THERE-WERE • SOME • WHO • SAID* IN• LISZTS -DAY-THAT-THE • PIANO •NEVER • COULD •BE TRULY • GREAT as AGAIN • IN • PAGANINI S • TIME •THERE • WERE • THOSE • WHO •RIDICULED THE •IDEA• OF •THE •VIOLIN •AS •A •CREAT •RECITAL • INSTRUMENT
THE-MASTER-WHO-DISCOVERS-AMI-FIRST-PRESENTS-HITHERTO-UNDREAMED-OF-POASIBIUTIES rOR-HIS-INSTRUMENT-MAY-AT-EmST-ElND-UNBELIEVERS-BUT-IN-THE-END-HE-TRIUMPHS THE • PUBLIC • ACCLAIMS • HIS • GENIUS • AND •THE• UNBELIEVERS • ARE ־ FORGOTTEN iHi^J
THE • HARP • HAS •NOT • • IN • THE-PAST • • BEEN • RECOGNIZED •AS • AN • INSTRUMENT • OF as REAL• CONCERT •POSSIBILITIES• BECAUSE • N■•THE-HANDS-OF-THE• USUAL• HARPIST• IT■ HAS •HAD •NO •GREAT •POWER • VARIETY• OR• INTERPRETIVE •VALUE-A5 •A-50L0 INSTRUMENT
BUT'THE •SENSATIONAL ־ SUCCESSES • OF-ALBERTO • SALVI • HAVE •SHATTERED • SUCH-NOTION STIATE MADE-PUBLIC •AND•CRITICS •ALIKE-REALIZE-THAT-THE-HARP- IN • SALVI5•HANDS•HAS-BECONE
A •NEW• GREAT • INSTRUMENT
To quote the actual words of the critics:
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1 HINK the harp is limited? SALVI forever
dispells such opinion!’’ —Nashviile Tennessean. “SHATTERS such notions —Chattanooga Times. “Harps have been and men have played them but never before have we heard such magnificent thrilling sounds.”
—Milwaukee sentinel. “Never has there been such mastery.”
—Chicago American. “Think the harp is tinkling, gentle?
Then hear SALYI play.” —n.y.Eve. Man. “Frankly we did not know that the harp could be so expressive.” —■Cleveland Plain Dealer.	‘He has revealed new vistas of pos-
sibilities.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger. “HaS SOUnded UnknOWn depths —San Antonio Express. It is hard to believe that there is such music in the world.” —Austin American. Such
Volume, such fairy pianissimo, SUCH VARIETY.”
—Montreal Star.
IT is useless to say that ‘you do not care for the harp as a solo instrument’ for unless you have heard SALVI you have not heard the harp at its best.” —Milwaukee Sentinel. No man has ever played as he plays.
—Toronto Mail and Empire. ‘For the FIRST TIME harp music becomes more than a mere series of graceful arpeggios
and long drawn out chords.’ *—Hamilton, Canada, Spectator. II!
becomes an orchestra of many instruments—a great choir of voices.” —Milwaukee Journal. “VARIETY UN-GANN Y.” —Toronto Mail and Empire.	“Dynamic tones—
stupendous effects” —Memphis News-Scimitar. “Undreamed of
POWER.” —N. Y. Sun-Herald.
4 VSUAL harpists have UTTERLY FAILED to realize the possibilities of the instrument—have confined themselves to trivialities.” —Sioux City Journal. But “SALVI has MODERNIZED the harp.”— Chicago Daily News. “Has made it an instrument of POWER, CHARACTER.”-*, r. ^ “Has raised it to A HIGHER PLANE OF ART.” -ChicagoEve. journal. “A far cry indeed from the old tinkling harp repertory.” —n. y. x«״«.
Generally a harp recital would be insufficiently varied, but there is no danger of monotony in SALVI’S performance.”—n. y. Tribune. “He DESTROYS MONOTONY, dazzles both the eyes and ears.”-AT. r.^mmVa».“One forgets—in sheer wonder at what the instrument can be made to accomplish.” —Minneapolis Daily News. “Forgets that he is listening to the harp and hears the many instruments of the orchestra—forgets the artist and enters the world of imagination and dreams.” —Sicmx City Journal. For Salvi is “A weaver of dreams.”-״, y. Eve. Man. “He suggests various instruments with his harp.” —N. Y. Eve. Sun. “The hushed mystery of a whole string choir —Minneapolis Journal. and “ORCHESTRAL
EFFECTS.” —Philadelphia Public Ledger. —Cleveland Plain Dealer.—Minneapolis Daily News. —Atlanta Journal.
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