Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-31
MUSICAL MATTERS.

! MUSICAL MATTERS.
| There will be three big events this
week, and musicians and music lovers
! have some treats in store.
| The Remenyi concert in the Carroll
Club Auditorium cannot fail to attract
a large audience, which same may be
| said tor the Lyric Ladies Quartette, of
Chicago, booked for Thursday night in
the Wheeling Opera House. TINS or
/ ganization is said to be unsurpassed in
its line. Each individual member is
| soloist of high rank, and fine ensemble
work must naturally follow. OF Miss
i Simons, Miss Gilmore, Miss Lambert
and Miss Sprague, comprising the club,
! advance press notices read Miss Eel
Ola Simons has a soprano voice OF great
! range, of a warm sympathetic quality,
and is a very thorough artist. Grace
E. Gilmore's voice is a splendid mezzo-
soprano, Maude G. Lambert beautiful
contralto, and Gertrude Spraque pow
| erful and rich c0ntralto."
/
will be given Friday at p. NJ. by the
Woman's Musical Club, in the A. o. U.
w. temple. The programme, which
will be published later, contains a
musical paper Of merit by Mrs. Julius
| Pollock
Other programmed recitals are as
follows:
Friday, November 19th-Bach and
Handel (organ recital in some clurch).
Friday, December 3d-Haydn and
Gluck
Friday, December 17th-Mozart
Friday, December 31st-Miscellane-
| Gus.
All club meetings are on as usual,
and it is left to the choice of members
to be present at them, or take in any
concert booked for same nights. The
attractions for Monday and Thursday
nights, however, warrant small attend
/ ance at rehearsals.
MUSIC IN THE SCHOOLS.
At the annual session of the West
Virginia Educational Association, held
at Clal ksburg July LIST last, Miss Lucy
Robinson, the very capable director of
music in our public schools, read a
most thoughtful and valuable paper
upon the topic Music in the Public
/ Schools
In her opening remarks Miss Robin
son very truthfully says it is no longer
necessary to urge upon the public the
Importance of the study of vocal music
! as branch of instruction in the pub
| lie schools. The battle has been
! fought, and now in all the more intell-
/ gent sections of cur common country"
Nevertheless, she thinks it important
| and necessary to urge fuller and more
| practical Acknowledgement by those in
position to further this very essential
! study-a wider eXertiOn and more ac-
j tive influence and aid from these who,
knowing the Importance of the matter,
wish to advance music to the place it
should occupy in the public school cur
rlculum. Pursuing this thought. Miss
Robinson said:
| MUSIC as branch of study worthy a
! place in our public schools must be taught
! with other aims than that of cultivatinc.
the musical talent of those who have it,
and making musicians of such as desire
| to become artists or teachers of music
| Music must be used as means to an end
| and that end the same for which all study
Is given. Unless music can be so taught
as to serve as a valuable aid in the ply
steal, mental and moral culture of the
| pupil, 1t has no place in the common
| schools
She then took up the educational
! Idea in broad sense, and after referr-
| Ing to valuable factors in school work.
! she concluded:
| 'Chiefest among these factors--likest in
| its influences upon the child to sunlight
! IN its holy work of development, is music.
| BY this is not meant merely technical
study of the art Though the disciplinary
| value of its technique is great but music
| in its mightiest significance, that is. as a
! resurrector of noble emotions and a some
| thing which gives to the heart the power
| to utter the nobler emotions in manner
| according with their nobility This must
| be the mission of music in our public
! schools; if it is not, then it has no right
| in the world, and no reason for existing
| unless 1t be as a frill for dietanteism.
| The refining and elevating influence of
j good music is seldom denied nor that it
| is peculiarly useful in developing the
| aesthetic nature; for in melody. harmony
| and counterpart it is replete with beau
| tiful forms or creations which, when I'M
derstood and appreciated both of them
| selves and in their suggestiveness, awake
! ana cultivate sense of the beautiful
and excite the purest emotions This is
| true to a degree in all who listen to
music, whether they understand it or rot. 3"
! The purely mental effect of the study
OF music was enlarged upon in a most
careful manner. and this was followed
by a demonstration of the aid vocal
music lends to the development of the
| physical powers of the child. The IN
doubted ability of any child to learn to
read music as easily as anything else
was also demonstrated. The paper
throughout was most timely one. and
1t will bear good fruit in the future
D.
| Tickets for Remenvi cnncert OF Cor