The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-27
The High School Orchestra and the Community

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and the flute. If we can get severai
i girls to take up these instruments at
the same time precedent Will pc es.
. tanlished here of girls playing w1nd
instruments, and 1t will soon be con
sidered matter of course that taey
lshould play them.
l / would also call attention to the
4 fact that the board of education III
Cincinnati have just decided to give
piano lessons to certain pupils in the
public schools at public expense ana
lit is expected that there will be I0o
such pupils in that department. TINS
looming term.
] At present the high school orches-
ira is COMPOSED of the following play
iers: Piano, Coral Meador; first Vlo-
/ Inns, Marie Moseley, John HUDSON,
ond violin, c. Davidson, Henry krues-
| er, Harry Schultz, Robert Kinnman
and Edward Wilsey (The last our of
these players play now in the gram
mar school orchestra also) Viola,
Dorothy Aldrich; flute, Margaret Al
drich; clarinets, Gregory Maador,
/ Thomas Gray and Bernard Davidson;
comets, Jewett Fulton, MorreH Geig-
er and Daniel Bishopp; drums, bells,
ETC., Madison Stern; double bass, W.
1 H. Honce; trombone, G. e. Garrison;
cello, DR.. John w. Marsh.
/ 1t will be seen that with the assist
| ing musicians the orchestra numbers
twenty-five at this time.
In addition to these players, pupils
are now working on the horn, the cell
10, and the trombone, and it isthoped
they will soon be able to take their
i places in the orchestra. 1t is the pur-
pose to add other instruments as soon
as the cooperation of young players
can be secured AS the number OF v1o-
lins increases in the orchestra there
| should be more clal nets, flute, horns,
lcornets, violas, cellos, etc., and 1t is
hoped that oboe bassoon and tympany
may soon be added to the list OF IN
struments. This will give an instru-
mentation that will enable the orches-
ira to play some of the easier sym
phonies and will add greatly to the
pleasure of the performance and the
effectiveness of their work.
/ At present there is a very encour-
aging movement in the grammar
school where an orchestra has been
organized under the leadership OF
/ Miss Elizabeth Kllroy. The orchestra
has the following membership:
! First violin, Edward Wilsey, Leroy
Schultz, Joseph Kinnaman; second
violin, Edwin Lantz, Mildred Conlee;
comets, A1got Huffman, Harlie Teller;
drums, Harry Bunner; piano. Lelit
Hummer.
| Four of these violinists are now
playing in the high school orchestra.
! A successful grammar school orches-
ira is very best guarantee that the
high school orchestra will be grow
/ ing body, and that each year it will be
growing stronger and better.
| If the grammar school orchestra is
to be continued it will be because
children start their orchestra 1nstru'
ment practice in the grades below the
grammar school. In other words there
can be no good grammar school or
chsstra unless the players are sup
i piled from the grade schools and there
will be no good high school orchestra
that is not supplied from the children
in the grammar school. Each organ
ization depends on the grades below
for successful growth.
Efforts to Qualify Made.
| This is most happy cooperation.
I for while these organizations depend
on the pupils from lower grades to
supply new performers, on the other
| hand the existence of these orches'
tras, and the incentive they give pu.
pills in every grade to put their best
efforts to qualify themselves to play
in these .orchestras as they reach the
necessary proficiency will enrich the
music work in every building: Thers
win be no disposition to be exactlne
in the standard OF excellence. The
very practice OF playing In an orches
ira for few months will give most
Of the children the proficiency they
need to qualify them to become reg
/ ular members.
The results already accomplished
show that the plan herewith outlined
is eminently practical. AS these re
si,lts have been due to the almos
single handed efforts of the music
supervisor.
i How much greater things can bf
;! accomplished if the teachers in these
lupuer grades aad all the parents hav
ing children in these upper grades
will actively assist in interesting thu
4 children in this musical crusade.
4 co,,lti not begin to estimate.
y r will say however. that with the
! co.operation of the parents and teach
ers i'm this effort to build IN stronS
or orchestra movement in the Teokuf
! DRIVES AWAY