Show SAYS AMERICA IS UNEDUCATED No Continuity In Musical Instruction Says Professor NEW YORK May l IL li BY BYThe The Associated Press BeCause Preta Americans are musically uneducated uneducated uneducated or the th United States Is not a musical nation declares Archibald T Davison M- M a is professor protessor of ot music at Har Her Harvard Harvard vard yard and conductor of ot the Hal Har Halard Har- Har Harvard vard ard Glee Gle Club The Tho fundamental cause of our lack of ot advancement toward an apprecIation of ot music by the great body of ot our people Is found In tho absence of ot a logical and continuous plan pl n of ot music education based on the highest standards he sas sa's says In his book published today by Harpers Harper Everyone who teaches music and particularly those thos who have to do donith nith Ith the th training of ot adults must be b Impressed by the tho fact that the continuity which exists In other branches of ot education and which Insures normal proe Tess from elementary schools through higher Institutions Institution Is lacking In musical Instruction More lore alarming Is the Indifferent ferent attitude displayed by many young people popl toward iou mu- music mu music sic This attitude Is la wholly In- In Incomprehensible Incomprehensible In comprehensible until ono one made an examination of the aims methods and ami material of ot modern American music education Wo We thu thus tar far have escaped dote defeat nt op- op oppression oppression op oppression and such uch other eXle experience experience as a seem to produce In na- na na nations tIns a veneration for beauty and anda anda a desire destro to o express cx It not necessarily necessarily In the th work of ot skilled killed ob- ob observers observers ob observers servers but through the th simple channels of ot popular eloquence It If we are arc to bring brine our peo- peo people peo people pie In large larf numbers number to a real understanding and love of music education may do Its part but only through a well considered well progressive plan honestly and skillfully administered and with with- without without out hope hop of ot Immediate result 00 00 |