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and I were listening to a recording of The Magic Flute and he called my attention to a beautiful melody that was not repeated elsewhere in the score. Carl said the melody was an additional [[strikethrough]] largess from [[strikethrough]] gratuity from the largeness of Mozart's spirit.

Carl's generosity extended to such an affection interest and encouragement of younger artists that a number of his former students have remained devoted to him. He cared greatly that all of his students should do good work. Recently Carl told me of exchanging paintings with Mr Mirasheta, a younger colleague, and of how proud he was too hang Mirasheta's work in his bedroom. I came to know a few of Carl's former students, especially: Roy Medders and Billie Wismer, whom he taught at the Uni. of Georgia; Stanley Boxer, Leonard Brenner and Ara Klausner from the Art Students League; and Mrs. Jo Ellen Browning, who was a students of Carls at Louisville. I am sure in the future the world of art will know even more of Mr. Holty's gift for creating beautiful paintings; of his fascination with artistic structure; and of his interesting and significant life. Let me therefore finally touch on another important aspect of Carl's personality-his courage and ability to look like straight in the face. Carl was a great admirer of Balzac and some years ago he gave me the novel 'Cousin Betty'. I noticed he had marked a passage in which Balzac commented on the need for courage in the fulfillment of an artists life and work. Balzac says in part;

"And work again is a weary struggle, alike dreaded and delighted in by those lofty and powerful nature who are often broken by it... If the artist does not throw himself into his work as Curtius sprang into the gulf; as a soldier leads a forlorn hope without a moments thought; and if when he is in a crater he does not dig on as a miner does when the earth has fallen in on him; if he contemplated the difficulties before him instead of conquering them one by one, like the lovers in fairy tales, who to win their princesses overcomes ever new enchantments; the work remains incomplete, it