Show STRAUSS ON THE SOURCE Says Composer Must Be Able to Do Things In a recent Interview with Klchard Strauss the composer Is reported to have said Art springs from being able to do things A musician must be master of his craft and one who has Inspiration In-spiration something to say and knows how to say It truly and well la an artist ar-tist The question IH does n composer succeed In musically representing what ha alms at even that which la ugly Then In lies aesthetic justllicatlon Amateurishness Is ugly 1 Victor Herbert has with a view of pleasing the public rather than the mu plelaiiH added to the Incidental music written by Mendelssohn < for The Mid a auinmcr Eights Dream an advance notlcj of a coming production of this fairy play which reads To fIll up tt hiatus of recitative hen and t there for which no munlc had I 3 over len written In previous Production whole phrases that fitted were taken from Mendelssohns posthumous opera Lorelei with the result that the entire score which now Imludrn fourteen vocal numbers In fitcad of the original two Is Mendcls Johns throughout ThlH In also the f1r time that words have been applied to the Spring Song and the Spinning Song and the easy fitting of the text to amen melodies Is I Inherent proof of the source ot their Inspiration Poor i MftulolHohn his boyish sin of omission hns led to this |