Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-14
MUSIC ANO MUSICIANS

AS It is of course impossible for the mu-
steal critic of The Bee to attend all OF the
pupils ~recitals of a season end, and as II
is questionable whether that is the place for
a critic, 1 have been unable to visit many
of the interesting concerts, for by such a
some of them can be ~digniffed. How
over; 1t has occur4ed to me that an article
written especially fer those teachers and
pupils who have participated in those pro-
grams might not be out of place.
And hence, and because thereof, forsooth'
hereby beginneth the Meditation of the
Good Old Summertime, No, q" following
the line which was started last week In this
column.
Meditation-"on the gentle art of putting
yourself in his place"
Students can do much IL caught young.
Teachers can do much If they use the right
bait.
Impressing upon students the feet that
they are real, living people who are doing
things. and not actors and actresses, who
are trying to do things by assuming the
attitude and so forth of students, Will be
a help in developing that great necessity
which IS so rare that it seems a luxury
spontaneity.
we have had it preached to US, prayed
to us. argued to us and sung to us that
we are poor mortals, and that we are the
dust of the earth, and that we are but
DUST and so forth, and we have been SO
continually. reminded that we were made
out of the dust OF the earth that we have
well nigh lost our heritage.
When we hear a person do a successtul
thing on a concert program, whether 1t be
a song, or a violin solo, or a piano solo, or
- "a aRanfUn that
Il Is well done, let us claim our heritage,
put ourselves in his place and make up a
solid. earnest determination to go and do
likewise, instead Of saying, "Oh, If 1 had
that voice, or that talent, or that tech
niaue, l could do something
Remember the other part of that old
tent. about the dust of the earth-the part
which we are inclined to forget-'God
breathed into his nostrils the breath OF
life. and man became a living soul" The
other part was the machine, and the rear
part was the breath of God"
let us consider ourselves differently. Let
us change the thought. Let us remember
that we are 1.-THE breath of God" and for
get all about that dust business.
II we keep dwelling on the dust thought
lust think what your name is when the
dust is rained on! Mud!
Consciously, OF unconsciously, every sue
cessful singer or player has simply realized
his freedom from the material. fatthless'
mechanical side OF things, and has gotten
a hold of his real personality his real self'
and is not afraid of an audience.
Put yourself in his place!
why cannot you do what someone else
has done? Is God alive? II so, how can
YOU be prevented from making the most
| of yourself?
yes says a teacher, who has been els
amounted I'm life, who has had sorrows,
| failures. has had hopes shattered, feels out
of place, Yes, That is all very well, but
here l an teaching music at so cents an hour
and I should be making something Of my
self, and doing great things. 1t is all very
well to preach that philosophy. I would
like indeed to put myself In his place, and
to think Of myself as a success, but can
not do It. / cannot, so what's the usec"
Well, that does seem hard. Let us lock
at Il. In the first place, no one ever yet
accomplished anything, from kitchen TO
cabinet, when he started with the idea
Whats the use?"'
Don't you tremble TO think of what might
have been the result II one Ulysses s. Grant
had thrown away the end OF his cigar, end
with II his hopes, and said, What's the
use?" instead Of those memorable, thrilling
words; Il propose TO fight it out on this
line II It takes all summer"
Put yourself IN his place! Learn Of him
and go and do likewise.
Again, the wprds Il cannot are the
death knell OF power and possibility. They
are the funeral tones OF hope. They are
the cold iron chng Of the curfew which