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PRESTO
December 18, 1920.
that clairvoyant adepts take the most exquisite de-
light in his music.
"The masters, or initiates, use music for their
purposes, inspiring musicians and thus bringing
spiritual influences directly to bear on the world."
THE OCCULT IN MUSIC
Cyril Scott Says Colors of Music Are Sensed by
Those of Clairvoyant Vision.
JAZZ FOR RECRUITS
Uncle Sam Opens Music School for 200 Army Men
at Ohio Post.
THE FOGGY MUSE.
Cyril Scott, the English composer, who is to
Young men who have had no musical training,
lecture in Harvard University next month on "The
Under this head the Chicago Tribune's "funny but who long to play march and jazz music, can
Occult in Music," says that "brilliant, flashing" col- man" puts forth the following in which Lee Rob- satisfy their aspirations by enlisting in the United
ors in startling and beautiful forms are seen by the ert's popular song, "Smiles," is parodied for the States army, says a dispatch from Washington.
trained clairvoyant when beautiful music is played. thousandth time: "San Diego, Dec. 5.—I have not
Maj. Gen. P. C. Harris, adjutant general, an-
"I know at least one initiate in England, said offered the fo'lowing to any local papers. I did nounced- that the army is prepared to teach music
Mr. Scott, "who knows nothing whatever about not think they would want it. As we are leaving to recruits, regardless of previous training in this
Dec. 12 I feel safe in releasing it now:
art.
music, yet he enjoys music immensely because of
Uncle Sam has a jazz factory of his own, fully
the flashing, living colors and the wonderful beauty
"There are fogs that make you chilly;
equipped and ready for business. Recruits who have
There are fogs that make you damp;
of forms that he sees with his clairvoyant vision.
There are fogs that drive away the sunshine
a yearning to learn music will be sent to the Sev-
"The theosophists say that musical forms and
As the bull dogs drive away a tramp.
enth recruit depot band, Columbus Barracks, Ohio,
colors are sensed by the pineal gland. The colors
There are fogs that hardly blur the vision;
where 200 musicians are to be trained.
are produced simultaneously, and yet they do not
There are others that would float a boat;
Band Leader Frank J. Weber of the St. Louis
interfere one with another, but are vividly distinct
But the fogs that roll in Sunday mornings
Symphony Orchestra has been placed in charge of
and gorgeous. The modern French music of Ravel
Are the f-o-g-s that g-e-t my g-o-a-t."
the school, with four assistants. Classes will be
and Debussy is particularly rich in nature-spirit
organized in reed, brass and percussion instruments,
effects.
PRICE OF JAZZ.
and instruction in harmony and higher music given
"The spiritual value of the music can be deter-
Twenty thousand francs ($4,000) has been award-
mined by the purity and beauty of the colors. ed Dr. A. Maymon in Paris, France, because Amer- those who desire it.
Scriabine, in the latter part of his life, made music ican jazz in a Montmartre restaurant underneath
a definite vehicle for spiritual expression, and his his apartment disturbed his slumbers. Maitre Cour-
The relation of Rachmaninoff to the Edison rec-
compositions glow so richly with color and form get, the doctor's lawyer, told the court "the jazz ord was shown to Albany, N. Y., last week on the
orchestra kept on without interruption, and from occasion of the great pianist's visit to that city. A
time to time the musicians emitted little short portrait of the pianist and composer surrounded by
yelps, whereupon the dancing couples would clap a display of his records, comprised a window attrac-
Quality—Supr*macy--EBE~New York their
hands. The dancing is a pretext for exhibiting tion in the Edison Diamond Disc Studio. L. E.
Couchot is manager.
fleshly charms."
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