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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 14, 1917.
What
'is Going On
in Society Cirples
studying for tome time and will re
inme her classes tomorrow.
Miu' Elizabeth Barker, older
.daughter of Mr. and Mn. Joseph
Barker, was taken, to the Immanuel
hospital Thursday and operated on
nicely. Miss Elixibeth came home
from La Jolla, Cal., from school for
(he holidays and has been ill most of
the time with ear trouble, which cul
minated in mastoiditis. Her sister.
Virginia, is also suffering from ab
scess of the ear, but is improving
slowly.
' Mr. Forrest Richardson returned
Wednesday from New York, where
lie went for the marriage of his broth
er, ., Mr. John Beale Richard
son, to Miss, Louise Macfarland,
.which took place on Wednesday aft
ernoon of last week at the Church of
the Incarnation in New York City.
Mr. Richardson has been here for a
few days to see his parents, Dr. and
Mrs. C. T. Richardson, and was ac
companied east by his brother. Miss
Macfarland was at one time a resi
dent of Omaha, and has been study
ing music in Boston and living there
and in- New York for some years
ith her aunt. Miss Frances Forrest.
Mrs. H. C. Anson, who has been in
California since May, has taken an
apartment in Los Angeles for the rest
of the winter. She expects to return
to Omaha some time-in the spring.
Miss Mildred Pizer of Grand
Island is the guest of Mrs. H. I..
Goldsjonr. She came to attend the
Pi Tau Pi fraternity dance at the
Blackstoue Thursday -evening and
has since been entertained at lunch
eon at the Black-stone on Friday, fol
lowed by an Orpheum party and a
luncheon Satnrd,
Mis. R. 0. Webb, who has been the
guest of her brother, W. M. Morse,
has returned to her home in New
York City.
Robert R, Tracy of Victoria. Tex.,
was the -guest of his cousin, .Donald
Tracy, last week. , ... - ,
Mr and iir. P. A. Sanborn enter
tained last week for W. H. Davidson
of Springfield, Neb. . ,
Mrs. H. V. Jeffrey was hostess for
the Harmony club at her home on
Monday. .. - j' ,
Mrs, A. N. Hoffman of Omaha and
Mrs. J,, W. Hitch of Bensonhurst en
tertained on Saturday evening at a
(joint birthday dinner at' the-home of
Mrs. Hitch. Covers were laid for
twenty-two guests.
Misses Marguerite and Karen Lil
jenstolpe entertained for twelve guests
at dinner Monday, evening. '
, Mrs. L. P. Byars will belho&tess at
a social and business meeting of the
Methodist Ladies' Aid society next
Wednesday,
Mrs. Harry Knudsen entertained at
dinner ,on Tuesday for Mrs. R, H.
Beasley of Council Bluffs. . i
. Walter L. Stewart of Lowden. Ia.,
is a guest at the home of his sister,
Mrs. W. Hitch. .
The Baptist Missionary circle met
at the home of Mrs. William Clarke
last Thursday. : . 1 ... ,
Miss Helen Jorgenson was hostess
for th Guild at her home last Mon
day evening. '
Mrs. William Yarton returned home
last week from a few days' stay in
Leigh, Neb. . , . '
The Methodist' brotherhood enter
tained Tuesday evening at the church
at a "man and boya' " aupper and en
tertainment T,he young men were
guv... ui ncic iiu lur auoui
fifty. "-,,.!. - - .
B. H. Mills of Arnold, Neb., spent
ft few davs of last week at the hnmr
of W.J. Mills. '
- Mr. and Mrs. E. A. McGlasson have
as their guest Miss Lena McGlasson
of Kansas City.
Mr. and Mr. V7i. Wilcox enter
tained at dinner Sunday. Covers were
laid for Miss Mildred Stepp . of
Bellevue, Charles Fralich, Mr. and
Mrs. B. B. Combs of Omaha.' 1
Mrs. Charles Chapman entertained
at dinner last week. Covers were laid
for twelve guests.
