Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-07
MUSIC WEEK MEETS
HUNGER Of PEOPLE
FOR FOOD To SOUL
Third Annual Festival to
Carry Message to Everyone
in Community.

] would serve as a brief but adequate
| explanation of the ideal that is the
fundamental of a national music week.
a movement that is growing and which
has already become a custom in many
American cities.
New York took the lead in inaugur-
J ating an annual music week during
which virtually every individual is
given contact with q power that has
been recognized as something much
greater than a mere pleasure-the
power of music. Throughout the ages,
great men have given expression to
the necessity of giving music q place
in national life if that life is to be vir-
lie, we'll balanced and efficient. The
wisdom of these sages has been recog-
nized in America and at the present
time a conscious and organized effort
IS being made to give to music a place
in the life of every person.
Reaches Entire Community
Great Falls in the observance of it's
third annual music week which will be
entered upon May 10, to continue for
a period Of nine days, will present a
program designed to give direct con-
tact with music to every individual in
the community. w. l.. Beers, chair
HAL VI dIIdu&SulCuIcs &c COiIitiAe ~
cooperation of all organizations and of
all musicians in the city. Music for
virtually every hour of each day is as
sured. In carrying out this program,
the principles and purpose OF music
week are being followed.
C. NJ. Tremaine, director of the ma
tional bureau for the advancement of
music, has written in promotion of a
national music week: |
Twenty five hundred years ago
Confucius said: 'Wouldst thou know if
a people be well governed if its man
ners be good or bad; examine the mu-
sic it produces.
Napoleon Saw Value
Napoleon Bonaparte, reviewing his
career and the rise and fall of nations
1900 years later from his lonely exile
at st. Helena wrote: Music of all the
liberal arts has the greatest influence
over the passions and is that which
legislators should give the greatest en-
enlargement
Leaders of thought and action among
men have been saying much the same
thing all through the ages. from Plato
and the other great thinkers of the
ancient world, through Luther and the
pioneers of the Reformation, down to
the master minds of the modern in
dustrial world.
To-day there is a deepening realiza-
ton of the value of music among most
of our own great men. Theodore
Roosevelt reflected this feeling when
he wrote to some children in whom he
was interested: Let the love of ~litera-
ture. sculpture, painting. architecture.
and, above all, music enter you lives.
Quiets and Refreshes
Charles NJ. Schwab characterizes
the need of the individual for music in
the expressive statement: There is a
to music which other arts have
not: it seems to get to you in an ex-
mood and quiets and refreshes
a book or a picture is not so
sure Samuel Gompers indicated the
need of music in the life of the modern
social group when. at a recent confer
ence in Washington, he said that COM
organization; as it is now TAX
ing form in America, is the most dem
ocratizing influence at work today. Any
community organization
the aid of music is unthink- I
able. i
Thus the development Of civiliza- i
ton, with it's increased complexities. |
has not only verified the appraisal Of {
music by the sages of the past-it has {
given their judgment the added weight :
Of prophecy" /
Continuing his discussion. which is t
an explanation of the organization and ,
accomplishments of New York City's y
music week, Mr.. Tremains says: 8
A Matter of Civic Concern t
Whatever is a source of aid to the :.
and Of strength to the com .
nunity is a matter of public concern. :,
Many cities have recognized this fact. y
10 far as it relates to music, by the :,
establishment of municipal music com =
missions and civic music associations. q
t remained for New York to initiate a =
music week in the form of a city-wide =
demonstration extending into Il
phase of the city's life. 1t has a
wo-fold object of giving as widespread
through music as possible. s
md of centcring the public attention r
music. so that interest in it and t
he appreciation of its benefits might o
more general among oil classes r
# the people. 1t was a drive for edu- il
alton. a movement for the broader en- |;