Show Class Necessary F For or Success of Musical Career Term Is With Distinction Is Needed by All Artists Artists' I Almost every great success in In can be summed up in one one o and slangy wor Class Clas Class ni may i y mean a a great many different things and it cannot be defined ed readily A A AsInger singer who makes his appeal through startling of ot oper operatic uc airs alls has bas it ft So has a pianist who is known is principally for tor his bis Interpretations of Debussy The two have almost nothing in common musically speaking but b both th have that Important Im- Im Important important Im im- I quality quality- known as class There are are many well-equipped well artists who make p promising debuts and receive good notices and then disappear pear gradually from the scene I They may have better natural endowments endowments en en endowments than than- some sOn of their coi colleagues eel col leagues who achieve greater reputations reputations and greater returns They may be nearly impeccable from a purely musical point of view view but but they fall fail because they have not sufficIent sufficient sufficient suf suf- class to draw a a. public to their theIr- recitals Class might be ba set down as synonymous with distinction but itis ItIs it itIs Is more than distinction It is If It this is not too involved an adventUre adventure adventure ture in words distinction plus pills an anair anair air all of distinction n Many a protes- protes professor sor SOl of music can play lay Beethoven sonatas with musical distinction but without a a trace of ot this desIrable desirable desirable desir desIr- able quality that wo call class class Our hypothetical professor has almost al almost almost al al- most ever every asset except that so something something some some- I thing that sets him apart from other pianists When he plays no nb one is persuaded persuaded-at at t least momentarily that there are not other pianists pianistS' who can play the the same same music ii Just as aswell well 1 Class also also is Is' Is essential in the presentations presentations' of ot concerts It is not necessary to hav have a series of ot International international international inter Inter- national celebrities to establish class a a. recital course The class class' comes out of othe the manner manner- in which they are re presented to the public The mere fact fa t of ot sponsoring sponsor sponsor- sponsoring In ing good artists is in itself dis dIs- Good I showmanship superImposed superimposed super- super Imposed d on the project adds the thet t touch uch of ot class that distinguishes this particular sequence of or musical events from iron an any an other When there is something about a concert courso course that is apart attractive attractive apart from the artists themselves themselves the the suc success ess of th that t urse co-urse course is assured It may be slangy but class tells teUs the st story ry and brings In the re receipts at the box boz office 4 1 4 A. A |