Show 6 y fJ I R THE SALT LAKE TELEGRAM I f SUNDAY 1 MORNING t APRIL 10 t 1921 I Canned Music The J t o Fan fes I J I f By Robert Haven f I Illustrated by M. M L. L Blumenthal i. i I Reprinted Reprint d by b y s special ecial i l per permission emission n of p P. P F. F Collier Son Sari C Co Publishers of Co Colliers Collier's li rs W Weekly c ly N my early days as a music critic 11 I was an Incorrigible highbrow I 1 used to turn up my nose at I- I Imy anything which h was not not in tho the claw class of ot tho the three Bs B's Bach Beethoven Dee Bee or Brahms rahms played by the theto two to B's Bs the Boston Symphony orchestra or Harold Bauer My Iy chief chiet abhorrence was the player- player piano fan tan It H is 11 true that I v was vas as familiar only with the transient kind of ot fan with the po powerful legs who always settles in the apartment above and spends his spare time lime grinding out Poor Butterfly Is a l Fly y Girl Now with all his hili might and keeps tho the loud or blurb pedal proal turned on so that the notes run together like a platter of ot 7 poached es after the tho cat has walked I over themI them i I found with relief that he was a R transient in because his hise J e rough ready methods soon wore i t out either his Instrument or his enn en- en n or some somo exasperated nel h- h 1 t bor would at Christmas make him a present of 1 roll for his player labeled ail Magic Fire Scene and filled with TNT r r But this was my Idea of ot the typical piano player fan tan until I myself was wasI r I turned into a fan b by one of ot the most charming and popular women in the world Sho will wm never nev-cr know what she did to me until she reads this number of ot Colliers Collier's I hate to have her know Inow But the story Is too good to keep kep One morning I was writing In my room at the Fairmont hotel San Francisco when the sound of ot a piano came through the wall Someone In Inthe inthe the adjoining suite was playing a al t. t l sonata and playing it very welt well Indeed No Now I prided myself on m my musical ear 1 I felt it was so ex experienced ex- ex and sensitive e that I could tell the playing of the worlds world's great reat pianists ts apart I knew at once that It was no s nar nary musician practicing In the next r room He lIe was repeating one difficult 1 passage over and over I noted that while the technique was flawless even at af the start the interpretation gained in beauty at each repetition Next Door to a Genius IT T flashed upon me that I must must be ba bea bet t a next door to some great virtuoso 10 L Could it be No Ko The i great mans man's playing had fallen tallen off oft too much of ot late lace Horrman This f persons person's performance wa as s too romantic romantic roman roman- tic and vital Was Vas it Grainger No 0 r The music had not quite qute Graingers Grainger's Virility Almost but butt t not quite Bauer was It It Of Ot Ott t- t h- h course course The piece now drawing to toan toan an end could come from no other fingers than those of ot Harold Bauer Mauer What hat luck to find m my old friend Inc in inthe c P the same hotel I must call him upI up I took down the telephone receiver I and asked aske for Mr Bauers Bauer's room There was a a. pause and then No o such party staying here Are you OU sure sure Who has No next nest door to me 1 L. L Miss lIss Maude Adams was the answer understood I I the situation instantly Bauer was there r Just as I 1 had thought One great artist was play play- playing ing lug for another great artist It was a a. sign of ot true friendship indeed to feel teel that while playing plang for a friend youcan you rou can practice a hard passage over a a. ai i dozen times Discretion was my 1 watchword I 1 would not think of ot intruding t. t Chopin's Fantasie began next nest door in Bauers Bauer's inimitable manner I 1 picked up the morning paper But nut I 1 bad not been reading three minutes i before I 1 saw a notice of ot a recital Ini in ii i New ew York the da day daj before by Harold Haroldf f ll Bauer Dauer t L It was as amazing I would have havet t 1 sworn sworn he was in ht the next room Who ho then could it be I seized m my hat went down to the theoffice office gave e the clerk a cigar cisar and remarked confidentially Theres ome j ome me great pianist in Miss Adams' Adams 1 room om playing to her Can you tell tell tell- me me who It is is' is 1 The clerk grinned Youve got sot the wrong dope he said coarsely Theres no great musician mu mu- i. i In or any other room room roomI t I I l' was Indignant I tell you there v ia There arent aren't a a. dozen men in the it world who could play the Chopin 2 r as Ive I've Just heard it played Take It from me said the clerk W oud u d better guess again The great pianist you heard was Miss lIss A Adams ams e herself I Impossible I 1 exclaimed A bus busy busy- actress could not possibly spare the tho time and strength to keep in such t. t practice No Xo it aint impossible answered J the clerk grinning more than ever Now listen Usten here and Ill I'll give gl you the thereal ti real Inside dope The first thing thins l k Maude Adams does whenever she goes goesl l t. t to to a hotel is to have the best player r plano piano in town fans sent to her rooms S i She's a regular tan fan Pumps that machine ma ma- chine cliine half