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October, 1928 The Phonograph Monthly Review 9 I T is hard to answer the inquiries that have been made about our Music Appreciation Class, how it began, and how it grew. It was not designed, it just happened. “When, to the attractions of the busy world, Preferring studious leisure, I had chosen A habitation in this peaceful vale.” I found every prospect pleasing, and only music —well, to put it mildly: to a music fanatic it was most depressingly lacking in activity. There appeared to be nothing I could do about it, when in response to my lament that due to the barren- ness of the music field I felt constrained to aban- don this peaceful abode, a cousin proposed send- ing me a phonograph. This struck me as a most absurd expedient. The very slight acquaintance Pd had with phonographs did not dispose me to this procedure. However, record catalogues were accumulated, and for weeks nothing else was perused. When I learned that I could get such things as the Finale of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, by Toscanini and La Scala Orchestra, hope bloomed, and when the machine itself arrived, and I found that it would play this music in a manner my fondest hope had not depicted, a big lightness fell on my heart. This new marvel was publicly exploited Easter Sunday, 1924, to as large an audience as could be assembled. Of course there were a few present who appeared indifferent or willing victims; but the majority were rapturously enthusiastic over Mrs. Alice B. Talbot the achievement. During the summer, any occas- ion and all sorts and conditions of listeners fur- nished excuse for a concert. Meanwhile I had cul- tivated an intimacy with the young girls of the Mrs. Talbot's Studio tvhere the meetings of her classes in Musical Appreciation are held.