The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-05
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the other day, Il have decided that
music clubs and literary clubs are
mostly organized by amateurs in their
respective lines who having followed
George AIDES advice and tried 1t on the
Dox ONCE or the editor. without much
success, get together with Art for an
excuse and you listen to me and I'll
listen to YOU agreement as the under
lying basis of the organization. If it
were not for the Authors clubs 1
don't know what people would do
WIN WIN their rejected manuscripts and
their unsellab1e poetry and if it were
not Tor the music clubs there is many
an aspiring genius who would blush
unseen, kept off the concert or operate
stage by the Jealous scheming of estab-
lished artists.
Speaking of music, there's another
problem that has worried me for some
time which I've finally settled to my
own satisfaction. Now I'm fond of
music and i m only one of many who
70 good music and pay for the priv
llege II necessary. 1 like to hear an
artist and I like to hear a good ANA
teur, but have noticed that many of
the latter, who have spent time and
money in developing more or less
talent, who have heard much good
music in the big musical centers and
would naturally be supposed to enjoy
II, nine times out of ten don't care a
tupenny for it. They sit around and
look bored at the concerts, they criti-
c1ze unpleasantly all their amateur
rivals. they frequently miss a musical
event for economical reasons or be-
cause 1t interferes with social or
business agement-indeed although
they play or sing themselves and seem
to enjoy it they give no evidence of a
real and sincere love for the art. So 1
have come to the CONCLUSION that they
don't care for anybody's music except
their own-not that they always think
their own so good, but that they get
more enjoyment out of their own per-
formances than they do out of another
that is one hundred per cent better
| And shortly after l made this brilliant
discovery L met a girl who was frank
enough to admit it. She is a well
trained singer, has a good natural
voice. an excellent method. sings
artistically, with feeling and evident
lions. good bit of money has beer
spent on her musical education and
she has heard much good music but
she is no critic, and there are lots OF
musical ideas which seem to have es-
| capped her. The other day we were
talking about the Innes band concerts
and I asked her how she had liked the
| Wagerfan programmes, in my opinion
| the best the band played in Topeka.
! I didn't hear them she answered
| promptly. We were out three or -four
times and 1 rather liked the band, hui
you know don't really care for music
People suppose. I do because I sing an6
of course when 1 was having lesson:
I had to listen to a lot of artists bu
they usually bored me. I love to sint
not that 1 think L sing well. but
enjoy my own singing-the perform
ance, not the sound, 1 mean, but
ldon't care for other peoples music anc
shouldn't mind if 1 never heard an,
more of it
The Topeka man, who everybod,
agrees. has the best qualifications TO
president of the Eand-holders' Union
was under discussion.
The man said; But I heard of on,
girl he was with two times withou
trying to hold her hand.1
And the girl replied, "Well it mus
| have been the Venus de Milo
And that calls to mind that one sum
mer girl talking to another, in glitter
ing generalities, of course, for girl
never kiss and tell'' names and dates
confessed: He kissed me the secont
time he met me-
The other one: what caused TIL,
delay?"