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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

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country,where his time is now fully occupied withteaching and many concert appearances. x VIIIYOLANDA MERO THE BEAUTIFUL IN MUSIC At home in her beautiful apartments in NewYork, after a season of concert playing, Mme.Yolanda Mero, the brilliant Hungarian pian-ist, talked of her work and her musical ideas. I do not love technic for its own sake, andtherefore I now practice it but little. Ofcourse, I must play scales sometimes—notevery day, however. You see I have no dailyroutine, as some pianists have; that is becauseI am not methodical, in the first place, and,secondly, because that kind of practice seemsto me such a waste of time. When I am awayon a tour, there is often no time to practice atall; and if there should be a little while hereand there, the piano may be a poor one, so thatI feel better just to let it alone and not attemptto practice at all. Some pianists take a silent keyboard withthem wherever they go, but I have never doneso. When I am here in my home, between en- 83
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^/umseA-^ hHi fcvn-dwJ ?&)tuj& vL^-*-* fin Jpxii %)* n^^n^ Yolanda Mero 89 gagements, I practice; but even then I am notsystematic about it. When the fever is onthen I work with enthusiasm—a whole day ata time; but I must be in the mood to work orI accomplish nothing. If I am not in themood, I would rather keep away from thepiano or play only a bit to amuse myself. r CLOTH OVER THE KEYBOARD In the beginning, it is true, I had to prac-tice technic very carefully and exactly. Myfather taught me at the start; that was whenI was five and a half. One thing he made medo which I think helped me very much to gainaccuracy. He would spread a cloth over thekeyboard, and, with this barrier between mylittle fingers and the keys, I must play myscales, etudes and pieces. (This reminds oneof the little Mozart, playing before the nobility.Some one suggested it was only by means ofmagic he was able to accomplish such wonders.The little fellow indignantly protested, andoffered to play the same

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