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Music as a profession
Nellie Melba
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Too many girls and youths are encouraged to adopt music as a profession merely because of its gentility as a means of livelihood...Before young vocal aspirants decide on this difficult undertaking, I strongly recommend the seeking of high and unprejudiced counsel, preferably from a singer who is familiar with the requirements and difficulties of the calling, and who is intimate with the conditions which obtain in the great centres of music
Melba - A Biography, Agnes G. Murphy, 1909
Was born on: 19.05.1861
About Author: Australian opera soprano
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Drawbacks of fame
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First rule of opera
Music is written in the blood of the composer
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