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THE SUNDAY PROVINCE, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SEPTEMBER 25, 1927. 9 jgjy page yjfrvers Mplc pmfc88B ISOMERS' VANCOUVER DANCER'S SUCCESS Elevating The Song Art By ft JIMAITC DUm am mm jOT Relation of Temperament To The Art of Teaching I. Unsatisfactory Progress in Pupil's Study Due to Well-defined Evils Instructors Fail to Under-', stand Psychologic Laws Profession Burdened Today With Too Much "Musical" Mediocrity. Use of Good Translations Always Wise to Sing Original Words in Which Songs Are Written Musical Effects Often Spoiled by Poor Translations Singers Must Thoroughly Understand What They Sing. Attractive Programme Ar Popular "March King" Will ranged for Annual Gathering Saturday Evening.

Thft seventh annual banquet of the B. C. Muslo Teachers' Federation will be held In Hotel Georgia Saturday October 1, at 7:15 p.m. and a woman of high Ideals. As a By R.

J. By EBIX BKEWBBTOB. member of the B. C. Muslo Teachers' Federation, Madame Burks also re THERE are many phases of the A feature of this gathering will be the following: musical programme I IIIUiJll.ai (LI II IM-J 'I i vealed keen Interest In the work of that organization.

It could always be original words should still be retained, though the reason for dotng so is different. In these so-called "art-songs" it is understood that the verse should be closely woven Into the texture of the music. The Inflections of tha speaking voice as we read through tha phrases have their corresponding in THE problem of singing In foreign languages has three aspects. There are the abstract merits, the attl-tttuds of the singer, and the feelings of the audlenc-e. From the first point of view the matter Is soon settled.

It which will be griven by members of the Washington State Teachers Give Two Concerts At Arena. Sousa and his famous band will be ths big attraction at the Arena en Tuesday afternoon and evening, October 4. This Is the thirty-fifth annual tour of Lieutenant-Commander John Philip Sousa and his band, and it Is the most successful with respect to attendance and enthusiasm that he has experienced. That is saying much when it is recalled that for thirty-five years he has gone to every part of the United States and Canada and to Europe and that he has unremittingly been acclaimed wherever he was heard. On his long tour of his thirty-third season, ending in March, 1926, ho played to more "paid admissions" than for any similar period in his entire career.

Souaa keeps well because he Is Dy inose wno preicna to db interested in all that concerns teachers and teaching. said of her that she was ever ready to serve the cause of art. She was not Whether it is because these phases only a competent vocal teacher, but Is obviously best to sing the original words to which the song was written. an unusually able ore seemingly trivial and unworthy The many loyal friends of this if attention, or because they are In the case of the older arias, such lamented gifted soul will always re. overshadowed by more ponderous member her artistic contributions to as Handel's "Ombra mat fu," the words are simple and melodious, they are soon problems, we can not say; certain it the programmes of the Woman's Musi learnt, and there would be no advant is that, however much people rave cal Club and other organizations.

She age in singing a translation. In sing Addrcit of Welcomi ISi. Holroyd FiuU Pianola) fthimodj (K flat) Br.hmi lb) pDlonati Ltud to Wiitis Form Jack Peril. Sonft t) Aria, Bert 4m Dm Orient (Manon) Miinrt h) "81 Tu Is Vpui" Koerhlin f) "I Know BlU" Wiiflplfj dj "Tha Krry Lanr" Moilojr "Ortr th rairt" Keliia Hrr1iou Raymocfl At tha piano, Alth Rannond. Iofornml tddreii Bnyd Wtlli, prwMent Wuhing-tnn Stat Tearheri' Aiaoctatton.

