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Lr--| u 7 "T 't • urcih (Sompa-nu SONG * COLLECTIONS EMBRACING THE VOCAL MASTERPIECES OF ALL AGES GUSTAV H1NHICHS. HERE. THERE AND EVERYWHERE IN A CONCERT IN MEM- whose early work in pro- ORY or Kurt Schindler, ducing and conducting THE MUSICAL WORLD founder and first con- OF MANY NATIONS opera in Philadelphia, ductor of the Scliola FOLK SONGS caused him to be known Cantorum, was given in Collected and Edited by Louis C. Elson as the “father of opera” ALEXANDER VON ZEML1NSKY, Vien- THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Al BI- March by that organi- songs of various nations collected and edited with preface and many Here is an album of the characteristic matters musical. Where n ,c original in that city, died at conductor, teacher, TKINS of the Air came to an exciting zation under the direc- valuable annotations, by a well-known American authority on text nese composer, and presented with a singable English translation Most of the nun t . . are in a medium tion of its present con- is given but each song is Mountain Lakes, New died on March 16 at Larchmont, New finale on March 22, when the winners these pages much that is desirable for incite . one s repertoire. range and singers of all voices will find in ductor. Ross. Music contains v.i c information for Jersey, on March 26. He been in this country since for this year were presented in the final Hugh An An interesting preface, "The Influence of Folk-Song upon Classical . Gustav York. He had Kurt PRICE, program notes. $1.50 Hinrjchs was born in Germany, 1938. In his early days he numbered broadcast of the season over the NBC important part of the S< HINDI I * in 1850; studied music in among his friends Brahms and Gustav chain. Due to the unusual excellence of program was the presen- GEMS OF ANTIQUITY Hamburg; and came to America in 1870. Mahler. His operas were produced in all six finalists, four instead of the usual tation of a number of new works which Collected and Edited by Dr. Otto Neitzel He was associated with Theodore Thomas Munich, Vienna, and Zurich. He was three were awarded Metropolitan con- had been written by a group of com- posers using Schindler's An anthology of vocal masterpieces composed in the period between the thirteenth ar > fer-'th centuries. in the American Opera Company; and conductor at the Staatsoper in Berlin tracts and $1,000 each in cash. These are themes found in Many of these songs originally were expressed by a melody and figur. editor has been with Dvorak at the National Conserva- and other important operatic centers. Frances Greer, soprano, of Piggott, Ar- collection, the “Folk Music and Poetry of peculiarly felicitous in the skill with which he has transcribed and fitted them with , companiments. faithfully preserving the color of the originals. The excellent English translations are • carry out the tory, both in New York City. For ten years Among his pupils W'ere Arnold Schoen- kansas; Margaret Harshaw, contralto, Spain and Portugal.” original thoughts with as much precision as translation will allow. This volume prov. <-al material for the he was music director of his own opera berg, his brother-in-law, the late Artur of Narberth, Pennsylvania; Elwood Gary, "classic” section of the song recital program. PRICE, $1.50 company in Philadelphia. Bodansky, and Erich Korn gold. tenor, of Baltimore; and Clifford Har- HOI.I.INS COLLEGE in Virginia is cele- vuot, baritone, of Norwood, Ohio. Because FAMOUS SONGS brating in May its one hundredth an- THE NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY of the high rating of the other two niversary. This fact takes on special SOPRANO • ALTO TENOR • BASS ORCHESTRA, America's first State sym- singers, Virginia MacWatters, coloratura significance for The Etude because it was Edited by H. E. Krehbiel phony orchestra, celebrated its tenth soprano, of Philadelphia, and Robert at Hollins College that Theodore Presser Made by one of America's outstanding writers on musical subjects, for years the ihum 1 of anniversary on March 30, with a concert Brink, baritone, of McKeesport, Pennsyl- leading metro- taught music for the three years prior politan journals, this collection in ' to the four volumes i <>*-. of Famous Songs stands first and t in vocal music in Chapel Hill. The program w’as fea- C-ompelitionS vania. each was given a $500 award: also publications. Few, if any, artists of the radio or the concert platform are without the • the.r voice Voice his founding The Etude Music Magazine teachers, almost universally, tured by the of have adopted these volumes with their comprehensive an material classic appearance Ruggiero the Metropolitan Opera Company retains romantic, dramatic—-for use in inculcating the principles in 1883. And It was Dr. Charles Lewis of good singing The physical .... of The books is Ricci, young American violinist. A COMPETITION FOR AN OPERA especially noteworthy; the right to use them when needed. printed from beautifully engraved plates on a fine quality pap- fanTially bound Cocke, founder and first president of in heavy paper covers. by an American-born composer is an- PRICE $1 50 EACH VOLUME nounced by Mrs. Lytle Hull, president Hollins College, who loaned Mr. Presser MUSIC IN INDUSTRY is growing by the THE PHILADELPHIA OPERA COMPANY of the New Opera Company, New' York. part of the necessary funds to launch SONG CLASSICS proverbial leaps and bounds; according closed its fourth season on March 17 with The award is $1000 cash and a guarantee the magazine. Congratulations to this to recent surveys. Bands, glee clubs, or- a performance of “La Boheme," • • of a performance by the in Eng- SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS New Opera distinguished college on its one hun- chestras, choirs, and various instrumen- lish. In many ways this was one of their Edited by Horatio Parker Company. The contest closes November dredth birthday! tal activities are being sponsored large by 1, and full details may be secured by most successful seasons. The high light aS b "° ted in ,he class/c at «>"*'"**. the c I ordered the word corporations, as a means of relieving the addressing the ?ts buVvafuV^astanda^wn^ , f . , New Opera Company, 113 was tile world premiere of Deems Tay- the * ,r$ * r of the foremost composers Lc ass Hc,c afC “ ' notable songs of all time Rarh strain of monotonous and high pressure West Fifty-seventh Street, New York lor’s and and Cham, nade. Sch.. • ,nd Wolf. ScarlaM, “Ramuntcho." Preparations are THE CENTENARY OK SIR ARTHUR SI D d’Hardelot. EaThCfic Is wesenfed'fS lan Suage. then in an exccll. • • work. City. Each volume supplies the nucleus gl.sh translation, under way for the next LIVAN'S birth is being observed of a rerenertniVntPer(0lre of the best songs, season and indi- during earnest aspirant to true each is invaluable t. !c„, who » an artistry’’ cations PRICE. $1 50 EACH VOLUME point to an equally successful the month of May. It was on May 13. HENRI SCOTT, formerly THE EDGAR M. LEVENTRITT a leading basso one. 1842, in London, that the man whose SACRED of the Metropolitan Opera Company, FOUNDATION, INC. will hold its third SONGS died works were destined to create annual competition for young pianists records at Hagerstown. Maryland, on April 2. SOPRANO • • early in October, in THE FORTY-NINTH that no doubt will never be equalled, let ALTO TENOR • Born in New York City. The BASS Coatesville, Pennsylvania, his alone Edited by W. J. aw'ard will be an appearance as soloist ANNUAL MAY FESTIVAL surpassed, was born. Sullivan's col- Henderson entire musical education was acquired in with the New York Philharmonic-Sym- of the University of laboration with W. S. Gilbert, in the ing. the most chu,ch America. He W'as one of the first Amer- substantflf s^STbea* Tepl^on" and soloist On!-, the most appeal- phony Orchestra. Applications must be Michigan will be pre- creation of a long line of comic these voiumes to the evan^h* nQt ,re ucntly operas, library means the acqu,°ih'on '°2 9 Tt c : ut.on of one of ican-trained singers to gain fame in filed r of Irnln In , by June 15; and full particulars may- general use standaf • w’as in itself a real d sacred solos f - o sented by the University a remarkable record; — economy and a great . ,v occasions, or coupled Sullivan, have been ccnveni*»nr» ^ grand opera. He toured in concert with be secured by addressing the Foundation drawn upon for contnbltions "B.c Cowhand Musical Society on May with tills, he produced sacred and secular Caruso in 1908. and then sang with the at 30 Broad Street, New York City. 6, 7, 8, 9 at Ann Arbor, cantatas and miscellaneous choral works ORATORIO Manhattan Opera Company, the Chicago SONGS Michigan. An array of which are still given successful presenta- Opera Company, and finally the Metro- A CONTEST FOR ORIGINAL COM- • distinguished tions in all parts SOPRANO • POSITIONS for young artists and of the civilized world. ALTO TENOR BASS politan Opera Company. For several p anists, open to Eugene years all composers who are American citizens, musical organizations, Or handy S D r , e he maintained a studio in Phila- 5 °< Pure music, is announced r"v™°'-enrs ,n1c r r?h u!ch and the singing of them is by The Society of American including The Philadel- be , r ^ delphia. SSHfKSSe c a“| frequently dlscr ' mi " a THE ROBIN IIOOI) DELL «ator%°y"® L pro|ram oratorio^ ""f! congregation*. and concert Musicians of Chicago. CONCERT 0 / tho m?os, The . This contest closes phia Orchestra, Eugene ma e c VOlumcs COM ''1 f Ormandy, cond.; the pcsers 'rom Bach to »'»u > ,hc b« season in Philadelphia is announced accompanymV^ecitahve,5 M V T sjlhvan AA^I July 30; and full particulars to -' Ml c arc '' the h of ,h 's material, g,vcn ln ,h ' original keys with may be The University Choral vocal i . aside Union. Thor score of the nre.I from thl.e J procured from open on June 22 for a seven aCqU ' Edwin weeks' lor the S,,i °n ° f J. Gemmer, 1625 Singer or ambitious Zent 0ne of was Johnson, cond.; The Festival Youth t^my given a most suc- Kimball Building, Chicago, Illinois. period. Some of the leading soloists of Chorus, Juva Higbee. cond.: Marian An- | cessful presentation by the country will appear, and outstanding OPERA SONGS THE derson, Rachmaninoff, Helen Traubel. J -or <*i) The Philadelphia Or- THIRD NATIONWIDE COM- conductors also will make Emanuel Feuermann, guest appear- chestra at its concerts POSITION CONTEST of the National and Carroll Glenn ances. PRAN0 Federation of will present programs of ® * • Music Clubs, to give recog- wide variety and ^fheSSI^w AND ALT0 • / — on Friday afternoon t TENOR BASS b f a ^^2f° nition to native creative talent, appeal. is an- h h VOlU and Saturday evening, or el°o Ve nor CRun ' he ,caChCr bafdonT.VV basl O ^ I^SifaWS'fwth nounced by the committee in charge of Randall Thompson's new’ t.Bfe March 27 and 28. Choral opera. gwen^n IBk the event. The contest this the'samek ^enVo'lowIS Vh^te^lMhcTe year will be A MAMMOTH MASSED “Solomon and Balkis.” had its S a u ,h groups assisting r ORCHESTRA of radio ri > to the singer 0< ,be entic Eng I translation All are Charles w ere limited when it must needs °Pera and the piano to two classifications—a chamber needs behe*"!used—I° byL accompaniment seven hundred players, under premiere on March 29, over the the teacher in give* su f» ic , ent support Kullmann the Choral Society the baton CBS . m recital,r-Itx oref of music w'ork and a choral composition. in home study. PRICE, $1.50 EACH The of Rudolph Ganz, will network, with Howard the University of Penn- choral competition be the outstand- Barlow conduct- doses on July 1 and the ing sylvania. the Choral chamber ing attraction in the observance of Inter- and the three principal parts being Art Society, and the music contest on November 1. Full National Music Week taken by John Gurney, THE JOHN Philadelphia Conservatory Chorus; and details may be secured from Miss in Detroit. Michi- bass; Mona CHURCH Helen L. Gunderson, gan, May 3-9. A project of Paulee, mezzosoprano: and Carlo 11 co the soloists were National the Michigan Corelli. Theodore Presser CO. Judith Hellwig, Enid Contest c« rf ! Chairman, Louisiana State Civic Orchestra The opera also had 1712 ,bMt° rs Szantho. Charles Kullmann, and Alexan- University, Uni- Association, the unique a stage performance CHESTNUT STREETSTREET, d 2’. versity Station, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. event will bring In April at the Lowell PHILADELPHIA. der Kipnis, all under the masterful con- together the personnel House. Harvard PA ductorship of Eugene Ormandy. of twenty civic and community orches- University. tras of southeastern Michigan. (Continued on Page 360) MAY, 1942 289 , . • p.; 11

Editorial Thousands in America Are Thinking TIHE ETHF ffiofflsfi© mwq)(Bfzt n-v I “4 always wanted to own a piano” Published monthly

By Theodore presser Co., Philadelimi . pa.

EDITORIAL a\D ADVISORY ST A i ROBABLY THE MOST VALUABLE METAL in the Let us not be deceived. The rugged methods which our DR. JAMES FRANCIS COOKE. Editor world is radium, which is worth approximately musical forefathers employed have been blithely put aside Guy McCoy and Priscilla Brown. Assistant Editors P $1,500,000.00 an ounce. You can buy gold for about for candy-coated short cuts vchich have produced a genera- William jM. Felton, Mush Editor '/ always wanted to own some thirty-five dollars an ounce. The reason radium costs so much tion of softies. The students who are carrying off the prizes Robert Braine Dr. Henry S. fry George C. Krick Dr. Rob Roy Peery I is not merely because there is so little of it in the world, but to-day are those whose teachers have seen the need for plenty kind of musical instrument.'" Pietro Deiro Karl W. Gehrkens Blanche Lemmon sOPeu-r Hugh Reed Dr. Nicholas Douty Fli/aheth Gest Dr, Guy Maier William [). Revelli because it is so difficult to refine. It takes one ton of ore to of wholesome work; they have not sought the alchemy of Paul Koepke N. Clifford Page produce a fraction of a grain of this marvelous living, sil- mystic tricks and short cuts for the evasion of work. We FOUNDED 1883 BY THEODORE PR I very white metal that only a few people in the world have have known intimately an unusual number of virtuosi. Many ever seen. The total supply in the United States is less of them keep on practicing up to within a few minutes of “f always wanted to than three-quarters of a pound, yet it required thousands the time they go upon the stage, fearing that they might study music.” ( and thousands of tons of ore to produce this. Its principal otherwise lose the technical “super-polish,” force, and refine- (Contents jor Ifl/jay, / )-j -- value rests in the fact that the lives of great numbers of ment for which they are famed. people VOLUME I.X, No. 5 PRICE 25 CENTS depend upon the existence of Masterpieces are so rare that pub- radium. WORLD OF MUSIC. 289 lishers are always on the lookout, EDITORIAL Many of the finest results that man with the hope of uncovering some Musical Results . “/ always wanted my children . 291 has attained are not unlike radium, in youthful work of a master which YOUTH AND MUSIC Mi Musical that an enormous amount of effort to study music.” Reciprocity .Blanche Lemmon 292 shows some sign of genius, hut which was required MUSIC AND CULTURE to mine an appallingly might not have been identified by the /- small Wsrh 293 amount of precious metal from composer’s contemporaries. Your Edi- .< : 2M Twenty-five Busy Women Keep ThVir Miisi, the original ore. have Up Him lluitlry 295 We recently tor has thus ransacked StriKing New Concert Gowns of Leading Singers the early 29 ! been reviewing the lives of many crea- MUSIC IN THE HOME works of scores of composers and has “I always wanted tive workers, known to us through to the pride been dumbfounded, in many instances, '• '• '• SSi&SSJ!SKSi'^Radio Attains New • • • • • • • • • or. ySiir their masterpieces — their radium. of having music in my home.'’ Art Values Alg-cd, by the amazing number of dry, dull The Best^L‘St Music ‘‘Off‘'Off 'thethe ReeorRecord’’*. 29» Tho li’t-.-ln Yt T ' One never I he Etude Music Lover's*« 800 hears of the appalling Bookshelf h it 1 works ' which have . . a. Men 'i

'-‘ ' ing the signature The Song of the ll 1 /» Flamenco P • !r« linn, 349 inspiration came to him his writing my earnings in something Georye r. Uriels 351 many which stand out far above the MUSIC skill was such that it resulted in the C, temporary others. of permanent value to Tieoeo^ Selection, imperishable myself.” Lxeerpt from Sonata, Op. lui “Gettysburg Address.” Springtime * * This v; 'Lttdtoig/van Bctthorrn EVE CURIE does not mean, however, A May .tiank 317 There seems to be a popular that Morning. I . idea Atherton, Up. 775 320 every 11 ***'• /«'. student should, °£ ’. A nth otif/ that perforce, parade So say KifinDinee. 'U'anisAngeiicus’, 322 great musical genius is a kind of thousands of . Fran,k music loving ; — iiodxon 328 workers j;,;; in defense 1 ’ .’ through a procession industries. I ia “° ' Adolf Jensen t)p. ,u. biological of dull exercises. Those who ManhMton Couc* r to iu Minor 5 324 curiosity which, without effort, produces, know Beach T«C/io 1 the new Etude are saying, koicskp Prcrp 32.1 through The intelligent “I always wanted to — an artistic student, properly taught, knows how to prac- subscribe ,&ouiin -llodson 326 spontaneous combustion, magnificent to The Etude.” works. Ad- tice so that he finds keen interest mittedly, it is in scales, arpeggios, or in Va> id a cruel farce to lead young ( ; Marshall people to believe : 327 : the Czerny, The Etude tt. dementi, Moscheles, and wants right away ^t Saiaa on vi,, h Thomas 326 that work Chopin studies. an America vi," alone can He army of teachers and music the Beautiful' (Organ) produce masterpieces. Without inspira- Sarabande» knows from his workers to enlist (Violin and own digital experiences in the Piano) . Roland Ditjglc tion no work that the facility campaign to secure new Airy Fairies (Two 88f* of permanent artistic value was ever Etude suh- Pianos, Four « ac •! brought scribers iiands) aJ? J^~~E- Beer 332 acquired through a great deal of an, I make a profit r bPuuhling to the world. the right kind of practice by doing it, at this °“ ns Plny"r‘ —st alter 333 Yet we know of few masters time when music flJyftSlTafe who have not refines and one might means so much to our Nation. Chasing Bn been exceedingly say “burnishes” his technic and Let's have your help. Gerties Anna Priscilla busy workers. Most of them, even im- Fill out and llishcr 334 those proves his tone. At a literary mail this coupon to-day. at “* who started to write gathering, while talking ® Hymn of ’th'^Republic.';;;;;;; -ChiirlesT’o^erhlt at an incredibly early age, were put with jC I35 a well known writer through a very of successful books, someone in Melody IrttfS&en » ^-^chter 333 great amount of intensive study. This applies the EVERY Chord Accompaniment^'/ group said, “How can one NEW ETUDE l "‘ ,c,,€r even to such produce so many books SUBSCRIBER HELPS THE ’ it, -Vo. phenomena as Mendelssohn in one EXPAND THE JUNIOR ETUDE i ,; 33^ and Mozart. These lifetime?” The author stopped a TEACHER'S OPPORTUNITIES Elizabeth men were, in their childhood, astonishingly moment and then said AND ACTIVITIES MISCELLANEOUS Gcst 330 industrious You should \ oiee Questions Even the exquisite see the books I have destroyed.” Answered Mendelssohn, literally born on the lap The profes- r ' A" 8 ie

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Youth and Music confidence. While still in Junior to give him OUNDING THE MILESTONE of an eightieth Music and Culture School he had won the Philadelphia High All birthday gives me a new lease on life. High School Contest for pianists; had Junior won R When I attained the age of sixty I was not scholarship at the Philadelphia after this a Con- particularly glad, but now that I’m eighty, I glory and, on the basis of his work at servatory; the in it. Especially attractive is the birthday present Conservatory, had won further study at the Juil- from fate that comes with being eighty—I am free Graduate School in New York City. Musical Reciprocity liard Another from all responsibilities except those that I choose Four Score-and Then! Pennsylvania laurel was winning the State Con- to assume as pleasures. At last I can do exactly test of the National Federation of Music Clubs. what I like! When his native city held a yearly audition to “At sixty-five, I planned to retire. I was then A Conference with find a soloist to play in a Philadelphia Orchestra conductor of the New York Symphony Society, Concert, Joseph Battista won his ELnclie emmon Youth first and I felt that the strain of five rehearsals and Eu X chance to play with this distinguished orchestra. three concerts each week was too much for an old And he made the most of this opportunity by man. I had had forty-three years of service with WJafter f-Jf^am rose playing Rachmani- my beloved orchestra, to which I was bound by noff’s “Concerto in C ties of devotion and of tradition. My devotion cen- Diian of American Conductors ot so LONG AGO Kipling’s famous line distinctly limited and that minor” so superla- tered about the orchestra itself and its patron, Mr. might have been paraphrased and with misconceptions were plenti- tively that he was im- Harry Harkness Flagler, the greatest of musical N slight modification mediately philanthropists. The ties of tradition centered SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY ROSE IIEYLBUT applied to the two ful. A considerable number engaged for Americas: North is North and South is South of popular songs had come another appearance around the fact that this orchestra had been and never the twain shall meet.” For North and to Brazil by way of motion with the same famous founded by my father. Thus, I was eager to help South America had gone their in selecting planatory separate cultural pictures from the States, group of musicians. my successor; but before arrange- words. Many of my new listeners would Opera Company has already arranged to produce ways for so long that the probability of their be- and likewise, ments could be made, conditions made it advis- be hearing a symphony orchestra for the first it in many pulsat- Strangely enough, the autumn of 1942. Until it is given. I coming shall mutually interested seemed remote. The ing Brazilian able to merge the New York Symphony with the time in their lives, it a idea tunes had there were many par- and seemed good to reveal only this about it: it is callbd The Opera main thoroughfares of cultural activity ran east found their into New York Philharmonic. For years the two or- tell them something about it. the way United allels In the life of The talk and Cloak’; the libretto is by my daughter. Gretchen and west; in the realm of the arts, Eastern Hemi- States dance band reper- Joseph Battista ganizations had been rivals; now it was thought concert came off, and I sailed for Europe. Before Damrosch Finletter; sphere and and the action takes place events concerned the Americas far more tories. by both that one orchestra enough to But of more serious in that of his South was meet the ship landed, I had a cablegram asking me to in a New York rooming-house near Washington than those of each other. In fact, so adequate did music from the two coun- the symphonic needs of New York. conduct one symphonic concert a week over the Square, in the those thoroughfares American sponsor. year 1915. seem for the interchange of tries there “Then, about a year after had been too Like her, my retirement, the air. Thus ended my retirement! “What else do I musical ideas that north and he was one wish to do? Well. I hope, this south routes were little representation. For miracle of radio asserted itself. I was about to sail sadly neglected. of a large family— summer, to advance work in my hobby of land- many of Brazil’s cultural for Europe. Just a week before my departure, I A Suggestion Bears Fruit Then the world she. one of nineteen scape gardening. At our summer home in underwent startling changes. societies were was invited Maine, under Ger- to conduct a symphonic program over “After the first few concerts, It occurred to me I have Eastern thoroughfares were closed; children and he, one already planted a splendid vLsta of cedars and to South man domination and subsi- the air, and to precede the concert and of by a few ex- that this marvelous medium of radio had far and white pines, North America it became apparent, as world eleven. Like hers, according to a model I found in dized by Nazi money. greater value than mere events went forward at swift pace, his musical talent Rome. The story goes that a great that their Guiomar Novaes decided Cardinal once futures would be linked manifested entertainment; it held wished to erect fine together. That they could to make Itself early a building but he proved slow her personal con- the profit from collaboration was obvious. —at about four most promising edu- alas, in paying for the Like two tribution to the promotion years work. His architect grew neighbors who had long maintained of age. cational possibilities. I restive, and the only a nod- of closer relations between He had won a Cardinal grew even more restive ding acquaintance, they suggested to Mr. David under took time at last, under serious conservatory scholar- the artist’s restiveness. So one day. threat musicians of the the of common danger, to meet and ship, Sarnoff that, instead of architect to talk two countries in the form and so had she, said, ‘If you will pay me for the work things over. They found they had broadcasting to a chance more in com- of an invitation, at the Paris Conserva- already completed. Your Eminence, mon than they extended I shall build had supposed. toire audience, we make use of you a colonnade to a young United States JOSEPH BATTISTA when she was the like of which has never been pianist fourteen those matchless facilities seen. Although your A Significant Debut to come to -Brazil —over three groundspace is small It will and appear hundred in order to reach the seem a full mile in Greatly there in the concert halls of the and eighty length.’ interested in this altered attitude lead- competitors! She country’s large organized was ing music centers. To had made her Unitedviiutvu Statesouu.es "Naturally, the Cardinal was a pianist in South Columbia Concerts Cor- , interested, and in- 611 tWenty body of school children. terest helped : he >»' him hasten America who hoped poration she delegated the twenfv nn ft, - "hen ^as the settling of the debt. t0 get a little My suggestion was re- And so the architect that a concomitant of task of selecting a young- ahead of our went to work. What storv fftr r ceived he did mPh 3 flrst a with favor, and was to make practical closer political and man or woman who would PPearance in her use of the simple law of count7viy, justf as shef f the young people’s commercial be had triumphed in her % con- perspective. You know relations representative of the appearance first that, when you look at a in his. IS certs began. It was esti- line between her native finest talent in our coun- of columns in the distance, the nearer mated that, at the ones Brazil and the United try. Whoever they start, seem taller than those farther select- A Successful Tour we away. That of States would ed would reached an audience course, is due be closer come to Brazil He to perspective. The architect fash- musical under of one-and-one-half mil- ioned relations be- her sponsorship. an artificial perspective of distance lion. by mak- tween them. Back in To-day, fourteen ing each column The in the colonnade a bit shorter 1915, a small Brazilian Plan Develops years later, we reach an than the one shssssse before it. Thus was created the im- girl, twenty years of Columbia Concerts audience of six-and-a- pression Cor- an“ S’a°SS »"’ of distance, and truly, the colonnade age and unknown to poration tmgs half million school and announced a ’ rece appeared com- tions and parties P' to be a full mile long. Well, the music world, petition and How he ! college students what that appointed able Brazilian ^ th

