Arizona republican., 1907-09-22

than $500 for q whole years work; the
average compensation of players in the
permanent orchestras of the United
States certainly exceeds this. in a
comparatively short season; and they
have chances to supplement their in
come BY summer work. by teaching
throughout the year. and by occasional
engagements. The most famous and
/ highly trained Of American orchestras.
one which New Workers always hear
with pleasure. is the Boston Sym
/ phony. The salaries are said To be
modest in this organization. which IL
kept together only through the guar
antee of Major Henry l.. Higginson to
make up the annual deficit; but. on
the other hand, the positions are per-
manent for men who continue to adj
vance professionally. the summer
months are easily made productive as
well as pleasurable. and a very con-
siderable number Of the members Of
/, the orchestra receive salaries as teach
/ ers at the New England Conservatory
of Music, the oldest and largest of
American schools Of professional study
in music, to which their fame as vir-
tuosi annually attracts many students
who would otherwise go abroad for
their musical eduaction.
The reasonable certainty that there
is a living in teaching music is un-
questionably what induces many
hard headed American business pan
to spend money on his children's fnu-
steal education. a city like New York
where there are two thousand or more
millionaires. and many times that
number of families with INCOMES in
excess Of $4,000. supports thousands
of well-paid music teachers. Ii is said
that four women students out of five,
even of those who are determined at
the outset to become foremost opera
singers or concert performers, end up
by teaching. Boston rather than New
York has always been the great source
of highly trained teachers Of music.
OF the more than $500 students at the
New England conservatory last year,
of whom a large majority were wo-
men. it is probable that most will be
teaching a few years hence.
There is no occasion TO pity them.
4 worse condition than that of the
successful music teacher in a COM
Portable American community can be
imagined. In larger cities there are
teachers of piano or voice VINO earn
as much as $4,000 year. In smaller
places those who are thoroughly COM
petent get at least better living than
they would have been likely to secure
! if they had become. say, clerks. stem
ographers or bookkeepers. Again. the
openings for teachers in private schools
and seminarieS at salaries ranging
from a few hundred to three thousand
dollars a year are numerous and stead
: lily increasing. More than 100 colleges
I in the United States have music de-
partments. Again, not a few young
women have taken Conservatory work
! in piano tuning and have discovered
that there is lucrative field of use
fulness in this line. Indeed, ii is said
to be impossible to meet the demand
for expert tuners. There is hardly
any American city of 5000 inhabitants
where a young man or a young wo-
man. thoroughly versed in the mechan
ism of the piano and the organ, cannot
expect to earn in excess of a thousand
dollars a year.
On account of these and many other
openings although the chances of the
person of average talent for stage ap-