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

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TO G. A. L. We know a certain M. M. who is also a P. D.H He really is quite human, though he is of such degree. He knows how many credits youhll need for the Theory Board; He tells you how to resolve thirds, to analyze each chord, He shows you how to modulate, to write good melody, . To create real inventions, and to honor history. hSometimes he points each error out, and causes great chagrin, Specially if he spies a bold unpardon- able sin'U But in spite of all his knowledge broad, he's not a bit conceited; With courtesy and judgment fair his students all are treated. He leads a chorus once a week, like- wise directs a band; His choir, trained most carefully, re- sponds to each demand. When. some one needs an organist for any fine occasion. Or wants some rare accompaniments, his skill Fbrings for'th ovation. A song, to order, he can writehchurch service, string quartette- If there's a thing he carft compose, we've not heard of it yet! Now if you're in a quandary, or wish for good advice, 01' want a new design or plan, he'll help you in a trice. May fame and fortune, friendship true. along each pathway glow For Mr. George A. Leighton, whom wehre privileged to know. --C. B. Page 165

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.1 W 5 F- Htv 1163'? :5: 6 ? 7;va ,J .hw; free 43..1 .1123- ELIZAB ETH COOK NE of the recent additions to the Conservatory Colony in New York is Elizabeth Cook, who for several years past has been teaching at . the Conservatory, at the same time doing some com- position Which brought her into prominence in State musical circles. At the 1924 meeting of the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs, Miss Cook was awarded $50 as a prize for the best composition for two pianos. Her beauti- ful chorus for women's voices, Sea Fairies, was used last year by the Girls' Glee Club of the University of Cincinnati, Mr. Tuthill directing, and also by the Girlsl Glee Club of De Pauw University, of which .Anna May Payne is the director. Since her arrival in New York, she has been en- gaged as accompanist at the Kitchell Studios, and has also been invited to become a member of the New York Reportoire Club, composed of profession- al musicians, Where several of her compositions will be sung this season. A number of new compositiolns of hers will soon issue from the press of C. C. Birchard, publisher, of Boston, Page 164

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IIIN THE DAYS OF THY YOUTHH When I was younghlet us say Younger-I had every illusion you Have. I thought that all I had to Do was to practice eight hours a Day and please my teacher and learn a few Pieces and then I would enter the World as a concert Pianist. ' When I listened to the virtuoso playing his Concerto I'd imagine he broke Down and had to leave the Stage, and the audience sighed .in Regret over their pleasure Spoiled. ,In my Dream I rushed On the Stage and to the piano bench. With master- Stroke I picked up the musical Thread where the other Artist had broken h It and, with the orchestra galvanized into Action and the leader flapping his Stick against my surer Knowledge of tempi and Ngances, I completed the Movement in a storm of Applause and frenzy of Cheers from my ecstatic 'AudiencE. ' Then I'd go home and Practice Bach and Czerny and play A flat instead of A Natural in spite of the fact that the Note Had a red ring, a blue cross and a black Arrow which my teacher had written on It because I had played it Wrong three times Before. Of course I didn,t practice eight Hours every day-honly after hearing a sure Page 166