. Violin mastery; talks with master violinists and teachers, comprising interviews with Ysaye, Kreisler, Elman, Auer, Thibaud, Heifetz, Hartmann, Maud Powell and others . alled artists, and an-other quarter-century of artistic striving maywell bring them into the front rank of violin-istic achievement! IILEOPOLD AUER A METHOD WITHOUT SECRETS When that celebrated laboratory of buddingmusical genius, the Petrograd Conservatory,closed its doors indefinitely owing to the dis-turbed political conditions of Russia, the fa-mous violinist and teacher Professor LeopoldAuer decided to pay the visit to t
. Violin mastery; talks with master violinists and teachers, comprising interviews with Ysaye, Kreisler, Elman, Auer, Thibaud, Heifetz, Hartmann, Maud Powell and others . alled artists, and an-other quarter-century of artistic striving maywell bring them into the front rank of violin-istic achievement! IILEOPOLD AUER A METHOD WITHOUT SECRETS When that celebrated laboratory of buddingmusical genius, the Petrograd Conservatory,closed its doors indefinitely owing to the dis-turbed political conditions of Russia, the fa-mous violinist and teacher Professor LeopoldAuer decided to pay the visit to the UnitedStates which had so repeatedly been urged onhim by his friends and pupils. His fame, ow-ing to such heralds as Efrem Zimbalist, MischaElman, Kathleen Parlow, Eddy Brown, Fran-cis MacMillan, and more recently SaschaHeifetz, Toscha Seidel, and Max Rosen, hadlong since preceded him; and the reception ac-corded him in this country, as a soloist and oneof the greatest exponents and teachers of hisinstrument, has been one justly due to his au-thority and preeminence. It was not easy to have a heart-to-heart talkwith the Master anent his art, since every min- 14. Leopold Aueb Leopold Auer 15 ute of his time was precious. Yet ushered intohis presence, the writer discovered that he hadlaid aside for the moment other preoccupa-tions, and was amiabi^^ responsive to all ques-tions, once their object had been , the first and burning question inthe case of so celebrated a pedagogue was:How do you form such wonderful artists?What is the secret of your method? A METHOD WITHOUT SECRETS *I know, said Professor Auer, that thereis a theory somewhat to the effect that I makea few magic passes with the bow by way of il-lustration and—presto—you have a Zimbalistor a Heifetz! But the truth is I have nomethod—unless you want to call purely nat-ural lines of development, based on naturalprinciples, a method—and so, of course, thereis no secret about my teaching. The o
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