Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

Composers are not all good conductors.

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.