Vocal Mastery

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here she has been heard in both opera and concert, are well known, and form pages of musical history, full of interest. This remarkable voice, of exquisite quality and dev

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k by the simplicity of her appearance and attire. There was nothing pompous about her; she did not carry herself with the air of one conscious of possessing something admired and sought after by all the world, something which set her on a high pedestal apart from other singers. Not at

er appointment, as she had been out on a shopping expedition, an occupation which she greatly enjoys. Awaiting her return was a group of photographers, who had arranged their apparatus, mirrors and f

r or allowed them to fall away from the white throat, with its single string of pearls. The onlooker suggested she be snapped with a little black "Pom," who had found his way into the room and was now an interested spectator, on his vantage gro

ary was also near, to be appealed to when she could not make herself intelligible in English. "My English is very bad," she protested; "I have not the time n

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the ocean, to tell you where is the sea! She could not tell you how she does it. Singing is as the br

me, for the young singer, wh

ge subject; "she must practice several hours every day. I had to practice very much when I began my study-when I was sixteen;

es. But she should learn them. She should study French, Italian and Spanish, and know how to speak them. Because, if she

t know it so well as if she would be a pianist, but she should know it a little;

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oratura music, do

rself. Ah, Patti was my dear friend-my very dear friend-I loved her dearly. She only sang the coloratura music, though she loved Wagner and dramatic music. Not long before she died she said to me: 'Luisa, always keep to the coloratura music, and the beautiful bel canto singing; do noth

, Madame, what woul

ragm, and from both sides; it is like a bellows, going in and out," and she touched the portions referred to. "One does

in the way you sustain high tones, beginning

e must always be able to do t

to become a dramatic s

my coloratura music, and I think my audience likes it too; it goes to the heart-it i

with such good diction, that we can a

me b

back to my friends in America next autumn. I shall be in Italy in the s

sons. I get nearer to the audience; I am freer-much freer, and can be myself and not some other perso

eople have advanced so very much in appreciation of music; you know so much more than when I was here

ver, which would give opera for the people. Then your fine American girls would have the chance to gain operatic experience in their own country, which they cannot get now. That is why the foreign singer has such a chance here, and that is why the native singer can hardly get a chance. All the American girls' eyes turn with longing to the Metropolitan Opera House; and with the best intentions in the world the Director can only engage a small numbe

s I have set them down, but I am sure she will approve, as t

mastery," she has been able to found a hospital in Italy for victims of tuberculosis, which accommodates between three and four hundred patients. The whole institution is maintained from her own private income. During the war she generously gave of her time and art to sing for the soldiers

ng me an hour from her crowded day. She took

t quite forge

, will you

ys remember this

forget you!" and she gave