Show THE ROULADES OF TIlE PAST Iii the present atmosphere of musical training it is quite certain that vocalists do not flourish for one thinrr the tendency of modern music is all against that kind of composition in which ringers used most to delight and which provided them with their principal artistic diet The roulades of a day that is dead were perfect training train-ing for the voice and were only really objectionable when they occupied the pace of real music Now that a different ideal is set up these excellent exercises have almost entirely srone out of fashion and young and tender voices are rulnel oung or broken on intellectual compositions that they can not grasp or Interpret It is notoriously far easier to make a sIlk purse out of a sows ear than to transform a singer Into a musician anti In nine cases out ol ten either the RTII dent rebels against the training and warbles war-bles his beloved nonsense to the delight or his amateur friends and the most indnl gent section of the public or develops into in-to an admirable musician without a scrap of voice The question of the battle between be-tween vocal and intellectual training is too large a question to be discussed here hut It may be pointed out that the few artists who manage by the help of a peculiarly pe-culiarly happy combination of circumstances I circumstan-ces to learn the art of intelligent expression expres-sion without losing the beauty of voice I that is the gift of nature need fear no I undue competition I c There is always room at the top 151 a saying that is no les true of the musical i musi-cal than of any other profession and after af-ter all really fine singers EC for that matter players either have never yet I been a drug in the market TheNaUonal Review t I i4i fi L i |