Presto
Issue: 1929 2226 - Page 10
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May 1, 1929
P R E S T O-T I M E S
MUSIC STUDIES IN
CHICAGO SCHOOLS
Activities Given Great Impetus by Publication
of Plan to Install Systematic Course of
Study in Conjunction with
Famous Orchestra.
Club, and Dr. Stock and Business Manager Henry E.
Voegeli for the orchestra.
The Supervisors' Club has voted to take favorable
action on the proposal. By their aid some 600,000
children in the metropolitan Chicago area will de-
rive benefit from this plan of cooperation.
Charles H. Haniill, president of the Orchestra Asso-
ciation, has given his hearty endorsement to the plan.
Result in Cornell School.
'
In an issue of Presto-Times several months ago
mention was made of piano classes that had been
started in public schools on the south side of Chicago.
A communication was published by a correspondent
giving an account of a class made up of young pupils
at the Cornell school, 76th street and Drexel boule-
vard. Information which comes to hand this week
tells that remarkable progress has been made by the
pupils who started in the first class organized at that
school, most of whom continued on through subse-
quent classes. So great has been the progress and
so encouraging have been the results at the Cornell
school that occasional piano concerts or, as they
are styled on the program, little piano recitals have
been given from time to time.
A program has been sent to Presto-Times of one
of these recitals given by what is styled "Melody
Way Pupils" in which some sixteen children took
part and gave a really interesting and worthwhile
program. One concert, which took place Tuesday
afternoon, April 16th, was conducted by one of the
regular teachers at the Cornell school who had fitted
herself as a piano class teacher in addition to her
other duties as teacher in Cornell. Professor Night-
ingale, the principal of the Cornell school, has been
well pleased with these classes and has particularly
encouraged piano class studies in public schools gen-
erally, as well as encouragement of music in the
school over which he presides. The results shown
in the Cornell school shows that the promotion of
piano class instruction in schools is well worth the
efforts put forth to encourage this braivch of edu-
cation.
Recent developments in the plans for the encour-
agement of music study in Chicago public schools
were anticipated in an interesting way in recent an-
nouncements by Dr. J. Lewis Brown, director of
music in the schools before the Piano Club of Chi-
cago.
Dr. Brown, who has given careful study to sys-
tematic music courses in schools, was instrumental in
fixing the studies for the school year, heartily favors
the music encouragement plans announced by Wil-
liam J. Bogan, superintendent of schools.
Comprehensive Course.
The most complete explanation of the course of
music appreciation : s to be found in a statement
issued a few days ago by William J. Bogau, super-
intendent of schools. He writes:
"The study of music appreciation in the public
schools of Chicago will receive great impetus from
the consummation of a plan which has as its objec-
tive a systematic course of study in the public schools
and cooperative young people's concerts and pro-
grams by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Dr.
Frederick Stock. The plan contemplates a four-year
course, and the subjects and compositions for the next
school year already have been agreed upon.
"This first year program embraces six features:
Rhythm, strings, woodwinds, brasses, and percus-
sions; melodic development, structure, general. As
each branch in this course is studied in the schools it
will be followed by concerts by the Chicago Sym-
phony. Orchestra in Orchestra Hall with appropriate
HISTORIC SCHILLER AD.
programs arranged by Dr. Stock. These concerts will
The Schiller advertisement reproduced in the last
be an expression of the present 'children's concerts'
by the orchestra, with the addition of one or more issue of Presto-Times, written in script was appar-
series as the needs may dictate. It will be the pur- ently the handwriting of the father of E. B. Jones,
now president of the Schiller Piano Co. In a letter
pose of the music department to foster the study of
music appreciat : on and encourage attendance at the from the latter he says: "Although this advertise-
ment and handwriting and text written in the hand
concerts."
of my father, dates back a long t ; me it is still attrac-
A Constructive Plan.
tive and now after thirty-five years the prognostica-
The conferences which brought about this construc- tion contained in the advertisement has proven true
tive plan were attended by William J. Bogan and Dr. because those who have pushed the sale of Schiller
Browne for the public schools, Harris R. Vail, presi- pianos have won and are among the best representa-
dent of the In and About Chicago Music* Supervisors' tive housed today."
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
Printed Words
Hand Played
Quality and price make Capitol
rolls the dealer's best profit
producer in a roll department.
E. A. KIESELHORST IN CHICAGO.
DISTINCTIVE
TONE QUALITY
E. A. Kieselhorst. president of the Kieselhorst
Music House, St. Louis, was in Chicago several days
recently in conference with officials of the Q R S
Music Company, that is to say, with Mr. Fletcher
and Mr. Page, and, incidentally, with some of the
Zenith Radio Corporation personnel, the object of
the meeting being to complete the formation of the
Q R S-De Vry Corporation, of the future of which
Mr. Kieselhorst is verv enthusiastic.
