New-York tribune., 1922-10-29
Music Taught and Practiced in City's Colleges


ing and its teaching problems. the
1 teaching of music in elementary
schools and the teaching of music ap.
! probation in the earlier school grades
at City College, two special teachers
courses and one in music teaching in
secondary schools at Hunter.
/ Student Activities
/ Student musical activities are, natu-
rally, somewhat hampered by the fact
| that SO many Of the students, especially
in the colleges supported by the city
live at home and attend the institu-
tions purely for study rather than for
| college life" AS result the number
available for the various student musi-
cal associations is much smaller than
! the enrolment figures would indicate
Still, the department of music at City
College conducts glee club, with the
| object of developing choral singing in
the college, including instruction in the
rudiments of vocal production, and also
an orchestra composed partly of college
students and partly of music students
not belonging to the college, in order,
it is explained, to secure instruments
which the former cannot supply.
In New York University Professor
Wright has class in choral singing,
including instruction in voice produc-
tion and sight reading and ensemble
work as far as numbers permit Incl
dentally every student is supposed to
take his turn at conducting the others.
Twelve picked students form the uni
versity choir, supplemented by twelve
more volunteers, singing at the chapel
services on Monday, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Friday, reinforced by outside
soloists for the occasional special con-
certs given for members of the college.
The students maintain a glee club and
an instrumental club, which travel to-
gether on short tours, while the glee
club Is contestant in the annual in
tercolleglate contest at Carnegie Hall.
There is also the New York University
Choral Society of about sixty members.
trained and conducted by Professor
Wright, which generally gives two CON
certs year. program of Christmas
music in December and song recital
IN February, and conducts other con-
certs with outside reinforcement.
The singing at Columbia is under
Professor Walter Henry Hall, who
gives special course on the interpre-
tation Of choral music: church music.
choir training and choral conducting.
The university has two chapel choirs
under his direction, one of twenty-five
students for the weekday services
and specially traineu choir for the
Sunday afternoon programs. For this,
twenty carefully selected women STU
dents give their services, which are re-
warded by a $50 rebate in their tuition
fees, while the men of the choir are
professional singers.
The Columbia Glee Club is COM
posed of about seventy-five picked
men, supervised by Professor Hall. It
has adopted the policy first taken up
by the Harvard Glee Club about three
years ago, of singing the best choral
music instead Of the traditional limited
collection of time-honored airs which
are supposed to delight the soul Of the
traditional graduate, becoming, in al
way, highly-trained secular choir
rather than an organization existing to
lnfuse glee into mass meetings. smok-
ers and reunions. AT present the club
gives an annual public concert in a. |
downtown hall Git was the Town Hall
last season., and also competes in the
Glee CLUB contest. Its
development along the lines planned
will naturally take some time, and
Professor Hall does not necessarily
expect to accomplish as much as
could be done in college with a
larger proportion Of resident students,
where more time could be devoted in
the absence of outside interests. The
beginning, however, is promising.
Distinct from the Glec Club is the |
University Chorus, composed both of |
students and of musical people not
members Of the university, meeting
under Professor Hall for ninety
minutes every Tuesday evening. 1t
gives an annual concert of it's own and
two or three public concerts with the
Brooklyn Oratorio Society. Professor
Hall, who directs both organizations, y
hopes to give parts of Brahms's Ger
man Requiem, a Bach cantata and the |
Baal Chorus from elijah" during the
present season. For instrumental play
ers there is the university orchestra,
which also admits qualified players
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