New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-07-03
THE MUSIC TEACHERS MEETING.
COMPOSERS CONDUCTING THE PRESENTATIONS OF
THEIR OWN woRKs-PAPERs READ

COMPOSERS COSDCCIlNd fhLobN'H''ON' 70
THEIR OWN woRKs-PAPERs READ.
Contrary to the expectations of the president
the attendance at the days meeting Of the Music
Teachers' National Association yesterday showed no
increase About three hundred people listened % the
various discussions in the forenoon and afternoon ana
an increased number heard the panofortc rccais Oh
Alexander Lambert and OF Emil Licbling NJ 4:3o r. NJ
and q grand ronccrt OF orchestra and vocal music III
the evening. The evening concert was significant OF
one Of the purposes which have been impressed on to
association within last year, the cSemphcaton OF
which in high degree made possible Dy the meet
ing In New-York. IL was made up wholly OF the COM
positions OF musicians resident In America ana TOT inc
greater part born in this country. Dudley bucA'
Frederick Grant Gleason Louis Mas, Caxa i@vihee'
s. ~ Pcnfcd, and Bruno Oscar Klein conducted worhs
of their own of various degrees OF excellence ana
chorus and soIois besides capable orchestra were On
hand TO assist the interpretations Tnc voca per
formers we're Miss Henrietta 5. Corrad. MISS heto"
Dudley Campbell. W. H. Stanley ana Carr T." punt
the instrumentalists were W. H. Sherwood ana . H.
Jacobsohn, who participated in the forenoon recital
Miss Fanny Hirsch sang at Mr. LebnSs recital anu
Mr. Heimendah. Of thfs city. condr ced the orchestfh
accompaniment to original conreTto TOT tho P"no
forte played by Robert Goldbeck
I'm the forenoon session. Commissioner or Education
Eaton of Washington read a paper Musical Eduoa-
ton at Home and Abroad" which was rcpcte Win
statistical information regarding the extent to which
instruction in music il carried In Europe and America
and furnished special information as to inethous'
After Ii came a lively discussion on vocal culture
81 srted by an essay written and read by f. W. hoot Oh
Chicago Mr. Root argued that there was no cSiuchee
to prove the old tai IN art whose ah
long been deplored existed n methOi Oh istr
ton He said that the same complaint oil dcgeheracy
WAS made at tire when PDrpoias best lipils WSto
making their dcbus. and that all oi the literary reiies
on t subject preserved from that time were mere cJ
monplaces He urged In behalf of the bcrihalS luN
they had brought thought and scientific nve.ug alIoh
into the department which. with the Italian
was only "a matter OF emotion. production anu IN
advantage and suggested that the German netpu 10
used In preliminary study and what was called tailah
for finish the only noteworthy Incident III me us
kissing by an attack the Germans and Nagnefisil
against which he dlscaimed anmOslty -,
Ia the afternoon DIR. william Mason Opener tne IA"
with Acccptuation IN flilOiortc fialinb.
He advanced arguments that are Iaili1r 10
| pianoforte students from his PianOforie Technics
aud was vigorously supported by all VINO ioi""cu nin'
Joln H. Council presented a thoughtful paper enteh
What il Church Muster His ground was that there
was no absolute 10 tue question, since what oc
| nation. class In nation accepted n hpP'pila."
| church music ruled out ~ secular ~ ifho'Hoi.
The music used this country he divided INTO seven
classes; the Puriianieai. the Anglican the 'l
inc German the French the Italian aud the Moody ana
| sankey since a single standard was Impossible ne
urged the cultivation OF catholic spt anu tic cut
walton of all music except that which was Did III nt
| III. H.. Palmer wanted the widest htlihhe ana cIp'c
attention 10 the He not Wiling 10 suppIrN,
even MOODY and Sankey hymns II they were means Oh
grace To lie set forth the plan lOilo"ci III MS
Choral Union, aud confessed tha us lower ~
received n back-sct last season because OF inc roller
skating craze The last subject dScu,7el Scl"ro VA.
afternoon recital vi )in Bowing, on when huuJc'
| T.. 4. Schultz OF Atlanta. read paper.