| Show American Music to Come Com From the th South Sooth i I iu AJI the tho notel H French vIolinIst t ions has hll started a 1 In 11 this country by h Jc do tl durIng to a it I per ler that In Ito time the future the Ameri American merl cart can Al music will wi come COI from trum the south This Is I what ho Ito says IS Too TiK J many musicians come cottie over to ito Il thIs his country from rono and tell tel joi 01 Americans that you 01 arc ne alt all 11 right OPI here herl r your yo r musical I U le I compositions cOlpo l boos 1011 and 1111 your appreciation of ot good said Mr 1 hut but that I 1 think Is I a 0 mistake In Ito many ways las 1 YOU jou OU are lre all al right anti and we who conic como trout from frol across lerOI the this water to give concerts urn aro nr very C willing to concede to thIs but biot Amer cans 10 tire ro fond of at knowing the thoc truth and quick to acknowledge H a l and therefore they the should be hc treated sincerity rather than tItan with There are arc some ROle serious defects In iii tIme the music of America Americ which will olIh wil talon tako ears yeara to o remedy and anol more music must b 1 lC the children before the natie begins to take Ink Its I place pIneo among nations which are arc foremost In iii music In lii Il the west seat lt All Ah 11 It Is terrible thorn there Except pt for tot a few tel college towns ona oln cities where there tore are large larKe orchestras tile lie Tick back of or appreciation of ot good 00 music m tl II is f appalling Yes there arc nr ar somo om Her Ger Hermans mauls mans In be west but bul they the hoe ePI to tot he have loft loC the faculty for creation Ito Irv 11 German fluid and have only UI brought with them hem the Idea of keeping up their char chor choral charal al oil societies And these loose are used more or than bait for fer or purposes Yet before they thusy left the fatherland these folk heal had a diet of ot music since the Iho days they tile went to school and anil most of tot IC them before beform that tube time My t UI rI m no August and I r both bol hot P rom Conic from but bulL we WI V have played many union Ir In II and It Is Ii sur surprising KUI riinA to know knol that In lit II most IO t towns ol ci 2000 or people there hero Utro are arc Ire fine or orchestras well wel and Int if t finished musician That Is I b nl they the love their music over there bore mm havo has at heart Its hIs Interests as los an not art artIn III Fn lot bent ore more many condO condi conditions for tor or against the tho sub stub the tle tI Influences of ot mu lc The spirit of commercialism Is I one oros tImIng thing that hint In A 1 z great groat measure causes a 1 check hut but tills till cannot stamp out tho Ion mark of ot great greatness ness lIel In Ito It If tho the composer CO Is n genius genious lien Ius who Is III In earnest Hut But I think It depends on ott the tIo section of the country where the man I Is II Music cannot an not come corne out of ot Kansas There It II Is all the tiamo MillO long bug stretch of or country l wherever the e Po turns tunis It Is III a country to depress the tho spirits spirit rather than to raIse thorn them ant and there Is but hUI little to tn Inspire In hut Michi Michigan ran gan there lucre Is the tito tit I gloom of oC tho lie forests or III the tho smoke of at the cities things are a 10 also aioo depressing nut Hut In the south you ott have tin Ih conditions con for tor Or the thi artist There Is III tl tI thI dreamy I roomy atmosphere will utti a aman man noan to think great groa California 0 too be III Is a u state where art There they buoy have trees trots cool and mountains lu running water ovater It Is out nut of oil toe south though that t 11 hat I tho tile music mu le typically American will ulti ullI rome come Thus tar far the th only written In lom this country has hlll been that lint which his IMS been beti bj II b Cerini i Trench Italian or other composers but the hoe day do dl will conic come when 1111 there will be a 11 music mu lc distinctly American anti and It will wm come collie from rent tItus tha old 01 1 southern melodies They Tiley nio noc weird and wild somo of ot others are uro soft stOol and Cloon but bolt about thorn nil oil Is III a to rhythm which is I unmistakably now In Iu inutile and which will otIli some SlIm day olay tin soon bring forth n to truly original or national to I minlo m ot s it for fIll this lois coui III try Already melodies Are begirt begir tu to hu boo popular throughout Europe I I and though thin tho greatest Er demand for tor I them Is I In III the tho dance halls tho the line limo will u como when it will be he played In the Ito thoi est eat I t of Europe It Is I be he becoming coming coalIng more and bud more pronounced each elleh I year bettor beter combinations of ott the tIle old oIl strains are tos booing blended toni and great grent I musicians predict that before you loll will ovill r como true lIue 1 |
