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Show WORKING TO RAISE STANDARD OF MUSIC I Prof. Coop Delivers Strong Address Ad-dress to Students of Utah University. Determined and persistent effort to rnlse the mu-de standard In the Utah University is being made by Prof Squire Coop, head of the d par tin. -nt of mini.: Ill that school, Prof. Coop has orouaed the Interest of the authorltlea of tho University to the extent that h hours ..-v...,l i,, tn,. tinirse Iihvu t n added t., and arrangements have hern mn.le wnorehy credit will by given for choral work and Instrumental musk, as well as the slght-slnglng slght-slnglng of tho regular course. Lecture on Music. An Interesting address upon ' Music ' was delivered veNierduy niomlng hy Pro! OOOp to the mambers .-f tho faculty and the student lnnl . The speaker said. In part. Prof. Coop's Address. "America n'-d music to redeem It from perversion per-version by pelf It Is building high edifices end flltliifc th.in with ro.. hut where are tho rronumeiuul lh rsonalltles of the post, the poets and the phlloophtrB of the days of Webster, Emerson and Whitman' "Students music is not tweedle-dnm, twee- dle-dee It Is not the srmnd of a trumpet or the video .if h finger; It Is something nearer i.nd further than thtse. It Is B great emotional emo-tional quality It Is soul life At a Disadvantage. "Out of the HO.) students thot have registered regis-tered hero, not morn than one In eight or nine has learned any music or heard any talked about In thes., halls. Tho music section of tl Is Institution has been confined lo a ery " euume mwiut'l tlonliai Slll'lelltS me Ir.idltutlon bae not b.n able to do morn than linco a small sum of nioner at iho disposal Of tho musle ilepartmmt. which has meant a 'linlt.-.l attention fr..m the professors engaged and Iho e-..nseo.uent limited results. Music Is Needed. 'The campus does not resound with the roll Of a dru.n. nur dues an Inspiring ii.dn of military mili-tary music stir the blood of the bora when they ani risking llfo and limb fur thn glory ..r the whoul "Not a picture of a music-maker SdOTtlS Ineee walls, and the voices or tho musters are us duinli as the stars. 'But this condition cannot last fot.-rr. The generul excellence of the Stuto Institution Is tainted If any d partment Is weak, und music H-lr Is t.j gr. ut und growing a powwr In m.xl-m m.xl-m ch 1 1 1 z ill. in tr. ,,ng hurter negligence. ' 1 would like to e the thro truniter who proclaim at Har. uth ttio o.-nltig of tho doors to tho theater take thHr place on th Steps DUtSldS of this building every morning and blow a hluM no loud that all the vullev below would turn Uh ..., to thn east and read In that big i up there on the mountain -Id.-a faith motive for inusfc. Choral Work Required. "Here should be an efficient choral organization organiza-tion capable of Interpreting the niasti-rpl.-ees "f oratorio nnd orera, and hero should be a hundred player of Instruments who COUld re-v.nl re-v.nl to us th.- beauties of orcheslrul literature. Here siiouM be heard) th.. munlc of neethuven. .f Hosan, of Wugii.r, und here ttio namee of nil th" gieul music-makers xhouM be known and tho power of their music felt. V UIMt school of learnlnic ne.-.Ja the spiritual spir-itual And purifying force of music "You tliut draw and paint need the pulsating pul-sating musical development to mnke your pictures pic-tures vibrate. Yuu literary students need music In tuid thruugh .u. that you may feel the spirit of the p..ri Reeling rie.-ls tfi-nuance tfi-nuance play of subjectivity. And you engineers engi-neers need something besides a calculatlve genius; vou must hav. ldnpi.minwt In your rk Temperament iVM enthusiasm, and enthusiasm prompts Initiative without whkh you will bo a failure." |