The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-02-12
MRS. GRANVILLE GIVES TWENTY.
THIRD RECITAL.


home last Saturday evening. There
were about fifty guests present, the
invitation List being limited to par
ents and teachers of the participants.
A pleasing program was we'll render
ed by Rosa Pfeufer, Gladys and
Esther Kerlee, Mabel and Nettie Van
Slyke. Lillian Murphy, Mildred Camp
bell, Maurine Taylor, Lallah Fulton,
Margaret Sasenbery, CARRIER and
Maurice Green, Clark Rush, Homer
Mcdonald, and Mrs. Edith Reming-
ton. Dale Fulton played violin solo,
Romance" by Rubenstein, most eff
fectively. During intermission light
refreshments were served.
Mrs. Glanville gave a talk entitled
"A Plea for Good Music" which was
in part as follows: "There seems to
be so little appreciation of good mus
ic in our midst and so great a tend
ancy among our young people to pia
trash that / feel constrained to en-
ter a word of protest and trust that
what l have to say will so appeal to
your better judgment that you will
be led to use your influence in ban
ishing, at least from your homes,
that foe to musical progress, known
as ragtime.
why do we object to ragtime?
OF course you know that the words
set to this so-called music are Of
ten times positively vulgar, but let
US eliminate that phase of the ques-
ton entirely and Judge ragtime &C.
cording to musical standards. It's
melody Is cheap, its rythm Is monot-
onous, its harmony consists usually
of a re-iteration of about three com
mon chords, there Is no variety about
it, 1t Is entirely superficial. Some
one has called 1t foot music" and
that well expresses it's nature for it
makes no appeal to the head or heart
Its place in music corresponds to that
Of the dime novel in literature. 1t
is not educational, for one who con-
fines himself to this style of music
does not progress-he seldom becomes
capable of playing anything better.
There is so little depth to 1t that both
player and listener tire of any one
piece after q few renditions and are
constantly ON the look out for some
thing new.
How different 1t Is with the works
of the masters! We never tire Of
them. l have pieces in my roper
toire that l have known for twenty
years and love them better today
than when l learned them. Busoni,
a great concert pianist says that Of
ten during his public rendition of a
program new ideas will come to him
and after giving his concert he will
go to his piano and practice far into
the night upon those very compost
tons which he has just been playing
for critical audience. Examine the
programs of Paderewski or any other
famous virtuoso and you will find
that they play certain compositions
year after year, which proves that
good music, like wine, ripens with
age.
Art Is long and time Is fleeting,
as one of our poets has said. Life
Is too short to waste a moment
studying anything but the best. The
ordinary musician could practice sew
eral hours day during his entire
life time and then CLEAN but small
portion of the treasures awaiting him
in the realm of music. How import
ant. then, that the student from the
very beginning of his study should
expend time and effort only upon
music which will prove satisfying in
the end.
Those who go through life with
ears and eyes closed to the beauty
expressed through music and the 9th
er arts miss a great deal of pleasure
Is not education along all lines large
ly to cultivate the sense of appreci
alton? Surely We do not send ou
children to school that they may be
come receptacles for mere facts. No
we expect that these facts will b.
presented in such way that rea
soning faculties will be developed
perceptive powers quickened, habit
Of observation formed and above al
that they will become possessed of
broad outlook upon life. sympathet
ic understanding of humanity and
true appreciation of the good in litel
AZURE, art and music.
81 believe that no academic stud
does more to develop the mind an
character of an individual than doe
music. In mastering the technics
part of 1t habits of neatness, prec
sion industry and system are formed