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The city organist of Pittsburgh be- fore the end of 1917 gave the 1200th free organ recital in the music hall An organist says: "My experience with girls and boys as organ pupils is that the former will seat themselves on the bench, look up helplessly and ask 'what stops shall 1 use?" The boys will promptly pull out all the stops and keep them out until remon- strated with." : The Celesta was first introduced into the orchestra for the important part wgitten for it in Tschaikowsky's "Dance of the Sugar-plum Fairy." This part called for solo work. The ex-Czar of. Russia and Liszt once crossed swords. so - ta, speak. While the latter was 'playing, on one occasion the former began to con- verse with someone , Liszt stopped playing. = When asked why he stop- ped- the musician answered: "When majesty speaks we must all be silent." The Czar did not talk any more, but was evidently annoyed, for Liszt was never invited back to the Russian court. % ' In connection with a church in Scranton, Pa, there is a girls' choir of thirty-five voices. They have a chaperone whom they call the "Choir Mother." * A great deal of musical entertain ment is provided by the hotels in the leading cities. It is said that the McAlpin in New Yark spends as much as $20,000 annually for its mu- SiC. The man in charge of the music for one of the American camps at which there are a good many thousand sol- diers says that the men who sing regularly are less liable to colds and the like and their digestion is im- proved. ---- Music for Day's Happy Ending. Those whose business it is to write and present plays that will conform to what the public want tell us that the public want plays with happy end- ings . The average man goes to the hockey match with a desire to see the hgme team win. He wants events to favor the hero or heroife in the book he is reading. He wants to be happy himself. When he goes to the office in the morning, puts in a good day's work amid the daily grind of business routine and comes home for six o'clock dinner his de- sire is that the day shall turn out a prosperous and happy one. That is human nature. ! ' And it is the nature that responds to. music in the home in the evenings. It is the nature that seeks in attend- ing the symphony concert, the per- formance of a choral work, or aw musical event that something which will make a happy ending to. the day. It seeks music as the great antidote for strain and worry and life at high tension and fatigue of body and brain, Because music 18 more and more be- ing found to provide relief and re- creation, whether from the stand- point of listener or perfornier, it is being sought by the masses where once it was thought to be-an art only appreciated by the limited few . Municipalities are slowly but sure- ly realizing this and noting its bear- ing upon: the quality of citizenship. In San Francisco, for instance, not content with maintaining a munici- pal orchestra and employing great or- ganists, they have. installed in the public library free music 'rooms. There is on hand a splendid collec tion of musical literature. They col- lect from musical magazines and all available sources information about the lives of thq great composers and artists and keep this on file for the concert season. It is the object of the - department to make the goo music intelligible to the musically un- trained. / - The suite of music rooms in the lib- rary also contains a lecture room where | series of lectures on special musical subjects are given by emi. nent authorities, This work of San Francisco's public library is well wor- thy of duplication in other cities, as is every gffective means of stimulat- ing a lové for music, a love so strong that music will be sought in the even ings to make the day end happily, e-- finheriting Musical Ability. "Neither me nor the missus has any ability in the musical line, so there's no use spending any money to give Mary music lessons," is the reason a father recently gave to a friend of the fangily who enquired how their daugh- ter was getting on with her school work and if she were taking music lessons, But that reason does not hold water =. 1f a musical education were left to those who inherited their musical ability, the number of: people studying music would be almost too ron to bother reckoning. A man 4 who bas taken the pains to be obser- vant in this direction tells that he has watched cases innumerable where children of quite -unmusical parents were given good musical training un. der a competent teacher and become proficient in the various branches of music. ; He states without hesitation that the investigation of the results of faithful work under good instruction on the part of children from suppos- edly unmusical families reveals such Fa shall proportion of failures that it proves the rule. Occasionally one comes across the child 'of a father who perhaps the Didne of jos lin exceptionally well, the mother also a talented musician, and the child shows such a lack of interest in mu- sic that he is considered away below the cverage. ae . Heredity has about as little to do with one's musical