Show i t r IThe i Music Student i roa roaBy I 1 Berlin News Notes By Pietro i rl NCE CE 3 again the attention of or American Amen Ameri can cnn students t has lizis h ti-n ti n focused ed on the tragic tra-Ic failures oa numb number r of oC who como come hero to Berlin BerUn with natural equipment lt mid and who and 1111 In what aVe spent pent years a money BS a proved pro to be he a it t grievous ous failure c fc had hall seera several of these public more recently and antI the talk In tn 10 IC colony colon hll hitS has brought more thun thu one Sc I to m my ml own recollection Among B 0 causes of ol this failure should n name mc that of or frequent cluing chang changer rIg ng er of or method and teacher teacher esPecIally especially n a n vocal work worl l ill hI i m my opinion more nod voices have been spoiled by run run- nit lag about from studio to studio from Cram 10 to method than IJ by any other cause 1 U 11 C Had Ball teachers there ar arc plenty but given ghen tho the best hest of oC teach teach- what hat can C he lie do for or a pupil In j especially I If he lie or 01 she be fol- fol wed ved thereafter immediately IJ by a poor pOOl cher t You see sec ee the he trouble lies after alLer all ill as months ago In tin In-tin- the fact that so n. n n earnest students have trained hitis irid They Tile may ma be lie earnest gifted and but If It th they lack Jack good horse sense dISC who Is 19 going to supply the deficiency de do- Yet Vet It fl I Is I also o a gamble this i of proper teachers At least leaste ought e ou hl to have enough to stick I 0 o on teacher tel until we It have L c proven provell pro eul Is ls unfitness to develop elop our particular Ind hid of or voice olce Then there i is time I I nough to change I I il I am told It by huy a competent authority hat fat there are arc musical l students j jn n Berlin and that out of or those who iho are vocal music only third one of or hem liem succeed In keeping their voices Je less t In securing profitable Otis ons A lar large e part o of the unlucky 1 or ot two thirds who fall fail drop dropout dropout out ut with JUI ruined voices This Is is' is caused think k by the pernicious habit halJa of or I ones one's teacher as one would changing Change his coa coat t. t I f get ift t Good Tt nt at Start denies the tite self evident i i Now Xo no one proposition that the student Sl should sete seure seure se- se ure te a. a teacher who understands his lila or her voice olce to tb do this the teacher must bo be u a a. good tood teacher a well-trained well one rd nd of oC course with sufficient once ence to comprehend and sympathize Ith the pupil In question How llou is the tul nt to und nh nil this out out- first by hr earning all he hc can In iii regard to the iJ In lii hand next by y selecting a her oacher of unquestioned ut reputation to torum 1 fl n 1 have l known pupils in Berlin to torum rum Irum up trade on a 1 percentage be for their i eachers and that too In Iner er very re rc ways Social people are not not 1 reo rec 0 from flom this gi grafting business For teachers eachers ate are a adroit in securing a good I vord oyd from natured good n and nd musical musical- y V Ignorant people who Wile use social pros pre Ige to push puh along nl Inferior r teachers ler v io ma may have hac the pull But Dut the stu- stu lent ent must uye uce some jud Judgment ment of oC stu-l stu his n He lie mu must t ask does ask does this teacher nyc r pupils pupil singing in opera houses ind nd nd on concert stages Whom has In lie ado nade A J teacher like e the tho tree In the arable arabIc Is known b by In his fruits And J Androu rou ou must look at the fruit of ot his pro pro- to know his values 4 c After the this teacher tel has been selected nd lId his method I Is found to a agree with he hi voice then stay sta with him him until Ime and study permits permit both hoth teacher nd tid method to prove PIO their value aluc American Girl Irl nt us Example i I When I first carne came to Berlin there thereas as i-as as a 1 young oun woman here herl ap aft Ameri can who po possessed one of the most moat I beautiful natural voices 1 I ever heard It was all a wonderfully deep contralto voice ol e rare and rich Ile The girl Irl whom W v e ml might ht call Molly 1011 for tOl tho the purpose of oC Illustration came over o here her with the tho avowed purpose e of oC studying with a faI famous fa fa- a- a I motis teacher of or Berlin On her arrival er here sh 11 In iii i with some seIne disgruntled students who had conceived a personal I III to the famous teacher the they dint did not lot assume that the teacher was isas not 11 1 nil all sh she h professed ed to be bp but they did 1 not like her hel as a a woman As the re leI t-e- t r sult stilt Molly was dissuaded from her purpose and she chose a French vocal vocal- I bt 1st What t h he was WIS as a teacher I-do I not know for fOI I did not hear heal Molly after she Rhe