Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan Australia Tour 1914

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan Australia Tour 1914

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Sept 26 1914 PERTH 2 o formers . When only seven years of age lived in Liszt's house , which was not Liszt many years before . Busoni he gave his first public performaned -an interpretation of Chopin - with such a great distance from Goethe's own house in great success . Since then the Goetheplatz , and he has Miss Allan and a number of ether stu studied under Leschettsky , and his dents attended Busoni's classes every evolved such dis : inctive style and bril- morning . Two afternoons a week they liant technique and phrasing as have had to appear in informal concerts at earned golden opinions . A celebrated the Tempel Herrenaus , and at other London critic once dubbed him " Pade times ha , ] tea with the maestro or ar remski the second . " His favorite com ranged picnics to the beautiful resorts posers are Chopin around Weimar . Miss Allan spent and L : xt . The young pianist recently received news several happy montis in the old - world that as the result of special interces . when she had to more later on to Ber . town , and was , she declares , very sorry sion by the Grand Duke Constantine , lan to continue her studies . uncle o ? the Czar , he hail been granted military dispensation . It is hard to estimate the importance of this con cession , for its rerusal would have meant taking him away from his work altogether . Tze ( " and Duke is a patron of the Chernia vsyo , and the three brothers and Maud Allan were natural ly delighted with the news , Mischel , the " cellist , 18 only 18. For his age he is singularly brilliant , and there is no doubt that he is the posses por of a real gift for his instrument . It is recorded that he dirst asked for " cello at the mature age o rix to the great amusement of his father , who declared that only clever people could play the ' cello . Mischel , however , was not to be denied , and when his parent at last presented him with the desirul Instrument he attonit practise assiduously . Soon he had mad .. such progress that he sent to study under Popper . He re . mained under Popper for another year and then completed his training under Herbert Walenn , of London . To - day the young artist is highly regarded , and his work is always as warmly appreciated as that of his two elder brothers . Taking them as a whole , the Maud Allan - Cherniarsky programmes promise to rank high in the catalogue or mis season's music , The world lost a promising musi cion when Maud Allan decided to be . come a dancer . At the time when she adopted her strangely new and er pressive art , she was a pianist with a briiliant record in Berlin and Leipzig L'onservatoires such as many a musi cal aspirant might enry . Justly enough , her people were proud of her , and they were not over pleased when she gave up the piano and pored un a light in classical raiment . When she was studying for the piano Miss Allan spent several months in Weimar as student under the celebrat . ed Ferruccio Busoni . who at the invi . tatjon of the Grand Duke continued the Meister Schule for piano play . ing , happily inaugurated by the great der