What Fundamentals Shall We Measure

Crosby, the famous writer of hymns, took part as a pupil and teacher in ensemble work. In the Pennsylvania Institution the late David D. Wood, distinguished blind director and composer, staged imposing choral performances which were musical events in Philadelphia, as also did his renowned pupil and successor, Adam Geibel, composer of Kentucky Babe. One of the most interesting of all achievements in conducting ensemble work among the blind has been made by Mr. Platt in the Royal Institution for the Blind, Birmingham, England. Some fifteen years ago he projected a unique adaptation of Tonic Sol-fa in Braille. He has trained his singing classes to read this system so efficiently that they have several times won prizes against seeing classes in the regular public competitions. Louis Braille, the blind inventor of the dot system, was himself a musician-a teacher in the National Insti

Art · Art history · Braille · Choir · Linguistics · Management · Musical · Performance art · Piano · Pupil · Singing · Successor cardinal · Viola · Visual arts · Diverse Academic Research Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology