Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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By Robert Mackay Maud Allan's Rare fifts Musical errries aug 24 1816 the great pianists of the world . Following concerts em phasized this belicf more and more . Maud Allan's mother arranged then to take her to Eu rope to perfect her studies . For five years she worked at th : Royal High School in Berlin , proving more and more with each passing twelvemonth that the predictions of her critics were soon to be realized . Her vacations and holi . days , during those years , were spent in travels with her unt floa 1 ៗ for wit the wit wo girl wit dei In : tiy fai S01 ae sti im act an וון gli al SO ar 01 m m E EES $ di Maud Allan is Greek in inspiration and execution . Re spect for Hellenic taste has long been characteristic of the higher minds of the world , but few believed that it would come to pass that a girl would be born to impress on man kind that sh . might have stepped from a Grecian vase to revive an art that was the soul of antiquity -- the dancing of expression It is not boastful to state -- for learned critics in all parts of the world have so written -- that until Maud Allan danced , the art of the poetry of motion was a sealed book . For centuries the masters and devotees of terpsichorean attainment have struggled against technic and trickery in their effort to establish that element known by the much abused term , the poetry of motion . Dancers have come and dancers have gone and the great public - always alive tu the higher things in life - has gained nothing from them . Maud Allan , who never took a dancing lesson in all her life , is reproducing one of the greatest arts known to an age when art precluded even life itseli . It is not difti cult to understand and appreciate laud Allan's work . The open 45me to that itppreciation and aneborstanding in a sense of beauty which includes , of course , a sense of all that is artistic , and a susceptibility to the appeal of music , These ar bom in most people : the latter in nearly all Just lux Vaud Allan wave lise 10 in art that was stip jud 10. mjerever deal with one to guideles , has lotni declined mestit miracl . Bu Vature ve her the rift the realization and the understanding . Her work can only bue compared with the inspiration that comes to such painter as Sindro Pattiedli or such a compraset as Richard Witner . She i á law untolerueli . Vo superlative is suficiently OR lue placed before her name : Hi there is it thing in liie sixth cen , laud Allan is so In this respect she is what the eminent American critic . James Huncker , terms á " comprehensive . " Maud Man's parents were kindly , law - abiding , prosper ou Canadians and they had the ordinary mortal's love for the beautiful . Little did they dream when Maud came into the world that he had been endowed by nature for an important : to revise the expression dancing of the ancient Ginks . It was a rare endowment , 100 . Na ture had it back for many , many centuries . Perhaps the right person had not come into her ken ; perhaps , 100 , the world was not ready . " In the socond renaissance of art which may be said roughly to have begun with the twentieth century , dancing bold , an honorable place , " says än eminent novelists and lectur : r . Maud Allu was not a sturdy balie . She did not thrive through the long cold winters of Toronto , st , her parents pached their beloorings , bundled up their baby and jour nosed afar to the sunny mountains of California . The delicate dryad of the Lady of Snows found nourishment anal growth in the Western State . California , the home of genius , seemed to claim her as one of its native born . Little Maud Allan was keen for the life out o ' doors . Sheran , she rode bareback , he learned to swim . She slept in the open and in many other ways became , so iar as possible , a child of nature . Whether or not this wild life had any effect on her artistic temperament only a kindly silence knows ; but at the age of five years she was a most promising pianist . Hier kill in learning and playing was so much a surprise to her parents that they took her to San Francisco , where she could scure more advanced instruction . She became proficient that shen she was thirteen years of age , she appeared in her first concert . There was not one critic prsent who did not claim a great future for the girl , who did not believe that some das he would be mentioned with ai ti ti MAUD ALLAN . $ 1 S pl to $ 9 ta h a t i mother ; and , at the end of the fifth year , as Maud Allan so tersely pats it in her book , " My Life and Dancing , " " my conscienas telling of good work done and rest well earned , and my whole being swelling with delight , ” she was to visit Florence , Rome and Venice , the dream cities of art and history . Her visit to Florence was the turning point in her ca. reer . Onc day she visited the Palazzo deli Uffizi , that his toric home of art , and gazed in rapture on Botticelli's " The Return of Spring . " Once before in her life she had known a similar thrill — not so keen , perhaps , but of suffi cient duration to make her think yery hard about the po etry of motion -- that was in San Francisco when she first saw the great . French actress , Sarah Bernhardt . There was something so peculiarly fascinating in the way Bern : hardt moved and used her arms and body and head that Maud Allan was almost obsessed Just what charmed her so she could not describe because of her youth . She could feel the spell , however , and she never lost Bern hardt's great impress on her life and never fally compre hended it until the years had passed and she stood in rapture before the magical spell of the Botticelli . To fully understand Maud Allan and her work one must remember that Maud Allan saw in The Birth of Spring the true meaning of the poetry of motion , Just what is the poetry of motion ? " you ask The poetry of motion is simply Nature's motion . the way the white clouds scud across the sky : it is the way leaves swirl and eddy in a deep forest it is the way a tree bends before the wind , it is the way the waves of

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