went t. t to study with him Indeed I I dont don't think Molly herself ever found out for In four attn months month time she had galloped off ocr to a new nw studio She he had I been en en told that Myor I or was waR thA tho best teacher In Europe and that all Hili m Americans went to him so she tried him himI I I for Cor fora R a While I Poor Ioor Molly lolI was b by this titis time in a ai I i sea Ea ea of Ill troubles trouble She had been singing ringing I according according- to the French method antInow antI and I now this the n new t teacher a her told her she he must sing Ring through her noseS nose and alt alter T her method This did not quite strike her I taste and nd before long some on one told lien her that the Italians lIans were vets the gr greatest rP I singers singer on earth So Molly lolI sped ore oft i to a new teacher this lila time an eta Italian She was by tills this lime so confused so mixed up I as to methods and anti schools school that she could r r sing one or 01 tIm the other othel At 1 the tile end of or the second year car her father wrote to h lien her r a asking her 1101 to Come home hume dear and give I c a concert this summer r and start making a little mone money to 1 h help lp yourself elC and thus re rec reU relieve re- re U hove lieve c your OUI f father a little I Molly folly threw w up un her hands In despair and nd hor her studios studIes at the same tamo t aunt and went int home Bu But not Tint to give give- a concert she had learned learnell wisdom om If not nol musIc For Molly 1011 decided wisely that It IK is RI c I to raise a family than to raise laiso tho thA standard of music Was 1 Molly's l voice ruined Not ot ex exactly ex- ex for fot fhe he had Ind been gifted with n II wonderfully rong rich voice but her two years rears of or browsing had bad given gl her lIr more mort than a n few bad ball habits which I ICU CU could II lit all nil have e been worked off ocr and h her r voice rolce made into all that lint nature designed do- do signed it to he Ia If 11 slip she lint had stuck to the French or to the Italian or the cosmopolitan cos ens- n method of ot tany an one of her teachers for tor two tWI vu years s the she he would ha have hae Tone one home with something to show allow for Cor lien her mone money and lIme June Not Oot all an students pet get off ort nt as well as M Molly lly as ai we t have ha had hail occasion to know kno in the American i colony this year Too man ninny many of oC the Ir el lovely voices voice ar are ruined fort forever And It Is due uc in mon many cases case to the lack hack of oC decision lon and intelligent ent independent ent thinking on the part of oC the students t Teachers cannot give gi us voices nor nur nor brains New tW Opera Produced We have III lla had a new opera presented In the Iho Independent ch In this thi house there Is 18 no need for fOT or con con- suiting kings 1 or parliament as to choice o of tf nationality or style so tiO we wo get et a teste of or man ninny many good and new operas opera which do not appear on oit the royal pro pro- grams rams This time it Is the very ven modera modern mod mod- era ern Russian opera I uren bythe by bythe Ui the e gifted ft Co composer m pos e r I ac haik o who shows plainly l hie debt to Wagner and his contempt fo for ol the Italians of either old ole or now new school The house houMe was packed for the premier pre pre- titter mier of or this opera a antI and there was applause ap 31 ap- ap Rill arid and flowers Clower bows and con Cnn In plenty The Americans wore vore out In Jn force for we ice do tie love a hit of ot change chan an and Russian nUs fire and flame mE aha always jI attracts the American mu musical temperament nt The musIc was was ver very charming ch anti and redolent of the great Russian who filled It with the I wide wille glory of or tho thA steppes and the I blase blae of ot passion which burns In the I soul of ot the lie true Slav It was waR an opera of ot subservience to the orchestral ef effects effects c- c ef- ef echi and tho lie tone lone colors color were laid on with convincing power There were ware many beautiful climaxes in hI the orchestral orchestral orchestral orches orches- numbers Perhaps the two most effective O vocal ocal parts were the duel scene and the tho final tuna duet duct between Tatjana na and The he whole piece was waR generously enero staged and pr presented d with great groat beauty of lie effect and it ma may prove pro proa a a office box success In Germany Grman It ItIn Is I already on one of the mo most l popular f Jf i operas In nU Russia and IK is considered j. j to tho 0 final word In the composers composer's In violin matters we are Te bt beginning t to o 0 t tI take I great Interest fl we of the Utah portion of th the American colony For Forwith v with t i the tho coming of or Miss tS l Romania yc Into Vito our midst initIal wo WI shall needs be vl vigilant i- i lant