Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-09-24
AMERICA ElDORAO0
FOR MUSICIANS Of
THE WORLD
OPERA STARS BETTER PAID
THAN RAILROAD CHIEFS
Many Get More For an Even
ings Performance than a
Great Many Americans Earn
in a Year.

New YORK. Sept 1&-Mith an enc
crEetic NeW York impressario plan
ming 90 distribute grand opera houses
% half a score u the larger cities Of
the United States. and with another
purVeyor al entertainment contracting
with 4 singer for 4 few songs al i
round price ~ $500. 00N. 30 looks as 10
Americans VIII shortly be listening
except that those IN the box seats
0ouf always iisicn-t0 more high
priced music than ever before Al
realty this country has acquired a rep
utatteu for paving musicians as they
are paid nowhere else iu the world.
Americans may not be- q musical ueo-
iie There are some who Say not Bu-
the people ~ this country clearly have
the price when something comes along
which j. believed TO Dc worth listen
ina in. Music aud money ought not
perhaps. 90 De Intimately associated
but. as things ARE. the people who
have the money generally get the best
music
with two grand opera combinations
IN competition and with the perma-
men orchesitas - several American
cities featuring distinguished insiru-
mentalists and vocal artists IN their
concerts up and down the country. IL
Us Impossible to say whether the sun
ply % distinguished foreign musicians
viii keep up with the demand and
- Nf#AfAAtN hNk ftAAAEkHuiN tNNI ANmFfH
frau girls IN greater numbers thar
ever before are studying for the on
cratic stage The prifs Ia the mu-
seal profession become greater and
greater each scar as for the blanks
WhN, ~ course youth argues that
these are numerous In every profess
sien what ailurcs Is The %undoubted
fact that prices have advanced far
over those Of earlier DAYS. when Si0e
q night was regarded as excellent pay
for the singer or Instrumental ptr-
former
Although musicians receive much
better compensation tn England than
nm the continent 81 Europe. tho, z
u ia generally understood. morg thpn 1
twice Hs much en- Now York as IN Lon
don Meiha, for example, according to
statements that have not been denied. I
4 paid IN the British capital abou,
AttN an evening. bat 600 New York She
has Al.h00. Cnlve. whose compcnsa-
ton is the same as Melba's iu Covent
Garden, o. gahled-or perhaps ID rs the
literal tFuth-to receive x2,ne0 for
each performance in New York city
Lehman ~ popular in Germany.
where she gets 425N "a uight-a very
high price for che thrifty music lovers
= The Fatherland 90 pay. her Amer
lean rate Is Se00.
So % goes through the whole list of
the grand opera favoritos Nordics
Louise Homer. Geraldine Farray. Em
ma Eames and the others are am said I
70 receive compensation in America /
which they could NOT expect "a gei
abroad Consequently. Is Is ne Won-
der hat American maidcns from
Maine o. Mexico covet The opera siur
crs career.
A considerable number 81 mon ma.
sicians. singers and instrumentalists. I
also do remarkably wen financially
earning bigger salaries iu q short sca-
son than most bank presidents in q
Years work Their chances. 81 course. I
are greater In America. Thus II Is
reported that g much ADVERTISED piln-
lst not long & played Tor see IS re-
ciial at Nuremberg and then received
10000 Tor "a series Of forty reeitals in
the United states Considering the
opportunities here % la not strange
that so wen Informed u musical critic
~ Henry r. Finck wrote recently in
The Nation The rewards 81 sue
cess in music are Indeed 90 great that
t is e wonder so few men compete for
them
There IS. Co De sure. another side 20
the story Beneath the ranks of the
very successful are thousands OF pro-
frssioual musicians who. even in this
country nf high prices manage az best
go get only a modest ltyinH. and some
Times hardly that sun DO is doubtful
~ they are worse OF thai the rcn.
Nrality ~ the moderately successful ln
other walks ~ life. The small saI4-
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