Interesting Student Life
Here annually gather some
three hundred fifty students of
high school and college age and
many adults who, despite wide-
ly varying backgrounds, are
all intensely interested in pur-
suing study in some branch of
the arts during an eight week
interlude. One may suddenly
discover that the young organ-
ist so intent on two hours daily
at the console is not an organist
at all — she is a college junior
majoring in journalism who has
secretly been yearning for
years to play the organ but
can't find time for uninterrupt-
ed practice during a heavy aca-
demic schedule in the winter
time!
Walking along a woodland
path toward the famous Inter-
lochen Bowl one may hear the
Doubling in Brass
third movement of a favorite
Mozart quartet—the one in A minor. Just around the turn, off
under a huge pine tree, sit four string players, much too youth-
ful looking to interpret the precise, unadorned beauty of
Mozart's themes in such masterful fashion. Each day these
little ensembles practice and always with the greatest concen-
tration and joy for the participants. For a Sunday devotional
service four lads play an arrangement for brasses—one of the
great Bach chorales which their instructor has made especially
for them. A clarinet trio works patiently perfecting a passage
of transcription they plan to perform at next Sunday's service.
Joyful Work And Play
From the outset camp authorities have recognized that
true development in any field is dependent on a sane balance
of work and play and healthful living. Definite hours for rec-
reation and rest as well as work are a stipulated part of each
camper's routine.
Thus, interspersing the challenging days of artistic ac-
complishment at National Music Camp is a varied program of
out-door sports: swimming in the twin lakes, sunning on the
wide sandy beaches, boating, hiking over sandy dunes, fiercely
fought tennis matches, or a fast game of badminton. The first
chair clarinetist may take all honors at diving, or the little
harpist who is going to play the cadenza in the week's broad-
cast may beat a husky trumpeter in a smashing set of tennis.
A competent staff of experts are in charge of recreational
activities. Qualified life guards are on duty on all piers at all
times when swimming and boating are permitted. Unless
physically handicapped, every camper learns to swim, and
many in addition earn their Red Cross Life Saver's Certificate,
both Junior and Senior grade.
In lakeside Grunow Hall the radio and drama workshops
have ample space to carry on their closely allied work. The
sound-proof studios with their observation laboratory house
the finest recording equipment. Special listening rooms are
available for the use of the library of radio recordings. On the
far side of the buildings across the auditorium the drama
workshop transforms the stage into scenic designs for its
productions.
The Radio Workshop: Broadcasting
The radio workshop goes "on mike" for its third summer,
but the tender age of three summers belies the standards of
fine musico-dramatic productions that are presented over
America's leading stations in the course of a season.
The practical methods of learning used by the camp in
music are applied in radio: 1. Emphasis on practice under
expert supervision. 2. Performance for a real audience. 3. Op-
portunity to meet radio authorities and personalities. 4. Mini-
mum use of the lecture method. Experience in all the phases
of modern radio production is the best training for radio.
At Interlochen radio workshop members learn by writing
continuity and taking part in network broadcasts carried over
more than fifty NBC Network stations.
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For the musician there will be the dual experience of his
own performance of composition through his instrument, and
also of that same composition through dance movement.
Participation in the weekly coast-to-coast broadcast series
over one of the major networks is a thrilling experience for
every student enrolled at Interlochen. For the tenth consecu-
tive year the orchestra, band and choir will be heard in weekly
broadcasts during the coming summer from the famous Inter-
lochen Bowl over a nation-wide NBC network.
Sunday Devotions And Concerts
Devotional services for the entire camp are held in the
Bowl each Sunday morning from ten to ten-thirty. Here in a
brief period of quiet, fresh young voices are lifted in hymns
of praise and find inspiration in the simplicity and sincerity
of the service.
Two concerts are scheduled for each Sunday, the Band at
three in the afternoon and the Orchestra at eight in the even-
ing. Cosmopolitan indeed is the audience of several thousand
which assembles for each of these performances — resorters
from their summer homes in the Grand Traverse region, and
year around residents of the community who come annually
to enjoy the music of youth.
Chamber Music Series
Students soloists or small ensembles are the event of
Wednesday evening. On Thursday evenings the camp is privi-
leged to hear the faculty in recital. Most cities cannot boast a
winter time chamber music series of equal calibre or perfec-
tion. Infrequently heard works of the masters, unusual com-
binations of instruments, new works often still in manuscript
are performed with consummate artistry. Such intimate and
active audience-participation develops a real appreciation of
the best, a surprising keenness of musical evaluation and judg-
ment in the youthful campers, and sets stimulating if difficult
standards for their own achievement.
$30,000.00 Music Library
One of the most valuable assets of the Camp is its music
library, consisting of complete scores and parts to countless
symphonic works in the best editions, and every imaginable
type of ensemble, instrumental and choral, as well as hundreds
of volumes of music, radio and allied subjects. In dollars and
cents the library represents an investment of more than
$30,000.
The library staff functions with amazing accuracy and
ease. The opportunity to observe the procedure wherein the
work must be so organized as to be in constant readiness for
rehearsals and performances with several unusually large
groups is a decided help to teachers who desire to make their
own school library function more efficiently. (
The "College Music Set" consisting of recordings of 11,000
master music works with corresponding musidal score, Cape-
hart reproducing equipment, and many valuable treatises on
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