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in AmericaDenver Citywide High School Symphony  \nARE YOU AFRAID OF THE STRINGS?/Heinrich Roth  \nKEY TO SUCCESSFUL ORCHESTRAS/John T.Roberts  \nSTRING ENSEMBLE RISES ABOVE FIRE AND FLOOD/Sister Mary St.John  \nA BAND DIRECTOR STARTS STRINGS—AND LIKES IT!/William Nemoyten  \nPublished in the interest of music education and participation in musicin America—and specifically to further the cause of THE ORCHESTRA  \nCONTENTS  \nAre You Afraid of the Strings?Heinrich Roth.…………   ………………3School's Open!…………………………  ……………………      …3ASTA Convention Inspires Educators………………………    …………3The Teacher and His Attitudes,Key to Successful Orchestras,  \nJohn T.Roberts ……………………………………………………………4  \nTen Questions to Test Your Knowledge of the Strings……………………5String Ensemble Rises Above Fire and Flood,Sister Mary St.John...6Plan to Attend Second Annual Orchestra Day………………………………6A Band Director Starts Strings—and Likes It!William Nemoyten…….7Robert Klotman Moves to Detroit…………………………  …   ………7  \nMEET OUR DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTING EDITORS  \nFOREST R.ETLING,President,National SchoolOrchestra Association;Benton Harbor,Michigan  \nFRANK W.HILL,Former President,American String Teach-ers'Association;State College of Iowa;Cedar Falls,Iowa  \nHOWARD LEE KOCH,Director of String InstrumentalMusic;High School;Bay Shore,Long Island,New York  \nRoth-CaspariPegs  \nIUCIE LANDON,Elementary String Supervisor;Menlo Park Public Schools;Menlo Park,California  \nMARVIN RABIN,Conductor,Greater Boston Youth Symphony andBoston University Orchestra;Boston University;Boston.Massachusetts  \n1.Conserves valuable teaching time.  \nMELVIN SCHNEIDER,Research inMusic Education;Cedar Falls,Iowa  \n2.Provides extra practice time.  \n3.Makes tuning easier.  \nHOWARD M.VAN SICKLE,Editor of“American StringTeacher”;Mankato State College;Mankato,Minnesota  \n4.Simplifies instruction in tuning.  \n5.Avoids peg slipage.  \nOUR COVER:Featured against a back-ground of Colorado's magnificent mountainsare the outstanding citywide school orches-tras of Denver,directed by the distinguishedJohn T.Roberts,Director of Music Educa-tion,Denver Public Schools.  \n6.Does not require inward pressure.  \n7.Turns with micrometer precision.  \n8.Permits students to improve tuningaccuracy by concentrating on pitch in·stead of mechanics of tuning.  \n9.Eliminates peg box damage,reducingmaintenance.  \nEDITOR:Robert Klotman,Ed.D.Director of  \nMusicEducation;Detroit,Mich.Public Schools  \n10.Can be adjusted according to climaticconditions.  \nMANAGING EDITOR:Ruth Vendley Neumann  \nPUBLISHER:Roth Violins,Ditision of Scherl ↓Roth;  \nCleveland,Ohio.  \nDescripfive and detailed literafure free一Write for it  \nORCHESTRA NEWS  \nSCHERL&ROTH,Inc.1729 SUPERIOR AVE.●CLEVELAND 14,OHIO  \n1729 Superior Avenue·Cleveland 14,Ohio  \nCover and contents copyrighted by Scherl &Roth,Inc.,1963  \n# ARE YOU AFRAIDOF THE STRINGS?\n\nBy  \nHeinrich Roth  \nRCHESTRAS and strings in schoolsare no longer a questionable issue.Every school,regardless of size or loca-tion,should have some elements of a stringprogram in its curriculum.The only ques-tions which should be confronting the in-strumentalist today are:\"Why hasn't aprogram been organized?\"and “How sooncan it be undertaken?”  \nNo longer can teachers use the excusethat“Myschool won'tsupport an orchestra”.Critics of education and perceptive admini-strators realize the validity and necessityfor balance in today's school music pro-gram.Teachers are responsiblefor directionand motivation;and they can well determinewhat merits support in an instrumentalprogram in their schools.  \nIt isn't necessary to think in terms of alarge scale symphony.Haydn's orchestra,remember,consisted of only 24 stringplayers.The refinement to be experiencedin an orchestra does not demand the masssound of a concert band.A modest begin-ning,then,should certainly be no obstacleto starting a string program.  \nActually,the major 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