Presto

Apollo Hall, gift of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, where accordion classes are held
music, the gift of the Carnegie Foundation, is conveniently
housed in an audition room adjoining the library, where all
campers are privileged to come and study scores.
Pianos, Organs, Small Instruments
Eighty-five pianos and more than a hundred other instru-
ments are the property of the camp and are loaned to camp
students for use in band, orchestra ensembles, instrument clas-
ses, and methods classes. The Camp furnishes all percussion
instruments, string basses and tubas for both band and orch-
estra.
Available, also are a number of additional instruments
which are rented by the Camp for the students, including
harps, electric organs, and accordions. A fully equipped instru-
ment repair shop is maintained for the convenience of our
students.
By arrangement with the Hammond Organ Company,
several Hammond Electric Organs are available for instruc-
tion and practice by our students. Organ recitals are given
Sunday morning preceding the regular devotional service in
the Bowl. Most of our piano students welcome the opportunity
of attending demonstrations of the electric organ in which they
are shown how this revolutionary instrument is operated, and
how various effects are attained.
Latest Recording Equipment
The finest type of recording equipment is maintained by
the Camp and operated by a master electrical engineer. Among
the uses which have been made of this recording equipment
are:
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Equipment
1. The making of transcriptions for broadcasts over local
radio stations. Programs made at Interlochen last summer
were broadcast to South American audiences during the
winter.
2. Recording camp broadcast and concert programs for
later reference and analysis. Each radio program broadcast
last summer was played for the entire group afterward, and
attention called to the members to weaknesses as well as to
passages exceptionally well performed.
3. Recording of individual student performances at the
beginning and end of Camp for the purpose of showing their
parents the improvement resulting from a summer's study
at Interlochen.
4. Recording of ensembles at rehearsal, for self analysis.
Recording of dramatic skits for later study and criticism.
Interlochen At World's Fair
In 1939 a special train of eight coaches carried more than
three hundred campers to New York where for six days they
played a program of concerts and broadcast from the World's
Fair. A thrilling experience with many pre-arranged sight
seeing trips and tours it was a memorable week for the young
musicians. Living headquarters were maintained at Columbia
University dormitories. Specially chartered busses carried
the group each day to and from the Flushing meadows.
A tour of inspection over the Normandie of the French Line,
a visit to Radio City where they were greeted by NBC officials,
and a practically exhaustive tour of every nook and cranny of
the Fair Grounds finished off a final camp week of intense
activity and real pleasure for the young sight seer musicians.
But thrilling as one's initial trip to New York undoubtedly is,
it cannot approach the 1940 glamour which the following an-
nouncement appearing in the February 5th edition of the
NEW YORK TIMES caused among Interlochen Music-campers:
Interlochen to be In Movies
" 'Interlochen', a musical of youth based upon the National
Music Camp will be made for Paramount by Andrew L. Stone.
Allan Jones and Suzanna Foster, featured in 'Life of Victor
Herbert', will be starred. Dr. Joseph E. Maddy, co-founder of
the Camp, has been engaged as technical adviser. Ann Ronell
conceived the idea and will write the music and lyrics. The
picture will be made this summer at Interlochen with the
entire personnel of three hundred and fifty serving as per-
formers."
Approaching the 1940 season and the Camp's 13th year,
Dr. Maddy and Mr. Giddings realize that the National Music
Camp which they founded in 1928 is the perfect setting for a
great summer workshop in the woods, a center for American
youth to find itself and discover its abilities. They have seen
the Camp prove itself a winnowing place where the few des-
tined for the demanding life of a professional artist get an
early start; where the many develop the amateur's life-long
understanding and affection for music, drama, and the other
arts. They believe that these twelve years are in themselves
but a prelude to the grander possibilities of the future Camp.
"Off the Record"— In the Listening Library
PRESTO MUSIC TIMES
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