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Ty RPE an rd WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1922 9 PARENTS IVITED T0 IG MUSIC MEMORY CONTEST THIS SATURDAY Frederick Stock and Chicago Symphony to Play Numbers For School Contestants in Finals at Orchestra Hall; Event Promises to be Most Impressive Program The Women's clubs, the Parents' and Teacher associations and many of the leading educators in this coun- try, have spent much time of late, discussing the moral and spiritual de- velopment of our boys and girls. They all seem agreed that there are many agents abroad in society today, that are destructive influences in the lives of our young people, and that while it is next to impossible to be rid of these evils, we must substi- tute something interesting and worth while, for that which is over-stim- ulating and commonplace. - All of these people realize what a potent in- fluence music may have in character building, and the question arises-- "How can we ever satisfy a child's musical craving, by playing for him a simply and beautiful Minuet by Mozart, when he has been surfeited for some years with all the 'over- excitement and misused syncopation of cheap and degrading jazz?" Jazz Has Its Place Good jazz has its place--all broad- minded musicians acknowledge that, but vulgar jazz, enhanced by a wail- ing saxophone and strongly accented with a loud drum, is not easy to re- place with "Traumerei" To defeat these influences, and to compete with the commercialism of cheap popular music--those of us who are really eager to defeat all that is degrading, must make a concerted effort. If we want our children to appreciate the finest things in musical literature-- we must make them acquainted with these great works of art. Theodore Thomas once said, "Familiar music is popular music." The great masses of our civilization have looked askance at classical music and thought it was to be enjoyed only by the specially trained musician, simply because the general public have had little oppor- tunity to become acquainted with the greatest works. Prospects Are Brighter At last it seems as though we could afford to feel just a little optimistic. The great orchestras all over the country are playing beautiful con- certs for our children and the Popu- lar concerts are reaching great num- bers of our people who have never heard the symphony before. The Movie Houses that stand for better Jhings, are supporting fine orchestras, with trained directors, who play the classics to crowded houses--and last jut not least--the directors of music n our public schools are doing a big work. Probably the most vital piece of work ever attempted by this last named group, is the work accom- plished by the Music Memory con- test. Memory Contests Country-Wide Music Memory contests are being held in every wide-awake community all over the country, and are prob- ably the biggest step in the direction of popularizing good music that has ever been taken. The great success of the idea lies in the fact that we are never too young or too old to love a game, and the contest idea appeals to a child just as strongly in Music as it does in Athletics. At present the supervisors of mu- sic in twenty-eight of the suburbs of Chicago have organized in a "In and about Chicago Music Supervisors Paint and Decorate Build or Repair Under The Landis No matter how small the job have it done right under the Landis Award Your local painting contractor is Max A. Ekelmann, Sr. 595 Vernon Ave. Phone Glencoe 420 Phone Franklin 6363 For list of other contractors working under Landis Award Citizens' Committee to Enforce Landis Award 10 So. La Salle St. Award Chicago, 111. Club" and have joined hands in pre- |following list of compositions. paring for a Music Memory Contest. Over twenty thousand children are at work. The students in the 6th, 7th. and 8th grades and in the High Schools of these communities have been listening for many days to the Phonograph Chief Medium The talking machine has been the chief medium for use in this work, but whenever possible, the children have been given a chance to hear the actual performance of some of the numbers. 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