293 Music and Culture married the So when Julia Ward Chevalier she Music and Culture married all Boston’s reformers as well. Dr. Howe his red-haired young naturally wanted wife to share his enthusiasm for his various causes. He The Etude has always endorsed with loved to bring home to dinner Boston’s “teachers, unrestrained enthusiasm the work, of the reformers—and prophets” as she This represents an Women cranks, called small musical club. Twenty-five Busy his friends. Though she enjoyed meeting and outlet for the musical capabilities of thou- getting dinners country, “Sing It Again!” chatting with them, for them sands of women throughout the was something of an ordeal. In her childhood who, often having spent many years in she had had no training in any of the domestic the study of music, might otherivise have musical arts. Luckily for her, Chev'.s elder sister who had no means of keeping up their Keep Up Their Music Hallelujah!" soli- “Glory, Glory, been his housekeeper during his bachelor days, work. While many of us find joy in remained in the home and continued to shoulder tary playing, music is after all a social American Patriotic Hymn responsibility. mutual ’mderstand- The Romancu of a Great much of its art. It thrives upon Housewives Find ing and appreciation. Framingham Ardent Abolitionist An We knew of a group of women ivho, Interest in the Art Though Julia was naturally a warm-hearted becoming disgusted with the monotonous New that humanitarian, so thorough had been her early round of bridge playing, discovered hij ^JJ^efen J^lostetter some musical training J~^. training in orthodoxy, both in religion and in so- they had all had revived. Under cial life, that each of the radical'’ movements that might be profitably constructive leade to which she became expo "d found her at first the guidance of a they resolved to “practice up.” Meanwhi Elizabeth van history IGHTY YEARS AGO there lived in Boston social entertainment. Someone once said, “If they organized a class in musical a red-haired energetic woman with a repu- Julia were on a desert island with no inhabitant mainly because they realized that the E tation for wit—brilliant, ready, and at but one old she members should have some unified con- Negro would give a party.” And about a times merciless. Neither her five children, rang- Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes years later said to cept of the story of the art. In Symphony," ing in age from seven to her, were able to begin their en- seventeen, nor her “Madame, I consider you eminently club- year they Programs are va- doctor-husband could absorb her time to the bable.” Shortly before semble work, and also prepare for pro- the beginning of the ried. This season a exclusion of concern about the crisis which her Civil War, she even had turn grams. The musical activities added new a at being society program of Ameri- country faced. In her mind was a desire to make correspondent for the New York Tribune— interest to their lives. As one member can music Is sched- some vital contribution to the cause for which writing about social events in Boston and New- said, “We were not merely passing around uled; one by Swedish her nation had been plunged into war, the aboli- port, where she was numbered among pieces of card board on the table but we the elite. composers; another tion of slavery. were learning something fresh and inter- by all women com- So compelling was her desire to serve, that Entering a New World esting at every meeting.” eventually she was able to posers; a Schumann make a contribution Julia's marriage to Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, Mrs. Elizabeth van Praag Dudley tells a which was to have tremendous and Schubert pro- influence in nevertheless, had brought about a reorientation story which sho.uld inspire many to “take achieving victory for the cause gram; fifteenth, she had come to of her life. Tall and handsome, almost twenty up music again."—Editor’s Note. love so passionately. eighteenth and years her senior, Dr. That woman was twentieth century Howe was just the Julia Ward Howe. Her music, so on. type to appeal to ro- and contribution, The Bat- Sometimes the mem- mantic and ideal- appeared the tle Hymn of the Re- OT LONG AGO in The Etude istic young bers read appro- public, the Julia. story of a skilled pianist, who returned to noblest, priate poems and When she first met N the study of piano, after the domestic most heart-lifting him he had only articles. song of the Civil War duties of the home became less in later years. Her recently Membership re- period, has become in- returned achievement is duplicated twenty-five times in from several are deed one of the great- years the Clef Club of Framingham, Massachusetts, quirements sim- of service est songs of American as an which for three years has afforded happy hours ple. A prospective army history. surgeon with to twenty-five members, giving them the joy only member must con- the Greek Some may think of forces, music can give: new friendships and renewed tribute to the pro- fighting her chiefly as an able for release interests. grams. New names from Turkish club leader, a veteran rule. Not all the Clef Club members, however, are go to a membership He had been a tent of the woman’s suf- housewives out of practice. It includes the young committee, which, if mate of Lord Byron, Some of the twenty-five busy women of the Clef Club of Framingham frage movement, or as there is JULIA WARD and not-so-young housewives and mothers, a no vacancy an had returned to the HOWE honored matriarch, grandmother or two, the head of a small private —and there rarely Is a sort of American U.S.A. and on a school and her daughter, a teacher, and a young member, finding it necessary to ‘‘brush up” for —places them on the waiting list. This committee Queen Victoria. But in speech - making tou business woman. The most enthusiastic of all was her thrice-a-year performances, is taking lesspns has the final decision. 1861, at the beginning had collected mone; neither a student nor performer until a very again. The founder of the club has been its head » ^ of enough to buy wicm u.5 vuigai i the Civil War, she a ship sons, cheap ranters, socially few years ago, when, after her children had grown The club meets every other week in a member’s since its organization; and the secretary is the was still very much load of food and cloth- impossible. ° r owe and married, she started the study of the violin. home. To keep it It only officer. ’ nevertheless, informal and not to have other The membership committee ing to ' became an early c the society lady. take back t< £ veit. He helped organize The club’s purpose is the practice and perform- outgrow the homes, membership is limited to includes a pianist, violinist, violoncellist and Twenty years before, the starving Greeks the New Engl; Emigrant Aid Company ance of good music. Every member must play at twenty-five. After a program of an hour or so, singer. The program committee, representing she had been a Then with the Greel for the colonization New least three as a free state. He times in a season, either solos or in there is a brief business meeting. Refreshments each of these four groups, in addition to arrang- York City debutante, cause assured and hi; was chairman c whlcl1 ensemble groups. Standards are high. Only fine are very inexpensive and simple because club the gayest of army work raised two thousand dollar: the ing the programs for the year, also assign dates the gay. ended. Dr „ , + oF- d St L°U1S music is played and each performer must tell does not wish to let the Her father, Samuel Howe had come P° for use in Kansas. He sav social side overshadow to the hostesses. There is a special guest night bad it,^ moreover, that his something about her selection, or its composer. the music. chairman Ward, was a wealthy to America wife met the workers in A and two hostesses attend committee, which chooses the program from out- to plunge cause and it was not long The club works out different combinations— to the details of each meeting. The chairman standing Wall Street banker. into work with the before she was numbers played at the regular musicales, ardent an abolitionist vocal and piano duets and trios, two or three Her lively and brilliant blind children as her husband. When arranges and announces the program. The per- giving every musician a chance to appear at least of thal started a journal, The Commonwealth, violins and piano, solos with obbligatos, and formers, selected during the a pro- brother, Sam, after day and to found the to fur summer by once. the movement she recently since one finishing his first was glad to take — mother has taken up the gram committee, with a desire for a balanced There are educa- institution foe the over edii no dues. Collections are taken for JOHN BROWN social and literary viola—string quartets. One of the most interest- tion at the University the education sections. program, decide what they themselves will play. refreshments, flowers and cards. The club of the Late in has of the autumn of 1861, ing numbers was a violoncello quintet. The season in April Heidelberg, had blind on this con- Dr. and Mrs H, ends on guest night, in one had one or two pleasant outings not on the regu- went with New talents are married the eldest Massachusetts’ Governor constantly being discovered. of the larger homes, to which each member in- lar daughter of William B. Astor, and j program, and several times has furnished ei ed 111 the A violoncellist, who also “took piano” a grand-daughter of John Jacob 6 welfare of"of the f as a little vites a guest. Only house guests may visit regular music for local Astor. in whose’ andl^ '!Pth* • feeble-mindedeeble-mir entertainments. No one resigns home Julia ed In fact girl, has resumed lessons with a pianist-member, meetings. This decision Ward, herself had attended > so man was reached after con- unless she leaves her first nhl^L™Fi‘lT \ „ y were town. In its three years the club * and recently ventured big social affair. ‘“"‘“ifriends1 a piano duet with her cluding that if guests .. -SKuuDoea Ehim were allowed, the same has lost but four members, whose places have ’ WhlCh teacher. Another, in the Throughout her life she never they presentl violin section, who has privilege should be given the ladies lost interest in Ohev y shortened on the waiting been quickly filled from the waiting list. Chev. not played the piano in public since high school list that has been established. At last year’s guest In 294 friendships, in happy hours practicing good days, is preparing piano solos. More than one night the whole club played Haydn’s “Toy music together, in ( Continued on Page 360 1 MAY, 1942 the etude 293 Music in the Home

Comedy in Grand Opera

A Conference with

^aiuutore JSaccaicaccaloni

Internationally Distinguished Basso Buffo, Leading Basso of

the Metropolitan Opera Company

reason, the chief For two seasons, the outstanding sensa- Bartolo is unique! For that been is the es- tion of the New York music world has significance in the character roles “sensa- a figure seldom associated with sence of the character himself. basso weighing three hundred tions”; a Now, the roles assigned the basso buffo are pounds and specializing in comedy parts parts. Hence, the basic es- Salvatore Baccaloni, the eminent buffo, always character whose vocal and histrionic artistry has sence of their presentation must lie in the whose captivated three continents, and study and style of character acting. In comedy repertoire includes one hundred operatic characterization, we find an element of resem- and sixty roles. Mr. Baccaloni began his say, there is musical career at the age of six, singing blance to cartooning. That is to as boy soprano with the Sistine Choir of ever present a certain amount of exaggeration, he was given the Vatican in Rome, where of caricature. And in this truth, precisely, lies a thorough musical education. As soon as the first and greatest problem of the buffo, or he could read notes fluently, he was sent just around, as paid soloist, to the variotis comedy actor. The problem is, of what churches of Rome, to take part in the mu- shall his exaggeration consist, and how far to keep half sical services. He ivas alloived may his caricaturing go, to keep his part within his fee and the other half was retained by the bounds of legitimate and honest art? Here the Silesian fathers for his education and expenses. Baccaloni remained with the is the answer: at no time may the comedy ac- Sistine Choir until he was twelve and a tor take the business of caricature into his own and de- half, when his gift for drawing hands. He must always subordinate himself to signing led him to the Academy of Beaux serving and emphasizing the inherent humor SALVATORE BACCALONI Arts ( Belle Arti ) in Rome, to study archi- tecture as his profession. But the lure of as the composer expressed it. The role as it is the singing stage proved too much for written is the only effect that may legitimately be self. One need only study and interpret it. One him. Throughout his student years, he portrayed, and the moment that individually con- should com- joined amateur groups at the school, to refrain from collaborating with the additions rehearse during the week and present ceived exaggerations and “effects” and poser—or "improving” upon him! “shows" on Sunday nights. Upon receiving are permitted to enter the finished picture, the per- In comedy work, acting is even more important his diploma from the Roman Beaux Arts, formance inevitably loses in worth and integrity. than singing. This is because the value of the role he obtained a position as draughtsman. itself (as apart from the music) comes to light Shortly after, he had a professional stage The Skill oi a Specialist offer in Rome. Next came a season of sing- through gesture and expression—also through oc- ing in Bologna where Toscanini heard It is for these reasons that the buffo’s parts re- casional and telling absences of gesture and ex- him and, impressed with his unusual gifts quire an added measure of specialist’s skill. Seri- pression. In Don Giovanni, for instance, the entire as singer and actor, sent him straightway ous parts suggest their own coloring; the High to La Scala. “When you are at La Scala,” meaning and mood of Leporello's part is estab- Priest in for instance, is serious Toscanini said to him, “you must do ex- “Aida,” a and lished before a note is sung. We find poor LeporeUo actly as they tell you.” “Ah!" exclaimed dignified person small exists and danger of mak- alone on the stage, bemoaning his hard life and Baccaloni. “I am so happy to be taken ing him too serious or too dignified. Comedy parts glancing sharply around to into La Scala, I shall pull the curtain up make sure that the are, on the whole, more difficult to envisage be- and down for them, if they wish it!” Bac- Don is not after him. The orchestra plays short, cause the very nature of comedy characterization caloni began his career in the regular stealthy, fearful notes interspersed with rolls. basso repertoire, singing serious parts as implies the exaggeration typical of and outstand- Leporello makes his way across the stage and, at well as comic ones. It was again on the ing qualities. Where an element of exaggeration the rolls, advice of Toscanini that he gradually spe- looks fearfully over his shoulder. The exists, there is a great temptation, in inexperi- cialized in the buffo roles. In the following fear, the stealthiness, the glances, the tempo of conference, Mr. enced hands, to emphasize it into grotesquerie. Baccaloni offers readers his moving—all this must tell the audience that of The Ettjde an analysis of the essence And this must be avoided. Leporello really hates the — Don Giovanni, fears him, of buffo’s significance. Editor’s Note. Always, the composer sets the limits of his own would like to take revenge upon him. Only after caricature. is It this that the character actor must this mood has been established by the pantomime, learn to recognize and study. We know, for ex- does Leporello begin to sing the aria that tells of N ANY DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE, there are ample, that the role of Don Pasquale calls for a his days and nights of hard work. To stand stiffly “straight” roles and character roles. On the fat man. Not only is this indicated in the libretto; I and simply sing the aria would kill the meaning whole, it may be said that the “straight” roles the music itself, in his part, moves heavily and —but it would be just as fatal to exaggerate lean more to the types while the character parts lean what might be called “fatly.” There is always pantomime into anything more than the believ- more to individualism. The hero and the heroine something amusing about a fat man in love, and able fear and resentment that a brow-beaten have their individual characteristics, of course; this also helps Don Pasquale’s part. But to exag- servant would feel for an inconsiderate still they stand master. as types with which the average gerate him into a monster of clumsiness or a mere audience member may identify himself. The char- mountain of weight would be as fatal as to play A Natural Ability acter parts remain strictly themselves. Rosina is him as a slim youth. The part must be funny, yes Character acting is an inborn gift. The natural a charming and delightful young girl in love and —but also believable. And what the audience must ability to feel and penetrate shadings fearful that her plans may be thwarted; Dr. of dramatic believe is clearly set down by the composer him- differentiation accounts ( Continued on Page 345) MAY, 1942 297 Music in the Home studying a few sentences THE TIDINGS of vic- e»ni. NTERSPERSED WITH day, but by rapidly continues Music in the Home covering tories and defeats, democratic radio great deal of musical pro- ground. The I to function. There are many holds true of from dire music. If a grams to take us momentarily away SURPRISING£ NUMBER of to learn to read solace our troubled spirits. There music well b news and to relieve Attains otherwise competent musi- must learn to grasp with comic shows to make us laugh and to Radio his ev!! are A cians are defective and the general doubtful moments. Advance contour of the m the tension of our laborious readers. Indeed the sages before him, musical programs is all too just as the news on most of the myth has grown up and is quite reader of language £ and, we are told that what we takes in vague these days, widely believed that facility in whol! week may be Acquiring Skill phrases and sentences hear to-day and expect to hear next without the reading of music cannot be In these often disheartening paying attention to detail changed tomorrow. acquired, but is something which Ye to pre- Values to find plans being made Art it would be a mistake times it is good New to a person must inherit if he is to condemn Sunday reading as “superficial.” serve an outstanding program like the have it at all. Of course such a The in Of the Philharmonic-Symphony tensive study of a musical afternoon broadcasts notion will not stand serious score Columbia Broadcasting the is immensely valuable, Orchestra of New York. The analysis. We know little enough in and we it had signed a have far too little System recently announced that about of it. human heredity, to be But the organization, point is that the new contract with this famous sure; but there can be no doubt reading process oCindiay lilorijtm ’Celebrated its hundredth ^Alfred in its essential which this past winter P,J whatever that music reading is nature, is almost anniversary, to continue the Sunday afternoon not an ability which is trans- the converse of such intensive for the next five years. The concerts, ferred from one generation to Reading of Music study. concerts in the past, will be heard from 3:00 to 4:30 another by way of the chromo- 2. The material used to as develop The Philharmonic-Symphony Orches- somes. It is, in fact, a meaning- reading kill, P. M. NYT. their Versatility is admirable in any artist. It evi- whether in lan- posers,” says one of their members. “In tra recently completed its twelfth season on the less alibi for having failed to guage or music, must be emotional and phil- dences imagination and a willingness for hard easy. For 1942, music is an infinitude of learn something air, over the Columbia network. April 2, which one can this there is a definite Although the Budapest’s work, together with interpretative ambition. reason the organization. On osophical content.” and should learn. reading was the official birthday of the popular radio program, Good requires, above renditions of Haydn and Mozart are consum- Since the start of The reason so date one hundred years ago the first orches- why many - that musi- everythin else, Crcat Moments in Music, < Columbia network, & a continuous on- mately achieved, it is their playing of Beethoven, radio au- cians are bad readers is much tral concert was given. An estimated ward me ,-ment; and if the Wednesdays 10:15 to 10:45 P. M., EWT) which we want approximately one according to one New York critic, wherein — simpler than this, and also much dience of ten million, or the to teach reading properly, we summit of their art is at- features highlights from best-loved operas, less soothing to their vanity. It is million more than have must sacriiice other things tained. “Chamber music,” young Chicago-born soprano Jean Tennyson has that the whole of their training to attended the concerts in secure this dozen roles, ranging from Bizet’s has continuous move- states Josef Roismann, sung over a consistently slighted the 2, jU. 2. person during the one Desdemona. n/LJt ment. When a “is Puccini's Mirni to Verdi’s student of Latin the first violinist, not Micaela and reading process. Any child who hundred years of the or- has to stop short and spend ten a matter of individual or During the coming month, the young soprano is can be taught music at all can listen Prufessor of Music, Teachers chestra’s existence, minutes puzzling out a compli- group display; it is a col- scheduled to negotiate the roles of Aida, Gioconda be taught to read it well. Any each Sunday to the broad- mature College, Columbia University. cated sentence, he may be learn- lective effort, all four in- and Elsa. Miss Tennyson, who is blue-eyed and musician who is deficient casts. in this ability can ing the grammar of the language, struments speaking as golden-haired, began the study of the voice, piano acquire it if he New York City Under the direction of wants to do but he i.s going in reverse so far one, intent on giving life and languages at fourteen. At nineteen she ar- so and sets to work in the talented American the right way. as his ability to read it is con- composer’s expres- in York and obtained the leading Of this we may be conductor Howard Barlow, to the rived New quite certain. It is cerned. In the same way, music sion.” feminine role in the operetta “Adrienne.” Fol- entirely a the Columbia Broadcasting question of approaching the which is full of great technical Although bearing a lowing her success in this production, she started Symphony Orchestra is tak- problem in a common sense, in difficulties may be admirable the period of intensive study In this country and ln straightforward, connection with language study applies ing over the full allotted Hungarian name, a practical also to material for certain manner. music, foi purposes, but it impedes the Budapest Quartet boasts Europe with Mary Garden. While in Italy she after all the musical score, like the time on Sundays (from 3 Experimental studies all-important continuous of music reading are few, linguistic pattern, is onward movement. Hungarian members. praise for her appearances at La Fenice ln neither more nor less than a to 4:30) of the Philhar- no won and most of those which So in developing the ability exist do not tell us a system of symbolism. to read music effec- monic-Symphony Orches- They have retained the Venice. great deal. But the tively, it is essential reading of music is not in Yet it is a rare thing first of all to assemble large to find a conservatory, and tra. Since in past seasons, title of an ensemble which Miss Tennyson appeared as a soloist at the any essential way different quantities of relatively from the reading of still rarer to find an individual ea,,v material. Also the originally began in Buda- Salzburg Festival in 1935; and in 1936, she made teacher who pays student CBS summer symphony English, or of a foreign language, or of should be instructed mathe- any serious attention at all to the not to stop for the pest, but has since lost all a continental tour, singing in Budapest, Prague, very important correction programs occupied only matical symbols. Like them, it is an affair of mistakes of matter of reading widely into or for the study of any its members. transforming the literature of echmcal an hour’s time, this new- Hungarian Vienna, Bucharest and Belgrade among other conventional visual symbols into music. Let problems which any teacher keep a rough log may arise, but above All four of the quartet’s cities. returning later to the United States, sense. And so of all that a ly scheduled arrangement On the great number of ° pusb on - excellent, and one of his pupils 1 need not emphasize that this is does in the course of a * players were born in Rus- she fulfilled successful engagements with the San practically very helpful, year not the only shows a commendable investigations of these Much time will be kind of practicing he should do; but spent on technical problems move on the part of the sia. Two of the group Carlo and Chicago Civic Opera companies, sing- other types of reading throw much light it is a very important upon the and on the practice of scales, and valuable- kind. At first, reading of exercises, and’ sponsors to meet the de- have been associated with ing such roles as Marguerite, Nedda, Mimi, Tosca, music. In fact the essence of the story studies. ot course, the results JEAN TENNYSON The total number of “pieces” will be pretty bad. But both can be summed up in taken up teacher mand for good music in the organization for four- Manon and Thais. a direct and simple formula. is likely to be and student quite limited, because the whole should understand that the teen years, idea ls these trying times. Barlow one for eleven, Associated with Miss Tennyson in leading tenor ' 0 deve '"”kin8 a “Piece” is l°P the power to Simple to bring it , , to go forward, A Formula up to some a has planned some important innovations in and the other for six. The technical skill of these roles is the new Metropolitan tenor, Jan Peerce. kind of acceptable standard obstacles, to of In order for performance Now . get some kind four players, their amazing control of color, to acquire skill in the 1 his programs this season. In most of the broad- and Versatility is also one of Mr. Peerce’s long suits. reading of echmc must be mastered, n° matter music, use and some pieces should k how imperfect. The mis- their balance and blend of tonal much easy, interesting material. All assuredly ? casts music of free nations will be featured. Such values have It has been said of him that he can successfully be brought up to the really matter are not note-errors, three points are essential highest level of hnt- l music, for example, as works by French and placed them high in the regard of American —much material, ensy excellence of J sing anything from a Cole Porter tune to the which the pupil is capable. ThG Painstaking correction of material, interesting material. Let us But the StAr ft Czech composers which no longer can be heard in music lovers. Long familiar with microphone role of Tristan. Already consider xesult of such a 0rS t0 in the broadcasts of Great them. plan of operation is a differa nt phase or type of that the maetiein their own countries, nor, in fact, in most of Eu- technique the Budapest Quartet is heard equally Moments of amount of literature WU1 Music, he has been heard in a variety 1. It is covered is very small actuall impede reading a well recognized principle indeed ability.abilffv y rope. It is likewise to present distin- to advantage on records, on radio or in the that exten- It is exactly Herew Tuthe thing planned con- of roles in French, Italian and German operas. sive. reading comparable to the to work for is to grasp with is essential in learning to read with conventional guished guest speakers from the different captive cert hall. Their Saturday-afternoon broadcasts ea hlng ° f Latln S transmute The tenor has a large repertoire and sings in five facility. To ’ where a great deal into tone the general cite a single illustration: in teaching of attention indimf of over the Columbia network is given^ to grammar, f the countries during the intermission the broad- from 5 to 6 EWT, is languages. “You cannot convince an audience English and perhaps °. SCOre - Anything helps to young Hindus, it has long a hundred t . which been the ne in 7 casts. a program not to be missed. with an operatic air or a song,” he °r faV°rS says, “unless practice to prepare Classics- are good readin any- suitable material in quantity intensively thinuhing g, and Now in its eleventh studied Ahe° SOn whichwh f hinders7 The success of the Cleveland-Orchestra programs broadcasting season, Words you know what it's all about.” As a boy, and have them readin“ tends to impede it. Peerce go through it. Exactly the ^ d °« not and Music (heard same result from thesethpt on .Saturday afternoons, which officially finished from 12 to 12:15 P. M„ EWT began his musical studies idea is applied in foreign procedures is perfectly on the violin. His language instruction in obvious Interesting over NBC-Red network ° f sr°und covered Material on the 21st of March, must have impressed the Mondays through Thurs- mother had ambitions for him to this country, and with very remarkable is almost absurdiy become a results to^sSi 3 Then Columbia network with the advisability of con- days) seems to have established a large Also the converse again, it is very important listening surgeon, but at college Peerce, after organizing holds true. The chief reason that the material used for the development tinuing promulgation of good musical fare dur- audience whese applause is consistently conveyed a small jazz band help why so many students in high of reading skill to pay his tuition, soon school and college The Reading be interesting. in the friendly never gain any Process This is not simply ing the hour from five to six, for beginning letters received regularly by the discovered that he had a voice. Not facility in reading French Ger because interes long after, We must always a a 0 h March 28, the network replaced the Cleveland participants. Words and Music features man, remember g - poetry he and above all Latin, is that the that the reading g ^ reason is far abandoned his plans to become a doctor and whole em- Secifirt1Pc ™re different P thanhin that.tha tUReading7 Orchestra with a new series featuring the famous readings by Harvey Hays and music by Soprano phasis is . is laid his fiddle placed on the intensive ^ fr0m anaI f , essentially aside for serious vocal work. study of com detaffeVstudv ytic and concen- Ruth From paratively small Wh a person Budapest String Quartet. In its programs the Buda- Lyon, Baritone Edward Davies and Elwyn a job as singer amounts of linguistic material reads a Passage in symb01ism but in a night club, he became the Enllg Insh he does ? ’ pest Owen, organist. Intensive study, of course, not look at every group aims mainly to play classical quartets, tenor has its place and word He mav “eanin iS trivia1 star of the Radio City Music Hall. value- or 7' « ’ Toscanini but we know remote, ofdSl conceSra and to present occasional guest artists in per- for certain that it is the wrong ncentration becomes was sufficiently impressed with his wav very difficult at least voice to to promote effective nd formances of famous quintets and sextets. The reading. There 1 engage can be little ,a« him for the tenor part in the "Ninth question Budapest Quartet are but that the principle so well l h o“h: 'z renowned for their in- Symphony” of established s chlIdre1’ ln Beethoven. Friends have long foreign language terpretations of the classics. “Haydn, Mozart, „ortK lskntlTof a ty e ' RADIO predicted that Peerce 298 nardlyhardlv h P P P which can would arrive in the Metro- be expected Vto and Beethoven—these are the great quartet com- (Continued politan Opera, and his ( on Page 337) Continued on Page 342 1 MAY, 1942 the etude 299 Music in the Home Could: Cuaracho: and Crestoiv Playing Scherzo from Symphony, Op. 20; All- Pleasure From Piano Music in ihe Home American Orchestra. Columbia almost Anyone who has ever seen the dignified, disc 11713-D. which a Scotch pained gravity and energy with Prokofieff: Love for Three Oranges there is some RAHMS: SYMPHONY NO. 1 piper skirls his pipes, knows that —Excerpts; NBC Symphony apparent grim IN C MINOR, OP. 68: NBC Or- music at least that is played with Victor disc B Symphony Orchestra, di- chestra. 18497. pleasure. Often he seems to distress, rather than Etude (arr. Stokowski) : The Toscanini. Victor Music Bach Arioso from his distress to his hearers, rection of Artur The Best be trying to convey Cantata No 156; NBC it, save to set 875. Church Sym- and indeed often succeeds in doing phony Orchestra. Victor heather about Issued as a memento of the disc those who have the smell of the conducted by symphony seventy-fifth anniversary (March 18498. All Leopold them. To the true Scot, no Elysian Lover’s Bookshelf 25, 1942) of Toscanini’s birth, Stokowski. brau piper’s band. Music orchestra can compare with a not re- this set ranks as a history-mak- “Off the Record” The two Bach transcriptions Charles Cooke, who claims that he is ing Victor's engi- just pro- achievement. offer examples of striking dis- lated to the Editor of The Etude, has neers have realized a recording similarity. The first is one and ingenious book, Any book here of the duced a most delightful may implies reviewed as salient in its way as is Tos- best arrangements of a Bach “Playing the Piano for Pleasure,” which be secured from canini’s performance. The heroic of joy from theii THE ETUDE MUSIC work that Stokowski has made; that many do not get the meed MAGAZINE of the moral tone of the music, which right, be- plus the other is an inflated extension at the keyboard. In that, he is price given work postage. links it with the noblest expres- piano play- of a lovely and appealing melody cause we have known many to whom sions of Bach and Beethoven, struggle, and of the kind that Bach alone knew ing remains a kind of disagreeable and which is a part of classicism how to write. Its original timing unnecessarily so. in music, is most notably sub- pianist, in that music was three minutes; here it is ex- Mr. Cooke is an amateur stantiated in Toscanini’s inter- amateurs (Mrs. tended to eight. The Passacaglia is not his job, but like many pretation. Every line, every voice for instance) he was better performed in a pre- Charles Mitchell of New York, is clarified; there is no evidence problems of recording by the displays a far finer insight into the CaJ,adman of muddy instrumentation. vious Phila- a, b. M~M than many pro- delphia Orchestra, but here the piano playing and piano study Beethoven : Concerto No. 5 in E- fessionals. For some years he has been upon the flat major (Emperor). Op. reproduction i.s brighter. 73 J Yorker and has contributed a intellectual The piece comes from his “Latin-Ameri- staff of The New Rudolf Serkin (piano) and the New York Phil- Debussy. Like Delius he was an Gould seriously of engaging pages to that sophisticated fingering of scales as you take them up Murder Ends the Song harmonic - solitary, a hermit in art. Those who admire the can Symphonette.” It and the Creston Scherzo long series Symphony Orchestra, direction of single, explanatory of life in the big city and elsewhere. Music again, Dr. Cooke gives a Bruno Walter. Columbia set 500. music of Delius will do well to investigate this are cleverly written pieces, but hardly of great review well written, if lurid, novel of musical life in wonder reduces scale fingering to the A is his hobby, but such a hobby that we column which It is not only the splendid cooperative artistry score. Hanson gives it a competent performance, consequence. The disc does little for the cause of America, hovering around the flame of the Met- have happened to him if he had simplest and most easily remembered system I and the recording is richly sonorous. what might out- of Serkin and Walter which places this set at American music. The Prokofieff pieces include the one time ropolitan Opera Company. The narration is elected to make the art his profession. Perhaps have ever seen. You have, of course, at the head of the list of Emperor Concerto record- Although this is the best version of Debussy’s poetic Prince and Princess, biting profane Jargon the March and scales faster spoken and written in the often his choice is a loss to American music, as one or another watched a friend play ings, but also the superb recording that Co- Scene Infernale, all from the suite the no easy task to com- skill. Dr. of the Broadway dialect. It was rarely finds such musical enthusiasm among pro- than you can—and you envied him his lumbia has accomplished. There is a brightness poser arranged from his opera. They are given present this picture in more of less clnemata- he was a pupil of the gifted in the piano tone, and a richness and vitality, fessionals. For a time splendid performances by the conductor. graphic fashion, but it could not have been virtuoso, Katherine Ruth Heyman. as well as a balance, between the piano and Bach (arr. Bachrich) : Adagio from "Third Un- otherwise and still be authentic. Many who desire part of his book is devoted to “Goals”; the orchestra which are most impressive. If accompanied One Sonata”; and Bach (arr. Bedell): Fan- a mistake to be initiated to this romantic life will find this one accepts Schnabel’s performance of this another part to “Means.” It would be tasia in C major; Arthur Fiedler’s Sinfonietta. story highly interesting. work as the to attempt to tell how he develops the subjects of authoritative one, it would seem Victor disc 13809. well as The author, a Notre Dame graduate, exposed that Serkin has achieved the best elements of Materials, Repertoire, and Technic, as These are tasteful arrangements tastefully certain fine compositions, be- himself to one phase of the life about which he Schnabel's conception along with some of those performed. the discussion of The Fantasia is an unfinished writes by getting a job in the chorus of a New that have made Gieseking’s more lyrical in- cause one must read this worth while book in organ work, the lovely Adagio, a harmonized Opera Company. His writing inclina- terpretation valued. This set is likely to remain detail, to profit from it. Although the book is York Comic version of Bach’s melody for a single violin. a standard of fine performance and super- primarily designed for the music lover who tion and the success of his stories gradually drew Rossini: Semiramide—Overture; and Gretry: Air lative recording for some time to come. aspires to play the piano well and get fun out him away from the Great White Way. de ballet; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Dvorak: Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 60; of it, there are few pages which do not contain “Murder Ends the Song” Thomas Beecham conducting. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Columbia set that are unusually valuable to both the Author: Alfred Meyers direction of X-215. ideas Vaclav Talich. Victor set 874. teacher and the student. Pages: 304 Franck (arr. O’Connell): Piece Heroique; San The recordings of Talich and the Czech Phil- Mr. Cooke does not offer any cheap, clap-trap Price: $2.00 Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Pierre harmonic Orchestra have come to be regarded Mon- short cuts. He is wholly orthodox; and he has Publishers: Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc. teux conducting. Victor disc as among the most valued contributions to the 18485. known too many fine pianists not to be aware McBride: Mexican Rhapsody: Boston Or- phonograph, and this set is no exception. ‘‘Pops” that there is no magic method by which the chestra, Arthur Fiedler conducting. A Musical Grab Bag Dvofak’s first symphony is a work remarkable Victor disc aspiring dilettante can pull musical rabbits out of 13825. for its cheerful qualities. In its first two move- the hat without thought, honest effort, and Sidney Harrison has put together* a book which Cliere: Scherzo from Symphony (Ilia ments, the composer expresses joy in nature, No. 3 patient work. His stunt is to how it can is not series entertaining Mourometz); show unlike a of magazine bucolic Chicago Symphony happiness. The scherzo is patterned on Orchestra, all be done so that every moment at the key- article upon so many different subjects that he the robust Frederick Stock, conducting. Bohemian dance, the Furiant; and Columbia disc board may be a delight. The book is rich in 11697-D. has called it “Musical Box.” There are eighteen the finale is, as Tovey says, “a magnificent collateral information upon all manner of chapters and the subjects are as varied as “Music crown to this noble work.” A most welcomed pianistic lore of a practical nature, even giving as a Profession,” “Street Songs and Sea Shanties.” * performance. > gidciuus ana excitmg. names and addresses of publishers from which Beecham plays “Slogan Songs.” and “Great Musical Cities." In Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14; The it with fine appreciation of further materials may be obtained. such a miscellany there is naturally great Cleveland Orchestra, nuance and incisiveness. a op- direction of Artur Rod- Whether his version The author strong tribute to value displaces pays a the portunity for latitude. Here and there one finds zinski. Columbia set 488. the Toscanini one will be a matter of of scale playing and arpeggio study as a kind of Without RUDOLF SERKIN, Pianist personal decision; tucked away all manner of quaint facts making refuting the poetry and passion of both are excellently con- CHARLES structural background for technic. He also COOKE interesting reading. this score, Rodzinski avoids stressing nved. Beecham’s has one its ro- advantage—it is on generously gives a remarkable four page section mantic elements. three instead of “Musical Box” Thus, his reading differs from Iberia, so far released, four record sides, and his re- it is not an ideal pres- cording to “Mastering the Scales and Arpeggios,” by his that of Bruno Walter. Both sets remain includes a charming Gretry Cooke provides the best method I have yet en- By: Sidney Harrison among entatioin of the composer’s intentions. piece which namesake, James Francis Editor the best things Nor does the conductor Cooke, of The Pages: 325 that their individual conductors the Pittsburgh Symphony emerge renders with exquisite delicacy and countered for increasing one’s velocity in scale like the orches- tenderness. Etude, saying in part, “It is the finest book in have done for the phonograph. tral ensemble playing. After a few weeks your friends will envy Price: $2.50 of the Philharmonic-Symphony existence on the subject scales arpeggios. Loeffler: A Pagan Poem, O’Connell’s of and Publisher: Op. 14; Eastman- but the overall interpretation arrangement of Franck’s most pop- you.” The MacMillan Company here has more style ular Get a copy of this book and you’ll find that if I Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson than that organ piece is excellently contrived “Playing the Piano for Pleasure” provided by Barbirolli. and haven’t convinced conducting. Victor set 876. Played with you that scale-and-arpeggio Bach (arr. more notable finish than By Charles Cooke Stokowski): Passacaglia; All-American we usually practice can be extremely Music and Fifth Avenue Debussy: Iberia; The Pittsburgh Symphony he r from organists. interesting, Dr. Cooke Or- Orchestra, Columbia set X-216. The McBride work is filled Pages: 247 chestra, withfu will. His vigorous, definitive volume begins with Fritz Reiner conducting. Columbia set healthy gusto and brilliant Price: $2.50 A lively, racy story by a very brilliant lady, tell- instrumentation a history of 491. it is an ostentatious scales, followed by an exposition of ing how she encountered arrangement of familiar Publisher: Simon and Schuster music in its various Like Debussy, their structure. The bulk of ‘Mastering the Scales Loeffler was an impressionist. But tUneS combined with forms, is “Music With a Feather Duster,” by an American jazz and Arpeggios’ there are more points of similarity style. Fiedler consists of the scales and arpeg- Elizabeth between gives it a telling performance. Mitchell, who chooses to tell the tale Stock gios themselves which, if Loeffler and Delius than between S° n r sedulously practiced, of her Loeffler and ° °US Perf°™ance of the music life in this sparkling fashion. Not Festival in will quickly improve your facility in thethP PalacePnfn of the this all- BOOKS content with the vacuities of Prince ( Continued on the life of the 300 Page 350) important skill. If you are at all shaky on the popular conception of a society leader, she used THE ETUDE MAY, 1942 301 23 — 4 8

