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Volume 44, Number 01 (January 1926) James Francis Cooke Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 1-1-1926 Volume 44, Number 01 (January 1926) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Fine Arts Commons, History Commons, Liturgy and Worship 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 44, Number 01 (January 1926)." , (1926). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/730 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]. THE ETUDE JANUARY 1926 Single Copies 25 Cents VOL. XLIV, No. 1 The Triumph of Sacrifice study of music without help, penetrate to every country under the sun. This issue of the Etude is fittingly devoted in part to the “His great publishing house is known everywhere. These, memory and work of the man whose sacrifices made it possible. and many other benefactions which are known and unknown, We who have been at his side unceasingly for many years, are now managed directly and indirectly through a great trust are perhaps too close in perspective to make an unprejudiced known as The Presser Foundation. valuation of the great ability, character and soul of Theodore “The officers and- trustees of the Foundation in all of its Presser. There are too many incessant remembrances of kind¬ departments, and the officers of tire company, all are men who ness and thoughtfulness to warrant us in even attempting this. have in most cases been in the closest association with Theo¬ For that reason we have asked men and women wrho have dore Presser and arc impressed with the lofty ideals he estab¬ viewed his achievements through the years to pay tribute to lished. The president of the Foundation and of the company the man they knew. is Mr. James Francis Cooke, who for eighteen years has been His residence in Germantown adjoined that of the Home the editor of The Etude. for Retired Music Teachers, which he established as one of the ■“To those who knew him well, Mr. Presser was a man of activities of the Presser Foundation. His attitude towards the engaging and hospitable manner, and a firm and abiding friend residents was never that of a philanthropist bestowing bounty. to those whom he called ‘worth while.’ He was, as he often Night after night he would go to the home, associate with the said himself, ‘long suffering’ with those who had weaknesses i guests, join in games; and, during his last years, he was virtu¬ they were striving to overcome. He was a great admirter of ally a resident of the Home despite the fact that he lived in efficiency and grew impatient if results were not forthcoming. the adjoining house. He enjoyed his association with the Therefore, he was frankly irritated by those dillentanti who, teachers and they welcomed him almost as though he were a fel¬ however gifted superficially, had nothing of real moment to low-member of the group. Such humility comes only with say to the world. greatness. “His great interest in life was education, and it was his joy to associate with- teachers of music. Through the organi¬ zation of the Music Teachers’ National Association, in 1876, The Etude’s First Radio Hour in Delaware, Ohio, he laid the foundations upon which have The Etude’s first radio hour was made momentous by the been built the vast number of musical club activities in America, fact that it became a sad obligation to devote the period in numbering hundreds of thousands of members. part to a memorial to the founder of the magazine itself—the “It is small wonder that many of the keenest observers have late Theodore Presser. This Memorial Service was reported said that through his far reaching activities in so many differ¬ by radio owners to have been most impressive. The double ent directions his influence in the field of music in America was quartet of men from the Theodore Presser Company, which greater than that of any other person, not even excepting sang at the funeral, repeated the hymns used on that occasion: Theodore Thomas. “Abide With Me,” and “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” Those “The man, who impresses himself upon his generation as singing were Albert Ockenlaender, Alfred Clymer, Oswald Theodore Presser has done, is not likely to be forgotten; be¬ Blake, T. F. Budington, W. C. E. Howard, Elwood Angstadt, cause he has chosen no great monument or mausoleum to house Frederick Phillips and Guy McCoy. his renown, but the hearts of his fellowmen.” Mr. Henri Scott, of the Metropolitan Opera House, who The Etude Radio Hour is held at eight o’clock Eastern was a personal friend of Mr. Presser, honored his memory by Standard Time, on the second Thursday of each month at singing “Over the Mountain of Sorrow.” This was followed Station WIP, Gimbel Brothers, Phila., Pa. by a short memorial address by Mr. John Luther Long, author of “Madame Butterfly.” Following the Memorial Service, Mr. Preston Ware Orem, Straight Down to Bed Rock music critic of The Etude, Mr. Edward Ellsworth Hipsher, The builder who strikes right down to bed rock for his assistant editor; Mr. Frederic L. Hatch, assistant music critic, foundations insures permanency. and the editor, played and discussed educationally the music Theodore Presser built upon far stronger business, educa¬ in The Etude, assisted by Otto Meyer, violinist, and Mrs. tional and philanthropic foundations than perhaps he himself Dorothy Stolberg Miller, soprano. realized. The program was instructive, varied and interesting. So many were the principles that he instilled during forty The memorial address delivered by Mr. John Luther Long years in the hearts and minds of his employees and fellow- follows: workers, in all of the mapy branches of the institutions he “In the death of Theodore Presser, music in all parts of founded, that it will be a source of great gratification to our the world has lost a commanding and helpful personality. He friends, particularly our old friends, to know that there is a was one of those rare men who choose some one great idea upon splendid organization now in charge to develop and expand which to found success. And his idea was simply—Music. his ideals in the future. But he was active and important in all of the numberless lines The Presser interests are now vested in the hands of strong which music touches. The Etude, which he founded, is the men of eminence in the business, educational and financial world, greatest and most widely distributed of all musical publica¬ practical workers in the business itself, men and womeg who tions, reaching, practically every part of the world. His Home have been trained for years as experts, and finally a consid¬ for unfortunate music teachers, in Germantown, is the perfect erable corps of musicians who are proud of the fact that they model of what such a Home should be. It has accommodations have been teachers of music—all earnestly promoting the poli¬ for more than a hundred inmates. His unostentatious benefi¬ cies which have been the basis of the great work established cence to elderly musicians and those too poor to pursue the for musical education by Theodore Presser. / America’s Greatest Present Problem Because we feel very deeply that music may be line of Here is the greatest present Ssifufeess of music to the the, most precious remedies in America’s greatest 'problem, we state. Good principles of morality, integrity, sobriety, truth are again devoting valuable space to a subject dear to our honesty, clean living and patriotism, planted daily in the child hearts. Square miles of news prints have recently been aimed mind while that mind is elevated, enthused and spiritual./.,d at this greatest problem—the monstrous multiplication of by means of inspiring music, means that if we can reach enough crime m our large cities—particularly crimes committed by children in the right manner our crime problem will diminish young men and young women who are obviously without any enormously with oncoming years. moral equilibrium. If we want good, law-abiding, God-fearing citizens in Richard Washburne Child, former American Ambassador the future, we must raise them and not depend upon the clubs to Italy, in an alarming series of Articles in The Saturday of the police to batter them into shape. The policeman’s club Evening Post, gives an account of the extent of crime in pres¬ may maim a crook, but it can never make a character. ent day America, the sickening inability of the spineless police The Etude readily admits that this training in the da\ Tributes from Eminent Men and Women to suppress crime, and the apparent unwillingness of magis¬ schools might be far better handled in the home or in 11.. trates to support the ef¬ church. We are however, to Theodore Presser forts of the honest police confronting a very prac privilege of knowing him. Mr. Presser nobly served by punishing offenders. WALTER DAMROSCH the cause of music, and his steadfast idealism and large- tical problem. It is re¬ MRS. H. H. A. BEACH Collier's Weekly had pre¬ Eminent Coiuluctor hearted generosity left us all his debtors.
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