VioIIa "Orand Faust Phantail Wtenlawikl Mm. Parenport-Knghdrg. At tha Piano, John Hopper. methods of musical instruc ing music of this bl canto type, the has passed from this material soil to that great beyond where she has found that unsurpassable harmony tion, many aspects of the profession have been overlooked. words, except for the simple emotion which they state rather than express, are not of great Interest or Importance.

which knows no ending. haonv and because he never lacks Certain subject! are digested over It has become conventional to sing exercise. Formerly he did a great deal of horseback riding and he was an expert horseman. More re I and over again, and statements are these arias with the original Russian Composer Was constantly repeated so as to monop and there seenis no adteouate reason olise the energy ot thought wnicn for upsetting the convention. Once an Army Officer cently he Is content to walk whenever the opportunity presents Itself, and he Ftr Bangi Amy Wortb should have been given to discuss With the more modern songs the likes to roam the country, along wooo I and to solve other wnicn ire strewn.

In an Isolated state, along Moussorgsky, most brilliantly origt-nal of Russian composers. Ill-kempt and dissolute In his later years, was a dandiacal amateur with a weakness the wayside of professional progress. (a) Ths Time nf Vloltl (HI Little Lamb (c) Th Llttt Road d) Piiminer Aftarnoon (e) Midsummer Tha Composer at thi PUno-God Sat tha King. PASSED LOWER lone of these Is that which concerns ed paths or on the banks of pleasant streams. At his Long Island home he has many pleasant places for pedea-trlanlsm, and he Is as much in the open as possible.

At his concerts he has a complete and regular dally for pretty ladles and Italian opera, in the relation of the study of tempera DIVISION EXAM. flections In the singing voice. A trans, latton, therefore, is bound to be un. satisfactory, for while ths words which form the verbal phrases change, the notes which form the musical phrases remain the same. With every translation an antagonism springs up wich can never be entirely reconciled.

Let anyone compare Schumann's setting of Tu btit tint Blum So ichon, to rln, und holfl with the English translation (as given in Booseys edition of Schumann's songs), and he cannot but feel ths weakness of the change: Ttlou'rt llks lnT.ly nrer. So fair, to graceful md. pan. Not only have the translated words lost the simplicity, the rhythm, tha charm of the original, but the purely musical effects of the song ars damaged. For example, in the last phrase of the song to the words.

"So rein, und schon. und hold." the master-note flat Is gtyen to the word "schon," followed after the slightest pause by ths words "und hold" to the notes of and A flat. The English words In the edition already mentioned are "to keep the evermore." The master-note falls on the unimportant first syllable of "evermore." and the effect of the slight pause and simple conclusion becomes impossible. A sensitiveness to such faults as these Is a musical quality; It does not merely represent a fad for singing In a foreign language. Directly a slng, translates the words to hlm-( Continued on Bags 10.) his earlier years, according to Borodin ment to the art of teaching.

whose description of him is included The work and methods of many course of calisthenics, for wielding in Calvocorcssl's biography. "My first meeting with Moussorg teachers are merely mechanical. Their intellectual spheres are limited. The The Happy Fiddler baton and keeping both arms In motion, together with swaying of the body is all that anyone needs for the sky," says Borodin, "took place In 1856 of the average teacher in re- in the month or September or October. I had been elected military doctor I.ard to his profession and the duties which It Implies Is so shallow that It Here lies a man droll maintenance of perfect heann.

ti Moussorgsky was an officer In ths newly-formed Treobraiensky Regi Vnnre Who dearly loved to tweedle never sits down during a concert, and he goes quickly from one selection to nnther. Yet he Is never tired. It Is is not surprising that there is so mucn lack of success In our midst. What ment. We met accidentally in the or A strathspey, reel or country dance all in keeping fit.

an be a more natural sequence man that the musical field today In Can- Lda Is filled to overcrowding with ln- Vpon ft is black old fiddle. He never cursed the chain o' life That to his village, bound him. derly room of ths hospital, both being on duty. We began to talk, and our sympathies coalesced at once. The same evening we were Invited to the house of the chief doctor of the hos apable people who call themselves Chopin's Childhood musicians.

Someone has said that a musician pital, Popoff. a whole made up of many tactors. VIVID little book on Chopin's I Co be a musio teacher worthy or. me hildhood by Zofla Vmlnska and "Moussorgsky was then a veritable very elegant, a fine type of young officer; his uniform all spick and span; his lect, small and a.H1nr one must be a musician 01 K. Kennedy contains the rol lirood parts, which must be made manl- lowing description of Adalbert Zyvny, directed Chopin's earlier studies shapely; his hair carefully brushed and pomaded; his hands well cared est beyond a doubt mau ihm no Moea.