the corners also The habit of turning gives a to the music, and it Culture mutilated appearance is only Music and Week before the corners fall off . Music matter of time en in the Home Inter-American f Music to be patched. And the solution tirelv or need to A notebook, one that can lor 1942 these problems? be to be cherished always to add to the spice with jottings by the her excellent musical training ier a filled makes and Inte lessons, detailed instructions, Fifth Avenue society. She /-y-VHE National ^“ teaching student Dates of Scale? and Interest of f ^ Tone annou all can Whole Man- interpretation, be That distant from Committee from on included About which Americans, Week , eveeven t and advice What a picture the variance with T celebration of to the music lesson, at the addition made hattan Island, will find quite 1 plans for ^ by in this useful many think cultuied New May 10 has the teacher, and later continued by the the way in which May 3 to £ TriSiaine at first by themselves. The ac- of;^which!^CMi. notebook for each year will form Yorkers of means entertain the Committee, stresses the nupil A new an trials and since teachers and her Secretary > instructive record of music in count of her various been the active than He interesting and study. ANY SCALES IN MUSIC are familiar jbJLam makes this year J4.L joys of study with them more activity musical page should never average & tribulations and need for printed be layman’s ear but the were But the sound to the reading. Among them notepaper, if for no other to very entertaining turned into mere rea- M listener has become so accustomed Ex. 5 Mero, and encamp Rudolph Gauss, Adolf Weldig. Yolando are near an army respect for it. the har- device in composition is the combina- son than love and hearing the diatonic major scale and Another soldiers as the new Rubin Goldmark. .. to the eradicating all undesirable diatonic major scale with to bring Wee^k Bring After carefully monic and melodic minors, that when a new suc- tion of the or her lessons with Mme. Mero can durmg Music^ Her description tainment as you eraser, place the open is factories with a soap music cession of tones is brought to his attention, he scale. of practical and Instructive in munitions marks Is filled with points music to the workers Since the Spuming Song manag upon the table. con- surprised, interested and even fascinated. story of how she studied Cramer’s plant owners and flat interest. The in touch with the it is easy to bind. Moderato itself. the find but two pages, Where is the reaction upon first being introduced major is a little lesson in acquaint them with tains Such Etude No. 1 in -C in vour town and pages the same course insignificant, jmmunity are a number of will to the whole tone scale. This tone grouping, as its this piece is apparently in industry. Promote there Hi J— Although music — - - jf ings°on is the best binding 1- 1 — Hinged tape to of seven tones, each Ah?r f — T sixty-seven is a series U — 1 with followed. indicates, t —j— the author points out that there are in cooperation be name 4 music activities player to open the It avoided before “it whips an aid in use for it enables the music being a whole step distant from its neighbor. pitfalls which must be and institutions, Diatonic Major Scat** Passage ganizations Cut a piece of tape over speed, with the sound of a Should theie be he would a book. the would be time well spent to play this scale itself off at great developing public morale. as coordinat- Tear the pages, so that each the ear to the new ' -==<*= clear-running brook.” community committee for length of the sheet. and over again, to accustom J established placed in an rrrm doings of the musical celebrities who met endeavor to make your separate and can be individual tonality. The ing music activities, is Avenue make de- functioning pages will not stick together in her music room on Fifth committee such a group, fold. In this way is Music Week Ex.l The visit of Mr. Paderewski need is pressing- difficult to turn. Transparent, lightful reading. throughout the year while the and become interest. and best for patching, for it will in of peculiar churches, Kiwanis, Rotary, gummed tape is contagious Schools, o « **• ^ Mi There is a snap to her style that is women’s clubs, D. A. R.s, obscure the type, even though placed ^ service clubs, P. T. A.’s, no way yarn, such as and she is always out for a good merchants’ associations, over printed matter. It is likewise used Y. M. C. A.’s, K. of C.’s, directly As was stated, this scale contains only seven that about the much maligned Erie Railroad, of and rural gioups, dog-eared corners; identical pieces recreation commissions, youth for mending members as compared to the usual eight which all know the old story about which she says, “We collectively and individ- pasted back and front of the tear to all have a part to play, should be comprise the diatonic major and the two minor who, deciding to commit suicide, lay have the man Week. Music clubs naturally stability to the patch. The use of safety pins to ually, in Music give modes mentioned above. in down on the Erie Railroad track and starved be the And, again, the light ripple of thirds descend- responsibility and will usually and paper clips as a substitute for mending tissue the major There seems to be a mood of mystical haze particularly in an orchestral score, death.” broadening the young pupils. A be ing this scale, leading motivating force in should be discouraged among peculiar to its Or this very interesting background may of Charles E. Mitchell, President of portrayed by the whole tone scale distant waterfall. As the wife time of stiain suggests the liquidness of a service which music can render in clean paste brush and a jar of mucilage should tone adapted in the .following manner, in which case the National City Bank of New York, she enjoys personality, and not possessed by any other musician’s equipment. tonality. The motive is meet a very distin- cind stress.’’ be part of the grouping. The major thirds ensuing in this suc- it remains in its original Ex. unusual opportunities to part All those interested in taking an active longer this time, possessing, perhaps, a more com- Fast guished circle. In the field of composition she has cession : Week this year are advised to write to expressed at first. The orchestrated works which have been played by in Music prehensive idea than that at 45 West 45th Street, New York appear on each piece. the New York Philharmonic -Symphony Or- Mr. Tremaine sesses. His name should Ex. accompaniment remains the same. secure his 1942 letter. record. Auto- chestra. Naturally, in a busy musical and social City, and This aids in identification and delightful, and they bring Ex.G life, she has a very vivid story to tell. graphs on music are “Music With a Feather Duster” much meaning and pleasure to music. In fact, give an electric lift not evidenced in a similar Author: Elizabeth Mitchell The Care of Music anything that will tend to make one’s music a succession of thirds which are major and minor Pages: 280 closer friend increases one's appreciation of the Ra.Jatl in mixture, such as in the diatonic major and the Whether the whole tone scale be used alone Price: $2.75 e, WurJ finest of all the arts. harmonic minor scales. or in combination with other modes (which is a Publishers: Little, Brown and Company library, if ESPECT FOR ONE'S musical library, be it If you have neglected your musical Also, the resultant augmented triads most common procedure) it does lend a mys- great or small, should be cultivated from you have subjected it to treatment you would terious, searching quality, a haunting expression library, R the day when a child receives his first not dream of imposing upon your literary Ex. found in no other mode. Researches on Teaching Children little piece. Music, like a beautiful book, is to be begin the new term by going over your music, This interesting idiom, with its many facets, treasured and cared for because its usefulness giving it a complete treatment. Gain added use- Music which is the outgrowth of the whole tone scale, is and influence last a lifetime. On the printed fulness from treasures you already possess. being universally adapted by modern composers, How to give children an interest in music, an musical page is stored a spiritual gold mine in this interesting mode are much more vibrant who, in imitating the great French composer, appreciation in musical interpretation and a which must not be neglected. and compelling expressions than are the combina- Debussy, are also exalting the type of music he knowledge of music in general are the major The young musician should be taught that Thomas Britton, the tion of major, minor, augmented and diminished so ably represented. For Debussy, in his time, objectives of Ethelyn Lenore Stinson in her newly music must be handled carefully when new, and triads found in the other scales. immortalized this lovely scale almost to the ex- published book, “How to Teach Children Music.” even more carefully when old. A musical mas- "Small-Coal Man" In writing an accompaniment for a solo instru- tent that the great Bach was, so to speak, the It is based upon the researches of investigations terpiece is an invaluable possession at any time, ment, using this mode as a background, it may Child Research Clinic in the Woods Witched Pitcher father of canon and fugue. Each in his own in the but how much more valuable when worn corners Of £ be observed that the harmonization of the scale Schools, of Langhorne, Pennsylvania. The main and notations reveal the may be devised by uniting two augmented triads manner became identified with his preferred part it has played in Handel became at once well known on reach- pupil idea is to develop each in each grade to molding the life of some human being. he in superincumbent position, thus: manner of approach. Just as it is difficult to sep- Our duty, ing London in 1710, and curiously enough, the limits of its capacity. if we truly love these old friends, the arate in one’s mind the fugue figure from Bach, is to preserve met with many of the wits and art-lovers of Ex. Correlative work, such as visits to symphony them and keep them serviceable. an It is intriguing to analyze melodies apart so is the whole tone pattern fondly reminiscent town, in the house of one Thomas Britton, these orchestras, the famous broadcasts of Dr. Walter What steps and what materials underlying of Debussy. are necessary enthusiastic lover business it was from the accompaniment in which Damrosch, and the employment of suitable of music whose to accomplish our purpose? Let us he 1 2 it will be discovered that first select to carry around his small coal, which each- goes its separate phonograph records, is carefully explained. from on back our music cabinet a “patient” for the This arrangement, with any desired figuration way, employing the identical not being treat- peddled all day for a living In the evening, mode but The book is one of real practical value to the ment. It proves to be a long neglected, over- having against it, will form the nucleus of an accompani- in unison. The piano score covers the scale much sincere music teacher, who is not content to de- “Small-Coal Man,” as he was called, worked, but much beloved " ment under copy of Ellmenreich’s I*011 l a melody employing the whole tone more rapidly than does the melody characterizing pend upon cut and dried methods, but desires washed his hands, entertained the elite of who Spuming Song. In its youth this copy, clearly musi- scale. The accompaniment will not necessarily the whole tone scale. It also expresses this mode more flexible teaching technic. It is, in don at his concerts attended by the best a many printed and decorated follow in in a lovely cobalt blue, unison with the solo voice but each will more comprehensively than it would be possible respects, unlike any other book in its field cians of the city. and gave much pleasure and naturally considerable difficulty word or remain within the confines of the scale for’ the solo to do alone and unaided. This method makes a point of the fact that no child need be to small and An old history of English Music has a inexperienced fingers. Fingering as regards spelling and accidentals. of writing deprived of the stimulation of has two interesting gives a monotonous mood, influenced music and a life been marked above about this worthy which is most some of the notes. In the following excerpt, let us note the treat- by its persistent repetition long interest in the art. Various in times like and entirely and constant presence dates appear on margins and these: “Poor, low -born, ment in the Children Music” underneath the one o accompaniment. It carries the as an underpinning to the solo voice. “How to Teach musical score. self-educated, this humble amateur was Those written lightly in burden of the scale, properly harmonized, Author: Ethelyn Lenore Stinson, Mus. B. pencil can work form- This vague, indistinct expression leaves a cer- be erased, but those nature's truest gentlemen. When his day’s written in ink mar ing a suitable and attractive background for the tain Pages: 140 the en- (all the sma question in the mind of the listener which tire piece of music. Notations day he spent in carrying about short necessary to be motive based upon C and E respectively. is by no Price: $1.50 artistic the coal, which which means unsatisfactory, for there is a subtle A free use of the scale for problem at hand he peddled from a sack careful a few measures is Publisher: can be valuable ad A study and frequent playing of this ex- illusion pictured in this Harper & Brothers juncts to carried over retired writing which is difficult to be found in the foregoing the music, instead his shoulder i was done, he excerpt from Sea of unsightly blotched. ample will prove most helpful. of description by word. to his meanly furnished on Page 352' Gardens by James Francis Cooke. .502 i Continued MAY, 1942 THE etude 303 — —

Music and Study ecently one of the “Back where i Came From” programs of folk music, on the R Columbia Broadcasting System, celebrated Music and Study the Emancipa- Table the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of Round spirituals. One program of Teacher’s tion of the Negro, by a The prefaced the spiritual. Go Down, Development of the singers Tubman, Correct Muscular a description of how the song “General” own people. Is it unfair to Moses, with playing my with their In teaching piano like playing ask—especially in times the pres- to develop correct Monthly a race*“! cultivating and developing * Conducted for “priority” preferment for our all good et attitude while playing. This, a» I think not. avo ding native born artists? So, I teachers know. Is dependent on surtly all courses like yours will pre- stiffness and awkwardness which hope that pieces that ure come* from the playing of sent a generous sprinkling of "all-Amer- Beginning with five Spirituals too hard for pupils. events this coming season. Composer of tench them In all keys yflaier ican" finger positions I each so letter is a confirmation of giving time for the mastery of Your my knowledge that a pupil develops a finger contention that when a community has think. Is Indis- of the keyboard, which. I Pianist committee, it invariably American Folk Music does t Noted a capable artist An Amazing Figure in pensable in playing, whether one make a busl- Educator fine, first-class artists. How for his own pleusure or to and Music secures I more committees ncAs of music. _ . .... wish there were such Now some of my pupils think that Just than as yours functioning all over the land. because a teacher who charges less first grade pupil a think! Your group contains not only I do and who gives a Just her pupils third grade piece, Is making the foremost musicians of your town, but C^onracl I and (f3y £ar( faster than am learn to play much concert manager of years as I am and also a local of Is Just as efficient a teacher probably more "modern" and better than hard-bitten experience. Not all cities something about cor- I am. Can you say have such an able representation to en- muscular development In piano play- rect their wishes. You are a model bear me up In my teaching he e!£andI ed force for ing that will of any question should \ I’m sorry I’m going to leave you. standards?—Mrs. G. C. P.. Louisiana. so that ®®ch * nd other communities to follow. More honor fairly and squarely Farewell, oh farewell; to you, and continued success to your Oh. dear, oh, dear! What have I been organization. But I’ll meet you in the morning. and in the Technic doing on this page farewell. Correspondents with this Farewell, oh of the Month these many years but tak- really read this meat are requested to limit Letters Please, C.D.K.! If you cudgels for “correct muscular indeed ing up the page seriously and regularly—as Long Pieces I'll the morning, development”? I suggest you collect your realize that meet you in appears—you must surely play such long pieces card it Is It advisable to back Etudes and make an indexed which offer views I'm bound for the promised land, I often present letters as Sibelius’ "Finlandia anything longer catalog of these pages. You will have “bubble’ the pages when entertaining the other side of Jordan, claims magic results by the opposed to my own. Look back to than three On offensive ' every necessary weapon for the feel a large, the other than at a recital Don’t long, showy method; the pupils simply August 1941 issue, the month after Bound for the promised land. battle for solid, numbers tend to bore the audience of In our everlasting hand-filling soap bubble as they article ap- smooth, “Better Artists Concerts” people who are only mildly Interested in thoughtful, progressive technical train- perfect solu- play. To me this seems the peared. There you will see how much music?—the people who go to teas, only way to prove the soundness is ing. The or “baU” imagery ‘ dis- receptions, and such In a small tion; the “orange” space is devoted to an intelligent church principles is through every stu- W.. Montana. of your too solid and constricting—don’t ever use present your town.—F. That agreer.” I am very happy to GENERAL TUBMAN. Harriet Tubman, when she was about dent who comes to you for lessons. slight necessary it. A bubble offers the concert-giving question; and still the side of the forty-five years old and active on the Underground Railroad. old adage, “By their fruits,” is yet is light, do! The only kind of resistance and substance, grateful to you for bringing to the You bet they are too apt to measure am sole standard. We “roily” (for rotary feel). than a long show piece malleable and all Round Tablers the splen- piece more boring prowess by our gifted students. attention of teaching it various persons, or I have tried with of the concert-giving organ- is a poorly played sonata concerto of It’s what you did results That’s a fatal mistake. others who have poor originated. He said that once, in our land, when beginners and your state. heaven knows how many pages. You are less gifted ones, the poor izations in do with the and it works like a charm. men held others in chattel bondage, there was a hand position, fact that mild little ar- right when you say that few students coordinators, the difficult, or indifferent The very my From now on, all my students are going should ever have pieces longer than three great Negro heroine who made dangerous trips our lives miserable. ticle stirred up such a hornet’s nest (the students who make pianists! to be bubble hasn’t stopped yet!) seems or four pages. It gives them more com- into the Southland to rescue parties of slaves and What results have you achieved with angry buzzing plete sense of accomplishment to project guide back to the Free States and Canada. your “rank and file”? Take an inventory. to prove once again that old saw, “where them short concentrated numbers effectively How much has each student improved Concerts Again there’s smoke, . . and so on. But why She had rescued hundreds and stimulated thou- slough of technically after six months work with all the indignation? Are the concert than to wallow futilelv in the sands to escape. Her name was Harriet Tubman. This letter is written In answer to your managers in business for their health, those tedious, long, involved pieces. And you? That tells the tale. discussion of the organized concert move- Around her heroism there had grown up the song, uplift, besides, most people prefer the stimula- Of course it is maddening to have in- ment in America. L. W. In Washington in or educational purposes? No, they Go Down, Moses; for she herself was called Moses. ferior teachers grab off students. But why the July (1941) issue ol The Etude said are in business to make money—the ben- tion and zest whicli short, colorful num- she felt that her city was not fairly treated With the passing of time she became known are they able to do it? Only because they efit their product brings to the consumer bers offer. Teachers are wise who present by the management with which her con- alternately of recitals. as “The Moses Her People,” and get temporarily spectacular results. Well, cert association was affiliated. is an important but secondary consid- only such compositions in their General Tubman, the latter a name given to her you can beat them at their own game. I too am a successful music teacher In eration. Show me the business firm which Northwestern city. too have For every second piece you give your stu- a small We doesn’t think first of making money for by her associate in combat, John Brown. an organized concert association, affiliated Too Difficult Pieces dents, choose a brilliant, dashing, or itself and I’ll gladly take the stump to There is no question about the origin of the with a New York management. I also am I would like to know if It Is really detri- showy number. Do not hesitate to select solicit funds for a member of the artist committee who a gorgeous monument to mental to a plan Is is, technique to play song, Go Dozen, Moses, as there is little question their present abil- chooses artists to appear In our city. For one slightly beyond its philanthropy. Managers, being busi- compositions farther advanced than one's about the origin of all of the other spirituals. Vir- eleven years our group has presented the ities—even a grade higher—preferably nessmen, naturally like to strike favor- musical studies have gone. world's greatest artists to this community. Im- tually all of these songs arose out of the struggle "classic” but a salon piece, or even I have never been content with the not a Before our city was organized under the mature pieces I was playing and have against slavery. So said the radio interpreter of a popular number. Most conscientious present plan, well-meaning Individuals axv.auaj.v-a. j uu uui wuuiu ueny unu always gone on to more difficult material. presented concerts, Go Dozen, Moses; and finally, when he and his teachers stick too closely to thin textured booked from inde- it’s mas- up to us, isn’t it, to secure the f Some of the compositions I have pendent managers. However, this failed 0- partner sang classics or pale wishy-washy stuff they talent on their, tered are Rachmaninoff's Prelude in a very beautiful arrangement of the time and time again due to the fact that list for a just and GENERAL TUBMAN IN ACTION. This is from a woodcut told is good music. Throw a uliarp minor, Kovturm in E-fiat major by song, have been the local impresarios assumed direct price? they closed each stanza with the famous printed in a small book, "Scenes in the Life of Harriet Chopin, Waltz in minor by Cho- lot of those hoary old standbys over- financial responsibility and thereby lost words, “Let Tubman," published in Auburn in 1869. The woodcut is from Therefore, in my article, I simply pin. Llcbestrtume by Liszt, and others. my people go,” in a tone of deep and thousands of dollars. In our city board, and you and your pupils will en- the pres- to plead the a photograph which was taken in South Carolina during the the cause for greater intellit Naturally. I do not render these with defiant frenzy. Here was Harriet Tubman herself GENERAL TUBMANS LAST PICTURE. Harriet Tubman’s joy music much more. You will find that and finesse of a more advanced student, but Civil War. of these local Impresarios who learned more dogged persistence in str as she had demanded of the slaveholder her Iasi photograph taken in her 93rd year in Auburn. New students work twice as hard at the considering how little training I have the hard way. He Is an experienced artisl bargains for the home-town people’s York, where she died. buyer coi had, they are not bad. freedom. There were countless thousands showy, difficult pieces—even if they can- and realizes that our plan offer! series— in other words, getting the Would you advise continue with not master them at once—and will often him the best possible bargains. You car me to who heard those spiritual singers that evening in the experience of General Tubman that we find you can for these will It understand what I mean when I your hard-earned works of higher grades or make astonishing technical and musical tell you monej who no doubt will long remember the name, the key to the prominent position of the Negro The words that this city of Also really harm me in the long run?—B. C., had sprung from her experience of 15,000 people is presenting in that article, I tried to em progress during the process. this season Dorothy Maynor, Louisiana. Harriet Tubman. in modern American music. the moment although likely the pianc size the plight of our own the tune was from But be sure to keep alternate pieces team. Vronsky and Babin, artists' the violinist now in Harriet made her own escape from slavery in the some old Methodist air. Zlno Francescattt and wartime I plead more well within their grade, won't you the "Marriage ol ard As all good Round Tablers know, I an* Words Are Well Known Figaro" Opera Company. I defy than ever for the year 1849, and, typical of her whole subsequent In the subsequent years when she pupil will anyone tc engagement of At a taking branched out otherwise the become dis- call these attractions staunch advocate of students mediocre. Out ol can singers and instrumentalists. No need to recite the words of Go Dozen, Moses. experience, she did this with a song on her lips; as a “conductor” on the couraged. forty concerts given by De larger bites How Underground Railroad, our association optimistic than they can swallow. The we have had only reports in the trade music and words are well known. There is a and, according to her own story, when she first the system of escape to Speaking of “correct playing positions" two flops. I, as a mush pa else can rapid progress be stimulated or the North, song or the teacher, wholeheartedly there have been recommend oui considerable disru special reason, however, why we should under- sang this song the words sprang from a situation “spiritual,” reminds me that an excellent teacher interest kept at white heat? Even if you as a means of communication, was a series to all my pupils. and dislocation of (P. W. of California) told recently our musical life, stand its whole meaning and remember its of the most pressing reality. me Our city is not the cannot digest those pieces once, y°u definite part of each campaign. The spiritual, only one whict artists need concert at how he solves that baffling problem of has had this success. In engagements love And identity; for this song is known to the American Such was the situation of her flight, the State 01 desperately chewing at them, don't you? as she with its hidden meaning, was usually employed elementary position Montana there are nine similar now than ever. Don’t hand —how he avoids associa- f what happiness bring when Negro as “the fighting song of Harriet Tubman.” absconded, that she had to walk directly tions. If it were not that there are such pieces past her when the situation was stark. those terrible nightmares of for this, then no countries left beginners would be to v they are they It may be more interesting virtually no great artist they can finally assimilated! How to know how Harriet master on a Maryland plantation; and in order Once, when with sunken knuckles, turned con- “flee” in the hope Harriet had been concealed in the up tip- certs In this entire State! of sec strengthen How used lucrative engagements and solace the soul! Tubman song in her guerilla slave raids and to convey the knowledge of her flight to her fellow woods with party joints, squashed in palms, distorted wrists I do not Imagine you will j assure a of Negroes who were hungry, want tc much better that time print this In your “Round they wouldn’t leave to have spent all why music was an intimate part of the fight slaves she sang this “spiritual” to the listening she left and all the position deformities which Table" col- this country ev them long enough to go to a "station” to umn. as I so obviously such and energy digging out fine compositions torture disagree with you a lucky windfall against slavery. It is in this process and especially Negroes; our days (and nights!). He were possible find or buy food. Then, it ( However, I feel sincerely that rather than tripe Continued on Page 344 1 both sides they know that their the moronic musical place is right 504 ( Continued on Page 360) MAY, 1942 305 THE ETUDE —

