Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-27

N-@HE following communication
from Mr.. Sigmund Landsberg
has been received in response to
%N a request from the musical edi-
HN4N0NNE tor Of The Bee that he should
- be kept posted as to the Ger
man musical notes In the Deutschland
newspapers. Mr.. Landsberg regularly
reads the German papers and keeps in
touch with affairs in his mother country:
some time ago you suggested that, in
case should discover any interesting mus
lcal items in some of the Berlin journals,
l should translate them and send them to
you. Here Is one entitled: Singing Aero
battles" Berlin Tageblatt, January "a, 19lO.)
- In Milan, the center Of Italian
musical activity there are 200 voice teach
ers, among whom there are many curious
and cunning chaps, II one would judge ac-
Carugati in the "Lombardia, These Gen
tlemen Singing Masters" nave made the
strangest discoveries, with whose aid they
impart to their scholars the proper produc-
ton OF Chest, Head, Throat and Nasal
tones. One of these teachers has invented
a curious wooden triangle with a saw
mouths of his pupils OF the same principle
as a gag" and In this condition the
wretched victim Is compelled to sing all
the vowels IN half and in whole tones.
Proper breathing can only be learned under
this master II you Will hold a rubber
band, the thickness OF your finger, in your
OulStTelcneu nanQS, ana then sing until
you can sing nj further. Still more Vio-
lent another singing teacher is said to pro-
coed: ITO test lung power he employs a
sort OF weighing, using twenty-four quarto-
folio volumes, each about seven pounds
heavy. The pupil must lie on the floor,
then the maestro goes TO the piano and
sounds a tone, which the pupil must sing,
while his mouth Is opened wide the teacher
proceeds to load one of the seven-pound-
ers' after another on top Of his (the pu-
pirs) abdomen CBauch) until the patient
nj Rdan a taRNnnilfth a NNfaR1u tnan ma 1n ~
another sound. Anyone accomplishing
as many as ten volumes with this method,
furnishes proof, hat there is something in
him, whether 1t be athlete" or Singer,
that's another question.
Again another has a method, which must
be proclaimed as glorious
The pupil must sing before q burning
candle, sustaining his tones until the flick
ering candle flame shows not the least
sign OF a trembling vibration.-This species
OF singing Is evidently the kind, commonly
call ID COMMUNICATIVE list Of such
teachers is not exhausted, however, with
out mentioning the main schemers. One
for instance must be noted, who has In
his domicils a magnificent hallway, many
yards long, this hallway (c%orridOre) In
spired him to a most wonderful idea;-
the pupil. while singing, must march Ut
and down this hallway in a certain pre-,
scribed tempo.-The pupil hat will OF y
manage 3 corridores, while sustaining
one single tone, is strictly mediocre,-s
six-eorridore pupil. however, means to this
teacher the equivalent OF above mentioned
"iO-7 ~pound-vohume' pupils. Once this
master" had a veritable phenomenon II
his class, q tenor, who had a natural high
c, the length Of "S' corridores in his
throat. . .
The last and manifestly the most genia
OF these singing teachers, has such {
| mysterious method that we are not In 8
position to reveal it-Those who enjoy {?
his instruction must first swear on 6
Bible, Skull and Crossbones, that they
| will never make public even the slightest
intimation about their masters tactics
Whatever the worth of this gloomy cere
monial may be, Is followed by this teach
er's obligation, in assuming the response
tons-or Bass, according to choice out Of
| each and every vocal student, and suci
in q few hours.
Method?" Your friend, s. L.