Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-03-15
CLOSING RECITAL
School of Music Pupils Appear
at Commencement Hall.
Friday Night the Date of Entertain
ment- Several Hundred People at
tended the Affair-High Glass Music
Rendered and Audience Appreciate il
Highly.

Rendered and Audience Appreciate il
Highly.
Morgantown is on a boom must
cally, as well as otherwise, and the
best that any musician can wish, is
that this boom in music may prove
as enduring and be subject To as few
reverses, as have characterized our
numerous interests.
1t has not been so very long since
a musical, such as the one of Friday
evening would have been Justly re-
garded as the event of a year, now
we regard such recitals as sort of
@matter Of course if indeed we do
not forget a. times, that it Is to
these, hundred times more than TO
all other influences combined that
we owe our present musical awaken
ing. In the midst of our musical
prosperity we might simply say of
the students recital Friday evening,
that it fully realized the best expec
tations OF those who have been at
tending these functions with so
much pleasure and profit. But this
recital marks the introduction OF
one novel feature that must prove
matter of much interest to every
friend of this institution.
In the earlier days of the Music
School these recitals were pulled
through with great harrah. Stu
dents We're compelled to give the
time that should have been devoted
to conscientious, systematic, study
to something that would appeal to
the crowd, and a goodly number of
gallery gods were duly tipped as to
the proper time to raise particular
pandemonium and keep it up until
the audience had heard as it seemed
to some OF us, for the seven hundreth
time, every inspiring line of "Baa-
Baa black sheep Bull dog on the
Bank, I'm Heaven above,p and other
similar numbers, aud until the
genialDirector would be compelled =
to come out where the calcium would
hit his dress suit and explain to the
audience how much he appreciated
their evident appreciation. We beg
pardon for referring to this little era
OF unsavory memory, but we do so
for the sole purpose of recalling how
much this school has advanced. PEG
pie have been known to stick pins in
themselves just to make sure they
were really awake.
The audience was present by re-
quest, and consisted of three or four
hundred people from this vicinity,
who in che judgment of the teachers
and students, of the Music School,
would be best able to Judge as to the
merits of the various numbers on the
program. These numbers were Sc
lected with view Of catching a pop
ular audience, but were certainly well
calculated to show the real advance
ment of the student Evidently the
Music Faculty were willing to abide
by fair estimate of their work and
the students seemed to catch the
spirit of this innovation. They evi-
IDENTIFY understood that they were
confronting an audience that would
render them inst decision, and
they entered into their work with a
will. The result was, the best stu
dent sTecital to date.
Those in touch with matters at
this Institution will not need to be
told that this same disregard not to
say contempt, for display and the
same devotion to the real and endur-
ing interest of the student, so nicely
shown in the recital is rapidly com
ing to be characteristic of the work
of this Institution.