- Carl Liljenstolpe spent the week
end last week at his parents' home'
while on his way home from Lincoln
1 c ...kt..a . .
i Mr. and Mrs, Fred Gossard of Val
ley, Neb were guests at the William
Gossard hdme last week. '
Mi's. H. O. Wulff returned from
Kennard, Neb., where she attended
the funeral of a relative.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Moulthrop
spent last Sunday at the home of the
utters parents in lekamah. Neb. '
Mrs. Wilbur Nelson will be hostess
for the Lutheran Missionary society
next,' Thursday afternoon, Mrs. J.l
Lauritzen will read paper at this
. meeting, f s
' Benson Woman'a Club will have the
nrst ot its programs on "History of
Music" Thursday at the Rouse Edison
room, when Mr, b. K n hvr will
lead and papers on "Ancient Music'
by Mrs. G. H, Tuttle. "Medieval Mu
sic" by Mrs. M. V. Morse and "The
.Musical Kenaissance by Mrs. J. T.
;Pickard will be ariven.
A Woman'a Home Missionary So
ciety and Queen Esther Club were or
Canned in Benson Tuesdav mt ih-
. home of Mrs. J. Phillips, v. The officers
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Vi. R. Burford, president; Mrs. H. J.
Higbee. vice president; Mrs. A. W. At-
bee, secretary; . Mrs. A. Springer,
irrasurer; Mrs. rniiups and Mrs.
Stevens, secretaries of mite hna mnA
' evslnffelistie wnrlr Thi. ruM rr.tl.....
net at the parsonage and elected Miss
neien Anderson, president; lone
Uardner. vice president: Ethel Orrntt
..casurtr; Lucille Chadweli, secretary,
and Eugene Chadweli, recording sec
retary, iney nolo tne next meeting
Friday at the home of Miss Florence
jinuasen.
Prof. Candy Talks to the
Women On Custodial Farms
V Prof. A. L, Candy of the University
oi ncDrssica auosiicuiea ror judge
Lincoln Frost of Lincoln at the Equal
.Franchise society meetinr; at the
home of. Mrs. J. M. Metcalf yesterday,
sjieaking on '.'Custodial Farms for
Petty Criminals.'' Judge Frost was
called west on business. Prof. Candy
has studied custodial farms and vis
ited the one it JJuluth, Minn
y. V'BTPa VX , , " Jf S
Benson. jo
Social Circles ' ' ;"' ." V',. .'
Visiting Her Parents,
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By HENRIETTA REES.
HEN people tell you reminis
cently, as two or three at
various times have told me,
that thev Rturliert music for
',2ra 'our or nve ycar when
young, and that it not only
did not do them any good, but that
they do not now know anything about
it, what do you know about them right
awayf - ; '
simply this, that while tliey must
have gained a certain amount of
technical ability in that tunc, - and
more or less mental or emotional
stimulation, according to their 'own
and their teacher's lights, that they
did not learn anything about form,
Uiarmony, or counterpoint. And this
touches upon one ot the greatest
weaknesses in the way people study
music of the present day.
How many teachers remember that
they are not only teaching voice or
piano, or whatever else it may be, but
that they are also called music teach
ers and are supposed to be teaching
a certain amount of music along with
rt? How many pupils out of the great
number who are studying music sup
plement their instrumental work- with
any theory? Ai first-class teacher will
always teach tne fundamentals of har
mony 'along , with his particular
branch, even a vocal teacher, for a
certain rudimentary knowledge of in
tervals, chords and their various posi
tions, different tonalities and various
theoretical points' are among the es
sentials. , a - - . ;
But the way we go on with it is atl
wrong. Some little youngster presents
himself to a teacher for piano lessons.
He is taught the rudiments and pretty
soon is given a little piece tojilay. He
does this well and another follows.
