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LAKE SHORE NEWS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1919 There Was Plenty of Music Abroad During the War; Concerts and Re- citals; Soldiers Wanted Other Kind By Professor H. E. Knapp (Northwestern University School of Music.) Probably every musician who suct ceeded in entertaining our soldiers overseas discovered new viewpoints regarding music and its effects upon men. I do not know what proportion women assume in the average aud- sick list all the time. No fires, con- tinued cold and wet weather and sanitary conditions which smelled to he;»ven made it hard for the singers ;>nd speakers particularly. Throat trouble and bronchitis were ever present. How the women stood it at all is a wonder. In Germany the renditions were just the opposite. ( Billets were uniformly good; a little lence assembled to listen to music | shy on bathing facilities perhaps, for here at home. Perhaps the audienc- es at concerts and recitals somewhat resemble our church congregations where women predominate. The soldier gatherings to which we play- ed overseas were not like musical soirees or religious meetings. Cer- tainly it was a new experience to most musicians to steo out in front of two hundred to three thousand men without a woman in sight. Tremendously reactive to certain moods induced by music, these aud- iences were keen at sizing up the people who appeared before them. Certain types did not get along very well and this was true of the speak- ers as well as of the musicians. One patronizing person got up And said,, ways tret passes and'almost anything Boys, do you know who I am? You r!so from the army so thev went to don't know who I am! I speak to great audiences in so and so and am well known in such and such great cities." This unfortunate speaker did not get much farther for every sold- ier in the hut arose and left the room. The soldiers were not much interested in who a man was or what he had done. It was rather, "What can you do right now that "will in such luxuries had been grabbed off by the army officers to whom, of course, they belonged by right, but in contrast to our experience in France it was unalloyed comfort. Part of this was due to the weather which is so wonderful in spring and summer along the valleys of the Rhine and Moselle rivers. Opera in Germany With the mark at seven cents Ger- man opera was on the bargain coun- ter and our soldiers took adv?.ntar:e of it in Coblenz. The bills at Wies- baden and Cologne were more inter- esting but I could not get a pass out- side of the third army zone. The adies. bless their hearts, could al Cologne and Wiesbaden on Sunday nights when we did not have to work. If they forgot to get passes they went A. W. O. L. Do you think that any self-respecting M. P. v/ould molest, them? Not a chance! All the Hdicj had to do was to shed about them the benign light of their bene- ficent presence and they got anything they desired. I observed that they terest me and what kind of a man wcre careful not to hide any of that are you?" This made the musical, light; on the contrary they worked performer play things which the men | it overtime. For instance, a line liked and automatically shut out cer- tain personalities. j Cannot Make Generalizations I But it would be dangerous to make | generalizations as to the musical tastes of American men based on the ' reactions of these soldier audiences, i The conditions were extraordinary ! and in no degree normal. The men j were in no mood, as a rule, to pay ! attention to serious music. yet j "Dixie" and "Turkey in the Straw" | won Id start a near riot. Tt w;>s the ' that after the ; mered. pound block long at the commissary's had no terrors for them. Right up to the head they would step and everybody gave way, and they would interview billeting, entertainment and other officers when favors would amelior- ate discomforts. No American so' 1- ier but was blinded by the bistrou1; effulgence of that wonderful light, to his credit be it said. Mas<c in London women; and eight 'cellos of which only one was a woman. I saw no women among the six contra basses. These ladies seemed to play with greater verve and freedom than the men. I thought they were better in- strumentalists. Maybe I, too. was blinded by that magic light. The strings seemed good to me. The woodwind and brass were quite in- ferior to that in our best orchestras. Bad, even atrocious^ intonation, poor balance and worse tone marred things. Some of the ineffectiveness was due to the fact that the orchest- rations were not amended in the skillfull manner which helps to make them sound so well to us here in Orchestra hall. The orchestra play- ed about like the one Mr. Damrosch used to get together for Ravinia Park some years' ago. It was not so good as the Minneapolis organiza- tion and with the Boston and Chica- go orchestras there,is no comparison. Played Wagner Selections The numbers were most enthus- iastically received by the large aud- ience, which prompted me to question a young British medical officer who stood beside me. About this time we were not playing very much Wagner in the States. I found out that there had been some discussion about it in London but the people very sensibly decided that it was foolish to seem patriotic by refusing to listen to per- fectly good German music which they really enjoyed. I noticed, however, t'-nt the "Prize Song,, and the "Swan Song" given with the assistance of Mr. Vladimir Rosing, were both sung m French. To change the key for a brief episode, will some one who knows about Queen's hall concerts 'â- virdly explain why so many young v, omen come into the promcnt.de. where there are no seats, coolly sit down on thr n-;â€" near the back wall so they may lean against something, stretch their long legs out comfort- ably in front of them to the annoy- ance of the promenaders and calmly smoke cigarets? It seemed to be quite the thing for no one took any notice of them excepting a few r ;tonished Americans. There were, getting back to the original key, sev- eral interesting Russian numbers on il'e program.1 for the week besides some good soloists. Miss Irene Sharrcr was to do the Tsch .ikowski R writer s experience soldier s had should rai: ed the rooi. ban. ana r. â- a;r."-r.f! ;;c -.;<â- '< alar .pi 1fT (?iu*r;:-v t Tl stuff 0 " the <:a-. 111c.- ril-oh) "Trac- :';!;" <:.i" a,vd <*• mrsiC'i. ! sclerfloa- if In iiit r, I.om 'i1 'â- ,. on. where I landed h Sir Henry Wooc .-riving urome'iiad-. •:'s hall in Rejrent Srln they aid- not be remembered that these nen can'e from all parts of the states. Men fro-i the big cities rarely predominated. »To country men from the south and west tunes which the writer had sup- posed were out of date for at least thirty years proved to be the best known, in fact almost the only fam- iliar music. How long is it since the oldest symphony concert subscriber had heard "Snow Mountain." "Two Old Indians and One Old Squaw a Settin' on the Bank of theArkansaw," "Lady McCloud's Reel" or any of the old "Essences and Walk Arounds" which used to be and still are danced and played in the south and west? The first notes of any of these old favorites would bring shouts of ap- proval and hilarious calling out of the dance figures for which these tunes are used. After playing to thousands of men from everv state in the Union I believe that the two best known and most loved tunes o( our country are "Old Zip Coon" and "Dixie". Popular as is much of the rag and jazz music of the day, it has not yet displaced in favor any of the old time dance music familiar to the fathers and grandfathers of these boys. Value of Franc Aprooos of many things both in general and particular the French franc was worth about fourteen cents and the German mark seven. I spe- cify in this absurd manner because in Luxembourg the franc and mark- both coins were current as well as the language which denominate them â€"seemed to have a different value. I could never discover just what this was. The shop keepers would volub- ly explain in three languages that one had to live in Luxembourg a long time to become familiar with the exchange. Translated into Eng- lish it seeme4 to mean that you got cheated every time you made a purchase. While playing for the S. O. S. m France our hotel bills were pretty expensive even with the franc at fourteen cents. When we were with the combat division either in France or Germany we had no lodg- ing expenses. The army billeting officer would assign us billets, we would move in and that was all there was to it. These were sometimes in hotels, sometimes in private houses. In the devastated area in France they were not inviting for the towns were so shot up that it was hard to find a covered house to live in. Where the troops had taken over German army barracks the accommodations were best. 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