Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-22

cultivation of the musical powers is
less closely associated with purely in
tellcctual development than almost
any other form Of education. Thus it
may happen that person highly
gifted and trained in music IL lacking
In those solid qualities Of intellectual
power and Insight which distinguish
the man or woman who is trained in
other intellectual lines. For music
appeals mainly to the emotions and
through the medium OF the least In
tellectual scnse--that OF hearing;
while reading oratorN and kindred
arts, appeal primarily to the intellect
and make such use of tho whole OF
the mental faculties that n person
trained IN these lines is broadly train
ed and necessarily gains philosophlc
insight. General intellectual breadth
and power, in addition TO the acquisi-
tion Of the details of special art
which may be used TO instruct as well
AS to entertain the public audience,
como as q result Of this kind OF expo
sition Of the thoughts ard motives OF
the best types OF mankind.
Music entertaIns. but rarely In
structs. Oratory and the drama al
ways Instruct and less rarely enter
tain. Primarily, music is sensuous;
oratory, Intellectual The former
soothes. charms. or agitates; the lat
ter conviuccs. teaches, arouses to ac-
ton. Without words, music Is limit
cd TO sense-imagos; without words and
surrounding conditions that interpret
and apply It. music at best only ac-
companies life-action. Whether in
peace or war, in the public meeting or
in the home parlor, in scenes of action
or in situations arising from mere
sentiment alone, music always ac-
companies and never leads.
Speech. on the other hand, Is the lead
or OF action. 1t is the expression of
thought and purpose as well as Of emo
ton; IL Is both win and resolve. the
Idea and the act--the thought con-
sctously formed and launched for the
definite purpose of leadership; II Is a
result of the harmonious and co-opera-
tive action and Imagination, reason, and
VIII; and the reasoning always predom-
mates. since every sentence expresses a
Judgment. Speech has its own music.
II need be; and the tones. with their
infections. qualities of sound. and vary
ing rate OF movement, give words sort
Of musical setting that may and usually
does render the special accomplishment
of music not only unnecessary. but us
ually cumbersome by comparison, and
entirely out OF place.
Highly therefore. as VIC think of
music, and proud as we are of the mus
ical ability Of many of our home people.
we think it mere justice to the youth
TO lay before them the actual relative
significance in human interests of these
two spheres OF education. Each is
worthy. each indispensable to true re-
finement aud the highest enjoyment of
life. and each offers to the ambitious
youth an honorable noble, and beauti-
full vocation.
But. as the noted Prof. Hart has
shown, where one person can excel in
music, twenty can excel in reading or
speaking; and where one person is in
terested In good music, twenty are In
terested in good reading. The ability
to read well, enhances the value of all
the other intellectual or emotional gifts
and graces one may possess. II Is a
form of culture that never narrows,
while 1t always broadens, the individ-
uaI. 1t benefits society at large more
than any other form of learning. since
Il Is almost the only form that is recog-
nized with some approximation to its
true value as soon as it is manifested.
Most of the fine arts require special
and long continued study in order to
prepare one to appreciate or even to un-
derstand their excellencles; but this
art lifts its auditors to its own evel. be
that high or low, as soon as it makes Its
and, unless the words used
or the scenes represented are wholly
unintellgible to the hearer, never fails
may make It's appeal to the intellect
and the heart of man.
We have not heard Dr. Suzzallo, the
educational orator who is to speak on
Monday night in the city library build
ing. But we Judge from the nature of
his theme--the relations of the home
life to that of the school--and from his
reputation as a leader of educational
thought in America, that it viii be
worth the while of progressive people
TO listen to his argument and to weigh
well his conclusions.