Evening star., 1951-09-16
~ Music
Musical Trends Continue to Depart
From Tradition as New Season Neors
By Alice Eversmon

however, if the performer is made
of the stuff great artists are made
of. The lack of a compete UNDER
standing of tradition in young,
aspiring performers may be traced
rather to the oversight on the
part of teachers to stress during
the formative years of their
charges the need Of wider culture.
They train them superbly TECH
and in the dictates of mu-
steamship. Yet the deeper things
are absent. The young genera
tion astounds but fails to move
its hearers emotionally.
Inherited Culture.
If properly advocated, time
spent in the study of conditions
of the, era a work was composed
in and of all that gave it inn
should pay dividends in
the end. But this is not all Wider
culture is not confined to music
alone. 1t includes reading and
a close acquaintance with the
best in literature and art of all
periods and countries assimilated
within the artist himself. This
seems large order That it takes
years to accomplish is shown by
the fact that practically all musi-
clans worthy of being called
artists, in the full sense, are not
young. ...-.
Concentration upon UNDER
standing of the inherited cul-
ture of the past" and of it various
facets should begin in youth.
When time seems ripe to discard
the outward form of tradition, it
is wise and progressive to do so.
But wholesale rejection Of
everything pertaining to an older
period with the idea that new
style would add to the music. is
both wrong and foolish. Mozart
is Mozart, for example, because
he reflects in superior way the
climate Of his time. Transplanted
to the present he would be a diff
ferent individual. 1t takes nearly
lifetime to arrive at an accept
ance of these facts, as every older
artist knows. They, too, have had
periods of pride in their gifts,
the desire to be original and the
impatience with the old and the
established. But after having
completed the cycle they knew at
the end that art enfolds all kinds
OF thinking and feeling and that
none of the transitions of man
kind can be discarded.
Additions for Applied Music
scholarships at the Catholic Uni
versity will be held Friday in the
Music Building Auditorium. All
must be approved be-
fore. Blanks are mailed upon re-
quest. Instrumentalists are re-
quifed to play movement from
a sonata or concerto. The re-
quirements for vocalists are an
aria from an oratorio or an opera,
The National Negro Opera
Foundation, Mary Cardwell DaY-
son. director, will sponsor its fifth
annual music festival at the CIR (.
fifth Stadium on Sunday. Septe l.
ber 80. $50 pm. The procef
will go for the establishment of a
sustaining fund for the purchase
of opera headquarters.
Mccall Lanham, vocal instruc-
tor of New York and Washingt n
will reopen his studio at theslIu -
cal Art Center, 1925 G street
tomorrow. He may be intervieS /
tomorrow, Tuesday and Weon
day. Veterans are accepted unoer
the CT Bill of Rights. This will De
Mr.. Lanham's 32d season in Wash
lngton
Reinald Werrenrath will resume
teaching vocal Monday, October |.
at the Tutorsky Studios, 172O Six
teenth street NV. Applicants
should contact lone Hoffman sos
Third street Sc. This will be
DR.. Werrenrath's 18th season as
teacher and his eighth as
conductor of the National Press
Club Chorus.