hat her free freo time She She But with terrible misgivings I 1 re retreated retreated retreated re- re treated to my room and listened The The- il mighty music of ot Schumann's Symphonic Symphonic Symphonic Sym phonic Etudes was s rolling out of ot I could hear bear it Ver very distinctly because the weather was warm and all aU the windows were open And after atter tho the beauty Make friends with poor little last chord with a a. a groan of ot self self- i J- J Mozart and find out how they used abasement I caught the faint taint but f Q and a abused used his genius Sec Schubert clearly recognizable pur of ot a spool of ot 4 4 writing his songs on the bill of faro perforated paper being f of a rough village tavern and hear hearIt It was vas a crucial moment In my life tt him 1111 remark wistfully to his friend Good Lord I 1 exclaimed to space ta a People seem to like best the music If It a machine can allow a a. busy actress t that has cost me the tho most pain to sound like Ilka Bauer in the next room s s Theres There s one more thing the in- in Im I'm for tor It continued that Id I'd like to say bay bayto As soon as I returned home I ac acquired acquired ac- ac 4 r to the player piano fan urao 1 your jour a a. player-piano player and a lot of ot ti rolls ros hunted up the best player- player L t 4 L f t I le v 1 t i 1 J i 4 y t R l j 9 h t a. a r Ya ry r I Some one in the adjoin ng suite suile was vas as playing very well indeed I myself on my nv musical ear e-ar and it flashed upon me that I must b be next door to a great virtuoso Could it be pianist I could find fwd and took a course of ot operative lessons fore Before long I Iwas Iwas Iwas was an ardent enthusiast And I 1 found myself one of a large fraternity The Aristocracy of Mu Music ic TIlE THE thoroughbred plano player fan usually knows his instrument well wen enough not only to to play it with skill ands andi restraint but to be interested In Improving It mechanically and making it give him unceasing no novelty and a progressive musical education Nobody No- No o- o body is doing as much for the art as the enlightened enthusiast for tor canned canne music He lie is multiplying fast And it It is- high time For there are only four things th that t mankind needs more than music The They are food tood clothing shelter and religion Music comes fifth fUth Up o o our day this fifth need has gone largely unsatisfied because music making was an expensive aristocrat c thing that required much special skill and a long course of costly education Within the last generation canned mu music lc has come the come the greatest spiritual al boon of ot modern times times to to make male the theart theart theart art democratic And it has passed rapidly through the early crude stages t fi UE the point where today anyone with an open mind a little industry and the capacity for Improvement may express his own emotions on the piano a alt aS truly as G Granger Grainger 1 nger or or Bauer or or Th The day has gore gone ore J by y when a mere mat erS of ot finger tr twiddling can stand any any longer anger be between he- he tween John Smi Smith b h. h and Ludwig and L Ludwig van Beethoven en The number of highbrows s who still sneer at canned music is rapidly dwindling Most of ot the thc critics critics' have already alread discovered by discovered by some such experience experience experience ex ex- as Miss Maude Adams gave me the me the superiority of ot the musical food served from the new netto germproof can over that served from the open tin pan of the average pianist From Jazz to i Bach BachT T U LIfiE th the writer writer of ot this article article Professor Leo Lewis is a highbrow who did not have to be knocked off oft his high horse In order to see a great light He Fie Hek Fieis Is the head of ot the music department of ot Tufts college near Boston The first time he ever eer heard hearda a a. player piano there came carrie to him Ina in ina ina a flash a vision of the possibilities possibilities' of ot the thing tiring He decided to make this instrument teach his students students' music not not things about music but music itself f 11 He lie bought a number of ot player player- pianos and a couple of ot thousand rolls yf Wf the classics and fitted up a music atlon student student stu stu- appreciation labOratory Every ry dent in his course in the appreciation of ot music was required to do two hours' hours work a week In that laboratory And every ery year jear ear for tor more than a decade decade decade dec dec- ade Professor Lewis has turned out a large class of ot youngsters who are thoroughly familiar with the best compositions of all aU time and far tar better better bet bet- ter fitted to enjoy enjo music and show others other how how to enjoy it than If It they had spent pent thrice the number of ot hours playing scales and finger exercises exercise by hand 0 Ill guarantee Professor Lewis told me to take the most unmusical duffer that ever entered college collee and provided he can recognize a familiar tune when hen he hears it Ill I'll make him hima a genuine lover of ot classical music Until Until she reads this tins issue of Colliers Collier's Miss Maude Adams Adana cannot know what effect she has had on a professional musician and critic to whom every kind of canned music 1 was