He must be a scholar, quick in music. 0 perceive strong and weaK points in "Mr Zvvnv's appearance was un- for like the hands of an aristocrat. His manners were exceedingly refined: he Intellectuality of the-one wnom rnmmon and original," we are told Instructs; scientific in his way 01 Vai- he spake mlncingly, and he was lavl with his French phrases. He had Irtoing; kind, patient, interested, a pu- "and the cut of his garments and their color belonged rather to the eighteenth than the nineteenth cen-tnrv. He had usually a white muslin And sought no prizes in the strife, Nor envied folks around him.

In happiness he knew no peer; A cheerful knave, contented; He never craved the worldly gear, Xor Fortune's frown resented! The day poor V'flwre's shipping stock Came rattling down to zero! I found him proof against the shock, And fiddling like a Nero. Did Vance, the droll, sit down and mope When Bess, the shameless dodger, Stole from his bed and did elope 'Long with the smooth-faced lodger? Nay! Amos spent the day in mirth, With heigho! diddle-um-diddle! Believe me, sir, he found no dearth Of solace in the fiddle. .,11 with his ouDll; a Keen ana cu rate Judge of human nature; quick to sliRht touch of conceit, but not too much; his education and good breeding remained conspicuous; the ladles were charmed with him. He would sit at 7 roncelve a situation, ana a perieci cravat, a snuff-colored coat; his breeches, like his coat, were yellowish, naster of his means of action. the piano, and with elegant gestures, These are the preparatory requisites play portions of Trovatore or Travt- ED, DELABCT BOOEH8 and on his feet were long, patent 1etber boots.

a. teacher of music. VN nave en Mrs. James Peter Fergnsson GSM. (Oold Medallist) Teacher of ELOCUTION, DRAMATIC ART, PERFECT DICTION Pupils in all grades prepared for Elocution examinations of Trinity College of Muslo and Locution, London, Eng.

open competition for SATE BORXB SCHOLARSHIP Annually Students prepared for B.C. Musical Festival. Apply Studio: Kerter Court Douglas S863A L. R. WITSON, who won four prlzcsi and a.

ppcfal cup nt tlie recmit. Banff Highland Catherine and Musical Festival. The run was donated countered teacherB who talk about me- ata; around him the company ex claimed in chorus: 'Delicious! Rut more original than anything hods, scales and the ordinary teennio else in his costume were his colored by Alex M. Kuthven Stuart, vice-president of the Caledonian Society of France. Mr.

Wilson's dancing was a feature of the programme. nlnno and the voice out who I saw Moussorgsky only three or four times; then I lost sight m-nlntcoRts. of which he relates that l.m utterly incapable of dealing with thev were bought at the auction of of CON of Mr. and Mrs. W.

J. rtogers. 4P45 Twelfth avenue west, who passed his piano examination, lower division, Associated Board of the F.nyal Academy and Tvoyal College of Music, Jxmdon. England. de-Lancey took his examination In Ixin-clon during a three-months' visit to England with Ms parents.

Yl ttle troubles found wltnm me mus; are knee their -studios. YOUNG OPERATIC DANSEUSE the. belongings of Stanislas Ponlatov-skl, last king of Poland. In his pocket he carried a snuffbox, with a picture nn the cover, of whom, as 13 to 8J ..1 So Amos died, full eighty vears. When a teacher, proficient in an hat pertains to the theory and technic well as of Bach, he was a great ad that department or musical arty hhlch he professes to teach.

