THE .OREGON SUNDAY. JOURNAL PORTLAND, . SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 18. 1911. (1 AMERICA HAS NO DISTINCTIVE, MUSIC 'Walter i. Damrosch, Famous Onntlurlor, Kiirmi Wp of MunlciU Future, tit America, to Whloh Moat ,' , Beriotu Kkisting Drawback la Fart Tha Arrwrlcnn Composers at Present Art Educated Abroad, anil lie turn Saturated With European Idea. , V , " ' 'V V ' Walter 9. SanrOseht 'Walter; - Johannes . Damro sch, America'! moil eminent musical conductor, 'waa .brn In 11(3, t la Hrealau, rruasls. . ! father be. for him .waa m distinguished niu aictan and brought him 1 lo the United Btatea when , ho waa a boy of . Ha began hit career as con. ductor, after n elaborate musical education. in Newerhv N.VX and on th death of hia father, in llevbe' taint assistant conductor and di rector of. tha New York German Opera company and succeeded hint "as dlrectoof tha Oratorio and Symphony societies, ,'w,hlch In MM rendered for the first time In tha United State Wagner's "Parsifal" In concert form.. In'ltM he founded th Damrosch Opere company for tha production of Wagner's works; toured the United Statea with' an' original opera, "The Scarlet letter," in 1194, and lectured extensively on 'musical topics. Since; 1)01 Jie has ylevotad himself largely to tha New .York Symphony orchestra and to composition. r . ' . By fcdward Marshall. Copvright. ' Itll, by C jr. Mar, for Publishers' Press. I "la tber really any such a thlhg as American music? " Have we created a national musical art?" 1 asked. ' "inere are the bee-innincs. Yes: we have at laat arrived at an era where American composers show at leaat sound construction and workmanship. But If you ask ma If we have developed any distinct originality . I ahould say "No; not yeL Our musicians have not reached a ataga as advanced aa that at which our painters and our aculptors have arrived. But there Is a reason for this a reason and an excuse. Tha art of, painting has been cultivated for a much longer time In America than the art of creative music, and then, too. Iso lated cases of genius among early Amer ican painters, for example, may seem t greaier to us, possibly than they really are because of their very Isolation. TMuslo, as an art, la very young In the United . Bute. 1 might even say with truth that musical, composition aa aa art has hardly been cultivated more than 40 or 10 years. In tboae days good teachers were rare and opportunities to hear good muslo equally rare. Forty or CO years ago the young American mu sician therefore' began to go abroad for study, Mid, going at an age wh,en they were moat auaoeptlble to outside influ ences, they aatu rated tbemaelvea with foreign Ideas so saturated themselves. possibly, that their originality, their tendency toward a really distinctive ex pression, waa somewhat choked If not wholly suffocated. The men who went to Munich, aa a reault of their training there, muslo a la Relnbergef; the men I who went to Paris endeavored to write French music, and, ao on." "But thsre waa MacDoweU." I ven tured. . Well, take the case of MacDowell, If yon like undoubtedly one of the most I able of American musicians. Full , of very notable talent, be went to Oer- Imany and becefne the pupil of Joachim Raff, an eminent Herman comooser. I Ivtslted Raff tn the later eighties and he introduced MacDowell . to me. He I waa enthusiastic over hla ability. He I waa one of hia heat pupils apt! spent several years with him. There It la. MacDowell wrote music 4n good German fir v ' ' r , . v (11! rr ix III ,'-..v;.r I I I - , . , . , ... 'American children are truly young and joyous. They-' get their pleasures with out any great expenditure of money, but with a very great expenditure of energy,, which makes them really, live. I The normal child Is . well developed i physloallyts well ss mentally, and these ' two- developments assist the third the spiritual, development The pree , to gether must, of course, mean . Joy, and of joy mualo surely . Is a natural expres sion. Thus America will build her mu sic care, free, aspiring and lasplrlng, because Of Its abounding health. Anier, lea's musical taste Is building- fine. Strong, normal taste." ' . i.y "Does 4 he . National prosperity which puts piano playera Into 110 flats and gives tnuslo lessons to . almost every Utile girl tend to Improve or harm our musical prospect r" I Inquired. --"Oh, Impr6ve It, crtalnly'-ald Mr. Damrosch ADEQUATE WATER IS HI VITAL t 9 Commissioner: Herbert Knox Smith Believes He's Found Defect in System. ! ' (Wastitactoe toreas af Tse iaorsai)' , yitfhiugton, ; June 11. "The two years' atydy of water terminals by4 the I don't know that I ahould bureau ot oorooratlona. in lis .ttart eay inai oaa musio is imier man no locate- that something', which everyone mualo, but I can aay, I think., that any f,B wrong with our walerwav sva- rouslo Is likely to be educstlonallf It l"Z , 7 i. I. - . I W. - ,?T y im ta u-m.V. ,h.i. .