Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-27

voice student-note well, the voice student.
The throat specialist has done much to
alleviate suffering through his research
with the aid Of that instrument, but the
market has been flooded with treatises on
the throat and its disorders, and students
nave been given too much ignorant or
semi-ignorant discussions Of the physical
processes, instead Of training the delicate
hearing apparatus,
The writer has never met a student who
talked the museular-process-idea and
worked from that basis, who was not
guilty of the most appalling ignorance on
the simplest and most fundamental things
pertaining to tone-production and the art
of singing.
Students have talked to him about the
posterior crico-aryteenoid muscles, and the
important mission Of the sterno-thyroides
and the thyro-hyoids-and yet their enun-
citation of words was anything but good,
while rests" dots" time-markings,"
etc, were Ignored as though they did not
exist.
The musical editor of The Bee takes is
sue with the throat specialists who contend
that the singer ought to know all about the
vocal processes; they are wrong, as they
would find out II they were teachers of
singing. Far better would it be for throat
specialists TO go into the singing matter
themselves with competent teachers, and
be sure, very sure, that they are not treat
ing effects as though they were causes,
many times and oft.
A specialist in stomach trouble. will,
as a rule. begin his treatment by finding
out what the patient eats which is wrong
for him, and correcting that. How many
throat specialists ever take the trouble to
enquire as to how a person is singing,
whether too high or too low? How many
throat specialists would know IL a pupil
sang the vowel ''es' sound correctly? And
yet the abuse Of this vowel has caused
much throat trouble. and the correction
of II, has relieved throat troubles which
defined the throat specialist.
The day will come when the serious and
thorough throat-speclalist and the serious
and thorough slnging-teacher Will work, to-
gether for the correction Of our national
voice defects. The American voice is in
sore need OF cultivation and especially in
speaking.
Mr.. Max Landow OF Berlin and Omaha.
has been" to Boston. He gave a piano
recital there recently and received the
highest approval. A few excerpts from his
notices are as follows:
In addition to his profound conception
OF the Beethoven sonata op, ITO, Mr.. Ian
dow made a work which is in more than
one place the reverse Of playable, entirely
pianistic, and from first to last a Joy to
the ear"
Max Landow, teacher OF piano at
Omaha, Neb,, formerly OF the faculty of
the Berlin Royal High school came to
Boston yesterday afternoon for his debut
at Steinert hall, where he gave an ex-
hibition OF piano playing. which in SOW
erelgnty Of teehnica mastery and in extra
ordinary scope and intensity of emotional
power surpassed all performances by plan
lists witnessed here this season"
These are very strong words from the
great musical Boston and Omaha is 10 be
congratulated on its Max Landow. As an
eXploiter Of Omaha he should be decorated
with an honorary membership In the
knights OF Ak-Sar-Ben.
THOMAS ]. KELLY.
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Musical Notes.
The next program Of the Tuesday Morn
ing Musical club will be given at the resi-