Cincinnati Conservatory of Music - Pans Pipers Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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SIDNEY LANIER ECAUSE Sidney Lanier stands for the highest type B of Art and Artist, I have chosen him for our ideal. We can never laud this great man more than he de- serves and were we to place the golden halo of admira- tion upon him, we would only be justly honoring a man who was suffused with wisdom and goodness; 3 man who exemplified life and Art in their highest ethical sense. Lanieris earliest passion was for music. He played the piano, flute, organ, guitar, banjo and violin. The violin fascinated him more than any other instrument; it has been related that during his college days the soul of the violin would so exalt him that he would sink in a deep trance. The music in Lanierts being seemed to cry out for utterance; at the same time his sense of rhythm and har- mony took on another form of expression, that of poetry. Lanierls poems are among the loveliest ever written; they are saturated with uthe holiness of beauty , his favorite phrase. His faith in ideals was the true creative power of his poetic ability and of his musicianship. While writing his beautiful poems, Sunrise and Sunset; Lanier was playing with a Symphony Orchestra in Balti- more. What, other than music, could have inspired those magnetic lines? It is not in my poWer to express the pure joy that Lanieris poems have brought to my tired heart, not to say tired mind, after the heavy' task of solv- ing a harmony 01' counterpoint exercise. And to think that this wonderful personality had passed through the delirium of studying music, and had landed at the top still serenely safe, perhaps even happy-well, isnt that knowledge an immeasurable one? If you had never read Lanier and would read his poem to Beethoven, hav- ing travelled two volumes of Beethoven sonatas, would you not feel a deeper respect and appreciation for both Lanier and Beethoven? Let us try to imbibe from Lanieris life and works, some of his admirable thoughts, one which is especially noble I mighthuote hereF-ltTo make a home out of a household, given the raw materials to wit, wife and chil- dren, a friend or two, and a house-mtwo other things are necessary: These are a good fire and good music. And inasmuch as we can do without the f1re for half the year, I may say that music is the one essential. Late explorers say they have found some nations that have no God, but I have not read of any that have no music. Music means harmony, harmony means love, love meansAGod! wDOROTHY M. ACKERMANN. Page 158

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VVHOS WHO In this little glimpse into Whots Who of Conservatory Alumni doing creative work, Pan's Pipers honors not them but itself in having their achievements spread upon its pages. But greater than this is its purpose. Let us who represent the NOW of the Conservatory remember that what has been, can be, and that the men and women we delight to honor were once boys and girls even the same as we, and that the time will never come when all has been said in music. In our number today may be many who have the divine fire and, let us hope, the patience to consecrate them- selves to its care until the consumma- tion of their heartis desire. Who knows? a v ngixi' - 7 l- 3'? 7 7a-214t75e4, H t .,- Ji I a J at J Buj-rhxfithr. ,,, , . t7- 3? WA. LL... st : K3 f . i'v. , v w. 1!; V: - ,Vi Page 159