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2 C HEARRT’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1913. TENOR TELLS OE 3 NEEDS OEASINGEP. Continued From Page 1. \ what it brings in dollar* tire In separable in America. Do you sec what I mean? He take* It that he could not be an artist, or oven a hop*-to*be artlat. and get only two dollars for singing 'J'aust.' But T was glad to get It; not for the two dollars part of it. I never thought of that "The American does not take his music seriously; for It 1* not part of American life. The other even ing I sang Manon' In Philadelphia. The opera la In five acts, and a friend of mine who tea* In the lob by after the fourth act noticed a gentleman walking up and down, evidently watting until the opera was over. My friend asked him If he did not want to go in and seo the fifth act. Different In Italy. " 'Oil, no/ answered the gentle man. Td prefer waiting here. By the way/ he added, ‘what Is the opera to-night, and who is singing'’' "Now do you notice he said he'd prefer' not going In, and also that >>e did no*, even know the name of the opera being given, or what ar tl#t* were elnglng? In Italy, no matter If the town In which the opera was being given that night was big or little, even the children could nave known the name of the opera and the artists who would In •erpret. And Invite anyone to see merely one act—alt. they would have overwhelmed you with grntl- rud« for the opportunity! "And that one Incident of the other evening makes it apparent that music Is not yet In the program of life In America. “Tak'ng music, seriously Is part of us In Italy, and that makes a vary greet difference In results Suppose an American boy has s good voice, and someone discovers It. The boy Is poor, has no money. Perhaps, say In one case out of ten thousand, someope may pny for Ms rnltlon for a little while. But in nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine eases the person who discovers this good voice says. 'Ah. what a great pity that the boy is poor and cannot afford to have his voice trained! He might he a greet artist some day. Yes. It Is a plt.v he Is poor, and must continue to work In the drygoods store.' "In Italy let It he discovered that it boy has a good voice and Is poor, right away the community is arous ed This person gives a little, that person some, another person a lit tle. so the boy may study A great teacher fakes hire In hand and gives him lessons either for a very, very small figure, or for nothing at nil. The voice Is the hoy’s; but he cul tivation of It belongs to tliai par ticular part of Italy In which he lives. The community share In the honor and the responsibility of giving that votae to the world. The gift of song that Ood gave the boy Is not permitted to languish and to die lust because the boy Is poor. He may live In a very Uttle village but his voice belongs to the world, and the village takes it that tlx world should Heat It. And the vtl- lago makes it ]*o»*tb><. Almost a Religion. “Tllft'. my friend, Is taking music seriously, making of It almost a re ligion. "There are many good voices In Italy; but not all are cast by For tune to be great. Many too are the good voices In America; but to few of them come temperament and the capacity for hard work. Both are needed. If one should arrive. Nor la there any necessity. In my opinion, for an American to go abroad for teachers. There are splendid teach ers here. And If few good voices are produced the teach) rs are not to blame. Work, work, work,—that la what the American must learn to do to b© an artist. A great voice Is not it question >f geography: where one I* bom has nothing at all to do with it. But wc of the other side work harder and work longer to gain results than you of America. “And when your singers go abroad to study, and then come back with voices bettered. Immedi ately they think the foreign teach er has accomplished the big result for them. But it is not so. You •ee they have worked harder than they would have in America They have reasoned in this way, 1 have spent money to come abroad ahd study. There la no reason why I should be here unless I study hard Hind the harder 1 study the quick ar I arrive at results and the speed tar I get home again. Bo 1 shall work very hard and study very hard.” “Now, If they would have stayed right here In America, where, «s T say. tba teachers ar© every bit as good as on tho other side, and they would study and work as hard as they would tn Europe—well, the re sult would be precisely the same.” There is no reason why America • 'a* not develop groat musicians, Ca ruso thinks. This talk of the lack of atmosphere, he says. Is bosh. In the Interview reported he said: “A true artist makes his own at* mospharc. Bom© of the most beau tiful music In the world was writ ten In garr«t*! M H# Citss the Trinity. "A great singer/* he went on, should have three things,—voice, intelligence, and temperament. All three auo neces-ary to preatno.