-,.rnt. for torn,. that It. doea not de lta fuU-ahare that which Is of a higher order. Even of transportation, has convinced me the phonograph msy very well do that I that the terminal question la a salient Nothing more remarkable than the in-1 defect" ' That , statement made by fluence 'of the phonograph haa eome I Commisdloner Herbert 'Knot Smith, Is W,thK? Hly rln- 1 do not th.,lil; looked upon as marking the Importance w j V - IWlin WniCn Water tormina! ... rmmmrAmA expressl.in. -Canned mualc!' The term by ,nat branch of tha mv.rnm.nt kinh haa made a most thorough Investiga tion of the commercial aspeota of water transportation la the United Statea., Ao cording to the commissioner, the vital Importance of adequate terminals la but poorly appreciated, even by many ardent advocates oi waterway Improvement "The easiest navigable channel,'' he said, "la worthless to wsUr craft If they have no place to load and unload. You might aa well build a railway without stations and -yards. "If. waterways are to be Dubllo hlah ways, water terminals must, to a reas- flts Its output, to my mind. I have been asked to play for phonographic records and have stesdfaatly refused. although the phonograph undoubtedly reproduces Instrumental music much Wore worthily than it doea the wondera of tha human voir. "But It produces noise more notably than music, nons the less. Still, there Is much testimony In Its favor a to Its effect upon the publio taste. The sub ject has long Interested me, and In con sequence of this Interest ' I made in quiries among some dealers.' One of Walter J. Damrosch, Joyous, optimistic. Our people have heart, which means sentiment and they have ambitlona, which means ssplra tlcns. These are the essentials. Women Music's Patrona. ut at present we are aomewhat dumb. Muslo now la left. In the United States, almost exclusively to women. From them oomea all the support which music really haa among us. . Our men hardly know what music la. They have not reached that atage in real develop ment which enablee them to realise the Joys' which they can get from things not utterly material. They do not guess that In the purault Of aa art la found tht finest Joy a man can experience. In the pursuit of art our men are yet aa chil dren. New York, has 4.000,000 popula tion. Let us be generous and say that oo.ooo or these millions really enjoy good music. That leaves 1,950.000 who are in Cimmerian darkness. ' That la a bad phrase, though. Let aa aay, rather. tnai u leaves l,B0,00 who are prac tlcally atone deaf. Only 60,000 have the least enjoyment of good muslo, and of a mat v,uuo now roapy really know wnat they are enjoying when they go to a good concert or why they are enjoying itT . How many are able to per- style, but not in a distinctively Amer- celye the humor, for example, in a were his Indian songs. .very good Indeed; but He wrote an able In- tcan manner." T3ut there They - "Very good, not American. Id lan suite a aulte baaed on Indian melody and rhythm (If one can oredlt the North Amernsan inaian wun meioay, or anything but rhythm), but they were I enveloped, not m. their own Harmony, for the Indian had opiy rhythm, witn I perhaps a touch of melody. The har mony, therefore, was of necessity sup plied from somewhere and it was Oer- I man, not distinctively Indian. Besides, I even If the work had been entirely char Iacterlatlo of the North American Indian, would that have been a really American I expression? We have absolutely notb I in, aa a nation, in common with the I Indian, and therefore we cannot find Beethoven symphony the divine laugh' ter in hla scherzos and finales? How many can appreciate the Joyous, Inno cent frayery In one of Haydn's string quartets? .Upon how many, of the 1U tenerat faces win you find the respon sive - smiles which ahould come when Mosart Is played for them? No; Amer icans do not aa yet In numbers, re spond even to the bright appeal of lighter muslo, and how much,-, on the other side, do they appreciate the power of music to depict a whole" philosophy of life, the cry of the oppressed, the