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VOL. 88. No. 14
REVIEW
Published Weekly. Federated Business Publications, Inc., 420 Lexington Aye., New York, N. Y. April 6 , 1 9 2 9
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All Piano Teaching Will Be
Done in Group Glasses
Dr. J. Lewis Browne, Noted Music Educator, Predicts This in Five So. California Radio Men
Work to Improve Trade
Years—Gives Important Message in Address
Discuss Demonstration, Trade-in and Service
Before Chicago Piano Club
Problems at Local Chapter Meetings Held at
Regular Intervals
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HICAGO, ILL., April 1.—"In five years from now I believe all elementary piano lessons
will be class taught," declared Dr. J. Lewis Browne, director of music in the Chicago
Public Schools, in addressing the members of the local trade at to-day's meeting of the
Chicago Piano Club. An important message concerning the progress that has been made in
group piano class instruction in the Chicago schools was delivered to a representative body
of the local trade by Dr. Browne.
"You cannot drive children to practice, for ceeded in making plans to co-operate with
they must be encouraged to play through com- Dr. Frederick A. Stock, of the Chicago Sym-
petition and other means of stimulation," -he phony Orchestra, to give a musical apprecia-
pointed out. "In carrying on this work, we tion course to the high school students for
are using three courses, namely, the Miessner the next five years. If this movement started
System, the Curtis plan and the Oxford method twenty years ago, it would be necessary now
of instruction, representing the following to have three symphony orchestras. And the
music schools: The American Conservatory of development of appreciation in grand opera can
Music, the Sherwood School and the Bush also be accomplished in this way.
"Since the advent of the radio, the small
Conservatory of Music."
Dr. Browne emphatically stated that the idea apartment, and the automobile, the only hope
of this promotional work in the Chicago schools to bring the piano back is through the child.
is to put music back into the home by teaching If this work continues for the next ten years
children to read music so that they will find the situation will be entirely changed. In fact,
themselves, and have greater appreciation of by next Christmas, the piano should receive a
music. In pointing out the progress that has legitimate impetus which it could not possibly
been made he said that several thousand new have attained without the help of our children."
students had enrolled in the work since the
first of the year, with a total now of 9,800
children studying piano, 90 teachers teaching
violin classes, and plans for classes in voice
under way. He announced that on May 23, at
the Stud-ebaker Theatre, an exhibition will be
given demonstrating what the schools are doing
to develop piano class work. The program will
begin with a group of students that have never
had lessons, who will be given the principles
of instruction. This will be followed by the
various steps in instruction.
"The reason that there is no demand in Chi-
cago for grand opera is because we are not
MUSIC TRADES
starting right," Dr. Browne continued. "With
CONVENTION
530,000 children in the public schools, we should
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commence in the high schools and encourage
JUNE 3 TO 6 1929
the students to go to the opera. In a few
CHICAGO
years this would create musical atmosphere
among our citizens which would enable the
opera to continue all year. In Berlin, for in-
The Official Sticker of the 1929 Music-
stance, there are three operas giving perfor-
Conventions in Chicago Next June
mances the entire year.
"The Board of Education has recently sue-
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Will You Be There?
Los ANGELES, CAL., March 30.—The various
chapters of the Radio Trades Association of
Southern California are setting a new standard
for earnestness of purpose and co-operation.
Last week two of these chapters, Long Beach
and the Valley, respectively, met and discussed
problems and passed resolutions for the better-
ment of trade conditions. The Long Beach
chapter are now holding regular monthly meet-
ings at 8 a. m. on the second Thursday of each
month. The place of their meeting is at the
"Breakers Club," in front of which the great
breakers of the Pacific roll and boom inces-
santly. At last week's meeting inspiration and
instruction was afforded through a talk by J. T.
French of the Richfield Oil Co., whose subject,
"Know Your Oil," was applicable to the sale of
all kinds of merchandise. The Valley Chapter
of the Radio Trades Association of Southern
California, which includes the towns of Azusa,
Covina, La Verne, Ontario, Pomona, San
Dimas, Upland, etc., has been meeting each
week in the various towns and this week fore-
gathered fifty strong at Upland for dinner.
The Riverside and Santa Ana chapters of the
Radio Trades Association of Southern Califor-
nia have also been holding regular meetings,
the former monthly and the latter weekly.
Among the various resolutions passed are in-
cluded: Limiting the time of approval demon-
strations in homes to forty-eight hours with the
further recommendation that one dealer at a
time should give such demonstration; trade-in
values for old battery-operated sets given a
maximum amount of ten per cent of the price
of the new set about to be purchased, guar-
antee of sets and tubes following the rules as
set by the manufacturers only, together with
not more than three free service calls within
90 days of purchase.
Strong activity in the elimination of radio
interference has also been waged in co-opera-
tion with the public utility companies. Also
there has been excellent work effected in in-
creasing publicity in the local newspapers
through supplying news items of real human
interest appeal.