The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-24
National Music Federation
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKIN.

awarded TO America with too great regu-
larity 10 suit the French. Result: Amer
leans debarred from contesting for the
Grand Prix- Now it is proposed TO es-
taolish an American conservatory m
Paris, and practically the last essential
detail has been arranged for
No accurate census OF the Americans
studying music in Paris has YET peen
made, but il isfsaid that there are more
than 1000 teachers who practically I'VE
off the fees derived from Yankee STU
dents IL is estimated that no woman
ought TO think of attempting 10 get aionG
on less than 2WN A year. OF OF comptet-
ing her work under six years. ~ thelc
were only ten pupils 10 the teacher tnls
would mean an outlay OF more thah 30
UU,WD q year
Canada has been awakened to the need
of good music with rapiditE seldom VII
messed in q new country. Montreal j.
preparing for q ten weeks season OF
grand opera next winter. Toronto eNempts
her music hall from taxation. and the To
ronto orchestra finds ample patronage iQr
its popular concerts al . cents admit
lance Throughout the Dominion mu-
steal interests ara locking up, and the
Canadian musicians see great encourage
ment for the future
IL is said that the people or English
speaking North America now excel every
other nationality ia the high standard OF
practice" is now heard much less fire.
quently i'm thsir drawing rooms than ma
any other part Of the world. The NUM-
Der of women who study under the best
teachers with no intention of becoming
professionals is annually increasing Great
reVivals of Oid-fashiOned singing are re
ported from the country districts, h
many ca Ses whole counties joining IN an
all-day meeting at some central point
Church music predOminates in nearly ali
Of these old-fashioned singing bees
There viii be much rejoicing by the
composers Of music after July J. Hereto
fore the n1hIigHeTG of mechanical music
could take all compositions without let
or hindrance and publish as many rec
ords therefrOm as they pleased. All they
had to do was to buy a single copy OF the
music. But congress has at last recog-
nized the claim Of the composer for pay
ment when his music is mechanically re
produced, by authorizing a royalty OF =
cents for each disk. perforated sheet or
cylinder sold. Congress recognized music
in another way last winter by appropri-
ating $4,000 for the further study OF In
dian music.
The makers Of organs. in Great Britain
are rejoicing over the fact that England
won over America il securing the con
tract for the installation of the organ IN
the American Episcopal cathedral IN Ma
Mia Bishop Brent selected the EnSilsh
manufacturer because he had made the
one in St. MaTgarets church Westmin-
ster, which the churChman considers tne
sweetest toned instrument in the world
| The organ will be remarkable IN Its con-
struction. The leather and the wood viii
be soaked in poison SO as to render il free
from being attacked by ants. and many
Of the parts viii be made detachable, so
that they may be the more easily sent TO
London for repair. Much speculation IS
being INDUCED in as to whether or not
the organ will be admitted free OF duty
It is hardly probable that Ii viii, since
the United States congress has uniformly
refused to admit even church bells free.
There is a certain pipe organ manufac-
tuTer in New York whose offices are filled
with pictures of pipe organs ne has in
stalled in the homes Of New York mil
lionaires. John D. Rockefeller, Andrew
Carnegie, Charles NJ. Schwab and dozens
of others have fine organs In their homes
and employ the finest Organists~in New
York CITY. In addition to this, some Of
them will pay a great singer as much as
Schwab and Rockefeller have organs with
/ keyboards i'm different parts Of the house.
Andrew Carnegie gives an average of ten
small organs a week to struggling
churches throughout the country.
Americas most famous living hymn
writer. Fanny Crosby. recently celebrated
her eighty-ninth birthday She had writ
/ ten a special hymn for the occasion.
which was sung by the assembled guests.
She has been blind from infancy. vet has
[ produced more hymns that give promise
I of enduring than any other hymn writer
I i'm American history. It is said that the
| records of the music publishers show a
gradual Improvement in the public taste
/ for music. The songs about mother and
/ the old home still find a greater sale
than any other class. Next in favor are
/ high grade love dtties The coon song
/ has lost its grip on the public and mil
/ lions Of copies promise to remain UnsOld
Z forever.
1 Copyright, 1909. by Frederick ]. Haskin)