| Show QUERIES ANSWERED BY MUSIC DIRECTOR by ashley bartlett director of 0 music in the central school it la is true that fully half a hundred parents h ivo ive asked we me latel this question when should my luy children take up musiel I 1 th llie query la is fio bo important that it Is given that public answer it each father and mother could go with me for just one day as I 1 cor duct my music work in each grade from the beginners to the eighth they would see and hear bear tho the answer the most mAoni astonishing shing and simple answer to that big question when they saw the lower grades complete ly outstripping the higher it mould bo be a clear case that each child should take music as aa soon as ile he italics anything la in school fn an fact in the kindergarten and beginners aasc la sc music is the very soul of it 11 all the one indispensable element it is but a step then if one would only think of it to conclude that music keeps all its charm and fas chia tion for the child as he pisses into tho the first and on up through the lie grads gradis the children in the first grade simply absorb music as they do e co thing else the teacher offers them and why not Is music less likely to fire the little mind with enthus lam to learn it than does rc adinE writing and iry thing else being equal crual musk Is to alerd the otliss would V it id it nut scein isoa but alack and alas what state of things exists in uintah county bounty and up to it recent hollib enen in vernal it is this even facility has ln provided to teah the leading ea ding writing and arltz in etick and shall I 1 say it not one penna or effort for music la Is i to wonder then that our Ni visitors no alce that the lor grades are now outstripping the higher the higher nener lind had a chance it Is e dedual ual to sending a child to phool altero re reidling tiling Is not taught initia he relf thes the eighth grade rad eighth fc just jast learning lc arnim to do it nell wella would reading he be popular and easy no nelthia Is 1 it if Itlie ld from froin the student until he reathea the eighth grade on the other hand children who nho harp lessons in music from the be dinner class up not onla abb orb I 1 it t aa they do the other studies abut I 1 abut it comes into their ches to bless them as long as they live the time then to give ghe our children music la Is the same same day hour and biln ute you would them any they lesson this Is true also of children who aro arc to be carpenters violin placers or pianists the minute the bo con can handle the plane the violin bov bon or the keys of the piano he should have a chance because nimble abs plastic nature does tor for the child what years and years of practice in later life neer can achieve train a child not a big boy or a man train ft a child in bi the vay nay he be should go and when ahen he is old oil he will not depart |
