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THE MUSICAL DEPARTMENT.

Owing to the fact that several mistakes appeared in the NEWS recently in the description of the enlargement of the Department of Music, we print the following statement: The Professorship of Music at Yale was founded three years ago, chiefly through the gifts from the Battell family. Mrs. Ellen Battell Eldrich, upon her death, generously added to this endowment the sum of $20,000. The chair of music in the past has been held by Professor Stoeckel, but on account of his recent resignation it has been given to Mr. Horatio W. Parker of Boston. Mr. Parker was educated at the Munich School of Music and has held positions at St. Paul's School, Garden City, and as organist at Trinity Church, Boston. He is the author of several well-known cantatas and oratorios. A professorship of piano and organ playing has just been founded in the musical department, but it is unendowed. Mr. Samuel S. Sanford, of Bridgeport, Conn., a well known organist and choral leader, has been chosen to fill the chair.

["College Music And The Beethoven Society In The 1850-60s.", "1854\nCollege Music, (\"Yale Lit.\" May 1854 - Extracts).", "\"Music has to some extent been cultivat-\ned in College for the last quarter of a century,\nand though the time seems so long it would be very\ndifficult to class the different kinds of College\nmusic. The best of our music aims at a standard\nnone too high, and the worst would very success-\nfully compete with the first attempt of an uncul-\ntivated choir to sing The Hallelujah Chorus.\"", "The true representative of our College music is Beethoven, that society being composed of selections from our best musicians. The effects of the establishment of a musical society, in a place like this, are felt more directly by the members, though they are by no means confined to them. Though Beethoven as it is, is by no means Beethoven as it ought to be, it is far from being appreciated by our College community. This want of appreciation has been owing partly to the ignorance of music or its benefits in those who have launched their criticism and wit against it, in every college paper that has been published for some years, and partly to the fact that the society has attempted, that which was beyond it.", "Very few in College are capable of appreciating very difficult or scientific music. The choir as it is now, and as it has been for two years, is certainly not capable of performing it, and if they will attempt to sing music beyond their capacity, they must not expect to get credit for what ability they have. Beethoven is and always has been abundantly able to perform sacred music and fulfill all the wants of our religious worship.", "How far it has carried out the design of its founders, \"the culture of music in Yale College,\" we are not competent to say, though the musical taste and appreciation of the students was shown a few years ago, when Mr. Wilcox used to play the Organ for us, in Chapel. Doubtless those who really enjoyed it, will remember their vexation at hearing the continual calls for Ernani, Ernani, which used to be made even when the most beautiful compositions were being played.", "Many of us will never forget\nthat Echo Piece, The Overture to the Bronze Horse, and those airs from\nWilliam Tell, Masanello, Zampa, Moses in Egypt, and many others, to\nwhich the brilliant execution of Mr. Wilcox, gave an additional charm,\nand we will doubtless think of him when we hear them in Opera.", "The greatest fault of Beethoven is indistinct utterance. How often\nwe are reminded of what was known about College, a few years ago, as\n\"Hash Boots.\" It appeared in the Tomahawk of '49, and we insert it\nbelow for the benefit of those who may not have seen it:", "Solo—Go it, go it, boots! settle, settle\nTheir hash a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a

The Yale School of Music cordially invites you to attend two seminar-concerts of electronic music to be given in Sprague Memorial Hall at 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 8, 1962. The participants will be Bulent Arel, Milton Babbitt, Luciano Berio, Otto Luening, Mel Powell, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Edgard Varese. This event marks the opening of an electronic music studio at Yale University.

No tickets are required.