Evening star., 1930-06-15

faintest suggestion of the
dawn of the 1St of Septem-
Der was already becoming a GER
tainty on the horizon. The waters
Tapped sullenly about the resin
GUS piers of Southampton. The
rain drizzled with an elusive yet
penetrating persistence that was
definitely annoying The boat
train from London had dispatched
its hordeS of American tourists
onto the pier where the great
westbound steamer was scheduled
to appear to pick these same
travellers up three long hours
ago. Every one, with only the
very few exceptions of the more
experienced travellers, for whom
this was not the end of my first
trip abroad" had rushed and
jammed and squirmed along the
pier from the train, maneuvering
inch by inch to crawl toward the
end beyond the examiners of pass
ports and luggage where the
great vessel that was to take them
home was expected to appear at
any moment. And when at last
the tenders from that ship did
cast their ropes ashore and take
the heaving, dampish and eX-
ceedingly weary throngS to their
creaking decks the only buoyancy
to be noticed anywhere was be-
meath, rather than above their
keelS The whole situation was
eloquently summed up in one SEN
tence, uttered in resigned tone
by an American f1apper, who, OBJ
viously, would normally be quite
a flippant young person. She
said:
We'll, we Americans will travel"
Statistics, as we'll as less intricate
means of indication, show that
we are indeed a wanderluSting
Nation. OF course, if our pioneer
ancestors had not had this quail
ity, we would never have been
born in this country. Also, we are,
as a race, primarily ambitious.
According to Mr.. Webster's useful
book, this quality, ambition" is
defined as "a going about to solicit
or obtain an Office or other de-
sire" In other words, the fact
that Americans are ambitious
would account quite easily for
their national characteristic of
reStlessness and desire for travel
In the latest parlance we want
to go places and do things"
THIS year again finds both the
number of would-be travellers
and of European festivals on the
decided increase. 1t is interesting
to find the Europeans building
their music programs and playing
up every possible angle of such
festivals, as we'll as the dramatic
festival of Oberammergau, to at
tract the interest of our COM
patriots when they are not chained
irrevocably to Paris by the shops
and aperitif time along the Rue
de la Paix
In addition to the Bayreuth
Wagnerian festivals, which this
year feature Arturo Toscanini as
guest conductor for several of the
performances and the usual Wag-
merriam series in Munich, with Max
Reinhart's dramatic festival
events in Salzburg, there is an
other angle Of the music field that
is having the spotlight turned
upon it. This is the educational
angle. In both Vienna and Salz-
burg the Austro- American InSti-
tute of Education announces in
ternational music courses. All
the usual musical subjects, such
as history of music, theory, COM
position, piano, violin, cello, viola
da gambia, singing, chamber mu-
sic and organ are listed, with dis
ttnguished Austrian maestros in
the faculty. Physical training,
dance and rhythmicS also are
mentioned. In Salzburg is an or
chestral academy to be held July 5
to September during the Salz-
burg festivals, when a faculty
including such famous individuals
as Clemens Krauss, director Of
the Vienna State Opera; Bern
hard Paumgartner, Franz Schalk
and Bruno Walter will hold
classes.
There also is an international
dance congress to be held in Dres-
den, and, Of course, there are al
ways the Conservatory for Ameri-
cans at Fontainebleau, France,
and the Academy of Music in
Rome.
1t looks as though. if American
music teachers and students must
have sea voyage and wish to en-
Joy the sights and festivals that
are European, they also would not
have to neglect their studies.
At the same time. there are
even more music education or
ganizations in this country send
ing attractive-looking pamphlets.
with lots Of scenery and appeal
ing plans, to the desks of the mu-
sic editors and doubtless also to
mailing lists of music students
and teachers. Summer master
classes" provide the shibboleth for
many who haven't made up their
minds to go to foreign lands.
There are not few definite in
ducements for students in the
scholarships offered at chautau-
qua and other Summer music
colonies.
For students of orchestra. there
Is the now thoroughly established
National High School Orchestra
SoAllp III NAlSl4I6 oil. IiSIG dlSO
are choral conductors classes,
harp colonies. solo training in
mountain settings for singers,
pianists and other instrumental
lists. Any one sufficiently ambi-
tious can get training in almost
any line of musical endeavor and
at the same time have vacation
trimmings in the part Of the
United States that he or she would