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FAMOUS OXFORD SPEAKER AT STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE John Cowper Powys, H. A. a bril-1 liant English nove 1st, poet and es-1 sayist, former staff lecturer of the] Extension Societies by Oxford and Cambridge Universities and author of Suspended Judgment, Visions, and Revisions, Wood and St., Rodmone, Wolfs Bane, Mandrugora, The Complex Vision, Saphire, One Hundred Best Rooks and Psychoanalysis and; Morality, lectured at S. T. C. Nov. If, I on The Study of Poetry. In th course of this lecture, Mr. j Powys brought out the idea that poetry is something belonging to private i life—more like a love affair than like r. study; and it is unfair to this great arcl beautiful goddess to treat it in any other way than as something secret, belonging to our inmost selves —a thing from which we may get in any mood, comfor: and consolation The Oxford Blood, of English Verse, contains the quintessance of English poetry and Mr. Powys ursed us to become familiar with it and change it into a Farmville Book of Verse. In life we have moments of happiness then come moments when nature gives us a thrill; moments we are indescribably happy. Poetry does at least two things far us, it reconciles us to life, and helps us escape from life. Poetry is a mysterious, divine power and Spirit, He also urged us to make the old poets a part of our life. To Mr. Powys, Shakespeare is decidedly the. greatest English poet. He ha* many weaknesses, but we find him most apt in portraying events and occurrances of daily life. He has written poetry to suit every mood. According to Mr. Powys the second greatest English poet is John Milton. He is peculiarly masculine and expresses the masculine desire to escape from women. Mr. Powys prefer-
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In his das; (ii atii ii ■>■ i I placer", third. We rea IK ; ■; ;■ passionate beauty. Keats ... elf • "Beauty is truth, truth I That is all we know and all need u.
know." Mr. Powys said, "Keats hal that flowers could feel ani t e« could feel, and I more than lieve it myself.'" Concerning Shcliey Mr. Powys • ■■•'! that no poet is so beautiful nor u staid. His description of wii te violi I white narcissus, and wb.'te death a so beautiful yet :#o delicate, The fifth great English po:t is Alfred Lord Tennyson. Mr. Powys .-poke of Tennyson as his boyhood favorite. Among his poems, The Lady of Shalot, Loxly Hall, and others had a strong appeal to him in his youth. William Blake, the mystic; the greatest of a'l mysteries in English poetry is one of the speaker's pecu-1 liar favorites. Leaving the old English Poets. Mr. Powys then classified modern poets and quotec", from many of them. He told of two modern English poets. Walter De La Mare who has written Peacock's Pie, and the novel. The Memiors of a Midget, and William Butler Yeats, an Irishman, who wrote among other things, The Hour Giarth and The Land of Heart's Desire. 'Edgar Lee Masters was classified first among the modern American poets. His works are found in. Spoon River Anthology. This unique book is sardonic, it has d,ry humor, it is unhappy and tragic, yet it has a kind of hope. He is like Walt Whitman in that he has no meter and no rhyme Continued on page 3
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The college orchestra has begun work in earnest this year with Mrs. Katherine Kin"? as director. There can be no doubt of its success. This year is the first year in the history of the school that a girl has come here who can play a flute. With Helle Bryant and her flute, Mary Hooker and her clarinet, backed by the many violins, xylophone, drums, and piano, we are expecting to have music of the very best. Every Wednesday afternoon at five o'clock, they hold their practices in Room D. If there are any more girls who would like to join, they will be welcomed. The members are: Josephine Peters Elizabeth Bell Belle Bryant Virginia Woodward Mary Tucker Mary Booker Virginia Vincent Miss Browning Mary Linn Petty Mrs. Bowman Louise Forbes Mary Vaughan Margaret Lewis Stearnes
The Mandoin-Guitar Culb has been holding regular meetings every week in Room D, The club wishes to urge all girls who play either the mandolin or the guitar to meet on Thursday at 4:15. Several members of the MandolinGuitar Club went to Powhatan this week-end with Glee Club Group No. 1. The following are the officers for this year: President, Helen Thomas; Secretary-Treasurer, Marian Fitchett.
■ Club ii 'Clde 1 to presenl "Paul • It -• fl st musical number. Club Is planning an exI : 0 cram during the remainder of the j ear.