tragedies of suffering souls? Musle is still too much associated, in thla coun try, with personality. People say. In the United States: " - "Have you heard Caruso In "AldaT "In Germany they ask: " 'Are yoa coins- to "LohensTin" to- uny national expression In musle found- J nlghtr you hear one American ask a d Upon Indian aire. . mil of Amalgamation. "We are a oomposlte as a nation, and our national music, when it comes, must be founded on what, comes from the amalgamation of races which la tak ing place here. It will be the bubbling of the "melting pot.' Out of , this un precedented amalgamation something really 'distinctive and something very Worthy Is sure to come but It has not yet come. - r'Tor 28 years I have . watched ' the growth of the ; United States,- having bad, perhaps, because of constant travel. rather an unusual opportunity to do so. Each year as. the orchestra has traveled we visit some new city aome city expressiveness. It no more expresses our emotions, though, than the Indian mualo does. , Dvorak haa done wonderfully well with It In hla New World symphony, but It la a Bohemian view of America, and therefore not American muslo. Our popular mualo has been strongly Influ enced by Irish music. Their Jigs and reels have had aa real an effect upon our people as .have the deeper German harmonies and more poetio melodies. The muslo of many other nations baa exerted similar Influences on us, and we have gained by them, but we have not fashioned out of all of them,, as yet a muslo which can properly be called American, The Indian does not represent as. the negro does not represent ns. and the early European settlers here had no mualo they suppressed all music. The real American muslo, when It cornea and probably It la building now may be a composite of many national musical expressions, but It must represent an American philosophy of life, and that can only be crystallized In time. Of the best things tn art we got few from the early British settlers. We have de veloped a real school of painting and of sculpture, but I doubt If we could ever have done this if Immigration from other European countries had not taken place. -.- v i "Before the great tide of immigration set la we devekeeed an American liter ature, but this school could not prob ably. Tiave come Into being If the men wno founded It had lived SO years later. Emerson, Longfellow. Whittler, Lowell, Hawthorne, would not under the ' conditions which exist today, have de veloped aa they did. They were the product of a sheltered New England at mosphere. b'Inee their time the foreign Influx has been so. tremendous that It has disturbed us In all the arts: but after It haa been amalgamated this for sign Influence- will Jointly-produce for us an art which will certainly be differ ent from any other and, quite possibly, may be as worthy as any In the world." Shan we ever have a muslo a die phonographs buy. at the start records of the so-called "popular songs' airs of j the moment most of them extremely commonplace or definitely vulgar But he said that then, by what seems to be Ian Inevitable process of evolution, the really Intelligent people who have thus come under phonographic Influence be gin to yearn for better things. The phonograph may have been their flrat introduction practically to muslo of any kind, and when It auppllea them only with the commonplace' they know, so to speak, by Instinct that they are be ing cheated that there Is something better. This they then Insist on gat ting. Thus the phonograph, instead of vulgarising them, haa wakened them and made them want the better things. "Have we not then produced any worthy musical pieces?" ' "I do not think of any at this time, but we are doing better In some direc tions. The cheaper musical comedies though' are not Improving, and this may bring with it Its own remedy a reac- Prlvate interests control nearly all our active water, frontage, Publio control exlats In considerable degree only at New Orleans, Ban Francisco, Baltimore and New TOrk, and Is greatly modified In New York . by -exclusively private leases for long terms. Out Of (0 of our foremost ports, only two. San Francl co and Aew Orleans, have practlcatly complete puniio ownership and control of their active water frontage; eight have a email degree of control, and 40 none at all. Out of IT. ports for which data la available, exclusive of New Or leans and San Francisco, only 14 bsve any publicly owned wharvea. Railroad ownerenip ana occupancy cover more than 