The evening world. Newspaper, April 28, 1922, Page 12

Kahn Wants Endowed Masic n New York City and Democracy , Of Art Placed on Higher Plane Lauds Musical Discrintination & of the People Here, but) us Wants Poorer Avenue A to} fence Get Same Pleasures and) s Stimulations of Music that Only Richer Fifth Avenue Can Afford. = i mf : By Sophie Irene Loeb. ‘ Last week marked the close of id the opera season and next week is Gt Music Week. Otto MH. Kahn, to é whom Now York {s largely in t abtert for the beet music of to- day, ip a co-director with me in the Aris and Sciences Society, ————Ew thinking of the Atock Exchange and the woman of her new dress or next party. “The people are willing to be so led. Let me say In parentheses that when I say ‘the people’ I do not uso the term with the some- what patronizing inflection that fs sometimes {mparted to {t, rather implying that the speaker refers to a thing apart from himself. I refer to you and to me no less than to the butcher and baker and candlestick maker. “It {8 a constant source of won- derment to me how ‘the people’ are underestimated by most of those who seek their votes or thetr patronage. Just as the Average politician thinks that ‘the people’ want to be coddied ani flattered and ‘woft soaped,’ when experience hos shown that the royal road to popular success is to show courage and Independenco and to stand up man-fashion for one's convictions, so the averago theatrical manager thinks that he must play down to an assumed level of shallowness when experi. ence has shown that tho greatest Probability of scoring a hit tx In aiming high. lieved dulinese and drudgery of everyday existence. “No one can estimate the great focial good that can be accom. plished by endowments for nuusic It te easy chourh to get money for so-called charity but one of the greatest and most far-reach- ing charities ts to provide music for those who cannot get It— good music, American has been behind in thia matter but there have been reasons for tt. “Music is one of the most potent factors for goo, one of the three or four strongest agencies which tend to form and guide the thoughts and the sentiments and the conduct of the people. “I don't mean to {mply that love of art Is lacking among the well- to-do and !* preponderantly con- fined to those not blessed with worldly goods, Feeling for art has nothing to do with the size of a man’s pocketbook. Proportionately speaking, there is probably no very great difference as to the number of art lovers on Fifth Avenue and on Avenue A, “But the inhabitants of Fifth Avenue have a far greater and more continuous supply of diver~ sions, artistic and otherwise, than is one of the penalties of Fifth Avenue and one of the rewards of Avenue A “In this great country, with ite vast mixture of races, all thrown into the melting pot of American traditions, ¢limate and surround- ings, there is raw material of a splendid art Every kind of here. portunity, ance. “Mor where All that is required are op- inspiration and guid- this country than any- in it possible to walk __THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL a-, 1933. _ one’s head in the clouds. In the present juncture of the world’s affairs many a great opportunity and a duty commensurately great Ne before America. One of the greatest of such opportunities and duties is in the field of art. “As against many hundreds who will freely give of their time, effort and substance for charit- able, educational and other altru- istlo purposes there is barely one who {s suffictently tmpressed with the dignity and far-reaching in- fluence of art to do the same for its cause.’ z which closes {ts meetings next “The craving for sensati those of Avenue A, and therefore { f Sunday. #0 characteristic of our ti are naturally not as responsive i rer particularly of our oountry— nor susceptible to the simpler ap- ¢ ee wets Geeuesing is Cutcre some of the restlessness, of the | peal; do not bring the same fresh- ' : tm music and fis statements wore turmeil, of the lawlessness, even | ness, zeal and enthusiasm to i aia Sten i iat tain we atinace eimaty teem réec | from cham thd. eanse agree cf 4 ta jen irom a de- ‘01 bl of $ KAHN . Mr. Kahn started right into the 4 ; Subject without any preliminaries. t “I believe that art and os- | savantuges we enjoy imposcs ‘ | petially. music is the one thing | pon us, SH O O K IDS 3 ‘that will bring a higher democ- tents a ‘ 5 i I recy, for art is democracy in its snes, ee Beek Kis eeearogens sel Very Special if for conservatories and art acad- b | err gree, ttnce it striven to | Cries for the encouragement and are made for boy and gir $ i us onwi upward support of American writers, F Heo hater plane. Painters, ecbiptors, . decorators, to wear and wear and wear ' | A wuggish soul neods stimula- &ec., in fact, for all those things ° , § fitton just as well ax a sluggion | Witch in Burope have been done { 3} No home is now too small to be denied the enjoy- H liver, seyeamente ap Larger ment of a Piano. The Studio Piano is a triumph if 7 “We all, rich ai poor alike, . ‘. § “Our goal should be the best | need to be taken out of the routine rs of Wurlitzer craftsmanship. Possessing a tone of y grand opera, music and other | and grind of our daily lives once j marvelous beauty and full range, this piano has | [arte for the people at tow prices | 15," tyehie change from time. to heen fittingly termed i within their reach. Thie oan be time, just as we are the better for The S ll Pi i .done by proper endowment. physical change of air and sur- he Sma iano “The number of millionaires in : with a j ‘America has Inoreased rapidly cise th ss : ; ig tetadivinty yarcen | tae ee In-Tan Calfskin, Pisa, Big Tone “the time-when the mere posses- Black Calfskin or The Studio Piano is distinguished for its dainty shaeghoarng |nioh of wealth gave a man a po- “Wealth ts only in part a mat- Patent Leather with and harmoniously adapts itself to fit the lest nook. q ‘ le 4 ter of dollars and centa, The vis- . Fe Not: t Feat ee mereererer tin yO NORM 4 At ho, pare, trentyclee comes Dull Kid Top. 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