The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-01-10
THE ToILING SINGERS
Our Musical Artists and their Teach
ers in Paris.
Grace Greenwood Talks About SING
ers-PecuIiarIsies OfAmerican Puo
pAIs-RepaIrIng Broken Voices.
&eIG.DenyIng StudentRs
tspsota1 correspondence


PARIS, Sept. 12.-There seems to be at
home an inexhaustible interest in American
students of music over here-those brave,
voluntary exiles-patient sojourners in
strange land, ardent young worshippers of
that most divine and elusive of the arts,
more q goddess than muse, end a most
capricious goddess, uncertain, coy and
hard to please" maddening and hooking,
irresponsives and yielding, cold and tender,
q very riana, fleeing from the fierce passion
OF an Acteon and descending to kiss sleep
ing EndymiOu. There is a world of I'M
written tragedy and not a little comedy in
the experiences of our young countrymen
and countrywomen who have come across
the cruel sea and passed through strange
scenes and trials manifold, led on and on by
the sirens of their own sweet, beguiling
voices, or by the ideally perfect tones OF
dream-violins, played before them like
: Arisrs lutte, ''T the air."
All know OF our already celebrated
singers and musicians now in Europe can
soon be told. Paris is, believe, to be dur.
ing the coming season, for the first time for
some years without an American ori4n6
donna as fixed star. Griswold is in Eng
land, Nevada is going to take possession of
her Castles in SPAIN" and that dainty little
singing bird, Van Zandt, is to quit her COM
Portable, gilded perch in the Opera Comique
for something more lofty in the Imperial
Theatre OF St. Petersburg. By the way,
that brave, alIoalive little woman, Emma
Abbott has been studying in Paris Van
Zandt's latest triumph, ''Lakna," and is to
present the charming role in English form
at home. Madame Marie Duran1, a grand
dramatic soprano, is to sing at the Italian
Opera In Paris, snd Miss Risley, enether
southern singer, hailing,, believe from
Galveston, is to remain in her fine position
at Pesth-
During the spring we heard in Paris, at a
concert remarkably fine performance on
the piano BY an American girl, young and
fair-Miss Virginia Rider. This artistic, as
modest as she Is clever, entered the straight
gate" of the Paris Conservative at twelve
years Of age, and remained there three
years, winning hono-s and brilliant exc
cution by her talent and untiring diligence.
She was then placed under the private in
szruction of Theodore Ritter, and seems to
have mastered much Of his delightful
method. one in which great force is softened
by exquisite grace. There is nothing super
AC4Al dDSub 0uASo LbAOoA OhO hees
bravely grappIed with the toughest Difficult
ties of her art, and what seems to the unmu-
steal, its profound mysteries-such as Char.
mony," ''Coinposition," "Orchestrstion, u
''Fugue' and ''Thorough-bass. Miss Riders
debut was made last year at the Crystal
Palace in London, and was a perfect sue
cess, one which, hope, win be often re.
Yoeated In America.
Our viclinists seem to be winning more
than their share of conservatory laurels
Miss Hardness, of Boston first prizel, is re
garded an admirable artistic TIE "little
Carpenter" of New York, is steadily building
up the fabric Of her fame. Though it i
something very delicate, pure and fanciful
like the dainty ivory structures of the east
il is not without foundation of considerable
strength. She is now under bonds to play In
the famous Colonne concerts, which Is al
important step forward for the little girl
Maud Powell, who reminds one by hel
bloom and freshness and the bright promis
Of her genius of the name Of her native city
Aurora, isnow In Berlin, studying under the
incompatible Joachim, who, after hearing
bar .rla7 in 1aRdRp, said: ~ expected +