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s. T. c. is quite fortunate In having for the second year at the head f its Music Department, Mrs. [Catherine King, whom every student lOTea and cherishes. MTS. K ng comes to us with a B. M. ?j ;m Washington College. She receiving a diploma of Public School Musi.' and took graduate work at the Northwestern University. Summer School. After this she attended the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. Mrs. King was an art pupil of Francesco Da Idi, Chicago Opera Company, and Edgar Nelssn. During the past summer she studied under Pres. Bush of the American Conservatory, Chicago. We are pround to say that -Mis. King is pushing forward, the musical side of our curriculum. Her energj and interest for the work which she Is donig with the Choral and Glee Clubs seem untiring. We are wishing her great success and are willing to stand by her in all the work which she undertakes! THANKSGIVING PROGRAM
THE COIN Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That time cannot take Nor a thief purloin,— Oh, better than the minting Of a gold crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing. Sara Teasdale
REORGANIZATION FACULTY REPRESENTED Or GLEE CLUB AT STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION :li ■ College ba [rown su i ha 1 been necessary to if the old Glee Club have a Ch iral Club, co nposec on ' hundre 1 1 imbei and 1 of thirty-five of the best >m t i.e ( iioral Club. I . I (Hub me 11 every w. . 01 n. At a r< ct nl meet Ini tution was adopte I and the ' eli t< d. lee (",uii meet 1 every Monday on, A Ita in BI meet ng the
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:' the Gil e Club: Lucy Mai Stella, Prances Jenkins, Helen Cohen, Evelyn Styne, Gertrude Jarman, Minna Brown, Ella Putney, Margaret Hubbard. Eloise Warrincr. Reba Bishop, Pattie Smith, Harriet Booker, Helen Hodges, Rose Powell, Ida William;. Mebanc Hunt, Alice Page Ai'.i us, Cornelia Hangar, Lillian Savage, Margaret P. tty. (Ruth Phillips, ROM Lee MaddoX, Virginia Potts, Maiiei Cutts, Marj Harrell, Marion Fitchett, Mary Vaughan, clan Black, Madelaine Gary, 1. ttle Williams, Florence Mclntyre, Cornelia Mclntyre, Winifred Briggs, Betty llopkln ;. Virginia Vincent.
The Vi- n a state Teacher's As. oclat'on \. Ill meet In Norfolk, November I'!, 1925, Several members of our a. air. will take part in the program.
Dr .1 !. Jarman will address the Cona :e on "Extra-Curricula Actlvt!es." Dr. J. E. Walii'.siey will addr BS the Department of History and Social Scien te, h B subject being "History Teacher's Declaration of Rights." He n 11 a! 10 repTi sent the Farmville Chapter a) the Business Meeting of the Ass elation. Miss Sara B, Tuckewill give a report to the same see! ion on "Vital Points to History Teacbi rs," gleaned from the meeting of the American Historical Association which met in Richmond alst year. Miss Von S,-hilling will aldress the rural sect: 111 on "Project Method of 'reaching Geography in Rural Schools", other members of the faculty who will attend the meeting are Misses Smithey, Tapper and BierbOWer, STAFF OF THE MUSICAL ISSUE Editor-in-chief Assistant Editor Literary Editor News Editor Joke Edit r Typists
Mary Vaghan Mabel Orossclo e Cornelia Dickinson "Chubby" Gray Virginia Potts Helen Cohen MA FRANK HOFFMAN SPEAKS Helen Meeks AT PRAYER* WEDNESDAY Faculty Advisor, Mrs. Katharine King The members of the staff of the Mr. Frank Hoft'inan, a student at Musical issue feel grateful to all who Hampden-Sidney College, spoke to us have cooperated with them in editing at Prayers last Wednesday evening. H's Bubjecl was "International this issue of The Rotunda. Frit adship." He sir wed how years ago cac'i MUSICAL COMEDY TO BI PREplantatl :i In America was a neighSEWED RV THE OLEE CLUB borhood i.i Itself, raising all sary good doing its own re"Paul Revere", a musical comedy, pair work, and conducting Ita own will be presented In the College Audiaffairs In K< neral, However, during torium about the Iwenty-second of ami after the Ch II War, lnv< ntioni February by the College Glee Club. and discoveries brought the Nortb and Cast of Characters B nth ni our own co intry Into clc Margaret Faxton (Mr. Faxton's eldest communication, and Qnally jonied th< daughter), Lucy Marstella United States with great, foreign Paul Ri vere 1 a y ung patriot of Bosworld powers. "To I ij '. stated Mi, ton, Massachusetts, U. S. A ) Hoffman, "the world is our neighborMebane Hunt hood. We can no longer be citlsens w* Dorothy Fayton (Mr. Faxton's second a state or country but of the world.' daughter) Florence Mclntyre Foreign countries ;|" calling tot oni Phyllis (Mr. I.axton's 12 year old aid to help establish international daughter), Fiances Claik friendship in the world What are we Mr. Faxton (A loyalist and wealthy presenl students and future citizen land owner), Mary Alice Blanton going to do about it? 1.it m taki Lieutenant Wlliara Day of the Brit Christ as our example of brotherlj Army. Clara lilack love and friendship, and do OUT pai Captain Marks (An 1 truer ir. the to establish the Kingdom of Qod or Mill i Ii Aruiy I, ('hubby Cray earth and to carry out God's law ol Michai I Bweeney (1 bad lot), love." Virginia Potts
