The Pensacola journal., 1914-10-07
MISS kEHoE AT THE
CONGRESS Of MUSICIANS.

| CONGRESS OF MUSICIANS.
| Those OF US who must stay at home,
at least have the privilege. now and
then, of getting in touch with the big
world outside, through letters from
our friends. This has been the privi-
| lege, recently, of the editor OF People
and Events, and though the letter we
are going to quote was not written
to us, we have asked the privilege Of
publishing it, for it gives wonderful
| insight into the world OF music and
science.
Miss Fannie Kehoe has been so sue
cessful with her vocal and other
music in Pensacola, and goes so quiet
ly about her interesting round of du-
ties, that one hardly realizes how hard
this most progressive woman works
for the success that comes to her. This
summer Miss Kehoe has spent in New
York city, at the New York School Of
Music and Arts, attending the Con-
gress Of Musicians. As a tribute to
the work accomplished by this leading
school OF music arts during the past
ten years, the Congress of American
Musicians and Students. was held at
the school this past summer. It in
structs more teachers and gives more
teachers courses than any similar in
stitution in the United States, ac-
cording to the United States Trade
Reports OF 1914 on American Music
Schools.
Miss Kehoe has been delightfully."-
situated while in New York with Mr..
and Mrs. Ralfe Leech Sterner. Mr..
Sterner is director OF the school,
So much OF Miss Kehoe's letter is
interesting that it seems a pity to
leave out any Of the details of this
delightful summers work, but perhaps
the most unusual and therefore more
general in interest is in reference to
the "Clay Models and the wet Head
specimens, used in the school. Miss
Kehoe says:
"I hardly know how to give even
a tolerably accurate idea of them.
They are beyond my pen to describe,
but as near as I can tell you, the
clay models are models of the hui
man head. with scientifically correct
measurements.) These models while
moist are split in half through the
centre of head. nose, mouth and
throat. Then each half is cut again
and all the openings are cut, the pas
sage from ear to throat, nose, sinus's,
are just as they are in the human
head. We are given the models, set
up first; then have to open them,
name the different passages; then we
are given plant steel needles about
seven inches long, and required to
pass them through these openings,
showing the manner in which air
produces tone. Then we have to
close the models, and pass these
needless all through them, bringing
them out through the nose and mouth. |
1t is the most interesting experiment
I have ever seen. All the time we
are working the models, the lecture is
being given and all passages, sinus's, |
etc, are being pointed out on enor-
nous diagrams that hang on the wall |
But the most wonderful and most |
gruesome are the Wet Head speci- |
mems. These are actual organs cut |
from human bodies on the operating |
table (after the people are dead, |
however.) There are whole heads, be- |
ginning where the bronchial tubes |
reach the trachia- These heads are |
some OF them cut in sections like the |
clay ones. Others just the mouth, !
tongue and throat Then there are |
separate organs-lRrnyx, CLOTHS with /
epiglotis ,throats, showing the false /
and the true vocal chords. Speci- |
mems showing abnormal. development |
it is impossible to enumerate all the
details. Mr.. Sterner has practiced in
the hospitals as q throat and nose |
specialist for ten years. He has been
called to the hospitals several times
this summer for surgical operations,
where singers had to be treated. The
specimens he has are most OF them
from great singers who wi1led these
organs for the benefit Of science after
their death and he assisted at the /
operating table where they were Sc
,urd. These are then immersed in
until they are perfectly
preserved. We are given them and
given powerful magnifying glasses to
them. We put on rubber
gloves and take them in our own
hands and examine them. Can You
imagine me handling them? Well,
lid. And I was so interested I did
lot realize until the lecture was over
What gruesome thing it was But
hey do not look offensive at all Just
COX like rubber of a dull terracotta
,olor. After this examination a voice
eacher can teach intelligently. Mr..
Sterner gives this lecture and exhibits
he wet specimens twice q year, once
n the department OF science in New
fork University of Science and once
t his own school. The ticket for
his lecture is ten dollars, and no one
5 permitted to attend save scientists,
physicians and voice teachers, with 4
roper credentials. He gave 1t COM
limentary to the congress of teachers
nd musicians. There were teachers
rom all over the musical world.
'wenty-one from European countries
nd from Manitoba to Florida. Van 4
ouver to Mexico, and from the Pa