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Show 1 1 What You Should i Know About Music (By Lorus Hand) There are many players of music, many singers; the world is full of good musicians but only a few cf these are artists. True artists are in demand now more than ever before. be-fore. The true musician must tower above his fellows in technical ability, but more important, he should excel in feeling; he should be filled with the spirit of his music. He should be able to dazzle his audiences with brilliant bril-liant technical display, certainly, but he must also warm their hearts, inspire in-spire them, make them love him and his music. Few possess both the technical tech-nical and the emotional qualities which go with the true artist. Bril-1 Bril-1 i a n t performance is acquired through long years of daily practice, often ten or twelve hours each day. The spiritual, or emotional quality is acquired through only the most sincere sin-cere love for the work; one must feel the deep spiritual message so keenly that he will give his all unanswering-ly unanswering-ly to its expression. He must approach ap-proach his audience intent on but one thig; he must show them the way he feels his music so completely by bringing out in his rendition those hidden qualities; he must show the emotional in it so perfectly that they will also feel it and love it as does he. There may be many of my readers who have never experienced the thrill one gets from contemplating the genius gen-ius of a true artist; many have never nev-er sat under the spell of one of these divine persons during an evening concert. These will certainly not understand un-derstand whereof I speak. To these I urge, go to the first artist concert available. Do not make the mistake of supposing you must know a lot about music in order to enjoy it; an artist will reach you and make you enjoy it if you are only human. Do not suppose you can get anything like the genuine enjoyment of an artists performance listening to your radio at home ;it would be like supposing to get the substance of a play or a movie by looking at the advertisements advertise-ments and display pictures. If it is a one man performance, do not reason rea-son that you would find a full evening of him monotonous; an artist with a full evening of music invariable keeps his audience enthused; he is a psychologist; psy-chologist; he knows the business of building programs that call for repeated re-peated encores even after the last number. I remember of one singer who after two hours of singing during dur-ing which he had responded to several sever-al encores was called by continuous and insistant (applaue to .respond with six consecutive encore numbers. Go to such a concert if you can, it is an education of itself. o |