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For more information, please contact [email protected]. Copyright IflOfl, by Thbodohk Prksskb Vol. XXIV. PHILADELPHIA, PA., AUGUST, 1906. No. 8. The Music Teachers’ National Association ^ TWENTY-EIGHTH f THE dominating figures in the M. T. N. A. for ing, whch was held at 11.30. and brought the members several years past have been men from leading insti¬ ANNUAL CONVENTION to a realization that the policy of the Association is tutions of higher education, such as Columbia, Michi¬ an educational one, and to he conducted along the gan, Wisconsin and Northwestern Universities, Vas- lines already mapped out by President Pratt; a policy sar, Smith, Wellesley and other colleges; men whose to which all members should, in one way or another, positions bring them in close touch with the most suc¬ AT OBERLIN COLLEGE contribute. Several committees were appointed to pre¬ cessful educational methods of the present. The Asso¬ June Twenty-sixth to Twenty-ninth pare and submit to the Asaociation certain matters of ciation at its present meeting has wisely concluded to business, after which an informal statement by the allow these members more time in which to worts out Si ■> Treasurer, Mr. Walter Spry, of Chicago, showed the their plans, and to formulate methods by which to Association in good financial condition. place music on an equal plane with other subjects in Much interest was matdfested In the report of the a curriculum for college nud university study. The the importance of the interpretation of life in its committee appointed to draft a new constitution, of central thought of the meeting and of all the members ethical meaning against process anil cold facts. which Mr. Coivin It. Cady wus chairman. It was present was, undoubtedly, true education in music. President King stated that music had been one of finally decided to defer the discussion of the various the most wholesome influences in the whole course of articles of the constitution until the next business study in Oberlin, and he pleaded for a wider recognition session, on Thursday morning, the afternoon and even¬ General Report. of music as a branch in colleges. "Let it, however, ing sessions being devoted to educational and musical not become a grind,but something which will make the matters. The Twenty-eighth Annual Convention of the Music world happier and better.” President Pratt responded As was to he expected the session on Thursday was Teachers’ National Association opened June 20, 1006, with a few well chosen words after which the first a lively and interesting one, the discussion of certain •t Oberlin, Ohio, with proposed changes in a reception at Talcott the constitution being Hall, one of the build¬ the order of the day. ings belonging to One proposition sub¬ Oberlin College, mitted was that the where the sessions name of the organiza¬ were held. It was tion should be changed an auspicious affair, a to The National Asso¬ large delegation of ciation of Music Teach¬ musicians from vari¬ ers. ous parts of the Another was that any person actively in¬ country being present, *s well as a large terested in music upon approval by the Exec¬ number of the faculty utive Committee may connected with the become an annual mem¬ Oberlin Conservatory ber of the Association of Music. The evening by the payment of was delightfully spent, three dollars annually. old friendships being Both of these recom¬ renewed and new ac¬ mendations were adopt¬ quaintances being ed, yet a change of made, the social quali¬ feeling became evident ties that distinguish later, for at the busi¬ members of the musi- ness meeting on Fri¬ f* *1 profession show- day a motion to recon¬ •ug up cleverly. sider action relative to The regular session change of name of or¬ " the Convention was ganization was made begun Wednesday, at and carried, so that r° a- «., President the name of the Asso¬ Waldo S. Pratt, of ciation, familiar fot artford, Conn.. more than a quarter in the chair. of a century, was re¬ President Henry C. tained. A strong feel¬ Kl°S. of Oberlin Col- ing was manifest that 7**’ d”1 i*ered an ad- a change in executive uress of welcome. He paper, “Musical Associations in Europe,” was given personnel was not desirable, and that the present j®Phasized the benefits to he derived from music by O. G. Sonneck. of the Library of Congress. Wash¬ officers should have a reasonable time in which to build V <0 *,K Ameri™n people; for he argued tlu ington, D. C. That the Association had l>een brought work out their plans. President Pratt and his asso¬ wl*\UP the aesthetic side of our natures, and g to-etber for work as well as recreation and mental re¬ ciates are to be congratulated that they should thus He ds n°W m08t nee<*e'i in our national life, rr\ freshment was made evident at the first business meet¬ impress their views on the members. The members added that music teachps, in the sphere of val 485 486 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE 487 was the rapid, orderly, and effective way in which the of the Executive Committee for next year, elected by Following Prof. King’s address. Prof. A. A. as broadly liberal. The question of technic, he main¬ jon on “Tl>e Conservatory of DIusic, its Aims and body in order to get fully in touch with the present business of the occasion was despatched. President the Association, are: Stanley, of the University of Michigan, gave a very tained, was purely one of correlation, which could Possibilities. ' The first paper was by DIr. Frank plans and policy for the future as now shaping. Pratt gave constant evidence of perfect familiarity For three years: Waldo S. Pratt, C. W. Morrison, interesting and instructive talk on "A Seventeenth be . accomplished much more effectively after a man Damrosch, of the Institute of DIusical Art, New York The distinctive feature of this meeting, its granite knew something of music per se. with the rules and procedure of parliamentary usage .Arthur Foote. Century Opera,” especially from an antiquarian point City He took the ground that unless the conserva¬ corner-stone and its insistent keynote was the idea and the other debaters were equally versed, to all For two years: A. A. Stanley, Walter Spry, A. L. of view, and illustrated with stereopticon views. The educational subject for the second day’s dis¬ tories of the United States are given a higher aim, of musical pedagogy in the higher regions of that appearances. Manchester. A most exhaustive and able paper, one most sugges¬ cussion, was—“Music in the Secondary Schools.” p their future is endangered; that they are at present cult. There was a remarkable absence of detailed A new day dawning is before the M. T. N. A. I am For .one year: C. H. Farnsworth, C. B. Cady, R. L. tive and calculated to stimulate the educational aims was opened by Leonard B. DIcWhood, of Columbia so penetrated with the spirit of commercialism, pupils discussion of the usual topics, such as the Voice and sure. Such a feeling was in the air, and as at dawn Baldwin. of the Association by showing what was being done University, with a paper on “The College and the being permitted to enter and graduate regardless of its uses, the Piano and its technical evolution, the you hear a thousand birds warble each his tiny snatch Another decision reached was to discharge all Stand¬ along similar lines in other countries, was that of Mr. Secondary School.” In beginning he outlined the scholarship or ability, that public confidence iu them way of getting at choral work in the Public Schools, of audible happiness in his own phrase so on all ing Committees and to place all business interests in O. G. Sonneck, of the Library of Congress, Washing¬ various aims of schools, and laid great stress upon will materially diminish as a higher knowledge of or the rudimentary aspects of DIusical Theory. All sides one heard the opinion expressed that we were the hands of the Executive Committee. ton, D. C., on “European Musical Associations.” He the importance of aesthetic teaching, and the far- music becomes more universal. The speaker gave his these are good and are doubtless germane to the assuredly gaining in that solid recognition, especially At this session the question of meeting place for divided these into four classes—Performing, Pedagogi¬ reaching character of the results of music education idea of what a musical education should be, and drew deliberations of such a body. On this occasion in in universities, which we all feci is our right. The next year was taken up and it was decided that the cal, Protective and Learned.