Europe Turning to America for
Methods in Musical Education
By p. ZIEGFEIiD,
Resident: Chicago JWusieal College.
Thirty-five years’ experience as an edu
cator leads me to the belief that in America
it is possible not only to become thorough
ly grounded in the rudiments of the musical
art, but to become proficient in the most
advanced phases of it. There was a time
when the educational institutions of Amer
ica were a by-word with foreign artists.
That this sentiment has changed to a re
markable degree I have had many oppor
tunities of perceiving. Having for many
years past paid an annual visit to Europe,
I have noticed that European instructors
and artists and the broad minded representative citizens of different
European countries have been exhibiting a growing tendency to ap
preciate the educational systems and methods in use in the United
States.
It is quite true that it is only a comparatively short time since
we were forced to send abroad for what was best in music or art
or the drama, but it is equally true that the last twenty years the
artistic advantages upon our side of the aesthetic ledger have changed
very decidedly in favor of this country. I bespeak neither petty
nor personal prejudice in claiming that America’s educational musical
methods are really superior to many in vogue abroad. We endeavor
to avoid the mistake of educating students en masse. We believe
that EVERY PUPIL SHOULD BE CONSIDERED IN REGARD
TO HIS INDIVIDUAL REQUIREMENTS, not to regard him as
part of an aggregation.
I think, too, that we avoid the error of overtaxing the student.
In Europe, the conservatories insist on the study of a large number
of subjects subsidiary to the one selected by the student as the chief
object of his work. These subsidiary studies are often so distrib
uted that half the student’s time is wasted in the constant progres
sion to and from the school. Method, orderliness and business-like
handling of the different branches of the organization are some ad
vantage of American college methods.
A weak point in many, I might say in most European schools,
is the lack of a preparatory department. It is precisely in the laying
of the foundation that the best work can be done. Let the BE
GINNER be TAUGHT WELL and THOROUGHLY, and his later
musical training will give less trouble to himself and his teachers.
The teacher in the European conservatory does not generally devote
his whole time to the institution. He must augment his income by
giving private lessons outside the conservatory.
Such a policy is, in my opinion, a bad one. Every teacher in
such an institution should devote his whole time and energy to it,
^ diiu vvil11 luc muM uciicnudi icauiis.
In taking a general survey of the ground I feel thoroughly justi
fied in repeating that America offers exceptional advantages to the
musical student. He can hear the best players, the best singers, the
best orchestras, and it must be remembered that an important con
stituent of a musical education consists in hearing good music as
well as playing it.
If the student desires the German educational method, we have
it here. The Italian or French vocal method? We have those here.
The best masters of European art have been aiding us in the cause
of American culture. We have learned from Europe, but Europe
will ere long come to us for instruction. At a dinner given at Weimar
in 1871 by Franz Liszt, at which I had the privilege to be present, the
great master made a statement, the prophetic nature of which has
always remained ?n my memory. “IN REGARD TO MUSICAL
EDUCATION,” said Liszt, “THE TIME WILL SURELY COME
WHEN EUROPE WILL HAVE TO TURN TO AMERICA.”
And that time is even now upon us.
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HISTORIC DOUBT RAISED.
Respecting the Duke of Wellington’s
Duel with Lord Winchilsea.
An historic doubt has been raised
respecting the duke of Wellington’s
duel with Lord Winchilsea. In the
official life of the duke, Sir Herbert
Maxwell’s, the account runs as fol
lows: “The duke leveled his pistol
at once, but. seeing that Lord
Winchilsea did not move, seemed to
hesitate for a moment, and then pur
posely fired wide of him.” To this
statement a note is appended: “It
ought to be recorded that Lord
Winchilsea had written to Lord Fal
mouth overnight to say that it was
his determination not to tire at the
duke, and that after the first fire he
should offer the expression of regret
which he would then be ready to
make.” But Mr. David Grant writes
to the London Daily News to offer
another version. He declares:
Shortly after the duel a friend met
Wellington in the street, and after
congratulating him on the satisfac
tory termination of the meeting, said:
‘Did you really intend to hit Winchil
sea?' Hit him!’ said the duke, ‘of
course 1 did. If I hadn’t done so,
every silly jackass who wanted a little
cheap notoriety would have sent me
a challenge. Now they’ll leave me
alone.’ ” Whatever Wt-llin gton actu
ally did on “the field of honor,” the
language attributed to him in the
above sounds uncommonly like his
habitual speech. But we have his
own complaint that he was “much ex
posed to authors,” and it may simply
be that another one has now put words
in his mouth.—N. Y. Post.
