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Show FAMOUS PUPILS FORGET TEACHER Help Received at Home Is Often Unappreciated in Glare of Popularity Ix)- il ten, her itre often forgotten ,b their pupils, nftcr those pupils be-1 eome famous, even though the loal j teachers were in great part responsible, !for their rise, kivb Kedfern Mason,! i writing In the San Kranclsco Kxamlner-He Kxamlner-He goes on: HTC1 ll M RETT. Il n s Every now and then some xoung Callfornian comes back from his stud- lias In the east or in Europe and I friends are eager to hear him. Ho Is fall of his experiences and glowing xvith enthusiasm for the master with I Whom he has studied That is admirable. But there is' something In the attitude of these young neophytes xvhieh is not admlra- ible. It is their proneness to forget the help they have received from teachers here in California in th days before they spread their wings, could name a dozen singers and pianists pian-ists and fiddlers who xvere good musician mu-sician before they left Pan Francisco. Hut all they remember after their Wanderjahr Is the influence of some great personality , who. If the truth' were told, only added the coping ftonc to the edifice of their studies. II s. SOM1 I There Is something to be said In defense of this conduct- Tho public pays no attention to "local" names, but ,if a young artist 8ays.be has ltud led with PaderewakJ, or a young woman wo-man hus taken lessons from Ull Lsh-raann, Lsh-raann, people are mightily impressed. And there Is reason for this, for artists of the Standing of Paderewski and Lehmann do not waste their time on nonentities. What is that a great aitist does "or a student ' The urn-Mlon may bo answered In a slngh word Inspiration. Inspira-tion. What did Hugo Mansfetdl learn I from Uszt? Not technique; he excogitated excogi-tated that from bis inner COnsclOUS-I COnsclOUS-I ness Liszt n-ii taught In pedagogical pedago-gical sense of the term. He WSs n pillar of cloud and B llame ejf fin Over the young people Whioni bo took to his heart he threw the spell of his mighty personality. They xvere moved .to the clipths by what bo was Hut I the schoolmaster he never was. Our young people forget the etiuca-jt etiuca-jt tonal foundation that was so "Well and truly laid" by tbt. modest men und i women at home, xvho made It possible for them lo go abroad and have that coping stone added The mosl Important Import-ant teacher a young musician lias, man or woman, in nine cares out of ten. is tile one who te aches I 'm i udimciils.. it is the beginnings that are -important Then an- acquired the virtues which build dp mastery or the vices xvhieh no patient labor in after J irS can ever wholly eradicate. EARLY i'RAINING Kdueatlon is not a pouring in; It la a bringing mil In ever., v cuing pel son who takes up musl there are certain latent possibilities Tin teat I ejr develops de-velops the technique, equips the brain with knowledge, awakens enthusiasm. The rest depends on the Initiatixe. the pi rsi vera nee and tiie sensibility of the pupil. The importance of early training Is capitul. And, for that reason, though we may say that such a young artist has been Inspired by Gabrilow it se h or Ys.ive. vve must not forget thai the nmt valuable lessons he- t vri bad were those which he received from the "local" "lo-cal" teacher whom he lorget.s to mention men-tion oo |