# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S79
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES TT

For the 150 organ students we have 8 practice organs, which
are also used part of each day for teaching purposes. In order that
our instructors may teach satisfactorily, we need 3 teaching studios,
each equipped with a better-than-average organ. To give our
students an opportunity to practice an hour a day, we need 5 addi-
tional practice organs besides our present old ones. While we have
a sufficient number of pianos to carry on the work expected of us,
not a few of these are so old and worn out that they must be
replaced. In addition, the number of piano practice rooms is so
small that many pianos have been placed in classrooms and else-
where outside the Music Building, a condition which not only
makes supervision practically impossible, but limits the use of these
instruments to late afternoon and evening, when they are a constant
source of irritation to those occupying offices or attending meetings
in the Administration Building. We need in all no fewer than
35 piano practice rooms in our Music Building, each equipped with
an upright piano. For teaching purposes it will be necessary to
include in the building 6 slightly larger piano studios, each equipped
with an upright piano and a small grand,

Since the future work of our students requires that we acquaint
them with a great variety of choral music and enable them to par-
ticipate in choral groups, we request the inclusion of 2 tiered choir
rooms, each equipped with storage facilities and a grand piano.
We request that the larger of these studios have a three-manual
organ of moderate size, which may be used for teaching purposes
as well as to accompany chorus rehearsals. A larger rehearsal
room should be made available for our instrumental ensemble
groups, such as band and orchestra, as well as for small recitals.
This room should be equipped with a grand piano, tiered seating,
and storage facilities for the instruments. Adjacent to this room
should be an instrumental library room and 4 instrumental practice
rooms. In view of the fact that rehearsal rooms are also to be
used as classrooms, we request the inclusion of only 2 additional
classrooms, each equipped with an upright piano.

Although we are fully aware of the fact that the inclusion of
a large auditorium will increase the cost of the building substan-
tially, we nevertheless request that this be done. Our gymnasium
is not satisfactory for the presentation of recitals, concerts, plays,
ete., which of necessity play an important part in the training
which must be given to future teachers. The auditorium should
have a seating capacity of 1,200. This figure is based partly on our
estimate of our needs and partly upon the advice of schools which
have had cause to regret that they built too small. This auditorium
should be equipped with a stage spacious enough for the larger
choral groups, with an orchestra pit, a large pipe organ, a concert