Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 12-1-1935 Volume 53, Number 12 (December 1935) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Music Education Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, Music Performance Commons, Music Practice Commons, and the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 53, Number 12 (December 1935)." , (1935). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/54 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 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Vol. LIII No. 12 • DECEMBER, 1935 The World of Music Interesting and Important Items Gleaned in a Constant Watch on Happenings and Activities Pertaining to Things Musical Everywhere MEXICO CITY has a “DIE SCHWEIGSAME FRAU (The Silent THE JOHANNESBURG MUSICAL SO¬ THE NEW “RHUMBA , government owned Con¬ Woman),” a comedy opera by Richard CIETY (South Africa) recently gave a pro¬ SYMPHONY” of Harl ej:/ , ' servatory of Music with an Strauss, with its libretto based on Ben Jon- gram of sonatas for violin and piano, which McDonald of Philadelphia, V* ^ / enrollment of more than son’s play, “Epicoene, or, The Silent Woman,” included the “Sonata in D Minor” of Brahms, had its world premiere Estanilas six hundred students. Tu- had its first performance on any stage when “Sonata for Violin and Piano” by Debussy when played on the open- Haul MEJIA ition is free to all talented given on June 24th, as the opening event of (his only one), and “Sonata, Op. 18” by ing program of the present McDonald musicians, and the activities of the institution this year’s Opera Festival at Dresden. The Gabriel Faure. season of the Philadelphia Orchestra with date from 1868. Estanilas Mejia is the direc¬ composer was present as guest and Dr. Karl Leopold Stokowski conducting. The third tor, and the conservatory organizes opera and Bohm conducted. THE COUNCIL AND DIRECTORS of movement (the Rhumba) stirred such enthu¬ ballet performances as well as orchestral con¬ •a-1> the National Federation of Music Clubs met siasm that the audience burst into applause certs, so that students have an active part in MAURICE EISENBERG is a young at Denver, from September tenth to fifteenth, at its close, and Dr. Stokowski left the stage the artistic development of the nation. violoncellist who has been winning a remark¬ at which time the president, Mrs. John Alex¬ to bring the composer on to receive an ova¬ able success and following in Paris, where he ander Jardine, of Fargo, North Dakota, an¬ tion. The conductor then genially broke his THE CINCINNATI SYMPHONY OR¬ plays frequently as soloist, is a member of the nounced as the Program Committee of the habit of reprimanding unnecessary noise¬ CHESTRA, with Eugene Goossens conduct¬ Yehudi Menuhin Quartet, and is a professor Twentieth Biennial Convention, for 1937, in making by complimenting the assembly on ing, is offering this season to its regular in the Ecole Normale de Musique. Louisville, Kentucky: Mrs. Howland Car- “breaking all the rules,” and later reminding subscription audiences, performances of roll Day, of Albert Lea, Minnesota, Chair¬ THE SAN CARLO OPERA ^COMPANY them that “once upon a time, when the Phila¬ Wagner’s “Die Walkiire,” “Die Meistersinger,” man; Mrs. William Hoyt Raymond, Bowling delphia Orchestra was playing Bach music, “Tannhauser” and “Tristan and Isolde,” with of Fortune Callo opened on October 14th a Green, Kentucky, Vice-Chairman; with Mrs. three week season at the famous Auditorium back in the seventeenth century, your great - the chorus and minor roles provided by local Edward Philip Linch of Philadelphia; Mrs. great-grandfathers applauded at the wrong of Chicago, with a performance of “Aida,” of Vincent Ober of Norfolk, Virginia; and Mrs. which the cast included Cyrena Van Gordon, Edward Zoll of Colorado Springs, as other ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE Bianca Saroya, Aroldo Lindi and Mostyn members. listened to a post-season concert, of the sum¬ Thomas. Other works in the repertoire were SOFIA, BULGARIA, with a population of mer series in Grant Park, Chicago, in which “Madame Butterfly” with Hitzi Koyke in THE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA three hundred and fifty thousand, supports the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chi¬ the title role, “Lohengrin,” “Carmen,” “Rigo- of Berlin has for its present season Wilhelm a grand opera company with one hundred cago Opera Orchestra and the Women’s Sym¬ letto,” “Faust,” “II Trovatore,” “Cavalleria Furtwangler as regular conductor of six of and fifty-seven singers, choristers, dancers phony Orchestra played under the baton of Rusticana” and “I Pagliacci.” Prices ranged the grand concerts, with Hermann Abend- and