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Show THKIlt t'Ol'HTKIKTsTH AKM'AU Th Mnsie Teacher ul the National A Mod-Uim Mod-Uim Are In SeiMtmi. Dktrhit, July 1. Special. The fourteenth annual meeting of the Mu'tc Teachers National association began today in i ho opera house, ami will continue con-tinue Ollll W Ot'k, SiC if llostOU meeting meet-ing in 1SS llic assort :tt inn li.ii m.nle enormous progress toward !nipingf tho cause of music, ami iu producing every year the work of American composer. J'ho association was organised in 1878, and Imil no d.tiu.te olicy until their Cleveland meeting 1 3ft. when Call.vn Lavalie of Boston proposed to give a recital ot nuiia hut American compost-tiuus. compost-tiuus. The suree.s of hi recital was such that resolution wen at once passed to recognize, nnd encourage American compose! smid from that, moment mo-ment the success of thu association was assured. The great mooting of Now York. Boston. Indianapolis, Chicago Chi-cago and Philadelphia proved that Mr, Lavalie had grasped the iiuation at the proper time. Thi meeting promise prom-ise to be (ho most important on record rec-ord Tiit! address of welcome thin morning wa delivered by President Angell of tho university of Michigan, after which A. II. Parsons, of New York, president of the association, made (lie ii 1 1 n it tt t address. |