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Submitted by: Gigimo
Article Title: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Article Date: June 28 1908
Article Description: Church Music Called Vile. Missouri Minister Declares That Much
of It Inspires Evil Thoughts.
Article Text:
St. Louis, Mo., June 27.--"Half the music played and sung in the churches is
sensuous and awakens passion in those who hear it. It does harm and not good." So says
Rev. Charles H. BOHN, rector of the Episcopal Church of Nevada, Mo., and secretary and
treasurer of the Missouri State Music Teachers' Association, which is holding its
annual convention this week in the Church of the Messiah.
"You take your sweetheart to church expecting a spiritual uplift, but instead your
sensuous emotions are kindled by the music you hear. It inspires fleshly loves
instead of religious contemplation. Some of our church music is as bad in its effects as
the worst music you could hear in the worst concert hall.
"Comic opera music is sensuous, too. It does positive harm to those who hear it,
but not more than much of our church music." Oscar H. HAWLEY, of Macon, Mo.,
president of the association, declares that grand opera is "rotten" and "silly," and that a
professional musician who plays a musical instrument for a living knows as much
about music as a toad about the higher criticism.
"Grand opera is just a heterogeneous mass of howling," he said. "It is neither
real, ideal, nor poetic. Did you ever know a lover to propose marriage by howling at
his sweetheart? Did you ever know of a couple making love by howling at each other?
That is what they do in grand opera. I know every opera that was ever written, and
of them all Wagner's are the worst."
F. W. MUELLER, director of the Music Conservatory of Tarkio College, at Tarkio, Mo.,
who is attending the convention, says the popular melodies like "In the Shade of
the Old Apple Tree" and "School days" are popular because they appeal to the lowest
and most elemental music emotions in man. There is some music in them, but it is of
the lowest type.
"And as for the phonograph and the mechanical pianos--they are abominable," he says.
"The trouble with the mechanical players is that they are so devilishly correct,"
he continued. "All the human element is left out of their performances and there
can be no art about it. The artistic difference between music from a machine and
music by an artist is the same as that between a painting done by the hand of a master
and one painted on a machine. There is no soul in machine-made music and it is
demoralizing to the home where it is heard."
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