Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1914 — CARLY TRAINING OF SINGERS. [ARTICLE]

CARLY TRAINING OF SINGERS.

Many of the “Golden Throats" Were Perfected by Nature. As some of us know, Adelina Patti sang as a child. Her voice required little or no training. Its beauty and Dlacement were God-given. All Patfl’s wise guardians did was to protect her against exposure of all kinds. Patti made her operatic debut at an age when it would be a crime to begin the vocal training of the average girt Nellie Melba is another whose golden throat was perfected by nature. When Melba left her Australian horn for Paris, where she acquired some “frills,” her votes was perfect, so no one, unless it be the unknown teacher In far-away Melbourne can honestly claim any credit for Melba’s “vocal method.” ’ s \- Mme. Tetrasrini, wftercame rather late into her own was always a natural singer. It Is reported that she studied tone production hut live months. But Tetrazrinl lived in the home of her rioter Mme. Campantai, who is a stages and hearing this ris:tor practice fog years supplied the ctevor liAeuer vlth ideas which en*titfbl*d.|gr curtail her own studies by sevotal yearn.