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Show AN AKTI8TH CHtRAT DA!GKIt 1 "The artist's great danger his greatest professional 'danger lies In self-satisfaction." That is the dictum of Emll Ober-hoffer, Ober-hoffer, conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, which is to ap-Ipear ap-Ipear on February' 13 at the Tabernacle. Taber-nacle. "There are too many musicians," he said recently, "who believe all of the flattering things that are said to 'them and of them, and than rest content with that, sure they are plenty good enough for any standard of criticism. "That Is absoluto suicide. The only afe conviction for a musician Isl that he simply cannot be good I enough, even after a life time of I work and patient devotion to thol cause. , I "His reward for such labor will be in finding new beauties, new treasures, In the work he studies, and In developing his own sense of Interpretation In-terpretation until even, that unfolds new possibilities to hVm every year. ' "Take, for Instance, the first sym-j phony of Brahms I think lt Is tho greatest conception in all musical, history, too and I have been study-" Ing'lt devotedly for thirty years. Even bo, I never play It, never read It, that I do not find new and amazingly beautiful attributes In It. It la faithful study, reverent , study' like that which truly discloses the depths of music, and brings the true musician all the compensation he can ask for the labor Involved." Critics who have heard Mr. Ober-hoffer Ober-hoffer play this and other Brahma work'are unanimous In the opinion that he has penetrated to the inner meaning ot the great composer in a way achieved by few artists. |