Show Walter Winchell BROADWAY GOSSIP Inside Stuff on OR musicians and Music When Mme Mine Schumann was 15 the Vienna opera director laughed at her efforts advising her to become o n. dressmaker in instead Instead instead In- In stead of a singer skis ski's teacher at the Warsaw Con Con- often advised him to give up up the piano and take up some other Instrument the Instrument the trombone trombone trombone bone for example so that one day perhaps Paddy might land landa a job in an orchestra When Mischa Elman was about 6 a Russian countess wanted to purchase purchase pur pur- chase chas him for tor adoption Conductor Conductor Conductor Con Con- ductor Jose Iturbi brings an apple and a collar to each cach of his concert con con- cert During intermission he devours the fruit and changes his collar Patti the prima primo donna used to stuff her cars ears when she went vent outdoors in cold weather To keep from getting a n. sore throat There are so few double bassoon bassoon bas bets soon players that one traveled from New York to a n. Pittsburgh concert to play ONE note Add Irony Wagner Vagner years after he had written Lohen Lohengrin rIn Tristan and Isolde i and The Tho Valkyrie was was starving starving ing Yes We Ve Have No Bananas Bananas Bananas Bana Bana- nas earned nearly nearl One winter the Great Mozart w was s found at home homo dancing around the room Ho He explained that he couldn't afford a fire Im Forever Forever Forever For For- ever Blowing Bubbles earned on sheet music sales alone Franz Schubert's Hark Hark Harle the thc Lark one of his greatest songs was written on the rear of a menu card and given given en cn to the proprietor in payment for his lunch At his death Schubert's Schubert's Schubert's berts bert's assets totaled 12 SonnyBoy SonnyBoy Sonny SonnyBoy Boy which was written to end endall endall endall all mammy songs earned The oboe is used to give the pitch to the entire orchestra If It you'd step behind the scenes be before before before be- be fore a concert you'd find the first oboe 1st stalking about giving everyone the A Strange t to td relate the oboe must never be tuned Harp strings arc are all flats The strings of the contra contra contra con con- tra or double bass it is never written violin being long and heavy are slow to cease celse vi vl- vl brating Yet Mendelssohn in his Psalm has the thc contrabass pin play notes per minute The contrabass familiarly called the house dog provides the fundamental fundamental fun fun- harmony for the symphony symphony symphony sym sym- phony orchestra A clarinet player must be allowed a few tew minutes minutes min mm- utes before playing playing to to warm his instrument Otherwise because of the clarrys clarry's sensitivity it'll be tune tunc B flat fIat on the ses- ses ond violin string and A sharp on the third generally are poor notes no matter how good the fiddler Tip to Fiddlers Fiddler Eddy Brown one of the tho greatest of them uses a wire E string Chopin's creations were spon spon- Nevertheless he would shut himself in his room for days fretting weeping and breaking his pens rewriting an opus again and again with no new result He spent six weeks over a single single sin sin- gb gle page to write it finally as he originally penned it Incidentally Chopin The Poet of the Piano at first showed aversion to the pianoforte He called it the pianoforte always always- He was so to precise Once when he was about to pia play at a concert ho discovered tho the pedal connections connections connections broken Yet he played Because Liszt lay sprawled Under under under un un- der the piano working the mechanism mechanism mechanism me me- I Theres There's a pal Pity the kettle drummer for often the composer requires him to change the pitch of one or both bothof bothof bothof of his drums drums In in the tire middle of a n tune tunc To do this ho he must make male himself deaf to the surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding hubbub and midst the racket tune his drums accurate to toa toa toa a new key And In the space of ot a few seconds The double bass bais despite Its IlS de deep p tone is one of the few instruments which does not take In phonograph raph recording It Its place then is us usually usually us- us fillet by the bassoon or the bass saxophone sE So when whan a contrabass contrabass con con- player tells you yon ho he recorded recorded recorded re corded for lor the phonograph tell him hes he's fibbing Here Hero arc are some ups cheer for piano students students students stu stu- dents Richard Wagner Vagner couldn't even oven play the scale of C on his piano Liszt one of ot the ablest players of ot his day never could learn to play a n Chopin Etude Etude- which modern piano students student can learn to master in two weeks Copyright 1935 1035 Dail Daily Mirror Inc |