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Show WHEN I WAS TWENTY-ONE I BY JOSEPH K AYE i At 21: Ovide Musin, Belgian violin master, introduced the ensemble music of Brahms to Paris. ' v suggestion of Gustave Sandre, I organized a quartet called the 'Quartette 'Quar-tette Moderne,' the idea being to play works by modern composers. "I am proud to say that this organization organi-zation was the first to play the ensemble en-semble music of Johannes Brahms before be-fore the public in Paris. These seances, se-ances, given in the Hall Philllpe Herz, were always crowded. It wasn't a large hall, seating about 500 people, but ideal for chamber music. The first two ' rows were always reserved for the king of Hanovel and his suite. "At the close of one of these concerts con-certs I was told that there was a man in the audience who would give a hundred hun-dred thousand francs to see me, and he mentioned the king of Hanover. At first I was puzzled, then I saw the light. I recalled Unit the king was blind. I did not (hid the price exorbitant. exorbi-tant. Ovide Musin." TODAY': Ovide Musin is one of the greatest teachers of the violin in the world. In his younger days he was a famous virtuoso, and made two tours around the world with enormous success. But now his success is equally great as a teacher. He is coauthor co-author of that noted musical pedagogic peda-gogic work, "The Belgian School for Violin." He lives in New York. tO by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) |