10 per cent of the active frontage in ii out or so or the foremoat porta, and between 16 and 60 per cent in 11 more. - , "At New Orleans the active 'Water front Is admirably equipped and coo- trolled ,by a state board; most ot the wharves and aheds are open for gep- the sort of stuff that Is being dished up. There was a time when Gilbert and Sullivan were the popular, song writers of the day. Sullivan was an excellent musician, producing scores not of the hlgheet originality perhapa, but fluent and melodious, with a fine sense of hu mor. But suoh work aa hla haa been supplanted by scores m which noise Is the principal feature, pieces put togeth er without harmony. We are not doing well. The average French musical comedy Is far superior to what we are producing." Xosle aad Morals Allied. "Someone told me, recently, that mu sic and morals rarely travel nana in nana. ' MM a nnr prrv r- r "Then someone did not know. Taxe HUHC TCC TUft . . . - S ... I ' tna areax muaicai cum wi , nuw u crates 10 miles of belt line railway, giving accommodation between the waterway, local Industries and trunk line railroads. At San Francisco there Is an excellent system of wharves under state control, kept open for general traffic. The water terminal situation In these two cities Is by far the best In the country. "High landing charges, together with the absence of adequate terminals, show forcibly the lack of cooperation between the localities and the government the government's enormous expendlturee on channels being In many cases largely neutralised by the action or nonaction of local authorities on terminals." neighbor. Oh, I heard It; four years ago; don't have to go again," may very likely be the answer...-- i , , -, That seems (o prove us a young and undeveloped race, so far as muslo goes, but. on the other hand, la another thing, which seems to prove that Instead of be lng young in civilization we are -old and critical. .We demand more technical per fection than any other people In the world. Our audiences require of those who entertain them a far higher stand ard of singing in opera, for Instance greater purity of . Intonation and finer technique than the audiences of Paris or Berlin demand. Singing is offered n the French and German opera houses and . accepted by the audiences- there M? 'nrtcaJ man T "rhls vr wrwenL without protest which would not bo tHimf C?d.r BiD di tolerated In America, and: what is true Tulsa. Okla.. waa another; stop this year,-"-rr jrrirrT"I!TL;ii ".r:". also f Austin,- Texas, and further south. ISJJ San AatonloV Such citlea are not made emTer ' tha?' tha.tr o? almliu enwahin!! a-a A ,-,,,, Amar-Uar, I UW HUUUt T.I1W rU&IT 'W IID'v WnlBUtl r S-r? EeT rri? ? taQulre,!., .;h. represents certain inw - i retnip in it, toa, rum in stance, has, ,1 believe, the largest Bo hemian' population of an city In Amer. lca-r-over SOO.000. It la. very largely foreign.' If it produces masks wlll.it be American?" . : ' . u ,k ,v . "Wlll.it b -hejnteiit?. MZ: m "No: the. Influence of all- the other races in Chicago will prevent that And shall anawer my own question. It will, I think, eventually be really; Amer whistle ai. good airs as the whistlers of the European countries do?" - ? - :t WICK or rou song. '"Ndt but there is k roason a.net excuse for it. Nearly every, European country has" a wealth of folkV songs. 'They- are the spontaneous expression of tMV na tional emotions, and have boen the basis of -the rational musicf We.: have In the lean.- The- foreigner who oomea r here J United States but fewfolk.' songs,, We changes, changes very -materially, and the generations which spring from bun how even greater changes. ? They -do not a become- the old t American the American of New England who gave us the foundations of our , literature; tout they become the new American who win give us - the foundations ofr-our musks, which got started later than our literature did. "First . mere is the in fluence of climate to consider, and that Is very ' great; '' second, there Is the equally tremendous influence of liberty of thought : Liberty or thought brings nave repressed . or emotions.; and that repression4 has ; eliminated ; much - that mighjt be joyous, and productiye in our lives. v nether it is the naturaLdevelon- ment'of our Puritan beginnings, I don't know, but it does ' not- seem unlikely. When the Puritans gained control in England art languished; they suppressed it- Coming here they brought this strong, repressive tendency with them. and we are