TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1922, Page 12

TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC

: JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS.. v Trinity College of Music, London, .*■ -which foi many years paat has occupied i a leading placo,in the music world, \v.as i to celebrate the jubilee of ito foundation j V on the 14fchandl5th of June. To mark '': the event, extensive alterations and addi- ;■ tions to the' college premises in Mande'i ville-pjace have been completed, and the $ xecoristnicted building will rank as one «' of the most handsome arid striking of its - kind-irt -London and a home worthy of .-■ the important musical work carried on by ';. the College.' A fine new portico has been • built, leading into a spacious oak-panelled '.-. und pillared entrance; hall, leading from t which.is. a grand staircase in oak, with ;; a striking stained-glass ,window over- ■•• looking it,, the window being the work of ■-• the - well-known designer* -Mr. A. K. Z. Nicholson and containing' the figure of '". Jorn of Fornsete,' the composer of the '*' earliest piece of secular English music ?' extant, the famous " Sumer is i-cumen- , i in." Among other striking improvements ;'-, to the college is the remodelled concert ?; room, which' is now a beautiful salon, Z oak-panelled and divided into bays by .*. fluted pilasters, and wjth a ceiling in ;■. relief. Many beautiful decorations, in ■ carved wool, marbiei.and other materials, ''•■ are a feature of the new portions'pf the '- buildings, while the whole of the College " has been redecorated as also the facade Cm M,aMdeyille-p]ace. • • . The functions in "celebration of the ~. jubilee will take the form of a reception - at the college bii the afternoon of the ■';■ 14th'.;by the president, the Earl of '*• Shaftesbury; an orchestral concert in the ■»• evening of- the same day by students of .'X the college at! Queen's Hall, when orches: >'. tral works by past students of the college •; were'to" be performed; a students' operr >! atie. performance on the 15tb, and 16th :; at' King's Hall; and a banquet at the ;■'• Connaught Rooms on the IStn. :; A brief-review of the history and work 'J of the^ college shows the importance of ■' the ■ institution in musical education. *J' From" the first it was governed by men of j; the ,fp.r,pmos#. rank.in the musical profes- "' sion,- and it, has never received'one penny !• from the State as a grant. Some names "' of \yell-known musicians'conected with ;*• the college at-its foundation are: Sir F. i Ouseley, Sir John Qoss, Dr.- Hopkins, Z- Sir George -Elvey; '3?r Gai-retjtj Henry, ; Smart, and. the present chairman of the r board, Sir Frederick Bridge. In musical t' examinations the college has done pioneer ;. work. It was the first to establish pror' perly-orgahised "local1' examinations, be"t ginnuig.thesß in the";Unitsd Kingdom in ■*' 1876. and'overseas in 1881, To-day it « examine* Amity thousands of students'in " htmdreds of centres established all over .I the world., in Europe, America, and Australia, in all the Dominions and colonies. >' Through the influence of the college a *. Chair of Music in th« London University ;•• was'established,'the College Corporation 1- subsequently, presenting £5000 to the uniJ vJ yersity.for.th& establishment of the King ' Professorship of Music. In other '":^directions"the college has played an'imf portaut part in the Tie velopment of musi- ■ cal education. In 1902 it-established ;hia- '.: chinery for training music teachers, and : a few years later founded eighteen university scholarships,; tenable at Oxford, i." Durham, and London.