Artificial Eyelashes.
Artificial eyelashes are artistically
applied by a Parisian doctor. With a
fine needle, threaded with human
hair, he patiently sews long lashes to
the deficient eyelids, and then they
are symmetrically clipped. Actresses
and professional beauties are his chief
patrons.
Not Luck, But Foresight.
If a man is rich, people i«lk of his
wife’s luck in “striking it,” as if she
had gambled to win him.—Atchison
Globe.
f ' ■%.
BREVITIES G? FUN.
“How did dick get run over?” “He
was picking up a horseshoe for luck.”
-—London Answers.
A Matter of Form.—Mrs. House
keep—“What have you got to-day in
the shape of rhubarb?” Green Grocer
—“Well, we've got.some celery; that’s
the nearest.”—Philadelphia Press.
Bjones—“I lost $25,000 in that en
terprise.” Bjenks—“Hard luck
man.” Bjones—“I should say 'so.
And the worst of it was that $200 of
it was my own money."—Louisville
Journal.
The Visitor—“And how is the
prison fare?” The Convict—“Aw,
it’s too blamed good. Pm gettin'so
fat on it dat even if I had er file 1
couldn’t squeeze me way outer dat
winder!”—N. Y. Jt;#rnaL
Teacher—“What are you laughing
at?” Boy—“At a joke I heard last
night.” Teacher—“It istoo late now
to laugh at last night's jokes; you
stay in at recess and laugh.” Boy
(in tears)—“Please, sir, my parents
are English.”—Indianapolis News.
Up-to-I)ate Girls.—“See here!”ex
claimed the city editor, “you speak
of the bride as being Med to the al
tar.’ ” “Yes, sir; well?" replied the
new reporter. “Well, that’s non
sense. There never was a bride who
couldn’t find her way there regard
less of obstacles.”—Catholic Stand
ard and Times.
“How’s this?” asked the customer
in the bookstore. “Last week the
prices on Bacon and Lamb were only
$1.25, and now you have marked
them up to three dollars.” “Well,
you see,” explained the bookseller,
“since the meat trust began corner
ing supplies—” But the customer
hurried away to secure matinee seats
for “A Texas Steer" before the price
went up at the theater, also.—Bal
timore American.
AN OLD ALABAMA LAW.
Statute Designed to Check Runaway
Marriages No Longer in Force.
A little before his marriage day, the
young man had reached a sorry pass.
Though he lived in New York, the
girl lived in Alabama, His own home
had been in Georgia, and three days
before his departure for the marriage
festival his Georgian lawyer sent an
urgent dispatch. The lawyer's father
had been married to an Alabama girl,
too, and the lawyer remembered a
family tale of the bridegroom’s sud
denly having found it necessary to de
posit with the authorities of his
bride's state a $500 personal bond,
Now the young Georgian living in
New York had gathered together
some store of cash as befits a Benedick
in spe, but to the minutiae of inter
state credit he had given scant con
cern. In the town where his be
trothed lived he knew no one of sub
stance to suddIv the bond. Where
fore telegrams between him and the
Georgian lawyer multiplied until they
made a stack some dozens deep. Hop
ing against hope, and still delinquent
in what he had been told his bride's
state would require, he left disconso
lately for the south, uncertain wheth
er the invitations to the wedding
would not have to be recalled. Once
in the old home, however, the zealous
attorney was able to say that he had
finally discovered that this particular
statute of the state of Alabama, de
signed to check runaway marriages,
had long since been repealed.—N. Y.
Post.
Use of the Sheep’s Horn.
A correspondent of Nature has
foi nd that the spiral horn of a wild
sheep, when so placed that the ear is
the axis of the coil, makes the ticking
of a watch more audible in one par
ticular direction. Since the ear of
the sheep is surrounded by the horn,
he infers that the latter acts as an ear
trumpet, not improving the hearing
for distant sounds, but disclosing the
direction of a sound. This would be
useful in enabling the sheep to as
certain the exact points from which
sounds come when there is a mist or
fog covering its feedinggrounds.
English in Japanese Schools.
In the public schools in Japan the
English language is- required to be
taught by law. The Japanese youth
in the open ports and commercial
cities are all eager to learn English
as a passport to wealth, position and
employment.
Henry ©wen
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