World-Famous French Violinist to Give Four Concerts Jacques Thibaud, greatest of French violinists,/ and numbered among the world's foremost artists, will give a series of concerts here at the end of April and the beginning of May, in continuation of a world tour that began in Septem-Ler 1926 and has taken him through some 16 different countries including England and the United States He comes here under the direction of Mr. A. Strok, who, by the way, will be back in Shanghai within a day or two, after a hurried trip abroad and in which he hus succeeded in booking a number of celebrated artists for appearance here.
Incques Thibaud ig outstanding among violinists for several reasons. Not the least of these is the touch of romance in his early career. Entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 13 after a number of years training by his father, he soon attracted the attention of the great Marsick whose pupil he became. But, unlike certain others, he did not pass from the conservatory into immediate public favour. He was discovered when playing in the Cafe Rouge, Paris, by the great orchestra conductor, Colonne, who invited Thibaud to join his orchestra as second violin.
Shortly afterwards, he became concert meister of the orchestra, and was soloist on numerous of occasion. Paris soon acclaimed him particularly after hearing which, by the way fat one of his concerts.
His native French temperament, above all, marks him from the not ed artists whom we have heard thus far, impressing itself upon his playing to a distinctive degree. It is in no disparagement of those whom we have heard here hitherto, that we say that this distinctiveness will be more than welcome.
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