Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 6-1-1948 Volume 66, Number 06 (June 1948) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, and the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 66, Number 06 (June 1948)." , (1948). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/172 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 tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. June THE ETUDE 1948 music magazine ARTUR RUBINSTEIN The Distinguished Polish-American Piano Virtuoso In an eight-page article discussing— all present-day piano virtuosi, LIFE pays him this supreme compliment “The man who approaches closest to the Paderewski ideal of virtuosity, showmanship and glamour is Artur Rubinstein/' Read his article in this issue “How Can I Become a Pianist?” has been named to fill out the unexpired Walter Piston’s “Sinfonietta ” is one term, until the annual elections in of two American works which have been selected for performance at the In- November. ternational Festival of Music, to be held The Fourth Annual Festival of Con- this in Amsterdam by the Interna- June temporary Music, held at Columbia Uni- tional Society for Contemporary Music. versity May 10 to 16, produced several His “Third Symphony,” commissioned by outstanding works, most important, per- Ivoussevitzky re- the Music Foundation, haps, being a Mass for Men’s voices ceived its radio premiere on April 13, written by Roy Harris. This was sung Boston WurliTzer with Dr. Koussevitzky and the by the Princeton University Chapel Symphony. Choir, with Carl Weinrieh at the organ. Three other works were given first per- Harl McDonald’s “Saga of the Missis- formances: String Quartet No. 1, by sippi” was given its world premiere by No. Lukas Foss ; Symphony 3, by Wal- The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Viola, lingford Riegger ; and Concerto for Ormandy conducting, on April 9. Dr. by Quincy Porter. The Riegger sym- McDonald, who is also Manager of phony was commissioned for the festival The Philadelphia Orchestra, has to his M. Ditson Fund, which » by the Alice credit a considerable list of orchestral sponsors the event. into your home you works, including four symphonies and When you put a Wurlitzer piano , three orchestral suites. Walter Damroseh, American com- The May Festival season has produced an eye Robin Hood Dell in Philadelphia will Dr. that you have an ear for music , foi years some notable events, among these be- are showing open its season on June 21, with Dimitri poser-conductor, now eighty-six Fes- Saul Caston, former solo trumpet and old, has resigned as president of the ing the Cincinnati Biennial May beauty and a sense of value. Mitropoulos beginning his fourth sum- , tival (May 4-8), founded seventy-five associate conductor of The Philadel- mer as artistic director and principal American Academy of Arts and I-etters, ago. Fritz Rusch was the conduc- phia Orchestra, and for the past three conductor. Guest conductors for the sea- a position to which he had been elected years and the prin- years conductor of the Denver Symphony times. Dr. I iamrosch feels that a tor at this year’s festival, Spinette is the piano that musical America son will include Jose Iturbi, Sigmund eight Below is the beautiful new Wurlitzer Wurlitzer performed were Handel’s Orchestra, has been given a contract for Romberg, Max Goberman, Robert Shaw, younger man should occupy the position cipal works Model 715. You may have it in selected ma- Tc Deinn, Bach’s B Minor more Wurlitzer pianos than three more years, lie also also been en- Barlow, and Paul Strauss. of president. Paul Manship, the sculptor. Dettingen Wurlitzer chooses first. Yes, Howard hogany (as shown) or figured walnut. gaged to conduct a pair of concerts next Mans, and Brahms’ Requiem. Cornell grand, upright, spinette and student pianos those of any other name are going into American season, as guest conductor of The Phila- College, of Mount Vernon, Iowa, cele- are available in a wide variety of styles and delphia Orchestra. brated the fiftieth anniversary of its fes- May finishes including the new Wurlitzer plastic homes and schools today. tival, when it presented its annual 6-8. Choir fabric. If your Wurlitzer dealer is not listed in Ifor Jones, conductor of the inter- Music Festival May The Bach choose your piano, let Wurlitzer of Beth- Pennsylvania, gave its your classified telephone directory, write us When you nationally famous Bach Choir of Bethlehem, lehem, Pennsylvania, and the New Cham- forty-first anual festival May 14 and for complete information. millions of music National Conventions leadership be your guide. Join the ber Orchestra of Philadelphia, has been Two Musical Ifor Jones