The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-20
S10,000,000 Last Year for
 First-CIaSS Music
PAY OF SOME MUSICIANS
Festivals Are Growing in Popularity and Americans Need Not Go Abroad Either for Study
 or Entertainment.
BY FREDERICK J. HAsklN.

oned. Of the $10,000,00O more than one- third was spent at two New York opera houses, the Metropolitan and the Man. haitian. The Four Hundred set the craze for grand opera, not so much because they know or appreciate good music, but because the boxes always offer such ad- mirable vantage ground for the display of jewels and Paris gowns. The would-be society folk must follow the lead and soon the houses are almost filled, leaving only occasional chairs here and there for real music lovers.
 The percentage of real music lovers is small. Less than 100000 people out of our S0,OO00OO population spent the $1O,00O- l 900 last season. Yet with so small a per- oentage asking 1t, America had last year the best musical attractions of the world, the willy manager, and the good American dollar so depopulating the music world of Europe that 1t is said not dozen good artists were left there.
 | While the control of music In America is undoubtedly German, the advertising methods are purely American, and tho best artists of the world owe their sue cess to the art and use 1t for all 1t IS 1 worth. Paderewsd and Kuebelk have
  gant fashion, and their press agents have | set a pace that has caused many others to give up in despair. It is claimed that Paderewski Is not nearly so true an artist as Lhevine, DAlbert, Terese Carreno, Busoni or Fanny Bloomfield Zesler, yet he received in his last season 5000 for | each two-hour concert, with an additional | ,00O from certain piano firm for using | their instrument exclusively. His seven | spring recitals brought him $460O0, or $32S5 an hour. Both he and Kubelik were made popular idols by advertising, so the more. conservative critics affirm, while others of equal or greater ability suf- fered by comparison.
 Mortz Rosenthal. who Is noted for his tremendous technique and lack of poetry" was imported by a rival piano house to the one which Paderewskf so obligingy advertised. It was a move to subsidize Paderewski, and the firms suc- cess was evidenced by the fact that the thrifty Pole was soon advocating the merits of the new instrument as valiantly as he had those of the old. The finest hotel in Russia is located in Warsaw l Poland, and 1t was built by the money that Paderewsk earned on his concert tours in the United States.
 | The pay of successful musicians Is | constant encouragement to the ambitious | amateur Melba received $2500 for each | appearance. Sembrich 5000, Flames the net receipts Nordiea $500 and Schumann- l Helnk the most popular woman on the | American stage, $lS00. It is not strange 1 that the knowledge of this causes so | many girls with voices to aspire to the | same lucrative places No wonder that when MT. Savage advertised for chorus | girls in "Parsifal," 1000 applicants re- | sponded. They all had dreams of the days l when they might be queens of song. Tn comparison with the income from other ! professions the salary of the occasional successful singer seems unbelievable. The annual earnings of the average qralihed | physician in the United States is not over 5000 a year. In 467 American cities the | teachers receive from $500 to 5000.
 The expense of preparation for musi- 1 cal career Is enormous and most of the money spent on musical educations falls | into foreign coffers. Berlin, which is just Iy called the musical center of the world has 120 musical schools, and the Ameri- can pupils in these institutions outnum- Der every other nationality except the | German. Every year We send over about 25O0 students, whose total annual eXpen- dtures are estimated to be from $2,000,000 to S3,000. GOO. When 1t Is considered that Berlin is only one of many musical cen- ters in Europe to which we send scholars it will be seen that our national outlay l in this respect is enormous. Dudley Buck is authority for the statement that nobody is justified in taking up the study of music with the idea of going into it professionally unless he has money enough 1 to pay all expenses. A prominent New York baritone has already spent $50000 on his voice and is still spending and | studying. The expense of musical edu- cation is usually from $250O to $5000, and | it means ceaseless practice, study and discouraging work
 The artist who, loves home and art equally has a trying time The world | calls, the plaudits are sweet, the money good to have, and yet the home life calls, too, and is hard to resist. Madam Zeis- i Ter, most artistic of women pianists, is | devoted to her home and her children. After a most exhausting concert tour she l will invariably catch the first train home ward, and during her first great success in Berlin she alternately wept over her little sons letters and rebelled against the art that held her in bondage. Madame | Schumann- Heink Is a notable home-lover, recent magazine pictures showing her | with her stalwart sons grouped around her, or busy in her kitchen like any other | genial haus-frau.
 1t was half a century ago that William | Mason went to Bremen to study and then began teaching in America He returned to be the guide, director and promoter of musical concerts. reali2a- l ton of his hopes may be found today in l the famous orchestfaS of Boston, Cnlca- go New York, Pittsburg and Philadel- l phia Festivals have become a regular institution and have more than once | transoended the usual ideas of artistic work with interesting results. The most l stupendous festivals ever undertaken were those given by Patrick s. Gilmore in Boston in 1860 and 1912. The first of these jubilee choruses had 10000 Voices. with an orchestra of 1000 pieces. The | number in the next festival, and introduced many novelties Artillery punctuated many of the numbers, solos were given by a bouquet of forty voices. grand pianos that would sound in an auditorium seat ing 10000 were used, military bands from France, England and Germany were brought over to take part, and prawny
 workmen came in to pound on fifty anvils during the Anvil Chorus" Johann
 Strauss and Franz Apt came to lead some
 of their productions The general criti-
 cism of the unique festival was, 'ft was
 not art, but it was thrilling
 The Cincinnati May festival brings to-
 gether each year large numbers of first
 class musicians. They have performed
 most ambitious music. and from their
 work there grew a series of operatc
 carnivals presenting the works Of Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner Chicago gave
 notable performances in 1882 and 1884 un-
 der the direction of Theodore Thomas.
 The little Moravian community at Beth l lehem Pa, which has the famous trom- l hane Easter service contributes greatly