New-York tribune., 1907-12-29
GENERAL NOTES.

The Music Teachers National A. 'ciaton is hold
ing its twenty-ninth annual meeting In this city.
al Earl Hall. Columbia University. and its ses-
sions will he continued to morrow and Tuesday
These yearly gatherings OF musical workers from
ali parts OF this country have come 10 possess Sc
rious value and they attract men who stand among
the leaders Of musical thought to-day. Last sea-
sons meetings attended ny delegates from.
fewer than eighteen states This year the in
terest ia even deeper and more widespread The
Music Teachers National Association aims TO
elicit from its members the best OF their concu-
sions drawn from knowledge and experience. and
so to present this material that all may benefit
the results OF what their colleagues have ac-
comrlishcd
Tho organizations officers are as follows: Pres
ideut. Waldo $ Pratt. Theological Seminary.
Hartford: vlcc-prcsiC mt Charles II. Farnsworth
Teachers College New York City: secretary
Ralph l.. Baldwin. No 81 fremont street. Hartford;
treasurer, Walter Spry, Fine Arts Building. Chi
caEo; executive committee, the above officers
with Calvin B. Cady. Bonton. Arthur Foote. Bos-
ton; Arthur l. Manchester. Converse College
spartanburg. s. g.: Charles w. Morrison, Con-
servatory OF Music. Oberlin. Ohio. and Albert A
Stanley. University OF Michigan.
To-morrow's sessions of the Music Teachers
National Association at Earl Hall will begin at
$50 a M with discussion OF Music In the Public
Schools" by Ralph l.. Baldwin supervisor. Of
Hartford: W. Scott. secretary OF the New Eng
land Education League. Cambridge. Mass, and
Charles II. Farnsworth, Teachers College. At
o'clock piano and violin recital. by Walter
Spry. OF Chicago. and Ludwig Msrum. of New
York. will comprise the Brahms sonata in G. Op.
IS and Mr. Spry's sonata, Op >. At
O'Clock. Music in Higher Education in Germany
will he discussed by John c. Grlggs. Nassar Col
lego. and Musical Degrees" by Rossetter G. Cole.
University of Wisconsin. At 4:l5 a report 4
national census of musical education will be read
by Arthur l.. Manchester. special agent of tie
Bureau of Education. Converse College.
Tuesdays doings of the Music Teachers Ma
tional Association will begin with President
Pratt's address $3.50 a. IN. standards in Mu-
steal Education The annual business meeting
will follow and at IL o'clocl, Professor Cornelius
tet will give a chamber recital. comprising the
Mozart quartet in major. the Brahms piano
forte quintet in + minor and Schumann's Fan
taisiestuecken" for pianoforte.
The Eastern Educational Music Conference an
allied organization. viii hold it's annual meeting
on Tuesday afternoon at > o'clock at Teachers
College, the several discussions being opened re-
spectivcy by Henry Dixie Sleeper. of Smith Col
1ege: Hollis z. Damn, of Cornell University: John
c GrigGs, of Vassar College: Frederick s Con-
verse. recently of Harvard University, and Joseph
\. Ashton, Of Wellesley College
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences de-
partmcnt of music, announces a special holiday
concert. to be given by Francis Rogers barytonc;
Miss Cecilia Winter, contralto. and Albert Rosen-
thai celS. with Bruno Huhn and Norman Win
ter at the piano. The concert will take place at
Association Hall Bond and Fulton streets
on Monday evening, December so. The programme
will be varied and interesting