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Show SCHOOL GIRLS AT OFEBA. Opera roers have been interested ir. noticing several rows of eeats regularlj occupied at the Saturday matinees by a group of youny ladies, evidently from some elucatlonal institution. Thty are fctudenta at the Briar-cliff Manor school, and In addition lo the Saturday opera, they also attend all the Philharmonic concerts. ' These students are among thi most oppreclative listener at these important import-ant musical events. They have been fitted in advance to become Intelligent eiiditors by having; had the music played over to them on the Pianola. The Briarcliff school has a standing order or-der with the At-olian com nan v to fur- Ii,n f,anola rolls for all the music one ' l?'1 Deore the performances. The Vjfsic Instructor at the school says this r fe of the Pianola not only greatly ' adds to the interest of the pupils, but i ! has a most far-reaching educational 2 value. f" Carroll Brent Chilton, the librarian ' Jf th Music Lovers' Library, -which ! conducts courses in musical aDprecia- tlon for school - and home use, when : seen at Aeolian hall, expressed his be-1 be-1 lief that musical education in the ap-'. ap-'. rreclation and understanding of great : music on the new plan must eventually : supersede, to a great extent, the old-i old-i fashioned notion of making all students ! try to learn to play the piaTio some-, some-, thing wnich is possible to a few only, i "This idea." he said, "is gaining ground all over the country, something ; over forty of the leading- Institutions of the country, such as Columbia. Har- , vard, Vaj?sar. -nc, now employing some '. form of the new musical education." '. Mr. Chilton showed the reporter a let-; let-; ter from Dr. William T. Harris. Unltea . States Commissioner of Education, and ! recognised as one of the leading au-j au-j thorities of the world, and which con-, con-, eluded with the words: t predict that the new inventions : for reproducing the best interpretations ' of the great musical author will ulti-' ulti-' mately find a place in what are called the general exerctse of all our high schools, and that from the date of the adoption of this course a new era will dawn in American secondary educa-' educa-' tlon." Brooklyn Daily Standard i t'nlont The local agents of the Aeolian com-: com-: pany, Carstensen lc Anson company r ; (inc.), state they Vill be pleased U make arrangements' with any organisation organ-isation or school to furnish them with Pianola rolls for any performance one ; ; week in ad vane of the comins of the shew. |