Public School Orchestras and Bands Volume 8 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... good instrumentation, it is not often necessary or expedient to combine the forces, as the period for rehearsal is very difficult to arrange. Community Orchestra The following excerpt from a Report on Music Instruction by the author, issued as Bulletin Number 6, March, 1917, by the Board of Education, Oakland, California, gives a comprehensive outline of the process of its organization, the manner of its support and maintenance, its object, and the results of the experiment. The Community Orchestra "Several years ago an effort was made to interest the students of the evening schools in the organization of an orchestra. Such a plan had met with so hearty a response in the day schools, that it was thought advisable to try the plan in the evening schools. The first announcement brought out an attendance of six players--four violins, a cornet, and a piano. With this nucleus, publicity was given the undertaking and at the end of the first year, there was an enrollment of twenty-five members with an instrumentation that included violins, violas, 'cellos, string bass, flute, clarinet, cornet, horns, trombone, drum, and piano. As all the instruction was given to the members of the night school orchestra free, all music furnished, and a director of experience assigned to the work, it was not long until the enrollment increased sufficiently to warrant the organization being divided into a first and second orchestra. When it was decided to divide the orchestra, notices were sent to all teachers of instrumental music in Oakland and the adjoining cities, asking their co-operation to the extent of announcing the rehearsals of this orchestra to their pupils and extending an invitation to them to attend the rehearsals. It was found that there were many...