Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1910 — Limited Power. [ARTICLE]

Limited Power.

An American concert manager tells of an English singer whose voice, oi great sweetness of tone and wonderful compass, was yet so powerful that no orchestra could drown its tones. On the occasions when this singer’s husband acted as her musical manager he appeared especially anxious to impress the audience with this fact of the great power of her voice, and more than once displayed his desire in an amusing way. At one time the lady was rehearsing for a concert to be given in a large hall, and in. one of her songp she was so be accompanied by a ttpmbone , obligato. The trombonist blew with all his might, but his best efforts met with a call of “Louder! Louder!” frpm the insatiable conductor. Finally, the musician laid down his instrument, and surveying the husband with indignation on his purple face, gasped: “Louder und louder is very easy to say, but vere 1b der vlnd?”