stilt the sufferers from it But' I think we are beginning to recover from the Ul-etfects. - In our -publio schools there Is a movement 'toward re aii enormous expansion of ideas and the! vlval of the dance--humanltys most na-i change "Off climate has tremendoua tural expression of Jo$ousness and the physical effect; which,. -In' turn, pro- J sweet .rexpreaslve: - pleasore of free. duces mental and spiritual " metamor-1 rnytnmio movement ' Men like ouilck Phosls. The European peasant comes of the Sage Foundation are doing mucn jover here squat and flat nosed. He be- good elc-ng that line. , But ; the fact icomes, as generations pass, uuier, . nisi remains mat wo ar a yei wunouv.a eyes set deeper, and his features -change I national music.- . . , ; . . jagreeably. Is not climate eventually I "How about ttoe negro mualo r t . (conqueror and king? - Well, a new. music, I '"The negro muslo isn't urs; it Js the H distinctively American music, la cer-1 negro's. ,' It has become a popular form aln .to develop from its American. ylo j of musical expression, and is interesting, tlnctlve, worthy muslo, really Amer! canr r Ah, that question Is Impossible to answer, except that one may say Whatever our people may develop into, that their music will eventually ex press." "And you are not willing to prophe- syr ' Americans Fall of Tonth. "Henry Van Dyke, In his book called. I tninn, The American spirit saysi The Americans are an Idealistic people, doing a great practical work.' I turn it around and say we are a practical people, . doing an idealistic work. And I think that as the idealistic . aspira tions of tha people become more for mally understood and crystallised, so, also. Its . musical expression will In crease in fineness and spirit There Is something rough and - ready, smash ing and often very fine about the Amer ican spirit One sees It more especial ly, la the western states. It is, perhapa, material; It certainly is practical. One might say, for Instance, that the Amer ican has very little sympathy, with abstract philosophy at present- With the American, : passion will probably never overmaster mind,' as lias been the case wim lomt ot- ins xaiin races. 1 think' that when the American nature once -takes . time for recreation It will tend toward Joyousness, Although' It ls-not; iTeally, a.JoyOus nature now, for It ns 'far' too "busy. That may give a hint perhaps, fit !What the nation's mu sic, 'when .-it- cornea, win be. Our younger people,- before vthat Intolerable old man of the sea, business, crouches on their shoulders,-: are younger than the ' younger people . of European na tions. Our girls of It and 18 are hap pier rind moe spontaneous than girls of the 1 same age ; In Germany and France, who,: even at that early age, are be ginning to become serious sedate. Our youth, remains childlike roucjt longer. In his first description of. American chil dren Henry: James made them mature, self seeking.,; There was a time when the American child was supposed to be without : any J youthfulness-v -whatever. Whether -that was true then, or not do. not know, but it Is not true to day. . The Americans of now. are full of .youth fine, ; vital youth. .And the children, of America are ohlldren actu ally children. . ' "I am not speaking of the rich, Who have no wants, therefore have no satis faction, and. In consequence, have no vivid Joys, nor am I, on the other hand, speaking of the children of the slums unfortunate, in the United States, as ' ory. ,-. fir'-J ,.y; i ( x, "What kind of music will It-ber;.' ; Damrosch ' laughed. "If I- knew I ould produce it fiow, he answered. 'U will be fine muslo. It will be sane, - -wj?-.' . - a :e"-. ,: r.: but It is not ours.. Nothing more char acteristic Of a race exists, but it Is char acteristic of .the negro,' not the Amer- t lean, race.1 Through It a primitive people poured out its emotions with wonderful beginning of the art, so far as known. They have been mun of unusual moral worth. Beethoven was among the no blest of God's creatures a man whose attitude toward women, ror example, was so magnificent so exalted, so self- denying, tftat It Is slmost impossiDie for one of ordinary clay to appreciate it Ha never married and, there la not a thing to show that all his love affairs were not entirely pure." v "Llsitr I suggested. "He did not care for money In the least He gave up a career wnicn mignt have brought him untold money to re tire to Weimar, at a small salary, there to conduot for hla friend, the grand duke, opera