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...development of serious choral music in the New England schools, which, by rigorous training in choirs and glee clubs, have pointed their students toward the Harvard Glee Club rather than for the informal singing that the Instrumental Clubs provide. Currently, came the shift of taste from banjo and mandolin to violin, 'cello, flute, and the like, a shift which has prospered the Pierian Sodality, but has laid the banjo and mandolin clubs in the grave. Couple all this with waning undergraduate support, which culminated in calling off the last two Christmas trips, and hard times are the inevitable result...
...though the Clubs cannot kick against the pricks of changing tastes, a few readjustments can restore them to their rightful position in the college. By abandoning for good and all the banjo and mandolin, by concentrating on the orchestra and singing groups, for which there is talent galore, and by demanding reasonable proficiency and attendance at rehearsals, the Clubs would not have to stretch to put on a concert this spring as well as a tour of the East next Christmastide, especially since the mist of depression no longer hangs heavy over many interested graduates and sponsors...
...good pianist or play a banjo or mandolin, the Instrumental Clubs have definitely a place...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox plays the mandolin; Groucho Marx, Bing Crosby and Edsel Ford's son Henry II, the guitar; William Randolph Hearst used to strum a banjo. Not any of these but 1,500 other adepts of fretted instruments gathered last week in Minneapolis for the 35th annual convention of the American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists & Guitarists. Convention manager and official host was Chester William Gould, 36, a big, loud-voiced banjoist, organizer of the 50-piece Gould Mandolin Orchestra, which this week was to perform a Mexican Fantasia in costume, and of the champion Go-piece Gould Banjo...
Conventioneers were promised prizes for the largest orchestra, the orchestra which had traveled the greatest distance. Likewise this week there were to be banjo, mandolin, hillbilly, Hawaiian, junior, electro-phonic and popularity contests. To be seen and heard in Minneapolis were the most famed virtuosos of fretted instrumentalism, some of them playing on instruments worth thousands of dollars. Tenor Banjoist Albert Bellson played, for the first time anywhere, Bach's famed Chaconne, which is ordinarily a sombre, magnificent violin showpiece. Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program...