Music Educators Journal

This Article represents some of the other side of the coin from the view expressed by Stuart J. Ling in his “A Brotherhood of Thieves?” which appeared in the June-July issue of MEJ. Mr. Hauser, president of the Theodore Presser Com- pany, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, is a former pres- ident of the Music Industry Council of the MENC, and also of the Music Publishers Association of the United States. He presented this paper at the session on copyright law during the 1959 MENC North Central convention in Chicago. Perhaps it should be noted that the author wrote without intention of preparing a “companion” article for Mr. Ling's, which was written independently, as was Mr. Hauser's paper.

[This article first appeared in the Music Educators Journal in 1949, and was also published, in condensed form, in the NEA Journal under the title “Sharing Music Appreciation with Children.” Since that time, it has been widely used as an assignment in music education classes and in in-service training programs. Continuing requests for reprinting prompted this repetition as well as an unsuccessful search for the author's present address. We hope the reappearance of her work will cause her to come forward to receive the plaudits she justly deserves for having contributed one of the most popular items to appear in the Music Educators Journal in the past decade.]

“I have to agree, whether I want to or not” … “Per- sonally, I oppose giving space to negative thinking” … “At least one can admire a music educator sane enough to look at his profession without rose-colored glasses” … “I am in complete agreement” … “I just can't buy this” … “Some things that need say- ing.” Such contrasting comments from members of the Editorial Board indicate that the author, who is a member of the music faculty at Madison College, IHarrisonburg, Virginia, will probably elicit a diver- sity of reader reactions.

The Author, who spent last year on the faculty of the American Dependent School in Yokohama, Japan is now teaching at Hereford High School in Baltimore County, Maryland. Miss Kleeman was, as the readers will surmise, one of the workshop directors referred to in her article.