instrumentalists, and with four conduc¬ Dr. Frederick Stock. The orchestra of two from twenty-five cents to one dollar, with roth, Ernest Ansermet, Sir Thomas Beecham, tors. It has also two symphony orchestras. hundred and twenty musicians aroused such box seats at two dollars. One way to make Willem Mengelberg and Victor de Sabata as enthusiasm that the program was repeated opera popular! guest conductors. KARLETON HACKETT, onf of the most on Wednesday of the following week, when distinguished voice teachers and music critics the audience was equally large. Chicago CARL LODEWIJK WILLEM WIRTZ, MARY McCORMIC has announced that, of the Middle West, died in Chicago, on Octo¬ knows how to do big things in a big way. dean of Dutch pianists, has died at Breda, following the five week season of the Chicago ber 7th, on the eve of his sixty-eighth birth¬ Holland, at the age of ninety-four. Born at City Opera Company, she will present her day. Mr. Hackett studied with the greatest THE WANAMAKER ORGAN of Phila¬ The Hague, of a German father and Dutch own troupe in a series of performances at teachers of Milan, Florence, London and delphia, long known as the world's largest mother, he was long a leader of the musical the Auditorium in a repertoire of standard Munich; and later he achieved fame as a organ, has had but one “keeper,” George W. life of his country and among his friends operas in English, which she will later take teacher of leading American singers. His Till, to whom John Wanamaker gave the could count Brahms, Ysaye and Sarasate. on tour. Which reads like the eighteen- whole professional life was devoted to Chi¬ commission to purchase and move to “Penn’s •<J-»• eighties when Emma Abbott, Clara Louise cago, and the entire community is greatly in Towne” the original instrument built for the COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, boasts Kellogg and Emma Juch were at the head his debt for a so sane guidance in musical St. Louis Exposition of 1904. Its perfection three symphony orchestras: the Philharmonic of their own organizations; and may Miss thought. He was president of the American became a recreation and passion of the mer¬ Orchestra, with S. Petersen leading; the or¬ McCormic be as successful as were those Conservatory, founded by John J. Hatt- chant prince, till numerous additions and im¬ chestra of the Royal Theater; and the Radio intrepid bygone songsters. staedt; and our last issue announced his elec¬ provements brought it to the present size Orchestra, developed by Kammersanger Emil tion to the presidency of the newly formed with four hundred and fifty-one speaking Holm, (‘Grand Old Man of Danish Broad¬ ACCORDIONS, MANDOLINS, guitars, Chicago City Opera Company, for opera was casting. The Royal Theater is celebrating and other small musical instruments, are withroith him almost „ passion. •its one hundred and fiftieth birthday with a again coming into their own, if reports from FRANCIS WILSON, revival of the first Danish opera, Naumann’s many quarters are to be accepted. A healthy THE BACH FESTIVAL, organized at light opera singing com “Orpheus and Euridice.” revival of the vogue of these amateur organi¬ Leipzig by the German Government, left a dian star of the first mag- zations of some decades ago would lend a comforting surplus in the treasury, which nitude, in that brilliant THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, fine stimulus to America’s musical life. amount has been added to a fund for a Wag- constellation which lighted with Leopold Stokowski conducting, an¬ r monument in that city. the musical annals of the nounces a transcontinental spring tour of CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN, five weeks, the first in the history of this often mentioned as “the most American of our DE WOLF HOPPER, last quarter of the eighteen one of the brightest star hundreds, answered his last organization and the first in many years, for composers,” has written a fantasy, “Dark a symphony orchestra of the major type. It Dancers of the Mardi Gras” for orchestra, comedians produced by the “call” on October 7th, in light opera vogue of the New York. Born on Feb- will visit all the more important cities of the with the piano as a featured instrument. Fkancis ruary 7, 18S4, in Philadel¬ United States and parts of Canada. Among the organizations which have given last decades of the last it performance, with the composer at the century, left permanently phia, his career began with FREDERIC HYMEN COWEN, eminent a minstrel troupe in the early seventies; in piano, are: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the stage of life on Septem¬ British composer and conductor, died on Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Rochester ber 23rd.