Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-18
CHAT WITH NORD|CA
Famous Singer Goes OH Record in
Favor OF the Home
Product.

Not a common privilege In the lives
of even the greatest of dramas deHo-
tees is that of opening a new theater,
and Nine. Lillian Nordica. who tonight
Will sing at Salt Lakes new Colonial.
is fully appreciative of the honor hc-
corded her. and her particular field
of dramatic art. by the occasion.
This tour has been n fortunate one
in that respect said Nine. Nordica,
when interviewed in her private ca,s
The Pilgrim" ut the Short Line depot
this morning. Il have already had the
honor of defeating new theater IN
the east, and to have the privilege
duplicated here i'll the west is a diver
sion indeed in the ordinary incidents
OF q tour across the continent.
With as charming a personality as
ever, and apparently in the full height
OF her development and power. Nordi-
cas- interest in the life she finds about
her seems anything but jaded
II must ask how your Tabernacle
choir is getting tlong?' was her first
query about Salt Lake. IT'S director.
| Mr.. Stephens, I remember we'll. and
the wonderful volume of its voices
You know 1t is seldom that so Very
many singers will come together. just
for their love of the art and without
hone Of re ward other than in the salts
faction that comes from seeing the
pleasure they afford to SO many OF their
fellows.
Il think often OF them, and hope
| they are successful and arc appreciate
| ed. It is too easy for you people who
| are near ut hand and may enjoy them
| so often. to rush to new people. and
| throw your applause to strangers mere
! " because they&are new. letting super
| Tor talent, and infinitely more devotion
! in your behalf, pass by with scant no..
! tice.
| CARE FOR Y JOUR- OWN
,pla subject esf acar, III y tior ,o,,r own
seemed one close To Nordicats heart.
Something of the spirit she evinced
to that actuated her plans to erect an
| sopera house on the Hudson which shall
duplicate in America the work Of the
! Frau Wagner home for opera in Ger
many coupling with it a school for.
| singers to which young American girls
shall be welcomed.
America was young once. SAID NOR
| dca 1T is not SO now. Once we had
| to import our operate talent, and de-
| votion to the people from across the
| water was n sign of proper interest
| and musical culture. Now, however,
| we have much more talent than oppor-
| tunity in America. The public call a
great singers voice gift from God.
| and speak of her talent merely as Il
! r. L.
| gives you is a gift for work--not mere
| casual effort-but hard single-minded
| work that must be kept up relentlessly
| and with never q pause for rest To
rest is to lose all. 1t is unjust and
| unfair to see the singer who has given
her profession this proper devotion,
| flung aside in a minute for the new,
that is merely new only to be returned
to after the new has proven that what
| No thpllphf tphlpSs pift aft
| er all carries the flaw that is ever
)! present until the work of preparation
| has been done.
| We in America must learn to care
for our own. The devotion our singers
| give their art is for US. l know
of your little Salt Lake girl who is
| studying abroad now, and still striving
in the hope that her opportunity will
come Miss Gates has done her work;
| it is for such young American girls as
she that my school and opera house are
especially Intended l hope through It
to see them get the chance at home
that for years seemed only to be open
to them across tbs, water. | myself
think the new singers of the next two
decades will have to do that. hope
the won't. at least.
Nine. Nord.ca drove over the city
from 1850 o'clock until 1880 today, and
called during her ride at the new thea
ter she Is to open this evening. She
was here o year ago at the head of the
/ Nielsen and has been here several
zeal festivals.
This tour, she said this morning. will
be the last save one to the west, and
after the next one is completed she
! will devote her whole time to her Hud-
son school and theater.