Besides this he has his technical jxer
cises, his studies and certain scales
and arpeggios perhaps. He works on
for a year or two. He is taught to
read music correctly, to hear it cor
rectly and to reproduce k-ip time and
the way his, teacher tells him to. Per
fectly all right, and he is on the road
to making quite a good pianist - if he
keeps on. But lie is always repro
ducing. He doesn't like to practice
very well, a great deal of his music
he thinks stupid, but it is part of his
lesson, and he would like to learn to
play better, so he keeps on, He may
continue for four or five years, always
taking more difficult technics, studies
and pieces, i
Than, perhaps, he decides to drop
it and in a little while he is, out ot
practice and forgets all about it. But
if he had supplemented his study from
the very beginning with a slow and
thoroush study of harmony and cotui
terpoint, cvca though he should drop
his active work in it, he would have
learned something of the truths vol
it and gained a greater appreciation
of it Vlian he had done in all his
other work. N
;
A child is not taught to speak
pieces alone. He is taught words and
what they mean and he is allowed to
use them himself and to make his own
constructipna and to express his
thoughts and ideas through them.
Poor enough constructions they are,
too, at the beginning and-Jiow , Jiis
parents laugh at him, but he keeps on,
and after , awhile they are better.
Then he learns to write as well as to
talk and soon he essays little sen
tences, then paragraphs, md stories.
His poor constructions are gradually
corrected and he proceeds slowly to
the higher forms.-fn the meantime he
has learned to read and perhaps, to
recite a few pieces. ' Perhaps he has
learned to recite several and do them
quite well. But the reciting ia con.
sidered only a very small part if he
is learning the language. r
We go to the high school or col
lege and take up tie study of a for
eign language. We are given a few
words to learn, a, little about how to
use them limply "and then we begin
to translate sentences orally or write
little sentences and to use them. We
gradually get more and are very soon
told to make up a sentence, using
these words corqectly: How interest
ing it is and how much we learq of
the language from our awn experi
ence in it. We wouldn't for one min
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Mr. and Mrs. Congdon
ute feel that we had learned much
about the language if we had just
been taught hc pronunciation of the
words and had learned to recite sev
eral little poems or a prose selection
according to certain rules of accent or
inflection,, - " ' '
' If f niotjier would not teach' her
child to express himself correctly in
-language until he could recite Ham
lets soliloquy, ' with proper shading
or expression,, eveiw one would, be
talking about -it and think that mother
mentally unbalanced. Yet maiijy a
mother and many a teacner nas
frowned upon and discouraged the
shy little musician, who has tried his
handa,t making up a song .or -little'
vitece, and sent him to practicing tech
nical exercises, on an instrument in
stead. If then lie' could be simply and
carefully taught how best to niake up
his little melodies, pr where they did
not sound well, and his work could
be continued in learning how to play
and 1iow the world had learned was
the best way to write things to make
them sound well, how much more he
would know and how happy he would
be. In Kurope before the present
great conflict, much more attention is
Eaid to theoretical work than in the
!nitcd States. - . A :
Mozart, studied counterpoint at the
age of 3 years, and his early attempts
show frequent corrections by his
master. The life history of most of
the great ones show theoretical work
proceeding from early youth. Mozirt
was especially gifted, as were many
of the others, but there was some
thing in it for them all to learn.
It would not be necessary for
everyone 'to take Up theory for the
purpose of being a great composer,
any more than whcn"all the children
who write little stories -and essays in
school do it because t)iey expect to
be great writers.
The love of good music would be
spread much more, rapidly, . if those
who study an instrument, instead of
studying four or five years without
theory, would supplement it instead
with" two or three years of good care
ful training right along with it. Their
reading of music would be improved
through the familiarity with promi
nent chords, that would be gained,
and memorizing would be greatly sim
plified for the same reason.
Then, though technic may go, and
pieces of themselves maj be forgot
ten, the Iruths of music will remain,
for they will have been learned, and
their values appreciated. Truth in any
form is learned much more thoroughly
from pne's , own experience, than
from "any number of outside in
stances. - f
In the learning and understanding
of music as everything, personal ex
perience is the greatest teacher, and
in counterpoint, one learns the truths
af melody, in harmony of chords, and
in form of construction of the whole.
