Blind pupil practicing, Nebraska School for the Blind, Nebraska City
Description
Miss Leona Jennings, in a long white dress, sits at a grand piano in a auditorium, her left hand reads the notes on the music in her lap, while her right hand plays in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. Miss Jennings is committing Schumann's "Soaring" to memory. Rows of fold-down wooden seats are bolted to the wooden floors and long windows line the far wall. Behind the piano is a pipe organ.
Excerpted from: "Twentieth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the Institute for the Blind, Nebraska City, Nebraska" in First Biennial Report of the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions to the Governor and Legislature of the State of Nebraska for the Biennium Ending November 30, 1914 (Lincoln: Nebraska Board of Commissioners of State Institutions, 1914), plate between pp. 478-479
Historical Notes
The Institute for the Blind had three music teachers who provided instruction "in piano, pipe organ, violin, voice, orchestra and chorus work." Further information and statistics are available in the report.
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