which would make his city famous. From that day on he became an example of unselfishness and purity. He never accepted a aoiiar xor piaying in nubile. He lived on his little In come of a few thousand gulden. I trav eled with hjm and I think he did not spend three thousand thaler In a year. He traveled second class, lived In a lit tle garden house, with an old woman for hla sole attendant No man ot such distinction ever lived' so simply. All KLICKITAT PLAN STORAGE (Special DUpatetj te The JnarnLt North aklma, Wash.. June 17. Mans of the storage reservoirs bt the Klickitat Irrigation project have -been filed at the United States land office and show a project Of great stse. The sites are at Fish lake aqd on the Klickitat, both sites being on the Yaaima Indian reser vation. The capacity of the former Is 26.SS0 acre feet and of the latter 117, Il( acre feet The elevation of the Klickitat storage reservoir above see level will be 1670 feet and the masonry on the two dams will be very heavy. D IPLOMASL ARE HANDED Tl 1 , ''("alem Bertaa ef.Tse JrarwL) . The Dalles, Or, June 17 A clase' of 10 was given diplomas from The Dalles High school at the Vogt theatre laat night, tbere being II girls and seven boys to complete the course! ' The pro gram of the evening wee as follows: Invocettony Rev.- D.' V. Poling,' oration, 'Individual ; Responsibility, ; CUre K. MoCordt vocal solo, D.. V. rollng; ora tlorv "Irish Home Rule. Mlanle Pat terson; vocal duet, Meedamea Carlton. Williams and N. J. Slnnott; oration, "The Senate and Publio Opinion"! com mencement address, Professor - J- It. Ackerman, president State Normal school of Monmouth; violin solo. Miss Lucia. Barton. John Gavin of the school board presented . the diplomas to Mar garet Balet Ellen Coffey, Leolla Egbert, Dorothy Gray, Alta Hockeramlth. Min nie Kaufman.. Gertrude Lonxmlre. Oladys Lawson, Clara McCord, Minnie Patterson. . Frances Stogsdlll, Viola Wolff. Guy Douthlt Or In ICgbert, Ar thur Harrlman, Rebel Mori. Kllndt Nlel- sen, Raymond Ostrander, Manton Tread gold. The theatre was filled to Us ca pacity to see the largest class graduate. Vanse Succeeds as Musician. tgperlal DUaeTefc te Tbe 1nim1. The Dallea. Or. June 17. Oeorce Vause, a local musician of much talent who has been a student at Oberlln and the InsUtute of Musical Art of Nsw York, for the past three years, will re turn to the Institute as a member of the faculty next fait Mr Vause will give a recital here June 20 aad-one at Pendleton Juno 10 after his return. Two Email Wood Fires so Far. fSalesi Bnnaa ef The Journal, t fialsm. Or. June 17. Frank Harden has been appointed fire warden for Polk county and Ted McElwaln for Lin coln oounty. Only two fires thus far have. come to the attention of .the state forester's office. One . weo a , small blase near Klamath Falls and the other wood fire near Beaverton. ' JACK LEISCIIill Son of American Ambassador Jo' Italy. Will 'Marry Miss ' " . Helene Demartst. (By tb tstematloaal Hw arlr.t Rom June 17 'Jack" Lelechman, son Jttt : the American ambassador to Rosie, is to marry Miss Helene De- mkrest, the beautiful aad attractive daughter of Mrs.. Warren Demarest of New York. Amid tears and lamenta tlona Mrs. Demarest is announcing the approaching loas of her daughter, eay Ing: ' . , '.! ' , .'. , - , -. - - "I knew It would have to come some day but did not expect so soon," The engsgement caused surprise as it was inougnt wnen Frank Burke Roche came to Europe It was for the purpose of asking for Miss Demarest's hand. But somehow Burke Roche ' suddenly wlt.l. .... . M.. . Jt - , . . to Miss Laura V. Wells and then Lelsch man appeared on the scene as the suc cessful suitor. - Mrs. Demarest Is not the only one' weeping over the approaching marriage, for Baroness Henry, de Rothchlld, who launched the young "Jack" Leischman socially an! who for several years past has made him her protege, does not rel ish the loss of her escort and la not hiding her chagrin. She advanced hla social career in Paris by her patronage nd made him almoet as popular as his predecessor In favor. Count Bonl - do Castellane. - s The marriage of Miss Demarest will simplify mstters In the . disturbed Demarest melange and will drive the objection of dlvoroe the wife has long wanted. ' . : . - , . ,.'