abominable But Mr now realizes that what music has most needed in America is to be made democratic democratic and and he tells here what is doing it I within nine months Ive I've never yet failed to do this This meth d yields such brilliant results that It is bound to be taken up bv ily colle colleges t and schools everywhere Professor L- L Lewis Lewis' wis' wis students are so keen for the course that his laboratory de deserves deserves deserves de- de serves to be called the fan factory Its success has been most marked with the lowest of the lowbrows The protes professor or unfailingly shows them how to take a L bet bee line from Jazz to na Bach h how to make it in two Jumps and how to themselves a hundred times more when they arrive A tailors tailor's pon son from a small town in tn Massachusetts had never never heard any good music He lie Joined the class and the following y year ear took tol tooka tolU a U course ourse on Beethoven The professor asked him at the inning beginning of each laboratory period to play himself one of Bachs Bach's preludes or fu the fugues the ues he stiffest sort of ot musical diet fco So Sox n after Professor Lewis found the lad with f ur Bach Bath rolls in his arm sate i- i rt I t Why loot look here he IH t. t mean you rou to do more more than th one of ot these vOh Oh Oh tints tint's s ali all right ar answered thel the l h bov ov V earnestly Im I. I keen en about em Another nother lad who had come from Brockton Drockton a few months before was was was' found fourd playing sky's Pathetic Pa Pathetic Symphony 1 as though racing racin against time The professor asked asked him it if he be liked it it t. t IS I Like It it was wis the answer Why expect pett Ive I've played this piece ov over a thousand times limes It Its It's s meat and drink to tome me me me He went on on to to- discuss its n fine fate e points like a connoisseur though l he be e bad had j never e heard an orchestra play It The professor saw to It It that It-that that he ha was A sitting g on the tile edge ge o of a good s seat t the next time the tie Boston Boston SymphonY IUd the Pathetic n Tie lie said that lads lad's t face ce- ce alone fully uBi repaid him for the trouble of ot foun founding the fan factory Music for for forthe the Lowbrow 1 MUSICALLY speaking the thc play player player- r- r A piano intelligently operated Is a get rich scheme that works The lowbrow with the open mind if It he goes poes about It right can make th the machine build him pleasure a as fast as the A. A E. E F F. ran up warehouses in prance Fiance Vf nce The effect of ot the player- player aln s 's first revelation of good music tipon f on such a mind is often otten to make mak Its owner lay lay- la In a library of ot books bools i Ern n musical appreciation history biography bio biography raph ra- ra ph phy etc Ie and to read them Reading R them fills him with curiosity to hear the instruments they des describe played by great eat players like those these th s In the thc biographies So he begins begins' going oln to concerts and md when he comes home he ho naturally plays the music over on Eu n his player piano trying to imitate the Interpretations in int interpretations in- in t ms he has Just heard I know an elderly elderly- elder lowbrow who In seven se years year ears since buying his player- player piano has laid in a library of ot 25 volumes u on music U has becA become me a r su regu- regular sular ft lar attendant n n at the most r n concerts concepts and can sit down at his in instrument instrument In- In strument a and d give gl you ou the Chicago Philadelphia Dos Boston ton or the various arlous New York versions of ot the same or orchestral orchestral or- or piece or can show you how howall howall howall all the great pianists differ in their interpretations of ot some well weB known solo And he studies these originals even more through his phonograph than by attending concerts I know of ot another lowbrow who bought a a. player and stocked up with witha a large selection of ot Broadway musical comedy rolls After Atter playing them Industriously in industriously industriously In- In he lie decided to get a kind of music he would not tire of ot so quickly And this same thing happened happened hap hap- so many times within the next few months that thai i a q year jear y ear later he was overheard in a music store asking a friend Did you ou he hear r the Philharmonic Orchestra yesterday conducting conducting conducting con con- ducting was was- simply rotten Why y I could give gl him him cards cards and spades on the slow movement do you OU re remember remember remember re- re member that passage for tor the trombones trombones trombones' bones bones' ones He went off oft Into a detailed description of 01 the performance perform perform- once ance which showed that through the player piano he had come to know some Fome of the best music through and through within a year One of ot the most expert and and cultivated cultivated cultivated cul cul- cul- cul player player piano piano fans I Know Know- Knowis Isan is isan isan an elderly Boston gentleman well wen known as the Inventor of ot various machines in common use A few years ago he ho saw saw a player plano liked it because its mechanism was vas so beautifully conceived and bo bought Iton it iton |