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rein Page 18 THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Thursday, April 5, 1951 Thur hur MUSIC ALBUM BY IRVEN FELL or so ago I attended a School given A week lecture at the Hi by Brian McCool an supervisor of the Ont of Education, It was sponsor: ed by the Home and School Assoc fation of the school and w tended by about 40 mempe: memb ip of over 100 Subj was "Music in the Sehoc The main idea was to inform his listeners of what the department doing to music study in school very informative address that should have been listened to by a much larger 'audience. A very interesting feature to me was the statement that the pupils of the collegiates in Toronto who have taken study in either vocal rumental music, that is, in stras or the Glee Clubs, definitely shown a higher academical standing than before th Mr. McCool said that careful statistics prove the statement. I mentioned Toronto as an ex because he did, but he a mated that the same applies to schools outside of Toronto. There is more of it in Toronto, being the largest city. One reason for it is that those who drop in academical standing are not allowed to be in the orchestra or Glee Club. Those that are so interested and pleas- ed and have learned to like music so much that they work harder on their academical studies to guar- antee themselves a place in the musical organizations. Incidentally it is mot only the music students who attain high- er marks but the standard through- out the whole school is higher ac- cording to the department of ed- ucation. Some of you are going to say that it is probably the "sis- sies" who are the ones interest- ed in the musical programme and that they will not likely be inter- ested in the school football or basketball team. Brian McCool says that this is far from the truth. A large percentage are in- terested in the sports but have learned or are learning to combine the two. This to my mind is very important. Let us have sports but do not let us forget the cultural side of life. In this regard I am reminded of a gathering which I attended when prizes were given to the baseball teams of our own. There was one receipient of two or three prizes, whom I happen to know is a student at the High School and has won a medal for singing at the Halton Music Fes- tival and is a member of the High School Glee Club. Of all those who made remarks when awarded their prizes, he was the only one who mentioned the benefits which could be had by playing a clean game. He said it would help to live a happier life in the adult sphere. The question driven home to me was, "why is 'it that of all the boys who did speak, he, whom I know is interested in the cultural side of education, was the only one to be apparently thinking of the importance of high principl in adult life" To me it was sig nificant. 3 In speaking to Mr. McCool after his talk I told him that 1 take a long range view of this training DRY CLEANING, T0O, HAS GONE MODERN Our plant and service are ul tra-modern in every respect except one! We still insist on old-fashioned courtesy on the part of every employee when dealing with customers. That is because we appreciate your business and are anxious to let you know that we do! TRY US AND SEE... For Pick-up & Delivery Phone 1557 Oakville Cleaners DRIVING DATA drive carefully; never insist on your rites. which is being given to our child- ren in the schools. I said that T hoped that it would give an ap- preciation, not only of the music which they will hear in later life but also of the amount of prac- tice and work it takes to produce these musical works. He agreed that it was one of the goals in view. One of the things from which the musical realm suffers from to: day is that there are altogether too many people who are loud in their acclaim of tliese things but do mot support them when they get the chance: I mean support by their presence. As I mention- ed earlier in this article, there were about 40 people out of 125 who would attend this lecture of Brian McCool's. It was adyertis- od as open to the public too. I at- tended another gathering this winter in Oakville called a "music appreciation night." It was in one of our homes and it was crowded to hear a famous composer talk on low to compose music. I £0 to these things and I look around and wonder just how interested are some of these people and how! appreciative are they. 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