Music and Study T WAS DURING THE SUM- writer Music and Study MER, spent by the I at Sbriglia’s chateau, near in pumping the breath in and the Art of Beauvais, France, that we out of the lungs. It is fastened of the pupil in articles back. You HE EMOTIONAL TRAINING Highlights translated for him to the ribs and the Style is a the formation of style. had appeared in The Method feel it as you breathe, be- involves which Sbriglia’s can execution T distinctive mode of creation or Etude about the Sbriglia cause as the lungs are filled it of individuality. As art former As you in art. It is the outcome Piano method, all written by flattens out, expands. be but dead fruit, the foima- the that Sbri- supported without style would Teaching pupils. One claimed sing, the diaphragm, teacher the duty of tion of style places upon the glia reversed the usual idea of by the back and abdominal fostering and guiding the pupil's in- teacher concen- air developing, pianist and voice production, and Singing muscles, slowly pushes the of known of Individuality is not the offspring internationally well as dividuality. By [he trated resonance as out of the lungs through the imitation; for one kills the other. Indi- conscious support in the chest, another small bronchial tubes, which of the uncon- viduality and style are the result that he always trained all up- bronchial as merge into the big scious imitation of such qualities of others and used Philipp per tones falsetto, tube at the focal point in the It must not, however, be Wl 3. are most admired. lips. But the pushed-out, loose chest. “I have studied singing random; it must be con- allowed to develop at one that finally decided him $33ij ^ll]uIcircftrq ciret (Lhupman & and always languages, sense. Style must not come f“ u "’ “ in three trolled by the critical loosen up and tell how he The ' "> to this is called the point d’ epui, into conflict with understanding and reason. r« • — really taught was by the late the place place before the pupil as many t K“" the point of support, teacher must S5H Perley Dunn Aldrich, who was masters of Sbriglia was one the greatest rests,” Sbrig- as possible, but in no case should the Unquestionably Giovanni of where everything examples III in Phila- PART an eminent teacher has too great a respect for its is where teacher force his own style upon his pupil. vocal art of history. Hoivever, The Etude lia explained. “This delphia, and a “fine pupil.” child, the teacher must qualifications. We saw that insight into the editorial security to present any master as the greatest of all, as does the the breath control, or the mus- Especially in guiding a disappointment of the moral counteract the to successful After Sbriglia had taught that what appears to him a simple mind. To pupil’s mind is essential teaching. author of this illuminating article which may be read with great profit by cular control of the voice ends. not forget new fields rather after pupil who is anxious to explore with such insight many years, he remarked one died action, because its performance is directed, Now a teacher endowed must all singers and vocal students. Sbriglia was born at Naples, 1840, and It also controls the amount of ground a teacher must written a or unconscious, than cover again familiar sympathetic and inspired by day, “Nobody has the last century, he long practice, by the lower, and take necessarily be the in Paris, February 20, 1916. In the early seventies of breath, getting to the vocal reasons for stepping backwards correct synopsis of my method, centers, demands in a beginner the inter- give his help his pupils. Every other moral qual- great success and appeared with Patti at the New are in the big nervous occasion to throw desire to toured America with cords, which nervous pains to avail himself of the because, I’ve really never told vention of the higher, or conscious will flow from this source. A sympathetic Music in "La Sonnambula.” His great renown, however, tube; besides taking knowledge. How far the ity York Academy of bronchial strike a key! new lights on the old this before; I haven’t any centers. How easy for a pianist to teacher will be patient, forgiving, kind even while as a teacher stars such as the de Reszkds, Nordica, Sibyl Sanderson, all tension from your how long it should was of away the tones are work of revision should go, and method of singing. I’m a doc- Reading the notes and producing able to place his pupils at their . Note. field of the he is strict, and Pol Plangon, and others Editor’s vocal apparatus, if it is proper- whether it should cover a large tor of the voice. I never taught simultaneous actions. But how complex and diffi- last, will become his pupil's friend, it, ease; in a phrase, he ly supported from below. Above already traversed or a small portion of people alike. Does a for child! He must 1, decide on the name ground fear. any two cult a of whom they will love and not What a power- this point, there must be no the temperament and the capacity treat- of the note as expressed in notation; 2, find its depend on physician give the same ex- ful influence such friendship lias on the educa- muscular effort or tension.” the pupil. No definite rules can be laid down for bronchitis that he locality on the keyboard; 3, decide on the finger- with long ment as pos- tion of children only those teaching This method of vocal sup- cept that the revision must be as rapid does for appendicitis? One is ing; 4, think of its duration. realize. It kills nervousness, one of resumed before the experience can port is demonstrated by Kirsten Flagstad when these four difficult mental processes sible, and the way onward in the chest, the other in the abdomen. I do ex- To perform enemies of success, and brings out the and the ambition of the pupil have the worst fault the she sings the thrilling Walkiire Cry in Wagner's together is an obvious impossibility; even in such enthusiasm actly that, correct whatever disease, or in a child’s nature. himp tin r*nnl. best opera, “Die Walkiire.” Amusic'critic remarked that early lessons, the teacher must apply the rules voice has. Each pupil writes what I taught him, We must say a word about self-taught people. superb, but awkward. “Why that crouch- of teaching only one thing at a time. All through and I probably never taught anyone else that way. she was A Broader Education Such people, having been compelled to find every- with her knees a long course of training the teacher must bear I have refused many wonderful offers for an ing position, and swoop upward far refers to the teaching thing out for themselves naturally develop a keen in mind that what is easy for him is difficult for What has been said so analysis of my method of voice placement. In the every time she sings those long loud notes?” That, attempts to sense of perception and a critical and analytical his pupil. of one subject. We must now turn our heyday of my teaching, there was a standard way it might be explained, is why her voice is so beau- already faculty which make them good teachers within the general scheme of education. We have of breathing. Great singers always have breathed tiful; she is singing on her breath, supporting it The Practice Period founded the limits of their acquirements; but their range said that educational instruction must be alike and always will breathe alike, the natural with everything she has; abdominal muscles sup- of knowledge must necessarily be narrow and may In determining the extent of practice and the on more than one subject of study. Passing over way. porting diaphragm muscles, leg muscles and back years of childhood when little more can be not be free from errors, for individual experience length of time for practicing, the student’s capa- the “Now it is different; everybody is in a hurry. supporting abdominal muscles, and all support- perception, cannot stand comparison with the collective ex- bilities are the only guide. Some have great, done beyond cultivating the power of The new pushing method of singing with the back ing the point d’ epui, or chest. She crouches as a that very inception of perience of mankind throughout ages of thought others small powers of assimilation; some have we find at the education— of your neck, sunk in chest, and muscularly man does when he lifts a heavy load. It takes all inherent technical ability, for the others the roughly speaking, seven years of age—the funda- and action. pushed-out diaphragm, is a quick way to get re- that muscular support to sing repeatedly anything acquisition of technic means hard work. It fol- mental study of language proceeds hand in hand The principles of the art of teaching aim at the sults in singing, and only a little less of a quick as loud and difficult as that cry, without strain- lows that the former are capable of learning with the study of elementary arithmetic and of education of normal individuals. But now and way to ruin a voice. It takes three years to train ing the vocal cords. That is the Sbriglia method. much more than the latter in a much shorter the outlines of geography. Later on the number then we individuals who require meet abnormal a voice properly, with a beautiful overtone. The most universally accepted characteristic of time, and may therefore be assigned more work. of subjects increases. Thus literature and science special treatment. They arc those above and be- “The foundation of my teaching is perfect this method was the loose, rounded, pushed-out But for all, whether gifted or not, the practice together accompany the student through his low the level of normality: the “apt” and the breath control without tension. The foundation lips, which Nordica always used. Sbriglia used the period has a limit, and the limit is marked by school life. Art may be added as time goes on—the “inept.” of this breathing is a perfect posture. Foremost is vowels, “Te-ro,” more than any other vowels in mental fatigue. A tired mind becomes gradually elements of drawing or music. This scheme of have By apt we mean those privileged few who a high chest (what nature gives every great vocalizing. attention The “E” brings the voice forward, as less and less capable of and loses its teaching is known as “general culture.” General been gifts. endowed by nature with transcendental singer), held high without tension by developed the tongue must be pressed elasticity. is harmful against the lower Forced practice more than culture cannot by its own nature be very deep, but They are which the choicest fruits of the race to abdominal and lower back muscles; and a straight front teeth to sing “E” properly. The French “R” beneficial; temporary rest is a necessity. it must be sufficiently broad. It is the basis on they belong. Their mental and technical capaci- spine this will give the uplift necessary for per- made to his order, for his as well as women In a long course of training there are moments — men loosens the tongue because it is made by rolling which the whole educational edifice is to be erected deserve ties are so expensive and so sure as to fect breathing. Never throw back your head as pupils, to hold up the abdomen. the tip when general rest is imperative. Insistence on in later of the tongue, and the “O,” which is held, years. A time must come when the boy the name of instincts. you sing nor throw back your shoulders to lift must be the round Italian “O,” work beyond a saturation point would only lead grows into a man and the girl into which requires a woman, and Teaching the to little your chest, The Cornerstone of the Method to results, apt must be restricted for it will tighten your neck, one of perfect breath support, or it will not worse and worse and might well end for those who must depend on their be round; brains for more than mere instruction general super- the worst faults in singing. “Intestinal fortitude in disgusting the student, thus barring the way their livelihood and Your chest literally you must have,” Sbriglia loose, pushed-out lips are always used to make a the necessity will arise of qualify- vision to prevent possible errors and waste of must be held up by these abdominal back would say, “to support your point d’ epui, to any further progress. The imperfectly done ing in one particular and or the perfect “O.” “Use these vowels with a loose jaw, subject; but specialism can time. such work must then be resolutely set aside, and The greatest latitude must be* allowed muscles, supported from below, and your shoul- focal point in your chest.” This is the cornerstone remember,” would some only be undertaken at maturity and must he say, “only your lower jaw be sup- highly gifted pupils own lines, ders and neck will be of the Sbriglia new work taken up; or some easier work chosen ported on the unshakable to develop on their free and loose.” method. is moveable, so open your mouth by dropping foundation of a well there within by of relaxation. There is must be no attempt to coerce them One of our foremost American physicians, Dr. I have a cartoon that Caruso of way no loss of time in laid universalism. made himself your lower jaw as you go up the scale. Think ‘oh,’ the narrow sys- Joel Goldthwaite, all this; knowledge has a tendency to sink into limits of any particular technical arthritis expert, promotes for as Don Jose in “Carmen.” “The way my point d’ and you will have a perfect Italian W IXILAUUt; Lilt ‘Ah’ in your the mind when it is removed tem; above all there interference with good health the posture that Sbriglia insisted epui feels I from the influence woik to the utmost of must be no was when have finished singing this role,” upper voice, a sound with an overtone, their capacity, a tec your lips of the higher nervous centers, and it is their strong individuality. the foundation of perfect tone production: the great a pleasant has at his disposal several a high singer explained. “It is the way I sup- and jaw always loose. Come down moral means; he si on your tones, surprise to find, after a period of rest, By inept, either chest, held up by the muscles that work point out that education we mean those beings who are of the abdomen and port my voice.” His chest sticks out so that it looks and support them with your chest. has its rewards; it which at one time had resisted all efforts, has to increased physically or particular lower back. If you use leg muscles, pull the ab- like a cartoon of Santa Claus. capacity for usefulness. mentally deficient in some The ; suddenly become easy, that the understanding direction. ex- domen in and up; keep your spine Injurious and the scientist exercise on Ineptitude in one subject does not straight, your The lungs may be considered as two bags of air. An Vowel civilization a i has broadened, that the technical powers have clude scien- chest automatically goes ficial influence which the aptitude in other subjects; eminent up. Such is the correct Below them is a cone-shaped muscle, the dia- “More American uneducated ca voices are ruined by being increased. tists may of posture for singing, and as Dr. Goldthwaite phragm, that wmld This is the highest and be deaf and blind to the beauties says, divides the body in half, and assists trained on the English vowel ‘Ah,’ _ purest moral than any other Apart from the necessity of reverting to easier tive, tone even for good health. He even uses devoid of all financial and color; eminent artists may be unfit abdominal braces way. It gives an open flat-topped in order to give considerations a to voice. Even great work the student some relief, it all vanities for elementary the hold up the chest. of social position. scientific work. Training of singers get this open voice is advisable now and then to review In the from fatigue. Use previous The intellectual inept is reaching days of pinched-in waists, before qualities of not an impossibility: hope of anyone loosely protruding lips work so as to fix old the teacher with proper breath support knowledge more firmly in the been perfection ever heard of an uplift abdominal girdle, enumerated. It is now time is always possible. the to cure this to summarh Paris Magazin common fault. (Continued du Louvre carried the Sbriglia belt, 306 on Page 342) “There is no one way (Continued on Page 338) etude MAY, 1942 the 307 . . :; ,

Music and Study pathetique, patayteek (th equalling Junior Choir tioned t ) The because of is difficult only the two have be- Macabre flat N RECENT YEARS auxiliary choirs final br, not burr, but br(uh) makab exception in Music and Study a’s and the r come the rule rather than the few more useful adjectives: choirs Now for a maudit I many churches where adult chorus mohdee; melancolique, maylah(n)koh- formerly occupied accursed, have been taking the places pittoresque, picturesque, peetoresk; fantas- Of these, the junior leek' by professional quartets. Choirs tahssteek; heroique, ayroh-eek Auxiliary Church fah(n) to be formed. 'tiqu’e, (the choir is usually the first again); enchante, ahpolo- any child lower age group. If there is In a fairly large church, the membership in During the past tivo decades the amount of The purpose of such which interests the naise for o and al; Slave, slav; Algerienne, pitch should be admitted. rapidly, especially increased one hundred pei choir it is quite feasible to allow such a junior choir will grow has become popular in America has more for church politics than no intermediate Frenc alzhayryenn, end like L’Arlesienne; Alsacienne, a junior choir is are enthusiastic and invite their are at last to know the approximate if the members cent. Many Americans if these alzahssyenn; again end like VArlesienne, s like z; music, because larger the organiza- following article will be found most helpful.— friends. It is logical that the *pronunciation. The Russc, come to church Editor’s Note. Romanesque, romanesk; russ; watch that children tion the more numerous must be the staff of as- short to sing in their choir umlauted u; Arabe, Arab; watch a’s, neither sistants. While the choir leader is the head and Chinoise, sheenwazz; Bohdme, (suitably located in a to be slurred; bo- is directly responsible for musical training and like a in rare; nrominent position) aim, h silent, second vowel and discipline, it is impossible for him to be with will Marseillaise, usually Anglicized their parents also “canyon”: meen-yaw(n). Manon finally, intomahr- them all the time, and he must have assistants want to caress their beloved in our word, to at- OVERS OF MUSIC is this: have an incentive similar final nasal vowel: ma-naw(n). sslayzz but near-French first vowel a upon whom he can rely to take charge, when he with just the right touch, with the has a services. French rare, middle has tend the church illustrates the principles that in French, short a, last like a in that “liquid is not in close contact with the choir. Since the L^ sounds for, let us say, pathetique, “Lescaut” will suitable mar-sai-yaizz. This kind of a choir the final consonants are silent: lesskoh. Notre Dame, 11,” which gives us: majority of the choir will be girls, women are printemps, or St. Saens. For this purpose, very desirable from for frequent in titles be Most in Indiana, is different from that in Paris; Many other words are (as in needed as assistants. Women can also look after French spoken by Parisians is not necessary. the standpoint of the example, “Jongleur de Notre Dame”: zhaw(n) our June and moon, bftcn for easy rhymes) the boys’ section. The success of the choir will Americans of average culture use an intermediate church authorities. sanctioned by our own dic- gleur duh notr dam (o is almost u as we shall tourjours, toohzhoohr,, ou like oo in “moon"; depend a great deal upon the interest and cooper- language, which is But it must not be Self De- presently see. Also the opera “Salome” is pro- amour, amoohr, ou like oo in “moon,” short a; of the staff of assistants. tionaries. We might call it “French In thought that because the ation nounced sa-lo-may. Other operatic words appear Coeur, keur, our friend eu of amateur; fieur, fleur, fense.” primary objective in the learn this later. our friend eu of amateur; baiscr, baizay, note two Even good amateurs might like to formation of such a Discipline Important there, amateur is a good example Now for a few important types of compositions: vowels slightly different ( baiscr is noun for kiss, language. Right choir is not music, it is berceuse, cradle the eu having The rehearsal should be planned so that the of what we are talking about. The ordinary song, bairsseuz, verb is embrasser, ah(n> brahssay. therefore impossible to children are allowed no time to become restless. “am'cher” (or “ammerchoor”) does sound very the same sound described in amateur; danse, do anything of musical finished singing, new not two, syl- dah(n)ss, vowel nasal, n silent; elegie, aylayzhee, Other Familiar Words in Titles The minute they have a ordinary. This word contains three, leader who value. Any started. To this end, all their to be slurred or neglected. g always being soft, that is, zh, in French before Casse-noisette. kahssnwazit jeunesse, zheuness; number should be lables, none of them ; might be confused in i; music or books of words should be placed on the Allowed by our dictionaries is: am-ma-tyoohr. e or etude, study, aytood might pass, aytyoohd mer; mair; bateau, battoh: lac, lak; roi, rwa; this respect will never should not be ad- a bit more attractive is a Frenchier is better, but the French sound for that u is like oiseau, like seats beforehand. Members But perhaps wahzoh; feu, feu (but lighter, more success of such a make a until two or three sound like the last syllable, in which the vowel is the German umlauted ii, ee with the lips extended: uh, than ivresse, mitted to the practice room our usual eu>; extase, extahzz; choir. In this case, it like that In our “bird” (not the New York “boid” aytlid; that is, the lips are shaped as though one minutes before practice starts (so that they learn eevress; fantaisie, fah(n) taizee; carnaval, karna- would be better to form British were going to say with “practice” and not nor the Midwest “burrrd” but a Boston or oo, and while in this position, val, watch the syllables CHAPEL CHOIR OF CAPITOL UNIVERSITY, Columbus, Ohio; to associate the room short a’s and i he stress, no a junior choir purely for he sounds ee; gavot, Director. “buhd") : a-ma-teur. or gavotte ... the American Ellis E. Snyder. “playing”). Each should go quietly to an ap- slurred; rossignol, rosseenyol, short o’s, gn like ny purposes accent musical and Now as we raise our baton, we raise also another for this is quite all right, provided the A in pointed seat, and the minute that the signal is canyon; bacchanale, bakkannal, watch short with a rigid list of quali- is question. A phonetic accent, that is, battonn, not omitted or slurred; the French o, however, given for practice no more talking should be al- a’s and stress; papillon, puppeeyaw(n), liquid 11 fications for membership. In such a choir each juniors to stay one more year if they wish, but might produce perfectly sweet notes. However, if is regularly similar to our o in “dog” lowed. Half hour is long enough for practice if (a Boston again; marionette, Anglicized. qualifications only upon condition that they must leave before an “dahg,” child will be tested for such musical you prefer a slightly transatlantic accent (and not a Southern “dawg”) (try Notre Dame no time is wasted, but when the choir becomes In this connection we should the seasons: by the leader, and the small their fifteenth birthday. Too great a disparity of dictionary makers, do), again) marche, know as may be demanded many people, including ; when used in a title, it is best larger than fifty members it is best to take the to ete, summer, aytay; hirer, winter, eevair; group who “make the grade” will be capable of ages can cause trouble which is the one thing then analyze it thus: though the ordinary French use the overseas accent, thus: Marche Militaire, automne, avoided. boys and girls separately, probably one imme- autumn, ohtonn i silent, no nasal) much finer musical achievements than a junior that must be (as In amateur) is rather short and flat, as in marsh (with the short m A , a) meeleetair; Marche diately after the other. This takes one hour of printemps, spring (this two dif- choir formed under the system first mentioned. The best time to use the junior choir is at the cat,” particular one, covered by that lit- Funebre, is hard, having “fat this marsh fiinaibr (there is that u again, practice leader. Even if the ferent nasal consonants, great deal Sunday morning service. The position of the choir actual for the choir accent, is long as in see etude) vowels, and four silent The small choir, however, will need a tle roof called a circumflex , this kind of e, always being like the of choir leader is also the organist it will be found n, m, and s, more time for practice the larger body. will naturally depend upon the arrangement “aha!” In the second syllable the vowel is nasal, vowel in our p pra(n)talKn) than word “rare”; potpourri, mixture more useful to engage a pianist or accompanist Some composers Saens is Therefore, it is a question whether it is not better the church building, but it is best to place it in that is, said “through the nose,” with the n silent; medley, pohpoohree (note have hard names. St. the middle syllable like for the practice period so the leader can be free difficult because nasal to organize an “all in” choir first and then to as prominent position as possible. Such a posi- which gives us: bahtaw(n). A slight stress is our “pooh,” not “poor” (the there are two different literal meaning of to demand attention preserve order. vowels; the sounded, select its those who have tion serves a double purpose. It permits doting and given to the second syllable, but the first should potpourri is “rotten pot,” a is silent; all three s's are from among members from Spanish olla In dealing children there be definite though final This the best musical qualifications, thus form a parents to have a good view of their children, with must not be slighted either. podnda, mixture of meats s is usually silent in French. and and vegetables)- rules for discipline with definite penalties for any French operas have titles which oeuvre, gives us: first new body which would prepare more difficult and at the same time acts as a deterrent to mis- Many are work, euvr, oeu always being sa(n)sah(n)ss. Debussy, duhbiissee, like the eu easily indulged in, if infringement. Since they are children, it is well Anglicized or otherwise made easy. “Samson and described in syllable not day, in “umlaunted” u, music for special occasions. chief, which might be more amateur let us note that second the in chef stress the children knew that their actions were hidden. to have a graduated system whereby the punish- Delilah” should be pronounced sah(n)saw(n) d oeuvre, masterpiece, the only slight and on final syllable. Chopin, f is silent: shaideuvr Popularity in (n’s silent, vowels nasal) ay daleela (neglecting Irving shoppa(n) Numbers As early as possible, the choir should be vested. ment is light for a first offense but becomes Berlin, in his , short o, short (though First World War song Oh nasal a, n silent no syllables) How English In our opinion the large “all in” choir is the The children will not look their best nor will they progressively more serious for repetitions, the l Hate To Get up in the Morning “show pan” might get by). “Thais” has really very un-American sounds reveille, and Zmed Several other might most practical and useful for the average church. feel their responsibility until they wear gowns. final punishment being expulsion from the choir. reasonably so, with “heavUv^ composers, whose names for its spelling though most of us take the n It is For a junior choir which is really made up of This last must be reserved for the most serious word curious example of our present difficulties are: shammeenad, seldom necessary to refuse membership, and “French In Self Defense ” Chaminade, right in our stride: ta-eess. Th is always t in (Nearer watch this tends to make the leader’s relationship with children (and not all ages from seven to seven- offenses, and used only after public warning, be- to real French would short a’s and stress; mahss'nai be ray-vay Vav massenet, French. And those two dots, called a diaeresis, with ’ members of the congregation amiable. teen) a plain white surplice or gown is best. The cause it is fatal to discipline to expel a member the “liquid” 11 as in °r mahssuhnai) bee- much more Versailles) ; Gounod, goohnoh; Bizet, I, the ga JJ over the are for purpose of separating the zai; Delibes, Of course, with boys it must be definitely under- and then in a few weeks to reinstate him or her. * brabbaa duhleeb or d'leeb; and Antheil, two vowels or preventing their merging into a stood that the test is more important than for It is wise also to have a system of awards or S, ah

