The sun., 1899-12-31
LAUNCHING AN AMATEUR.
THE OBsTdCLEs dND TRIALS 7HAT
BEsET THE BUDDING sfNGER.

new hork Appearance F""'r" H'""'
Launching an amateur upon a musical career
is task that makes the labors Of Hercules look
easy by comparison"
The speaker was New York manager who has
probably sct as many musical craft oiioat AZ any
man in the business.
Look at that" he added. waving his hand
toward pile Of paper that covered the Office desk,
ran over upon the chairs and table and driftcd
across on the floor Those are all letters, letters
from budding genius Every Of the writer's
is phenomenon and wants to know when he
may give me the Joy of knowing him and intro
ducing him TO the world which is waiting to pitch
laurels at him. We are positively showed under
with applications. Do l give all the applicants
chancc7 I couldn't do 1t II the year had u thou.
sand days instead Of three hundred and sixty
five. We 60 through the letters and pick out
those tha, sound least impossible one learns
TO know from all sorts Of little straws how the
wind blows Now here is n young woman who
writes that she has a soprano voice that has been
much admired She has bccn singing in a church
choir in Lonclyvillc and has sung in concert,
In all the little TOW ns around there She cncloscs
clippings from the local papers You know
those clippings According 10 them, Patti and
Meiha aren't a circumstance to the girl from
Lonclyyillc and the spheres stop making their
own music and listen 20 her when she sings
There isn't one chance in ten thousand that We
could do anything with that girl: ~ we'll write
her that our list Is full and We cannot do any.
thing for her Hard on her? Oh, you needn't
pity her She's very happy as she is--probably
having a much better time than she would have
as a mediocre professional. even II she had talent
enough for the role
The girl I m sorry for is thcdne who has studied
hard under reliable masters who knows what
good music is and hasylofty aims and ideals
who has given thesbest years of her life TO
preparation and stakcd all her hopes and chances
on musical SUCCESS and comes within an
ace Of being equal To IT, but falls Just short That's
misfortune that even a hard.hcartcd manager
can appr,ciat. I've actually Aguniz.d over
the effort TO let such a girl down easily I'm
not a sentimental man: but there have been times
when have felt like a public cxectiuncr A
girl came here last Saturday with her mother
They were ladies' ltwas easy 10 see that, though
the girl was plain and hadn't any sort Of a stage
presence She had studied all her life. first in
Cincinnati and then in Paris Her father had
died suddenly leaving them pcnnilcss The
daughter had come home and hoped 10 supper,
the family by concert work. She was desperately
In earnest. but she didn't hid for sympathy: no,
bit Of It, She was Just business iikcas she
pale, anu all she asked was that l should
hear her sing Well, ! did. and she sang an
aria from "1ravia,a" fairly we'll She had cvi-
IDENTIFY been well taught but her voice was HOPE
l.ssly thin and ,vithuu, color and sh, b,d,',
.e''s M eAu ,,l - '--r a.'e na,'''
al a'"'h y. pisono ihashetsm' 'nc in'sh' az
well have been listening TO music box. There
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around 70 other agents and letting her hopr die
nv inches Sh.took IL like a thurourbbI,s IN
say that Tor her-thanAed me- with her head up
and didn't attempt any appeal from the verdict
ou. .he no'Iei saS S'y'n osn'ne hFi ven as 'hey
went out ~'She' Ia gone INTO the haid~a'e
iHoie AHou''t .S'~ hN' u1AS woman
an appointment She studied hve years at the
!>ow England Conservatory. Then she went
abroad and studied for tire, years with lam.
peril, in Dresden. She sang a, o.cA,sgl con.
ccrts both In Dresden and Lcipslc and her news.
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clans SO seriously over there In this county
ono must learn to catalogue musical eriueisni.
especially IN the towns outs.dc OF .>cw York.
Our applicants send US clippings by the bushcl
and ! can CLASSIFY ,Aem at a clanes, There's
the personal friends variety. and the liant Waise
that damns and the ovasiyc hall II tn lal do. all
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