The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1920-06-12
THE MUSIC CABINET.
By Martha B. Anderson
6450 champlain Ave.
A WORD TO MUSIC STUDENTS.

Now that summer days are upon us
everyone more or less feels the need
OF relaxation or that he or she needs
vacation. The time is not inoppor-
tune to ask the question, what is to
become of our music during these
summer days? Quite true we must
have a chance to rest the brain and
IL possible should even HE us away
to some secluded spot where hours
in listless dreaming far from the mad
dening strife OF a busy hot, and dirty
city.
But, my dear friends, it is a bad
policy to leave off music study from
June until September or as some do
until October. That is too long a
period; for music is shy and dainty
maiden and when too long neglected,
is apt to become backward and hard
TO coax into line when we again seek
her. Few of US study music so
earnestly and seriously as to make it
necessary for US to give it up for
a period of from. three to four months
if we expect to make any progress.
/ very much fear that we are in
clined to exaggerate the amount of
time put into music study. Have we
taken into account that in order to
acquire even a common school edu-
cation, we must spend FIVE days
week in the school room and that
goes on for a number of years?
How much time do we spend in the
studio? One period or at most two
periods per week of half hour eachl
And yet how many of us complain
that we do not get the results as
rapidly as we expect and sometimes,
in fact more often than not, blame it
on the teacher.
Out of the time allotted to studio
work, how many times do we miss
our lessons during the school year?
Have you stopped to consider? We
are inclined to let everything inter
fere with out music study and then
when summer comes, we are the first
to want to take vacation. One STU
dent offers as an excuse that he is
feeling badly. another has a friend
visiting, still another is moving, and
sven others offer the fimsy excuse
that he did not practice this week so
-annot take his lesson today.
Whose fault is it? Certainly not
he teachers.
The fact of the matter is, that no
student should miss his lessons ex-
;ept in cases of severe illness or alb
'ence from the city. In cases where
he student is to remain in another
;ity for FIVE or six weeks, he should
eek out a good teacher and continue
his work with that teacher until he
'eturns to his home city.
Let the student realize that by alb
ienting himself from the studio, he
lot only upsets the regime and IN
the teacher by eaus-
ng him to lose both time and money,
tut that he retards his own progress,
md he should not hope to obtain the
anne results as the painstaldng, con-
cientious student who is punctual IN
attendance and prompt to execute the
given by the teacher.
So, students of music, see to it that
ONE serious thought is given to :
music during the vacation period as
o how you can best profit unsteady.
Young people who are in school
Turing the winter months. should make
,reafer progress unsteady during the
ummer vacation since they do not
lave school studies 10 prepare and
90, the days are long and light and
he morning hours pleasant so that
ought to be real joy to get up
.arly and practice an hour or two
ven before breakfast. or at any rate
'efore going to the parks or before
loag some of the other things that
Az up our time and thought during
he day.
Systematic practice properly guided
y a competent instructor can pro-
uee nothing else but good
Nor mnst the parents neglect the
reaf duty of seeing to Il thar Mary
: John puts time regularly IN the
ischarge Of her or bis musical du-
ies; for the teacher cannot do il all
'hs parent. must help. The teacher