Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-12-02 | Page 27 | Music for Everyone

r fr f cy Sl b bT by j Tz i iI T U y I 9 J JU 1 IGlAI AS NATIONAL ANTHEM Song Leaders U Urged to Sell Spangled Ban Ban- Banner Banner ner ncr to Throng Denial that the Spangled Star Banner Danner Is n as ItS frequent frequently Iy ly Is charged together with al a l Ia- Ia la laIns lIng Ins Ing of tho blame for sluggish per performances ot of It upon poor leader leader- leadership leadership leadership ship was wag made mado at a 0 Round Hound Table ot of musicians In New York City re- re recently re recently It If any audience docs does not re-I re sing the national anthem well It is because the leader leMer h hadnot not made the tue proper m ni inner mner bf of if ap- ap approach approach ap approach to the tho singing of It in m the opinion of the musicians In were cited of occasions on which the leader had given such Euch an un- un unsatIsfactorY un unsatisfactory satisfactory announcement of the anthem that the response on the audience 3 i m n was luke luke- warm Tle The leaders lea approach to the spangled Banner said Mid one speaker should at once set a 0 mood of reverence for the song song-as a 8 s fl- fl ir-bol ir bol of our love of ot country Such j It-j an Introduction Is necessary In order or order der to sound the emotional key key- keynote keynote keynote note of or the singing ruST SEW SELL SO SONG G la Ii every such approach to the singing of a song said another the the leader should draw upon the tho of salesmanship of ot which ithe the chief means are experience testimony and argument ot Of these the weakest approach Is argument In Introducing Introducing- the spangled Star Spangled Banner the leader lelder should show forth his own expert expert- experience once ence ar to the emotional appeal of o the anthem m and he may also give t testimony as to that appeal Best Bestor DC cf all a he ho should demonstrate by his example what the Star Span Star led led lad Banner means to him He should not lecture the audience as asto asto asto to why they should respect the an- an anthem anthem an anthem them for the public dislikes being told what It ought to feel Rever-I Rever fever fever- ence ence for the anthem as a 0 symbol should mould emanate from him I irrespective lye hoe of whether or not be bele I It to be perfect os 09 a song How should How should he achieve that effect of emanation First let him hini pause vause In the continuity of the program Let him wait walt until every eye and ear I is at attention Then In the hush that ensues he lie may announce I the song Following another brief pause he makes a 0 gesture of rever rever- reverence reverence ence once and begins directing the sing sIng- sInging singing ing lag of the anthem USE NATURAL METHOD Another person brought up the instance of ot a n song leader who iho Is never especially dignified upon the I platform and who approaches the I Star Spangled Banner In a brisk energetic manner which nevertheless less gets results In the form of en- en cn singing The of opinion was that the leader should use the method natural to him but that the reverent ap- ap approach ap approach was most There are various wrong waS WI S to announce the national anthem the agreed The a worst oret way Is the casual lackadaisical ap- ap approach approach ap approach Sometimes the leader Is guilty of this but more often oCten the presiding officer who takes the nn- nn announcing an announcing out of the dIrector directors s hand Another Inept approach is the tho dIc- dIc dIctatorial dictatorial dic dictatorial I method One of those present brought up an nn example ot of that method In the case ease of the song f leader leader at the Republican Conven Conven- Convent Convention Convention t tion In Chicago who said Wp W Wi ci Ill now sing The Long Long Trait 1111 The audience just wouldn't So It ItIs itis ItIs Is when hen the leader sass We will now sing Star Star- Spangled Etar Spangled Banner The TI Ameri Amen American American can public refuses to be led led so liter liter- literally literally elly ally