14 PAGES he e Baily I -------------- YEAR 84. NO. 285 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER Sr Pitish Whig PAGES 9-14 SECOND SECTION 7 Victrolas and Victor Records We have a large stock of Victrolas and Records as low as $7 per month. Why not equip your home with music for Christmas? Hear these Harry Lauder records: "l Love a Lassie" (60001) .. .. .. . 90c "Queen Among the Heather" (60010) 90c "He Was Very Kind to Me™ (70001) $1.50 "Trixie From Dixie" (70095) .... $1.50 Also hear Tetrazzini sing: "Bonnie Sweet Bessie." "Lakme" (Bell Song). We also have a good selection of Alma Gluck, Louise Homer and John McCor- mack Victor Records. C. W. LINDSAY. LIMITED 121 Princess St. Open Every Evening Till Christmas. COAL CUSTOMERS |The Please Notice ! On and after first of May Coal Sales will be for Cash Only. BOOTH & CO. Phone 133. Telgmann Schoo! of Music. Piano, violin and other stringed instruments; Elocution and Dra matic Art. Fall pupils may begin at any date. 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J. - Commencing Dec. 1st, we will give a reduction of 209%, on all Fit-Reform + OVERCOATS Good fitting, up-to-date garments. i 18 { velopment of the past five years, Dr. Idle Church Organs. Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States _ommissioner of Education, has call- ed public attention to the idle organs of the cities. In most churches, he declares, the organ is in use less than two hours a week, and that upon Sun. day. All week long a fine instrument designed to give pleasure and to exer- cise a civilizing influence on the com- munity remains dumb within a locked church. Mindful, perhaps, of the wonderful 'growth of interest among children in the Public Libraries, a de-. Claxton suggests that regular week- day recitals should be given in the churches for the benefit uf the chil- dren of each neighborhood." He sug- gests an hour a week, and believes that while adults might be admitted, they should come only as guests of the children. Continuing his argument he says: Children should be permitted to come and go quietly. If usher are provid- ed to help them find seats, there will be little danger of them becoming noisy or disorderly, All children, rich and poor, should be invited and made to feel welcome There should | be no formality that might tend to keep any children away. be easy for newsboys messenger boys, shop girls, and children at play on the streets to go imme lately from their occupations, listen"to the music for a portion of the hour, .and then return directly again to their occupa- tion or their play. yl >» The cost to the church should not be much, and certainly any congrega- tion might well undertake the neces- sary small expense, even for the self- ish reason of attracting to the church children who will thus be induced to become members of the congrega- tion No one who knows children and who knows the educative power of good music can doubt for a mo- ment the moral and spiritual value which this hour must have for the present and future lives of all who may come under its influence. It will both save police costs and add to the richness and fulness, and fineness of .the life of the nation. Dr. Claxton's plan would be all the better if it provided for a brief, sim- ple talk about the music to be played. The lecture-recital, unfortunately, has usually been exploited by men wha had a 'passion to appear learned. Five or six sentences describing 'the nature of the music and giving a rough sum. mary of the idea the composer in- tended to convey would make the in- terest in the music when played more lively, and would bring larger and more orderly audiences. The Past Rises, Up, Arthur Hawkes, the well-known journalist, admits that. once upon a time he was on the verge of learning music, He took a series of piano- forte lessons from no less a person- age than H. A. Fricker, the new con- ductor of the Mendelssohn Choir of Toranto. The result, he admits, was not happy, but he has no complaints against his teacher," who, although only seventeen years old at the time, was full of pungency and ginger. Mr. Fricker was the assistant organist of Canterbury Cathedral at the time, a sufficient proof .of his musicianship. What Mr. Hawkes was no one seems able to discover. It is counted to him for righteousness, nevertheless, that he was sufficiently interested &n music to start. A sorrowful world regrets that he did not stick. He has not seen Mr. Fricker since that early day, and it is curious to find the two men working in the same city after so many changeful and lurid years. Some of these times they will sheet and then will begin a course of mu- tual reminiscence, Political eppo- nents of Mr. Hawkes may be expect- ed to secure soom,an introduction to the famous conductor in order to un- veil Mr, Hawkes' extraordinary past. The moral of this tale is, Be good when you are a boy, and keep up your practice. devi Wagner and Ge A During the Toronto Exhibition the conductor of Innes' Band was rebuk- ed by an editor hecause a number by Wagner appeared on one of his pro- gramites. That the criticism was noted i practically certain, for subse. uent programmes leaned hard on rench and