Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

~ ga itAaEiN htNh a.
still continuing in large number:
the Washington young people
= and older ones, too, have been
Dinging and playing on the theme
that Spring Is Here" and evidently
that season has taken the matter
literally very seriously and firmly
refused TO bulge from the Capital s
Expansive doorstep until just the
md OF the past week. In fact, al
though real Summer seems to be
peeping i'll the window on the arm
be old Father Sol as these lines are
written. it is quite within the range
If possibility that "Lindy's" departure
will be signihed with 4 cold, sleety
torm. though the inclination is to
hope for better weather.
Just the same, i'll spite of this tenn
ornamental weather, local musicians
Ire making their plans busily for
summer visits abroad at music fes-
IiYals, in the North or West at more
music festivals in our own country.
conducting master classes" them.
Ielvcs at home or in convenient. cool
GUNNER quarters. and attending spe-
tial courses elsewhere. In regard to
ibis last subject, we have received
tome interesting material, as fol-
bws:
Rapid changes which are taking
place in the musica, education of
toung America are reflected in the
pewer courses which are being Of
Tered for teachers this Summer.
The influence of these is also being
felt in courses having to do with
music in correctional institutions and
With music for adults. Teachers
College, Columbia University. lists
In usually large number of courses
b music and music education. These
Include the more usual aspects of
music i'll the public schools and
b1any titles which would have
leemed far removed from the in
!erests of the school or private
TEACHER a few years ago.
Some of the more unusual courses
ire; Teaching OF piano in classes,
focal classes in the high school.
tests and measurements in music ed
bcation, music in normal living,
teaching of orchestral instruments in
flasses, building the child voice,
Dalcroze eurythmics, music in men,
Ial and social therapy, musical ma
terial for festivals and special occa-
lions. creative music, the making of
musical instruments by children,
ipecial technique of choral and in
strumental composition and other
advanced courses in theory.
For recreation and exemplifcation
bf the principles presented in the
tlasses. the students will form for
lhe six weeks a choral society. a
flee club, an orchestra and a band.
Many guest instructors will sup
Element the regular staff. These in
slude William L. Tomlins of Chicago,
5lenn H. Woods of Oakland, Calf.
pr. William van de Wall of Harris
burg, Pa: Edwin Smith of Denver,
William w. Norton of Flint, Mich. !;
Joseph E Maddy of Ann Arbor,
Mich; Leon L. Iltis of Madison,
Wis; Samuel Gardner of the New
York Institute of Musical Art, Sam
hel R. Gaines of Boston, Teresa Ar
nitaee of Chicago, William Breach
pr Winston-Sa and DIR. Jacob
of Syracuse. Members
of the regular staff who will also
present courses include Peter w.
Dykema, Alice Z. Bivins, Louis
Nohler and N. L. Church.
. Registration days are July s, z, s.
ind 9. Instruction viii be given from
July II through August lo.
$3.50
"A MOTHER musical endeavor that
- is gaining increasing interest as
the warm-weather season envelops
BIS is the Atwater Kent Foundations
National Radio Addition, which ex-
presses itself primarily as making a
real effort ito find and train the an
known, hidden voices of America"
and present the worthy singers with
prizes and benefits of no small value.
Of the total of $l7.500 in prizes to
be distributed among the FIVE man
and FIVE woman contestants who will
take part in the final radio addition as
the climax of the quest for new sing
erS throughout every State, the first
place winners, one man and one
woman. will receive 5000 in cash
and tuition for two years in an
American conservatory. They will
be guaranteed also at least two pub
lic appearances a year for three
years at unusual fees. Other VIM
ners will be literally rewarded.
Many feiiowships. scholarships or
prizes have been offered for excel
1ence in musical composition. One
of the most attractive is that offered
by the Musical Fund Society of Phil
adelphia for the three best compost
tions of chamber music. The first
prize. of $4,000. is the only one re-
corded of that size, and it carries