Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-09-24

able American community can be inn
agined In larger cities there arc
teachers Of piano or voice who earn
as much as St0,0 600 q year. In smaller
places those who are thoroughly COM
petent get az least q better living than
they would AVE been likely 10 secure
II they a become. say. clerks. stem
ographers or bookkeepers. Again. the
openings for teachers ln private
schools ard seminaries at salaries
ranging from a feR hundred 30 three
thousand dollars a year are numer-
Gus and steadily increasing More
than loo colleges iu the United States
nave music departments Again. not
a rev young women have taken con-
serVetory work in piano tunfng and
have discovered that there Is = lucra-
tive field Of usefulness in this line In
deed. "a is said Co be impossible to-
meet the demand Tor expert tuners
There Is hardly amy American city 81
$4,000 Inhabitants where a Young
man or young woman. thoroughly
Fersed ln the mechanism Of the piano
and The organ. cannot expect 10 earn
IN excess 81 @ thousand dollars "a year
ON O OF these and many other
openings, although the chances Of the
person OF sverige talent FOR stage APP
~pearancp are none too many. and for
attaining great prominence on the
tNhAAAfE Stage ARE very HFA NUfEFH. NNf Z
nearly all the graduates Of h~igh-grade {
American music schools seem "a 81
reasonably certain. II possessed Of or
binary cummo sense. 60 make their !
way in the world. When Colonel Saw
age advertised for a flower girl chorus
for his production ~ ''Parsifai" iu
England more than e thousand Young
Americans presented themselves. But
the plethora 81 American beauties
FE4a rHNnmhfgMTN- IfFN MT go r,ta.H g..
the muniftreuce of the compensation
offered a. 20 the general glamour ~
the stage and the particular desira-
hility ~ appearance IN so famous a
production.
Men in the United states are gen
orally less ready than women to take
the musical profession seriously. This
Is particularly trup Of the educated
classes from which the ranks o. the
lther professions are recruited There
IT, however, q tendency now for coll
.cgc bred young men to thiHk 0f music
As something which they may take up
instead ~ law, ministry. medicine Or
engineering Some. like Frederick S.
Converse. a young Harvard man who
uttered upon a business career but
'aund the call Of music too strong 10
have discovered In musical com
position a very interesting field. Since
he production OF his opera. The Pine
n Desire. by conservatory students
n Boston two wears ago.. Mr.. Com
'erse has had several introductions %
NeW York audiences and has become
recognized as Of the coming COM
Another graduate Of Harvard who +
become very popular in New York
+ Francis Rogers, who has added f,
echnical power 10 the manner In .
which he used 90 sing ulco and college
ongs and has met with great success
20 the coucert stage Herbert With
rspoon Is another co~liegian. a grad- &
Of Columbia who has gained
professional ard social favor MS {
singer. The attention that Is now
aid e. music I'M the cnlleres-paruc- /
larlv where such aH alliance as that Z
hat has heen concluded between the !
ldest Of American universities. Har- Z
and the New England ConserVa- F,
Dry Of Music. Boy which work done IN {
he conservatory can DO counted to- Z
.ard Harvard dcgrccs-is helping. UNI =
ouhtcdly. TO induce more and more Of !,
be educated young men of the coun- I
~ 10 compete for the very consider \
financial and artistic rewards 81 =
he musical profession .
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