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Flashlight Photo of Board When Clef Club Held Its First Dinner Party
Gossip
About Music
and the Musicians
JOHN A. 8WANHO.N
President.
W.M. U 1IOL.ZMAN,
Treasurer.
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 8, 1014
nr iikniuktta Mi iikes.
kU3ICAI America la this week
cloning a campaign for the
recognition ot the "Musical
Independence of the United
States. Mr. John C. Freund,
the editor of that magazine.
has been untiring In his efforts to bring
the excellent advantages offered In our
country to the notlco of the great gen
eral public. By speeches, argument and
writings he has succeeded in arousing
the people, not only to the advantages
offered here, but to the disadvantages
often attending musical study elsewhere,
tho dangers and temptations to which
American students are exposed abroad.
He has refuted articles by New York
musicians on the lack- of musical appre
ciation In tho United States, by Bound
loglo and proof, and In one ot these he
made some Interesting statements In re
curd to music throughout tho civilized
world. Too often New York musicians
are prone to sit by their comfortablo
firesides In that great city and discuss
Anierjca, when they i-cally mean New
York. Mt reminds one i of tho old story
of tho frog In tho well. New York Is a
great city to be sure, but It Is not Amer
Ice. In fact it 1b the least American of
alt the great American cities. Mr.
Freund, In a recent article spoke or it in
this connection as follows:
Do" you realize that New York Is tho
third largest German city In tho world7
IDn v'nu ronllrn that them are a. million
and more Italians In Greater New York-
more Italians tnan thero are in iiomo
and Naples together, or In Home and
Milan together, or In Milan and Turin
together? Do you rcallzo that we have
hero a population of nearly half a million
XtMich and their descendants; that thero
Is a great Greek population, a greai pop
ulation of Austrlans, Russians and oth
ers, not to speak of the music-loving
Irish, Kngllsh and Scotch?
ni,i ail th.n nnmons suddenly become,
from a musical standpoint, barbarians
when they landed on the shores of tho
Hudson?
In closing Mr. Freund calls America
the melting pot of the nations. Ho says
we are Idealists, and that we have de
veloped our distinctive typts the clean
living, clear thinking, enterprising busi
ness man, the unequaled American In
ventor (who has done more for tho prog
ress of humanity than the rest of tho
world In all time); the American .ath
lete, who goes abroad and whips the rest
of creation; the American woman, who
is Intellectually her husband's equal and
often his superior, and, without neglect
ing her duties In the home and as a
mother, begins to take part In the higher
life, so we will develop our American
composers and musicians, the best In tho
wold. ,
Mr. Freund Is undoubtedly doing a good
work In his championing ot native music,
and his declaration of tn musical Inde
pendence of the United States cannot
help but have Its effect for the benefit
of what is worth while In our country.
It calls the attention of the people at
large to what there Is here, good or bad,
and have you ever noticed that when
people turn their attention to anything
It always Improves? The things which
decline and become corrupted, are those
things from which the attention has
wandered. The only reason that politics
are so. corrupt Is because the people, aro
too busy, or too lndlfftrenc to ;turn a.
sufficient amount of attention upon that
line of business, and the reason the cor
ruption has as firm, a hold as It has, Is
because the Interested parties devote
their whole attention to It. and have so
Improved It that It Is known as the "sys
tem." "When the people turn their at
.tentlon to the music of our country thoy
will soon choose what Is worth while
and make moro and better. "When they
turn their attention to the musical ad
vantages offered In this country as well
as In other countries and discover that
our large musical centers rank well to
the fore In comparison with Kuropean
mualcU centers, the advantages will be
come even greater, and muslo will spread
further Into the lives of the people.
Incidentally, Mr. Freund, In speaking ot
the deplorable moral conditions abroad,
for the unchaperon& American students,
ntlrred up considerable Indignation abroad,
especially In Berlin, among people who
. thought tho American students' morals
were assailed or others who felt that their
city . had been slandered. The original
Issue which tho editor ot Musical America
sought' to promote, tho musical inde
pendence of the United States, threatened
to be lost In the discussion ot the de
plorable moral conditions otmuslcal cen
ters abroad. ' Mr. Henderson, the musical
m ' link
A G
Standing, from left to right: Mrs. Henry
Cox, Mr. A. M. Borglum, Mrs. T. J.
Kelley, Mr. J. H. Slmms, Mrs. Welpton,
Mr. Martin Bush, Mr. 13. M. Jones, MIbs
Grace Hancock, Mlsa Luclla Allen, Mr.
J. S. tolvln. Seated, on left side of tho
table, from left to right: Mrs. A. M.
Borglum, Mr. T. J. Kelly, Miss-Evelyn
Hopper, Mr, Jean P. DufCIeld, Miss Mary
Munchhoff, Mr. Slgmund X.andsbcrg, Miss
Helen Sadllek, Mr. E. R. Zabrlskle, Mrs.
B. It. Zabrlsklo, Miss Emily Clove. On
right stdo ot tho table, from left to right!
Mr. Douglas Welpton. Miss Henrietta
Rees, Miss Bella RoblnEon, Mr, Leo Kratz,
Mrs. Kratz, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Baetons,
Mr. Carnal, Mrs. Helen Mackln, Mr. O.
Newlean, Miss Alice Davis, Mr. Cecil
Bcrryman.
SOPRANO WHO WILL SING IN
"CREATION."