Is con-J 'rented with unsatisfactory progress ths part of his pupils what are we aevid Ross conclude? Ths fault must He wit I teacher or pupil. Are the pupils stu or is the teacher to blame? It may generally be found that i -eacher is lacking in one or more he fundamentals of -good teachlrf if 4 Announces That out of 21 yearly scholarfhlr given In Untied States anl Canada by the famous Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y., his pupils Mabel Morris, Contralto, and Sanford Addison, Basso-cantante, hava each been awarded ascliolarslnp. lone or more of those attributes whlf "ur- mlrer. He carried a red, cross-barred handkerchief and a long pencil which he sometimes used as a rod on the fingers and head of recalcitrant pupils. But Chopin from the beginning amazed and delighted his teacher and had nothing to fear from the terrible pencil.

"In spite of the eccentricity of his dress, Zyvny was a clever man and a good teacher. From the beginning he recognized Frederic's genius, and pupil and master were pleased with each other, alw ays remaining the best of friends. He was really the only master who initiated Frederio Chopin Into the Ferrets of piano technic He. too, took down the first longer compositions of the little composer, who was not yet able to write them down -elong to a teacher are missing, aimmjd Choloe of cream or natural! And many hearts were aching. length style; made fnm stn "Good friends," quoth he, "dry vp able weight.

Sizes 22 to 3( your tears! Boys' rieece tins A joyful road I'm taking! sleeves tth knee aejYou'll carry me, Tom Rockf, with tor this popular underweari vnr, -pi Price crace, A Meek nnd Aiel g0ffin CoH Finch, just see you Sizes to Kach rw neec. x.iri The fiddle in my coffin!" Cached here' raVfl TH fellowa For ages 1 to 1 Oreenl Triced 1 Good stranger, step but lightly! Boys' XL.WoolThere'stlovely visions to be seen! Made from reel Shetland Such music, gay and sprightly! sleeve, knee length style, A fairy comes at sleepy eve, Slse. SJ to 34. Price With sUver hij, middlt Boys' Wool Sweet tunes on Vance's grave to Warm and serviceable gaiji weave jnton, sleeve, knee lengthl Vpm B'bK Ka'cl J- G- Pft in This well-known make hooah he may know all that a the wide sweep of musical theory early Is ha not developed all those qual(9l ties which his calling demands of Phones: 6108, Kerr. 895R Studios: Suites 3-4821 Pender W.

Sey. long as his shortcomings are ooked, however trivial they may seeyird be, eo long will they continue a. I V- I 1 Tl I 1 1 1 anaicap mm in ma ucceed can always be traced to we-ored Zyvny lived to be 90 years or age. defined evils and unless these a that Nought out and uprooted, the and he remained a lifelong friend ot bis brilliant pupIL mediocrity must remain iinex One of the evils to which matfr eachers can trace the cause or tru tyj; PAUL EHRLICH, Mus. Bac.

VIOLIN PIANO THEORY ORCHESTRAL CLUB FREE course In Theory and Orchestra Playing to Advanced Students from selected mixed yaV style Sizes 28 to 4. LfOHt (jMmble Priced on-success In the profession is ti allure to study the Individual necf Wife Don't you think muslo Is soothing? Hubby Music, ruy dear, covers a multitude of dins. Don't forget to breathe, especially before a long, arduous passage. the publls. Through ignorance (M or ii the teacher falls that lesifni ake use of the most potent means loo Hon 1 he educator's command.

lie wear 59c A TF you discourage-poJuiStu 1 --r backward pupil, falls'to Emboli's STSAsral Wt Is rot good for yourself nor for your Will be found very satf profession, separate garments. Bhirti drawers are kn.e leerh. El best c'1 th A that come to you. Somewhere, some Me minds of those under his chai lyrtnvihw by appoints! fnt 1 scause he does not know how -rtnnmi mww pf action: he drlv hen he should lead; he conducts Themes Fey. im and HI!) Studios: US, 21 and C13 Ernrlre Bldg roundabout way wnen ne snou.

tnr. time, you may stumble on a genius Vide. 1 i -V ike the direot path vho will repay you for all discourage- How teachers really knol QQ leni wiin stuaents or lesser grade. 4 telr own pupils? How many 5 When tempted to grumble think of Children's Fin! and the individual needs of thoa tf xi i 1 hom they have sought to lnstructV4 to tnry aa Dyke, well-known poem: et me hut do my work from day to day field or forest, at the desk or loom, roaring market place or tranquil Contralto Teacher of Singing I'tipils Prcparcrl for Exams Auditions Now TTow many teachers study the tei our Hos Unnants and inner natures or whose education they are rcspc. hie? Not many.

