Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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SPECTATOR Uhr High Srhnnl Sprrtatnr Truth to the fact and a good spirit in the treatment U VOL. XVI. J OHNSTOWN, PA., OCTOBER, 1913. No. 1 - - - -1 - m - n - - M my e- -f he , .L.Y y 5 I I 7'6'5V iq an s D QI-5' . 'i 1 f QE T IV 1 1 ' T14 4' .WV 'W - 4 fi T K 4 Q5 e rw 4 1 - 'Q I To Children In A Hospital A. G. and F. G. S. ,15 Here's Howers for you i' 1 That from the woods and Garden Green NVere gathered in the sparkling dew, Fresh asters, goldenrod in meadows seen with a cheerful hue Here's fiowers for you: The four oyclocks that close at eve each day, The black eyed Susan and petumas blue, The scarlet sage with bright and clear red ray, Geraniums, too.

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4 SPECTATOR Musical Appreciation Russell Marsden '14 Music is a language, an art, and a science. Music is a language posessing an intensity of expression and power of communicating emotion to which no spoken language can attain, however perfect it may be. Like all other languages it has its own special literature of an ex- treme richness and variety. The composer is an author of the same ranks as a man of lettersg the virtuoso singers and instrumentalists are interpreters like the reciter of reader, one makes use of words, the other of sounds, but their aim is the same,-to excite or produce emotion, or, at least, to captivate the intellect. Music is a universal language for it harmoniously relates all the sensations of life. Moreover, music, like all other languages, is affected by the progress of civilization during the different periods and the needs of different countries and ages. Music is an art, the most subtle, the most ethereal, and the most fleeting of all arts. The artist fixes on his canvas representation of the most beautiful works of nature in colours that last for unlimited time. The sculptor produces in marble and bronze many of the most beautiful works of art, even the poet finds words in his language as the fixed and ready-prepared elements for his work. The musicialn alone seems to work in the void and with the void. Sounds, extinguished almost as soon as heard and of which memory alone remains, these are his materials and with these he must charm the ear, interest the mind and elevate the soul. His art may be likened to poetry, for the composer creates with sounds as the poet creates with words, also it may be likened to painting, for coloring, that is orchestration in music is not unheard of. Music is a science, for as Gounod says, there can be no .art without science, and quotes the whole race of masters to prove it. It is a science of mathematics in the highest de- Agree, for after all that which goes to make up a musical