Show MASTERS OF MUSIC HERE IN AMERICA HOFMANN ASSERTS Is Lt it necessary for the American music student to go o abroad to complete com corn his education Emphatically not declares Josef Hofmann the great pianist who will bo be brought to Salt Lake City b by the extension division University of Utah to give a recital Saturday February la at Kingsbury Kingsbur hall hallOn On the contrary Mr Hofmann s says ays America ha has become the musical musical musi musi- cal center that Europe once was and andI I think it is time the American public should realize it Recently a young yount lady told me that she was going abroad to study piano he said to an interviewer latel lately Where I ask asked cd To Berlin she r replied I And with whom Oh I dont don't yet et was the astounding as as- answer Now if C she had said she wanted to study with Egon Elon Petri Arthur or Professor ProCessor Meyer Mahr there would have been some some- reason But simply to study abroad that abroad that thatis is absurd Yet this girls girl's attitude fn fn- a 1 certain surviving feeling in inthis inthis this country that we must still turn to the old world for the b best 1 in the thc arts I Thirty five years ago that may have been justified Today it is all wrong Now the great musicians are ore here I INow and Europeans have to come to this country to study with the masters of their theil art Why just the other day I Iwas Iwas Iwas was informed that the son of or one of or the greatest Italian composers was coming to study in this country |