Show CHAT WITH A COMPOSER how melodies les are made composing an opera A representative ol of the NEWS lately enjoyed a very pleasant chat with mr B B young and his talented wife madame mazzucato young youner composer ot of the light opera mr sampson of omaha shortly to be produced at the salt lake theatre during the conversation madame young explained the practical details of her work in composing an air chorus etc 1 I take the verses of a solo tor for example she said and study them carefully and thoroughly eb y and fix x in III my mind the rhythm thin or measure in which which they are written this gives me the time or measure in which to compose the melody then I 1 sit down at a table and go to work with my pencil and paper 19 in a manner often characteristic of having a refined and enthusiastic temperament especially such as are devoted to the study of art the madame grow grew animated as her explanation of her methods progressed 1 61 I dout dont use my piano in co composing she said no I 1 form conceptions in my mind of 0 the sounds and chords I 1 wish to produce I 1 study the sentiment ment of the words I 1 am setting to music and I 1 try to express that sentiment in ia melody sounds aad harmonies seem floating in my mind 1 I grasp them reduce them teem to form and write them down quickly the enthusiasm and animation displayed by the lady as she described her methods of work and told how barill harmonious sounds seemed to f ill fill her mind at times marked her as a typical child of italy preeminently pre eminently the land of el song sone and indicated that she took in ber borka delight light is the usual accompaniment of genius of course she said baid 1 I go over my work and correct aaa and improve it and complete the chords and bar monies of af all the parts before I 1 it leave my hands the reporter drew the to inference ference however from both her words and ana manner that ber herbest best work was done rapidly and under an inspiration which could not brook or labor tons ious methods in the formation ot ol its main superstructure however profitably those methods might be applied to it ina iq a process of finishing si when I 1 was composing compo stae this opera I 1 said the lady referring to mr samson of omaha omaha 1 I aid did most of it piecemeal the author sent the libretto toto to mein me in fragments he would send me the words of a solo or chorus and I 1 would immediately compose the air ai then I 1 would have to send to tj the author and wait for more of tile the li br breto oi 1 cog bome 1 i mr nye and I 1 would mee meet ll 11 some som euin arti azes end nd talk over our work and make taca ge in it 1 t but the last act of abe luoren va not written till after the words and music of the rest of the abe opera were finished nor until three weeks before its first p production r od mr r fqy nye e I 1 is be author of the libretto and one 0 rie of 0 abe t I 1 ie brightest literary workers in the cou country nry he Is still quite a young man and is the omaha world whose work is attract attracting ting wide attention a and ad being reproduced in hundreds OL newspapers ills his ability as display displays in this opera threatens to make ani a rival of sullivan if he will demote dd te his powers to 10 this line the music of the opera belon belons belongs s to a new school of which gilbert may fifty he be said to be toe tae leading founder it is difficult to compose and to render it is sparkling lively catchy and requires to be rendered with chic and vim and much of it has had to be adapted to animated pantomime and business on the part of the cast madame young explained that conceptions of musical harmony harmody rise in the mind ot of a composer as those of metaphors alp hors do in the mind ot a poet and that the former thinks in sounds as the latter does in words band and by means ot writing materials reduces mental conceptions of melody to permanent and tangible form at the suggestion of mr young the reporter ha handed to madame young a verse of eight lines and in about twenty minutes the lady bad written a melody for all the jhb parts corn com and sang the verse with piano accompaniment the air was singularly appropriate to the words and very beautiful the lad ladys y Is talent is doubtless in a great measure hereditary though she has been an ardent student of music from childhood at the age of nine years she compo composed sect an air for a childs prayer in verse and two years later a waltz walte which was much praised she has since composed a number of pieces but has destroyed most of them this opera may be said to be her first earnest work at composing |