Music and Study HE USE OF VIBRATO in woodwind instru- been a contro- Music and Study mental teaching has long it are diverse, T versial matter. Ideas about First Great approaches are and whenever it becomes an issue, America’s discussion must be LIGHTLY OVER one hundred and fifty so varied that usually the artists seem to years ago, Lowell Mason was born into a dropped. Accomplished musical Is conditions that looked just about instinctive understanding of the vibrato, How It S world with have an The Vibrato: his sine qua non of as tough as the present ones. Lowell Mason, and in most instances it is the Pioneer amateur sons, and a grandson were destined to be leaders Musical musical performance. But the teacher of early the vibrato, in American music and education from that and student performers cannot ignore He must come to grips time right up to now. if he is to teach effectively. Massachu- Lowell Mason was born in Medfield, Historical with the subject, disputatious as it is. Played and Taught 1792. Medfield is only a few miles Place “The Vibrato in setts, January 8, Mason's Important Quoting from Mr. Seashore, suburb to-day’s reckoning Lowell vibrato has been from Boston—a by Voice and Instruments”* : “The nor any but then "there were no buses running,”— designated as one of the most important mediums cars, trains, automobiles or airplanes. the first street of musical expression. It is important in gone to Boston, there Even if Lowell Mason had place because it occurs in practically all the tones was little music to be heard. Church music and tones of vari- -Arthur S. Qarlelt of artistic singing and in sustained Instruments advanced since Su for Woodwind were improving, having the psalmody ous instruments, secondly, because of all William Billings, that melodiously industrious means of expression it produces the most signifi- tanner, had started church choirs with a pitch- cant changes in tone quality, and thirdly, because singing and it is the factor on which artistic playing are most frequently judged, whether or landed in Salem 1805, made England mistress of the ert CLc^ner who seas factor is consciously recognized as u not this John Winthrop, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia ended in with Re' vibrato. 1630. He was self-taught treat from Moscow, 1812. Napoleon sent to “The true nature of the vibrato has not been own words, exile on Elba. and, in his understood by musicians. We cannot, however, twenty years of MUSIC: Mozart died shortly before '‘spent Lowell blame this on the musician. Until recently there The subject the vibrato is not new to this department. This article is presented his life in doing noth- Mason was born, but Haydn, Schubert of and was no direct way of experimentally discovering purpose provoking further on all Beethoven were living Haydn herewith not only for its value per se, but for the of ing save playing in London the invention of equipment for its nature. With vibrato in all instrumental performance. manner of instruments 1791-92, and again 1794. Gottlieb thought and interest in the nature of the Graupner recording and producing sounds we stand at the having the within who played oboe in Haydn’s While the vibrato can be described, it defies exactitude of definition, that came London orches- discovery of the facts. This equip- threshold of it exists what it can reach.” At sixteen he tra, later settled in Boston. elusive quality of electricity—we know when and where and ment will enable us to record and measure musical led the choir in church do, but not what it is. tones in such a way as to provide groundwork for Mr. Vagner’s discussion is informative and to the point, and is backed by six and taught singing Stage 2: 1812-1827. Excursion to Savannah, can never study. The true facts about the vibrato the classes. years of experience in teaching woodwinds. Robert Vagner was graduated from Georgia be acquired adequately through musical hearing BIOGRAPHICAL: Lowell Colorado State College of Education with B.A., M.A., and became Instructor in Wood- Mason was a bank-clerk or musical theory, unaided by objective experi- IN AMERICA: in Savannah, Georgia, winds there from 1935 to 1938. He then became Director of Band and Instructor in throughout this period. ment. We must resort to physical and psycholog- Population, in 1800, Church music, playing, singing, Wind Instruments at Grinnell College until this year. He studied under Jan teaching, com- ical measurements.” approximately 5,- posing, directing, Williams of New York City, Val Henricks of Denver, and Pierre Perier of the Los were his avocation. Using Wil- In dealing with a vibrato, we may speak of it as 300,000, of which liam Gardner’s Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. A. B. Stuart of Denver, William Butcher of Los “Sacred Melodies” as a basis, he being refined, or having a good quality, or we may HENRY LOWELL MASON DANIEL GREGORY MASON about one-srxth Angeles, Russell Howland and William Stubbins of the University of Michigan have compiled his first hymn collection with melodie.: occasionally, even repul- Son of Henry Mason. term it objectionable— American Composer, Author, Lecturer, added further to his education on the several woodwind instruments. Editor’s were slaves and by Haydn. Mozart, Beet hoven, as well his — Brother of Daniel Gregory Mason. and Teacher. Professor of Music at as own. sive. It is not difficult, on the surface, to diagnose ninety per cent Although Note. Columbia University he took it to Philadelphia, New York, a vibrato as bad. We do, however, find it hard to ascertain thoroughly the causes of a faulty vi- pipe. Because the old Massachusetts brato, just as it is not easy to discover all the ele- Anti-theatre Law of 1750, at that ments of a pleasing vibrato. Undoubtedly the time had been ignored in Boston studies made at the University of Iowa under Mr. oscillating motion from the more than the tone quality though not repealed, Mason might Seashore have gone far in enlightening us on wrist of the finger stopping achieved by each musical have gone to the New Federal Street string and vocal vibrato, but have not accom- the note. The Iowa studies performer should be like that Theatre or the Haymarket to hear plished as much for woodwind instruments. Con- say that the string instru- of another. It is through dif- “The Beggars’ Opera.” At a concert sequently, this is yet a fertile field for study. ment vibrato is made in some ferences in tone and vibrato he might have heard the Hallelujah cases by the hand, in other that each player can express Chorus, or with great good luck, while Seeking a Parallel cases by the forearm as well his own feelings, his own in- still young, he might have heard Dr. It is to the voice and to stringed instruments, as the fingers. dividuality. It is true, never- John L. Berkenhead play his famous then, that we must turn first in order to push our The ideal violin vibrato, as theless, that a good tone and composition: The Demolition the of study of the woodwind vibrato and how it may defined by Carl Flesch in a pleasing vibrato are likely Bastile for Pianoforte or Harpsichord. be taught, since it is in these fields that we “The Art of Violin Playing,” to be produced physically in Harvard had no music school at have the greatest amount of knowledge on the is the one which is able to much the same manner by which he might have studied, nor was subject. provide the highest degree of different instrumentalists. there a New England Conservatory. The human voice, apparently, has most to teach emotional differentiation A complete lack of vibrato, There were a few musicians prepared us about the vibrato. The art of singing is the the one which can traverse of course, shows an absence to give lessons on the organ or “guit- oldest of musical arts, and the voice the most the gamut of emotions from of individuality in singing or tar.” He might, before he was eight, DR. WILLIAM naturally endowed musical instrument. Voice cul- that which is softest and well have studied ersatz counterpoint MASON playing. But we find, too, with Son ol Lowell Mason, HENRY MASON Eminent American LOWELL MASON tivation, even in speech, is a subject of almost uni- nigh inaudible to that which from violinists Billings, or received instruction from Son of Lowell that many in- Educator. Mason, founder ol Orgonb]1 The Massachusetts Mason and Ihe Composer. Compiler, Conductor versal interest. The voice vibrato may be described is most passionate and strumentalists are able to Compiler, edited Hamlin Piano Company Thee and Composer of "Nearer My God to marked { brother as a pulsation by overwhelming ROBERT 1795) by Oliver Holden, Samuel of William Mason. of pitch, usually accompanied by VAGNER produce the vibrations, but Holyoke and synchronous pulsations whose loudness and tim- oscillations. This ability gives do not “feel” the Hans Gram. It contained the ‘‘theo- vibrato as were farmers. Indians bre are a clue to what should be retical and practical elements were additional. such as to give a pleasing flexibility, rich- accomplished by the an essential part of the tone. This is a common of sacred vocal country The and Boston, the music, was exhausted and in 1822, all publishers refused ness and tenderness woodwind vibrato. together with a musical heavily i n of tone. The studies at the failing. After one has achieved the vibrato, he dictionary.” Alexander debt manuscript. by the History is Hamilton insisted Eventually it was published University of Iowa Another important fact brought out retrospect; life is a journey that all obhga- indicate that the proper pro- by Carl must make it a part of the tone, and must asso- ahead Handel and on a ftfjJ into the unknown. Haydn Society of Boston duction of pleasant voice vibrato is Flesch, which can be used in teaching and playing Lowell Mason’s life had four accomplished ciate it with tone production. He must learn that fifty royalty basis. phenomenal, distinct chapters with date-lines. Sales were by use of the diaphragm, and this fact may be the vibrato on woodwinds, is that all vibratos the vibrato is not the merely a mechanical adjunct to many editions totalled during pertinent exactly 50.000 copies in the study of woodwind vibrato pro- are not alike—nor should they be, any a tone is to f which be turned on and off as one Stage I: 1792-1812. following and t The Constitution Having thirty-five years, netting Mason duction. would a machine. Been Ratified Society $30,000 The string apiece.” instrument vibrato, according to While we admittedly stand on a ground where BIOGRAPHICAL: Lowell Mason Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians,” is was the descend- a scientific knowledge of the woodwind vibrato is at ant of one Robert Mason, IN AMERICA: with England- throbbing effect on BAND and ORCHESTRA born in England, 1590 IrH'SfSSs War of 1812 sustained notes by the rapid a minimum, we must proceed with the problem of ™ »><**« in turn. U.S.A. Canada Edited by William O. Revelli B, t,„ blockaded. Invasion from •University of Iowa Press, Volume HI, Iowa City, Iowa. its production. How is the ( Continued 310 threatened. on Page 347) ( Continued on Page MAY, 1942 THE ETUtf" 311 may be likened unto tonality a maide and Study robed in white with a rose-red Music bow 0n Music and Culture breast.” We know the her Germans reco nized this peculiarity, for they have twn this form of bow. It was words to describe it. One is colossal technic with farbenhoren round in- rom the beginning of time, colors, with two or three fingers curved the hearing of as with the the Double Bass held writers have written and minstrels rain Players of the thumb and forefinger ly- bow. The other is farbiges horen side the wide frog, Fhave sung of all the charms fine the the palm of the hand thus along the stick, The Song coloring of hearing. This latter ing music hath. We listen intently at con- word corresponds to audition coloree, pointing towards the body. and akustish certs and at home to great artists noteworthy that, whereas the use of the chromaesthesie synopsie, chromaesthe- It is great music, and our emotions are stirred discontinued in Eng- sia—colored hearing. Dragonetti bow has been what we hear. But, how many have -4L, C. WU, by 2>, modification of it is still in use in Ger- But no one thought to question & land, a actually seen music? Some people ac- any countries. The of great men, or we many, Austria, and some othpr see music we have the testimony of these might know tually — French would appear to have perfected the bow Scriabine, Rimsky-Korsa- more of their chromaesthesia than as though he were “keeper of a playful elephant of Liszt and We QUITE TRUE that great virtuosi on the the French models are to-day. We cannot be T IS Serge Kous- as it stands to-day, and koff and many other musicians, thou- do absolutely cer- Bottesini, Dragonetti, or a rambunctious hippopotamus.” double bass, such as about the best obtainable. Comparing this model the psychologists tain, yet what else could Liszt the famous conductor of the Boston sands of people and have in their concerts, played con- sevitsky, with I and Muller, greatest with the Dragonetti, it will be found that who observed, them. Amazing! Incredi- Rainbow meant by the instructions he gave ar- Symphony Orchestra, is one of the The his other difficult solo compositions, long sus- certos and latter it is more difficult to perform “see”' the color of music? orchestra? Perhaps you have double bass in recent times. He the ble! Ears that read of They, however, did players of the ranged for the instrument. effectively, either piano or forte, and in and Schu- incident at Weimar, solo and recital work on tained tones Ears that “see” Chopin red the when he be- string basses but used the has done considerable not play on full-sized the method of holding the bow tends to mann in violet? Why, it’s preposterous! came Kappellmeister there, and instrument and has at times played it in con- that warned camera, an instrument somewhat the basso da be- press the hairs constantly against the strings, As a matter of fact, if it were not abso- Colors his men about so much black in thinner than junction with his orchestra concerts. When Do You See the smaller. They used strings slightly refinements of bowing and phras- lutely true beyond any shadow of a “Gentlemen,” he told with the degree of Doctor of Music thus making music. his orches- double bass strings and a bow more ing honored the ordinary ing more difficult. The French model, or Bottesini doubt, we simply could not believe it! tra, “Not so black This last time by an American Uni- it has that used with a in design Many people recognize their own ex- like 1932, he bow (so called because it was perfected When You Hear Music? been too much black by far.” Or when The versity in periences in the story of one little boy violoncello. and adopted by this great virtuoso), is really a he asked for more pink. Or, “Not responded with a so compositions they built form of violoncello who saw a color in every sound he heard. this time, double bass solo in- shorter and heavier much azure please!" The or- the Before he was four years old, he often played were, for bow. The length of the stick varies according to did what it stead of a speech, chestra could; no one especially heard the crack-crack of a rifle and he most part, whether it is to be used for solo or orchestral thought to make him explain. this being the first arranged for them, somewhat always said, “There’s that big black in- playing; if for solo-playing, it is We must be thankful to Dr. Myers, record of such an noise, again!” He knew the electric fan By as there are very few longer, as indicated in Botteslni’s “Methpde,” but the British psychologist, who examined cident. John Milton, had an orange-colored hum, and that solo works written orchestral playing has an over- Alexander Scriabine the poet, played the the usual bow for when he came to for the instru- a cricket made a small white noise. He solely all length of about twenty-six and three quarter London to arrange a color-organ for his double bass; and knew squeaks were blue and white, but ment. Dragonetti, inches from the extreme point to the Prometheus. Through Dr. Beethoven, we are measured wonderful of all the piano. It Myers, we greatest most was one of the end of the screw. have a complete record of told, was fond of was a big, living paint box. You just Will array. music’s best players on the of Apart from its dimensions and weight, the only m chromaesthet ic. amusing himself oc- pushed down one of the long white known After many tests, double bass, was difference from a violoncello bow is that set casionally with the point of things, and you heard a pretty noise and the composer down C major as red, in 1763 and born the bass bow is usually mounted with black saw a beautiful red color. Or you pushed D major as orange. A major as yellow, Bee- instrument. Muller, died in 1846. horsehair. Some players prefer unbleached white down one of the black things, and you B major as blue, and F-sharp major as Storch, H. J. Butler, thoven was so im- horsehair but, whereas this kind of hair gives got a different noise and a deep blue. violet. If begin with. red J. H. Andrews, Han- Chromaesthesia is the that psychologists wc the C major the pos- name some pressed by new, it does not possess the Or you your cock, Stans- good results when pushed down whole hand at have applied to those who have claimed that they see and rise roughly by fifths, the. order of of the Edward sibilities durability, nor does its retain the “bite” of the once, and got some very strange noises, field, Boyce, the colors when they hear music played in special colors suggests a spectrum from red to after and keys. double bass A FAMOUS TRIO. Anion Torello, noted double bass player black hair, for which reason the latter is gen- but a whole room full of wonderful of the great No less than Beethoven, Liszt, Rimsky-Korsakoff, violet. As for the remaining keys, D-flat, Dragonetti William Torello. all mem- son and hearing and his two sons, Carl Torello and erally acknowledged to be preferable. colors! A-flat, world famous Philadel- church composer. Dr. Scriabine have made references to this which are too E-flat, B-flat and F, Scriabine play upon it, that bers of the string bass section of the was convinced these had far less inten- phia Orchestra. Boyce, all were noted Color Always Present significant to be ignored. The Etude cannot point to he immediately went any carefully documented or authoritative scientific sity than the others, perhaps going to- home and set to work players. No matter what the child heard, the classical Violin Tone investigation of this problem, save that of Dr. Myers, in ward the infra-red or ultra-violet. on the score of his “Second Symphony” which Many famous composers, both and colors were there. The simplest sounds bass with consid- the cape of Scriabine. Nevertheless, there is a wide gave to the large, unwieldy instrument a new modern, have used the double were a never-ending delight, and music Scriabine and Rimsky-Korsakoff interest in the subject; and the exhibition color and important place in the orchestral world. erable originality. In the older music one may was almost unbelievable. And then came of organs, which are really nothing more than the Single pure notes held no colors for Viotti played one of his violin duos with Drag- find much florid passage work for the instru- HE MASTERY OF VIOLIN TONE to its high- the summer's afternoon when a silvery projec- tion of a great variety of colors on a screen, his “ears." Only the overtones, the tonal- double bass the part of ment, as in Beethoven’s second, fourth, and fifth est degree of perfection, both in volume and shower had disappeared, the sun was out according onetti who played on the to the desire of the player, has attracted ity of music could produce colors. Ac- violin. symphonies, and in Dvorak’s “Symphony from the T quality, has long been the nemesis of many- again, and the pillowy clouds were back much atten- the second tion. Methods in which colors have been tually, when Scriabine heard music, he Bottesini in died in 1889. He New World.” Pugnani wrote divertissements and aspiring players. Where one achieves success, in a blue sky. The little boy came run- used to excite was born 1821, and the imagination of children, by frequently discerned great many colors hours sonatas for two violins and bass; an interesting ning inside. “Mother, mother. Come drawing analogies be- a is said to have practiced from six to nine thousands never get beyond a state of mediocrity, tiveen the steps of the scale and at a time, more com- combination. For an example of florid writing for quick and listen with me!” Mother came the octave of colors of as the music grew each day up to the time of his death. Necessity notwithstanding strict adherence to every detail the spectroscope, are not unknown. plex. have requiring for its execution an but could hear nothing. He pointed. This article, there- He was convinced that colors was the cause of his becoming a player on the the double bass of bowing technic as expounded by the highest fore, is presented not as their considerable technical ability, men- “See, mother? A song! A song!” In the scientific fact, but as a subject their “over-colors” as tones have double bass. When he was admitted to the Milan artist with authorities. for interesting speculation, obbligato part to Mo- sky was a rainbow. And there was her because musicians of great over- tones. Conservatory, there was only one vacancy, and tion might be made of the Many causes have been advanced, among them distinction have been interested this bella mono, composed color-sensitive child, looking at the in it.—Editorial Note. Scriabine himself discovered that was the bass, and he consented to take it. zart’s aria Per questa the quality of the instrument and bow; the play- He played in carriage shaped March 8th 1791, for Franz Gerl (who sang in the beautiful rainbow and listening to it! amazing trait at a concert in Paris. When he London, a er’s physical make-up; manner of bowing; condi- the like a gigantic double bass, and bearing his name first production of “Die Zauberflote”) . This ob- “A song, mother. A song!” was with Rimsky-Korsakoff, and tion of finger tips; finger pressure; vibrato and golden and the time place of his next performance, bligato part, which bristles with difficulties, in- Truly, wonderful ears! Synaesthetic music was in D major. “A very and so on. ears, say all the psychologists. They took key,” Rimsky- was driven about the streets. At his first appear- cluding passages in double-stops, was originally Scriabine commented. Doubtless, all of these factors do enter into the two words from the Greeks, put them Korsakoff however, they ance in London, in 1849, he surprised everyone by played by Pichlberger. agreed. Later, whole; yet, with the elimination of left hand together. One word means “sensation,” compared professed his playing, on the double bass, the violoncello part The two principal bows for the bass are the notes. Scriabine fingers, it seems logical that one person should the other means “occurring at the same time.” headaches fondness F-sharp major. in one of Onslow’s quintets. He played on a three- Dragonetti and Bottesini, the latter being prac- blue toothaches, green for the key of produce, on the open strings, as many varieties of When you strike certain rheumatism “I stringed basso da camera, holding the opinion tically only one in use Dragonetti dissonances on the piano Some people see pink like its violet overtones.” the now. The when they hear the tone as another. and you shudder, that is synaesthesia. If word “Violet?” that a three-stringed bass is more resonant than bow is almost saw-shaped and is held in a maimer you per- Monday or yellow when they Rimsky-Korsakoff was astounded. spire hear the word Using the same violin and bow and testing two when you eat a lemon, that is synaesthesia. Liverpool. But “Are you blind?' major a four. similar to holding the saw, whereas the Bottesini those who hear music in Why, the key of F-sharp If you can barely resin your violin colors out- Franz Simandl, players of equal proficiency will illustrate con- bow, or if sloppy number the others, and is bright green!” master of the double bass at is similar to the violin and the viola bow, but, of they are especially clusively that can and bowing gives you chills, that too is synaesthesia. blessed Scriabine be the Conservatory of Vienna, when asked how course, of heavier construction. The advantages one does produce a greater Colored hearing is almost as shook his head. “Impossible,” It is common as partial variety of tone than the other. By the mixing up of sensations. stated I long to practice, replied; “Until the blood runs claimed for the Dragonetti model bow were great closely observ- color-blindness, and you know how many flatly. “Come. We will find a piano, and Most synaesthesia has to do with colors; are * people will from every finger.” This remark has its signifi- power of attack in staccato bowings and on ing each player, the major reason for this differ- we somewhat color-blind. play it for you.” Scriabine played the F-sharp call it chromaesthesia. cance. ence becomes clear; it lies The very rare cases see major is Louis Rossi, former professor of the in- sforzando notes and an effective kind of tremolo. in the “point of con- tonic again and again “You see? It colors for all sounds. The strument tact” of string. German language may What Did Beethoven Mean? violet!” at the Conservatory of Milan, was a It is an indisputable fact that Dragonetti, as well bow on sound green to them. English may sound brown; Unfortunately, But, celebrated master, and the teacher of Bottesini. as many other well known players, achieved a While this fact is neither new nor unknown, no one asked Beethoven Rimsky-Korsakoff was quite unconvinced. Greek, yellow; or French, blue. Some see colors what Anton Torello, the Spaniard, since 1914 active yet practically is meant when he For him, it would nothing mentioned concerning it called B minor the black was still green. What on earth when they are in pain (very similar to seeing klv Nor in Philadelphia, gave solos recitals the in the standard did anyone ask Schubert rey have said present- and on text books available. In general, stars to elaborate had Koussevitzky been when struck in the head) . They double have grey said, “As E minor that bass. He affectionately called his instru- the only direction given is to draw the bow on a has naturally only one gentleman swore F-sharp was strawberry VIOLIN color, the re ment “the beast” and humorously described the straight line midway between ’ 344) Bra' the bridge and the 312 ( Continued on Page Edited by Robert battles he had with it to bring it into subjection, end of the fingerboard. ( Continued on Page 342) ETUDfi THE MAY, 1942 313 ,

Rachmaninoff's Recollections Music and Culture closes the saying paragraph by "As the composer abstained Music and Study has intentionally from disclos- of his ing the source inspiration for and still each of the need for work, work, piece, we had better drop the youngstersJ briefly . . ft,.,, mov Hrpnmimr lifted curtain over the artist’s workshop I caching Preparation for not to and again, in order forestall the imag- take this opportunity to Questions Q. Let me ination of the reader or player.” Singer express my admiration tor your section Chapter Woman MostPopular Natural Aptitude of of this book is a splendid The A of Thi: Ktimib. It is a constant source 12 discussion enjoyable reading; and with your kind of Rachmaninoff as a composer, born with a nature, and I “In the first place, I was Indulgence I would like some Informa- suggest that you read it. was, and still is, tion which I feel you can most ably aptitude for music. Music always had supply. an important part of my home life. My father This fall I will enter a conservatory Answers voice, and my mother plays piano in Macon. Georgia, the school being A Trill in a Scriahine \octurne Radio a fine tenor time. in co-ed next year for the first grandfather, at the Q. In Nocturne, On. 9 No. more than ordinarily well. My Through previous work at a Junior col- 2, lor the left hand, by Scriabine edited by grandmother, at lege I hope In two years to complete Lhe- age of seventy-eight, and my puzzled degree In music with major Information Service vlnne, I am by the trill on E This, I work for a A Music seventy-seven, still enjoy music-making. piano and minor In music education. In the sixth measure from the end. and in of a musical fam - With u junior college diploma and a the two following grace notes which believe, is important. The child bachelor's degree In music from an bridge over Into .the tilth measure from double advantage; a sense of music is All the other trills ily has a established conservatory I would like for the end. have been a Note he grows up on experi- I Read into him, and you, on the basis of your past a whole step, and wonder If this Cannot likely to be born one to as to what not be the same as Its are ences with students, Judge should companion terms of easy familiarity with music. Both type of teaching position I may expect In the previous measure. There seems after graduation. What will be the ap- to be no reason lor the change true in my case. as it is Conference with proximate salary for such positions? A loved to merely a repetition, one octave higher, “From my earliest childhood on, I have What advancement can I expect with a of the whole measure.—C. K. When I was master's degree? I am most Interested in sing 1 could always pick up songs. a college or conservatory appointment. in Washington, D.C., our A. You are correct. The high trill ten, and in grade school —R. J. is take but a repetition of the one an octave teacher had a sore throat and could not you are planning to take our A. The work lower; however, both are trilled on a charge of the singing. It looked as though might prepare you to teach piano, theory, (E-natural half-step and F-natural), class would be songless until she was well again, and possibly music history in a junior The two grace notes, In each case, are I volunteered Professor of School Music, and that seemed a terrible pity. So college. Since there are not very many E-flat and E-natural. I mention this be- I was allowed to try—and I positions of this sort, I advise you to to teach the singing; Oberlin College cause in my edition—not Lhevlnne’s— Success Story of a Singer weeks. stress the work in music education so as The Fabulous took charge of all the singing work for two there Is a misprint. to prepare yourself also for music teach- that certain gifts had Musical Edilur, Webster's New Later, it was discovered ing in the public schools. absolute rhythm, in a Wholly “Different been born in me—absolute pitch, Salaries vary so much in different International Dictionary Who Has Achieved Fame Js it a Mistake? and a natural singing voice that manages to pro- places that I can give you very little idea Q. Would you kindly explain the de- duce itself without any effort. I speak of these of what your income would be. but, grees of the scale-.? 1 find what seems to of She Works vanity; like my stoutness, they are roughly, you might expect to earn any- me to be a contradiction, or a conflict. Manner with an Explanation How gifts without 4. (a) A passepied is a seventeenth- Mediant Is the third degree, or the middle brings where from a thousand to fifteen hun- part of me. Naturally, such an equipment century French dance in triple measure. note between the tonic and dominant. dred dollars after receiving your bach- and certain responsibilities. It somewhat resembles the minuet, but is The dominant Is the fifth note—sub- certain freedoms elor’s degree, with a probable increase dominant, fourth degree to study in much faster. —but how could SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY STEPHEN WEST “On the freedom side, I never need of from a hundred to two or three hun- the sub-mediant be the sixth degree? The (b) A contra danse (country dance) is order to sing. I breathe, focus my tones, and dred dollars after teaching two or three musical dictionary gives It thus. a lively dance of English origin which —Mrs. W. H. H. resonate them without knowing why. I can repeat years and receiving a master's degree. antedated the quadrille. music is The in any song I have heard once, in its proper key. If 2-4 or 6-8 measure. A. Your dilemma is a common one and ( Continued on Page 354) Smith has oc- “I often hesitate to dwell on my complete lack I am singing with a full (c) The allemande is, as its name im- arises from the fact that you are think- OR ELEVEN YEARS, Kate How, and says What, Who? plies, a German dance, though the alle- ing of "sub-dominant" as meaning tinder cupied a unique position in the American of musical scholarship,” Q. 1. In the Capriccio in /' Minor Op. 28, mande of the Suite seems not to be the dominant. Actually the term means Fentertainment world. She is, perhaps, the Kate Smith, “because I fear by Dohnanyl, does the left hand go over founded on the dance form. Here it is a the under dominant, or the secondary General the harm such an example or under the right In the passage of two most popular figure in radio. In 1941, the piece in moderate tempo, four-four dominant, against three? meas- and if you will think of the Federation of Women’s Clubs named her among may do other young people. It 2. To what nationalities do Toch and ure, and begins with an or ancrusis. dominant as being the fifth above the / J No question will be answered in THE ETUDE the great is natural for them to see only Satie belong? unless the few “notable successful pioneers in Unless preceded by a Prelude, it is the accompanied by the full name tonic, fifth and and the sub-dominant as the 3. Are Mompou, Poulenc, address of the inquirer. Only initials, in the past fifty years.” the glamorous side of public and Milhaud first movement of the Suite. strides made by women considered or pseudonym given, will be published. below, you will readily see how the names the three leading ‘'modern- She was awarded the Drake University Medallion work! To them it seems only istic" French composers of to-day? (d) The sarabande is a stately dance “mediant” and “sub-mediant” came into self-expression, and rich Please explain the meaning of the in triple measure, probably of Spanish use. “in recognition of outstanding contribution to fun, following: (a) Passepled; (b) Contra origin. radio and the people.” In 1940, she was the unani- rewards. How easy it must be, danse; (c) Allemande; (d) Sarabande. t>. Frequently composers give the think, to go out into the 5. What is the story behind the follow- pictur- mous winner of every radio poll throughout they ing compositions; (a) Vheluva lleach, esque names to their compositions Do Orchestras l so American that! It Tim in worm, it is probably only from United States—the first woman thus honored. In world and enjoy all Inland , Spell, and Moon-Uluilc by John order to stimulate the imagination of Ireland himself that you will be at Music? 1939, at the request of the President and Mrs. requires tact and firmness to Ireland; (b) Collogue (l« Clair tic Lane the performer, but do not give definite learn the Q. With us by Plck-Manglagaltl; (c) Oigcniw Trintes meanings of these titles, ui the next music season upon Roosevelt, represented the radio in- persuade them that it isn’t clues to Kate Smith by Ravel; (d) Etude-Tableaux the titles for fear of restricting perhaps, soon, Detroit music clubs are busy pre- by Rach- some of our readers may be dustry at the musicale tendered their Britannic quite so simple. Normally, one maninoff.—C. C. F. too much the player's paring programmes for study and dis- interpretation. to supply the information. That, I believe, cussion. There Is a fast growing interest Majesties, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, points to the long years of in- is the case for every Bolero, well be added to the list, notably those m The list of the stow. She is ranked Kate Smith!’ Then I can feel poser may have had in mind some Life of R the lesser known works of among the ten outstanding of Honegger and cer- Madeline Goss newer Jean Francaix. Mompou tain part of Chelsea. reports that Ravel composers?—L. M. American women. Her influence among the plain mighty uncomfortable. At first The barcarole style that is not considered as important as these Oiseaux Tristes “ of this composition would bear represents people of this country is so vast that she was com- glance, my story would seem out this lost m a A. Fortunately, I can put you in touch other composers, and the fact that he surmise. dark forest during The Island Spell and Moon- the he with pelled to supplement her musical radio hour with to disprove the need for study. was born in Spain should exclude hours of summer.” an excellent source of information him glade are the first For a complete and second of a group on shorter It is from a list of French composers. cussion of the suite this very subject. The National Music programs of homey chats, five days a week. true that I know nothing For that of tluee pieces called ” Mirrors, from “Decorations thm w Council, Presi- Kate matter, however, Honegger is of Swiss piece is taken, I of which Edwin Hughes is Smith has carved this position for herself of music in the scholarly sense. composed as a result of a holiday refer you to parentage, but he has spent spent dent, has just recently issued some sta- through her singing. studied I have never studied. I most of his in Jersey, one of She has never music, have the Channel Isles off life in France. Paris has been a great tistics which tell the story clearly and has never had a vocal lesson, never the coast of France. The mea ' 1S literaI1 does not read notes. undergone the drill of mystic, floating Pictures, y “S vividly. attraction to composers of the present quality Pictures^butbuM-hthe In a paragraph headed “Position of the first piece clearly pieces are merelv Though she rehearses her songs until they satisfy vocal technic. I learn my songs generation, and so many have taken suggests compositions of orchestras in number up a small, quiet island similar in style regard to the her own conception scene. to i of what they should be, she by ear. residence there Moon-glade Poser's the of works that it is frequently hard I do not know, famous Preludes. by American -born composers but it probably represents Rachman does not practice in the strict sense of the word. “There is more to my work, to know whether to classify them ac- has made only performed Chicago nigh* the geneiJ during 1940-41,” 806116 “ Jerse T? Here, then, is cording to the country of their birth y- R^ent that some of stands at while a singer who has asserted herself though, than an absence of or English composers are the etudes the top with twelve, of their fond of giving to were ins! in a way that differs choice. Stravinsky is ’ Detroit is only drastically from the normal scholarship! I am happy to a notable their compositions 0 B6cWin s found at the bottom with very intimate ' a "* that example of this, for his later titles werfSenweie taken / n one. If road to achievement. works are which mean much from pictures you are seriously interested in the What are the factors con- analyze what this ‘more’ con- certainly to them but are of real ir more French than Russian. from fairy tales. matter, I Dr. tributing to her success? meaningless to most of the In discussing suggest that you write to How can they be used sists of, if only for the sake rest of the ter, Oskar this von Edwin Hughes, 338 West 89th Street, New as a guide to others? of convincing 314 RiesemannTn ^ other ambitious KATE SMITH York City, for a copy of the pamphlet. MAY, 1942 30 .

