The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-22

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doctor of music is awarded. The lack
of uniform standards is felt by every
advanced music student in the United
States, although unparalleled advance
in this respect has been made during
the past 10 years.
1t is claimed that women have a
distinct field for their musical crea-
tive faculties in the production of
simple, wholesome compositions for
children which will preserve the pur-
ity of musical feeling. Carrie Jacobs
Bond of Chicago has become recog-
nized as one of the most prolific
writer's of children's music in the
world, and her simple little melodies
are known not only wherever the Eng
fish language is used, but some of
them have been translated into Ger
man., French and Italian. Another
young woman who's songs are being
well received in London and other
English cities is Mrs. Estelle Will
loughby Ions, a native of New Orleans.
Mrs. Ions has been especially happy in
the composition of musical melodies to
accompany poems which hold her
fancy. Her work is original in that
it follows none of the established
rulings regarding song compositions.
The hymns of Fanny Crosby, the blind
composer, are known throughout the
religious world, while Mary Elizabeth
Williams, who has been known among
e~Vangelists as the Jennie Lind of
Sacred Song" has rendered her name
Well known by the two popular melo-
dies, "Glad Tidings'' and MY
Mothers Hands,"
American women have won world
wide honors upon both the musical
and dramatic stage. and despite the
comparatively short time in which the
American nation has been in position
to develop advanced attainment in
these arts, an American star now has
quite as much reason to hope for
recognition as has n of any other
nationality. There is no branch of
musical or dramatic art in which
women have not won enviable posi-
tons as artists, and the number of
musical and dramatic compositions
from a Woman's pen are increasing
each year.
Emma Abbott and Clara Louise KEEL
logg were the first American women
to win success upon the musical stage,
and their talents and character made
the path easier for the feet of their
countryWomen who followed. Miss
Kellogg was best known abroad, as
she sang in grand opera in all of the
more important European capitals,
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Petersburg. Miss Kellogg was es-
pecially gracious in her attitude to-
ward other American Women of mu-
Steal ability, and many of them owe
their success to her. Miss Abbott was
her most notable protege. Miss Kel-
logg attended a concert given by Miss
Abbott in Toledo, Ohio, and was so
impressed with the quality of her
voice that she supplied the money for
her to go to New York to study. Miss
Abbott gave much attention to re-
ligious music, and for several years
a salary of $1,000 a year in a
church choir. Afterward this church
raised the money tos send her to
Europe, where she made a successful
tour extending over several years.
One of her closest friends was the
Baroness Rothschild, who declared her
voice had a quality superior to that
OF any singer in Europe at that period.
She organized an opera company in
America in 1876, and, like Miss kel-
logg, eXerted every opportunity to help
other American girls to musical sue
cess.
Madam Lillian Nordica, whose devo-
ton to the cause Of Women is now
bringing her into the public limelight
in a new role, is one of the American
women singers who has become be-
loved both in America and Europe,
She always is proud of, her nationality,
royalty gave her so much real pleas
ure as the diamond tiara presented to
her by her own countrymen in the
metropolitan opera house a few years
ago, after her return from a European
tour in Which she had won unex-
celled honors. Madam Nevada, who is
a Californian by birth, won her great
success in London and Paris, al
though she was we'll received through
Europe, while Geraldine Farrar, a
younger star, whose career may hardly
be said to have fairly begun, made her
debut in Berlin with unrivalled sue
cess in the role of Marguerite in
Faust Miss Farrar has been a
emb of the Metropolitan Opera
company Of New York since 1906, al
though h has had several successful
european tours in the meantime.
The first really great American ac-
tress was Charlotte Cushman, Who as
pred to the operate stage and took
up work when her voice
failed, partly, it is believed, from inn
proper training. Her first appearance
was as Lady Macbeth in New Orleans
in 1886, when that southern city rep
resented its highest artistic and liter
airy development. Afterward. she came
10 New York and played many parts,
ller best being generally conceded to
nave been Meg Merilles. Her debut in
London, made in the late sixties, was
pronounced the greatest success on
the boards of an English theater for
half a century. Mary Anderson
navarro, known to many of her coun-
try people as Our own Mary"