The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-29
Public Market Building State and Bank Streets
 Tel. Nos. 44o4, 440d 4zo6

passed Mr. Munter adLn1ted that he
 had received many offers from thea
 tres and then he went away with
 Miss Graham, who said that the re-
 suits of her singing hadn't bothered
 her a bit and that she felt perfectly splendid"
 The music teachers, besides hearing
 Miss Graham, took a step to put out of business the fake music teacher.
 They voted to appoint a committee for the standardization Of musician ship. The aim of this committee, ac-
 corddng to Gustav Becker. who is to be- its chairman, is to determine a
 minimum standard of essentials in
 musical knowledge and, training for
 those who would teach and to recom-
 mend the most practical method of enforcing this standard. Eventually this would Of course be . State exam
 ination such as that given fer pFactf- tionorS in law or medicine, blr* until the Llegislature sees fit to Ie8dz pe this
 matter it mi1ht well be handled ef- fectitely by the organization itself. We do not care how. the teachers "so long as they have it. To ascer- tain that they have it our committee would hold regu1ar written examina- tfons in different cities throughout the State at certain intervals and exam inc. as we'll the teachers pupils to SSc AOW u0 or SHS iHlPSAIt tS IHdI AIiO VI edge. Of course we could not force any one to take our examination, but ] if the most representative teachers do and our organization includes the ma jority then the others will have to do the same to save their regulations. If they do not they can be challenged by those who hold 3 certificate and they will be regarded with suspicion by the prospective pupil. At present, you nsee, anyone, whether he knows a sharp from a flat, major from a minor scale, may hang Up d sign .rnu- sic lessons and murder talents. This state of affairs' is bad. not only for I the pupils but flor the prof eSsion.' This ccnventiofi has been Character 1 ized by the most earnest endeavors of those present to deny the allegation of professional jea1ou4y'' and to unite l in the defining of fundamentals iff mtt- sicianship. Difficult as this is At1lonE loyal adfierents of countless "meths
 ods'' and ''schools," !" if was finally pos which the permanent foHndation for l the. highest standard of music teach | ing as al profession could be laid- To formulate this standard for ptapd teachers Miss Kate Chittenden and Fl M. bowman were appointed; for the voice, Gustav Decker; for the violin l ists the choice has not been made and | the work Of the Qrganists was left in l the hands of the American Guild, o1
 Organists, which has already succeed led in establishing and maintaining 2 high standard for it's peculiar branch of music.
 I Lectures and concerts, including aL address by P1aton Brounoff on Jew Iish Folk Songs' and one by Rossettea IG. Cole, professor of music at Colum- bia University. on eeThe Eehtcila Note | in Modern Music Literature" 1" filled tht afternoon program of the last days session.
 Mime. Maria Rapopld Of the Metro. l politan opera and Frank Orneby were l the soI6istS at a concert given in tht gymnasium in the evening before g large and enthusiastic audience Tht program included the "Preislied" from ssDie Meistersinger" and the aria .svisoi d'arte'' from "Tosca-, MT Ormsby sang three songs by Gena
 Bransmon1be, who played the accom- continents himself
 The convention will be held in the tthifd week in June next year at Sara toga Springs The new, officers are Walter L. Bogert. president. Alfred Hallam, vice president, and Miss Pearl Ivan Voorhis, secretary- treasurer A new auditing committee consists of F
 M. Bowman, S. N. Penfieid and Miss Amy Fay.