and two old negro servants l'ore\\i:riUMl Rj tUS and I) nah "If had known what a fool you 0 were 1 would never have man "is it true. Harry, that you would you", stormed Mrs. Knaggs. not stop p!a\ tin poikcr to eat'.'" "You might have mi ad It, m\ Harry: "Not exactly, but frequently dear, a ben 1 proj 0 d to you", pi tested her spouse mildly. after playing polker I stop eating."
TiiE ROTUNDA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1925 Men of Old" makes shoulders svraiprten and the feet quicken in martial tread. And so on through hundreds of songs. Music, when we try to analyze ourselves, is a vital and integral part of our beings- We cannot imagine ourselves without music, because we Member Southern Inter-Collegiate Newspaper Association icannot be without it. It is universal and eternal. It will be with Published Weekly by Students of the State Teahcers College, US as long as a cricket chirps, or a bee hums, as long as the wind Farmville, Virginia. htirs Aeolian melodies in the trees, or a bird carols on a limb, as Entered as 2nd class matter March 1st, 1921, at the Post Office of long as the voices of children chatter or a mother croons over her 'young one, as long as the mighty spheres revolve in perfect unison Farmville, Virginia, under Act of March 3, 1879 and harmony, and as long as the human heart strings are touched Subscription $1.50 per year by any emotion. ROTUNDA STAFF THE B.:M\MM. OK out MUSIC MEMORIES OF BLUE RIDGE Editor-in-Chief LUCY HAILE OVERBEY, '27 Assistant Editor EDITH CORNWELL, '27 May I tell you something abut Blue When v.e g to operas or hear Hoard of Editors Ridge? Hlue Ridge is the official conLiterary Fannie Rowe Brown '28 Humorous, Bessie M. Riddle '27 music o. any ki.i I. I wonder how many ference grounds for the southern colNews __ Mary Alice Blanton, '28 Athletic __ Evelyn Dulaney, '28 of us stop to think how it began ami leges. 'Ibis past summer it held its Reporters hew it hat been handed down lo U8? fourteenth conference. To tell you Frances Jones, '28 Margaret Fowler '29 Vet it s very important that we how beautiful it is I cannot, but this Frances Sale, '27 Adrienne Richards, '28 should know what other nations and is just a hazy picture which 1 hope
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MUSICAL MUSINGS 0 What docs music mean to most of us? No question could be harder to answer, for music, like Nature, speaks a "various language." Music is as much of an outlet as literature, according to Dr. ('. Alphonso Smith. Composers have poured forth their deep and powerful emotions in th€ measured bars of the world's great musical compositions. Musicians have put their hearts in to the execution of these materpieivs, selecting their programs to suit their moods. Audiences have listened to the masterpieces of the composers, as Interpreted by musicians, and have been swayed by the same emotions, seeing their thoughts and sentiments
translated Into melody. , jA'irFit* Bter.da for the best to,most of us. We often liken the finest things to it. How often have we compared a dear voice to music! How often have we said, "That news is music to my ears!" How ot.en have uv referred to a beautiful life as a song! Harmony, a muiical term, is synonymous with peace and used only in a complimentary sense. As music stands for something good to us, w> expert those whom we deem noble, good and wcrth whil», to love it. We, like Shakespeare, distrust the "man who has no musk- in his soul." Every truly great person loves or has loved some particular bit of music, whether it be an old song, a pleasant air. cr a more intricate composition. How many "favorite hymns" of the great have been handed down to us! We seize upon music to do many things for us. There is some tun,' or melody for every emotion or mood that comes our wa.v. The grea; operas are a proof of this for they express whole stories, involved plot! in song; the air in every case giving the first clue to what is happening or being felt. One of the best examples of tlrs is the quartet fr« m "Rigoletto." We hear the father pleading with his daughter, her protesting replies, trying to think the lies: of her lover, under this we hear the voice of that lowr as he responds to the call of the woman who is enchanting him. All these forces expressed In one bit of harmony! That is grand opera, with which all of us are noH on familiar terms, so let us think of simpler airs. Who could not become pleasantlv reminiscent over "Souvenir"? Is there anyone who has sum,'thing sadlv sweet to remember, who does no! iV.-l memories come softlv back at the call of "Love's Old Sweet Seng"? Mendelssohn's "Wedding
