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.

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

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

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

Composers are not all good conductors.

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.