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Show HOLDJLL OVER Harry Murrison of Community Service Says Everybody Bursting Forth in Song Music as a vital asset In tho social and business life of the country has becomo an accepted fact according to Hnrry Murrison, In charge of Community Com-munity singing In Ogden. In regard to community singing, Murrison today said . "Peoplo In all vmlks of life have awakened or are rapidly becoming conscious con-scious to tho benefits to bo derived from listening to tho music of a great orchestra, band or. hotter still, In participating In the making of music F1M I BE rK MUSIC "Big business l more and more learning to depend on this wonderful humanizing agency to gTease tho wheelH of Industry; workers are demanding de-manding more and better music to re-Move re-Move tho tedium of the work-a-day world; scientists ar finding uses for music undreamed of a few year ago. Psychologists aro applying this great art to the solving of many of our most complex preseivt-duy social problems prob-lems The church Is demanding more and better music In It's services. The theatro depends upon It to attract a largo percentage of Its patrons. Large cities In all sections of the country are subsidizing wonderful symphony orchestra, brass bands, civic and community com-munity choruses. The government Is teaching music In all of Its branches in the great military universities, mt only as a morale building agency but for Ita cultural values as woll. "While It Is true that community singing was coming into Its own before tho war, there can be no doubt that the remarkable wave of singing which swept over tho country during thoso trying days gave music a wonderful Impetus which must not bo lost. EVERYBODY SINGING. "People have learned that music is an art that can lo i njoyed and Indulged In-dulged In by everyone and Is not confined con-fined to the favored few, "Department stores, automobile factories, fac-tories, mills, banks, manufacturing concerns of every description, social clubs, chambers of commerce. Improvement Im-provement associations and even In the national house of representative! aro Indulging In community singing. Rotary and Kiwanis clubs consider massed singing of as much Importance as any other order of business. In fact, wherever men and women n.i-somble n.i-somble community singing is one of tho most enjoyable features of tho meeting. "People have learned to participate In some form of musical expression and have enjoyed the physical, mental and spiritual reactions which havo made of community singing a social Instrument Through tho community singing movement they havo made their start in musical development. Spontaneous mass singing Is the threshhold. the open door to community commun-ity music. IUUM, OUT LATENT TALENT. "It Is not too much to hop that by tho process of taking the best music mu-sic to the neighborhood groups and community interest, by seeking out the talent which lies latent In the neighborhood and training It, and by the development of an appreciation of good music through participation. America shall become a music-loving and a music-producing nation." |