March" puts us all in a festive mood, whi!, "Glory and Love to the
pe pie have (tone so we can appreciate the music we have today Music is a part of man's nature. It is a way by which he can express his feel ngs which Jie cannot express in other ways. Kven the savages have B me s< rt of music. The ( hlnese claim that music heKan in their country 3000 years before the birth of Christ. They had a scale and gave e.uh note an odd name. They believed in eight sounding holies aud made their instruments out of these. S me of the instruments are kin, the flute, harp, king, shing, drum and others. They were satisfied with their music and did not try to improve it. It was from the Greeks, who liven before ( hrist, that modern Europe got Its foundation of music. The people got familiar with it at the open performances where they had music. The music was as important to them as art. poetry and culture. They had the chromatic scale, which is ver> much like our minor scale of today They had seven scales and gave each B queer name. Their instruments were the lyre, their standard instrument, flute, harp, and others. The next step in the development ot music. Is what the church worker* did. The church was trying to bring the nati ns of Europe from Pagan beliefs to Christian, so they built schools and cathedrals. The head of the church was at Rome and that account* for so many of the musical teams being in the Italian language. They also saved the best in the Greek learning. Their scales were simpler than the Greek. The music they used was the Gregorian style which we u. e today. We get our sylables: do. re, mi, etc., fr:m an old Latin hymn. The fust syllable was taken from each line. The rext period of music i- very interesting. Instead of religious music there were love s :ngs and tabs of fcravery. The Troubadours and Trouveres, which mean discoverers of n w poems or melodies, came from soutnern and n rthern France. They wrote love sorgs and about brave deeds and played them under their ladies- winfoWS. It. is sa:d that the folk so.igs came from them. Now let us see how music was written. The old st way was the letters of the alphabet were placid in different positions to represent different sounds. Then the neumes, which w. re signs placed above the. syllables to te*l howlow or high pitch was, were used. later the p'tch was shown by placing th« woids on parallel lines uuS by colored line Th. n they placed tbs notes far apart or el M together to tell the length of the sound of the lldte
will give y u an idea of how Blue Ridge looks. There are fifty white buildings scattered here and there nestling up in the mountains. From *h.' porch of the main building, Robert K. Lee Hall, Wfl look out over the spacious grounds sloping toward the ennance Glancing ar und we see the mountains rising above us and wa\ Into the distance; before us is Mt. Mitchell. Over us hang the clouds so near that we want to reach up and touch them. Everything about us is beauiful and awe-inspiring. Then it came to me that if S. T.C.'s soul for music should (be inspired more and more here was my chance t find a newer, broader, and more beautiful way in which our Glee Club might begin. Someone must have known what was on my mind, for the choral club was suggested. I thought, "that is just what we want. Our Glee Club .; n't possibly take in all the girls who have good voices." Then the suggest ion of singing in chapel was ' offered. Another report, thinking of the social life, suggested entertaining To my great delight we have accepted j the suggestions of having a choral I club and to sing in chapel. Will we entertain? Well. I think most of our Glee Club gir'.s are looking forward to this. When I think of Blue Ridge and what it means to me, I wish that .very girl at the c liege might go, for here on- sees. feel3. and hears the bautiful. "Music is love, seeking a way of life." May our Glee Club, through its effoits, find the way of life and love tor music; and inspire and lead S. T. C. forward with a broader, deeper. richer aprpeciation and love for music. thai age was Palestrina. Palestrina was born in 1526, Kcmo say 1614, in l'al:-strina, near Rome. That is how hi> got Ills name. At fourteen he went to Rome to study music. In 1544 he returned home a* organist in his church. Four years later he was called as choirmaster to St. Peter's in Rome. In 1505 he supplied music f r the Papal Chapel. While he was at Rome he tried to found a music school, which never produce I an great musicians, because it was at this time when the Reform.i til D began and carried, the music into other channels. Paleatrina is called the "Savior of Church Music", for in the sixteenth century, when the church music had deteriorated, he composed a mass called Pope Marcellus. which was of high order. He also placed th. music of the Latin church on so high a plane that no composers, until the time of Bach,
equalled bim.
