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The Music Trade Review
MAY 21, 1927
Wisconsin School Band Ass'n to Meet
in Milwaukee on May 27 and May 28
Over 1,500 Musicians, Representing Fifty High and Vocational Schools, to Take Part
in This Event—Music Work in the Wisconsin Schools
X/IILWAUKEE, WIS., May 16.—Schools
throughout Wisconsin' are doing every-
thing in their power to create and sustain in-
terest in music.
Music merchants of the city
have expressed commendation for the work
which has been done by the schools in this con-
nection. Contests and programs as well as talks
about musical selections and composers en-
courage students to study music for themselves,
the merchants say, which naturally reacts to the
benefit of the dealers who are selling musical
instruments.
It is expected that about 1,500 young musi-
cians, representing fifty high and vocational
schools throughout Wisconsin, will enter the
state school band contest to be held here May
27 and 28. The Milwaukee Auditorium, with a
seating capacity of 15,000 people, will be the
scene of the musical tournament, which is to be
held in connection with the 1927 convention of
the Wisconsin School Band Association. H. S.
lionar, of Richland Center, is president of the
organization.
J. B. Laude, West De Pere, is
vice-president, and O. H. Gilbert, Milwaukee, is
treasurer. The Wisconsin school band contest
this year is expected to outdistance similar
events held in any state, according to F. A.
Maas, of Milwaukee Vocational School. It is
expected to stimulate greater interest in music
in the schools of the state and to raise the
standards of performance.
The band and
orchestra contests offer the schools a splendid
opportunity to see how they measure up in
comparison with other schools.
A high school music contest has been held in
Eau Claire at the state normal school. The
orchestra and band contest was the first one to
be held. Bands from Osseo, Fall Creek and
Owen took part. Mr. Harris, of Chippewa Falls,
gave a demonstration showing how a band can
be built up in a high school and illustrated his
method of procedure with the bands present.
Fourteen contestants were entered in the piano
contest. Other contests held were: girls' glee
club, boys' glee club, mixed chorus, and the fol-
lowing solos: contralto, tenor, bass, baritone,
cornet, trombone, clarinet and violin.
No ad-
mission was charged for those who cared to
listen to the various contests.
At Stoughton, Wis., the high school band
will soon begin to give concerts in the parks,
according to Thomas Bailey, the director.
Soloists and glee clubs from six high schools
competed in the vocal and glee club contest,
the second of a series of three contests for
orchestral, vocal and band music to be spon-
sored by the Milwaukee Suburban Music Asso
ciation. Schools represented and constituting
the membership of the Suburban Music Associa-
tion are Cudahy, North Milwaukee, Shoiewood,
Wauwatosa, West Allis and Waukesha.
At Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis., a course
is being given in which 300 phonograph records
are u>ed. The plan, according to Prof. John R.
Frampton, is based upon the idea that appreci-
ation in any art requires actual contact witli
lhat art, if only in reproductions.
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"A person could read all the works on music
in the congressional library," said Professor
Krampton, "and be not one whit more appreci-
ative of music unless he heard the music itself
or already understood the art.
"Although very few records other than piano
performances are used, the students are fitted
to appreciate music in other media, because
most of the forms explained are used in all
types of instrumental music. The course pre-
supposes no knowledge of music on the part of
the student, but is as non-technical and induc-
tive as possible."
Professor Frampton has a library of almost
1,500 piano records from which to choose ma-
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brass band instruments, but such instruments
as piccolo, flute, oboe, bassoon and English
horn. The oboe, English horn and bassoon in
particular attracted a great deal of attention,
as did the line of metal clarinets.
Frank Holton & Co. had an extremely attrac-
tive display of band instruments at Appleton,
Wis., during the time of a food show, which
was put on by an Appleton newspaper. The
display was in charge of L. C. Howe, of the
Holton sales department, and attracted a great
deal of attention during the week.
New Store for Clyde, N. Y.
CLYDE, N. Y., May 14.—This town is to have a
new music store, the firm known as Bush &
Mann, Inc., having been incorporated for $30,000
in Albany this week to deal in musical instru-
ments, sheet music, etc. Incorporators are Bar-
ton L. and Kenneth L. Bush, of Jordan, N. Y.,
and Harold S. Mann, of this village.
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the Music Supervisors' Convention at Spring-
field, 111. It was in charge of W. V. Arvold,
special school representative, assisted by R. H.
Leissman, who for several months worked with
Mr. Arvold, and more recently had been doing
school work on his own account for the Holton
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The conference was attended by supervisors
from ten of the Middle Western States, and all
were extremely enthusiastic about the Holton
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