.. - When this event happens, it will allow the consummation of Mlas Dem- . srest's romantlo - affair with young Count Hello de Tallyrand, Who has been devoted to the charming New Yorker for, several years . ? . . . ,. quite certain of It During the sus ceptible years of a man's life he should draw his Inspiration from the country of his birth. Too many of our young folk who are musically Inclined believe that they can get Instruction only in the European cities. That is wholly a wrong Idea. There are excellent schools In the United Statea, not only In New York, but In Boston and In Chicago. After a man has been grounded In his muaio hnra at ham thn ha mav wall the money h had amassed he divided ro travellnar. to sea wh&t tha am .n.i.i between bis two children when he was nag to offer. But during the first re- elsewhere but - Of ih children, of the middle class, if l dare' use the .term here In our free republic the children of people who have enough money to bring them up comfortably.' but not enough to spoil, them with. These hut 40 veara of axe. "But the matter of his love afalra?" "Well, women threw themselves at hie feet I have no doubt he had his -many love affairs, but of all the women whom he loved there was not one who after ward thought of him with anger, I am sure. Liszt was not immoral; nar was among the whole world's purest men. Then siance at little Mozart, ho naa a heart of gold, devoted to his father and his mother. Oh. no; true musicians have not been Immoral, ever." "There are the operatio people ana their scandals," I suggested. I am not willing to include most singers among true musicians," Mr. Damrosch answered. "A fine voice Is a gift of nature. She may give a man or woman glands, muscles, what not which when operated produce beautiful sounds. The brain, the soul, hajre little to do With It It Is the machine which nature has "Twlded which creates the singer. But a man becomes a true musician oe ciuse his soul yearns for music aa the sole means by which It may express It self. With singers It is a desire to take ao vantage of the gift of nature. For that . reason we find among singers often most Inferior minds ana souls, the mercenary spirit IVack of Industry Jgotsble. "But to go back to muslo and Amer ica: What we must guard against is lack of Industry and patience the idea that one can acquire a predtgested and prepared musical education. This Im patience to achieve results without suf ficient labor is especially characteristic of the American woman. She won t sit down and dig her knowledge out of a book herself, although Valuable know ledge is that which you create yourself or get with difficulty.- In America too many things are done for us by other people who, to be sure, are well paid for doing them; but we lese much. Our men do not play ball; they go to watch pro fessionals do that thua getting their en joyment falsely at second hand. Our women do not. study; they go to lec tures which hare been prepared by peo ple who have studied. We do not sit down and study music; we buy contri vances which play more or less correct ly, but mechanically, those composi tions which, to get the best of, " we should study out ourselves." ; , : The great conductor paused a mo ment and then went back to a subject Vhlch we had dlsoussed some time be fore, s-. .'-":-,: ''R-''.--"" irj -" Meceptlve Period at Home. '"Let us return for a moment to Mc Dowell," said he. " X told of his Ger man Instruction and said that he was an example, not of spontaneous American genius, but of German Instruction. - He ceptlve period he should remain at home and study here, beneath one of the gift ed American masters. Until our young people understand that we shall not have a national music. ' "But not so long ago the musician made In Germany, especially the musi cal Instructor" "I was born in Germany, but educated here. I had the luck of having a great father. I went abroad and studied and It was a disadvantage. For ten years, anyway, I suffered from ii." in Hlflh-Grade VVines and Liquors On account of remodeling our wine cellar, we on sale for this week only 500O gallons of Wine and Whis key,. Sale starts Monday, June 19, posing Saturday, June 24. L .'.,. "v.:. $1.50 Port $1.50 Sherry $1.50 Angelica Wine Wine - Wine this week this week this week reduced to reduced to reduced to" . 75c 75c 75c ; Per Gallon Per Gallon J Per Gallon $1.50 Muscatel $4.00 Rye $4 Bourbon tVlne Whiskey Whiskey this week , this week , this week' reduced to reduced to : reduced to 75c 02.75 82.75 Per Gallon. Per Gallon Per Gallon Dem I Johns 25c Extra Out-of-town orders will receive our prompt attention. Delivery Free in the City. National Wnne Co. 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