Show O 0 O 0 OOOO O CK OO O O O O C 0 I Student Abroad g I The TLe Mu Music ic T Tea Teach acher er f o o b O O co Berlin Sept 13 I 1 I approach ach the 1 subject t I have ha outlined for this Hils p paper fJ l'- l' with more diffidence than the following follow follow- ing In paragraphs may seem to imply imply- I but I feel that my rny musical experience both good anti and bad and both at nt homo and azid abroad may have given cn me some I ideas that will vIll prove helpful to others who are J JUst st starting out There are teachers arid and teachers There is the teacher who comes out in the public J all the time lime with glowing n notices of oC apparent and self self- evident puffing There Thero is Is' the teacher who has haR such auch a horror honor of newspaper advertising that he shrinks actually from the mer merest st mention of or himself or his Itis work There Thero is 18 the great mass of or teachers between these two extremes who are the rank and of the teachIng teach teach- ing lug corps anywhere and in an any countr coun coun- tr try As to advertising In a musical way and professionally I am trying to get some data over hero here from my own teachers and friends which will give mo me something something- to say on that score when J I get set to to it But Just jut now I Iwo wo would ld like t to dissect this matter of oC suitable and unsuitable te teachers according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to m my own lights and limita limita- In In the the first place it is well vell to state my arg argument ment thero are arc as man many grades and kinds of musicians as there arc p painters and writers To 10 the great reat public a musician is a a musician and that's all there ther is to It it Some musicians musicians musi must claris play better beUer or or sing better belter than others but but- all are alike classed alike classed in ono one great unnumbered and unclassified fled fied category category musicians And you rou know that public viewpoint makes a areal areal areal real musician either laugh until his sides ache ach or it makes him tear Jear out handfuls of of his Ills scarce hair and rave in all the languages at his command For there 1st as much difference be between between between be- be tween an teacher artist and the ordinary ordinary nary scrub pedagogue as as there Is to Is-to to uso use a 3 commercial lson that will be clearly understood b by the man on the as street as th there re is difference between between between be be- tween J. J Pierpont Morgan lorgan and the tho cJ Clerk It who ho measures off tape or sells alioe strings at so much per No one would confuse his commercial estimate esti osti- mate nuite of men but most folks jumble up p their estimates 0 of oC musicians If lC a man can sit down an and 1 hammer out outa a sonata or can ba bawl l off the time Two Grenadiers rs then he lie is a musician and p parents r send th lr children to him with that hat haC sublime courage and trust be begotten of oC the time crass crass ignorance of oC the average citizen on musical mu matters Did an anybody ody at home ever eel consider the propriety of having a state musical musical mu mu- board which should pass pas upon the qua qualifications of ot those men and women who are arc to make mako or mar the superb voices and musical talents of the children of or Utah For I am bold to say that I have never seen so much native m musical talent to the population population tion In an any of m my n-my travels not even In InthIs' InthIs Inthis inthis this thIs' big town o of B Berlin as as' as exists in our own Utah And if we W are are areto to preserve pre pro serve the status of medical experts and teachers in the public schools of oC farmers who raise stock and and sell apples apples ap ap- ap- ap ples why in iii the name of all that's beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- I and refining in life IlCe cant can't we have ha some musical experts experts' to determine the qualifications of those thoo who are to todeal todeal todeal deal with the most d delicate and ex expensive ex- ex pensive org org-an organ in hl the tho human body body body- the vibrant vocal ocal chord which is worth nothing or worth from that all the wa way up to a song song why why cant can't the state step in and protect us from rom the tho musical charlatan who ho lives abroad broad one ono year ear taking one or six lessons lessons' ns' ns of oC a master and anda a good many dozen of or f che cheap p and Impecunious charlatans over here and then ad advertises adver adver- ver- ver s himself as as the pupil of and So So Perhaps I t am speaking of things that wilt will offend some some but It Is Just those people who ought to ha hR offend offend- erand put p put t of musical commission Now ow as to the teacher There arc are three things which go to make up the right teacher or the Id Ideal al teacher temperament musical abilities and good sound training This rule Is as applicable at home as it t I Is here And Arid yet vet et these three qualifications are susceptible susceptible sus sus- ble of many modifications tI o First I have placed temperament For It would be bo much safer to place a pupil with a poorly trained teacher with true musical temperament nt than a good goodOne goodone one who vho Is mechanical and arid dull lull when It comes comes to artistic feeling Then next comes musical abilities Again It would be safer to entrust a child with it h. h a man or woman who had temperament tem tern and musical ability and yet et wIle who was lacking in the technical training than it would to put the child under one who had all alJ the training in the world orId but hut lacked either of the theother theother other two And we see so much of th the latter