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Show Mark Robinson Lauds Hills of Home While Visiting Here Beloved Former Music Instructor Receives Acclaim and Recognition While In California Mark Robinson, former beloved Springville music mu-sic instructor and a well-known Utah musician, said I in an interview here Friday that in all his travels both abroad and at home he had never found anything so peaceful and beautiful as the Springville "hills of home." Mr. Robinson has been spending spend-ing the summer in Los Angeles, where he has been teaching special spe-cial voice technique, the purpose of which is to acquaint students with the methods of voice production, produc-tion, a field in which Mr. Robinson Robin-son has been working for the past ten years. Much curiosity has been aroused concerning this method by talks which he gave at the National Na-tional Association of Musical Education Edu-cation in April and at the National Nation-al Music Regional conference in January. At Los Angeles, Mr. Robinson Ro-binson conducted a voice clinic for junior college students, where he gave special treatment to the problem of how to develop a young tenor. He addressed the choir masters at a special meeting and the Piano Guild of Southern California, and conducted classes at Occidental college in Los Angeles on the technique of radio singing. A special dinner was given in his honor while he was there by the Utah Women's Artists' association, asso-ciation, among whom were Ruth Harwood, Hazel Dawn, Lucy Gates Bower, Bertha McKenzle Knowleden, Louise Bird Harmon, and Marie Clark Miller, well-known well-known Utah artists in California. He also gave special lessons to some of his former Utah students now in California, including the famous soprano, Cora Thorn Bird, i formerly of Springville; Ralph Peterson, formerly of Ogden, who is now in the music department of I the Los Angeles junior college; and Reed Cox of Ogden, now ueou of the Venice high school music department. Mr Robinson, in speaking fondly fond-ly of Springville as the place where he first came when he arrived ar-rived in the new country from England, made the following statement: "No wonder the people of Springville are cultured and refined. This seems to be a spot where the very mountains protect them from every harm of a disturbing dis-turbing nature. Here can be found a class of people that stand out (Continued on page eight) |