Show peculiarities of aung hungarian ariva I 1 remember once taking asking a distinguished dist polish lady herself a notable mik musician ic and pupil of the great chopin whether she ever played hungarian music no 00 she che answered I 1 1 I cannot play it there is ia something Eom ething in that music which I 1 have not got something which is wanting in me what was wanting I 1 came to understand der stand later when I 1 became familiar with hungarian music as rendered by the players it was tho the training of a whole life which was wanting here a training which alone teaches the secret of deciphering those wild strains which seem borrowed from the voice of tho t he tempest or stolen from whispering sperling reeds in order to have played the hungarian music aright she would have required to have slept on mountain tops during a score of years to have been awakened by fallen dews to have shared the food of aag eagles les and squirrels and have been on equally familiar terms with stags and snakes conditions which unfortunately lie quite out of the reach of delicate polish ladies Black woods magazine |