The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-10-08
A Municipal Music School
BY FREDERIC J. HASkiN

sic to follow the film story, and as
an overture.
A good deal Of effort is being ex-
pended in different cities to give NOV
ing picture audiences good music, but
the Eastman school expects to set
new standard 1t will have it's large
faculty to assist in selecting the mu-
sic. and its library of compositions to
draw from Already this library has
received a valuable gift in the private
collection of the late Ethelbert Nevin,
best known, perhaps, for his song,
THE Rosary" This collection in
cludes full orchestral scores of num-
Der of Wagner operas, oratorios, and
| symphonies.
Then, too, the orchestra will have
the advantage of a perfectly construct
| ed hall in which to play, and an audi
ence which is interested in the music
as well as the picture Many a good
orchestra has become discouraged by
whispering started at the first bar CT
| the overture and rising in volume 10
a steady buzz of conversation In
| these circumstances, even the people
that would like to enjoy the music be-
come so eXasperated that they give up
trying to listen, and join in the chorus.
| Eastman has expressed the hope
that the moving picture idea will make
the people of the city like good music
with their pictures, and that they will
begin to demand it in all the theatres.
A Lighted Movie Theatre.
Everything about the new school il;
as modern as wellspent money can
make it. The moving picture audi
forum is not black cavern, like the
average moving picture house. when
you come in from the lighted street.
At no time during the picture will the
house get SO dark that patron cannot
read a program easily, or find a seat
when he enters. This means, too,
that he can recover something drop
ped on the floor. without the usual
five minutes of embarrassment, involv-
ing an usher, flashlight, and dirty
hands.
The new lighting system, which it
is claimed, does not Interfere with
the pictures clearness, was evolved
after a good deal of experiment in the
Eastman laboratories. here in Roches-
ter. Many of the rooms in the East
man Photographic paper factory have
to be lighted by dim red and orange
lights By skillful arrangement here
the change from these evenly-lighted
semi-dark rooms to the sunlit halls
of the plant is made without discom
fort to the eye. The same is true Of
, the moving picture auditorium. The
: lights are hidden and the reflection i;
so evenly distributed that there is nc
glare anywhere.
Concerts will. of course, be giveI
occasionally by the school as furthel
! means of developing appreciation @
: music, but the moving picture show!
, are to be a regular feature, as soon a
the building is entirely finished ant
5 the work organized. At present, con
struetion work is still going on al
= over the school, though some of TIL
: studios are ready for use.
5 The school is a big Italian Renais
, sance building, beautifully construct
r ed, with marble floors, mural paint
! ings, libraries, concert rooms ant
studies 1t is endowed by Eastman TO
$ more than 100000
. It is not to be in any way money
3 making enterprise Even the low tu
r ition rates will not be charged man
) pupils who will earn scholarships il
n the public schools.
There will be a number of schola;
!, ships, for music is popular subjec
z in the Rochester schools. Playing Q
e different string and wind instrument
I and the piano are taught as regula
: subjects in the public school now. an
o the young musicians are organized il
Il to bands and orchestras. Eastma
/ helped to make this work possible o