Music and Study CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY SELECTIONS EXCERPT FROM SONATA, OR 101 the great com 101 to 111) which mark the third or last period of Beethoven’s “Sonata, Opus 101, in A” is the first of five masterly sonatas (Opus Music of the African possibly to the composer’s increasing deaf style profundity in these works, due poser’s memorable works. There is a discernible difference in and oi jacks; term, “Hammer Klavier”( Piano with hammers, instead ol quills ness. This is the first of the sonatas to which Beethoven applied the

The sonata was published in 1817. Grade 8. LU DWIG van BEETHOVEN Bushveld Adagio, ma non troppo, con affetto M.M. J =58

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JOSEF MARIAS (righl) and his "African Trek" company maraid their irregular, well as of nomadic habits of life they were easily conquered by the stronger, more Distinguished Baritone—Originator and Conductor developed tribes of the North, and were driven southwards, toward the coast. of "African Trek," of the Blue Network There they were found by the first Dutch settlers who, in 1652. established the Cape of Good Hope as a halfway SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY ALLISON PAGET haven for ships in the India trade. These strange little natives were hired as farm workers and partially civilized. When their instinctive Josef Marais habits icas born on the Karroo of South Africa, where he spent his child- got too much for them, they dropped their work hood on a lonely sheep-farm. He studied first at a nearby “dorp" school, and was and vanished into the vast, later sent dry plains of the veld, to Capetown, where he showed special aptitude for music and won to go back to “nesting,” actually, in the under- several scholarships. At twenty, he went to Europe, continuing his musical educa- brush, living tion in London without houses. Because of this and on the Continent. The native airs of his home stayed with him, atavistic tendency on the part of the and, merely as a hobby, he began setting them down and combining them Hottentots, into the European settlers soon programs. Presently, he turned his attention imported Moham- to radio, and was entrusted by the medan British Broadcasting Corporation, Malays, to replace, or reinforce them in in London, with a series of musical programs many which the farm work. Thus, a second crop of of were devoted to the songs of the Bushveld. Less than “foreign" three years natives ago. Mr. Marais came to New York, was brought to the veld— the still more where he was invited to present his unique by programs over one of the country’s foreign European settlers! Those three elements, largest major networks. The public response was so large and then, contributed to the enthusiastic, that he was given his own regular program development of the “African quaint Trek." This program celebrated its hundredth kind of music which is now “native” to the >-p-« *-=; • broadcast last autumn and ranks — p— among the most popular on the network. Mr. Bushveld, without having In any Marais, the first musician probably way originated to make a study of the music of the Bushveld, there. analyzes for readers of The Etude this quaint and refreshing type of pure folk music.—Editorial Note No Native Music The native Hottentots and Bushmen had no music of their own, of any kind. Their primitive life and nomadic habits mitigated against the A NY DISCUSSION of the music of the Bushveld development velopment and color are of anything musical (in contrast to must be prefaced unique. It is entirelv th, by an explanation of the result of the strong tribes European (In one of the North, whose habit it is veld itself and the racial types l„ste„ce responsible American also) to buy many wives, allow tunes, that have been acted the wives to do all the for its native melodies. Most and re. rough work, acted upon and leave the men free for the de- important is the fact that by a combinatior this velopment of war of racial and native art ! ) On the other music, although developed in influences, including hand, the the European settlers— English, South Africa, is English, the Dutch, Dutch, definitely not tht owe dish, French, the German, Irish—brought their tunes “native African” in color. Na- Swedish, the Irish own and a ong with them, tive African music developed last but by no but only such tunes, airs and means e odies least, the as the pioneer-type to among the powerful tribes of indigenous Hotten- w'ould be likely Know. Instead, the North—the Zulus, the Ka- tot and Bushman of the classics, they brought with strains. em an firs— The southern abundance of trade songs, and is marked by the part of Africa songs, food T-near ame songs, dances. distinctive characteristics of the Cape—is These melodies were sung at no more n.e chanting; like the genera 1 get-togethers, weird, primitive primitive jung]e than after work on Saturday ie a d a minor intervals; beating on the farming regions number of things began to happen! of the f .! Iirst| he the tom-toms, and the accom- American mid-West. Dutch who heard Swedish songs, and It is a „ ; qmet, ish paniment of native instru- peaceful g who heard German songs, immedi- agricultural f , , ments (some of them, like the area, interested k them over next chiefly . repeating them at the farming, i n fun V°° mouth-harp which uses the herding, aPcents their and gooS own I’ and colorings of human mouth as sounding living. The work “°st is done by ~ important, all these songs and board, very strange indeed!). natives, who ariati0ns are black men made an immediate and profound This North African music but not immosS10n is “typical Africans,” Pon the musicless Hottentot natives, native the in Who c! .u in the sense that it sense in bem toyed which that term ’ with them, and gradually originated with the tribesmen is generally infused fAe accepted. The m na tive flavor and bound- themselves pre less pv,ij, , and expresses them Eiuopean inhabitants 10 of the humor of the veld workman-who exactly. Now, the music of C0U standc K ? the IOSEF try Were the f°Ur feet that MARAIS . high nose southern part Hnn ? pygmy extends -^ and has a of Africa is 11 br® ““ Bus'S adtl1 across ins face, tiny eyes, and nothing like that. It is “neonpr- distinctly not a native SS* ' 1 ' hair ' savage, often 1 6 °ut of this curren t of ind u proto, to its origins, cannibalistic. QUite ences an*** although its present de- BreaS'ofThcause of d nter‘' stature cmH . their n,, “ small enMS ' lhen ' comeS “ SS'SStVSISf Bu Shve“ mrc cause of its origins, ( Continued on Pago 346) 317 THE ETUDE may 1942 319 SPRINGTIME

A NOVELETTE It should be played lte novelette. with a composer, ^ * American jji i i |nunv> and facile * played with great IPrank1 au IV P.i . mnviAtherton,iuii, a practicalavi va« piano teachervvwvi.w that61 it can^be security, , rn Itit SOso and liases. First^ ^ iCiim] ea which can best be effected by dose attention to the articulate p "spring,” Q rade 4. fragrant spiing ^ then aim for the lightness of blossom-laden branches waving in the FRANK. P. ATHERTON, Op. Allegretto grttzioso M.M. J- = «8 175

International Copyright secured MAY 1942 321 THE ETUDE A m1 | — — W L A - 4 O HOLY BREAD OF HEAVEN MAY MORNING (Panis Angelicus) A with an Grade 3. Opus 12, which was written in 1858. It appears Legato Thirds BERT R. ANTHONY p Panis Angelicus is from his "Solemn Mass in A’’ arranger^ngemeaTfor in ' Francks simple Study great Belgian-French composer. In this J*=88 Angelicus is looked upon as one of the loveliest melodies of the Rather fast M.M. „ ^anforgan Panis playfully pian6,carefufpedal ing is desirable. Grade 3. CESAR FRANCK p Arr. by William Hodson Moderately m. m. J = 80

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ELFIN DANCE he showed in all his , 1837) works . born (Koenigsburg, the se p prman the st ] ® of Ado Je“ There was something delightfully fresh and crisp in y ”- be really effective this piece must float , 7 for two years. To as Gade.with!f, whom Jensenr ns Studiedstudied tor y decided influence of his Scandinavian master, the Danish Niels though borne on a soft summer breeze. Grude4. ADOLF JENbElN, Op. 33, No. 5 Vivace, con grazia M.M. J = 96

P I.TSCHAIKOWSKY, Op. 23 THEME Roy Peery FROM THE PIANO CONCERTO IN Bb MINOR Arr.by Rob. it little known for years.This Theme from No one can explain the mystery of a contagious melody or tell why it “catches on” sometimes after has remained musical cogniscient ever since it was written over sixty-fivc years ago. thehe first “Piano Concerto in B- flat Minor” by Tschaikowsky was known and loved by it it became instantly national Jy popular. This simple arrangement makes Itt was recently introduced in a moving picture starring Bette Davis, whereupon possible for those with very limited ability to play it Grade 2s. Allegretto nontroppo M.M. J=84

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MAY 1943 339 FullTrer FROM Q) ..J molo) EXCERPT ^ a0) 001,022, 8' 233 Swell: Soft Strings Organ: 8* Hammond 0 005, BOO, Great: Open Diap. CONCERT FANTASIA 000 Choir: Choir Flutes 8'&4' BEAUTIFUL 0 008,080,500 ( Pedal: 16' & 8' to Gt. on “AMERICA, THE ROLAND DIGGLE Sostenuto J i ^ ^ r.

may m2 331 JOHANN SEBASTIAN SARABANDE hAruH AIRY FAIRIES <1685-1750) GEO. L. SPAULDING Arranged by Part by Leopold Beer Second Piano Adagio 4 Madge D. Stalzer

VIOLIN

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SECOND PIANO PART

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PLAYERS DELIGHTFUL PIECES FOR YOUNG PRETTY WHITE SAILBOAT

MAY DAY WALTZ ANNA PRISCILLA RISHER

Copyright 1941 by Theodore Presser Co. British Copyright secured BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC WILLIAM STEFFE Julia Ward Howe Arr. by Ada Richter Grade 2-4 x 4 5 3 i a a i a i 2 3 m mm m J"r~g d Mine eyeshave seen the glo-ry of the com- ing of the Lord; Heis tramp -ling out the vin- tage where the grapes of wrathare stored, He hath 1 +- — 1 i ; i 5 3

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m 1 MONTH TECHNIC OF THE ThE Technic of the Month CHORD. ACCOMPANIMENT r> MELODY WITH BROKEN* wf Idler nducted by V Ma,er on ( 0b,te page with lesson b Dn Gu TP - Grade 3. y y STEPHEN HELLER, Op. 47, No ]5 Andante m. m. J = 78-80 Melody with Broken Chord Accompaniment

No. 15 the Degree of Stephen Heller— Opus 47, Extension Courses by noted teachers, leading to Diplomas, and Bachelor of Music. counting aloud strict time , . convenience express. ast MONTH in the first of this alone, in You can prepare yourself for a better position by studying at your

studies, we used "one, two and three.” Slightly em- Method. , series of Heller by the Extension , be the means ot right-hand phasize the “and” with your voice You are invited to send for lessons and catalog. It may LJ a bland, innocent earnings you upon a career that will pay dividends in increased cash develop inner rhythmic even though you don’t play anything starting melody to dividends that couldn't possibly come to you under your present position. it. . . . practice their profes- sensibility. Please review that lesson when you say Then HAVE YOU STUDIED HARMONY? Those who are making music inserting left it in improving their own knowledge, in progressing. for specific directions. This month the hand by playing sion are always interested You can make your services more valuable. Openings in the music field are we apply the same process to the left many times freely with down arm growing very rapidly. hand. But how different is the tragic always on the “and” (still counting con- aloud in strict time) until it becomes CONSERVATORY theme with which we are now , UNIVERSITY EXTENSION East 53rd Street, Chicago, Illinois this lesson might automatic. Dept. A-291 1525 cerned ! The title of

regarding course I have marked well be changed to "Melody with Please send me catalog, sample lessons and full information with an X below. Heart Accompaniment,” for Broken Piano, Teacher’s Normal Course Harmony Violin Cornet Trumpet Cuitar the right-hand triplet figure—a re- 7 7 7 Piano, Student’s Course — Public School Mus. Beginner's Advanced Cornet Mandolin triplets the P 17 7 P — — minder of those fateful in > > > > Public School Mus.—Advanced Voice Saxophone Choral Conducting Piano Accordion is like the toll- Please do not think that I am arbi- Advanced Composition — “Moonlight Sonata”— m Clarinet Reed Organ Ear Training Cr Sight Singing " ing of a bell of sorrow deep down in trarily trying to force my own mood L History of Music Dance Band Arranging Banjo the heart. Emerging darkly from or feelings on you. Not at all! I can Name Adult or juvenile. Street No its depths appears the despairing only tell you what the etude means City State to me. You may find something quite melody. Are you teaching now? If so. how many pupils have you? Do you As you play it, your body moves different in it; all honor to you if you hold a Teacher's Certificate? Have you studied Harmony? forward and over the keyboard to the do. It is one of the glories of our art Would you like to earn the Degree of Bachelor of Music? • stressed C in Measure 2. Indeed, this that any piece of music can possess C must be “sobbed”—given a full, a hundred different qualities for as up-elbow accent—while the A which many persons. That’s why all the

follows is played very softly as the world loves music : next to air it’s the arm circles down. For Measures 3 and freest thing we possess! So, for just 4 use soft pedal with a very slight this reason I consider it a repre- FOR THE MUSIC GRADUA TE... crescendo (lean forward gently!) to hensible practice for editors to im- the half-note B. Measures 1 and 2 pose titles on us which were not given are active; Measures 3 and 4, passive. by the composer. Heller simply called MEDALS and BROOCHES The four measure repetition is these pieces “etudes”—so why should Medal Brooch played softer, freer, and even more anyone have the impudence to name ^ hopelessly tragic. Use one elbow circle them more specifically? Aren’t we This illustration is exact size. Same design as Medal, without for each two measures of left-hand intelligent enough to make our own The name of recipient, or date chain and crossbar. Engraving of presentation, may be cn- of name, date, etc. is possible melody throughout the piece. Mean- personal titles? I can't abide all those S\ graved on the bar, or on the only on the reverse side of this while the triplet tolling goes on in- "Merry Hunting Parties,” "Market iji reverse side of the medal. brooch. exorably like a deep, secret sorrow Places,” "Commotions,” "Coquetries,” V ”No. 2A 10K Gold $8.00 •No. 1A 10K Gold $8.00 never to be solaced. Play the triplets “Chases,” “Les Vibrants,” and their *No. 3.00 *No. j 2B Sterling Silver IB Sterling Silver.... 1.50 slightly non-legato (with damper ilk! Bah! Off with their heads— pedal, of course) their titles! and very much mean ADD 10% TO COVER FEDERAL TAX ON JEWELRY. ETC. lighter than the theme itself. Re- The best compendium of Heller member that the melody must be studies is Isidor Philipp’s set, called LYRE IN SHIELD PRIZE. CLASS or CLUB PINS softly "proclaimed” like a rich but “Studies in Musicianship.” Especially (Clasp Pin No. 90) Winged Harp Lyre and Wreath subdued contralto voice. recommended are Volumes I and II A brand-new de- If you have difficulty with the two which contain ample selections from sign in musical jewelry novelties. against three in the last beat of Opus 16 ("The Art of Phrasing”), The lyre and Measure border are in gold 1, practice the triplet first Opus 45, 46, 47, and so on. or silver, the background in black, blue, red or Claso Pin (State color prefer- green. No. 18 ence and quality number in Acquiring Skill in the Reading of Music ordering.) These two designs are obtainable in the following qualities:

(Continued from Page 298) *90A 10K Gold $2.00 *A 10K Gold—Clasp Pin $2.00 hold ’90B Sterling Silver 50 "B Sterling Silver Clasp Pin .50 their attention, which means bag of tricks. But in the teaching of — *90C Gold Filled 50 *C Gold Filled—Clasp Pin 7S that it is not well adapted to build reading no trick or device can ever 90D Gold Plated 30 D Gold Dipped Clasp Pin JO reading — skill and facility. The mate- be one tenth as effective as the use 90E Silver Flated 30 E Silver Dipped—Clasp Pin 30 rial developed for teaching English to of well chosen material which seems Asterisk (*) Indicates Pins Have Safety Catch Hindus of college age is linguistically worth while to the learner. simple, but it deals with matters There is a real field here for both SEND FOR FREE CATALOG OF MUSICAL JEWELRY, NOVELTIES, PRIZES, ETC. which might be expected to seem im- teachers and publishers of music. portant to young adults. People some- There is a good deal of material in times THEODORE PRESSER CO. seem to imagine that good the way of simplified classics and the teaching 1712 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. means the use of a clever ( Continued on Page 340)

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Sbriglia gave me the one explana V: ’As deal with my contemners, ye Sbriglia’s Method of tion for these pernicious new Masterpieces of Piano Music "Sing It Again!” grace shall method' so with you my that are responsible for the m decline of Voice 0uim#s has been termed the library of Piano deal: ( Continued from Page 294) Singing good singing. When people get in one volume. The more than Let the Hero, born of woman, 0 ld Music 307) they begin to stoop. Usually, 200 selections by great composers <*on* (iContinued from Page the chest guard the railroads leading to the crush the serpent with his pages, comprise .^3 and abdominal muscles are the tained in its 536 city. The Army of the Potomac was heel.’ their tongues, first 38 Light, 25 Sacred to tell people how to use feel the erosion of Classic,* 75 Modern, to old age. Most This \ol- encircling the capital to prevent its Since God is marching on.” singing. of and 29 Operatic Compositions. their lips, or their mouths in the famous teachers these days of constant enjoy- capture by the main body of the Con- She sent the poem to a magazine these are _AnMereJ DR. NICHOLAS DOUTY ume is truly a source It depends on the formation of singers, who do not begin to ment and entertainment to the pianist federate army encamped not far and received five dollars for its pub- flat, teach organs. Always keep the tongue in good music. until they are too old to continue who delights away. lication in the February issue. For a method. How counter or sent is another universal their careers. For sale at your favorite music As their voices re- In the city itself Mrs. Howe was few months it seemed to have created fail POSTPAID upon receipt of price. Money tongue usually goes up in will be answered in THE ETUDE unless accompanied by the full name stupid! The they begin to experiment. No questions funded if volume doee rfot meet with your ap- depressed by the melancholy signs stir tales They dis- the inquirer. Only initials, or pseudonym given, will be published. no of any kind. Then came it depends and address of SOLD IN CANADA 1. Illustrated the back just a little, but cover they can sing proval (NOT of war better by folder with contents cheerfully sent upon —the four-horse ambulances of Union soldiers singing it on the tongue. Have forcing on the formation of the their request. clattering through the streets, the weakened chest and diaphragm march and by their camp fires— support and posture, proper breath muscles. They PUBLISHING CO.. INC. grim faced officers and orderlies, the usually only the first stanza the conscientiously believe MUMIL and no tension 1140 Broadway. New York. N. Y. enunciate clearly, have they have found a advertisements of embalming agen- chorus, but these in endless repeti- new method. curs naturally when there ls no stiffness of which send post- above the chest, and these things will All Should She Practice Loud or Soft? Enclosed find $ for cies, offering to forward the bodies of this unnatural pushing plays and my am- Jaw, throat or tongue. When the voice paid Masterpieces of Piano Music. tion. havoc n I am a girl o-f fourteen, to each singer—differently, to sounds well resonances are present; Paper ) Cloth come with an opera singer. What these ( ) ( those who had succumbed to fever or Another report of of proper breath support. bition is to become came a group Everything Really days I when It sounds badly they are more or less different ones perhaps. would be my vocal range if on some Name battle. army officers, great singers, having sung absent. Employ that method of singing that mostly surgeons, who until naturally -sharp above High O without diffi- coordinates, always upward can hit F encourages comfortable breathing, resonant Street — She visited hospitals and camps came by steamboat to Washington, from childhood, begin to try to when usually my range is from G be- your tone seems to come down from find culty, tone, and free vowel and consonant forma- and finally Middle to E-flat above High Ct City & State went as a guest to watch mounted their horses a little past out how they sing only as they low O tion. You might look at Shaw and Lindsay's the resonance cavities of the head. begin had two teachers, each with a Paper Edition—$2.00 Cloth Edition—53.00 E5-42 a review of the 2 I have “Educational Vocal Technique" (two vol- Grand Army of the midnight and galloped to headquar- to lose their voices. procedure. The first advises me to “For low voices, thinking different umes) and small book. “What the Vocal Potomac outside some a loud and high voice, my the capital city. A ters singing the “Battle at When Clara Louise Kellogg situ? loud for she has Hymn” came trouble with Student Should Know." There Is also a book WITH FREEMANTEL down, that resonance is in the chest, but she seems to have plenty of TRAIN YOUR VOICE sudden movement of the Southern the of their to Sbriglia to of comparatively simple songs called “The given top lungs. study, he told her that other teacher is a very light "At Shanghai, China. / attended a concert helps a phlegmatic singer with unde- her throat. My Touaaaint an Ambaaaador' a wife forces, which had nearly power, Young Baritone.” which might be useful also. by Mary Stawart , cut off a Fighting Chaplain her voice was although she says she has Freemantal. / waa McCabe’s rich perfect; that singer and, to Siam . and a pupil of Frederic veloped muscles, tightens his he could makes These books may be procured through the detachment of the who uses it. This teacher always to impreaaed by har Una ainging that / decided to Union army, voice had a part, too, teach her she never traveled in popularizing nothing. Madame publishers of The Etude. atudy with that tame teacher . and / have neck, to get the point d’ epui support. Kellogg when she sings. / think she does this brought a stop to the review, as faces 10.000 mile a from Shang hai to NewYorbCit v for t he the song. He had read it in the maga- wrote an account of this her vowels better. Is it necessary to privilege of atudy ing with Frederic Freemantel. Of course it is for in her to form cavalrymen galloped off to wrong normal singing f She has a lovely The Baritone With a Short Range. Falsetto (Sinned) Priscilla Polo- Hunt rescue zine and had committed it to memory memoirs, published make faces while in the Saturday lightly and their comrades. voices, but I have made many a fine voice. Which is best to sing, Again FREEMANTEL STUDIO on the spot. He took it to the front Evening Post and should not sing 205 W. 57th Street New York City singer later enacted on softly, or luudT I know l Q I am nineteen, and my voice is a full The return of the Howe party to by using this approach. and finally to Libby Prison, where the radio in the baritone of limited range. I can sing from “As for teaching "Cavalcade of Amer- Washington was slow because of high notes fal- Low G or F-sharp to E-flat or E, with fairly TRAIN for several months he shared a large, ica.” When this great troops setto, that is only for tenors singer offered so often pointed out, the good tone. Above this, my voice breaks into a which almost filled the road. cheerless room with who A. As we have hundreds of to show me how to sing Mozart, voice consists only of those tones heavy clear falsetto of almost the quality and To make the time pass more quickly have trouble with their upper voice. I was range of a other Union prisoners. There an of- enchanted. She which are beautiful and well controlled and power of a tenor. I can continue this until and Nobody seems to realize was a perfect Mozart also to cheer the soldiers in ficer plunged them that a tenor’s upon which the formation of words ls pos- about A, where the tone gets rapidly weak into deeper gloom singer. Her weak old be whose high notes are voice was lovely. sible. No audience ls disposed to listen to and squeaky. What causes thisf Should I midst their carriage moved, one night by falsetto with breath announcing that the “I’d have sung better the others, so they are practically useless. able to sing higher at my aget / have had • loeeono- 4*ut by sound. sri- under them. if I had cut tftoail allcnt vocal they began to sing the Jean de Reszke sung I y (vrpwi nod nmim, army songs, Northern army was a At fourteen your voice ls still unset- four years of intermittent study with a fine ANolutoly had suffered a dis- this way,” she told 2. and uuamuto* romiileU- utlafMtlan especially “John baritone. I made him into me, as down It with the greatest discretion. teacher. Would further intensified study he with (vault* Writ* for Voice Book. IIU.I: Haul to no Brown’s Body.” astrous the great- tled, so use one under 17 years old unless by parent- defeat. A Negro servant, ' turned how- would go her loud nor too high, for fear advisable f - ,J. W. The Reverend James est tenor of his time.” chest. Never sing too FERFECTVOKE INSTITUTE, (taSt UIS.ME.Uk*tL CHICAGO Freeman ever, presently smuggled scream nor shout. On in to them “Your voice, Clara, of straining It. Never A. As the word clearly suggests, the fal- Clarke, one of the party, turned to “Proper enunciation,” Sbriglia in- was perfect; you should never mumble nor the news that instead of defeat there the contrary, setto voice (as the word Is understood In Mrs. sisted, show her how to sing to make a firm tone. Howe suddenly and asked, “Why had “is the difference between as you sang," he afraid English) ls not the natural voice of a man. ROYAL TYPEWRITER UllCir LOVERS been an important Union vic- vowel and consonant Fin* don’t singing, would break In her 3. In order to form but rather a false voice. There have been Mwrn records at bar you write some good words for tory and an instrument, and helps husband, Carl to “make gain prices. —in a battle at Gettysburg. sounds. It ls never necessary several theories advanced as to Its produc- USERS Bach that stirring place the voice.” Strakosch, nephew of will often re- Beethoven, Brahms. Moxart, Wagner, etc., playabh tune?” The He preferred French the famous faces.” A cultivated audience tion but none of them- have been scien- prisoners shouted, embraced on any phonograph. Original imports cost $1.50 ft She because Maurice Strakosch, ject a singer who does so, no matter how had written verse almost all its nasal quality puts Patti’s teacher. tifically proved. Perhaps the most sensible of For the only authorized $2.50 each—American duplicates only 50c ond 75c each other in a frenzy of joy, then the good her voice may be. Endeavor to sing her life, voice Later, he these theories ls that the vocal cords are Send for FREE catalogue containing hundreds o and a few years before ha'd "dans la masque”; told me, “Forget every and preserve, as far as Royal-trained and Royal- worked off their emotion by singing Italian, to simply, naturally, rather loosely approximated, and that the selections. secured develop word she told pleasant appearance and a charm- approved typewriter serv- a publisher for two slender the a voice because of the you. Clara, like all truly possible, a falsetto voice ls the result of the vibration “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” round modesty. The GRAMOPHONE SHOP. Dept. E volumes of poetry, vowels; great singers, ing and attractive of part of the cords Instead of the cords ln ice facilities in this area, but they had Soon after German is too guttural; and has no idea, how she 18 East 48th Street, New York McCabe was released, he their entirety. This would explain why It ls call been of no great merit. the declamatory sang. It was as So she made lectured in German Bayreuth natural as breathing. so difficult to change from the falsetto Into Washington and sang all The Young Musician With a Voice some noncommittal answer to the School he classed as one Adelina,” he was referring the natural tone, without a “break." It also CO., INC. Answering "71 stanzas of the song with of the causes to Patti, Q. 1—I am almost twenty-two years old. ROYAL TYPEWRITER Etude Adver- minister’s dynamic of the is exactly explains why the falsetto ls rather thin and query. Her mood was one effect. decline of singing. the same. They both Last year I was graduated from a college of 1616 WALNUT STREET RHILA., PA. People shouted, wept, sang “English have weak and why it sounds almost feminine tisements always pays of depression it can be as been offered music where I majored in piano and minored PENnypacker 8390 over the realization all together. beautiful as any fabulous sums to teach; rather than masculine. Without hearing you And when the song had language in violin. 1 have studied piano, for ten years that there was nothing if you but I won’t ln person, we can only theorize about your and delights the reader. JJ she could do ended, above dwell on the vowels.” let Clara; she would ruin and have taught music in a rural school for the tumult of applause He in- voice. We would suggest, however, that your to help the Northern cause. sisted that no a voice.” one year. came the voice of country could build up teacher should find a method of producing Abraham Lincoln 2 —l began to study singing over a year calling a national opera, unless It was Madame the high tones without going Into the fal- An Inspiration out while the tears rolled it is sung in Kellogg who told ago. I can sing Iligh-C easily and sweetly, but Is Born the native setto at all. The light tenor can sometimes down his tongue. He always me about Nordica I do not think I will be able ever to go higher cheeks, “Sing it again!” required and Sbriglia, which use the falsetto with taste and good effect, The than that. best tones lie between High-C next morning when- Pl ils to sin 1 ers My she From then on it § songs on somewhat from the press ver- while to the baritone It ls anathema. seemed to , j? vowels and A below Middle-C. Is that too small to be awakened in the spread only, gray light that pre- like to get a n a 2. After you have learned to sing these a contagion, perfect legato ®!? ’ and I were singing in successful singer, and am I too old to begin leaping from the , ceded the one study upper tones firmly and naturally, enunciat- dawn, the words of the oundation of all raust, ’; I for light opera or concert workt 1 am camp to another, and soon good singing.” For sang Marguerite; she sang ing the words freely, governing well the "Battle Hymn of the became example, familiar with both Spanish and Italian—C. D. Republic” began for the “Oh for the ie el, and with breath, and making use of all the resonances, Union forces the leading Wings of a that lovely voice, she A. Your musical to form in her lyric training will be a great you should be able, ln the course of a couple mind: “Mine eyes 1Car 01 C of the war. "d ’ 10t t^le help on your It was sung, chanted, ant,rit pt°‘*r B in the score, Journey towards a career and of years of study, to sing have seen re- T f ?j hard a tone or two the glory of the coming tempol i so will your knowledge of Italian and cited, was used in L told her to go to Span- higher with a pleasant quality and an easy of the — exhortation and Sbriglia. Six ish. Because you have already studied Lord on so production. You are a very young man, and. It prayer before O ; • hs later, battle, was printed — AW — E i she had her magnifi- many things that the usual singer all too The words flashed into in Is doubtful If your voice ls as yet entirely her con- army hymn books, cent high C, often neglects, you are not too old to com- sciousness on broadsides and AH — A — 6 one of her outstanding settled. as though telegraphed in claims mence the serious study of the vocal art. newspapers everywhere. perfectly legato, to fame, which there by some outside the whole song she owes to Your range ls long enough for most of the force. “He is The vowel on Sbriglia music High Tones and Breathing woman who as a girl sounds absolutely.” you will encounter, provided all your trampling in the winepress* had contained in the text where dreamed of becoming the consonants Jean de Reszke notes are lovely, well under control, that Q. / am a girl, fourteen, and a few experi- a great once • the grapes of wrath are poet were then slipped told me, “I do you have a good scale and a clear easy enced people have told me that my voice is stored” came ana dramatist, in not teach but whose literary Pr°Per PlaC6S as I was enunciation. We would suggest that you promising. My range is from Middle-C to E the next verse of the message. ef- With0ut losin taught; I’ve de- Line forts had been legato S the veloped a study French; your familiarity with two above High-C. My voice is full and strong, after line, indifferently received new method. I would be with the rhythm of other Latin tongues will make it but l hare trouble breathing and reaching the march- had almost without Sbriglia’s t0 " compara- ing feet, effort leaped to unprecedented day if 1 had USed tively easy. Cultivate also high notes when I sing words. Does my voice the mighty poem composed success° my that charm of enduring fame came from method, manner and show promise^, and should I take singing les- itself: on a single inspired his ability to vet personality which ls so often poem, one which Pie the gift of the Latin people. sons now or wait until I am older —W. E. W. was to be a flaming physical foundation ®briglia about this conversa- “He inspiration of singing tin, A. You have trouble with your breathing hath loosed the fateful light- to others in replied, their dark “I know how Jean The because you do not understand the. processes ning of houis of doubt Young Baritone. How lo Teach Him his terrible swift and despair. Being in s„„ ‘ he doesn’t. of Inspiration and expiration. Buy a book on „ £ lsi ,Zhaving pep, He will find out 9* I have been teaching voice for years but sword; the alivenessniive« 0„„ , ow he / anatomy, and study the construction qf the that has begun have my first male pupil, a baritone. Do you brings toe to teach. When I chest. It ls likely that you stiffen the enunci- His truth is marching on. required for teach a baritone as you do female roicest good ’ he singing wiu teach as I taught Has a baritone ating muscles when you speak words, and are in Whenwnen youvnn mm,IZ, two or three resonances f What He is good voice vm, you will method therefore the high tones become more diffi- I a good musician see.” would you user Give me the titles of have read a fiery who under- cult. You need a singing teacher to. show you gospel, writ method * ’ s°ngs. sta But “ d he " His range is to . nds the w„’r reaHy , from C G in music without the en Sa A? did do just that. A Mrs. how to form vowels and consonants while you burnished rows of steel: score usually Sements ri W. A. P. and come are singing. also tell the score when • He should you whether without the music ”- you are they caH ed this change •Later changed good Vniea hot in of you are sufficiently developed to take les- to “out the vintage.” Robert Schumann. voice. Then As Po1 you must havehT plancon used to uouwura man era sons Immediately or whether you should wait method. sav My “““ tenors. Resonance 338 watchwoi'd is °J occurs In 1 for a while. You are very young, and your alwavc is, Maitre Chest always right.” and ln the bones a voice must be carefully used to avoid all Its cleansing, stimulating cavitiescavltL Lof the head, action clears the voice face and nose. It < semblance of strain. THE ETUDE MAY, 1942 — f — : . t — l )

