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This Band Started on Harmonicas
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chase of which puts no strain on any purse.
Once the boys have mastered the harmonica
and developed their real musical ability, it is
a comparably simple matter to have them take
up a larger instrument.
Mr. Mehegan also ascribes much of his sue-
ences give other music dealers something to
think about.
So proud is Mr. Mehegan of his band that
he has arranged to bring them on a motor tour
as far as New York this Summer, leaving
Kingston about July 5. The trip will last about
45
Wednesday night, the band one week and the
orchestra the next.
Two hours every morning, six days a week,
are spent by the youngsters in orchestra prac-
tice, which is conducted on a strictly profes-
sional orchestra basis. In the afternoon, one
hour and a half is given over to band rehearsals.
Definite periods likewise are set aside for prac-
tice by the choir. In addition there is class
work in such subjects as conducting, compos-
ing, orchestration and teaching methods.
Wurlitzer Adds Servais
Violoncello to Collection
Mehegan
Juvenile
Orchestra,
Kingston,
N. C.
cess to the fact that he begins with boys under
ten years of age, who are more pliable than
older ones. With his present band going along
nicely, he plans, in the near future, to organize
a. new unit and hopes to begin with youngsters
of six or seven years. Certainly his experi-
a month and the band will travel on trucks
and trailers, camping along the road. On the
trip they will be accompanied by a negro cook
who will take part in the entertainment, being
a good dancer and having the ability to whistle
soprano and alto simultaneously.
The Servais violoncello made by Antonius
Stradivarius of Cremona in 1701 arrived in
this country recently to be added to the collec-
tion of rare old instruments owned by Rudolph
Wurlitzer, and makes a companion piece to the
Davidoff 'cello which was added to the Wur-
litzer last Fall. Although the history of the
first ISO years of the instrument's life is
shrouded in mystery, it has during the past
half-century been in the possession of owners
of international repute.
Rudolph Wurlitzer himself came from Cin-
cinnati to New York to receive the instrument,
which had crossed the ocean under the protec-
tion of Captain Pugnet of the S.S. "Paris."
To Enlarge School Band
The Jamestown, N. Y., High School Band,
P. Giddings, music supervisor of the Minneap- which won the New York State tournament
at Syracuse, is to be enlarged to one of the
olis public schools.
The camp will continue for eight weeks. The biggest in the East.
major activities will be an orchestra of 150, a
band of 90 and a choir of 60. By "doubling"
Over Forty States Represented Among the the orchestra will number 220, the band 150, and
Three Hundred Students Registered at Inter- the choir 100.
lochen, Mich.
The concert schedule for the coming Summer
will include regular Sunday afternoon and eve-
ning concerts, with special features planned for
INTKRI.OCHKN, MICH.—With students from all
but half a dozen states in the Union in at- each concert. Guest conductors will include
tendance and with a faculty which "includes the Frederick A. Stock, Leo Sowerby, Howard Han-
finest group of musicians and educators ever son, Edgar Stillman-Kelley, Earl V. Moore,
assembled to work together in America," the Carl Busch, Albert Stoessel and Prof. A. A.
1929 National High School Orchestra and Band Harding. Dr. Hanson and Mr. Sowerby are
It's so much
writing symphonic works which will be given
(.'amp got under way here Sunday, June 23.
easier to sell
The camp, which is sponsored jointly by the their first performance at Interlochen Bowl un-
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Music Supervisors National Conference, the Na-
Drums. Let the
new Super-Sen-
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Special features for the concert season will
drum sales this
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complete line
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outstanding musicians and world-famous con- sisted by the orchestra; a massed band concert
retailing at $35
ductors. Only students ot excellent character for which the school bands of the Grand
to $450. A
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trial of a Lud-
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Musical director of the camp is Joseph E. ter; a massed chorus production of Mendels-
Banjo will sell
Maddy, of the University of Michigan School sohn's oratorio "Elijah," with visiting artists
t h e prospect
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