THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1928
Music Department
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(Inasmuch at National Maslc
ek is observed from May 6 to
12 a reprint ot a yery interesting
article is herewith given. The
history of music will he resumed
next Sunday.)
', Homo Night In National Music
Week
"Show me the home wherein
I' mnslc dwells." said Longfellow,
, "and I shall show you a happy,
' peaceful and contented horse."
I Music Week may be used as a
stimulus towart-more making of
j music in the home by family and
I friends, with results such as Long
fellow has outlined. In this way
I the Musie Week Committee may
1 : bring about a literal realization of
1 - the slogan. "Music for Everybody
i -Everybody for Music."
. I. Family Music
f Such a campaign for home mus-
1c can best be brought about
f? through the efforts of a special
lJ - committee. The' idea should be
transmitter! to all the household-
l ere through publicity in the local
papers. This publicity should.
. first, set forth the value of home
' music and. second, should contain
concrete suggestions lor us ae
velopment. Material for the for
mer use is to be obtained without
charge from the National Music
'.. Week Committee. 45 West 45th
, St.. New York City. It include
an article on "Home Mnsic" by
Mr John F. Lyons, former Presi
dent of the National Federation of
Music Clubs, and a copy of a talk
on "Music for the Home."
It should be emphasized, how
ever, that it is possible to have
family music in the home with
merely the equipment that is al
ready available therein and wi; -
fnt anv of the material that is
listed below. The following sug
gestions are given so specifically
for the reason that the National
Music Week Committee has learn
ed from experience that local
groups in many cases need most
of all to know where they can get
the actual material necessary to
'carry on particular activities in
which they are interested.
1. Home Singing. A delight
ful form of home music of which
Americans have not made enough
of late is that of singing around
the family piano or organ or to
the accompaniment of smaller In
struments. A novel form of sing
ing, with the leadership by radio,
is described later. Full sugges
tions for such home singing are
found in the pamphlet, "Commun
ity Singing and the Community
Chorus," to be obtained wlthou
chjarge from the National Mnsic
Wjeek Committee. From the same
source comes "Stories of Amer
ica's Songs." which wllKadd in
terest to the singing.
2. Instrumental Groups. Fam
ily instrumental ensembles, such
as we hear ot In Europe, may be
organized for Music vee with
the aid ot new material that Am
erican ingenuity has devised. An
example j of such material for the
use of Intimate music groups Is a
! series entitled "Instrumental
Quartet Repertoire." by J. E.
Maddy and T. P. Glddings. and is
sued by the Willis Music Co., Cin
cinnati, Ohio. This edition pro
Tides an elastic, Interchangeable
repertoire for various combina
tipns of orchestra and band Instru
ments. It enables any neighbor
hood Instrumental group of no
particular expertness to find ma
terial that It can p-aj ilany of
the numbers are arrangements of
familiar community songs. thu
providing for a linking up of the
heme singing with the instrument
al group. Other editions that
might be used for similar merg
Ing of voices and instruments are
the Complete Instrumentation of
the "Golden Book of Favorite
Songs." published by Hall and Mc
creary Co., 430 South Wabash
Ave.. Chicago, and the "Laurel
Band Book." published by C. C
Birchard & Co., 221 Columbus
Ave., Boston.
- . 3. Learning New Instruments.
Music Week may be the occasion
for the "debut" in the home of
same member of the family as the
player of an Instrument which he
has never played before or of one
who has never played any Instru
ment. Father or Mother may pos
sibly choose the piano, and may
learn to play their own accompani
ments for simple songs by the use
of "Everybody's Look-and-Play
Piano Book," to be obtained from
the Look-and Play Co.. 247 Park
Ave.. New York City. Sister might
select the ukelele and master It
with the "Simplified In Ukelele
Playing," to be obtained from the
National Mnsic Week Committee.
Little Brother may prefer the har
monica, and should send for a free
Instruction pamphlet. "How to
Play the Harmonica," to be ob
tained from the National Music
Week Committee. If the local
Mnsic Week Committee wishes to
promote harmonica groups on" a
' broad scale, It should write to the
Committee for the pamphlet.
