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67
PUTNAM GRISWOLD'S AMBITION.
versity of music and will have the greatest teachers
obtainable. I already have interested many wealthy
Is the Latest to Advocate an American Con- people and a large part of the money necessary
is already in sight.
servatory of Music.
"One object of the project is to afford poor but
Putnam Griswold, the American baritone, who is talented students a practical and free musical edu-
now in Berlin, is starting the latest movement for cation. Those who can afford to do so will pay.
a national conservatory of music in America. Mr. The proposed conservatory will be connected with
Griswold and his wife arrived on Wednesday at an opera house to be used for actual experience.
"The musical tradition of the Old World makes
the Hotel Adlon and are spending ten days in the
German capital and then they will go to Switzer- it practically impossible at present for an American
composer or librettist to get a. hearing or a fair
land for the summer.
Mr. Griswold will combine his vacation with the opportunity.
The location of the conservatory has not been
study of new roles and he will return to sing at the
Royal Opera in Berlin and Vienna in September. decided upon, but it is believed that it necessarily
He said to The Sun correspondent one day this will have to be near New York, though I would like
Washington because of its national character. Cali-
week:
"My stay in New York after seven years study fornia has strong claims because the climate is most
abroad has convinced me that America will take splendid for voice development, but it is too far
the first rank in music, as she has in nearly all other removed from the great musical centers."
things. I believe that America has wonderful voices
and talent and will produce some of the greatest
SOMEWHAT MIXED.
singers in the world. I also believe that America
will produce great operas and that there is such a
At a recent reception abroad a young woman,
thing as American music. It needs only encourage- mistaking Marconi for Mascagni, said: "I do wish
ment, an opportunity for creation and expression. you'd play me your lovely 'Intermezzo.'"
I have started a movement to establish a conserva-
"With pleasure, madam," answered Marconi,
tory of music which in fact will be a national uni- "but I shall have to play it on a wireless piano."
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