Show Musician Found Much of 01 Interest on Tow Tout To go on a concert tour lasting tot foi five years ears Is In Itself som something of ot at am achievement but when It embraces embrace not only the temperate temperate and und torrid zones cones but the frigid zone as well tb achievement verges upon the ph en om I enal And yet Laszlo Schwartz well known as a violinist and composer ui ht 11 this country has come back to these thefil shores with much music of Interest which he has gathered during hi til- til tra travels vels In the FIJI Islands Mr Schwartz related the heat hent Is terrible Com Corn blued biped with the dampness s It Is death deatha a and ad d destruction to musical meats 1 I asked how v the piano wafe wal and was told We are airing It I IThe IThe first concert th the The Time da day daj of our of ot my violin came unglued and nothing would make It stick I tried ev everything l. l I could think of ot but butto butto butto to no avail Hyall so I simply had to tell them that there thel-e would be a n concert concert but no violin Sumatra rn seemed to be the hottest place In the world A violin will go to pl pieces ces there any time I had to play piny with on mine to keep It together to gether ether which you ou muy may Ima Imagine ine did not improve e the tone In uIn the Fiji Islands we heard a j I native chorus of ot GOO COO with the most marvelous basses I have ever heard anywhere They have an amazing sense of harmony like th the American negro but much more Intricate They learn tunes from a n phonograph and then harmonize themselves They I were learning the overture overture over over- ture while I Ivas was vas there each member of ot the band memorizing harmonies from the phonograph I was asked by a rich native how much my charges were for tor a concert and when I told him the next question was How flow long will the concert concert con con- cert be About an nn hour I said Oh Olt I 1 he replied But I can hire a man who will play for four hours for that amount without taking his bow off the strings I IJohn John John Alan Haugh Haughton ton I In Musical America |