"Harmonica Bands For Boys and
Girls." From the same source
may be obtained suggestions as to
simple instruction material on
banjo, mandolin, guitar and other
fretted Instruments, as found In
the pamphlet, "Fretted Instru
ment Clbs."
4. Radio. Home mnslc mak
Ing may he combined with listen
ing to good musie over the radio
bv inviting in the neighbors for a
"Music Hour in the Home." In
other wordrs, the host will tune
out from the radio progtarm when
iome non-musical feature is sched
uled. That period will be filled
with home music-making In some
of the forms herein suggested. The
local Music Week Committee
could well prepare a list of the
most meritorious musical broad
casts fojK the week.
R. Phonograph. The above
suggestion; applies equally to the
talking . machine,' with the: ddi
tirrna advantage that' the. house
hold may Jtiave entire, choice s to
the mnslc that they wish to hear
thus mechanically produced. ".' In
terchange br records' motig famil
le tn a .neighborhood may be
nttlixed to, build up special phono
graph programs, particularly those
1 built around some definite sub
ject. ,,One of these Is "Giving Op
era with the Phonograph." A
pamphlet of that title is to be ob
tained, from, the National Musie
Week Commltee. Catalogues con
taining suggestions of this sort
may be secured front the educa
tional, departments of the Victor
Talking Machine C6V Camden. N.
J.; - Columbia Phonograph Ccj
1819 Broadway, New York City;
and Brunswick. Balke-Collender
Co.. 623 South Wabash Ave.. Chi
cago. 111.
6. Musical Games. A local
Musie Week committee may secure
publication In the newspaper of
material for a "questions and
answers" came that is found in
the pampbiet, "Quiz Yourself on
Music." This may be had from
the National Music Week commit
tee. A second series of questions
( Is devoted to American music. An
other game may be devised with
the use of the pamphlet, "Musical
Quotations. from the same
source.
7. Mnsic Memory Contests. It
should be sy to adapt for home
use the music jnemory contest
idea, and the Music Week com
mittee might make ready to sup
ply the necessary information.
This data, along with a sugges
ted list of compositions for the
content Is found in a pamphlet,
"Suggestions' for Music Memory
Contest Procedure," to be ob
tained from the National "Music
Week Committee. A simplified
variation of the memory contest is j
1UUUU IU A UlUSllTttI Kuic, tl ucu
Grandma Dreams," to be obtained
from the Playground and Recrea
tion Association, New York City.
8. Toy Symphony. A chance
for the family's ingenuity to show
itself is in the providing of novel
instruments for a rhythm orches
tra or toy symphony some ot
these to be found in the kitchen
or elsewhere about the house
hold. The family's piano comes to
the center for this eniertaining
rhythmic diversion, as explained
in the booklet, "The Toy Sym
phony, to be obtained from the
Committee.
9. Condition of Instruments. A
reminder as to the need for keep
ins in good condition the musical
instruments in the home may be
issued in preparation for Music
Week. Especially should the
piano be in tune if the home
music making is to be effective.
A leaflet on "The Care of the
Piano" may be obtained from the
National Music Week Committee.
The same scrutiny as to the condT
tion of the phonograph may also
be made at this time. Where
there is an instrument in the
household that has been lying idle
for some time, let the Music Week
be an incentive for it former
Player to take it up again.
10. Parents and Music Study.
These preparations for Musk
Week should give the parent
natural opportunity to become
better acquainted with the muajt
study of their children, whether ft
Is in the form or private lesson
or of the public school work.
"fre-scnooi Music Aids Child" Is
the title of a leaflet describing a
course for mothers in the pre?
school music tra'.ning of their chil
dren. It is to be obtained from
the National Musie Week Commit
ee, as is a copy of the publishers
announcement of a book on thte
suoject. "A Musical Message for
Mothers." The tying-up ot child
music study with records foi
phonograph and reproducing pi
ano is described in a booklet en
titled. "Music For Children" ob
tainable from the Child Study As
sociation or America, 509 West
12 1st St.. New York.
n. Home sing By Radio
Local committees for Music
Week may assist a nearby broad
casting station to carry out the
idea of community singing In the
homes with the leadership broad
cast by radio. This was done by
a station at Cedar Rapids. Iowa
in co-ODeration with ih maw-
ground Commission. The innova
tion was described thus by the As
sistant Playground Director, Mrs.
