Show destructive music A member of the board of directors of the now new york metropolitan opera house bouse tells a story that he had from one of the musicians attached to the orchestra there it appears that a friend of the wife of the musician had during a call on the latter inquired as to the husbands taste in musical matters among other things sho she wanted to know what operas the musician liked best to play 1 I dont know much about dot said the better half who was at the time busily engaged in darning an old shirt but I 1 do know some tings Vo teffer he likes I 1 like not dos wagner operas dey sounds vell veil enough but dose clothes ach lie he beffer yet comes home from dot wagner opera dot he haf not torn a place in his poor old shirts I 1 the italian operas |