Jant ant stint and alert as as to American develop do on this kIn king of Instruments o 0 that I J herewith chronicle the tIme advent of another young voting OU American merican Davit Robinson by name who gave gac a I very fr excellent exCellent excellent ex ex- ex- ex performance at at- athO th hO aal Saal nal H He le w was u technically fine Inc am anelI and anel showed showell some temperament and nd fire Ii In I hl his hiu venous various l' l renderings of or the thc violinists violinist's violin I Jet F. F programs The closing number the Bach Each E B major concerto was a particularly particularly par par- good and revealed re the stU- stU tu- tu diotis and profound bent of oC this young oun Americans American's soul He lie appeared here b before be be- fore rore but did not make mak so profound nn no Impression as lif at al this last st performance lie was generously ly applauded Another youthful violinist who caught caugh m my fancy much muc quicker cl was a t slip ill I of ol ola a n. girl Irl b by name Alma lood 1 Moody She appeared appeared ap ap- ap in Iii ll and atul showed that thal she hf was WaR pos possessed e of oC more than titan lal talent nl She hc had warmth fullness of tone poise ea ease case and great delicacy of bowing H tier Her r rendition o of Huba Zephir was as alt delicious a morsel of or mu musical dell delight ht It lt has hn beep 01 my flY lot U to hear heaT In m many ny mi L Lda Jay day da She proves again ln that the Violin Is 15 quite AS s fI feminine in Its ethereal spir pir- spirit it and genius a ap all it n In is ma masculine In its breadth and profundity it r We Ve all nil tried to compare h her lir r with our Utah gm hut but could not not for fOl we have hl not heard hear our girl for fOl some Iome years Go Goes Co to Answer Charge William Kesler who h has s b been en in charge of or tho B Berlin church branches for fOl some time ha has gone one to tu lIo Hl U to answer charges made by hy a H r IhU preacher b by the name nuno of ot strife breeder d r Brune has been trying to tu tuen en engage art the Utah ciders elders In lit disputes 8 of various kinds and has dons done what lra t he hue could to make e trouble t for or with th the tho German Iman officials official Ulder J Keser Jeser csEr Is Isa Isa isa a German resident having 51 served r ed in tn n the lie imperial army armr so o is not subject to ban ban- All this thiR trouble however calls the more attention to the Mormon elders and und it results as ilK we find In tn an Increased attendance at their meetings s. s It r reminds minds me inc of a sa saying ln of or my pioneer pioneer pio plo neer grandfather he u used ed to tell lell tile tho people under the shadow of or the old bowery that lint the thc more they kicked over the mud wall UI like e Mormonism the higher I It l was H Robert bert Hinkley of oC Provo Pro antI and G G. have been called to habor la labor labor la- la bor In Berlin DelUn the former to act as successor successor suc sue cessor cessor to lo Elder Eider Kesler in the presidency dency of or this branch The TIme native church members of oC German Germany Germany Ger Ger- man many made mado an application for nonmolestation non non- molestation of or the American Mormon 1 elders setting forth that thc these e young ami men Wele were blameless III In their lives should be left to minister In their call- call Ing lag But the pl plea a was wa denied and the banishments will go on We Ve have had as Berlin visitors Steven Steven Ste Ste- ven veIl Wilcox from the Scottish mission and Thomas Brain from the thc English on lI h mission These young men have spent some days with the lie resident elders ciders seeIng seeing see see- ing tag the sights of this lila great cH city and andU U ian ivi-ian took his hits de do- t r r Just t yesterday ei c iiley they ac accompanied accompanied I nied him with Hh the intention of making makin the grand lour tour in company compan with our Utah musician I The branch which h has been heen out of commission as It were for fur eight months or more has luis just been re re- re opened George A. A Browning has been placed In char charge e of oC this branch MI Miss s Lilly Shipp sang sanS this week In another of or the concerts given gl periodically period period- b by the Conservatory's advanced pupils Tho The young Utahn is It creating quito quite an interest unions unions' professors and students at the tho school chool for or lien her gifts an and her Intelligent industry After three years of hard work her heroico voice voice- is now in iii such uch fine Cine condition that she hc Is prepare prepared to be begin ln some professional work Worl Melim Melvln Mel MI im i'm In Hill san sang in the lIl big social affair given h by the American colony on Washington's Wash Tash In ington's lons birthday This young oun man maui Is also doing oln work that Is 11 worthy of oC klan klan- self Eel and his native c state |