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Show My Dear Associates in Honor:- Knowing well how impatient you all must be to know what I am doing to uphold the reputation of '98, I will, as is my custom, do away with all preliminaries and pitch into bis. My organ is the largest in the state of Indiana, being just 2 x the Grinnell organ. From this it follows that I am the largest organist in the state and 2 x the Grinnell organist. My study is almost entirely connected with the piano. My teacher imagines that he has been keeping me on Can'ts Critique of Pure finger exercises, but while he sleeps I tear around two or three times a week, to the public schools and give short lecture-recitals (!), believing that, while technical, do re mi work is by no means overdone, the literary side of music is sadly neglected. If the people are ever to love Beethoven better than Sousa, they must make a beginning at school. I talk about a piece and then play it. I seem to have no trouble in making the children see in the music all sorts of emotion that-aren't there. I am told that in spite of my looking "awfully young," some of the High School girl's think I must be twenty-eight or thirty because I know so much!! The first part of the year I taught kindergarten Saturday forenoons, but I didn't have time to keep it up. I have picked up seven little boys here whom I swear by, generally, and at, occasionally. My brother and I are partly batching it We can't tell which meal we enjoy the more, dinner at a swell restaurant, or breakfast in the privacy of our own apartments, where we eat canned corned beef with the scissors. Try it. He joins me in sending love to you all. WILLYS PECK KENT. 437 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 23, 1899. |