all--experience--forces them to dive for the hidden riches.

TAKE TIME TO DO THINGS WELL

"Every pianist advances at a rate commensurate with his personal
ability. Some pianists are slow in development. Others with wonderful
natural gifts go ahead very quickly. The student will see some pianist
make wonderful progress and will sometimes imitate him without giving
the time or effort to study that the other pianist has given. The artist
will spend months upon a Chopin valse. The student feels injured if he
cannot play it in a day.

"Look, I will play the wonderful Nocturne of Chopin in G, Opus No. 2.
The legato thirds seem simple? Ah, if I could only tell you of the years
that are behind those thirds. The human mind is peculiar in its methods
of mastering the movements of the fingers, and to get a great
masterpiece so that you can have supreme control over it at all times
and under all conditions demands a far greater effort than the ordinary
non-professional music lover can imagine.

MASTERING ARTISTIC DETAILS

"Each note in a composition should be polished until it is as perfect as
a jewel--as perfect as an Indian diamond--those wonderful scintillating,
ever-changing orbs of light. In a really great masterpiece each note has
its place just as the stars, the jewels of heaven, have their places in
their constellations. When a star moves it moves in an orbit that was
created by nature.

"Great musical masterpieces owe their existence to mental forces quite
as miraculous as those which put the heavens into being. The notes in
compositions of this kind are not there by any rule of man. They come
through the ever mystifying source which we call inspiration. Each note
must bear a distinct relation to the whole.

"An artist in jewels in making a wonderful work of art does not toss his
jewels together in any haphazard way. He often has to wait for months to
get the right ruby, or the right pearl, or the right diamond to fit in
the right place. Those who do not know might think one gem just like
another, but the artist knows. He has been looking at gems, examining
them under the microscope. There is a meaning in every facet, in every
shade of color. He sees blemishes which the ordinary eye would never
detect.

"Finally he secures his jewels and arranges them in some artistic form,
which results in a masterpiece. The public does not know the reason why,
but it will instantly realize that the work of the artist is in