Todd.
editor of tho New York Sun. and a man
who is thoroughly competent to Judge of
conditions both on this and tho other Bide
of the water, last week came out in his
paper with' an arliclo upon this subject, In
which ho said that all tho statements In
regard to the Immoral conditions were
absolutely true, not only In Berlin, but
In every other art center of musical study
in Europe. -;it exists in every center
of art study. It exists wherever boys st
17 or 18 and girls of like age are turned
loose to tako care of themselves In the
whirl of city life. But the extent of the
evil is much greater In Europe, because
people hug the deluslojj that children with
iaint inclinations toward music can bo
turned into Melbas, Paderowskls or
Krelslers by shipping them to Borne mu
sician factory east of the Atlantic." He
places the blame for these conditions not
upon the cities whore they exist, but
rather upon the parents or guardians who
permit these irresponsible children to go
and llvo alone in Europe; and next to the
parents, the people to bo blamed are the
ones who supply money for tho education
of these children, but Insist that they
shall be sent to Huropo for it. Mr. Hen
derson states that no very young stu
dents should be sent to Europe. No stu
dent should be sent abroad until his tech
nical training has been finished. . He
should not go and spend four years of
study in one place. That Is the most
foolish, baseless, wasteful way about
music study.
"Let the student go abroad when he
Is ready for a post-graduate course. Lot
him. If ho will, give a year or two to
special study under some famous mas
ter, When the post-graduate course In
Europe Is directed chiefly toward the
acquisition of deeper musical thinking
and widening ot the mental horizon, the
student should not stay always in one
place. If he has two years to pass over
thero ho would do well to divide the
period Into four parts, one for Paris, one
for Milan, one for Berlin and one for
Vienna. If the study of Teutonlq Ideals
has to be limited to one place, this
writer's choice would be Vienna. And
the conditions ot student life there are
about the Barao as they are In Berlin.
on this side ot tho water has he any
right to sot sail for the old world.
A short time agTThenrd a young man
sing, Jurt previous to "his departure for
Europo to study for a musical career.
Ho had naturally a voice ot rich quality
and commendable range, but ho sang
with a closed throat, his breathing was
poor and his knowledge of tlmo values
and other musical Indications was nonu
too secure. There oro at least three
votco teachers In this town whom I could
name without cvon thinking with whom
ho could have studied to ndvantage tor
a considerable time at much less ex
pense and havo had tho English languago
for all explanatory work.
If people would only remember that
out of tho half million students In this
country only about thirty ot forty be
come prominent, yet, to quote Mr. Hen
derson again, "Thousands will be sent
to Europe at ages ranging from IS to
IS. Why? Because somo stupid pcoplo
I think the trouble Is partly twnlipe
wo get tho cart before tho horse. If our
students with tho, best training obtain
able at bomo do not display sufficient
talent and musical ability to become
worthy performers here, and not consid
ered so by those who know, "not by mere
friends, the chancoB aro that they will
not do so elsewhere. Hut If thoy have
becomo worthy performers hore, not t-t
merely simple music, but of tho mow
difficult works of tho classic master,
then they aro ready to go abroad and
broaden, and, ns a rule, by that time
they wltl .bo old enough so that tly
temptations will not lure them. Many
among us do not look around and Inform
themselves about the advantages at homo
before thoy rush their children oft to
some other city or Europe to do tho same
practicing which they could do bettor at
home.
Mlscha Elman, Pusslan violinist, gives
a concert at the Brandels theater on
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Elman
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It Is no placo for unprotected boys or
girls.1"
Franz Wllcztfk, well known In Omaha,
is quoted from Vienna. He has written
a llttlo .book called, '"Shall I Go to
Europe to Study?" Instead of advising
students to come, he tolls ..of tho per
fectly lax moral. sense of tho landladies
and tho Insidious temptations to which
tho students cannot help but be exposed.
In the very Introduction he Bays:
"During all the years, since It has been
the fad to , flock tc Europe for educa
tion up to the present day there Is not a
single case on record which would prove
that any student haa returned from
Europe equipped with a musical knowl
edge which ho could not have acquired
as well, or better even, and with less ex
pense, from one or the other of tho ac
kowledged and well known teachers at
home or at any ot the great colleges cf
muslo of which America may well boast
today In cities like New York, Chicago
and Cincinnati, and other larite cities."
He does not say only Now York and
Chicago, cither. Tho point of muslo
study Is Just here: There are certain
rules to bo - learned and certain laws to
bo studied which tho pupils must learn
themselves. The teacher can tell them
how to do things, but It ,1s the student
who must do the work, and who must
have the hours and luurs and years of
practice before he has completely mas
tered these points. If ho studies abroad
or in Omaha, theso fundamental laws ne
must know. If he does npt learn then
here before he goes to Chicago, even to
study with some celebrated teacher, what
happens? He is 'handod over to dome
assistant, whom he never heard of, until
he learns them. Might he not much bet
ter learn them here at home with ono of
our leading teachers who have proved
their ' worth as Intelligent and con
scientious Instructors? Then, when a
student can, go to some celebrated
teacher in America and bo accepted with
out being turned over to an assistant
for soverai months or a year, and no;
until then is he ready to leave Omaha.
Only after a pupil has learned all he can
in Omaha, and after that, has been ni'
coined personally for a year or moro
study by some especially eminent teacher
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