--: no two alone will do. And intelli gence is a tremendous help. 1 have known mediocre voices that, used with rare intelligence, really seetn- ♦*d great. Having something up here,” anti he put his Angers on his throat “Then you must have some* thing here too," and his hand went to hip heart ‘‘to complete the trin ity that makes for greatnes*. “Twenty-tlvs years from now you \\ ill know more about music in America, and will appreciate It more. And your women will come forward faster than your men. For why? Because a woman works harder at what she does than a man. A man will do only enough to pass muster. « nly enough to gain the pat on the back, to be told lie Is all right; but the woman will work harder than that, and won’t be content to stop where the man does. H< r capacity for work is greater lhan the man's—and yi this she it helped too by her tempera ment. Hhe is not so easily satisfied with conditions ** the man. nor so **a*iygoing. Hh-\ more than he, up- THIS SEASON WILL LIKELY SET RECORD Continued From Page 1. upon whoso slighi shoulders hang the cares of seeing that every star gets a proper share of plaudits. It Is Mr. Guard who arranges for the an nouncement of secret marriages and the subsequent denial thereof; who secs that milady’s pearls vanish from her dressing room every so often, and who whispers to the reporters, confi dentially, that they were swallowed by the tenor’s pet Pomeranian and found only by the application of the X-ray or whatever medical invention happens to be uppermost in the pub lic mind at the time of writing. Per haps this Is n rather long tribute ti Mr Guard, but he has written s< much of others that it is time he had a bit of publicity himself. be like meeting old friends when the first curtain goes up. THE remainder of the 800 persons • it takes to serve grand opera will arrive to-morrow, two special trains bringing them from New York. The first will bear a carload or so of back drops and wings, the stage roach from which Manon makes her en trance. the gondola for tho barcarolle scene in “Tales,’’ the graves of the lovers for “Lucia” and—In a spe cial compartment—the nos© of M. Cyrano <lr Bergerac, tenderly packed In excelsior until time for Signor Amato to stick It on. Besides these will he a thousand or ao sets of doublets and hose, a hundred or so swords of various vintages. 244 sets of wings, blonde, brunette and auburn, nnd n couple of hundred musical in stnimenta. ranging from the piccolo to the double bass. Not to mention the chorus, tho ballet, the stage hands and the chap who sells libret to* In the foyei The second train will arrive two hours afterward, containing two doz- n assorted vocalists In various lan guages. And when this train Is emp tied Into the Terraco the babel of tongue© will begin. The corridors, the tea room and the little club down stairs will sound like a Congress of nations os dering lunch at a 20-minute stop. Anti the women! Bather a change here, f >r women do not stick to one company like the man. Emmy Des- tinn. UiOlw Homer and Frances Alda are the only real stars who have been heard before, nnd Mme. Homer in the only one of the trio hoard in At lanta every season. But there are new ones to make up. Lucresia Hori. the little Spanish soprano, and Frieda Hem pal, hailed as a really great colo ratura. are cast for great roles. At lanta wAh't have a chance to miss Farrar arid Gadaki and dainty Alma Gluck. And of course the cast of small parts will he about the same as usual, with the funny little Reiss, and Angelo Bad.* and Bernard Begue. with Marie Mattfteld and Roslna Van- Dyok and the rest. The wonderful Toscanini is coming to conduct “Olo- conda” and its delicious ballet music, and “Tosca;" Bturanl will handle the baton In most of the others, and jo vial old Hertz-with the polished dome and the black whiskers will conduct In Daiarosch’a “Cyrano.” ^2 l \ ERAI. uivi friends this Near, of ^ course' There’S Scotti, who has >nl\ one season, and even then he came along just to have a g< mi time Geraldine Farrar isn't on the hill tliLs >ear. Amato is coming iignin. too. this time to sing the one great purt -the title role—in "fyra- r,o.’ Hugh Martin, of Kentucky, known on the hills us Signor Ric- cardo Mar-tan. with the accent on the “tan.' is coming again for sev eral appearances, and his friends won’t think him overshadowed even by the great 4'uruso himself, though any old tenor would have a hard time getting his name on the top line with the Italian in the case. Carl Jorn. the German tenor. is here to slug Hoffman <1 Umberto Mac- tenor never heard In GiUv the Algerian baritone voice that's almost a tenor. The operas themselves? Ah, it i« u line program arranged for this season, all things considered Atlanta has too little opera to care for many repetitions and the list of great works is b; no means a long one, so Gatti- Catmzza had his troubles. But at last it was d©.idea to omit German opera entirely, take up one or tw'o of the lighter works in the Metro politan repertoire and repeat “Gio- eonda" and “Tosca." There will be four night performances and three matinees, giving the society folk two nights for dinners long drawn out. And Caruso is booked for one mat inee. so mothers who can’t leave the baby at night may have At least one opportunity to hear him. The opening night wTU introduce u new star and an opera Unknown in the South. Lucrezia Bori is cast for the title role in “Manon Lescaut," one of the earlier works of Puccini, whose “Tosca" is also on the bill, and whose “Butterfly." "La Boheme” and "Girl of the Golden Wan" are famil iar to Atlantans. The theme Is the same as in Massenet’s “Manon,” but the musical treatment It very differ ent. It has been sung In New York several times this season with great success. For Tuesday afternoon Verdi's “Traviata” has been chosen, with Frieda Hempel. Maonez and Amato as the principals. This old opera, a musical treatment of Dumas’ “Ca mille." has been heard In Atlanta be fore, but naver l>> a company of the ■lass. Us brilliant arias should splendid opportunity to Mile. **1. whose soprano is said to Tettruzzin/s and Bembrich’a in aster* of coloratura pas- elty is offered in the new Walter j Damrosch opera, “Cyrano.” It has been sung only a few times since Its premier In New York a few months ago; it is by an American composer and It is the only opera ever sung in English by the MetVopolitan in At lanta. Amato, the baritone, has the title role; Frances Alda, whose Des- riemnna is so well remembered, will sing Roxana, and Martin has the fine tenor part of Christian. The story closely follows the drama by Ros tand made famous abroad by Coque- lln and Bernhardt and In America by Richard Mansfield. For Thursday afternoon the most ornate and spectacular work of the season, “La Gloconda," will be given. This was hoard here two years ago as a night performance, with Martin, Destlnn and Amato in the principal parts. It will be sung this season oy Destinh, Caruso. Gluy and Homer, and Toscanini will conduct. The bal let, “Dance of the Hours." will be given at this performance, the most pretentious ballet of the week. On Friday night Offenbach's light opera — almost opera-bouffe-—“The “Tales of Hoffman." will be given, has been presented in Atlanta iwdce in English, but never by the Metro politan. It was revived several years ago by the H&mmerstein company and hfp been exceedingly popular aince then. It will be the only opera rung in French in the present en gagement. Carl Jorn will sing Hoff man. Oilly the baritone role, and Frieda Hempel. Marie Duchene and Lucrezia Bori the three women's roles usually sung by one soprano. It will be an opportunity for hearing several of the new' stars, and promises to bo one of the most popular numbers on the bill. It contains me famous “Barcarolle," the Venetian boat song, which sets the audience swaying to its rhythm, and a particularly fine baritone solo. "Lucia," the Donizetti opera whose sextet has been butchered by ama teurs, minstrels and trombone quar tets for half a century, is selected for Saturday's matinee. Frieda Hempel will set off the vocal fireworks which begin In the first act and burst out at intervals until the last man in the chorus is dead or dying. Amato and Macnez will be heard also. Tosca,” the most dramatic and logically written of all the program, will close the w’eek of music. Instead of Farrar, who was heard in the title part in the first season. Emmy Des- dossi. sung three years ago b> Mar tin n will appeal, and this year Ca ruso will sing the fine role of Cavaru- tin. Scotti. who won his greatest renown in the role of SCurpiu. will ditch: GIDDY EiNMY DE/S'TIKH J DANKEr M AITPOTUBG have the part again, and Toscanini will conduct. From every standpoint the fourth season of Atlanta opera promises to eclipse its predecessors. The advance sule Indicates that scarce a desirable seat will be left; the hotels show lists of reservations extending over the en tire South, the society set has ar ranged a series of teas, dinners and dances beyond former years in bril- !* nc j; , Th ? Metropolitan Is sending its greatest singers, and even Ca ruso Is for the second time breaking his rule and singing three times one week. And the succeaz of lint-class grand opera in Atlanta Is all the more re markable when It Is remembered that in no other city outside Its home has the Metropolitan ever cleared a do! lar of profit, except In occasional brief trips to Philadelphia or Boston (j 11 ■a