Word: artists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week war in Poland had its official end as Adolf Hitler flew to Warsaw. He arrived at the city, left it thoughtful. For what Adolf Hitler saw as he drove into town was a city which he, artist by ambition, architect of a Chancellery and an eagle's nest, had designed-a city of charred wrecks, broken windows, gutted streets, tram rails bent into tortured question marks...
...career, he remarked, which has placed him at the top of all living violinists, has been worth while "only because of the satisfaction it has given me as an artist...
...There is a great difference between being a great artist and a successful concertizing artist," said Fritz Kreisler, world famous violin maestro yesterday afternoon...
...There is another element. The concertizing artist must be able to electrify his audience. You have heard orators whose arguments were completely logical but who were not convincing. Something vital was missing. The man who plays before the public must have that something--that some conductors have, of charging with the magnetism of their will not only the audience but the men of the orchestra...
...artist who hasn't the constitution to stand up under severe treatment such as having funny pictures of himself in the newspapers, being required to perform his best at a moment's notice, and dall the rest--will fail, even if he has a persuasive personal power. He is like someone who has a fortune on the moon. It is there, but he cannot utilize...