kind of of teachers over o hero here I Mon Men at and l women especially men mon who nho have excellent rhythm and tune be- be gotten It ia may be by generations ot of splendid training in In musical listening but who aro are not nor ever will be mu S mu-S They arc musical artisans who ha have chosen music for Cor a slon sion as they would medicine because a living Hying must be made an and teaching music is as easy as anything else I V The ordinary orchestras df dr r Germany It Jf are filled with musical artisans and so alas are arc the tea teaching ranks rank in every village and even cven In the great reat ft i cities Have y you ou not met men and women who vho could pIa play the piano or I the violin like mechanical men and women or with voices perfectly true true 2 and clear cleary of or good compass and qualIty It ity but who were utterly without temperament and color without t one i i spark of kindling musical fire I s see e eman man many such over O here It Is avery anery popular popular pop pop- ular thing to ho bo a musician and the of the pa pay Is amply compensated compensated compensated com com- for by the rise of social po position position po- po which I is made b by an any of the 5 working working- classes when hen they step up into this professional class Such musical musical mu mu- artisans are the poorest kind of teachers f for r children The They drill 1 them as they would dose lose them It If they were doctors without one scintilla of ot feeling or 01 Ima Imagination Just with the like clock-like precision of soldiering Many a budding b talent has been ut ut- ut t tony terly routed In youth b by these cold passionless precise conscientious and orderly mechanics of music Better a temperamental teach teacher r who v is a mass massof massof of or storm clouds and explosions for tor your our own soul will sure surely catch ratch fire from some spark emitted and you OU can change teachers if th the fusillade gets gels el too severe or time the firing Is too fre Cre- fro fro- quent Let Lct me emphasize one cardinal point A A. teacher with all air the time temperament temperament temper temper- ament In tho time world and nd with musical ability will nevertheless butcher voices and Impale hands If It ho he ha has lias no proper training and IB is besides so dense densely ignorant and conceited that ho hI doesn't know kno that he lie doesn't know lie He is a fool Cool as the time Arab says sas shun him I think I should have put one quality which I have not named at au all at the head of ot my list namely list namely Intelligence The difference difference differ differ- ence between genius and talent is a a. difference too often oCten of or intelligence Some Iaz lazy minds are so 80 constituted that the they never find out that they I f dont don't know anything The teacher to be ideal need not be bea a J. J genius nor mior a great artist For por beIt beit be bo boit it known that producing music makIn makin making mak mak- in ing In music and teaching music are I three quite different things That some mast masters rs nay most ha have hae e been able ahle to do all three Is not sufficient evidence that they go o together The Tho I good goodteacher teacher be bc a moderate u may mar very success ucc ss 11 am producing music or yr ai at composing composing com corn posing posing- it but he may have the pedagogic pedagogic go lc gift Ift of oC Imparting which imparting which Is III the true equipment of the ideal teacher While the tho artist may be a very poor tea teacher Indeed Another point that I would like ilko to tomake tomake tomake make clear the good teacher of oC primary primary mary pupils need not be qualified to teach advanced pupils That is very well recognized over here and nd all great teachers have a numb number 1 o of of- pu pu- pu pupil pil pH teachers or assistants and these do mo most t of or the work for the master He gives lessons lesson but to few tew and that at rare rato Intervals But But and and here Is the time point the point the as assistant has been tau taught ht properly how to teach musical fundamentals the primary or sec secOnd secOnd- nd- nd class or third-class third pupils b by one ono who knows exactly how to drill him in that elementary knowledge Our public school teachers have their grades and places and the yet very best primary teacher Is 15 often quite unfitted to be become become become be- be come with all aU th the tho study in the world the principal of ot a a. great school Of Ot course If It one could get et first lessons and last lessons lesIons in music or any art from a great master that ml might ht be ideal teaching But as things are ar arranged arranged ar- ar ranged nowadays such a thing Is Ig Impossible Masters command sufficient clent prices priceR to take talco only advanced pu pupils pupils pupils pu- pu pils of ot the highest rank You Just fanc fancy a n mother mothel wanting Supt D D. H. H Christensen to to teach ho her baby ab In the tho Kindergarten Because ne e IB is a a. master of his art Just so 80 do the master teachers over o here look at any an one who would propose that the they should take elementary or second or third third- I 1 grade musical pupils However the ordinary primary school chool teacher mu must t have received his hisor hisor or 0 her teaching from rom acknowledged authority or or what would be the consequences consequences con con- sequences in our public schools And AnI yet In music which is an ami art so delicate delicate del del- and so choice our parents ar aras are areas areas as careless and antI as Indiscriminate In iii their choice of ot teachers teacher for us a as would be the most h ignorant parents of or savage nations What hat can we do to remedy this condition In Utah |