The treble an.1 bass fiefs come from Palestrina wrote ail his work in the two old Latin letters, Q an I F. polyhon c mode. There are about 83 John Dunstabie was the first one large volumes of his work-* und they to write poly]) Rlc music and Dufaj must be heard by a good choir to be was the tirst one to use the canon. appreciate.", He did not go by the I.asso wrote over twenty-five hundred music law which so many did, but the Q imposition- All of these were fit at I' auty of the composition was his muilGiaai, but the greatest of them !n first thought.
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the real importance of music? Perhaps you would if, through exptrienct-, you could live for awhile at least in a world without music. In such a world a commonplace day would pass follows:
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One thing I cannot understand No matter how 1 try and puzzle My mind gets more into a muzzle Because 1 see on every hand The artists who o'er flow our land (They say they don't come "for mere money") And tho' they live not in harmony With one another, all the time Their names consistently do rhyme. For there's Madeline Keltie and Julliette Velty. Ane'. Michel Piastre & Oscar Nicastro And Greta Torpadie and Kosza Varad.y Arturo Bonucci and Gino Nastrucci, SeiKei Pavloska. Lydia Lipowska, Giamcom.) Rimini, Pietro Cimlni,
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two beautiful numb.n They were "Love's ()! 1 Swee* 9oag" and "Duna" There is no need to say how much they were enj yed. The applause did that. The next Saturday, Mrs. King sang for ua Could anything have been nlcr? She sang "Lo'ita". "Deep River'*, "Arlmal Crackrs," '"The Singer", and "Little Woman O' Mine." The- Choral Club made its first appearance last Saturday at the chapel hour. O'.rls, can'i they Bins?
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er is ready, but the organ is not ready at all. Not even a single note breaks the stillness -disappointment reigns. That afternoon you attend a dansant. thrilled with the expectation of dancing to the well known foreign orchestra. The stage is set; beautiful ball-room, shiny floors, wonderful dancers, but ynur heart sinks—a telegram is read by the hostess, "Arrival impossible—storm prevents landing." Again your craving for music has been deired. You leave and wander aimlessly along yearning for musie •until you riiss| a church brightly illuminated with many candles—a wedding will soon take place. You enter; here at least you will hear music -but what happens? The organist is ill -he cannot play--there is no music. You sink limply into your seat and then you once more find yourself in the street with a lock of grim determination on your face. On to a moving picture theatre you go— Pi Alpha announces the following perhaps the inner player might driveaway the blues. You enter. Upon the new members: Virginia Horner, Lynchburg screen as you walk down the aisle is "Bis" Jordan, Suffolk flashed the following notice: "Piano Mary Christian Royal, Tazewell out of order. No music tonight." TurnFrances Taylor, Martnsville ing a right about face you soon find Marsha.1 Penick, Lexington yourself in the street. The silence is Josephine Lyne, Orange unbearable. Can there be no music anywhere? Listlessly you trudge hom». • • • and crawling int > bed you pray that The old and new members o.' P. a bird might awaken you with his Alpha were recently entertained ai song in the morning. What would two (LeMghtfu) parties g.ven by Mrs. life be without music? Herbert Stokes and Mrs. V. P. Paulatt • * •
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Continued from page one ' • his poetry. Vachcl Lindsey was second among The old members of Pi Alpha were the mi !ern American poets. He gets nuch of his mythopoedic imagination hostesses at a dance given for the from the colored race. new members in the Recreation Hall. EDdna St. Vincent Millay, a Vassal Student, ranks third, in
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Oh! their name is legion, but what would know "Alas for those who never sing, but The Stingiest man in the world is the The question that vexes and puzzles die with all their music in them one who brought his bride nickel's me so —Holmes worth of peppermint candy and took When they live in disharmony most • * * in r on a trolley rids honeymoon. of the time "When you are playing never WiH,„ Ul(.v ,.., on- |ll(. ,.,,,. ni. ,,,,!,, Why in the dickens do most of their trouble yourself about who is listen- "Homy, suppose WO save tin- rest of names rhyme? —Schumann this candy tor the children?" Bi —Musical America. ing."
