The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-09-06
MUSIC ANp woMEN,s CLUES.

Foreign Artists Owe Much to Feminine
Activity.
The coming musical season viii bring
to the United States the usual number
Of Virtuosos. and the pianists and the
singers and the violinists will again
travel the length and breadth of the
land. Perhaps in some former seasons
there have been more noted artists, but
there viii be plenty of material to oc-
cupy the attention of the women's nu-
steal clubs throughout the country.
The majority Of the artists who come
here would never be able to make an
American tour but for these womens
clubs which show how women can real
ly be useful in advancing the interests
of music without endeavoring to. cons
pose or do other creative things Of the
kind.
When an agent visits a city to secure
an engagement for an artist he goes d.
rectly to the president of one Of these
clubs. The president, after hearing his
proposal, puts the question before the
members of the governing committee,
and they decide whether or not they
can afford to pay the price asked for
the artist. 1..
The sum asked may be two hundred
dollars or 1t may be four hundred dol-
lars. The women when they accept a
| performer try to sell the tickets Them
selves, giving first choice to the club
members and letting in the public af-
| terward. .=..-
Without this guarantee and the infiu-
ence of the club members many small
towns would never hear the well known
artists. Managers would be afraid ito
undertake to give concerts in small cit
les where the musical taste is not high
! ly cultivated and the public is indiffer-
ent to high class music. All over the
country these clubs have done Won
derful missionary work in bringing to
! the people Of the smaller cities the best
of the virtuosos.
| 1t rarely happens that these organi-
cations are not able out of their own re-
sources TO pay the honorariums asked
| by the great artists, although one club
in western city last year paid to a So
prano two thousad dollars for song
recital, and it was, moreover given
OIlLy =lIleIilUEIo VI lHt GluB Ing
outside public not being admitted at all,
/ Often women's clubs will in the case
Of famous artists pay certain sum to-
ward the receipts Of the performance,
| guaranteeing as much as it can afford
and taking the choice Of seats, It rare
lily happens that a club can afford to
pay more than six or seven hundred
| dollars.
These clubs have also developed a set
of women iInpressarios, who control
certain parts Of the country and are
able by the skill they use in dealing
with their own sex to arrange the en-
gagements OF artists on much better
terms. They will take the singers Of
/ players, for instance, to give concerts
in half dozen cities in a certain terri
tory. Then they viii journey from
town to town selling the artists to the
different clubs.
One Of the best known Of these wo-
men impressarios controls the entire
northwest, and managers are always
eager to do business with her, so capa.
Bile has she proved herself Her princi,
pal value to the managers comes from
the fact that she has the entire conf
dence of the musical societies, which
viii always take artists on her recon-
mendation. New York Sun. IA"