Music Trade Review
Issue: 1930 Vol. 89 N. 1 - Page 5
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How
Los Angeles
Trains
Her
Youth m Music
Four thousand rehearsals by city-trained bands, orchestras and other
musical groups during the year attended by a half million people —
authorities believe that musical training makes better citizens
M
r X I i n W L authorities throughout the
country, particularly those having to
do with the conduct of the public
schools, are continuing to show an in-
creasing interest in the musical training of chil-
dren, especially along the lines of group instruc-
tion. This work is in line with the campaigns
that have been and are being carried on success-
fully by various organizations in the music trade
and profession to the end of making the United
States a nation of music performers
as well as listeners, and the effects,
from the commercial standpoint, are
already being felt in many localities.
In the carrying on of this musical
training work, however, other leading
cities of the country might well take
a leaf from the book of Los Angeles, where, for
some years past, musical training has been made
a definite work. Music, in this case, is fostered
not simply from a cultural standpoint, but be-
cause it is believed by the city authorities that
musical training makes for better citizens.
The Review on previous occasions has called
attention to the musical activities of the Los
Angeles Department of Playground and Recrea-
tion, and we take pleasure in presenting the
annual report of Glenn M. Pindall, supervisor
of musical activities of the department. The
training covers the full range, from the simple
harmonica to the full brass band, and wherever
an opportunity is seen, music is introduced,
certain cases, as in that of the piano, departt
instruments are provided for practice puj
for those who are lacking in the facj
home. The report of Supervisor P_y
comprehensive and enlightening
be studied carefully by all thj
the musical training of
profiting by the nobh
of the Angels, for
in other large cit
In his report the supervisor says, in part:
It has been the aim of the Music Division to
encourage, promote, develop and organize
recreational music groups which would not only
tend to make better citizens, but which would
enlarge the scope of recreation facilities and
widen the cultural vision for leisure time occu-
pation, thereby providing worth-while avoca-
tions for adults and beneficial playtime for
children of both sexes and all ages.
Music has three factors:
The creator or composer,
the interpreter or per-
former, and the listener
or the public. Recreation-
al music is concerned
with the latter two divi-
sions of the musical art,
at present, and with these
form a viewpoint which is
not primarily educational
in nature. The desire for
self-expression in music
may be developed in three
f
What the illustrations show.
1. The Los Angeles Play-
ground Boys' Band which
plays at
of corn W
tanco^B
2..^H
!
ways: Through education, through the hearing
of music, and through recreation groups which
provide for self-expression on the simpler mu-
sical instruments and through singing.
Educational agencies create musical interests
in the minds of young people, through music
appreciation, through singing, and through in-
strumental study. These students leave school
with musical tastes and with comparatively few
opportunities to continue the pleasure of ex-
pressing themselves through music. It is here
that recreational music may serve those who
have acquired musical knowledge in their school
days.
Intelligent listening to music not only de-
velops those who appreciate the art, but in many
it creates a desire for .self-expression. The
playgrounds have the opportunity to provide a
means for this expression as well as to offer
an incentive and an opportunity for higher
aesthetic standards in self-expression.
Those who have not had the opportunity to
become educated in music are quite often the
most enthusiastic participants in recreational
singing at playground centers; likewise many
others are attracted to opportunities to learn to
play simple musical instruments. From
the easily mastered instruments they
develop an appreciation of music which
causes an interest in hearing music, and
not infrequently in the acquisition of
skill upon a standard instrument of mu-
sical worth.
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How
Los Angeles
Trains
Her
Youth m Music
Four thousand rehearsals by city-trained bands, orchestras and other
musical groups during the year attended by a half million people —
authorities believe that musical training makes better citizens
M
r X I i n W L authorities throughout the
country, particularly those having to
do with the conduct of the public
schools, are continuing to show an in-
creasing interest in the musical training of chil-
dren, especially along the lines of group instruc-
tion. This work is in line with the campaigns
that have been and are being carried on success-
fully by various organizations in the music trade
and profession to the end of making the United
States a nation of music performers
as well as listeners, and the effects,
from the commercial standpoint, are
already being felt in many localities.
In the carrying on of this musical
training work, however, other leading
cities of the country might well take
a leaf from the book of Los Angeles, where, for
some years past, musical training has been made
a definite work. Music, in this case, is fostered
not simply from a cultural standpoint, but be-
cause it is believed by the city authorities that
musical training makes for better citizens.
The Review on previous occasions has called
attention to the musical activities of the Los
Angeles Department of Playground and Recrea-
tion, and we take pleasure in presenting the
annual report of Glenn M. Pindall, supervisor
of musical activities of the department. The
training covers the full range, from the simple
harmonica to the full brass band, and wherever
an opportunity is seen, music is introduced,
certain cases, as in that of the piano, departt
instruments are provided for practice puj
for those who are lacking in the facj
home. The report of Supervisor P_y
comprehensive and enlightening
be studied carefully by all thj
the musical training of
profiting by the nobh
of the Angels, for
in other large cit
In his report the supervisor says, in part:
It has been the aim of the Music Division to
encourage, promote, develop and organize
recreational music groups which would not only
tend to make better citizens, but which would
enlarge the scope of recreation facilities and
widen the cultural vision for leisure time occu-
pation, thereby providing worth-while avoca-
tions for adults and beneficial playtime for
children of both sexes and all ages.
Music has three factors:
The creator or composer,
the interpreter or per-
former, and the listener
or the public. Recreation-
al music is concerned
with the latter two divi-
sions of the musical art,
at present, and with these
form a viewpoint which is
not primarily educational
in nature. The desire for
self-expression in music
may be developed in three
f
What the illustrations show.
1. The Los Angeles Play-
ground Boys' Band which
plays at
of corn W
tanco^B
2..^H
!
ways: Through education, through the hearing
of music, and through recreation groups which
provide for self-expression on the simpler mu-
sical instruments and through singing.
Educational agencies create musical interests
in the minds of young people, through music
appreciation, through singing, and through in-
strumental study. These students leave school
with musical tastes and with comparatively few
opportunities to continue the pleasure of ex-
pressing themselves through music. It is here
that recreational music may serve those who
have acquired musical knowledge in their school
days.
Intelligent listening to music not only de-
velops those who appreciate the art, but in many
it creates a desire for .self-expression. The
playgrounds have the opportunity to provide a
means for this expression as well as to offer
an incentive and an opportunity for higher
aesthetic standards in self-expression.
Those who have not had the opportunity to
become educated in music are quite often the
most enthusiastic participants in recreational
singing at playground centers; likewise many
others are attracted to opportunities to learn to
play simple musical instruments. From
the easily mastered instruments they
develop an appreciation of music which
causes an interest in hearing music, and
not infrequently in the acquisition of
skill upon a standard instrument of mu-
sical worth.
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