| Show Musician Found Much of Interest a Interest on Tou Tau To KO go 0 on a n concert tour fo to five ace years ars Is In Iti t of ot in III achievement but Lut when It embrace not only the tho temperate and cones hut but the frigid ante ni ai well tin thu I achievement verges erges S upon the Iho en nl iii And yet rt ln Schwartz wet wel known ns as n a violinist t and composer It II this tills countr country ling has come Iome back to thes shores chores with much music of ot which ho ha tins Ims gathered during hi hl travels In the FIJI Islands Mr Schwartz related the bent hent Is terrible Com Con with the tho dampness It Is dent and destruction to musical ments I ask naked asked how the plums piano waland win wet winand and was WI told Vo o are arc airing it III It I IThe The day of ot our first concert tin of ot my violin come carne unglue un and nothing would make It stick I 1 tried et everything e I 1 could think of ot bui but butto to no so fO I 1 simply had to tel them that there thre would bo be a concert but no violin Sumatra tm to be the hottest place In the mho world A violin will go I tc it pieces there liny time 1 I had hm to play pia with clamps on mine nine to keep kp It together together to to- gether which you jou J ou may Imagine did not Improve o the tone In the FIJI Islands we heard e 8 native natho of ot COO GOO with the most marvelous busses I have ever fr heard anywhere They have o an sense of ot harmony like Ilko the tho American negro but ut much morn more Intricate They learn tunes from a 0 phonograph und and then harmonize themselves CS They were learning the ho overture over o lure ture while I was WI there each och member of the band memorizing from the phonograph I I was asked by hy a rich native nativo how much my nay charges were for a concert and when I f told him the ne nex Question was How flow long will the cou cert be bet be About an h hour ur I 1 salt said Oh I he replied nut But I 1 can hire n u man mun who will play for tor four tour hours for tor that amount without taking hi III hie bow how oil on the tho strings I John IJohn J John Alan Inn In Musical America |
