The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-22

tinguished singers who owed their art to
him. He was only 80 when Jenny Lind,
who had been using her voice improperly,
came to him With q chronic hoarseness. He
heard her sing.
aYou have no voice left he said to her
frankly.
She was only 81 at that time, however,
and they set to work to get back her voice.
1t returned better than it ever had been,
and she sang for a long time afterward.
was In 1s4l-Garcia received % francs or 81
q lesson.
Garcia, as Jenny Lind told In her ex-
Periences with him, took very. little interest
IN his pupils outside Of their work. He
not willing to do all the work he exaoted Of
them and had q particular horror Of the
amateur with money who only wanted to
say that she had studied with Garcia.
He was importuned by one woman OF
at any cost. He therefore invited her and
her mother, who was also importuning him,
to take her daughter into his classes to listen
to one OF his lessons. One Of his advanced
pupils a called on to sing a very DIFFICULT
had conquered its hardest passages and
really seemed to sing 1t very well. But
her teacher refused to be satisfied. He
made her repeat over and over certain
phrases until 1t seemed she could not have
CLS btIOuStu W luhkc ADOtQcT cuOfC. rlD8lly,
however. she gained his approval. Such
insistence vastly no means unusual on his
part. although be had an object in 1t OF this
occasion.
Long before he had told the pupil that
she was al right the amateur and her
minute the young pupil had been allowed
to finish they rose to their feet, prepared to
leave. They had seen enough to convince
them that even the reputation Of having
s so4 s,seh VIII ~ o1 the graf Tat G ar a, was , no reward reward
Of a desire to join his glasses.
Garcia believed that the present is just
as glorious a time as the past and had no
despair as to the supply Of beautiful voices
In the world. He thought there were
have any confidence in a restoration of the
art OF singing. which he thought had dis
appeared forever. It was certainly, how
ever. the teachers point OF view that led
him to attribute the decline in ford music
who could sing such passages. He thought
that the composers OF the day wrote as
they do because they could not find men
and women capable of interpreting iorid
music as 1t should be sung.
and anecdotes concerning the Garcia family,
OF whose place In the world Of music be
was very proud, and he intended to use
these in preparing a history Of the family.
He lost them all, however, and in the later
years Of his life was unable TO recall many
Of the stories which he desired to appear
in the book, 30 1t was abandoned. Only his
writings on music survive. His invention
Of the laryngoscope won for him reoogni-
ton from the physicians as well as from
his own profession. He has described
instrument.
zone day In the autumn Of 1854, he wrote,
Il was strolling In the Palais Royal when
suddenly / saw the two mirrors OF the laryn-
goeoope in their respective positions Just
as II the instrument were before my eyes;
went straight TO Charriere, the surgical
instrument maker and asking IL he happened
to possess a small mirror with q long handle
was supplied with a dentists mirror. Re-
turning home, I placed against the uvula
the little mirror (which ! heated with warm
water and carefully dried); then flashing
on It's surface with a hand mirror q ray, Of
sunlight, I saw at once the CLOTHS wide
open before me, 80 fully exposed that l
could see G portion Of the traohea. From
what / then Witnessed It was easy to con-
olude that the theory attributing to the
sound was confirmed, from which It follows
that the different positions taken by the
arynx In front Of the throat have no action
whatever in the formation Of sound.
That so few eminent pupils OF Garcia may
be mentioned to-day Is no reflection on
that he taught Jenny Lind and many Of the
singers that he turned out had great careers
in their time. Fifty years from now 1t will
be difficult to rea lie the eminenoe Of some
Of the Marchesi list whose names are very
well known to-day.
dGaroia had not had anything that could
be called q voice for thirty. years before he
teacher in New York, abut be could make
eound enough to teach . punil iust what he