File:Piano mastery, second series; talks with master pianists and teachers. (1917) (14597054229).jpg

Identifier: pianomasteryseco00brow (find matches)
Title: Piano mastery, second series; talks with master pianists and teachers.
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Brower, Harriette, 1869-1928
Subjects: Piano
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
tof a vacation by the sea. That is when I workon my programs and prepare the variousconcertos I am to play the following season. Ill GUIOMAR NOVAES THE GIFT OF MUSIC The most dazzling meteor that shot acrossthe pianistic sky during the past season—1916—was the young Brazilian pianist, GuiomarNovaes. We were quite unprepared for suchan apparition; we had heard nothing of her;she came unheralded. In a season filled to thebrim with the greatest piano playing the worldcan produce, she came—and conquered—bysheer force of genius. The marvel of it! Such a talent in a familywhere neither the parents nor any of the eigh-teen other children showed any special musi-cal inclination. Hers is surely a gift straightout of Heaven! Many of us are familiar with the story ofhow this slip of a girl developed her gifts, firstin her own country and then in Paris, whereshe took first place over 388 contestants, inthe entrance examinations of the Conserva-toire. At that examination her performance so
Text Appearing After Image:
Guiomar Novaes 31 of Schumanns Carneval was so unusual inthe mastery of technic, so poetic in interpreta-tion as to greatly impress the jury, composedof Debussy, Moszkowski, Faure and otherdistinguished musicians. The young girl was about fourteen whenshe arrived in Paris, and began her studieswith Professor Philipp, at the Conservatoire.At the end of the second year she received thefirst honor, a Premier Prix du Conservatoire.After this came many engagements to playin Paris, London, Switzerland, Germany, andItaly, which she filled with ever-increasing suc-cess. Then came two years at home in Brazil,Which she spent resting, working, thinking,growing and ripening, but playing little inpublic. Late in the year 1915 she and hermother came to New York, escorted by theBrazilian Ambassador from Washington. I think it is time for her to begin herAmerican career, he remarked, after her firstNew York recital; and, he added signifi-cantly, I believe she is ready for it, The young artist indeed

Note About Images