will ten is unsuitable for adolescent tendance at some church service a lot of it is poorly under most unusual cir- voices; arranged. Auxiliary Church Choirs succeed only highly one thing the Moreover, it is impractical to cumstances. For l prepare use the same anthems in interme- C H S amount of time necessary to # choir work that are part ( Continued from Page 309) sing one diate of the S.A.B. anthems in order to zvtita. . . • on the standard repertoire of the senior cru/n&z weekly will encroach too much wonder- choir. Such a procedure should be to vour organization for a of the young people who al- are indebted for which to work, and if the prize should undergo a test and, contrary spare time highest expectations. I if for no I. exceeds onr activities ways avoided other reason f„l instrument! for school duties and social and the English list is extended to take in all who to the “all in” system suitable have heard such beantiful str.ngs case it than that of inviting unnecessary have never HENRY S. FRY, Mus. Doc. own is lovely. Answer for their time. In my fact, the entire tone J attain a certain percentage in at- junior choirs, this test should be to take superb. In of the two Horn is a month was comparison groups of so wonder- tendance, it is more useful because real musical qualities. It should be was decided that once bard to realize that something “We find it Ex-Dean of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the A. G. O. choir singers. Then too, the field is surely should have no difficulty in the children will not become dis- definitely understood that member- sufficient for the intermediate , , , ns. You on becoming important enough to couraged half way through the sea- ship in the junior choir does not to function, but its appearance have vital some original works published by son. entitle one to membership in the in- that one occasion was made of men «mur product.” the full the members who have had experience with inter- No questions will be answered in THE ETUDE unless accompanied by Unless the church Is willing to as- termediate choir immediately upon importance so that pub- name and address the inquirer. Only initials, or pseudonym given, will be importance of mediate choirs and know their abili- of sume all financial responsibility in attaining the proper age. Stiffer re- would see and feel the express no opinions lished. Naturally, in fairness to all friends and advertisers, we can of the ties and limitations. This difficulty connection with the junior choir, it quirements musically are necessary. their choir. The senior choir as to the relative qualities of various instruments be is better to refuse to undertake its Of course, nothing so drastic as sight church is given a holiday from the will probably eliminated as time formation. Naturally there are ex- singing ability to any great degree evening service on the first Sunday of goes on but for the present the choice penses in connection with such an or- should be imposed. It is more for the the month, and the intermediate of material is limited. One book that Is one where ganization. Not only must quality of the voice test its place and carries the writer can recommend whole- Q. There Is a small tiro manual organ in tion. A “duplexed” Instrument money be that the choir takes in an- a church, with stops named on enclosed list— the tones of one department are used found for gowns, hymn books, and should be made, for as they become duties of the senior heartedly is “The Young Peoples the out the regular There other department to produce stops of CENT1HY gives you the world’s best music, beau- a straight' organ with no unification. tne tifully printed on the best paper, every bar In so on, but certain necessary affairs, older and gain more volume, un- choir. Choir Book” which, while it contains is also theater organ with stops remaining, same quality and pitch. as a standard size, each note cerlltled to be correet . nstule Hal such as parties and picnics add pleasant voices “stick some arrangements of as per enclosed list. What is your opinion of the mailer urole 111 What more ran sheet en- out” in small As very few of these young people standard works, solo singer or tile Century rebuilding these two organs into a three man- Q. In accompanying a There are over 3,000 compositions In player catalog, all 15c (20c lu Canada). thusiasm for the entire group. aggregations. (Do not expect the will be able to read music for singing has many other useful numbers. enclosed choir, with the organ, should the — ual instrument with stops named on your dealer what selcc- in his accompaniment each When yon buy music, tell Such choir, make a break ( iti a once organized and intermediate choir to compete in at sight the best plan for practice is The formation of an intermediate listf Ax you notice, there are some additions, tion you want and lx* sure U> nay. ”I»» tne r.NTl singer or choir makes a break for you will pay only running smoothly, should such as the Heeds, Violin Diapason, and so time the EDITION. please." That mean* be allowed numbers with the junior choir.) to take each section separately. The choir will present many different a hymn should the 15c- lets than half what you usually pay. And you 1 have listed the reedless Oboe for a breathing T At the end of forth. can't buy better mutic at any price. to sing one number at the morning The most difficult organist stop with the choir on the last note, problem, musi- sopranos can be taken one night in problems to those experienced in the lloir Celeste in the Swell or a Oamba in the HVCCV.SSFI'T. TF.ACHTERH the singing of THOUSANDS OP service difficulties making a clean break before (’EHTIFIKD KI)I* each week. These musical cally, in the formation of the inter- first Great. I am wondering what and 'ecommenU “CKNTt'HY the week, the altos one night in junior choir field, but the choir leader they Know it is all that might be encountered in softening or re- the “Amen”?—S. H. TION" exclusively—because items at the price or les* Ha may be children’s choruses, mediate choir is in the boys’ section, the second week, the baritones one who can inspire the organist good music can he half support of a body roicing some of the pipes to make a good A. By no means should the niodext price aids them in enrolling more pupils, and hymns, or any unison number or rather I accompani- parents gieutly appreciate Urn saving. of should say, young men’s night in the third week, leaving the of thirty or more teen age young peo- ensemble. What about wind pressure —A. H. necessarily make a break In the choir takes a which the words are suitable for chil- section. (It is If you decide to combine the organs ment each time the singer or absolutely necessary to fourth week for a combined practice ple will be more than repaid for A. Century Piano Solos, 15£ each his breath. The accompaniment should be dren of that age. It is seldom possible (we do not as a rule favor such combina- adopt a different attitude with inter- of the choir. Interpre- (Capital letter indicates key—number, the grad. whole In this way a busy time and trouble. Also, it is a supply tion) the question of pressure and ensem- treated as demanded by a musical <; , r 1 to use S. A. S. S. 511 Anvil Chorus III Trov, ) ; or material unless mediates, and from the first they tation. of course being guided by and fol- .. Xf l? choir leader will not have too many ground for the senior choir and pro- ble will have to be considered, as you sug- 3064 Clayton's Grand March. Op. UK), hr t Hlako a great lowing the singer as to tempo and so forth. Gardens. 3 Traditional deal of extra time can be must be treated as adults. So don’t rehearsals neoiirrinp- at gest. The use of the reedless Oboe as a *3123 Country F— vides with the Song. 3 • Hrajuna a continual contact from child- or Vlole Celeste does not make a very We advise the organist's stopping 3063 Cradle Kir- given to Gamba of Hours, 5 l*u»' hie M practice, and in my opinion, call them “boys.” 1 1>02 Dance C If your young peo- at the end of the hymn, making a Oestci* hood to maturity for those whose strong appeal to our Ideas. For use with a choir too Doll's Dream. Op 202. No. 4. C- t such I.lehnerI time would be better spent in ple are any good at all they will The Question of Finances Sallclonal, we prefer a Vox Celeste to your clean break before the “Amen.” 1433 Dreaming. Meditation.tatlon, F—V 2 voices warrant steady use in the serv- 1673 Dream of Shepherdess. Op. 45. U 4 Labltaky teaching them numbers to sing suggested Vlole Celeste, and we prefer a <1 -SL—.Vanderbeck with respond when you show them that The question choir wears mortar 2.0(, Edelweiss Glide. (Simp) of financing this group ices of the church. Q. Where a church 1204 Etude, op. 28. No. 1. Ah- 5 Wollenhaupt the senior choir of mild Gamba. You do not state whether the * the church. It is you are placing a great boards, on which side is the tassel worn 61)9 farewell to the MPlano.IM. F—3 Bootbovon deal of res- is a little different from that reedless Oboe Is constructed of wood or of fi- Song, xit. ImpIMed, F 2 I.an*e not difficult to find right or left— to the front or back of point T— 1818 Flower . H suitable anthems ponsibility metal, which usually Indicates a different Gertrude's _Drream. Walls, lib— 3... Beethoven upon them. However, nancing a junior choir. Intermediate 626 in the catalogs of most quality, the metal one being milder In tone. L.‘ E. 1!. 521 Golden Star Walt*. C— 2 Htrrahboe publishing make sure that all Gypsy Danee. 3 1 .1 rimer your aims and choirs are ‘ be 627 Dm more or less a recent inno- A small, but brightly voiced Cornopean A. We are Informed the tassel should Schiller houses but beware of 1222 Humming Bird. Walt/. 1 2 the so-called plans are understood all side, and back of Rhapsody No. 7 l.lsxt by members vation, and their value is might be preferable to the Reed Oboe you worn on the left hand 1179 Hungarian 2. Cm not so easily No. l Hrabms '•Senior and Junior Choir” anthem in before you Acquiring Skill suggest. We are not In favor of unifying the point. 2262 Hungarian Dance 5. Easy, Cot commit yourself and the recognized in the 2251 Impromptu In Ab. A'** 4 Schubert by the church officials. 16' 4' which an ordinary adult Great Open Diapason as a and and 698 Invitation to the Dance, op. 65-1)9— 6 Weber soprano solo organization to a definite programme reed organ, a Hopkins Therefore until the choir has been would much prefer that the unification be Q. I am playing a small 2749 Japanese Lantern, A—0—1.. has been 270 La Paloma. Ilp^l ...... 1 radier 1 vltrhell marked “Junior Choir.” of activity.) Heading of Music stops. also be very old instrument with stops named on en- seen and heard limited to soft You might 272 Largo. G—3 Handel in three-part singing, like to know what stops Most adult soprano solos will likely conscious of a “gap” In the pedal stops, be- closed list. I would 2467 Llebestraum llAire Dresmil G -3. Easy I. last To return to the “baritone” ( section. the wise Continued from Page 337) Highland. . Illinois and would Lily of the Valley. Op 14. E 4. Smith choir leader will attempt to tween those at 16' pitch—a borrowed Open to use for congregational singing, 278 go to G or above G, and it is 2746 Little French Doll. A, 1 ... H«»pkint wrong This will be made up of young fel- appreciate any other information. What hooks C— find some other means of Diapason and a borrowed Lleblich Gedeckt. 1613 Little Rondo. C— 1 Martin to let children sing financing like, but it music suitable for such notes. The lows whose voices have not only is scattered and un- BANDS — ORCHESTRAS PINS are available, containing 3133 Love Dreamt (Walts). Ah J.._^..Oreenwakl the group apart from choir con- 1611 March of the Boy Seouts, C 1 Martin highest note the official church focussed. Q. Onr Presbyterian Church is planning to church, services t I want to start a — average child should changed but have “settled.” Every teacher should be •3122 May Night. E 4 S. Palmcron You must support. AND RINGS — AWARD PINS committee the younger people of the church, sing is Sometimes it is possible to buy robes for the choir. One of the sisting of 1648 Military March. No. 1. D—3 Schubert F—and not too many of them! not be too able to put into the hands of a as to organ- 2519 Moonlight Sonata (Simp). Cm 3_Hectboven critical in the early stages get the senior pupil GIVEN BY MUSIC TEACHERS irants to choose a rather bright blue color. and would like a few suggestions — choir to undertake to very much main 1176 Nocturne. (Mi 9. No. 2. Eh 4—.^—.-Chopin of the a large volume of The rest of us feel that darker robes are izing one. I would appreciate 2308 Norwegian Cradle Song. Morel work while they are new to it. such material, — SINGING SOCIETIES. F—8 The Intermediate be “godparents” to know about breath- 2. Choir the intermediates, easy more appropriate. Can you tell us if there is facts that a choir should 1024 On the Meadow. Op. 9.«. Na 2, G— Uchner Some voices I have tried enough so that he can go Design Free. Write to 358 Plzzlcati (Sylvia). Eh—3 ~ Delibes could not at least to the extent Book any recognized authority or custom as to the ing, pronunciation, and so forth.—C. It. After the formation of the of advancing through 854 Preludes. Op. 28. No. 7 Chopin junior identify a note struck it without continual color the robes t—H. P. A. You do not state the pitch of the stops 1531 Priests' March (Athnlla). -4„Mcndel*sohn on the piano, funds for the necessary tech- C. K. Grouse Co. of F choir, the enterprising choir leader costs, these nical nor the degree of power, and It would there- 368 Pure as Snow. Oik 31, Eh— 3 Lance and they sang an octave below hindrances, and interesting 18 Bruce Ave. A. We do not know of any authority con- 2429 Robin's Return, The (Simp) G 2 3 Fisher when amounts to be paid fore be difficult to give you definite In- — will often find another source back when the add i»% Tax) N. Attleboro Mass. trolling the color of the gowns for your 1210 Romance Sans Paroles. F—3.^__.Streabbo* of asked to sing the note enough so that will experiment and Kohler being played. intermediates he want to ex- church, but we agree with the members of formation. However, you can 1312 Seales and Chords. 2 choral work in the become well estab- 696 Serenade (Staendi h«*n) .Dm -6. Schul»crt-Llsst young people of By patient plore it. thus ascertain the pitch and degree of vol- work, such as showing lished. Clearly the much wider use your committee that the darker robes are 21% Serenade (Staendchen). l>m—3 .Sehulxrt teen age. Normal pitch Is The formation of an inter- them the note of the more appropriate for your purpose than the ume of the different stops. 655 Shepherd Boy. The. G—3 WlUoo they are singing and literature which this implies 4' Is oc- mediate choir In the matter of vestments PIANO TUNING “rather bright blue color." 8' (same as piano) while pitch one is more difficult than then there is is gradually working them up the very desirable for general musical Learn the lucrative art of precision tuning by a tave higher, and 16’ pitch one octave lower. that of a wider variety of Piano Duets, 15(1 each a junior choir but if the materials and new scientific method and earn $5.00 to $15.00 a "Coupler” usually affects a key or keys an oc- scale until they sing the development; for Q. ire arc interested in adding stops to (4 Hands) note first colors for the intensive study day. Our Temperameter which we furnish is an played. material is available it is intermediates than tave away from the key or keys being 3079 Bunch of Daisies (Valae). Martin well worth played, it is for of infallible guide as a teaching device; by its aid our two manual organ, which at the present A C—1_ possible to turn these un- perhaps half a dozen pieces the reed organ Is usually a 1984 Amaryllis. Gave, dc IxmiIs XIII. F 3 Oh\s the juniors. There a year the student will accomplish in few weeks what list. Vox Humana on trouble. should not be a time includes the stops on enclosed As 1826 Barcarolle, Talcs of Hoffman. 3-.Offenbach promising voices into any is formerly tremulant. Forte Increases the power of the F— really excellent exceedingly limiting. required as many months. Modern facil- it, these stops are derived 924 Chop Sticks. Walt*. I.uIIt One duplication of color And also it f understand from C— 1 De of the main advantages in unless for some ities for oral or correspondence instruction. 40th speaking stops being used, and Sub Bass Is •3124 Country Gardens. F—3 Traditional material. Within a few is the right year. one set of pipes. Our organ chest is small, forming months of specific reason. That way to set about teach- Diploma granted. Write for free Booklet. usually a 16' stop. The knee swell on the left 3078 Elizabeth Waltz. O— l Martin an intermediate choir is in is, if the senior and we could not afford adding any room to 925 Golden Star Waite, 0—2 Streabboc entry into the choir several ing a pupil BRYANT SCHOOL, Augusta, gives “Full Organ,” and the one lads who to read Michigan, 76BB. side usually Invitation - :> the retention of children choir wears the usual black well. this part of the organ. What stop can you 930 to the Dance. Op. 65, Dh Weber who are were vestments Increases the power of the stops, 1366 Lustspiel. Overture. EV—4 Keier-ReU not at all promising at the Professor suggest that would make our organ more in- on the right leaving the start the intermediates Thorndike has remarked 1640 March Militalre. I>—3 Schubert junior choir owing to should choose ? so that both open should give the full power became singers who could some that the teresting at not too great an expense 1471 Over the Waves, Mex Wahxes, G—3. Rosas stay on color Youth’s of the Instrument. A book, "Reed Organ 941 and Peasant. Overture. passing the age limit. As previously such as dark red or green. Companion has A. C. K. Poet D—4 Suppo their part without If a 3129 Shadows on the Water, F 3 4 .Lourr. ey trouble while sing- simple done more to teach young Method.” by Landon, contains an article on — mentioned the limit for a junior smock design is Americans IMP ROVE YOUR PLAYING A. Since you say you cannot afford to add choir ing the regular S.A.B. anthems chosen as a to read “Stops and Their Management." For collec- should of the pattern it than all the primers ever any room to the chest capacity of your organ Piano Trios, 15^ each be fourteen years, and all should be possible to tions of music you might investigate the choir. enlist published. (a duplex Instrument), we do not see any Instructive Ensemble Numbers for Six Hands members the services The reason is that the following (Three performers on one should be made to resign The of some of the mothers way that you can make any additions, as Piano) activities and interests to Youth "Gems for the Organ," Jackson: “Reed 3089 French before their fifteenth of this make the gowns. s Companion contains attrac- m reading and playing thru raental- any addition to the ranks of speaking stops A Little Doll fLalt), P—1... Hopkins birthday. The “59 Many group pattern can muscular co-ordination. Quick resulta. Practice effort Organ Player.” Lewis; Original Pieces for 3092 An Old Moss-Covered Church. C— 1 Hopkins are so different from be tive would require chest room, unless provision 30T6 Barbara of the teen that of the same for material written in minimized. Used by famous pianists, teachers and Harmonium,” Franck; "Reed Organ Selec- (Waltz). G— 2 M Greenwatd age girls are quite the girls a simple and students. 3071 Major, suitable the junior and the No obligation. is already existent for such addition. We Big Drum The ( March) .F— 2 Hopkins choir that an entirely young easy style, tions for Church Use,” Dltson. dif- 3088 Big Bass Fiddle (Hum'esque) . F 1. Hopkins material for a choir made up of men, but with the addition and that it invites reading Broadwell Studios, Dept. 62 -E Covina, California suggest that you make your desires known — teen ferent plan must be of a plain For your choir work, we suggest that good 3097 Cuckoo Song, C—2 Martin undertaken in white m quantity. In to the original builders of the organ and 3094 Floral Parade. The (Valse). 2 Martin age young people. Fourteen to nine- collar for the girls. all seriousness, this is Judgment Is valuable In the matters of pro- C— connection 3070 Golden Rod 'Walt*). G— 1 Hopkins with their required duties worth far Make THE ETUDE Your Marketing Place ascertain what they have to suggest. You teen years should be the It is when it more than all the tricks of nunciation and breathing. Pronounce natu- 3093 Humming Bird (Walts). C—2 Schiller ages of the comes to the Etude Advertisers might exchange the Instrument for one of Idle Most leaders choice Open the Doors to Real 3095 Moments (Waltz). 2 . Uchner will find that it of methodology rally but correctly and distinctly, and C— girls for intermediate is a music that the which will larger size, but It would probably require 3090 School Pictures (Waltz), C— Hopkins membership. mistake critical choir ever be de- Opportunities breathe at proper places according to words 3072 to demand too much in the leader vised. more chest room unless some builder can Sunshine Waltz. C— H Many of those who have served will be in difficulty. What we need in field (If possible), as a rule not taking a breath 3069 Sweet Memories (Reverie). G— 1 Hopkins in the way of While it is our own sacrifice of true accommodate a larger organ to your space. 3091 Watehinq the Soldiers. R— 1 Hnpitin* junior time. When and that is a musical between a qualifying word and the word choir will have developed how several firms are Youth’s Companion and Numbers so designated are not available in Canada frequently they are to publishing INCREASE YOUR following—tor Instance, do not separate by Our definite alto sing is a S A.b. material teachers who realize complete catalog contains over 3.000 compos!, quality in their voices, it cannot how simple it is Q. Please send me your opinion on the a breath words, such as “blue” and “sky,” tion!;. consisting of PIANO SOLOS. problem that can be be said that INCOME ! DUETS and solved only o evelop organ, the specifications which are enclosed, TRIOS. VIOLIN ami PIANO. DUOS and these can be placed in by either publishers or both a taste of since "blue” qualifies “sky.” We suggest that —TRIOS and an alto each composers and a capacity Easi ly Substantially Pleasantly QUARTETS—BANJO—SAXAPHONE and PIANO individual church but have r — and please explain the term “duplexed’' when you might consult "Voice Culture for Chil- section. But both anything given this field the reading Take —MANOOUN and GUITAR and VOCAL. Also soprano and alto like the careful of music if only one Subscriptions for — used in the description of an organ. C. C. C. Ensemble numbers for an attempt to have a thought it — dren." by Bates, If your choir Is to be com- various instruments. Thia weekly at- deserves. goes at the catalog will be mailed FREE to anyone Much of problem in THE ETUDE MUSIC send does not In- posed of young children, or If composed on request. the material writ a direct and MAGAZINE A. The specification you of 340 common Write pipe organ you shall older persons, “Choral Music and Its Prac- sense way. for particulars — dicate to us that of a and CENTURY MUSIC PUBMSHING CO. 1712 proposed specification tice.” by Cain, and “Choir and CHESTNUT ST. PHILADELPHIA PA. have to judge the by Chorus Con- 254 West 40th St.. New York City hearing an instrument of similar construc- ducting.” by Wodell. THE ETUDE MAY, 1942 341 . ; a

