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Island's Music Festival e: Continues To Grow Yearly

Malcolm MacKenzie, Deputy {develops mental alertness. In- Minister of Education, and Hon-‘deed many children first learn orary President of the. Prince |threugh music what .concentra- Edward Island Music Festiva/{fion means, that is to say, throu- Association, -has. released é\gh learning to listen with ‘all following messave in connection their eats’. For many years past with the forthcoming music fes- we have been training ‘the eye, tival: and more recently the hand (vo-

The 2ist Festival of Music in jgational). but the training of the this province will commence on ear has been very largely neg- May 2nd and wil! continue until ‘lected.

May 7. Once again it is my pri-| Music: is a valuable aid in vilege to .assist. through. the memory training; for the study medium of the press, in.‘ bring- |of music’ is. wholly’ dependent ing to the attention of the people upon-memory, whether in listen- of the province the great work ing or performing. It is obvious that-is-being-done by the Prince that, if the listener cannot re- Edward Island Music Festival member the main themes of a Association. a coniposition, when heard for the , The festival movement origin- first time, it will seem a mere ated in the spring of 1945 and succession ‘ of meaningless was the brain child of Mrs. | sounds devoid of logical connec- ¥Preston Beck and Mrs. Nadine tions. Archibald, members ofthe Cen-/| it provides _a means of self- tral Royalty Women’s Institute. expression, not only by the out- The suggestion-of-.a—-provincial Jet it gives for creative side music festival was placed before ot composition, also in the

en’s institutes in June and was muse whether by voice or in- unanimously endorsed. » These strument. A printed page of mu- ladies then called together the sic is not really-music at all— it presidents and secretaries of jis a copy of music, hence the the institutes in the area group | conimonly accepted use of the to which the Central Royalty In- | word ‘copy’. What we see on the

stitute belonged to work out the \printed copy. is a series of sign- |: posts and directions, called staff | _

details of a plan whereby . this group of districts might sponsor notation by whch the composer a music festival. — hopes to make his musical The districts represented at meanings clear. It is for the vo- this meeting in addition to Cen- (calist or-the instrumentalist to tral Royalty were: West~ Royal+jrecreate it; or-translate —it- into ty, East Royalty, South Milton, |sound. Harrington, Maple Hills, Brack- | Again, music awakens and de- ley Beach, Spring Park and ‘yelops the imagination and pro- Parkdale. At the close of an eve- |vides a vehicle for the emotional ning of enthusiastic discussion nature of the young by opening the group decided: to organize |out the rich treasures of music, and the following officers were |by giving him some idea of its appointed: presidefit, Mrs. Pres- |growth anc, development. He ton Beck;—vice-president, Mrs. thus begins to know the works Edwin Cook; secretary- treasur- of the great musicians and “er, Mrs. Nadine Archibald. Oth- | something of the. romance and .er_.charter. members. were _Mrs._|adventure..which _ characterized Robert MacKinnon, Mrs. ) man Frizzell, Mrs. James Coles, learns something, too, of the Mrs. Preston Rodd, Mrs. J.C. |nature of other peoples of the MacMillan and~“Mrs. Frank (world, through traditional songs. Ross. \Music is, indeed, a wonderful Following the election of offic- |medium for international under- ‘ers it was decided to proceed | standing. with plans for a festival to be} Goodness and truth are the held on May 10 and 1, 1946 at |two ideals which loom most Prince of Wales College. This Jargely in the teaching of the was really an. adventurous step lyoung, but they are too often to take as the sponsoring group |pursued_at the expense of beau-

“ had no money with which to fi- ty, which is discovered by differ-

nance the project and little or jent people in different ways. no experience in working - out {Some find it through color and the details of planning a festival. |form, some through’ literature But, what was most important. ;3nq some through nature; — but this. group of women had.a firm jfor many the simplest and most belief in the ultimate benefits of | qyect approach to it is through such a movement to the people | music.

of this province, particularly! 4 +ittle child can thus discover the youth. it, for at his stage of life it re- -.. Although there were only 126 ‘quires neither deep understand-

concerned in 24 of the 55. compe- | cujtured home. Music, indeed, is titions—outlined—in—the—syllabus, ai only” art which a little-child the 1946 festival was a decided can achieve to. perfection— in success. AS .a consequence, the the little nursery rhvme or festival was opened to the whole h Ran beautifully sung

province and the Prince Edwaré y e Island Music Festival Associa- py, FILLS FUNCTION tion-was_formed. In_1954 our as- | s i

sociation became affiliated with! Finally, there is one very im- the Federation of Canada ————— Music Festivals and Island dele- | i ‘ gates have been attending. the | Onlv at Taylors ciate annual conventions of this feder- | ee ation-each year.

The -movement grew so_ that | in 1954 classes were adjudicated | in Summerside for the first | time for the convenience of resi- | dents in the western section of | the province. In 1957 adjudicat- | tion of classes was begun in| Montague. This year there are approximately 2,000 entries and it is estimated that over 9,000, persons will be participating. | There are 353. school choral.| groups, 32 church choirs, 46 rhy- | thm bands, 776 vocal and 540 piano entries as well as entries | in organ, violin, wind instru- ments_and other bands.

The Department of Education has an understandable interest in music festivals because it is) believed that music has an ‘im- portant place in the education of our children and festivals pro-

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{portant function music fulfills for the child—the dull and re- tarded more especially. when joining with his more intelligent school*fellows in singing. Here he need have.‘no sense of infer- jority, for vocally he is on equal footing with them al! Music is probably the only subject on the school time-table which admits of such a desirable state of af- fairs,-and it provides a clear example of equality of opportun- ity.””

At the present time approxi- mately half of the students (Grades 1-XIT in our. public schools receive regular -instruc- tion in music by specialists. In many instances the recular classroom teacher provides: in- struction limited. of course. by time-table requirements as ap- proximately eight - five per cent of-our schools -still consist of one—and-two-teacher—classrooms_—

The Prince Edward Island 'Musie—Festival—Association has +provided the incentive for a greater emphasis on music .D the education of our cinidren,— and it deserves the. support of

the general publie. Anyone ean help by enrolling as a member for the small fee of $1.00 a year or by becoming a life member for $25.00. Group memberships are available to any club, chor- al group, church choir or wom- en's institute, on the payment of a fee of $5.00.

This movement. which has tiotie’ so much for ‘the advance- ment of music education in this provincé deserves all the en- couragement. and support public can give it. Admission prices ‘to each of the day ses- sions of adjudication are 25 cents‘for adults and 15 cents for children. For night sessions the prices are 50 cents and 25 cents. The Stars of the Festival Concert will be presented at the Confed- eration Centre on May 10 at 7.30 p.m, Admission is $1.00 per per- son.

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