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Equipped "la your so.i going away to colleget "He hasn't said so but he's boughl a second-hand ukelcle." Sixteen saxaphoncs in a London music store were recently destroyed by lightning. "We don't get enough
storms." Direful Nurse: "Mrs. Smith, the children won't BJO to sleep." Mother: "Tell them t; roinc here and I will sing to them." Nurse: "I have already threatened them With that, but it has no effect at. all." "They tell me you love music." "Yes. but never mind, keep right on playing." The Siige Slung "Anybody can write a song," observer the MgO. "But It takes a genius to park a car.'' commented the fool. I'riiiia: "When I come out the audience simply sat there open-mouthed." Donna: "Oh, nonsense! They never yawn all at once." He called his wife an angel so ofteri that she became suspicious and asked him why hi used that particular term Of endearment. "Well", said he. "you seem never to have any clothing, you are always up in the air anil keep on harping". A Modern Miss • My daughter has a splendid musi-
eal education." "Yea." "Yes indeed! You've Duly got to give r the name of any record and she'll tell you straight off what'ts 00 the other side." IK
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■■::, music during meal Thai IH the legend that hangs above the doorway of a certain restaurant !i g is you thinking, suppose that had always been the rale, what effect would it have had on our music today? One thing Is fairly certain. We ihould never have had the symphony r the sonata and perhaps we ihould r even have heard of Haydn The guests this pa t week-end -\(re When Joseph Haydn was horn in the as toil ivvs: Po'iie Shoffm r little Austrian village of Hohran in I.ucii, Barnetl 1?:..'. the country was divided into! Kitty Carroll mall states governed by princes and' Nancy Huitl dukes who had their own courts and' Rene Luck a permanent band of musicians beMary Spiggle tides. Joseph was the son of p 01 .lui a Clarke Saunders pea aii's, the eldest of eleven brothers Mary Burwell and Bisters, so that although he showSusie Craft ed his talents very early there was Red Robinson too little money to spare any tor hi: education. When his mother ano lather. Wh were both musical, played ORATORIO and, sang the folk songs, Joseph would pretend he was playing a fiddle, and An oratorio form embodies the sanu his mother would say. "See, the boy , mode of construction as an cpera— is musical. Perhaps some day he wil t is built of recitatives and arias for become great and go to court." solo voces (singly and concerted) as When Joseph was only al small boy, >f choral and instrumental numbers. a cousin visited his home and offered in o.aori.s the text is taken from to tak ■ him home to Hamburg and j scriptural or sacred sources—one train him for a musician. Two yean j rreat event or series of consequent later, he was heard singing by an nciden j and lines of thought are folorganist. He was "tried out", and was '.owed out as consistently as possible I .led t i sing in the choir at St i idealism rather than realism is aimed Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. nt. Nine yar later, having proved a The ovatorio is not without dramatic failure in the choir, he was in a bare ! and personal tendencies. It is referred IttlC playing on a very small harpsi-1 •> as "the highest form of musical chord. He was playing some music o. dramatic art, in the sense that it Emmanuel Bach, the great Bach's son possesses as foundation and contents Outside, the rain beat on the roof; | the deenest and loftiest ideas of Chrisinside, it dripped through the ceiling' -ian religious and moral life. Its and ran down the walls, forming ; heroes and heroines are the ideal inpools on the floor. Did Joseph Haydn! struments and messengers of divinity, realist this? No, for he had just made j Their struggles, their triumphs are i wonderful discovery! j hose of high and noble souls. "Mighty music for mighty men!' i The oratorio has been compared to This had been the message of John | a cathedral. Its foundation and pavBebaatlan Bach to pQB generation. ing is the orchestra; its masonry, Times have (hanged. "Lighter music pillar.-, and lofty roofl, the chorus for lighter times." was the present work; while the "storied windows cry. Emmanuel Bach spoke to the richly dight", the marble pulpit, altar people of his time through tunes ol and front, represent the sjio, or so'.othis sort. His music had definite concerted numbers, each a gem ot Just as the tunes, a definite form an 1 definite tone-constructive art. C ntlasts of key. which gave it vari- cathedral U one of the biggest triety and made it easy to follow. This umphs of the designer's and buildwas the discovery Haydn had made. ers art so the oratorio is i.i the front When, at last he arose, he was eon rank ol all that is noble and exalted scious of having moved one step far- n the output of the creative musician. ther on toward his career. For her. The stability of first-class oratorio was the form which he was in aftei nusi. i.- proved in the most concluyean to expand in those works which sive way by the familiarity of all have made him known as the I'athei Classes Ol hearers with such works as Handel's ".Messiah" and .Menif the symphony. Haydn *ai nearly thirty wfacfl hi dels-ohn's "Elijah."
