"Just Plain Snobbery" - One of America’s newest night club singers, Miss Helen Traubel, last week received full blessing for leaving the Metropolitan Opera from Kenneth Caddell, Middletown’s newest piano tuner. Miss Traubel, when she quit the opera last Sunday, said, "America has produced a wealth of fine, popular music - music written by Americans, sung by Americans, loved by Americans... I think the time has come for American artists to recognize that American folk music is as much their province as Wagner, Beethoven and Verdi." Caddell, who has tuned the pianos of Iturbi, Francescatti, and Miss Traubel, among others, agrees with the singer "100 per cent." As a special artist tuner for Baldwin Piano Co. in the past four years, Caddell would stand by at many Cincinnati concerts. "I would get a good deal out of the tone and quality of instruments, but very little out of the songs. People go to concerts for pleasure, and if they don’t understand the language they lose out. Not too many in the audience understand..."

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