
Voices of Gold : Some Famous Women Singers of 1900
Title : Voices of Gold : Some Famous Women Singers
Author : Isabel Brooke-Adler
Source : Harmsworth Magazine
Year Published : 1900
Page Count : 6
Image Count : 9
Word Count : 3,000
File Size in MB : 3.3
File Type : PDF
"Nellie laughs as she tells of the old days in Melbourne, and remembers the parental indignation : but her sparkling eyes soften as she adds, “ But I was forgiven later on, when it came to be acknowledged that to sing was my evident vocation. I always had sung, just anyhow, to amuse myself; but for a long while before I took the desperate step of adopting music as my profession, I had felt that nothing else would satisfy me. To appear in opera seemed the height of bliss, to.."