Clare Nichols, who was the song
'eader:
"The 'Home Sing' night was an
experiment. I had a chorus of
eight women from the WomanV
Club and a male quartet as assist
ants. I made a little talk on the
vaiue ana recreative nuaiiti n
music in the home, and then
announced the songs Just as I do
every nignt on the playground
me summer, our group
led the listeners in. the number of
verses announced. I made what
ever comment occurred to me e
story about the song or the com
poser or a Joke about the way the
peupie sang u.
After our first number, tele-
pnone cans began coming in, say
Ing how It was comlnr
wjth requests for songs not on our
program. The dally paper, the
nignt before, had printed the lis'
of songs in the order in which
they would be sung and asked that
1 f a t An 1 . .
'"""" u reaay 10 join m as
me songs were announced. Post
cards were received saying that
groups of neighbors had uuemhi.
ed and had Joined In the singing
ucmg neaps or run.
This plan might be supplement
ed by a reproduction of the texts
or me songs in the paper so that
the people might mora raAf1v
sing the words of the chosen nnm-
oers. ailing that, the committee
migni possibly create a tie-up
with a local merchant who nnM
distribute free a song sheet bear
ing his Imprint. If copyright sons
were used, permission would
to be given by the re9TWrttA nnV.
Ushers for their reproduction on
such a Bneet or in the paper. In
the choice of songs, use might be
made of a recommended list of
twenty given, with descriptive
notes, in "Stories of America's
Songs."
III. How Home Xfkht Is Organized
At Kent, Washington.
"We have had Home Night ever
since our Musie Week was insti
tuted six years ago, and 1927, was
me most successful of all. We
find that It appeals to all classes
of people, has prompted a feeling
rienaimess, aroused a spirit
of co-operation, and. what Is best
oi an. noma the interest of our
young people. .--
"4usle vWeek Jn. Kent is. given
under the auspices of the Women's
improvement triub. assisted by the
Music Study Club (a department)
and the Commercial Clubr The
population of Kent is between 2.
000 and 3.000. Home Night is al
ways on Monday so as to arouse
interest in following programs, A
committee of three or five Is ap
pointed fbr this particular nlrht
The chairman must be enthusl
astle. tactful and broad minded J
About eight homes are selected in
different parts of the city. The
same homes - are not -used two
years in succession. No discrimin
ation Is mad la the choice. Large.
small, pretentious or modest,' It
makes no difference- "No invita
tions are given. Care is uken
that every one kaowns the homes
are open to all. People are sup
posed to go to the nearest one.
No refreshments are served.
"The program consists of eight
numbers (varied) -and of even
length so that there shall be no
waits. Nothing but worth while
musie is presented. (Some stu
dents give their lessons from the
operas.) Everyone starts promptly
at the 'Appointed time in each
home. This must be done. Every
thing must be like clock-work to
avoid confusion. The .talent are
taken around in progression by
autos. The Commercial Club gets
the autos and provides drivers.
The last part, taking the talent
around, is rather puzzling at first.
"If there are eight homes, the
program will consist of eight num
bers of equal length, or they may
be double numbers if short. At
a given hour the performers, drivers-
and cars are assembled at a
given place. The cars are num
bered, or rather given a number.
The drivers are given a slip upon
which the names of the homes to
which they are to go are written
in the order in which they shall
go. Every slip must of course,
be numbered differently and start
with 'one.' The slip also has the
name of the person who is to bo
taken! All cars are started so
their occupants will be ready ar
their first home to start at 8
o'clock. Cars should be routed to
rsave doubling streets as much as
possible."
MRS. Fl B. CHURCHILL.
Chairman of Music.
