Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1919 — Spread Love of Good Music. [ARTICLE]

Spread Love of Good Music.

The greatest factors Jhat exist at the present time of music am! tiie inducement of a love for it, are tiie music-reproducing machines of all kinds. What these have done to promote general musical knowledge cannot be overestimated. Why. you meet people who, a few years ago. would not have known the name of one great musical composition. who now are familiar not only with the composers, hut with their foremost interpreters and the ways in which interpretations have been conceived. These people know every note of works they hadn’t even heard a few years ago. It is not enough for a composition to be great to beln tiie world, apparently: it must be kiio’B< to be great.With a man it is a different mat ter. Do your work well, and you will be judged by it. There are'always those who can judge if one’s work is good; let them judge.—Exchange.