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acquaintance with composers and
their works, but rather in the after
influence of association with ennobling
ideas. as applied to spiritual growth.
Listed this year are artists whose
names fill any concert hall and new
comers who. in time, will challenge
their supremacy. What will be the
Interchange of benefits between per-
former and listener and how is the
responsibility of the furtherance of
art divided? Music is not one-sided
art. depending alone on the person.
ality and talent of the performer, but
one that grows in amount and quality
OF the supply according to the quality
and amount of the demand. Only the
insistence on nobility of idea, finer
and deeper than is ordinary, will keep
the standard of musical art high for
both those who follow it as a profess
sion or those who love it for vistaS of
beauty it opens to them.
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NATURALLY enough, personality in
an artist attracts the first in
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the deeper elements that appeal to
heart and mind. It is rather the per-
sonality which seeks its own constant
growth. which realizes that, in order
to fulfill his duty toward the talent
in his possession. an artist must widen
his thought horizon, enrich his under
standing and sympathy. that can hold
ascendancy over the public.
1t is strange fact that. deny it a.
one may, there lies imbedded in human
nature the longing for perfection and
the need for an individual to embody
perfection, so that others may look liz
and admire. 1t is the fundamental
reason for religion and can be said tc
be the same of art.
In religion. the Perfect Man is found
in Christ and perfection in His teach
ings, with their promise of the only
things that can really satisfy the
human heart. And next to religion
comes art, with its power to ideallze
human emotions and to reproduce the
widespread beauty of the universe
sensed innately by us all.
This supreme end of art should
never be forgotten. either by the listen
er who frames a judgment. or the
student who would dedicate his talent
to the great enterprise. To the de-
gree that an artist is able to make his
public follow him into an enchanted
world of finer beauty can be measured
his greatness as an artist.
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STUDENTS are apt to confuse tech
nical proficiency with the more
profound component of real art. Nc
amount of such proficiency will pro.
duce an artist, if the emotional and
intellectual side be neglected. Nc
forceful personality or robust tempera-
ment, standing alone, is sufficient for
creating the kind of renown that will
live beyond the artists generation
There must be present. in strongly
recognizable proportion, that vision of
profound truths and the sympathy
with noble sentiments which lesser en-
dowed mortals yearn for, yet are not
quite capable of attaining
AS inborn as these attributes seem
to be in some artists. it is a fallacy to
believe that their attainment is diff
cult for one who does not come by it
naturally 1t is only necessary to seek,
and the way will be opened. The
realm of the intellect and the heart
holds many unexplored mansions, each
with its own rich treasure, waiting to
be utilized by the possessor of the
magic kew And music that is not