Abstract
T WO OF THE MANY questions that concern persons interested in the vocational aspects of the music profession are: (1) Is the listener audience increasing? (2) What are the opportunities for placement ? Let us remind ourselves that it has been only in recent generations, particularly in America, that music has been regarded as a profession-a profession considered to be important remuneratively. Since, up through the twenties, music came to be a profession of extensive ramifications in this country, its recent seeming decline in vocational value has been to many music people a disappointment and hurt. Since 1926 there have been technological changes in the music profession because of the increase of theaters using mechanical music reproduction, and because of the increase of the radio field. Most significant is the fact that the drop-off in the number of theater musicians has been considerably greater than the increase in the number of radio musicians. In 1928-29 there were 19,780 active theater musicians in the American Federation of
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