All, children a to fit One and one rtt wool hose, in; room; black and brown. Priced -l 'n "7 har' t0 according to else at. pair "astray lit endowed with the brwtallor- ART WALMISLET, 11, is said to be the youngest opratlo danseuse in the world. She is an accredited mmher of the English Operatic Association and is planning a short tour of the United States. 1 elephnns Sey.

4211 Hudio: 422 Ulrharde 50. Ower, and inasmucn as an can o.t rn whet Is presented to them win same rapidity, It would be unwis rlv to each lesions cf the same Cafe Caehler (testing coin) This raiA cw "-j mywrk, my blessing, not my Play This Aftcrnoo who live. I am the one by whom his work ran best be dons In the right The following programme will hi given in Stanley Fark this afternoort Then shall I set it oot ton rre.t nor ngth and degree of difficulty. quarter ou banded me doesn ring -A dupII. 'hervcus In temperament.

ttue. nd eo as to grasp Ideals Ciistnmep What do yn tpect for (Toronto Conservatory) The Toronto Conservatory having marie it compulsory to take a written exam in viva voce work before granting A.T.CM. teachers' course, E. Love Who has recently returned from intensive summer course with Mona Rates, is now forming classes in this branch of work, Miss Love has for some years been preparing the pupils of various well known teachers for the viva voce and Sheary exams with excellent results. from 3 till o'elork by Vancouver! small Ksily and quickly, must not be treated twenty-five cents a peal of beljs? TA L.

suit B. A. XL PBE8BVTATI01T. The presentatlop if certificates won by candidates in the mid summer examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy and Roval College of Music, will be held in Vancouver Hotel, Wednesday afternoon, September 28 at 4 p. and in the evening of the same day at.

8:15 o'clock. William Dlchmont will make ths Parks Band, Lieut. C. J. Cornflld, th tame manner as one who is my snd uu prove my spirit, to powers, -ss fortunate than his brother stu- tnt, who, In while he works Nellie Cornish Lecture on Music Dance Drama Mrector of Cornith School, Seattle Kaltileen Morris, Doncrr Monday 8t p.m VVomen's Building, under suspires of School of Fine Arts TicKets $1.00 ird snd strive to can not Mmc.

Kdith Stuart, A.K.A.M. Stndlai Fllrfldd BIK. Xfvtlllt fcT Piino tA Batwr-T. HI M. Pwrlt iijrtifuily prpirM fnf Alinr1l1 B.A.XI ACM.

nl Tnrntito CnniT. shall I cheerful greet the lebor-Ing hours And cheerful turn when ths long shad, ows fall At eventide, to play, and love, s.n rest, Bef.ausa I know for me my work Is best." irquer dtfflcultlr-s as quickly as the rmer is able tn do. The pupil gifted with an unusual A.M., condti'-tir: itrh of Vr ToUntM rtvr'jre Vfprry Wtte pt fiTftttf uvmcuth CMmn Btkih Rm. GMi On-tfrfT Grani firtlnn ThPfTln Waen.r flrertuT Fllnl lutn.f Ei'-'rpti from RupM'-an Mfiml II TTOTlttlT Sfiwtloti Rct 5frt Filml Idyl Tn 11 O.ri Ftnutli A M'jttral Swll'h Alf-ril God im th Kins, lare of energy, wno manes rapid U(Mt omn: DOSrEN SR1TCHAR0 mar 1 imtfi Mmlul Club Sebttvtlili. wi Iogreps, hs ma inniviauai neens, as as slso the one who has not the Studio ,19 Fairfield Phone High.

