mi-"' ;/ itu; to Snffraiiotte invasion. and dangers. . Ti'.o orchestra was. playinjr tho Leanoro • : overture No. 3. '.I ho' hor.il-ptiiyor «p- . pfiiiroti bdiiud: tjio. .sOPlip .'>'o.: tho | ilFciit of the trumpet call in tho' diji- i. ianee, imd had. jusl biown. his .first long.;. blast when an ovci-acti'vo policeman jnmiiod at him from behind, and, snaieli■.iiig away liis instrument, said: "What tire you trying to dor Don't you knew thoro. is a concert going on out there, .. and they can .hear y.qii as plain, as if • you were oil tho The overturn ; proceeded without too horn. solo. ' ■Ehftaii also t<4ls nf. his oxperienre \ whon pluyjKg the Volpjrich concerto ill lier.lin ii.'lo'A'. months apo, and his K, . . string bmko. Ho remembered that ho ; • had only' six. measures before; the or- •: ,: chest ral i.ntorlud'o,* 'aiitl in thos6%easur.es ' lie did no! nerd tho. string. Ji.v tlx* lime lie vf'ns ready to. resume ho had. i taken his mvn. Ainnti irom the concert >■ iaaster and continued without. a break (I'ni'ivlioro., eyceiit ,fo.r the string. Klni.m says that 'lid always civo.s olio of his . own violins. to, tho concert-. master to; provide .for im ocetirraic;. 1 of this sort. . '

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