We are apt, in America to look forward too exclusively,- to think we have no history. We forget that we have had a culture in the past, of which we may be proud for its own sake, from which we may gather encouragement and inspiration. Musical culture to-day is an easier matter than it was a century ago. In the sensational, almost too emotional charater of modern music there is an appeal as much to the senses as to the mind. There is an orgy of passive enjoyment, rather thann the clear thought of poetry.... The musical life in early Philadelphia was of the same cast as was the high atmosphere of the Utopians at Concord. The sphere and scope of Philadelphia musiciand were, of course, much more limited.... Around music clusters much of the actual feelings of the past, - the view of life, whether serious or gay, of amusement, of art. Its history gauges the mental scope of former generations; it shows the extent to which religion and church-life absorbed thought.... Keywords: Music in Philadelphia and the Musical Fund Society, Louis MAderia, Musical, Philadelphia, Gay, Art, Amusement, religion, church life,

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