Music: Rochester

The annual convention of the National Association of Organists will be held at Rochester, N. Y., during the latter part of August. George Eastman, who has made a recent magnificent entrance into musical philanthropy by endowing the Eastman School of Music and Eastman Theatre, has placed the buildings of the newly founded institutions at the disposal of the convention.

Music will have a healthier growth when musicianship is generally recognized as a sensible and well paying profession, and pupils go to study with the feeling that they are making their way to a secure living rather than with toplofty visions of artistic transcendence and starvation. The organists, while seldom riding in the sunlight of popular acclaim, represent one of the soundest phases of American music. There is a large demand throughout the country for good organists for church positions. The pay is not vast, but it is steady. There is a better and surer living in organ playing than there is in, say, poetry. The organist may attract fewer ecstatic phrases of admiration from esthetic ladies, but he is usually a better musician than the poet is a poet