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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 95, 16 January 1926, Page 19

“Music can, indeed, be a medicine; but wo amst be ouir own doctors. Happy is the man who, like the dog that is out at sorts and makes straight for the kind of grass that will make him beneficially siek, knows what music *o 'take/ and when to take it.” —Ernest Newman.

“Sometimes one hears of people doing five or six hours of practice a day. Maybe! But a great pianist once said that a student who couldn’t make an artist on three hours a day never would make one.” —Mark Hambourg.

“The slower you play, the more time youi have for finger action. As the tempo increases the fingers naturally are held closer to the keys, because there is not time to raise them high. Slow practice I never give up; but, I do not use it too long at a time.” — Muscha Levitski.

“Why should millions of people be deprived of wl.iat they adore —the tender, simple love balatl —because a few highbrows call it sickly sentiment.”— Guy d’Hardelot.

“In the last imlf century ihe piano has developed into an orchestra by itself; and one now has a much better instrument on which to play. One is capable of producing nuances and colour which were not possible before. ’— Moritz Rosenthal.

“Love for the classic and the best modern works must come from a study of both, and from hearing' them presented repeatedly by iteal interpreters, those who have a message to give. Such appreciation will add to the daily enjoyment and enrich the total of human life.”—Jacobus.

“It is a common esnerience in reading a book to discover that the author is expressing in clear language our own imperfectly formed thoughts; while i.u music the composer creates a picture made up of states of emotion, so that when we hear a. fine composition well performed, we say to ourselves; "Hus is what I have always felt but never could express.”—Harold Bsver