A Musical Motley

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I am aware that people who heard Grisi, Mario, Tietjens, and the rest of them swear that no such singing is to be heard to-day. But obviously they heard these singers in their own enthusiastic and relatively inexperienced youth. Would they think as highly of them could they hear them now, after many years of constant refining and subtilizing of their musical ear? The Knights of the Middle Ages — and still more their ladies — thought there never had been and never would be such brawny fellows as
... they ; yet the average suit of mediaeval armour is too small for the average man of the present day. Richard Coeur de Lion, I imagine, could he return to the earth, would think twice before he "took on" Hacken- schmidt or Carpentier. Who can be sure that Paganini himself, under similar circumstances, would impress us as much as Kreisler or Ysaye ?
Paganini used to create an effect by breaking, in view of the audience, all the strings of his violin but one, and then playing a composition solely on that one.


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