The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-24
W0nan'SW0rld
SHOULD SING MORE
Nine. Lehman Thinks Americans
Listen Too Much.
SINGING IN FAMILY CIRCLE
Progress in Music Depends on
Bringing Singing Into Gen.
eral Use In the Home.
SINGING IN FAMILY CIRCLE

gVocally the browning event of the winter
musical season will be the song recital of
Nine Lilli Lehman tomorrow night. Fol
lowing a group of the finest classical and
modern songs in whose rendition she has no
rival Nine. Lehman will give a group OF
Wagner excerpts from Tristan and Isolde"
which give scope to her greatest gifts both
singer and an actress.
In the Wagner Interpretation Reinhold Her
man, the piano virtuoso, who assists Nine.
Lehman in her recitals, will play an i'm
portant part. Mr.. Herman is Wagner
student whose expostions OF the works OF
Wagner are compared very favorably with
those of Walter Damrosch. Mr.. Herman Is
a composer whose merit Is recognized and ap-
preciated. At the next meeting OF the New
York Manuscript society on Jan. % the en-
tire program will be from Mr.. Herman's latest
work, and opera entitled "Vineta Some OF
the best artists Of New York will assist in the
production. which will be private one in
the Astor gallery.
While voice and superlative training has
done much for Nine. Lehman, the greatest
Of her artistic gifts is her intelligence This
fact makes her an invaluable critic and IN
structor. She knows why she does every
thing and she knows how and why all things
in music should be done. This gives great
Importance to a recent utterance OF the
diva upon the future of American singers and
of music in America. Nine. Lehman said:
"If individuals in America develop their
musical talent as America has developed ners
as a nation, there is no telling what will be
the result In another decade. feel cannot
help saying this to all those women who sing
because, although it Is part OF practical
advice, it is also deep feeling that we
foreigners have about your American sing
ers.
st is many years since came first to this
country to sing and it would seem and sound
incredible if l should give you a truthful
comparison between the artistic atm osphere
Of America then and now l heard many
of your matrons and maids who sing and
had the pleasure of singing before thousands
OF your women, but never, In my most
sangune moments did think that your mu-
steal world would show the evolution and de-
yelopment that the last decade has evolved
and developed. A few years ago, a delicate
aria that the audiences Of the old world would
quickly appreciate and vigorously applaud
was cloves labor lost" in the United States.
To-day, this very, season, a huge audience
will resound with thunder of applause the
moment the last strains Of this same aria
have died away For to-day, you Americans
are beginning to know what is good and fine
In music, and with your characteristic new
world agility of thought, you have, in say
five or six years, learned what it took Ger
many quarter Of a century to learn. TheI
why should you not learn to be great
singing nation?. And, in answering my OWL
question. l would say to you who sing a.
my first advice sing more, listen less. 70,
listen too much; you sing too little. You
should lead the way to be a singing nation.
why not? You have the best in the Worlt
as your tutors. This is the promised land,
the land of milk and honey for the foreign
singer The worlds great artists are brought
to your stages. Yohr three great eastern
cities are the Ultima Thule nowadays, to al
great musicians What foreign artist Of re-
nown whose ambition does not impel him tt
say, Let me, too, sing before New York
Philadelphia and Boston Your opera-house!
are magnificent structures. You have, to sup
port the stars, a wonderful ensemble Of talen
men and women who sing the second part
as they have sung the first parts in the roya
opera houses. But, with all this superb tut
ton to which you listen so eagerly, you d.