ability as has the stion of his being a direct descen- i 'of the monkey tribe. Every nor- | mal child is born with a capacity for musical is 'development, and it the parent's. duty to sec that his children]? SIC=%f{OINe are given a musical education if it is at all possible, even to the point of making sacrilices in other things of less vital importance to the child's future. ---- More Than Entertainment. Much depends upon the way one looks upon music. The average per- son regards it as mere entertainment. The child is sent to a music teacher because it is a distinction to be able to perform with some facility upon a musical instrument, and because people are readily entertained by the' performance. The object of many a young woman who is learning to sing is to procuré favorable notice. She wants to hear people say, "How Cle- ver she is," when the real object of singing is to compel people to say "How beautiful the music is." Ad- vertisements urging people to "learn to play rag-time in ten lessons," are based upon the entertainment ideal If music is to be merely a pastime, then ragtime is as good as anything else, provided the average brain-con-|' tent of .the company is sufficiently low to 'enjoy it. We ought to re- gard music as an art, as gregt as painting and architecture and poetry. Art is the orderly expresion of the beauty of life. It is the practice of wondering. The Monks, wondering at earth and heaven bulls lady chapel in Litchfield Cathedral. Rem- brandt; wondering at the qualities of light and shade expressed them on canvas. Beethoven, wondering at hu- man joy produced the Ninth; Sym- phony. Daniel Gregory Mason in one of his charming books tells of the poverty of Mozart because he re- Tused to write in a more easy, popu- lar style. On one occasion he had no coal and he and his wife were found waltzing in their apartment to keep warm. Mr. Mason continues: "Now if Mozart could willingly face starva- tion rather than lower his ideal of what good music, should be, and if not only he, but Bach and Beethoven, and Schumann and Schubert and scores of others could even glpry in being poor and unknown and over- worked forthe sake of making music, ought. not you and I to be glad to take some trouble in order to appre- ciate it?" Music assuredly is enter- tainment, but it is something infinite- ly more. The Book of Ecclesiastes is entertaining poetry, but it is' also the expression of a genius who had thought long and deeply about the wonder of life. Good music is more than a mere harrionious noise. The Polonaise. + "Mother, what is a Polonaise?" in- quired the little boy who was readjng the announcement of a piang recital. "Oh, I don't know," the mother re- sponded. "When I was a girl it used to be a kind 'of overskirt." So it did. Why that petty kirtle dropped over a bustle got its name she could not guess, and what rela- tion it had with a piece of piano mu- sic was beyond her ken. Yet there was a relation. The word Polonaise is a French adjective meaning "per- taining to Poland." Polish peasants wear a short overskirt, so perhaps one side of the problem is solved. But Polopaise means also a sort of formal dance which originated in Poland and had a patriotic signifi cance. It was customary for the Polonaise tg be danced by the Polish nobles during the festivities which followed the election of their Kings dd im the days before Prussia and Aus- tria and Russia partitioned the old (kingdom. Now Chopin was p Pole, and like his distinguished fellow countryman and successor. Paderewsky, was degp- ly patriotic, sensitive ahout the wrongs his country had suffered, and revolutionary in temper. Therefore when Chopin remembered the glor- ies of the old times and thought deeply upon the fate of his country he put his musings in the form of the old Court dance. One of his greatest compositions is counted to be the Polonaise in A Flat. For those with good ears and:-a good im- agination the work paints the splen- dor of a Court, the majesty of bat- tle. Great plano soloists revel in it, not only because of its life and mel ody and "color" but because of the long passage which grows in smooth gradation from the lightest one to'a thundering"'®limax. ~~ Interesting Music - Briefs, . Information that has been given out regarding bands: of the United States regular army shows that there are 142 bands ,and arrangements are be- ing made for 459 more. The mini- mum number of men in each band is twenty-eight. The opinion that music is more. of 4 necessity in times of war than in peace, is well supported by the fact that the popuicr Saturday afterhobn music recitals organized and promot- ed by the civic authorities of the City of Glasgow are to be continued this season. They will be Reld in two different halls, and will provide a pleasant and¥ profitable way for the masses to spend their Saturday after- inoons at a minimum of expense. There are f id brancir libra- ries in New York city, and in these there are 13000 volumes of music which can be taken out for home use. Four thousand six hundred of these are opera scores, 4700 are vocal and the balance are instru-| . 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