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BIG PLANS FOR EASTMAN SCHOOL
Great School of Music to Mean Much in Ameri-
ca's Musical Development
This year's New York City concert of the
musical clubs of the University of Rochester
has more than the usual interest for alumni of
the institution, as it is to be made the occasion
of reminding local graduates of the approaching
opening of the Eastman School of Music. Dr.
Rush Rhees, president of the university, and
Dean George Barlow Penny, of the school, re-
cently attended the concert at the Hotel Plaza,
given under the auspices of the Marquette Club.
George Eastman's gifts for the university's
benefit now aggregate more than $5,500,000.
The music school building will have cost, when
completed, with its equipment, $2,000,000, and
the sum of $2,139,000 has been set aside as an
endowment fund.
The school will afford ac-
commodations and modern facilities for the in-
struction of approximately two thousand stu-
dents. One of the features of the building is an
auditorium with a seating capacity of more than
3,000. Here motion pictures of quality will be
shown, accompanied and interpreted by orches-
tral music. T h e school will open next Sep-
tember.
While details of the course of study are not
yet available, the directors of the school have
made public the names of two instructors of
international fame already engaged as members
of the faculty. Joseph Bonnet, French organ
virtuoso, will begin a teaching engagement of
twenty weeks next January, giving instruction
in master classes composed of advanced pupils.
This method of imparting instruction to a large
number of students at one time has been em-
ployed by M. Bonnet in foreign conservatories.
He will probably take a small number of spe-
cially talented pupils for more intensive study.
Of even wider significance to musical educa-
t'on in America is the announcement that Jan
Sibelius, the Finnish composer, has signed a
contract to teach composition in the school and
APRIL 2, 1921
Clifford-Neville Music Publishers
will take up his residence in Rochester. Long
the principal of the Helsingfors Academy of
Music, he accepted last Summer the invitation
of Director Alf Klingenberg, a former class-
mate, to take this post.
FEW MUSICAL SHOWS NEXT SEASON
Cost of Such Productions Has Become Prohibi-
tive, Declares Lee Shubert
Next year will see fewer big musical shows
and revues produced than has been the case
during the last two or three seasons, according
to Lee Shubert, who makes this prediction, bas-
ing it upon an experience whose authority can-
not be questioned.
The cost of such productions has mounted to
the point where it is almost prohibitive, or at
any rate where they become bigger gambles than
ever before, it is said, and such productions
stand no chance of success unless conceived and
executed upon a lavish scale and presented with
a large cast of well-known, and therefore ex-
pensive, actors.
There have been instances this year where
plays of this type have played to capacity busi-
ness at the high prices now prevailing and still
have not made sufficient profit to warrant the
original outlay.
So next year comedies, farces and dramas,
with musical plays of the more intimate type,
will predominate. There will be a big revue
here and there, a-j this form of entertain-ment
is too popular to be abandoned, but they will be
fewer and better than heretofore.
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THE SUBCONSCIOUS TO BLAME
Ted Robinson, in Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ex-
plains How Old Familiar Airs Manage to
Creep Into the Modern Popular Songs
It is hard, sometimes, to distinguish between
deliberate plagiarism and unconscious remin-
iscence, and for that reason it behooves us to
be pretty sure of our ground before we accuse
a writer or a composer of stealing, writes Ted
Jvobinson in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Espe-
cially in music is this true; melodies float about
in the air and no composer can be absolutely
sure that the one he is setting down as new has
not been used before.
We ran across a bit of this unconscious repeti-
tion the other day, when glancing at some of the
lyrics of Eugene Field. Field wrote with im-
mense facility and it was never necessary for
l'im to "lift" a line or an idea from another poet.
But here are two lines that echo to others from
an earlier bard. They appear in the tender
lyric called "Garden and Cradle":
"The little stars are kind to him,
The moon she hath a mind to him."
Xow, in Sidney Lanier's "Ballad of the Trees
and the Master" occurs this couplet:
"The little gray leaves were kind to him,
The thorn tree had a mind to him."
Just a melody, it was, that floated through
the air; a sensitive oar captured it, a subconscious
mind held it and a poet's voice hummed it
one day, not dreaming that it was not all his
own.
"LOVE BIRD" IS RELEASED
Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., have released
the popular song and instrumental number,
"Love Bird," by Mary Earl and Ted Fiorito.
Another number from the same catalog, which
is having popularity in vaudeville circles, is the
ballad entitled "Over the Hill."
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DOWN THE TRAIL TO HOME, SWEET HOME
LKX THE REST OF THE WORLD GO BY
TltirOLI (On the Shores of Tripoli)
MY MOTHER'S EVENING PRAYER
KENTUCKY BLUES (I've Got the Blues for My
Kentucky Home)
IN THE DUSK
J l ST A WEEK FROM TO-DAY
MY HOME TOWN IS A ONE-HORSE TOWN
WHO'LL, TAKE THE PLACE OF MARY?
BECKY FROM BABYLON
THAT'S HOW YOU CAN TELL THEY'RE IRISH
DEENAH (My Argentina Rose)
Jl ST LOVE—FANCIES
LILAH (Sugar Baby of Mine)
COTTON (Cotton Was a Little Dixie Rose)
I'M DOUBLIN 1 BACK TO DUBLIN
LITTLE CRUMBS OF HAPPINESS
CROONING
ON A FAR ALONE ISLE
MICHIGAN
I WANT YOU MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT
STAND UP AND SING FOR YOUR FATHER AN
OLD TIME TUNE