The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-24
LOVE OF MUSIC IS ABROAD
GROWING INTEREST THROTGH-
or THE LAND.

E.1 influence &C the Heated EH~I'~~ssNI
Abeat Opera singer What the
NewspaDer writer ana the Local
Casual society Can DO to Help AiSog.
sThsrea q divinity that shApe- our
an.ia. rough hs~ them how We wili II
nuerns 10 b. the work % q SPECIAL Prov
asncs that the expansion policy % the
metr0pohtan Opera House directors was
a eomolsts failure. Not only - that the
cass bu, there ~ abundant room for s'Is-
picioa that the first season % opera a.
me new opera house. 20 Bos,on did not
receive such enthusiastic support A. IL
proisctors had sEpected. Furthermore
The season n opera given by tbs Metro
politAn Opera Company IN Chicago vas
such an utter failure that chicago itssif
cannot recover from its aatOnishmsnt.
A very little journey into the Sorbd will
eonvincs the real music lover that this
wns all for the good % musical art IN this
country. Opera IN a very popular aFniAns-
msnt and it, s@durtions are such that
they tsmpt many otherwise honest people
To heeool themselves With tho belief that
because they applaud the shoutines %
famous sinRers they themselves have
sUdienIy gone musical Alas' one 10 not
musical b.cause he cries Bravo when
the tenor eFnits a hiR1 3 or a prirna donna
Rrsaaily slides down q b~@TDear~i chro-
matte scale
No matter Whsthar you ait IN your
comfortable home IN Manhattan or in
yDur hermitage IN Brooklyn. whether you
live on the shores q the Allegheny River
or thoss of Lake Michigan. Whether you
wander by the hanks % the Wabash or
thoss % the PAs~AEnAquoddy. you will
aaAilv IaArn that the advent % an opera
company up@ets all the musical condi-
tions Of your place
These conditions may 10 thoss %
artistic poverty. but the chances are
thar they are those % artistic honesty.
hut - the opera fever sntsr tho town.
and ali mental balance n at onoe over
thrown. Therefore the traveller In the
West ought TO - encouraged by tho
fact that real music 10 performed and
hsarS4 and that opera singers seldom
breAk in and corrupt
Tbs hops % thu future for musioAI
art IN these United States hss In those
cities which have orchestrAs The achieve
ments % Minneapolis. seattle. La Angeles
and supporting symphony orchsstr&a
pvoriae Tnore for the musical future %
the United States than any half million
dollar opera house that the once indie
fsaigAbis Oscar HAmmerstsin could build
snywhsre
DOING NOR. for music than all the directors
% ths Metropolitan Opera Company to-
esther. Albert Augustus Stanley az the
University 81 Michigan and Edward Dick
inpon ~ Oberlin Are far mors important
than the official boomers % opera In this
city and Philadelphia
There n one power which always
works for evil when the opera company
oomss 10 town. and that power IL the pre~s
An over thus country thsTs are ambitious
ypuag men struggling tn write int.Ih-
Eeutly about music. 10 write IN such a
way that they may Undue. their readers
10 psrceive what IL il that entities music
10 q place among tho Srta.
They frequently sOccsed in educating
many readers. They often disseminate
the gospel 81 musical truth through tho
communitiss In which they labor but they
rarely succeed in educating their editors.
The moment an opera company rises
above the local hongon the editor dis
covers that has paper has a musical de-
partment and that u ~ his privilege 90
edit a. The result very often 10 that
sxecruble performances by infenor sing
ere are celebrated in many columns ~
type merely because the entertainment
" opera. which the editor With his eye
on the many Thousands % eager seekers
sitter opsratic heroes 70 Worship naturally
rs9ards ~ more important than all the
symphonies 81 Beethoven. the passions
of Bach and the songs ~ Schubert put
together.
When the Newspapers take this position
people who have thought little about
music are easily led astray. Again. con
sider the harm done 10 studsntA 70 MUSIC.
specially % singing All through this
country honest and Intelligent teachers
of singhg are striving TO develop real
vocal artists Along CONES the opera
company and the vocal students spend
their La, pennies in securing tickets
They 20. they sit breaihless through the
Performance. they hang upon every ar
cont % the famous Mime. This and the
celebrated siGnor That The nsHt day
they aay 20 their teachers. You have
always told Nc tina, we should not do thus
snd We should not do ". but Nine
This does thus and SRnor That do ."
The poor teacher answers and says
unto thsm. That dos not make u night
whsreupon the students With one accord
respond. But Nine This gets . thou
sand q night and Signor That gets twelve
hundred and they are famous all over
the world. 80 what 10 tho uss % studying
- hard'-
How 10 the teacher 20 answ@ri
There 10 an answer. true and oeauti-
ful answer II In that the artist should
take no delight In applause ignorantly
and wrongly given. hut should be bound
20 teach hts public Ca admire only that
which Ia good Perhaps there wAs . time
when artists took this lofty stand. per-
haps . few great artists take N now: but
The op~ratio stage has 30 long been .
parade ground that IL IN hard TO find sing
ers who do not seek merely TO dazzle.
IL u indeed difficult to make pupil see
that u n harder To sing a song recital
veil than TO below an act % an opera
and got applause Yet when q tenor
19s Rid PagIiAcci- in concsrt he sol
ON e1cites his audience ~ he dos when