The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-15
GIANT CHlLDREN'S
 CHORUS PLANNED
panama-Pacific Fair Will De- vote Space to Music
 of Schools.

Special plans are being made for the appearance of thousands of chll- Siren in various musical activities at the Panaua-Pacific exposition which will open in San Francisco next year. Choruses of more than 5000 boys and girls will give patriotic and folk songs and will dance the folk dances which their fathers and mothers knew be- fore they came to America These will take place both within doors and without and there will be concerts at which smaller numbers of children will be heard, as we'll as individual children gifted with musical talents
 School -orchestras, glee clubs, man dolin clubs and bands will journey to the exposition to shoEw what is being done on the practical side of musical education for children all over the country.
 George w. Stewart of Boston, Di- rector of Music for the Exposition. and J. B. Levison, Chairman of the Committee on Music, are drawing up elaborate plans for the musical feat ures of the expositions and the chill eren's part in music will be a special feature.
 Comprehensfve Exhibit.
 The musical section of the National Education Association, of which Miss Agnes Pearson, supervisor of music in the schools of Chicago, is chair
 
 .sociation, consisting of leaders in mu- sic education in schools all over the country, will assist the authorities in obtaining a comprehensive exhibition of what is being doneA for music in schools.
 section of the International Con- gress on Education, which meets at the Golden Gate in July, 1915, will devote its time to the discussion of pedagogy and practical devices ap- pIicable to music in the schools. Prof. R. M Seager of the University of California will assist The Exposition authorities in formulating and car rying out their plan.
 President A A. D'Ancona of the San Francisco board of education, under whose charge 10000 children are re- @ceiying regular instruction in music, will specially assist in arranging mod e1 classes in the Palace of Education, where children will be taught before the visitors to the fair. City Supt. of Schools, Alfred Roncovierj of San Francisco will assist in showing what is being done in the schools.
 Huge Choruses Trained.
 Meantime. choruses are being train ed in many cities, and in San Fran cisco a movement is on root, through the Philharmonic Section of the Re- creation League, whereby choral un- ions will be organized in all parts of the city this year, which will be the
  voices, 1000 strong. to sing such works during the Exposition time, as HandeTs Messiah Mendelssohn's <sElijah'' and t'St. Paul,'' and Haydn's s'Creation'' and .sThe Seasons Ulys- es Grant Saunders is. the chairman Fan charge of this work.
 Miss Este1le Carpenter, supervisor sdn the public schools of San Francis sof school children who have already appeared with great success under finer direction. The music section of bthe California Teachers association, RHerman E. Owen, President. will also kco-operate.
 Miss Carpenters ciniIdren's choruses fsTi1l give folk and patriotic songs as Fwell as those by modern composers. kSome of their numbers will be chiI- s1ren's songs by Reineke, Miles Fos- Eter, John Paine, and MeCurrfe, and EEelections from Nevin and De Koven hsEill also be given.
 Model Singing Glasses.
 In the Palace of Education model fE1asses in singing are to be conducted efo illustrate the methods through the Ivardous grades of the American ele Enentary and high schools. Classes of Kindergarten children will also take kpart in this demonstration.
 Song competitions will also be a Ffeature- The folk dances will largely be danced outdoors and the pictorial effect of hundreds of children on the E1awns is expected to add a fine touch to the work Among the dances kschduled for exhibition in this way kare the Irish lit, the Chimes of Dun Ekirk, carrouseI, Reap the Flax, Ace kof Diamonds, Rhein1ander, oxen sdance, Danish dance, Highland fling, tshoemaker dance, polka, schottische Efarentella, Swedish dance, sailors khornpipe, Norwegian dance. Slavic dance, czardas, Irish jig, TralIen and [ Russian dances
 The school children of New York, lBoston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, land Chicago have been carefully E1rained in folk dancing in late years and it is expected that some of these cities will exhibit what their pupils can do-
 School bands and sorchestras will play, and a peculiar feature will be the songs of the Oriental school of San Francisco, which has only Jap- anese and Chinese pupils on it's rolls They sing American national songs with gusto-
 GOOD ROADS.