Show I I I I I Musicians Are Arc the thc Funniest People Adelina Patti asked for a certain three-month three tour But ABut objected objected ob ob- objected ob- ob an impresario more than the President gets Well Vell shrugged the diva then get the President Liszt wa waa was wasa a character who wore the same kind of clothes whether the weather was rainy or fair I never he declared take notice of that which takes no notice of me Handel composed so fast they say that the the ink on the top of the page of his manuscript had not dried by the time he reached the bottom I Another gag of the day Do you like ike Brahms I dont don't know What are they After Strauss what Strauss what an English journalist journalist journalist jour jour- once queried For one thing music oracle L Leonard onard Leibing Leibling Leib- Leib I ling flag noted the critics A journalist objected to the 7 a.m. a. a I m. m piano playing in the room next I to his in a Milan hotel Do you always allow that he asked I Not as a rule they told him but we m make ike an exception with Mr Verdi It was the late Alexander who deflated a famous soprano boasting of her execution execution ex ex- of an aria she described as difficult Difficult groaned I ul wish it had been impossible impossible impossible im im- im- im I I possible At a Peabody concert con con- cert cell President ent Grant once observed con j I uI know only two tunes One is Yankee Doodle and the other I It I When Rossini heard Wagners Wagner's Lohengrin for the first time he said One cannot judge a work upon a single hearing hearing- and I have no intention of hearIng hearing hearing hear hear- ing this a second time A German critic once wrote that Wagner was a good musician but he left behind the Wagner- Wagner ites which was most unkind of him In order to compose compose com corn pose said Schumann it is just enough to remember a tune which nobody else has thought of When Albert Spaulding toured through the West one Winter Vinter he told a theater manager manager manager man man- ager that his violin was old Dont years say anything anything anything any any- thing about it replied the impresario impresario impresario im im- im- im and maybe the audience audience audience audi audi- ence wont won't know the difference when still quite Unknown unknown unknown un un- I known went to London armed with letters of introduction to influential Dear Prince one said the bearer Ignace isa is isa a fiery young Pole and rather charming when he doesn't play the theS S piano for which he has little tal tal- tal- tal ent unless a press agent of the day is fooling us once accosted a polo player with the question What is the difference difference differ differ- ence between us The other shrugged You grinned Ignace t are a good soul who plays polo I am a good Pole who plays solo Grunfeld was caught by the father of one of his pupils kissing the girl Is this stormed the parent parent par par- parent ent what I am paying for No replied the famous tutor Ido I UI Ido do this free A young youn man approached Mozart Mozart Mo Mo- and asked him how bow to write a symphony Youre a very young fellow the composer told him why not begin with a ballad But Bot pouted the youth you yon composed symphonies sympho sympho- nies ies when you yon were ten Yes smiled Mozart but hot I didn't ask how Dr Samuel Johnson admitted once he did not Dot care for music But of all noises he added I think music music music mu mu- sic is the least disagreeable A young lady auditioned on the piano for What she asked him bim at the end of the selection should I Ido Ido Ido do now Snapped Get married Chopin whose life Columbia brings to the screen in A teA Song to Remember could give more than the piano the Uthe finger He was a dinner guest in a Parisian home one night and after the meal was asked by the hostess to play some of his compositions But madame said Chopin I have eaten so Uttie littie little lit Ut- tie tle He once cracked to Liszt I uI prefer not to play in public public pub pub- lic lie it unnerves me You if you cannot charm the audience can at least astonish them When mislaid his false teeth someone appropriately observed His Bach is better than his bite It To a young pianist Nellie Melba remarked talent t presence charm All you need now to make a success is a nice hot scandal Mascagni l heard an organ grinder murdering an aria from his famous and ran out of his ho house se to show him the proper speed to crank out the melody Next day the organ grinder carried a sign on the organ Pupil of Mascagni Mascagni Mascagni Mas Mas- I cagni Liszt paid women 25 francs to faint at an appointed time timea a He would promptly prompt prompt- t ly and gallantly d dash sh from his keyboard keyboard key key- board and pick up the r t Once a hired fainter forgot her cue t and Liszt very upset swooned him him- self i |