COLLEGE FOR SINGERS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7243, 31 July 1907, Page 4

COLLEGE FOR SINGERS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —The cabled announcement that Madame Lilian Nordica has established, at Harlem River, in the United States, un institution which enables singers at a small cost to obtain a training in oia- ! torio and opera on lines laid down by the old-time masters, is worthy of more than passing notice by the music-loving people of New Zealand. An endowed college within a fairly accessible distance of this colony has been hoped for many years, and the gift of Madame Nordica should in time be regarded as ono of the most estimable of this century. Time has proved that within the confines of the Australasian polonies lay talent of the highest merit, and the names of .Madame Melba, Ada Crossley, Amy Castles, and Irene Ainsley are. perhaps but a few of the treasures of song as yet discovered—and then only by chance, through the instrumentality of prudent judges and men of influence. i With this dawn of promise the poetry of the soul in the southern hemisphere may get better scope for fruition, and 1 at an outlay within the powers of those who enjoy nature's special endowment in this direction. PAX.