conducted and the B Minor / elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy; Mans was the concluding event. of Music, of London, England, for his- of Wide Significance “distinguished service to music.” Dr. The American Society of Ancient In- Jones, a native of South Wales, and now struments of Philadelphia, founded by an American citizen, is the first foreigner the late Ben Stad, celebrated its twen- ever to be honored with a Fellowship. tieth anniversary in April with a fes- tival comprising three concerts. The Theodor Lettvin, pianist Sidney Hnrth. first, given at the beautiful Washington ; Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge, had violinist ; and Paul Olefsky, ’cellist, were the winners of this season’s competi- for its soloist, Julea S. Chapline, harpsi- tion of the Walter W. Naumburg Musi- chordist. Guest artists at the second con- cal Foundation. The three young artists, cert, held in St. Mark’s Church, Philadel- selected from one hundred and sixty- phia, were Ernest Willoughby, organist, eight applicants, will be presented in Fred Stad, viole de gamba, and the Phil- debut recitals next season in New York adelphia Choral Ensemble, James Fleet- City. wood, director. At the third concert in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, the soloist Otto Luening’s opera "Evangeline,” was William Kincaid, first flutist of The originally commissioned by the now Philadelphia Orchestra. disbanded American Opera Company of New York City in 1930, had its first per- The Pennsylvania Bandmasters As- sociation held its sixteenth Annual formance on May 5, at the Brander Mat- thews Theatre, Columbia University. The Convention at Atlantic City on May 7-8. events text is adapted by Mr. Luening from The excellent program of was Longfellow’s poem. highlighted by the convention concert given by the American Legion Band of Millville, New Jersey, the state cham- Efrem Kurtz, for the past five years years. conductor of the Kansas City Phil- pionship band for the past ten An- harmonic Orchestra and but recently other feature was a Grand Pageant of signed to conduct this orchestra for an- Bands, held on the famous boardwalk. other year, has been amicably released by The president of the P.B.A. is Arthur H. Jersey. Mr. the Board of Directors to permit him to The 1948 Convention of the Music Edu- cinnati, Ohio, will be succeeded for the Leschke of Millville, New become Music Director and Conductor cators National Conference and the Cath- coming two-year term by Mr. Charles M. Leschke is also director of the American of the Houston (Texas) Symphony olic Music Educators Association, held in Dennis of San Francisco, who is hopeful Legion Band. Orchestra Mr. Kurtz will supervise the Ltetroit April 17-22, will long be remem- of obtaining the next National Conven- Kansas City organization for the present, bered by those who attended it. Over tion (lO.lO) in his home city. Lilly Windsor, twenty-five year old and will assist in choosing his successor. seven thousand music educators from all Much of the-continued success of the soprano from Hawthorne, New York, over the United States met at the huge Music Educators Conference is due to the whose mother operates a grocery store, Dr. Howard Hanson, American com- Masonic Temple, one of the few buildings extraordinary administrative ability of has returned to this country after a suc- ( cessful with poser and director of the Eastman in America which can accommodate such its Executive Secretary, Mr. '. V. But- operatic appearance the School of Music of the University of an event. tleman, who has directed the permanent Rome Opera Company. The singer, who Rochester, is the recipient of the Civic Some idea of the scope of the Conven- office in Chicago for eighteen years. is said to be the first American in more Medal for 1948, awarded annually by the tion may be gained by the fact that it re- Practically all of the leading American than twenty-five years to be signed for a Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences quired a book of eighty-three pages in fine music publishers and instrument makers season with the Rome Opera Company, to a citizen who has distinguished him- type to schedule the necessary informa- had elaborate exhibits. Among these were will make a concert tour of the United self in the community in the fields of art, tion for the teachers who registered. the Theodore Presser Company, John States this summer, and return to Rome literature, science, or industry. Dr. Han- There were some three-hundred events, Church Company, Oliver Ditson Com- early in December. son received the medal and citation at including all manner of subjects pertain- pany, and The Etude Music Magazine.