But here, as in every branch
of music, care should be. taken in the
(election of a teather, for in theory
more than in any other branch, the
teaching demands a thorough mu
sician. '
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The coming of the Flonzaley string
quartet in conjunction with Miss
Corinne Paulson, local pianist, to the
Brandeia theater on Tuesday even
ing, January 30. will be a notable
musical event. These artists will ap
pear under the auspices of the Tues
day Morning Musical club, an or
ganization which has been instrumen
tal in bringing to Omaha much mu
sical talent. The Ftonzaleys are well
knorfn here. "Flonzaley" means
"brooklet," and is the name of the
estate on Lake Geneva (Switzerland)
belonging to the late E. J. De Cop
pet of New York, a wealthy music
lover, who founded the quartet in
1903.H He wished to form a perma
nent, organization which should give
all its time to the exacting demand
of quartet playing. -. N ' 1
For three years they privately for
Mr. De Coppet or for charity. Vhen
they first appeared in public they
created an instant sensation. Until
the sudden death of Mr, De Coppet
last year they played for -tiim every
winter in New York and everysum
ifier in Switzerland.- when thev
worked in the open among the trees
or in a log cabin in the woods.
Each man before he was chosen asl
a member of thu rarely perfect quar
tet was a consummate musician m
his own line and their long associa
tion with each other in quartet work
has developed a sympathy among
them which makes of their quartet
not four separate instruments, but
one.
Miss Paulson is aUo well known
in local musical circles. After four
vears of study abroad she made her
debut with the Philharmonic orchestra
in Berlin. Upon her return to Oma
ha two vears auo she made her first
appearance as soloist jvith the New
York Symphony orchestra, witn wai
ter Damrosch conducting.
Many of the faces which one al-J
ways sees at musical affairs .were)
recognized at thf lecture of Sir Rab-
undranatn tagore last weunesaayi
evening. Musical people have come
to know this remarkable man through !
those of Ins poems which have been J
set to music by some ot the best ot
present-day composers. Knowing a
few this way it is but a step to be
come tamiliar with many others.
Throughout his lecture the other
evening, expanding and 'illustrating
what he said, there was a wealth of
poetic thought and well conceived i.
hKure which Kavc pleasure and de
light to all lovers of the beautiful, j
the apt an dl the well expressed, and I
which was analogous to the way tn
which really . great musical compos
ers expand and illustrate or enhance
the expression and meaning 'of their.
thoughts in the language ot, tones.
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Mukol Nolo.
Thi Junior pupil of Ml Emily Clave '
will M hard.. In violin reciui at her Ntudlo ,
on Krldnjr evening-. Jnnu&ry 12. Thwol
who will piny nra Grace Doll. Roue Dub-1
noff, Jamea Kdwarna, David Orofool, Bell
Howe Arey. Robert Davlea, Walter Herckt.
Kdlth OlAon, Harry Davie, Lillian Condon,
Joeeph Uderer, Carl Jeneen, Ijtlliun Dub-1
tioq. Hooert ureen, Hawmorne Arey ana ,
Alvera Ixifttnann. A program of the in-
termedlate and eenlor pupils wilt be given !
In about two weeke, -Mr.
Vernon C. Hennott, concert organlet.
planlnt and teacher, announces the remove!
of hie etudlo from- the nvhtnoller A Mueller !
building at 131S reroam etreet lo the
Roue building on Hliteenth and Farnam
ntreete. '
Treasurer Endres C
Gives Bonds for the
Sum of $1,300,000
I The judiciary and finance commit
tees of the Board of Education have
agreed ' to accept bonds in the total
amount of $400,000 as sufficient secu
rity for school district funds in the
custody of Treasurer Endres. .
The treasurer's school bond has
been $200,000 and the new school di
rectors asked tor $:uv,UUU and com
promised on $400,000. .
The premium for the treasurer's
school district bond is $1,000 a year,
which will be paid out of school funds.
Six companies are represented in the ;
$400,000 bonds approved byhe school
Doaro comnuuecs. -
Other bonds furnished by .Treas
urer Endres are: i
As county treasurer, $200,000.
As water district treasurer, $300,-
000
The total of tht bonds furnished by
Mr. Endres it ?1,WU.UUU.
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