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PRESTO
MUSIC NOT PROPERLY
ORGANIZED IN SCHOOLS
June 23, 1923
your boy scouts and girl scouts? Do your high
school choruses, glee clubs, bands and orchestras take
part in community affairs? Do the school music
students join your Junior Music Study Clubs?
Has your Music Supervisor the caliber, the person-
ality, the musical authority to direct your civic mu-
Amazing Facts Disclosed by W. Otto Miess- sical activities to co-ordinate your civic musical
forces? Do you pay a salary sufficient to sustain a
ner to Federation of Music Clubs, at
capable, self-respecting director of music? Are your
school officials co-operating, or are they obstructing?
Thirteenth Biennial.
Are your grade teachers qualified to carry on daily
Music is organized in only half of the schools of music instruction in the alssence of the supervisor?
the United States was the conclusion arrived at last Are the teachers training institutions giving adequate
week by the Thirteenth Biennial of the National instruction in music to grade teachers and courses
the preparation of music supervisors? All of these
Federation of Music Clubs meeting in Asheville, N. C. ior
questions you can help us to solve.
"Despite its manifold ministrations, music, by a
School music needs, not only your encouragement,
peculiar paradox, has been the last of the arts and but your active co-operation and help. School music
sciences to be accepted by our educators and philoso- needs the stimulus of a musical environment which
phers as worthy of equal rank with other subjects in you can help to provide.
our school curricula," said W. Otto Miessner, presi-
dent of the Miessner Piano Co., Milwaukee, Wis., and
president of the National Music Supervisors Asso- NEWS ABOUT THE MEN
ciation, speaking before the Biennial.
WHO RETAIL THE PIANOS
Mr. Miessner stated that more than half of the
American schools are still without any .trace of or-
ganized musical activity, and in pleading for parents Brief Items of Trade News Gathered Here and
There in Music Field.
to urge upon public schools the importance of or-
ganized musical work in the schools, stated that the
Edgar P. Hangen, of the Hangen Music House,
10,000 members of his Association would be asked to
join the National Federation of Music Clubs to give Reading, Pa., and president of the Reading Symphony
strength to the general plan for co-ordinating the Orchestra, and Otto Wittich, of Wittich's Music
Store and a violinist, were prominent members of the
civic musical forces in America.
committee which managed the recent music week in
"In some states," said Mr. Miessner, "music is pre- that city.
scribed by law for the treatment for the insane;
The James Lewis Hatch Music Store has been re-
again, we find it used in hospitals to help the sick; moved from 1109 Twelfth avenue to new quarters
in prisons, to curb riots; in the Army, to inspire mor- at 1207 Eighth street, Altoona, Pa. The new loca-
ale; in industries, as a recreation. We still have tion is in a residential section just off the market
much to learn about the vibrations of music, of color zone of Altoona.
and of electricity. It is certain, however, that music
The. Daley Music Co., Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., has
is a positive vibratory force that heals the body, erected a new building.
quickens the mind and inspires the soul." Continuing
The Heintzma-n store in St. Thomas, Ont, is now
he said:
located at 393 Talbot street. R. R. MacFarlane is the
It is an interesting commentary that the barriers manager.
of tradition have yielded to modern science only
The George C. Wille Co., Canton, O., for many
within the past fifty years. Although music has made years
located in North Market avenue, has moved to
tremendous advances within the past decade, there
is still room for progress, when we remember that a temporary location in Cleveland avenue, N. W.,
more than half of our American schools are still pending the remodeling of its store.
A. L. Kirk, of Salt Lake City, has purchased the
without any trace of organized musical activity.
This condition has just been disclosed by the re- Paulin Music Store, 1015 State street, Santa Barbara,
turns from a questionnaire sent out by the Bureau Califflornia.
of Education at Washington. The questionnaire was
The Interstate Phonograph Co., Chicago represen-
prepared by the Educational Council of the Music tative of the Pathe Phonograph & Radio Corp.,
Supervisors' National Conference and the returns
recently from 427 West Erie street to 533
were tabulated by its members. We cannot be proud moved
of the fact that more than half of our American chil- South Wabash avenue, Chicago.
dren are still denied the musical heritage that is theirs
by divine right.
NEW LONG BEACH STORE.
If music is to be a social force in a community it
Harry Young, J. Anderson and Rena De Moss arc
must be fostered and nourished in childhood. Since
music is a social art, it will flourish best where chil- joint proprietors of the Long Beach Music Co., re-
dren are found in groups. The homes, the churches cently established in Long Beach, Cal. The house
and the schools, therefore, furnish the laboratories handles pianos, talking machines, small goods, rolls,
where music can best be inculcated. If you, as mem- records and a big and varied line of sheet music.
bers of a great body, believe that music is a positive
good in a community, then you will see to it that
your schools shall welcome music and give it sympa-
JAZZ A SYMBOL.
thetic encouragement and assistance.
Justice Edward T. Sanford, of the United States
Is the music of the school bearing fruit in the
religious and social life of the community? Do your Supreme Court, addressing the annual convention of
high school boys and girls become recruits for your International Optimist Clubs in Chattanooga, Tenn.,
volunteer church choirs and choral societies? Is your last week, said the jazz baud is symbolic of the dis-
school music expressing itself in the social life of cord of todav.
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