British. composers. The editorial article made the curious de- claration that Wagner was the em- iment of the Prussian spirit which has swept the world into disaster. This would be an interesting and im- portant statement if it could be prov- ed. Wagner was a spacious, an Im- petial genius, but he was so much out of harmony with Prusian taste and so utterly unable to satisfy the ears of Berlin that his only refuge was in Ba- varia, where he was patronized by King Ludwig--who was mad. Prussia was all for discipline and precedent, Wagner was all for revo- ion and a free hand. The French critics did not liken this unpopular German to Seidlitz or Frederick the Great or the Old Dessauer. They cal him the Marat of music, and dubbed Berlioz the Robespierre, . It is clear, therefore, that in Wagner's music ite] {there is no echo. of the iron ramn no memory of the goose step. It is involved--like Ge . philosophy--but national . not false. It is fier no satire on the art--temper is more bitter than were as proofs of Germany's des- fed the world bth ae ato ed atmosphere of altar. the Gere It should {|f these. times reminds us of the Lusita- mia, and therefore is objectionable fare at'a public concert. Wagner is the central figure of German Kultur, not because he would have chosen that position, but because the violent took him by force and placed him there. Against Bach, Beethoven and Men- delssohn there is no such objection. They died long before the Dragon of 1870 came to full growth and devour- ed Austria and France in sutgessive meals. But the real musical bete noir in Allied circles is Richard Strauss. His symphonic poems have to-day no more charm than signed photographs of Von Tirpitz or the Kaiser. He is the official composer of Prussianism --a noisy egotist who would bestride the world like a Colossus. Sym- phony orchestras in Canada and the United States will be wise to perform 0» Strauss this season. Music and the Schools, Undoubtedly it is pleasing to hear . | the singing of school children at the Exhibition and elsewhere, even when the music is confined wholly to patri- otic airs familiar to us all. = Yet such singing is not a proof that the aver- age manner of music teaching in the schools is what it should be. Not long 'ago in Toronto a hoy whose voice was changing was threatened with dire consequences if he con- tinued singing an octave lower than the rest of his class. The compe- tence of that teacher to conduct a music lesson is surely open to ques- tion Class singing is excellent, but a simple explanation of the aim of mu- sical art should go with it. It is possible to-day for a child to make the egtire Public School course without learning a word about the fine arts and their influence. One may go farther, and declare that most youths and maidens who graduate from High School do not know whether Correggio fought battles or dug post holes. They cannot de- scribe the work of Gluck. For all they know, he and Velasquez may have been partners in an early hard- ware business. In a word we have leit out of our curriculum the only two subjects which tend towards civi- lization, religion and the fine arts. Our young people know nothing of the uses of music as a language for the expression of high and noble thoughts. The history of the art is a sealed book. Musical form is an empty expression. Class singing is good If it werg based on genuine folk song it wo; etter.» But this also ye shi: e¢ done, and not left the other undone, Expelling Worry With Music. War is grim teacher. One thing it teaches both soldier and civilian is discipline, The one must obey or- ders; the other must curb and alter his mode of living and thinking to square with the peculiar conditions he is called upon to face. Gladstone said music is one of the most forcible instruments for train- ing, for arousing, for governing the mind and spirit of man. If that be so--and it cannot be refuted--music should be used in the.home to train and govern the mind and spirit. A successful teacher does not keep chil- dren out of mischief by continually saying "Don't do this" and "Don't do that" He fills the children's minds with thoughts about the subject be- ing studied that appeal to their in- terest, and the mind, so ed, has-no time for mischief-making. Are you tempted to worry during the evening at heme about your work down town? Then. relief will not come by attempting to train your mind by saying 'I wil quit werry- ing." Fill your hours with glad- some music. Sit down at the piano, or take your fiddle, or get out a talk- ing machine record or a player roll of "Barcarolie" from "Tales of Hoff- man" and as you proceed With the music there opens up a scene of the canals in Venice viewed from a pal- ace window. Silvery moonlight tin- ges the whole scene and lovers sing to the rhythm of the rocking gon- dola. Then worry goes from the mind, because the eharm of music enters, That is only one way, but a very practical way of making music gov- ern the mind, Woman's curiosity has been doing a continuous performauce ever since Mother Eve took a bite out of the apple. Politics has been known to make foolish liars. 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