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Inc thirteenth annual convention of
the MUSIC Teachers National associa-
ton will be held in New York at the
Waldorf-Astoria hotel June % TO 97
inclusive. A new vitality has taken
hold of the association. as is evil
denced from the fact that the mem
befshlp last year was increased to a
NUMBER sixteen times greater than the
previous year. The organization has
been put upon new plan of delegate
representation, ineffective features
omitted and new and progressive ideas
advanced. material change for the
better will govern the details of the
coming meeting, which will be rich in
surprises musically and intellectually.
Essays by the leading thinkers and
concerts and recitals by the most emf
nent virtuosi of the period, oratorio
and orchestral performances will be in
terspersed with social attractions and
excursions, making a most alluring
programme. Full information and cir
culars will be sent on application to
Henry B. Roney, vice president, 2506
Indiana avenue, Chicago. The other
officers are: President Herbert Will
bur Greene; secretary, James Potter
Keough; treasurer, Alexander S. Glib
son, Of New York. The new delegate
system will be in operation for the first
time at the coming meeting, which will
be upon the highest professional plane
of any in the history of the associa-
ton.
feature of the Trans-M Mississippi
and International exposition, soon to
be opened in Omaha, will be a national
congress Of musicians, to be held I'M
der the auspices of the bureau of edu-
cation. The congress will begin it's
sessions on the morning Of Thursday,
June 80, and will close on the evening
of Monday. July 4. The days will be
devoted to essays and recitals, the
evenings to concerts. The Trans Mis-
sissippi exposition has placed at the
disposal Of the bureau of education
for those concerts a portion of the
Thomas orchestra and the auditorium
upon the exposition grounds. AS the
first step in the organization of the
congress the bureau of education ap-
pointed Homer Moore chairman Of the
executive committee Of the congress,
and authorized him to select six gen
tlemen to constitute the remainder Of
the committee. They are as follows:
Louis c. Elson, Boston; Gerrit Smith,
New York; William H. Sherwood, Chi
cago; AID M. Forester, Pittsburg; Ernst
R. Kroeger, st. Louis, and John c.
Fillmore, California.
The programme for each day includes
four essays upon carefully selected
subjects, two recitals and an evening
concert, as stated above. Among the
subjects and their expounders already
determined are the following: THE
Beautiful in Music and in Nature"
Johanner Wolfram, of Cleveland; "The
Piano and Emotion" Constantine
sternberg, of Philadelphia; ''The Rela-
tivity Of Tones" A. J. Goodrich, of Chi
cago; Our National Music,'' Louis C.
Elson. Of Boston; Music in the Public
Schools" H. Coe Stewart, Of Cleveland;
Music as a Factor in an American
Education" George c. Cow, Vassar
college; 1.-THE Harmonic Basis of Indian
Music" John c. Fillmore, Of Claremonr
Cal; Indian Music and Ethnology,"
Miss Alice G. Fletcher, Of Washington,