The sun., 1908-03-22

| their PAGES they are usually m unnt 0oh-
dltlOn 10 do themselves justice. AFTER they
have sung they are generally allowed 70
60 away quietly and uphindered, II de-
| BpOndent.
Sometimes a committeeman stops a de-
parting singer 10 take the singers name
and address. This cheers the singer SONS
and lets him down easier, % I were,
In very many instances the succeesiui
candidate Ia the one who has learned 70
sing gospel hymn temperamentauy
| Many committeeman are very good per-
sons who love gospel hymns and are AZ
fected by one sung well. II e true that
many sucoessful candidates Of this CLASS
subsequently prove 10 be unable 10 nan
die satisfactorily the usual class of music
handed out by the choir director Tor regular
Sunday use and some very painful fasoos
have occurred
But gospel hymns do not always win
for their singers. As rule the committee
men sucoumb TO a male singers rendition
| Of such number. Women ara more
successful with other music.
There is soprano here who has been
uniformly successful In obtaining one OF the
| highest class Jobs open each year by singing
| frllly music in a fnlly way. She came
here with a musical education OBTAINED
abroad and imported with IL such a way
has no show at all and invariably fails
PROSTATE at her feet and Offers her the JOB
Even her friends among singers vote her
! a very unsatisfactory soloist, and members
Of quartets have often made what
protests they dared against her being en-
gagged. One year has proved to be her
limit in a church.
Then there is the case OF a Paris
trained soprano who came here recently
and whose experience has added another
chapter TO the gossip OF the vagar1es Of
music committees This woman made
very immediate success among whatever
singers heard her and they declared that
she had a lovely voice OF unusual range
and Of most excellent smooth method.
Yet she was rejected in several churches
for sopranos regarded by other singers as
Of very inferior material
In one church her smoothness and ease
Of singing told against her amazingly,
She had sung with Verdure Clad, from
The Creation for the committee. There
are three high B fats in II and they we're
too easy FOR her, IL proved, for committee
man said Of her work
'She's 1ne singer but guess she cant
go very high. The piece she selected TO
sing for w didn't have any very high notes
and ii she had had a very high voice | guess
it, This church has chosen a soprano
whose high B fats are not easy for her.
Curiously enough, THE Creation pro-
vided a like illustration a few days later In
the case Of tenor who sang In Native
Worth for a committee. His voice was OF
robust character and OF not very high
color, but was OF considerable power and
Of good range and easily handled.
He was proceeding fuently through the
song taking the numerous high lis with
such ease that the chairman Of the commit
tee said to the writer: That fellow :
barytone He's got that piece transposed
down. | haven't heard him sing high
note yet The writer produced an A
tuning fork, struck II just as the sololst
reached the first high A in the solo ana
held II 10 the committeeman ear
That's the tone he ought TO be singing,
and he is singing IT, He has the piece up
where II il written the committeeman
vas informed.
'Id never have thought it, replied the
committeeman, and let the sololst depart
without further attention.
The tenor who was subsequently en-
gagged is an emotional and muslcianly
singer, but he is accustomed 10 look long
and hard at a solo taking him TO high 4,
and then has IL transpOsed down bit II
he can
But few changes have been made in the
leading churches in Manhattan. At the
Church Of the Divine Paternity new tenor
and new bassJ have been engaged TO
succeed Albert Quesnel, who goes TO Paris
10 sing in the Opera COmique, and Gwyhm
Miles, who has gone TO 81. Louis 70 live.
Their SUCCESSORS are J. Barnes Wells, from
the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church and Tom Daniel from ST. Bartholo-
news.
Cora Remington will be the new soprano
at the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, where
Mr.. Rockefeller attends service. Lucy
Marsh is 70 move from an East Orange
church to the Madison Avenue Reformed
Church. Frank Croxton, the basso, has
been engaged TO sing at the Brick Church.
He is now at the Madison Avenue Metho-
dist Episcopal Church,
Reed Miller is 20 leave Plymouth Church
OF BROOKLYN to take the tenor place left
vacant at the Brick Church by Edward
p. johnson, who Is now the leading tenor
in ~The Waltz Dream" which engagement
he is soon TO leave TO take up spring con-
cert contracts made before he had ever
heard Of "The Waltz Dream He has
been notified by the musical societies and
orchestra leaders with whom he entered
into contractual relations that they in
tend to hold him TO his enga gements His
success on the stage they have told him,
has made him more valuable than ever
to them.
There are many concert singers attached
to New York churches who are drawing
cards in other towns and who are taken
as a matter OF course by the New York
churches employing them Visitors OF
musical turn Of mind often try to hear
these singers in their churches, provided
they can locate them. No mention is ever
made Of them In the programmes Of church
doings published IN Saturday issues Of
local newspapers, and the inquiring visitor
has difficulty in knowing where to so to
hear them
~ en- you pay good money for the best
singers you can get, said visitor 10
why don't you print their
names In your newspaper church notices?
Many Of us want to hear them. We ay
to hear them where come from
The pastors object, was the reply