The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-02

association. Mrs vann has taken an active interest in the work since inc birth of the organization and her re- election was a testimonial of the ap- preciation of her efforts.
 A program committee was elected as follows: Robert B. Eilenberg. Mont gomery, chairman; Miss Mathilde sii- bro of Gadsden; Louis F. Merkle. sel- ma Miss Georgia Stirling, Mobile; and Mrs, Cora W. Foster, Eufaula. In con- nection With the election of the mem pers of this committee, came up the discussion as to whether the associa- ton should, in the future. charge q nominal admission fee to all of It's concerts. After considerable debate. the matter was finally left with tho program committee for decision.
 An executive committee was then elected, composed Of Miss Dora Stern field. Mrs. F. o. Harper and George F. Lindner.
 Meets Next in Montgomery.
 Pursuant to the regular order of business 1t then devo,ved upon the convention to select place of meeting for next year. Out of four places put in nomination, Montgomery was over whelmingly chosen mainly because of its unequalled musical facilities. Oth- CT places nominated were Gadsden. Tuscaloosa and Tuskegee.
 It is proposed to have great May festival at the next gathering of the teachers in Montgomery and, looking to this end, plans were laid, tentative ly for the training of a largo chorus. to be re-enforced by trained branch choruses from various towns in Ala bama all of which, when combined. will be accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of Montgomery
 With the routine business of the Association completed. two excellent papers were then heard. Mrs. M. B. Truitt of Mobile. who was on the pro- gram to read paper on ''vocal Music in Our Public Schools" was unavoida- bly detained in Mobile. She. neverthe- less. sent the paper and it was read to the convention by Miss Kittybelle Stirling of Mobile.
 The most important and most Inter- esting paper was then presented by August Geiger, native German who occupies the chair of music teachers training at the Brenau College in Gainesvilie. Ga. He is a deep student of music and especially in the work of developing the teacher to the high- est degree. for he believes that the success of this fine art Is dependent wholly upon the teacher.
 As his subject MT. Geiger took 'swhat Studies and Pieces ought to be in the Curriculum of every Music Student :" The talk was really the educational feature of the convention. The speaker emphasized the fact that 1t is the desire to create unfformi- ty, at least, in the Fundamentals of music. The present system. he said was all wrong. With the greater num- Der of teachers. their pupils were at tempting to play a Liszt Rhapsody before they knew the scale of c. Such was all wrong and 1t was being done purely for show without regard to the real musical training of the pupil. He ridiculed the idea of the teacher cater ing either to the pupil or the parent but to hew conscientiously In the right way was the only means by which re- suits could be brought about. He dis cussed the natural born" musician and suggested cure for such pu- pill.
 Fondation of Pupils. Every pupil, he said must have a solid foundation. All great artists. in their careers, had gone through the drudgery and severe work of scales |. No musician could be produced In America under five years. America. he said, has adopted German ideas, but America has not the German musical atmosphere. therefore, the training of a pupil must vary in this country. It must he slower and more thorough. |. He carefully went over list of the studies and exercises which, in his opinion, should be the standard for use in the five grades of music, and, in line with this, he quizzed great number of the members regarding the books they use.
 T,. Ins GAf0Ar nnadA plea for the advancement of the noble art of music and he believed it lay with the teacher. The work of a teacher, he said. should not be prinnar- fly for the dollars and cents but for the uplifting of the art. If a teacher had in view only the purpose of nak- ing as much money as possible. with out regard to results. the teacher might as w~,l retire from the vocation immediately. Let teacher do his best for the thorough and conscientious training Of every pupil and there would be no trouble In having many pupils with a nice compensation.
 The talk was instructive from begin- ming to end and MT. Geiger was ap- plauded by the teachers at the comple- tion of his paper.
 On motion. the Montgomery Trac- tion Company was officially thanked for the specail car on which the mem- bers of the association were taken on a trolley ride Thursday afternoon.
 committee. composed of Miss Dale, Mrs Foster and Miss Connor. was ap- pointed to formulate additional resolu- tions to be reported at a subsequent meeting.
 MT. Geiger invited the members of the Alabama Association to attend the annual conventiop of the Southern Music Teachers Association which