Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Music Training

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Music Training

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gro Dent London provided Busoni with another of those curious experiences which affected him with a Hoffmanesque sense of mystery . One afternoon as he was coming back from a solitary walk he found himself enveloped in a thick fog . He managed to reach Regent's Park , but once inside it , the fog was so thick that he lost his bearings completely . A man came up to him through the gloom and Busoni asked if he could direct him to West Wing ; the stranger took him by the arm and without the least hesitation led him straight to the house . In the light of a street - lamp Busoni realized with a sudden shock that his guide was blind . The episode would have seemed less disturbingly mysterious if Busoni had been aware that the roads in Regent's Park were all provided with a handrail to guide the blinded soldiers living at St. Dunstan's Lodge , next door to the house where he was staying . tea ) mond reibuss ahele back to Switzerland . He went with Maud Allan to see M. Carré , the director of the Opéra Comique , about certain projects of hers . At the end of the interview , M. Carré , as one might expect , took a polite leave of Miss Allan - Je suis charmé et flatté , Mademoiselle Mile de vous serrer la main . ' To Busoni he merely said , ‘ Bonsoir , Monsieur . ' He apparently took Busoni for a hired interpreter . Most people would have taken this episode as a joke , and laughed over a typical Frenchman's ignorance of all that concerned music apart from his own professional interests . Busoni was deeply aggrieved , and life expected Philipp to take some step towards an explanation . p . 243 Chineres 1919 Another visit to London followed in June , when he conducted the Brautwahl Suite and Liszt's Faust Sym phony , as well as playing the solo part of his own Indian Fantasy . This concert provoked an amusing and charac teristic letter from Bernard Shaw , who advised Busoni to produce his compositions under another name , since the public could never be induced to believe that one man could be so supremely great in two departments of music at once . Busoni was considerably puzzled by the letter , never having met the writer personally , and it took some little explaining to make him understand that it was the expression of a whole - hearted admiration , in spite of the jesting language in which it was couched . Maud Allan arranged a meeting between the two ; it was not quite so successful as she had hoped . Busoni's experience of Germany had led him to expect the world's great men , or those who considered themselves such , to behave in a more monumental manner . Mr. Shaw seemed to adapt himself only too charmingly to the elegant badinerie of a lady's drawing - room . hils p.246 1920 , aer 54 After After Shanis unit . Busoni Maw sat down lomphed heantics at Shanes inabilt osloplacking , - know hoa numat in the stancase ✓ o

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