The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-28
SCHOOL OF ACCOMPANYING
NEW FORM OF INSTRUCTION AND
VALUABLE TO ALL sINGERs.
Young Women Taught How to he.
come Invaluable to Public Sing
ers-The Sympathetic TempeFa.
ment IL Necessary to Success.

Most people can do business successfully
together. provided they know something
of each others temperament and endow-
ments their general bent and inclination:
but for partners TO leap into instant CO.
operation cffhand. as II were. all but blind
folded as 10 each others characteristics.
with no previous acquaintance or fore
warnings to so by. and yet achieve felici-
tous results, is another matter. It II this
blindfold partnership, with music for the
sphere Of acfion. that the woman principal
OF Fifth avenue studio In New York
aims TO teach and does teach to . varied
rupilage. says the New York Sun. School
OF Accompanying Is lettered on the outer
door. As the visitor awaits entrance
sounds Of the thread Of theme broken
into abruptly AZ though the singer gasped
and halted at the very height Of melody
or an aria rendered off-key for bar or
two. then resuming the normal tone, come
from an inner chamber.
II teach my pupils presence OF mind, q
main requisite for a valuable accempan.
list" says the principal ~ the school, a
feminine Baeieker in field hitherto with
on, map or guidesook. Il have played ac-
compartments In New York for ten years
and have my own dilemmas 20 go by in
teaching others Every one knows that to
read music readily Is the irst essential for
an accompanis,. but, no matter how able
or fluent a woman might be in this regard
II say woman because nearly all accom-
panlsts ara women--if she did not have
GOODNESS ard the tact to do the right thing
In emergency she would no. all the place
Even the most accomplished. bes..versed
singer Is likely 10 have slips and msshaps
once in a while. HIS voice gets husky or
he sings of key Just for a minute The
expert accompanist must be able TO 'fill In
these awkw-.rdnesses. as II were, by In
tuition. and she must pat IN chords not
written In the score 10 bridge over the
gap, and give ether help for the singer 10
right himself by. The only way to drill a
pupil fer correct accompanying ix to I'm
form her on mistakes. and. although that
sounds like a paradox. 10 Ii perfectly prac-
teal. AS FAR as possible when giving 4
delineafion I try 10 fores,aii all the SLIPS
and backsets tha. a singer is heir TO. and
that an secoTnpanss; may Re called upon
to toe over, and 50 my pupils. after TAX.
Ing the thorough course. ara immune to
getting ratified. az the slang In, and arc
finished In something else than mere stere-
osyped acconp anyment playing by rule and
measure.
The effective requisites for the rrores-
sion are syu1gashy--os course with thor
o0gh music knowledge for a groundwork
tact ard aiartahiey. The successful &C.
compliment player mist Re sabservsen..
naass fss conten, 70 Re merely a back
groun. but at the same time the mos,
versatile ard responsive Of harkgrrundA
She mas. have q warm heart and cool
head. The reason that men are nr rspps,-
lar. or, as 4 rule. successful, aecona,a n.sts
IL h.cause they lack the unasserssveness
an9 plIarcy % a woman player Tee man
with ABILITY enough 10 be an aocompAniss
- apt to seek mere prominence. ard. any
how. The masculine ,ossch - too positive
Accompanying n essentially q woman's
Geld ard oos occupation at least THAI she
is noe Ekeay 70 he sacrisntesi In Il pays
well no the proper practitioner
TIA musical directory % New York
shows from tersy to s!ty professional a1.
conapxnssss. was3e TIA list ~ resident snd
visiting singers likely to need such ssrvaeo
suns away - iR,o e. hunArsdA oG1~.