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Show Finds Harmony in j Solitude of Desert Arthur Sliattm'k. Amerioau pianist, after ait ubsouoo 01 to yo:irs couoert-izini; couoert-izini; in Kurope. will return to America next fenson. A ooueert tour ot Palesliue by a pi:mist inny seem niuiMial. but Mr. tOiftttueU never toilows tho beaten trnek. Three years a go he Jeeiiled that inasnuieh as no pianist hatl oor toured Iceland, sueh & concert jouruev miijiit be well worth taking, ami his tour ot the ''top ot the worhP' jiroved a tirotit-ahle tirotit-ahle one. Last winter ho visited Ke,vpt. nmi after a series of concerts iu tiie land of the Khedive he secured a caia-van caia-van and passed a tew months on an oasis in the Saha.ra. Tho 1 ransport iiifj of a concert i;iand piano into the Sahara Sa-hara clesert. attracted no little attention, atten-tion, but accordma to Mr. thattuek it was u splendid place to practice. The idea of beini; alone in the desert with Ins piano appealed to the artist. iavs Mr. Shattuck: Tho desert is without doubt the 'ti:irden of Allah." The stars spoke to mo as I walked, soft-footed, through the sand. The pun' wind spoke oilier words of the same laui;uai;e, the luu;;u:ii;e of the unl-veise unl-veise of uiiuire. Here and there yellow lights in n distant eantp llashed out like fireflies; far away across the billowing sands, rock's blyached like bones avo an etloct of surf on an nnseoit shore; now and then a silent. swift moving Arab stealing out of the shadow might have been l lie fabled woman who haunts the sphinv, hutrving to n fatal tryst; and the rent pvia mid se.'ined to float between "the desert sand and cloudless lv like the RoMen palace ot" Alladin bemj; transported thiou;;!! the air bv the "(ienio of the l.nmp." 'I'liere never was such pold lis this gold of sand and p r:.iuuls under the ni(on. It was an ideal place for a pianist w ith a vivid iuui t;i iiat ion and a re il desire to work. I'uiclice under so. li surroimdine.s llS not wnrlo- it. is a real pleasuie. |