# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S82
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

78 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

or organ, can be made available to each group of ten students:44
the student body.
During the past triennium there has been a 20% rise in thé
cost of musical instruments. Carefully drawn specifications and:
accurate estimates indicate that the sum of $125,000 will be neces-4
sary to fill this need. The Music Building which is being builg
will accommodate the practice and teaching rooms for the instru.
ments mentioned in this request.
Request: In view of the above facts, we respectfully petition
Synod to grant the sum of $25,000 in addition to the $100,000 al-t
ready allocated, for the purpose of providing the new Music Build-
ing with musical instruments adequate for our professional needs}
Tue Boarp or CONTROL

or ConcorpiaA TEACHERS COLLEGE

Pau L. Kiuenper, Secretary

Tre Facutty or Concorpia TEACHERS COLLE 7:
Artur Kuincx, President

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B. Additional Music Classrooms at River Forest j

A concomitant of the increase in enrollment at Concordia
Teachers College is the need for additional suitable classroonj
space for academic music courses. Since the student body is now
entirely in the College Department and the curriculum on thg
senior college level demands a broader selection of courses, g
greater number of classrooms are necessary to carry on thé
academic educational program. 4

The courses offered in music, such as sight singing and f
training, vocal technique, keyboard harmony, hymnology ang
liturgics, school music, orchestration, and choral technique any
conducting require either singing, the playing of instruments, Of
the playing of recorded music for demonstration and analysis.
these courses have been added to the curriculum, the music cla
tend more and more to disturb the other academic work carrie
on in the Administration Building.

Since there is a definite need for more classroom space, am
since the academic offerings in music have become more com
plete in order better to provide for the needs of the field, th
practical solution is to build the classroom wing planned for t
new Music Building. This arrangement will facilitate the wor
of the music program and also relieve the pressure on the pres
classroom space. The proposed wing is planned also to provide fd
the growing record library and to include listening rooms for th