Great Singers on the Art of Singing

Great Singers on the Art of Singing
Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists

This edition features
 • illustrations
 • a linked Table of Contents
 
CONTENTS
Introduction    
The Technic of Operatic Production    
What the American Girl Should Know About an Operatic Career       Frances Alda    
Modern Vocal Methods in Italy    Pasquale Amato    
The Main Elements of Interpretation    David Bispham    
Success in Concert Singing    Dame Clara Butt    
The Value of Self-Study in Voice Training    Giuseppe Campanari    
Italy, the Home of Song    Enrico Caruso    
Modern Roads To Vocal Success    Julia Claussen    
Self-Help in Voice Study    Charles Dalmores    
If My Daughter Should Study for Grand Opera    Andreas Dippel    
How a Great Master Coached Opera Singers    Emma Eames    
The Open Door To Opera    Florence Easton    
What Must I Go Through to Become a Prima Donna?    Geraldine Farrar    
The Master Songs of Robert Schumann    Johanna Gadski    
Teaching Yourself to Sing    Amelita Galli-Curci    
The Know How in the Art of Singing    Mary Garden    
Building a Vocal Repertoire    Alma Gluck    
Opportunities for Young Concert Singers    Emilio de Gogorza    
Thoroughness in Vocal Preparation    Frieda Hempel    
Common Sense in Training and Preserving the Voice    Dame Nellie Melba    
Secrets of Bel Canto    Bernice de Pasquali    
How Fortunes Are Wasted in Vocal Education    Marcella Sembrich    
Keeping the Voice in Prime Condition    Ernestine Schumann-Heink   
Italian Opera in America    Antonio Scotti    
The Singer's Larger Musical Public    Henri Scott
Singing in Concert and What It Means    Emma Thursby    
New Aspects of the Art of Singing in America    Reinald Werrenrath    
How I Regained a Lost Voice    Evan Williams

About the Author
"James Francis Cooke (1875 – 1960) spent his life involved with music. He was a pianist, composer, playwright, journalist, author (including novels and of books on musical history and theory), a president of Theodore Presser music publishers, and editor of The Etude music magazine. He taught piano for more than twenty years in New York, led choral clubs and taught voice. He also gave music-topic lectures." --Wikipedia