Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-29

door into the tunnels OF his
tory tomorrow. She carries
~ with her the heavy list of
fnaI student recitals for the sea-
son 10000. Never have there
been. more such programs. Also
never have the lists of students
participating been longer than
have come over the music editors
desk this season for publication.
Within the month of June alone
there were SO such events men
toned in these columns. This by
no means includes all the student
recitalS, for they began as far
back as the last week of April,
sprouted with renewed vigor
Music week when the PianistS'
Club gave its usual 10 pro-
grams. Today the only advance
announcements are for this eve
ming and tomorrow, which would
indicate that the end is in sight.
One sometimes wonders when
looking over these long lists of
music students, by far the major
1ty OF which are piano students,
just what proportion of these boys
and girls have that real inner love
of and genius for musical express
sion that they may become the
-PadereWSkiS, Hofmanns and Myra
HesSeS of the future. Naturally,
the percentage will be very small.
On the contrary, however, it is ex-
ceedingly heartening to find that
so many Washington parents real
lie the great Importance of must
cal knowledge for general educa-
ton and welfare of their chill
dren.
Just last week a Washington
musician in New York sent a
booklet on THE Meaning and
Practice of Creative Music" to
this desk. 1t was written by Her
man Lehman for the Associated
Music Teachers League of New
York. AS a foreword, it says:
Dedication: To the vast army
of music teachers who, unsung
and unheralded, bring music into
the homes of the poor and the
hearts of the ungifted, thus Gull
tivating our national artistic
soil, out of which shall spring the
flower of genius; to that army of
the faithful and the sincere, we
lovingly inscribe this pamphlet"
When one considers how few
music teachers, for all their sin
certify and fitness as teachers, are
destined to enjoy the instruction
. of truly great talent, one feels
even stronger a sense of admira-
ton for the thousands who fol-
low that calling just the same.
X X Y x
SCIENCE has proved that music
is a real necessity to develop
ing the faculties of a human
being. Not only preSent-day
psychologists, but educators back
of these, even beyond the DEGREES
of Aristotle and Plato, even to the
Oldest Chinese culture records,
of music has definite value in dis
ciplining and stimulating mental
and emotional faculties. This is
particularly true where music is
taught in early childhood. The
e cultivation of so-called apprecia-
ton after one is grown and the
development of the art of listen
ing intelligently to musical per-
formanceS is not enough. The
fullest values of music to the hu-
man being are brought out only
by actual participation in the pro-
ducing of music.
Because of this, there is no one
connected with musical produc-
ton in any nation so important
as the amateur. Only when peo-
pie generally in country have
the playing or singing of music. DIS
a beloved recreation is that ma
ton truly musical. All the money
in the world will not give any in
dividual the personal values which
music offers every one, If that in
dividual only listens to some one
else perform. - The politician,
banker, doctor, lawyer or secre-
tary who can go home, after a day
of concentration on business sub
jects, and, after dinner, play elias
steal music casually on the piano
or ramble through a book of Ger
man lieder, or try out new violin
selection or maybe even just play
a very simple, old and hackneyed
but beloved piece of music, has
built for himself and his family
O. fund of pleasure. Such a per-
Son does not mind when the. radio
goes static" or the weather is so
inclement that it is desirable to
sit at home. ... ASIA.
Such an individual is dependent
on no machinery or even any
other person for entertainment,
and relaxation. On the contrary,
he or she is able to afford pleas
ure to many others who have not
cultivated the musical arts. They
please even more those who have
and who are temporarily playing
the role of listener, for such musi-
clans know the language of the
music themselves and supply with
their own imagination supple
mentary beauty to the perhaps
limited gift of the performer.
X = y
THE people who have never
studied music and thus can only
enjoy the limited pleasure of lis
tening to others perform are. in
the same position as people Of
one nationality who witness a re-
rnarkable play performed in a
language foreign to them. They
can only get the sheer emotional
reaction that is obvious and miss
the subtler meanings completely.
It is no wonder that they FREE
quently get very bored unless such
a marvellous artist as Kreisler,
Mccormack, Rachmanf11off or
Toscanini is the medium through
which the music is interpreted.
Then it is that the power of bril-
liant personality, added to fnusi-