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violets, arbutus, wild rose, honey- WHAT THE RADIO-MUSICAL suckle, dandelion, daisy, lady slipper, LIKE Jack-in-the-Pulpit, columbine, butter- cup, laurel, anemone, Queen Anne's A NATION - WIDE expression o f lace. opinion by radio listeners shows that B. They learned that different flowers their favorite composer is Bee- choose different kinds of homes; some thoven, and Wagner's Overture to Tann- thrive best on sunny slopes; others hauser is the favorite type of music. These need damp shady spots. opinions were obtained through a question- C. They learned how wild flowers care naire recently distributed by the New York for themselves; Edison Company in connection with the 1. Flowers have various ways of pro- Edison Hour, which is broadcast weekly tecting themselves; they may have over WRNY. spiny seeds, tough stems, rough Radio listeners to the number of 4800 leaves, thorns, thistles, an unpleas- cast a total of 79,800 votes for 50 com- ant odor, or an acid taste. posers and 18 types of musical composi- 2. They get food through their leaves tions. Following close after Beethoven and roots; some rare plants catch considered by musicians the master of com- insects. posers—with 3245 votes, comes another of 3. Seeds are scattered by water, wind, the great immortals, Franz Schubert, with insects, birds, animals, and man. 2971 votes. Third is our popular American 4. Flowers have habits of behavior composer, Victor Herbert whom 2935 of just as people; they breathe, they the 4800 included in their preference. turn toward the light, many of Second in popularity to Wagner's master- them close up at night, and some of piece, the Overture to Tannhauser, as a type them have a regular time of open- of musical composition, comes the Poet and ing. Peasant Overture by Franz von Suppe, with D. They learned that wild flowers bene- the Marche Militaire of Franz Schubert fit man: third. The musical tastes of men and wom- 1. Flowers make woods and meadow en are practically alike. Instrumental solos lovely, such as dogwood, redbud, proved to be more popular than vocal solos, arbutus, honeysuckle, violets, and with 2720 votes favoring the former, and buttercups. 1422 for the latter. 2110 votes were cast 2. Flowers are used for medicine, for orchestral music alone. such as bloodroot, and the common One of the significant things shown in the winterberry. questionnaire, which seems to indicate that E. They learned that flowers attract insects the tastes of listeners everywhere are alike, by their color; the insects in turn is that the relative positions of the leading help the flowers by scattering the composers and compositions were the same pollen. for each thousand of the questionnaires Cordelia Armstrong tabulated. The space left on the question- naire for remarks provoked much lively A fund for the establishment of scholar- comment. The men had more to say, and ships at Oxford and Cambridge for Ameri- were much more positive in their opinions can students, and at Harvard and Yale in than women. Thirty asked for jazz, and the will of the late Lady (Charles) Henry, more than 135 denounced it in no gentle of London. The scholarships are to be open terms. to either men or women. Lady Henry was Radio announcements came in for their of American parentage.—School Life. October, 1927] THE VIRGINIA TEACHER 257

share of comment. 1741 desired brief an- 21—Sir Arthur Sullivan (1413) 22—Georg Handel (1409) nouncements, while 2465 indicated a pre- 23— (1263) ference for longer descriptive announce- 24—Johannes Brahms (1251) 25—Rudolph Friml (1221) ments. Few, however, contented themselves 26—Richard Strauss (1162) with a mere indication of choice. The opin- 27—Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow (1112) ions of most on this score were expressed 28—Gamille Saint-Saens (1099) 29—Franz von Suppe (1041) very definintely and positively, and even at 30—Jacques Offenbach (1016) great length. 31—Alexandre Bizet (951) 32—Franz Haydn (895) Following are the complete results of the 33—Carl Maria von Weber (794) questionnaire. The figures indicate the num- 34—Claude Debussy (758) 35—Giacomo Meyerbeer (605) ber of votes; 36—Ruggiero Leoncavallo (542) (1) What type of music do you like best: 37—Benjamin Godard (454) 38—Christoph Gluck (437) Indicate by checking your favorite types 39—Leo Delibes (419) of music among the compositions listed be- 40—Cesar Franck (328) 41—IppolitowTvanow (317) low; 42—Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (298)

Rank 1—Overture to Tannhauser (2778) 2—Poet and Peasant Overture (2631) Franz von Suppe 3—Marche Militaire (2578) Franz Schubert 4—Fifth (2525) Ludwig van Beethoven 5—Unfinished Symphony (2363) Franz Schubert 6—Ballet Music from "Faust" (2243) Charles Gounod 7—Meditation from "Thais" (1941) Jules Massenet 8—Liebesfreud (1912) Fritz Kreisler 9—H. M. S. Pinafore (1675) Sir Arthur Sullivan 10—Nutcracker Suite (1619) Peter Tschaikowsky 11—The Firefly (1600) Rudolph Friml 12—Symphonie Pathetique (1518) Peter Tschaikowsky 13—Dagger Dance from "Natoma" (1495) Victor Herbert 14—In the Morning (1318) Edvard Grieg 15—Invitation to the Dance (1282) Carl Maria von Weber 16—Overture to the Marriage of Figaro (1178) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 17—Scheherazade (970) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow 18—Poupee Valsante (521) Edwin Poldini

(2) Who are your favorite composers? 43—Igor Stravinsky (290) 44—Hector Berlioz (287) Please indicate those in this list whom you 45—Modest Moussorgsky (203) prefer: 46—Mikhail Glinka (169) Rank 47—Jean Phillipe Rameau (147) 1—Ludwig van Beethoven (3248) 48—Alexander Glasounov (137) 2—Franz Schubert (2971) 49—Anatole Liadov (71) 3—Victor Herbert (2935) 50—Edwin Poldini (65) 4—Richard Wagner (2846) (3) Do you prefer (961) music you 5— (2491) have never heard before, or (3385) familiar 6—Fritz Kreisler (2225) 7—Franz Liszt (2130) music ? 8—Charles Gounod (2005) (4) Do you find (2110) orchestral 9—Peter Tschaikowsky (1935) 10—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1920) music alone most interesting, or do you like 11—Gioacchino Rossini (1886) in addition (1422) vocal solos, and (2720) 12—Edvard Grieg (1858) 13—Anton Dvorak (1815) instrumental solos? 14—Edward McDowell (1759) (5) Of vocal solos, do you prefer 15—Johann Strauss (1676) 16—Sergei Rachmaninoff (1634) (1471) operatic arias, (1560) selections 17—Guiseppi Verdi (1502) from light opera, (898) negro spirituals, 18—Jules Massenet (1454) 19—Johann Sebastian Bach (1445) (1083) folk songs, (1403) classic songs, or 20—Anton Rubinstein (1434) (1679) popular ballads?