The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-08-22
a Conservatory Of Music for
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co1SS s6 ssisSled 90 mdsiieal
tours annually. With much pleasure. for
the las. twenty yeass. the Southern
portion of our country. have been
ever impressed With the increasing
conviction that on account of the
climate aud the temperament of the
people, the territory embraced IN the
latitude of the Southern States. should
and will enforce the noes valuable
ultimate development of the musical
aud ut sentimestof she United States
While / have been impressed with
my eonvio,ions in regard to musical and
art education and cultivation IN the
South I have heen asare Of the fact
e.glesesl 9 $3.50 ,ssszeff
this development Is the absence OF the
proper schools in the Sonsh for the
higisse uaslaslaicssst s6d ut 7esducatsos, sdd
ukia n64y schoaM do exist 80 sshe
SsasE & sFdia.ry assruc.ion in aasiie
.aa braashes Oft, for th6soagb
edhciSiGh Gin ths Aepastmes6 she
aaai;o oalsss ofssks South t.ssai
v.ys been obliged to force its way to
the eouservstories and schooss of the
North aud Europe. Conining myself
to mssie L.ill ssyshas We true WI
out of Shs aass1aty u regsrd { e
Southern musical education. is the
eseab6aAnsea ofs.bles cosservatofies Or
single great conservatory Of music in
the South. On account Of the difficult
ties as,epdidgs the requirement Of the:
highest musical education in the South,
not only kass thousands of people id
the South been deprived Of coveted
nuas4f education of tie higbes. Sort
but the Sonth has also been deprived
Of the service of thousands Of COM
petent teachers thas might have been
raised from aSoag herove people.
Believing that the South needs q
great Conservatory of Muse wheresshe
highes. musical education can be OBJ
tained-equal to. that offered in any
single institution ia this ceuntsy-i
Wish to announce to the press aud
through /. to Be parents of she Sodsh
and an persons Interested in this
subject, that | propose, with their
cooperation, 70 sssa5fsh ID The South
a coasersasayM music. aM 4 appeal
for shek sg6path9 oparation snd
support in this enterprise. | shall
establish this Conservatory Of Music
at Augusta, Ga, opening on Oetober:
15th, 1884, nth a 1usl corps Of s,he
most competent teachers proeurable in
this country and Europe. prepared to
teach MUSIC as thoroughly IN all its
branches as any musical school of the
Union
The conservatory will be to music
what the college is to letters, viz.
place where the higher branches Of the
art will be taught where young men
aud women who wish to fit themselves
TO be teachers or who wish higher
musical education, will have an oppor-
tuoity hitherto denied them for reason
of the absence in any one city Of the
South Of such an educational institu-
eion. The branches will embrace
piano, organ. vocal culture, sight
singing, harmony aud composition,
violin, viola. violincello. aute, clari-
onette, elocution painting, modelling
and the languages.
wish to call attention to music as a
bread winner If you will bat give
the Southern youth the opportunity and
an allowance Of time Jon will not have
to send to the North and East for
organists, singers, teachers, etc. They
can be raised here. The youth of the
South have a temperament which
inclines them to the study of music.
It is as great benefit to youth to have
even limited knowledge Of music as
of many branches of scholastic educa-
ton. There are hundreds of large
and small towns in theSouthern States
where music is taught q by people
who have 40 proper qualification for the
same. Facts are unpalatable some
times, but it is to our benefit to know
them. | can assure my readers that
there are teachers scattered about in
considerable numbers who cannot
harmonise hymn-tune or the SIM
plest melody, or who will talk about a
piece of music in the ''key of two
sharps," /" 'three sbarps," not knowing
at the same time that the piece is in
the key Of ed" or ga" This kind Of
teacher is honest, but only degree
less simple than their pupils. If We do
not change these conditions We shall
continue to perpetuate them.
Let US make it possible for all who
desire to be teachers to get the fitting
education. To majority their means
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