The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-23

him again. He is a great artist, and there is another. too. MT. Stock, the conductor of the Thomas orchestra in Chicago. He is young and ambitious and so clever, and l think that he and MT. Herbert are the best in America today MT. Herbert as a composer has made his place long ago in the world of music. He like Mir Chadwick, and others mas reached the heights it is the young struggling composers who need the help of their fellow eountrymen to advance them on their way, and they deserve en- couragement.''
 Since wrote that story in those happy days when lovely Louise Canister All drich was the Heading lady in all the big musical activities of Birmingham when the old "Orpheum3 was the scene of those wonderful music festivals; when the late Evan Williams was our guest; when Walter Damrasch and ms New York symphony and Victor Herner' and his charming orchestra regaiea us with such pleasing music; when our own beloved Mir. William Ryan. of The Age Herald staff was the encourager ana | inc "boosterv of every musical enter | prise; when Madame Schumann- HelhN 1 paid us her first visit and none of us had any thought whatsoever of war or pestilence or famine or trouble inNaoihs our hearts-and yet what countless ms fortunes have been ours.
 Madams Schumann~H Heink's heart mas been wounded by sorrow. Her sentiments and her old-time traditions have peeh changed; her life has been racked ahu rocked by disastrous events. and yet with all this, behold this wonderful woman who has come out of the chaos-the ! melting pot''-pure gold, beautiful won- manhood, glorious artist-adored or al those who know her and who have eh- loved her inimitabe art.
 Madame Schumann- Heink's voice is great creation of Gods own; it makes the mighty outdoors organ-it soothes it comforts it lifts. it loves, it carries volume that overpowers fills every recess of the soul and tells of heaven It tells the story of child, woman mother and all the loved things Of out doors. It is outdoor promise, hope ant beauty. just as is that great organ. Ina )yoice and that organ, arc mates in ten derness, grandeur, purpose Thlnk Q their meeting outdoors, where then joined beauty and strength were limited only by sky and earth
 So they met the other night. It wa Schumann-Hei treat. She treated
 over eo,ooo children. and their parents who might otherwise never have heare her incomparable voice. Fifty-four Il
 years, radiant through years of har'
 work and trouble, young and inspired
 as when she sang her first song, sh pushed her way through mountain O
 the little ones flowers, opened her arms
 smiled. and took to her bosom thes thousands of children,
 Oh. yes. She sang "The Rosary,' "Th
 Cry of Rachel,'' something about still
 night and other songs that have mad her famous and made other contraito
 try to be famous. But she did more
 she sang the hyphen out of all Sa
 Diego. She closed by leading 00C
 voices. mostly children, in The StaI Spangled Banner Imagine it. Tn
 greatest organ, the greatest voice, tn greatest chorus, the greatest song, tn greatest outdoors on earth. A cowar
 could charge 10000 cannon, with all tha lifting his soul. The like is rarely see
 and heard in a lifetime
 Great is Schumann-Heink, as artist an
 woman, and great is the popular love ft (her! It is because she loves the worl land because she understands that whe