Chicago: its history and its builders; a century of marvelous growth . Chicago, he accepted. Of the con-ditions there he writes in his memoirs. Chicago is a city of nearly two million in-habitants, lint tile great majority of them belong to tin class employed in , and at all kinds of manual Labor, while I In- cultivated class is compar-atively small. This gives only a limited field of activity for a musician, and offershim litth- opportunity to add to his income by teaching or private consequi nee is that there is litth- inducement outside of the orchestra for me
Chicago: its history and its builders; a century of marvelous growth . Chicago, he accepted. Of the con-ditions there he writes in his memoirs. Chicago is a city of nearly two million in-habitants, lint tile great majority of them belong to tin class employed in , and at all kinds of manual Labor, while I In- cultivated class is compar-atively small. This gives only a limited field of activity for a musician, and offershim litth- opportunity to add to his income by teaching or private consequi nee is that there is litth- inducement outside of the orchestra for menof the ability required for a first-rank orchestra to settle there, and this makes itvery difficult to procure thrui. Tin modern repertoire does not permit any cur-tailment in the size of tin orchestra, and as Chicago could not furnish our lead-ing players, they had to be brought from other parts of the world. In many casesthe men thus imported were unused to such a rigorous climate as that of Chicago,and were driven away again by sickness, and had to be
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