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Show i SQUIRE COOP RETURNS HOME Squire Coop, who occupies tho chair of music at tho University of I'tah. returned yestordaj from a six weeks" vacation, the most of which be spout In London, Paris and Norra.mdy. Mr. Coop devoted much of this time to association as-sociation with tho best artists of tho old world and to gathering such now music as will be helpful to him in his work this year. "One thing that I particularly noted, not-ed, ' 6aid Mr. Coop, "is tho fact that even tho poor of Europe' arc enabled to hear tho best of music free or at a nominal cost. In the creat Jtfrdln de jTufleries of PariH, during the wholo summer season there are nightly concerts con-certs at which the best artists of the land present the best music. The two-fold object 1b tho uplift of the mueical taste and the counteracting of the effect of tho evil amusements I that are so provalenL Tho expense jof tbeae concerts is borne partly by ' the government, partly by schools and leading institutions and partly by the leading artists themselves. T found the same work In bringing good music mu-sic within the roach of all in both London and tho parts of Normandy that I visited." Because of the pressure of work Incidental In-cidental to the opening of school work Mr Coop was compelled to decline an offer to act as adjudicator at tho eastern Idaho eisteddfod, which opens today at Resburg. |