Article on proposed Church Music Association concerts

“The N. Y. World paints a nasty little paragraph, denouncing the ‘exclusiveness’ of the proposed C.M.A. concerts. It emanates from some penny-a-liner whose bile is stirred up by rumors of concerts to which the reporting fraternity is not to be humbly invited, and is not to be cuddled or bribed for a favorable report in tomorrow’s papers. If we succeed at all, we shall be wholly independent of these condottiere for we want to sell no tickets. The more they abuse our ‘exclusiveness,’ the more strongly will people, more or less tainted by snobbishness, be tempted to ask admission as subscribers. We have now $5400 subscribed. I hear that Bergner & others are amazed that so much can be raised for any musical purpose. It has been raised with little effort. I guess that Ellie’s two musical evenings of last spring and the year before, which introduced Haydn’s Masses, and that School of Music, to many people, and which have been somewhat talked of, are entitled to some of the credit of the facility with which money has been raised.”