Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Music Training

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Music Training

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1919 Fernacie a Baron 66 & letten To the Wife Chondon 6 LONDON , I November 1919 . Yesterday afternoon , G. B. Shaw came to tea ( which he did not drink ) . He is now 63 , very tall , and in appearance he might be a brother of old Hase , a wittier , more lively , and sharper brother . He talks too much and he cannot cloak his vanity . He began at once by shooting off one of his witty little darts . Maudi was saying that she had just come out of a nursing home . ' I wonder that you are still alive , " said G.B.S. , " for in a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured , but in a nursing home they don't let you out until you are dead . ” ( “ There is a remedy for that , " I said . “ You can stop paying . " ) During tea he spoke chiefly about music , and evidently wished to display his knowledge . He loves Mozart with under standing " Mozart was my master , I learnt from him how to say important things , and yet remain light and conversational . " “ How do you make that tally , " I asked , " with your admira tion for Wagner ? " " Oh , there is room for many different things in the world . And it was necessary at that time to protest against senseless misunderstandings . But I confess , much as I love Tristan , I could wish that Tristan might die a little sooner . " " Why , " I asked , " have you never ceritten that ? ” ? But he did not know how to answer that . Then he began to praise Elgar , and his intimate knowledge of the orchestra . * He showed me , ” ( said S. ) , “ how one could make a place in Leonora , which never sounds well , acceptable . " He described how Slgar corrects it , which is bai . " Excuse me , " ( I said again ) , “ but I should do so and so , as one can see it done in Mozart's compositions . " ( And I explained e my example . ) " I had not thought of that , " he said , somewhat abashed . He does not seem to have considered the nature of opera . He couldn't write a libretto , he would write just as he always wrote . I said , " It would attract me to try and write music for the scene in hell in Man and Superinan . 279 5 > Other LONDON , 10 November 1919.11 The concert yesterday was rather more respectable than those in the provinces . The Albert Hall was full ! One must first imagine between eight and ten thousand people , and then think what the quality of such a mass can be , on a Sunday The artists ' room was full of Australians . Melba , her accompanist , Clutsam and his wife . These Australians are different from Americans . They have not the flagrant self - consciousness and do not " advertise ” their country as their older cousins do : I made myself a little “ fine ” for the concert and Maudi was a charmed ; she thought I looked as I did twenty years ago . I play now with great deliberation , without effort and without any nervousness . So it gives me pleasure . I am looking forward a little to the 22nd with Wood . I have helped the drunken programme on to its legs a bit ; everything that concerns me is nows to be played in the first part , before the interval . We shall see how that works . I shall conduct my own compositions . I am quite well , although the day looks like “ Autumn multiplied by London " und over ,

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