Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — CORNELIUS VAN VLIET. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CORNELIUS VAN VLIET.

Cornelius Van Vliet, the Dutch ’cellist; came to this country from Rotterdam in 1911 and within a few months was playing in concerts with Tetrazzini and Mary Garden. Soon the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra took him on a tour as a soloist. Some New York and Chicago music critics have written him up in the papers as the greatest ’cellist in the country. When he played in St. Louis he played some of Fritz Kreisler’s compositions, and the GlobeDemocrat said he played them as well as the composer himself. He came directly from concert work in New York to play in the Lindquest-Allen-Van Vliet Company during the present Chautauqua season. -Music critics of Chicago and New York describe his ’cello playing as being Railway between that of the virtuoso and the scholarly artist, one being the brilliant executant, the other the penetrating interpreter.