A. M. WRIGHT RETURNS.
A. M. Wright, formerly of the Mason & Hamlin
Company, and who has been spending the winter at
his home at St. Petersburg, Fla., intends to return to
his Boston home this week. Mr. Wright's many
fr'ends in the trade will be glad to know that he is
in line health, good spirits, and had a most enjoyable
time in Florida this winter.
For generations Poehlmann
Music Wire and Fly Brand
Tuning Pins have made
many pianos famous for
their r c n o \v n L d tonal
qualities.
The continued prestige of Fly Branf
Pins and Poehlmann Wire is due sol?ly
to quality. Every detail is watch el
minutely. Made from special drawn wii e
by men who have done nothing else fo> a
lifetime, they embody every knon n
requisite for quality. That is why many
manufacturers of high grade pianos de-
mand Poehlmann W i r e a n d Fly
Brand Pins.
SOLE AGENT, U.S.A.
AMERICAN PIANO SUPPLY CO.
Division of
HAMMACHER-SCHLEMMER & CO.
104-106 East 13th St.
New York, N. Y.
George Mansfield, of the Everett Piano Company,
was a recent visitor in Indianapolis.
The Name
STRICH & ZEIDLER
on a piano
is a guarantee of
QUALITY
Expert piano makers of distinction
strive to preserve the reputation for
thoroughness achieved by the Up-
rights and Grands bearing the
STRICH & ZEIDLER NAME
The Homer Piano, also made by
Stricli & Zeidler, Inc., has the guar-
antee of dependability which dis-
tinguishes all the products of the
house.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, INC.
740.742 E«»t 136th Street,
NEW YORK CITY, U. S. A.
Double
Your Sales by Pleasing
Your Trade
CAPITOL ROLLS
for all
ELECTRIC PIANOS
MORE VARIETY
MORE PROFIT
There Is a Capitol Roll for Every
Purpose
Recognized for over ten years as
THE BEST for all electric pianos,
orchestrions and pipe organs.
It will pay you to use and supply
others with
CAPITOL ROLLS
Twice-a-month lists of very latest
hits. Send for Bulletins and full
information.
Capitol Music Roll Co.
721 N. Kedzie A?e., CHICAGO, ILL.
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May 1, 1929
P R E S T O-T I M E S
MUSIC STUDIES IN
CHICAGO SCHOOLS
Activities Given Great Impetus by Publication
of Plan to Install Systematic Course of
Study in Conjunction with
Famous Orchestra.
Club, and Dr. Stock and Business Manager Henry E.
Voegeli for the orchestra.
The Supervisors' Club has voted to take favorable
action on the proposal. By their aid some 600,000
children in the metropolitan Chicago area will de-
rive benefit from this plan of cooperation.
Charles H. Haniill, president of the Orchestra Asso-
ciation, has given his hearty endorsement to the plan.
Result in Cornell School.
'
In an issue of Presto-Times several months ago
mention was made of piano classes that had been
started in public schools on the south side of Chicago.
A communication was published by a correspondent
giving an account of a class made up of young pupils
at the Cornell school, 76th street and Drexel boule-
vard. Information which comes to hand this week
tells that remarkable progress has been made by the
pupils who started in the first class organized at that
school, most of whom continued on through subse-
quent classes. So great has been the progress and
so encouraging have been the results at the Cornell
school that occasional piano concerts or, as they
are styled on the program, little piano recitals have
been given from time to time.
A program has been sent to Presto-Times of one
of these recitals given by what is styled "Melody
Way Pupils" in which some sixteen children took
part and gave a really interesting and worthwhile
program. One concert, which took place Tuesday
afternoon, April 16th, was conducted by one of the
regular teachers at the Cornell school who had fitted
herself as a piano class teacher in addition to her
other duties as teacher in Cornell. Professor Night-
ingale, the principal of the Cornell school, has been
well pleased with these classes and has particularly
encouraged piano class studies in public schools gen-
erally, as well as encouragement of music in the
school over which he presides. The results shown
in the Cornell school shows that the promotion of
piano class instruction in schools is well worth the
efforts put forth to encourage this braivch of edu-
cation.
Recent developments in the plans for the encour-
agement of music study in Chicago public schools
were anticipated in an interesting way in recent an-
nouncements by Dr. J. Lewis Brown, director of
music in the schools before the Piano Club of Chi-
cago.
Dr. Brown, who has given careful study to sys-
tematic music courses in schools, was instrumental in
fixing the studies for the school year, heartily favors
the music encouragement plans announced by Wil-
liam J. Bogan, superintendent of schools.
