The Music Rack.
Not long ago I read an explanation stating that to the public, not understanding music, classical music sounds like the tuning of instruments. Don't some of the Round Table Knights and Ladies think this an error? I think the strains of Tannhäuser and Wagner's Lohengrin, as also Träumerei, Bohemian Girl, Cavalleria Rusticana, Maritana, and ever so many other masterpieces which are certainly classed as classics please anybody. Of course they have not any similarity to "Liberty Bell," "Maggie Murphy's Home," and other compositions of this order, but they do please the masses. The Grand March from Tannhäuser always does catch popular fancy. Also the "Bridal March" from Lohengrin.
I have often heard Martha played and treated to deafening applause, and no music-studied audience were the people who applauded. Have players ever heard that when rosining the bow they should not draw the bow up and down rapidly? A great many know this, but many more do not. The reason is because the bow becomes warm and melts the rosin and spoils the hair, whereas if you go slowly the rosin comes off crisp and fine. Another thing, for orchestra playing tighten the bow, but for solo playing leave it slack, as the sound is finer.
I would be very glad to hear of some music Chapter, as I would like to join one.
C. Arnold Kruckman, R.T.K.
1235 North Thirteenth Street, St. Louis, Mo.