Identifier: twentyyearsathul00inadda (find matches)
Title: Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
Subjects: Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Northern Illinois University
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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s in this period of industrial malad-justment when the worker is overmastered by hisvery tools. In addition to sharing with our neigh-borhood the best music we could procure, we haveconscientiously provided careful musical instruc-tion that at least a few young people might under-stand those old usages of art; that they mightmaster its trade secrets, for after all it is onlythrough a careful technique that artistic abilitycan express itself and be preserved. From the beginning we had classes in music,and the Hull-House Music School, which is housedin quarters of its own in our quieter court, wasopened in 1893. The school is designed to givea thorough musical instruction to a limited num-ber of children. From the first lessons they aretaught to compose and to reduce to order themusical suggestions which may come to them,and in this wise the school has sometimes beenable to recover the songs of the immigrants throughtheir children. Some of these folk songs have ARTS AT HULL-HOUSE 379 (J
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38o TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE never been committed to paper, but have survivedthrough the centuries because of a touch of undy-ing poetry which the world has always cherished;as in the song of a Russian who is digging apost hole and finds his task dull and difficult untilhe strikes a stratum of red sand, which, in ad-dition to making digging easy, reminds him of thered hair of his sweetheart, and all goes merrily asthe song lifts into a joyous melody. I recallagain the almost hilarious enjoyment of the adultaudience to whom it was sung by the childrenwho had revived it, as well as the more soberappreciation of the hymns taken from the lips ofthe cantor, whose father before him had officiatedin the synagogue. The recitals and concerts given by the schoolare attended by large and appreciative audiences.On the Sunday before Christmas the program ofChristmas songs draws together people of the mostdiverging faiths. In the deep tones of the me-morial organ erected at Hull-House, we realize

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