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Title: Great Singers on the Art of Singing
Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists

Author: James Francis Cooke

Release Date: August 6, 2010 [EBook #33358]

Language: English

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GREAT
SINGERS ON THE
ART _of_ SINGING

EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCES
WITH FOREMOST ARTISTS

BY
JAMES FRANCIS COOKE

A SERIES
OF PERSONAL STUDY TALKS WITH
THE MOST RENOWNED OPERA
CONCERT AND ORATORIO
SINGERS OF THE TIME

_ESPECIALLY PLANNED FOR
VOICE STUDENTS_

[Illustration]

THEO. PRESSER CO.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY THEO. PRESSER CO.

INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT SECURED

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION 5

THE TECHNIC OF OPERATIC PRODUCTION 21

WHAT THE AMERICAN GIRL SHOULD
KNOW ABOUT AN OPERATIC CAREER _Frances Alda_ 31

MODERN VOCAL METHODS IN ITALY _Pasquale Amato_ 38

THE MAIN ELEMENTS OF INTERPRETATION
_David Bispham_ 45

SUCCESS IN CONCERT SINGING _Dame Clara Butt_ 58

THE VALUE OF SELF-STUDY IN VOICE
TRAINING _Giuseppe Campanari_ 68

ITALY, THE HOME OF SONG _Enrico Caruso_ 79

MODERN ROADS TO VOCAL SUCCESS _Julia Claussen_ 90

SELF-HELP IN VOICE STUDY _Charles Dalmores_ 100

IF MY DAUGHTER SHOULD STUDY FOR
GRAND OPERA _Andreas Dippel_ 110

HOW A GREAT MASTER COACHED
OPERA SINGERS _Emma Eames_ 121

THE OPEN DOOR TO OPERA _Florence Easton_ 133

WHAT MUST I GO THROUGH TO BECOME
A PRIMA DONNA? _Geraldine Farrar_ 144

THE MASTER SONGS OF ROBERT
SCHUMANN _Johann