The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-26
NATIONAL CONSERVATORY
PROPOSED---A BILL TO ESTAB-
 LISH 4 NATIONAL

Conservatory of Music and Art for tho
 Education of Advanced Pupils Ina
 Music i'm All It's Branches, Vocal and
 Instrumental as We'll as Painting,
 Drawing and Etching, was Intro-
 duced iu tho United States senate
 May I6h.
 | The Musical Courier of New York
 has the following editorial on the sub
 ject, in it's last issue It is proposed
 that an entrance fee of $50 be charged,
 those applicants who meet the examin- ation requirements. AN IMPORTANT PROPOSITION. | In another column is published bill | introduced in the Senate of the United | States May 16 by Senator Mason of H. 1 linois and in the House of Representa- | lives by Representative Metcalf, of | California, to establish in this country a National Conservatory of Music and Art.
 | Under its provisions one conservatory each is to be in the cities of Washing ton, New York, Chicago and San Fran cisco or vicinity Certain states adja- cent to these various cities are to be proportioned to each conservatory, so as to cover all sections of the country in manner as nearly balanced as pos-. sible. Advanced pupils only are to be admitted, after the requisite examin- alton, of which certain standard is to be established by board of regents. The control and government of these conserGltories is to rest in this national board of regents, which, as proposed, shall consist of the president of the' United States, the president pro tenn. of the Senate, the speaker of the house, the chairman of the Senate and house committee on education, and seven citi- zens selected by the president of the United States. The president of the National Conservatory will appoint ad- visory boards from the citizens of the respective districts to be designated, and these advisory boards shall select and employ director in each specific case.
 The creation of such an institution, with It's sectional branches under the control of the highest functionaries of the government, would constitute such an official recognition of the importance of music as an element in national rul- ture that its establishment would nec- essarily be hailed with delight by all professional musicians and by allithose who are looking forward to the sestab- lishment of recognized standard of musical study finally, for. as the case stands to-day in music and in art gen. erally,' we are unable to point to any institution having any recognized na- tional authority or any authority deriv- ed from a source outside of it's own pri- vate interests.
 For instance, we have no Harvard, no Yale, no Johns Hopkins, no Leland Stanford in music as they have in juris- prudence, theology, medicine and the sciences generally. We have not fol- lowed England in our musical methods, and England is defective because it has no national musical authority, whereas France, Belgium Holland Russia, Au- stria, the German states and other countries have national institutions that establish their standards and issue their diplomas
 This bill, therefore if it becomes ef- fective, would not only give us defined national standard in music and foster home education under national auspices and encourage American composition but it would bring about the establish ment of many musical schools and col- leges which would be utilized by the people for the purpose of having their children prepared in order to enter the greatnational institution itself.