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And brave beyond dispute; Most any Norwegian woman Can paddle her awn Kaunte
When day is over and evening Comes with her calm peaceful rest, Mine he some sweet tender music To lighten the cares of my breast. When (' lath comes at life's weary evening Anil earth takes me hack to her sway, Mine be a grave ,where some river Will murmer sweet music, for aye. The choir was rehearsing a new letting of Onward Christian Soldiers", for the Sunday School anniversarv. At verse three the choir master said: •Now remember, only the trebles sing down to the "gates of hell", and t hen you all come in." First: "I've just been reading some statistics here—every time I breathe a man dies."
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The Monogam Club will give a dame Thursday evening in the Recreation Hall from eight bo eleven '.(-lock. .Mush- will be furnished by the Sensational Syncopated Orchestra. Admission 10 cents. Everybody come id bring your visiting friends with J oil
The new stadium in Chicago is one of the largest amphitheaters in the wr>ld. It occupies more than seven acres of land and is planned to seat 100,000 people. It is built in the shape of a U, so that parades and pageants may enter it with unbroken columns.
•What's that noisa, Mrs. Mulcahy?" •Its me daughter. Maggie, running , up an' down th' scales."
The open-air arena Is equipped so that lt can be flooded with water during tne wlnter for ice-skating.
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At Eaco Theatre This Week .MON —Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge and a most excellent cast in OUR HOSPITALITY. A special production. Here is a picture with historical accuracy, clean, wholesome laughter, gigantic seta and breath-taking drama. It is quaint, clever, charming, comic. Some of the scenes take place here in Virgins. The Young Peoples Socety of the M. E. Church are putting on this show. Als l Pathe News. Matinee at 4 o'clock. TUES.—Barbara Bedford, Frank Keenan, Renee Aloree and many others in WOMEiN WHO GIVE. A special picture. Love, unleashed like waves unleashed, has fury. Here is the tensely thrilling story of men who go down heart throbs. A most excellent picture. Also 4th episode of Perils of tht Wild. WED.—Eleanor Boardman, Matt Moore am! William Russell in THE WAY OF A GIRL. The story of a mile-a-minute flapper. Here we have excitng enitertainment in the story of a debutante's hunt for excitement. Also Aesop Fable. THURB. & FBI.—Lillian Cish In THE WRITE SISTER. A super special production and one of the finest and best pictures ever screened. Th!s pictUTe ran six months on Broadway at $2.00 per seat. All bis newspapers acclaim it one of the finest productions ever filmed. You will see the volcano, Vesuvius, in actual eruption, the bursting of a great reservoir, a fight, on the desert with hundreds of real Algerian tribesmen, and the greatest Ftar of the screen in her supreme triumph. Matinee each day at 4 o'clock. Night admission 50c to adults; children 25c. Matinee 35c to adults and 15c for children Also Gocd Comedy. SAT—Elaine Hammeriitt in, Herbert Rawlinson, Dorothy Phillips, Robert Cain and Diana Miller in EVERY MAN'S WIFE. A special picture. The story 0f a woman who tried to win back her husband from a supposed, rival by the old method of counter attack. Also 14th episode of THE RIDDLE RIDER. jwo shows, one at 7:15 and the other at 9 o'clock. Admission to S. T. C, if tickets are purchased at school Mon. 25; Thurs. & ►>i., 8te; other days $0c
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