Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1912 — German Musicians Poorly Paid. [ARTICLE]

German Musicians Poorly Paid.

The Germans like music, but they do not want to pay for it. What they gladly pay for is food and drink, with free music on the side. When a highclass musician plays at a variety show or in a night case, he is looked down on; yet these are the only places where an orchestral player can earn a decent living. Some startling figures have been printed in Der Turner which shows that it is practically impossible for a German orchestral musician to marry and bring up a family. For a family of four the minimum expenses, apart from food, are $250 a year. The income of an orchestral player is $330 a year; which leaves less than 25 cents a day for food. Americans pay musicians ten times as much as the Germans do; but we, to be sure, are mere barbarians in the eyes of the Germans. —Boston Transcript.