298SL nbltlon and energy of the former. Iherefoi-e, It would he felly In the "Ths secret ef a long creative life 1b not to get blase. The body doe. not grow old so rapidly if the mind motion" are kept young." Moriti K-trerne to urge the latter in Keep ice with the former and to scold for not doing so. TONIGHT STHAfiD A child Is a complex being, and tist be intelligently dealt with.

There Sipor Raphael Jachetta Vocal Maestro Pupil of Maestro Pe of Conservator, Naples, Italy Speclallet in development of voice and breath control. Real Italian method used. Audition by appointment. Room 7, 722 Granville St. Sey.

4228 pupils who, in order to make pro EDVTHE cess, must be coaxed ana gently eated. There are others who require iOILMI KSTVItm FROM rNOLAND. Ernest 51. Miller. e-member of H.

M. Coldstream Guards Band, has just returned from a three-months' trip to England. While lit England he visited several of the largefr cities n.s well as his home city, Lomlon. He reports conditions as disappointing snd is glad to he'back in Vancouver. Mr.

Miller is past president of the Vancouver Musicians' Union. MAXB CBOZB BUST. The South Vancouver Male Choir, under the leadership of Charles Cald Paulerl Orchestral Direction (Canada) Limited Announces (he opening of evening classes in THEORY, SIGHT READING, CONDUCTING, ENSEMBLE PLAYING, CHORAL and other subjects in the musical art Under the supervision of PAUL EHRLICH, Mus. Pac. With -whom are associated Dr.

FREDERICK I.1KUT. C. J. CORNFIELD. IRA snl ERNEST VINEN, Mus.

Bac F.R.C.O. For foil particulars apply P. O. S.f 118 Empire Suliabif Cornar Bsymonr ana Hastings Strssts. Telephones By.

1135 and 4604 be urged In strong terms. We I eet with all types in human nature Lever Hawes TEACHER of SINGING Studio 3013 Second Avenue West Bay. 5142L -nbltious pupils, lasy pupils, bright lpils, dull pupils, In short, all kinds musical aspirants are found In the ft hi acher's classes. The knowledge hlch enables its fortunate possessor cope with the difficulties which I ese various types- present Is know- Miss Annette Speer, L.A.B.,A:T.C.M. (Associate Teacher or Mr.

Frederick Chubb) Announces the following jno in ths recent Toronto Conservatory Examinations. Sroirh Proaramme David Morgan, tenor. Jock McLuskie, cornetist. Christie McArdle, dge cf a most useful character. ItASAXB BUB1I FASSXS.

Following a long Illness, borne with "eat courage and patience, Msaamt well, is holding weekly practices each I Monday at the Horticultural Hall. Fraser and Forty-third avenues, at 8 m. There are va-arKlea for new mmher, who ehouM r-rrit them- selves for enrollment st the time and place mentioned. I RXCITAI, TONIGHT. The fnllnwlng organ performance will be given in St.

fau Is' Anglirnn this evening at 7 o'clock by F'. W. Robinson, A.R.C.O.: I osina Burke, well known In anciu- Primary Theory Three First -class Honors, fine Honors. One I'ass. for many years as an realure nnwlanl's Fan1 play "Popt and Pogsant" without a onrluetor.

sMclan and singing teachr, passed rt at the home of her fs. B. D. Ward, Ulrndalc, California, Junior Harmony fine First-class Honors. Three Honors.

Senior Form One Honors. VIOLIN AND VOICEl ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INTERVIEW BY APPOINTMENT 1253 BR0U0HT0N ST' PHONE D0UGLA9 2193 Cently. 4 International History One Honors. One Tass. Recognized for her many fine quail- as redagogus and friend, Madame Tw Black Crows will be there, too! MASTER PROGRAMME, OCTOBER 3 urke, during her long period of actlv- tlOI.ET (IIBIOW Sftrh upn Hatrltl ArvHntt rnubll frs Foinrth PrmprVwy Flrtt moreraciu ftoa bonatt la Minor (at "Ctmllerm." here, won an enviable place for Studio: 603 Howe Street rhones: Sey.

671QL and CarL 15011 IwseiX. She was a discerning; teacher urtaifliiimiifi.