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IN CITY ELABORATE
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ANOTHER FLYER DOWN
MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y.. May
3. CAP) Lieutenant Royal V.
Thomas was forced down here at
11:55 tonight after remaining in
the air 35 hours 33 minutes and
24 seconds In his single-haded ef
fort to establish a new endurance
flight record.
Today marks the opening of Mu
sic week which will be observed
throughout the United States May
6th to ISth.
Interesting programs will be
given each afternoon of the week.
and concerts at the churches will
feature the opening evening.
The general committee for the
observance of the week In Salem
Includes: Mrs. Walter Denton,
chairman. Miss Elizabeth Levy,
Miss Frances Ylrginie Melton, Miss
Lena Belle Tartar. Mrs. Harry M.
Styles, and Miss Gretchen Kream-
er.
Organizations cooperating with
the general committee are Ameri
can association of University Wom
en, Daughters of the American Le
gion auxiliary. Woman's club, B.
and P. W. club. Willamette Univer
sity, Marlon County Federation of
Community clubs, MacDowell club
Chapter A. B. and Chapter G. P
E. O.; American Legion, Cherri
ans. Elks, Ad club, KIwanis, Ro
tary, and Lions clubs; Chamber of
Commerce, Chemawa Indian
schools, and newspapers, churches
and theaters of the city.
Surrounding communities:
Woodburn. Brooks. Silverton,
Stayton, Monmouth, Dallas, Inde
pendence, Jefferson, Turner
Aumsville, Pratum, Fruitland
MacCleay, west Salem, Keizer.
Rlckreall. Eola. Zena, Brush col
lege. Spring Valley, Lincoln, anri
Falrview, are also arranging pro
grams for the week.
The concert given by Miss Lu
cille Ross. Miss Dorothy Pearec
and Miss Iva Clare Love will bt
the musical event of tomorrow eve
ning."
Veterans' Column
"The Inter-county council of the
American Legion for District No
2 was held at Sheridan Friday eve
ning with the majority of the posts
located in the five counties repre
sented. Charlie Gill, president of
the Yamhill county Pow Wow,
ailed the meeting to order and
then adjourned this meeting for
he council gathering. E. J. Bay
Usb. district executive committee
man, presided and Introduced post
commanders and state, officials
who were present. A noteworthy
feature of the meeting was the fact
that every post reported consid
erable activity during the past year
ina there Is to be no let up.
There was some discussion con
cerning resolutions which may be
introduced at. the convention to be
held In Medford; but this consist
ed mainly In explaining them. It
was decided that the Inter-county
Council would meet In Salem on
Friday, July 13 at which time It is
hoped every post in the district
will be represented.
Following the business session
the Sheridan Post and auxiliary
ierved refreshments and then the
remainder of the evening was de
voted to dancing.
The regular meeting of Capital
Post No; 9 of the American Le
gion will be held Tuesday evening
May 8. Commander "Fod" Mais
m says that a number of very im
portant matters of business are
Kheduled fbr discussion. In all
probability the most Important of
these will be relative to invitin
c
the American 'Legion of Oregon to
convene In Salem for the 19 29
convention.
Stayton, (Special) The
American Legion Post closed a
lease last week with the Masonic
order for the park. The lease ex
tends for two years and the Le
gion will clean and fix up the park
and hold a series of dances in the
pavilion during the summer.
Plans are being formulated for
some sort of a celebration here on
July 4. The Legion and the Wom
en's club'Will cooperate in this and
further announcements will be
made later.
The rumor has spread rapidly
that Capital Poet No. 9 might be
the host for the Legion convention
in 1929. This is meeting with gen
eral favor throughout the state.
Legionnaires have long wanted to
come to this city for their convention.
Probably there has been very
little said about the Capital Post
Drum corps for the past few weeks
but that does not signify that the
members are idle. When the-Red
wood Motor Caravaners banqueted
in Salem this week, the drum corps
played and made a decided hit. In
fact the corps makes Its appear
ance at a great many civic func
tions and in addition practices are
held each week. They are preoar-
ing for the national convention
and will leave nothing undone In
the work.
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