OTIE CHEW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13546, 18 September 1907, Page 7

OTIE CHEW.

"GREATER THAN MARIE

HALL."

MR. GIBBONS' OPINION.

"Do I regard Marie Hall as the foremost violinisto of the day?" said Mr. C. H. Gibbons, manager for Madame AJbani, repeating a question asked of him yesterday. "No, Ido not. Of all the women who have chosen the violin as their medium ef interpreting great music to the public, personally, i should class Otic Chew first.

"Although a veritable little doll as to stature, sho has the biggest and most sonorous tons ever drawn from wood and catgut by one if her sex. She is not only a great executant, but a truly -great artiste, capable of interpreting the musical messages of the greatest masters clearly and illuminatively to tho maspe*. Joachim, her mastt-r, who has just died, said she was tho best performer of her «x upon the violin whom he had ever known. And this praise was echoed by both Chrysler and Ysaye.

" Miss Chew, as, of course, all New Zealanders must know, Was formerly an Auckland girl, although I believe born in England, where her father was in the church. Given any opportunity, Otis Chew will within a. few years be recognised everywhere as the greatest violinisto of the world, and she deserves all the good fortune that can be in store for her. She is a great musician, a girl of wonderful intellect and rare charm of personality, and with a heart as large as her dainty person is petite."