Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-23
BY PROF. VICTOR eEReouIsT.

With the opening of the new school
year, the School of Music Of Augustana
college will inaugurate the new
courses adopted by the faculty. These
courses, well arranged in every detail,
invite the interest of every serious mu-
sic student. Music as II is taught in
many Of the schools and by very nearly
all of the private teachers emphasizes
too strongly the purely practical and
it is safe to say the social advantages
to be derived from studying piano, or
gan, voice or violin. The question up
permost in the minds of the teacher
and public is, how soon can we get
practical results, how soon can my
little son or daughter make showing
for our friends, by creditable per
Torrance, how many pieces can my son
or daughter play? The desire to ap-
pear in public to SHOW off" seems to
| be the all important.
Music is and should be an integral
part in the scheme of education, it is
not merely an accomplishment. Mere
| book learning does not presuppose
wisdom, nor does the creditable play
| ing of q whole program necessarily
mean, craftsmanship. THE sum total
of all wisdom is the intellectual and
| emotional experience we have had"
Music can add to both, it is not purely
emotional, nor is it entirely intellectual
but 1t is deeply emotional and highly
intellectual The cultured men should
possess a strong intellectualiZcs emo
to- nd fol
llect. The musician should be strongly
emotional but his intellect should guide
his emotions. The institutions, the bea-
con lightA OF culture and advancement,
should strive not only to develop the
qualities of the head, but the heart as
well. The latter is highly important
in this materialistic world. Music
plays a greater part in such a scheme
of education than the practical bust
ness man and educators will grant it.
This is due, good deal, to the fact
that so many of the so-called must
clans are not musicians in broad
sense but specialists in their line, pi
anists, organists, violinists or singers
: and many of them have pitifully mar
2 rowed themselves down to their spe
= ciaity. Outside of their piano, organ
violin or voice, they know very little
? they cannot make their ideas fit into
/ any general scheme of education or ad
g vancement, they cannot appreciate the
value of the study of the sciences, Ian
guages, history, literature, ETC., there
= fore they cannot command for theil
own subject the respect due the same
No musician can consider himself in
telligent and cultured who is ignoran
of matters outside of his special line
nor can the scholar in mathematics
languages or letters, consider his edu
cation complete who has no apprecia
ton nor an intelligent understanding
of music
History, languages, sciea ces and III
arts should go hand in hand in all et
forts towards cultural advancement
Of community. Not too much he.
nor too much heart, not all brains no
all sentiment, but balance of both
Augustana conservatory stands for
broad, intelligent musicianship. TIL
courses have been arranged with thi
in mind. The fact that this depar.
ment is a part of a thoroughly equiv
4, ped college gives the music studen
the unusual privilege, not to be ha
in great majority of private must