'Oh, how funny! I 've only these short woolen gloves, and no sleeves. I know nobody here, and I never ask for any.' Thea began hunting among her wraps. Archie, you 'd better get busy about seats to-morrow.' Of course, Fricka knows,' Thea ended quietly.įred sighed. It 's all such comprehensive sort of music-fateful. There 's nothing lovelier than the wonniger Hausrath. I think you 'll notice it.' She turned to Ottenburg reproachfully: 'It 's noble music, Fred, from the first measure. A little more coronet effect, built up a little higher at the sides, but the idea 's the same.

Archie, how my mother always wore her hair, parted in the middle and done low on her neck behind, so you got the shape of her head and such a calm, white forehead? I wear mine like that for Fricka. At each step along the way, her realization of the mediocrity of her peers propels her to greater levels of accomplishment, but in the course of her ascent she must discard those relationships which no longer serve her.Touched Archie's arm. The novel captures Thea's independent-mindedness, her strong work ethic, and her ascent to her highest achievement. Her reference for life is always her home town and the people she encountered there. I have not come to this decision rashly.' In that pursuit she travels to Dresden, then to New York City, singing operas. 'your voice is worth all that you can put into it. He encourages her to pursue her vocal training instead of piano saying. When her instructor hears her voice, he realizes that this is her true artistic gift. The ambitious young heroine, Thea Kronborg leaves her hometown to go to Chicago to fulfill her dream of becoming a well-trained pianist, a better piano teacher. Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional town in Colorado, The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The title comes from a painting of the same name by Jules Breton in 1884 and part of the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Thea Kronborg grows up, learning herself, her strengths and her talent, until she reaches success. Her story is told against the backdrop of the burgeoning American West in which she was born in a town along the rail line, of fast-growing Chicago near the turn of the twentieth century, and of the audience for singers of her skills in the US compared to Europe. The book tells the story of a talented artist born in a small town in Colorado who discovers and develops her singing voice.

It is generally considered to be the second novel in Cather's Prairie Trilogy, following O Pioneers (1913) and preceding My ntonia (1918). The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather.

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather