Comments on: The Young Man and His Vocation (1925-26): Lesson 12: Art, Music, the Stage http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/13/the-young-man-and-his-vocation-1925-26-lesson-12-art-music-the-stage/ Where our past is never very long ago Thu, 23 May 2013 18:16:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Andrew http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/13/the-young-man-and-his-vocation-1925-26-lesson-12-art-music-the-stage/comment-page-1/#comment-90243 Andrew Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:05:04 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13066#comment-90243 It certainly would be helpful for those considering art as a career. When I posted my previous comment I was probably thinking more about how my friends and I would have reacted to such a lesson when we were young men. We were not the paragons of ambition, at least not realistic ambition. Give us a lesson on becoming a professional athlete and we probably would have ate it up, unwaveringly certain of our phenomenal athletic abilities (the numerous losses sustained by our ward basketball team notwithstanding). I should probably give my ward’s current young men (and Elders) the benefit of the doubt instead of projecting my youthful silliness onto them. :)

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/13/the-young-man-and-his-vocation-1925-26-lesson-12-art-music-the-stage/comment-page-1/#comment-90216 Ardis E. Parshall Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:57:31 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13066#comment-90216 Welcome to Keepa, Andrew. I would have trouble leading or taking part in that discussion, too — but if I were a young man considering art as a career, I think it would be helpful to help me discover whether I really did have an interest and ability, enough to sustain a career. If those questions bored me, or I didn’t have any idea what they meant, maybe it would be a cue that my real talent and interest didn’t lie in fine art, but perhaps in advertising, or drafting, or some other field. On the other hand, if someone in the class responded with real passion and enthusiasm, he might be on the right track!

Anyway, I liked these lessons both for the quaint flavor of some of them, and for their evidence that the YMMIA was serious about helping the young men get launched into the right kind of life.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/13/the-young-man-and-his-vocation-1925-26-lesson-12-art-music-the-stage/comment-page-1/#comment-90194 Andrew Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:10:06 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13066#comment-90194 Some of those questions…wow. I can only imagine deafening silence and blank stares from my ward’s young men if they were asked to “Discuss the development of art in some of the older nations.” For that matter, I could probably expect the same from my Elders Quorum.

I just came across this series of posts. I look forward to catching up. Thanks for posting these interesting bits of history.

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