Vocal Mastery - Talks with Master Singers and Teachers

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Vocal Mastery, by Harriette Brower This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers Author: Harriette Brower Release Date: March 23, 2005 [EBook #15446] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VOCAL MASTERY *** Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net). {Frontispiece} Enrico Caruso VOCAL MASTERY TALKS WITH MASTER SINGERS AND TEACHERS COMPRISING INTERVIEWS WITH CARUSO, FARRAR, MAUREL, LEHMANN, AND OTHERS BY HARRIETTE BROWER Author of "Piano Mastery, First and Second Series," "Home-Help in Music Study," "Self-Help in Piano Study" WITH TWENTY PORTRAITS FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS 1917, by OLIVER DITSON COMPANY NEW YORK 1918, 1919, by THE MUSICAL OBSERVER COMPANY 1920, by FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY CONTENTS FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR iii I. ENRICO CARUSO The Value of Work 1 The Will to Succeed a II. GERALDINE FARRAR 10 Compelling Force III. VICTOR MAUREL Mind Is Everything 24 IV . A VISIT TO MME. LILLI 36 LEHMANN Self-teaching the Great V. AMELITA GALLI-CURCI 48 Essential Ceaseless Effort Necessary VI. GIUSEPPE DE LUCA 60for Artistic Perfection VII.