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BEST STORE IN GREENSBORO You are always welcome, at our Men's supply shop in Greensboro Headwear, Footwear, Neckwear, Underwear, and every other kind of wear for a man to wear. RICKS DONNELL MEDEARES CO. Everything in Men's wear 502 South Elm Street Greensboro, N. C MUSIC NOTES .1 Plea for the Preservation of Oh!-Time Southern Music. The Folk-Lore Division of the North Carolina Historical Associ ation is pursuing the subject of Southern Folk-Songs and lialhu's in sncli earnest as to arrest our attention sufficiently I> observe the results of their investigation. In January of last year I had the honor of meeting at the Fniversi ty of North Carolina the foremost leaders in the movement —Dr. Koyster, then Professor of Kng lisli in the North ( l arolina Univer sity, i now of the University of Texas); Mr. Haywood Parker, of Asheville; Professor F. C. lirown, of Trinity ('ollege; .Mrs. Walter Grimes, of Raleigh, and others equally interested. Of what value a bit of Folk-Lore and Folk-Song is regarded by the University of North Carolina may be judged by the fact that it is accepted in lieu of required work of students in the English Department. Hare specimens of both Folk-Lore and Folk-Songs have in iliis way been secured for the archives of the 11istorical Association. I'p to a short time ago musical critics were unwilling to accord to the South that place which rightfully belongs to her in the creation of a distinct type of music—quite as distinct 1 may say as any Russian, Polish or Seandanavian Folk-Song. Today these very critics are compiling books of American Southern song —and why? It is because two of the greatest musicians of this age have come to the South to find ma terial a]ion which to construct two of the greatest musical com positions produced anywhere in the last twenty-five years. One of the men came all the way from IJohemia to find a theme suitable to express what the new world meant to him. lie did not find it in the great metropolis of New York. Nor in Pittsburgh or Chicago, as it not most natural for a stranger such as Dvorak te travel to our large cities first to gain any impression of us as a people? Well, he did travel to our great cities but he did not find any inspiration in them. He came to the South and he did find in the South his inspiration for one of the loveliest, sweetest, most sym pathetic melodies that exists in modern musical literature. And again, when the great Ital ian opera composer, Puccini, se lected I'telasco's "Girl of the Gold en West" as the subject of his opera and he wanted music with human appeal—what did he do? He came also to the South. He was misled into thinking at first that Iliis unspeakable slant/ of music, so-called raj/time repre sented the basis of Southern wus- THE GUILFORDIAN ical expression, 1m 11 good mus icians in the South changed liis impressions, with (lie result that his opera is alive with the very es sence of the South's own pure and lovely folk-song. The mothers of ;ill the coimtries that are at war today have taught their sons the songs that I hey sing when on the march to the trenches. They are not parlor songs nor operatic arias, hut they are greater than these. They are their folk-songs. It would take nothing less than the total annihi lation of their race, be they Ger man, French or Russian, for them to forget a single note or word. Let us make our folk-songs as sacred to us. It is the duty of the people to gather together all the material and preserve it carefully. It is fast being lost track of. To the students of this college, I feel I should say what the I'niversity, Trinity College, .Meredith College and other colleges have suid to their students, "Preserve the music of the South and you will ever be proud of the results. You will be called upon some day to account for iliis music. Your chil dren and grandchildren for gener ations to come will have good cause to blame you if you fail in this. It is nuely upon this music that a great art in this country will find itself dependent for a de cided native character." It mat ters little whether Harvard or Yale professors will admit that Southern folk-songs and planta tion songs are sufficiently digni fied to represent the American people in the art of music as it develops in this country. If two of the greatest composers of mod ern times 'i ive in their good taste and judgment found material in your South of sufficient value to immortalize, how much more should you strive to preserve for yourselves these golden melodies. 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