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By JAMES J. KILPATRICK
I'niventul Press Syndicate
Grandaughter Jamie, in the living room, is playing the C scale. Before long she will put her small thumb firmly on A flat, and she will play the A-flat scale. She will play these first with her right hand, then with her left hand, then with both hands together.
She does not like it much. Beloved Jamie, at 9, is a fiercely independent soul. She is slowly mastering Beethoven’s “Fur Elise,” which she regards as neat. Left alone she would rather improvise variations on a theme by the Grateful Dead. Ah, but first the scales.
You will surmise that l am working my way into an analogy, and indeed I am. The musician must learn * to play the scales just as an artist must learn to draw. James F. Cooper, editor of American Arts Quarterly, recently made the point. To the old masters, he said, drawing was the beginning of the artistic process.
Cooper told an appalling story: “A modest grant to a small art academy was recently denied by the National Endowment for the arts
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