Music: Survey

Back from Europe came Olga Samaroff, able pianist turned kindly critic for the New York Evening Post, wrote last week for her paper a very earnest article. Said she: "I doubt if anything could be more depressing to a musician of European education than to make a journey of investigation into musical conditions overseas today.

"On the human side poverty is the rule and actual misery only too frequent among musicians. On the artistic side the activities of concert halls and operas, filled as they are with memories of past glories, force upon...