Comprehensive Course.
The most complete explanation of the course of
music appreciation : s to be found in a statement
issued a few days ago by William J. Bogau, super-
intendent of schools. He writes:
"The study of music appreciation in the public
schools of Chicago will receive great impetus from
the consummation of a plan which has as its objec-
tive a systematic course of study in the public schools
and cooperative young people's concerts and pro-
grams by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Dr.
Frederick Stock. The plan contemplates a four-year
course, and the subjects and compositions for the next
school year already have been agreed upon.
"This first year program embraces six features:
Rhythm, strings, woodwinds, brasses, and percus-
sions; melodic development, structure, general. As
each branch in this course is studied in the schools it
will be followed by concerts by the Chicago Sym-
phony. Orchestra in Orchestra Hall with appropriate
HISTORIC SCHILLER AD.
programs arranged by Dr. Stock. These concerts will
The Schiller advertisement reproduced in the last
be an expression of the present 'children's concerts'
by the orchestra, with the addition of one or more issue of Presto-Times, written in script was appar-
series as the needs may dictate. It will be the pur- ently the handwriting of the father of E. B. Jones,
now president of the Schiller Piano Co. In a letter
pose of the music department to foster the study of
music appreciat : on and encourage attendance at the from the latter he says: "Although this advertise-
ment and handwriting and text written in the hand
concerts."
of my father, dates back a long t ; me it is still attrac-
A Constructive Plan.
tive and now after thirty-five years the prognostica-
The conferences which brought about this construc- tion contained in the advertisement has proven true
tive plan were attended by William J. Bogan and Dr. because those who have pushed the sale of Schiller
Browne for the public schools, Harris R. Vail, presi- pianos have won and are among the best representa-
dent of the In and About Chicago Music* Supervisors' tive housed today."
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
Printed Words
Hand Played
Quality and price make Capitol
rolls the dealer's best profit
producer in a roll department.
E. A. KIESELHORST IN CHICAGO.
DISTINCTIVE
TONE QUALITY
E. A. Kieselhorst. president of the Kieselhorst
Music House, St. Louis, was in Chicago several days
recently in conference with officials of the Q R S
Music Company, that is to say, with Mr. Fletcher
and Mr. Page, and, incidentally, with some of the
Zenith Radio Corporation personnel, the object of
the meeting being to complete the formation of the
Q R S-De Vry Corporation, of the future of which
Mr. Kieselhorst is verv enthusiastic.
A. M. WRIGHT RETURNS.
A. M. Wright, formerly of the Mason & Hamlin
Company, and who has been spending the winter at
his home at St. Petersburg, Fla., intends to return to
his Boston home this week. Mr. Wright's many
fr'ends in the trade will be glad to know that he is
in line health, good spirits, and had a most enjoyable
time in Florida this winter.
For generations Poehlmann
Music Wire and Fly Brand
Tuning Pins have made
many pianos famous for
their r c n o \v n L d tonal
qualities.
The continued prestige of Fly Branf
Pins and Poehlmann Wire is due sol?ly
to quality. Every detail is watch el
minutely. Made from special drawn wii e
by men who have done nothing else fo> a
lifetime, they embody every knon n
requisite for quality. That is why many
manufacturers of high grade pianos de-
mand Poehlmann W i r e a n d Fly
Brand Pins.
SOLE AGENT, U.S.A.
AMERICAN PIANO SUPPLY CO.
Division of
HAMMACHER-SCHLEMMER & CO.
104-106 East 13th St.
New York, N. Y.
George Mansfield, of the Everett Piano Company,
was a recent visitor in Indianapolis.
The Name
STRICH & ZEIDLER
on a piano
is a guarantee of
QUALITY
Expert piano makers of distinction
strive to preserve the reputation for
thoroughness achieved by the Up-
rights and Grands bearing the
STRICH & ZEIDLER NAME
The Homer Piano, also made by
Stricli & Zeidler, Inc., has the guar-
antee of dependability which dis-
tinguishes all the products of the
house.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, INC.
740.742 E«»t 136th Street,
NEW YORK CITY, U. S. A.
Double
Your Sales by Pleasing
Your Trade
CAPITOL ROLLS
for all
ELECTRIC PIANOS
MORE VARIETY
MORE PROFIT
There Is a Capitol Roll for Every
Purpose
Recognized for over ten years as
THE BEST for all electric pianos,
orchestrions and pipe organs.
It will pay you to use and supply
others with
CAPITOL ROLLS
Twice-a-month lists of very latest
hits. Send for Bulletins and full
information.
Capitol Music Roll Co.
721 N. Kedzie A?e., CHICAGO, ILL.
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All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
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