1 > Radio Attains { if, i Highlights in the Art Violin Tone OuEsrini 313) New Art Values ( Continued from Page Piano —^(jeieAS ^JuneS re of Teaching the Cincinnati Consicrbatorp of jflflusiic 1 (Continued from Page Since this single point of contact (Continued from Page 306) 299) JOHN A. HOFFMANN, DIRECTOR in is lew Oh 71 produce the does not and cannot ^Answered Itf ROBERT BRAINE Under Auspices Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts variety of tone required, it is remark- Conclusion engagement there this past season Affiliated with University of Cincinnati able that our leading and eminent substantiated their Schools of Music of his profession the only belief in his Institutional Member National Association ALBUM OF detailed ex- In the exercise authorities have omitted artistic future. Peerce is meet with many adverse scheduled to address of the inquirer. Only initials, or pseudonym given, puomrjeu. planations concerning this vital prin- teacher will and music is taken be heard opposite Miss Tennyson production. circumstances; either in choral WALTZES ciple of violin tone broadcasts this NOBLE CAIN, nationally prominent social accomplishment, operatic month. “point of contact” up as a mere Lexicon” methods of varnishing, and try to do the Job Granting that The popularity of Morton The “Violin . .. conductor, whose countless compositions for For Piano length and frequency of les- Could and The “Violinist's Lexicon,” by the yourself. If you will get the little work. “The is really the vital principle involved, or the H S T— his music on the airways Lehman. Is a standard work, and Violin, How to Make It.” by a Master of the have brought him wide- insufficient, or the time of has resulted late George choral ensembles it becomes necessary to prove it by sons is the library of every violin Instrument, you will find a very Interesting in an expansion of his should be in By JOHANN STRAUSS too limited. Many of the Monday night all branches of violin chapter about stains, varnishes, varnishing spread popularity, will be a visiting member way of trial and experimentation. practice is student It takes up broadcasts. The preface of this book Mr violins, and so on. You can get this book rules of teaching may have to be re- program, newly technic. In the Cincinnati Conservatory summer fac- Everyone knows that a pianissimo ‘Violinist’s Lexicon through the publishers of The Etude. of the titled Music for America, Lehmann says, “The laxed, or even sacrificed; often any — Which now of the in- is best played with the bow close to aims to give all serious players ulty from July 20 to 31 inclusive. For the vocal perfection must be aban- runs from 8:15 to 9:00 P. M., more accurate and detailed In- the fingerboard, yet many do not hope of EWT strument Is It a Stradivarius? the average player seems able supervisor, and of value to the instrumental the teacher should never (Mutual network) presents a some- formation than E. L.—There is only one chance out of realize that it is practically impos- doned. Yet through Instruction or his different to obtain, either many thousand that your violin, with the supervisor, an intensive course (accredited) discouraged; some result may be what approach to music It does not pretend to sible to obtain a fortissimo at this be own investigations. Stradivarius label, is penuinr. Such violins, of a teacher's guid- achieved in spite of all difficulties. To than was utilized previously. Gould’s dispense with the need all duly ticketed with a label, run Into the will be given daily from 1:30 to 4:30 P.M. point of contact because the tone will endeavors to give all new programs revolve ance, but it seriously hundreds of thousands. The figure of a cross steer his way, the teacher has how- around the well as pupils whole- The course will combine two divisions: “break” when bow pressure is in- players—teachers as — Inside a circle appears In all Strad labels. A musical heritage of America reflection. Investigation and Noble Cain creased. ever one unfailing guide: he must be and fea- some food for genuine Stradivarius, in good condition, Is The book may be procured friendly with his pupils, even if he ture the Song Spinners with experiment." worth twenty-five thousand dollars; so, as • their On the other hand, many do not publishers of Tiih Kti'iik. 1. CHORAL LABORATORY. Chorus to be with training devices. For the stadium and through the you can Imagine, they are very scarce. If you has occasionally to be stern; he must early American compositions, as well made up of high school seniors and the field bands, for U. S. military formations and know that a soft tone may be pro- wish to ascertain If your violin Is a real as the popular tenor, Heineeke adult members enrolled in this class, with bands in R.O.T.C. units. duced with the bow close to the be ever ready and willing to help Jimmy Shields. About Mathias Strad, you could send It to an expert, such Otto F. Lang, a St. Louis sub- daily rehearsals of two hours’ duration. Negro spirituals F. E. M.— as Lyon and Healy, violin dealers, Wabash ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHARLES F. bridge and that a crescendo from them, always in sympathy with them. and melodies which the following This class will embrace all applied work scriber to The Etude, supplies Avenue. Chicago, and they could give you STOKES, director of music for 13 year'. are best described Mathias Heineeke. violin in preparing choral numbers for per- piano to forte at this point of con- This supreme moral quality endows as homespun, says Information about their opinion. There would be a charge for Western Hills High School, Cincinnati, and you wished to obtain. It Is as formance. Choral problems will, be dis the knowledge of music and all the Mr. Gould, will be played maker, which this, and you would have to pay expressage in charge of instrumental division of Con tact is both possible and satisfactory. along with Heineeke. Wlldstein, by cussed, as well as demonstrated, also in- follows: "Mathias both ways, Insurance in transit, cost of servatory's Department of Music Education rules of the art of teaching with more modern compositions. 1871 in Marla Kulm. Bohemia. terpretation, repertoire and selection of For experimental purposes, we may Eger. Bom packing, and so on. I think you would be in Public Schools. All students of orchestral E. Relnhold Schmidt of material for elementary, intermediate, draw tones with the bow held in vitality. Columbia’s Sunday afternoon show Was a pupil of disappointed, but you would have the satis- instruments have the opportunity of playing This notable new collection includes Markneuklrchen. Worked a long time In junior and senior high school, glee clubs twelve of the “Waltz called Family faction of knowing the truth about the in- in summer orchestra without tuition. Nominal King’s” most cap- three different positions: close to the Hour (5:00 to 5:45 P. M., Budapest, and for further In- and a capella choirs. tivating works. Berlin and strument. Sorry I cannot be more encour- fee if credit is desired. In splendid arrange- he studied ments, these beautiful melodies fingerboard, midway between EWT), featuring Gladys Swarthout! struction went to Italy where repre- bridge aging. 2. SURVEY OF CHORAL LITERATURE. COMPLETE PUBLIC MUSIC sent the great Johann Strauss at the PEDALIZATION! with Deganl. In 1897 he went back to his SCHOOL and fingerboard, or close to the Color your Piano Playing with A1 Goodman and his orchestra, a A lecture class 1 hour daily which will heights of inspiration and success. artistic use of home town, and established his business. He DEPARTMENT, undti direction of SARAH the Pedals. How to produce the striking effects the development of choral music With irresistible charm and eternal bridge. Using the same amount of twelve-voice chorus and commenta- now belongs to the most talented north Bo- Bow Trouble dwell on YANCEY CLINE. In addition to the Music freshness, that make your music “different”. A new they weave again the spell M. W. Without seeing your bow, It is dif- from earliest times to the present will presentation of this important subject. A quick hemian violin makers, and Is the holder of — Education courses offered at the Conserva- of romance a-bloom. Among the favor- pressure in each position, the tone tor Deems Taylor responds to the na- Masses, Oratorios correspondence course. Write for information. at exhibitions. He follows ficult to say what Is causing your trouble. discuss the larger forms. tory, Miss Cline will give an intensive one ite numbers in the book are: Roses many prizes, won will vary mostly in quality. REED tionwide requests for It might come from several different causes and Cantatas and outstanding examples from the South; Voices of Spring; With STUDIOS musical fare. Italian and his own models, which are be- week course (accredited) from June 29 to Sounds from the 2912 Alta Vista Bakersfield, Cal. — poor job of re-halrlng. or a defective of choral music will be analyzed. The style Vienna Woods; On added pressure at middle and bridge The musical selections of this popu- tween Stradlvarlus and Amatl. He excels In a July 3, from 1 :00 to 4 :00 P.M., at the Uni the Beautiful Blue “The pedals are the soul of the piano ” frog. of famous composers will be used. Danube; and -4r- making copies of famous violins. He uses Then again, the threads of the screw versify of Cincinnati. This course is identified tist s Life. positions the latter becomes greater lar program are chosen from the very old wood obtained from old buildings. which tighten the hair may be worn; or the as Mus.Ed, slt>9.2, “Methods of Exploring CHORUS. In addition to Noble Cain’s inten- in volume. This shows that for the audience requests, uses oil spirit varnishes, and uses hair itself may be of poor quality. Take your Music for Young People*'. The University will and include a He and sive 10 day course outlined above, a class printed labels as follows: 'Mathias Heineeke. bow to a good repairman (there Is one In the also offer a course in “Junior High largest tone, the bow must approach range from swing of Choral Voice and Diction will be offered School THEODORE PRESSER to the classics. vicinity of Carnegie Hall. New York City). CO. Gelgenbauer; Wlldstein b. Eger. 19 . Bo- Methods in — Music Education" < Mus.Ed. closer to the bridge. Family " under the direction of JOHN A. HOFF- [ Hour re-halrlng violin 1712 Chestnut St., Phila., Pa. pays tribute to many tal- hemia.’ In a bow. all fine and spilt sl69.3) under Lilia Belle Pitts, from June SPECIAL NOTICES MANN during the 4 weeks from June 23 Since these experiments ented hairs must be removed. The usual quantity to June 27. Further details on have been artists no longer in our midst, 22 to July 18. This will consider the these courses of hairs In a good bow Is from one hundred made with the full Excellent Violin Works will be furnished by the University of Cincin- length open thus recently it featured a group of to one hundred and twenty, technical problems of voice production, and K. L. C.—Edith Lynwood Winn was a pro- fastened In nati upon request. strings, we must straight lines, nearly half an Inch wide. breathing, tone qualities and diction. next consider the Paderewski’s best known composi- lific writer on subjects pertaining to violin Vocalises for chorus will be introduced. ACCELERATED COURSES FOR FRESHMEN. “point of contact” after the string tions study, and her works are widely studied by MUSIC ENGRAVING and on another occasion its This class will also include Choral Con- Planned to assist young men and women students of violin. studied with Piano. Band, Orchestra has been the She When io Begin Study and Octavo work. We shortened by finger place- ANNOUNCEMENTS biographical drama ducting with participation in directing toward advanced curricular standing, special of the day hon- many eminent teachers and passed most of T. specialize in book work; also engraved Y. L.—Ludwig (Louis) Spohr, eminent the chorus by the members of the class. classes will be offered in the fundamental titles. ment. Simple trials will easily prove her life In and as writer ored the American poet Joyce Kil- around Boston a on violinist and teacher of the violin, has this Send your mss. for estimate. Daily classes, 1 hour each. theoretical courses—harmony, sight reading that the shorter the string, the violin topics, and teacher of the violin. to say about violin education more mer, who was killed in the last World from the be- and ear training —during two consecutive OTTO A. C. NULSEN Among the best known of Miss Winn's ginning: “At To meet the additional needs of the point of contact must SPECIAL what age Instruction on the music summer terms of six five w-eeks _ P- O. Box 774 be toward NOTICES War. works are the following: "The Child Violinist and each, 124 Government ] violin should be commenced must depend supervisors in service throughout the aca- thereby Place Cincinnati, Ohio the bridge. (illustrated)”: "The Etudes of Life”; "Hand enabling such students to complete FOR SALE: The Gncinnati Conservatory of Music mainly upon physical structure. If strong demic year, the opportunity of combining the Unused piano sheet music Culture, Notation and to the first year’s work in each or all three Naturally the question guitar, Rhythm”; "How and healthy In above courses with profitable arises: if a mandolin—century and other will continue the chest, seven or eight study for credit courses. bo° ks~ edi- to present throughout Prepare for Kreutzer"; "How to Study Florll- softer tone is produced methods—excellent condi- years of age is the proper time. At all events value toward Graduate and Undergraduate midway be- May its lo”; "How to Study Gavlnles”; "How to Study FOR THE PRIVATE 1 Thursday afternoon broad- it should be In the age of boyhood, the degrees is available in all departments of AND CLASS TEACHER. tween bridge ™- Fashbaueh, Kreutzer"; as Ap- and fingerboard and M.ttSfoVlJ"* "How to Study Rode”; "Repre- plied PIANO NORMAL, embracing the aural ap FOR SALE a cast (Columbia network, 3:30 4:00 muscles then are most tractable, the fingers Music and Theory. Music Education louder to sentative Violin Solos and How to Play proach to piano playing with special tone close to the bridge, and arms being more easily managed then i public school music), Dramatization and emphasis ATTRACTIVE MAINE PROPERTY how P. M., Them"; “Violin. EWT) . Some of the best pro- Talks”; and numerous other in the development of ear training as and where should than at a more advanced period of life." Foreign Languages during regards aC luviol: M.Ed. in Galesburg, HI. purposes, gives M to 6: 15 P. M., EWT) aoes ward for further diligence take them to con- lessons in cornet and trumpet. Music Education—Public School James MacC. Weddell. a defi- C not require Chairman. pared fo?pu™?catio 1 '5 Pr Alfred re-varnishlng, so I wou certs other Music (in affiliation with the KNOX Catalogue sent free nite clue to the n° Wallenstein’s Sinfonietta With and places, where they may University of upon request variety of tone Arrangement' e you to take It and . to an eminent viol have the BAND FORMATION, by MERRILL VAN Cincinnati). its guest artists and opportunity of hearing good music. intensity which i^rssst (Mutual network, Thurs- get his opinion. If. however, tt PELT, director of University of Cincinnati Normal methods satisfactory in- ioou T If the parents themselves are musical, it and stimulating courses for °f days— no sP eclal quality, and not Band and director of instrumental music CONSERVATORY terpretation demands. 8:00 to 8:30 P. M. EWT); the vah.e ^ muc will be a great inducement to their children in private teachers. • you might learn OF MUSIC what you can abo\ to let two of Cincinnati’s high schools. An exposi- Courses offered in every British-American Festival net- them join in their musical parties. branch of musical SHENANDOAH W*d*E. Miller. Pm*. ( Columbia tion of maneuvers, floating designs and stunts instruction. Courses leading work, n *r t .„ j ,, to Fridays—3:30 M., the It. Mug., and B. Mug. ° to 4:00 P. Ed. degrees Kates" P V *° ' EWT), A REVELATION IN ", ‘. ETUDE advertisement,. and the Or- RESIN Write for Summer Catalog Th,» are NBC Symphony for Violin, Viola, WCSArwsa.*' k V bell.,; chestra 1001 Colors FREE. Cello, Bass programs. Information on the Instructions Given FREE “OLD KENT" - „» it takn P5,CES GOING UP - ACT NO Dept, e Cil THE summer WOOi"to‘aE.J£ U*ed by Greatest schedule T NC COMPANY. Est. Artists. Teachers and Students of the latter was 361 Grand"““VSt g?°' 1920 Price Cincinnati Conserbatorp of 342 Dept. 1, — Transparent or Black — 50c per cake iHusic not New York C M. H AUSM AN, available at the time of writing. 32 Union Square, New York City A***** THE ETUDE may, 1942 345 Jesus will go with you; one of the psy- Jesus, of visual perception is problems. He will lead you to his throne; Thfi Song of Hip Rainbow chologists’ most difficult mescal, it He who died has gone before you Drugs like hasheesh and winepress all 40. I’LL SEE TOU AGAIN' chiomaes- Trod the alone. LEVINE is contended, will produce Arranged by HENRY 41. -- 1 ( Continued from Page 312) or Tollmans 42. NIGHT AND almost anyone. Fatigue TEA FOR TWO 0™*”** thesia in fyianfo Gershwin 43. DESERT SONG ii whose thunders shake £Pi€mo gPufuf THE MAN I LOVE Romberg colors en- He creation; Svetof Gershwin 44-. ONE ALONE excitement brightens the 3. RHAPSODY IN BLUE Herbert 45. SOFTLY, AS IN A MORNING He who bids the planets roll; 4. TRAMP? TRAMP! TRAMP! Romberg those people normally en- .Herbert SUNRISE joyed by 5. TOYLAXD Gershwin Though neither of them realized it, Ing avoided with a zeal worthy of a Herbert EMBRACEABLE YOU hearing. Heredity He who rides upon the tempest, HER REGIMENT” MARCH 46. dowed with colored IS CALLING Tate 47. I'M FALLING IN LOVE the most peculiar characteristic of better cause. To harmonize with such 7. SOMEWHERE A VOICE Herbert part, and child- And his sceptre sways the whole. (from “Her Regiment”) Herbert WITH SOMEONE plays an important 8 . SOME DAY .Herbert chromaesthesia is Just exactly that. a score, the colors thrown on the MARINES Warren 48. KISS ME AGAIN 9. SONG OF THE TO hood environment may have a little K°ml er 49. LOVER COME BACK ME people ever agree on the screen should therefore be equally 10 . RIFF SONG ? J’ Herbert No two Herbert 50. MARCH OF THE TOYS is CLASSICS . specific patterns in spe- Dark and thorny the desert, GOTHAM 11 MOONBEAMS Spier-Gonrad hideous, they really to do with Hubbell 51. MEMORY LANE colors they see. No matter what the whereas are 12 . POOR BUTTERFLY Herbert pilgrim 52. ROMANY LIFE cific cases. The full explanation is Where the makes his ways, 13. ONE KISS music, all people who "hear” it In beautiful, though monotonous!” is quickly recognizing the Whiting 53. SPEAK TO ME OF LOVE And every teacher 14. TILL WE MEET AGAIN figures suggest Yet beyond this vale of sorrow Warren 54. SWEET GEORGIA BROWN different colors. not yet known. Some 15. SHADOW WALTZ .....Hertert colors, "hear” Not all of us have been won over to Donaldson WHEN YOU'RE AWAY these fine arrangements of 16. MY BUDDY 55. field endless . .Bodgera-Hart there are more people with some Lie the of days.” pedagogic value of Roberts SONG IN MY HEART . At the time, Scriabine thought lit- Prometheus, and only posterity can 17. SMILES 56. WITH A Van Alstyne (mostly chro- 18. MEMORIES tle the discrepancies, judge this finally, there is form of synaesthesia' melodies. Jolson-Rosc by ALBERT SIRMAY more about but work, but immortal American 19. AVALON Arranged partially Whiting are 20 . JAPANESE SANDMAN .. .Kalman when he scored Prometheus for the no doubt that audiences to-day can maesthesia) than there Harriet went past her brood once, THE 21. PLAY GYPSIES—DANCE GYPSIES. 28. L’ TOUJOURS L’ AMOUR Friml AMOUR 22. I LOVE A PARADE color-organ, he did take them into digest what audiences yesterday could color-blind people. singing this to let them know of her 29. STOUTHEARTED MEN Romberg Romberg Whatever the cause of chromaes- 30. WANTING YOU Arranged by JOHN MOKREJS account. He intended this composi- not even swallow. As may be seen, arrival. That was a sign for them ATT MYSTERY OF LIFE Herbert 31. , SWEET Friml of 32. HERO Straus INDIAN LOVE CALL tion, Promethee, Poeme de Feu, to be the score still has that special ar- thesia, whether it be a uniting merely to remain attentive, and to HERBERT MY 23. LEVINE 33. WEEN DAY IS DONE Katcher to the Gershwin RIEGGER a tremendous step forward in music. rangement for the clavier a lumieres, nerve trunks or a rush of blood make no move until another signal. 34. STRIKE UP THE BAND Arranged by WALLINGFORD RIEGGER GERSHWIN 35. YOUR LAND AND MY LAND Romberg Above the staffs of all the for the Luce. But, auditory centers of the brain with an 24. APRIL SHOWERS other if anyone has given The second warning informed her 36. SUNSHINE OF YOUR SMILE Ray • Friml 25. ROSE-MARIE instrumental overflow to the visual center we 37. ZIGEUNER Coward scores, appeared the the composition a really fair trial — company whether it was safe MOKREJS ROMBERG 26. SERENADE for 38. A KISS IN THE DARK Herbert * riml 27. MARCH OF THE MUSKETEERS “notes” for the color-organ, the Luce, within the past few years, he has know that there is remarkably little them to come out, or whether 39. APRIL IN PARIS Uuke they SIRMAY FRIML and others as he called it. the scale change. One woman, for instance, When of been hiding the fact under a bushel. must remain hidden. If it was secure PRICE 50c EACH colors was finally set up, it was originally in was dif- Little has been done with color tested childhood. to emerge then Harriet merely sang ferent in some respects from his own equivalents of music in recent years. This is what she saw: C, red; D-flat, » the same piece a second time. But if » RCA BLDG., ROCKEFELLER CENTER NEW YORK visualized colors. This was a conces- Yet, color purple; D, violet; E-flat, blue; MUSIC PUBLISHERS HOLDING CORPORATION has been used most effec- soft F, there was danger, she notified them .sion, for chromaesthetics almost tively, both alone and to enhance golden yellow; F-sharp, pink; G-flat, with a quick verse; and to be sure, tones or scales of my forty years of living in this never change the details of music. phragmatic breathing. Never should tion. Instead of singing their The performances of the Clav- greenish blue; G, greener blue; A, the have ominous within it can be de- vowels, substitute a list of words pleasant world, twenty-seven reactions, even over a period of many ilux in New York City offer clear blue; B-flat, orange; B, Comedy in Grand Opera the breath proceed from the thorax. on an unfor- coppery. tected: professional vocal work! years. like practically any words will do—and been spent in gettable experience. The lighting of After ten years, she was tested The breath, in singing, is exactly — of conclusion, let me say that it see how many words can be clearly By way the slightest set at Radio City is again. The intensities had the bow of a stringed instrument; sheer changed ( Continued from Page 297) A Temperamental Instrument Moses, go down in Egypt, uttered on a single breath. Purity of the bass voice requires the discipline music. And, who can forget the Fire- slightly, the colors not at all. Perhaps, should be free, firm, well supported, Tell old Pharaoh, let course, if they of coloratura technic, within the His color scale does not follow any stone Singing Fountain, at the New when we know much more me go; and concerned with the body of the vowels is enhanced, of about as much as rigid spectrum, if Hadn’t been for Adam’s fall, suc- not from the mouth, scope of its range, quite but it is arranged York World’s Fair, or the Kate Buck- synaesthesia and chromaesthesia, we for seventy per cent of a buffo’s instrument. The column of air (or are produced, approximately in fifths Shouldn’t have to have died helpful strike of the glottis. And does the high light soprano. It is a and is begun ingham Memorial Fountain, in Chi- may be able to give color to the at cess. Experience, study, and breath) is sustained by the dia- but by the again with C major, all. be pushed mistake to think that florituri are the color scale cago? blind, through the music they know guidance take care of the other thirty phragm. There are several helpful at no time may the breath as used in Prometheus, Poem Fire, first these lines will valuable only to the voices that sing of Perhaps this very lack of a Pro- already, and perhaps we shall give per cent. At nineteen, I gave my exercises that may assist the singer or forced. Drill along appears thus: C, red; G, rosy orange; in the coloratura arias in public. The dis- crustean Bed of judgment in color music to the deaf through the colors Doubtless whenever Harriet had to character presentation in the Sol- to perfect his breath control. bring about an increase num- D, yellow; A, green; E and B, pearly choice has can clearly ut- cipline of these exercises preserves handicapped workers with they can see! sing this brief verse of warning, it diers’ Home, in Rome. I was substi- The first is simply to practice deep, ber of words that be blue; F-sharp, bright blue; D-flat, color. Scriabine for present, I can speak or sing flexibility and well-being in the voice was not completely As the child, if you have ears that was in allegro tempo. This stanza is tuting at that performance my full breathing, watching carefully tered. At violet; A-flat, purple; E-flat satisfied discipline lie at the and B- with his Provietheus. Death can “hear the song of the rainbow,” one that belongs to the nationally teacher, Kashman, the eminent Aus- that the correct parts of the body are something over three hundred words, —just as must flat, metallic steel; F, dark red. stopped him when of every sincere artistic endeavor. he was working on by all means, use them! known, Go Down, Moses. train baritone. Kashman was in the employed. Place the hands a little clearly, on a single breath. But then, root In Moscow, the color-organ refused a still grander composition, a sum- The much-heralded audience, watching me. Afterwards, to spiritual. Suing above the waist-line, breathe in, and work. It was too bulky to cart to ming up of everything, la grande Low. Sweet Chariot, had a definite he said, “You have many defects, but feel the waist and the abdomen push Petrograd. Berlin had to hear Prome- synthese, to be titled Mysterie. association qualities that are theus with Harriet, but not also many natural out. If the chest rises or if the shoul- without color-organ. In Paris If you are chromaesthetically in- “General” necessarily an origin good. I shall not insist too much on Musical Reciprocity there was none. In Tubman, Com- with her. “Har- ders move, the breath is being taken London the ap- clined, thank your lucky stars. In the paratus riet was known by various names the faults, which time will help you incorrectly. Preliminary exercises in broke down. It was not until very rarest cases, a surfeit of colors poser of Spirituals among her overcome. If you concentrate too (Continued from Page 292) 1915, on the 20th Southern friends. One of singing proper should be as simple as of March, after has caused people to give up music, these was ‘Old Chariot,’ much upon your faults, you will lose is Scriabine’s death, that ( Continued perhaps as a possible. An excellent drill to sing Heartening words, these, for they select, in any fashion that they chose, the first com- but such cases are indeed rare. from Page 305) plete rhyme to the name by which they sight of your good points—and the one sustained note on a breath, strik- performance anywhere of Rather, all music becomes carried not only praise for Joseph the ambassador of the piano who more beau- has been written, she called her” dared not (Harriet) . good points are what you need to the of note, Prometheus was given, at Carnegie tiful because go The term also ing middle the keeping Battista’s artistry, but overtones of should be sent to the United States. of the colorful "over- back to them Hall in New York. till night, for fear of connoted the idea of escape by build up!” Thus, the basis of comedy the column of breath even, and emit- tones.” Perhaps, like the singer appreciation for the spirit of Amer- When she flew to the States recently, with being watched, and chariot,” Modest Altschuler thus revealing that is, by any means acting is intensive study of one’s ting the breath (and the tone) as of the Russian perfect pitch, you can use your pe- ican youth, as displayed in their Mrs. Pinto reported that the psycho- their hiding place. After which a characters at their Symphony Orchestra conducted culiarity. nightfall company could employ to the source of freely and easily as one emits breath musical offerings. invitation two In the case of the singer, the logical effect of this was sound of a hymn sung proceed origin, which is consecutive performances of Prome- she merely at a dis- northward. When the en- always the intention (and words) in talking. To my mind, Simultaneously with news that excellent, that great interest was visualized the color of tance comes upon theus, Poem of Fire, in the the ears of the slaved black sang, “I of the composer, plus a determina- there should be no difference what- hope the whatever note she was required to looked over Joseph Battista’s mission had been stirring over the opportunity, and audience concealed and famished Joidan tion to reflect might understand. The sing. If, fugitives in and what did I see, Coming his emphases without ever between the emission of the for instance, she was singing the successfully carried out came an an- that thirty young men and women color-organ woods, and they know that for to carry adding exaggerations functioned this time, and an E-sharp, she kept her their me home, A band of of one’s own. breath in talking and in singing. The nouncement by Columbia Concerts pianists already had applied for au- mind on deliverer is at the colors played beautifully the hand. They listen angels coming after The vocal requirements of the buffo on a color. No matter how slight the me, Coming for commonest fault in breath emission Corporation that it would offer a ditions. The auditions will be held eagerly for the words to white screen over the orchestra. deviation, she sings, for carry me home,” vary in only one way from those of is to We sharp or flat, a warning by it was over the let go a preliminary bit of air reciprocal prize to a young Brazilian this month, she said, when she re- cannot them they are to be guess whether the perform- through the warned of ason-Dixon line normal, accepted good singing; the before the is attacked. Correctly, change of . that he was look- note of either sex, the the exact danger, or informed winner to appear turns to Brazil. ance would have satisfied Scriabine. color, of safety. Nearer ing, the band need for extra training would keep the note pure! of angels was Harriet in the rapid the emission of the first bit of breath in the United States during the sea- When the winner arrives It did and nearer comes the or the good not satisfy the audience. unseen singer another conductor enunciation of clear diction. Many should coincide with the sounding and the coming for him, of son of 1942-43. He, or she, it was an- neighbor pendulum will have swung The audience— poor Difficult words are wafted and comic thing— was to Explain to their “home” was a haven in free scenes are enhanced by arias the tone. That is exactly what hap- ears: the nounced, would be guaranteed re- both ways in the field of piano; it is having trouble enough with the s ates or in which music, It is not easy Canada. Here is the words, funny in them- pens in speech, it should to explain exactly a stanza of and be the citals in New York and other large to be hoped that it will advanced and complex one selves swing again as it un- how these colors of Harriet’s songs and thus vitally necessary to are seen. The chro- Hail, oh with such a same in singing. There must be no cities, one or more appearances over and again in the other doubtedly was. But, with color hail, yee happy reference: be branches of also, it maesthetic feels spirits, understood, must be sung very air uttering the color, as any Death loss of before the tone. the radio, and probably at least one musical art. Attention gave up. Half those present could no more shall make fast. This has been color is felt. Close your you requires practice, but it is Another good exercise in eyes when fear, breath appearance with an important sym- called by Mr. Pinto to the not decide whether to watch the you hear hardly a fact that a violin. How do you know When that there problem in itself, since control is to lie flat on the floor, on phony orchestra. colors or listen Grief nor sorrow, old chariot The winning artist there are about eight hundred cities to the music. Most of it is a violin? pain nor anguish enunciation In much the same way, comes, depends upon breath one’ abdomen; to draw a full breath would have his expenses them could not understand Shall no more distress paid to and where artists may profitably appear either. As you know that F-sharp you there. I control which, major is vio- m going to leave you; to my mind, is the diaphragmatically; to keep inflated from the United States and a sample of critical comment, an ex- would be in the United States, whereas there let in color. Actually, this varies I m bound foundation of all good singing. cerpt from with Around him for the promised land, There- (hold the breath) as long as is com- given enough appearances in this are only about the review in the Nation the individual. are ten thousand fore, the six such cities in Some people see the l m going to leave singer who masters his pro- fortable; and to let the weight of country shows the general reaction: angels, you. to pay all of his expenses Brazil, which would “His scored notes in colors, duction in seem to place some see the in- the right way will find one’s it musical score, Always ready to own body push out naturally. and perhaps something additional. on us the major moreover, represents strument in colors. obey command that he responsibility of con- Others see the They This spiritual needs no special “methods” Next, a helpful drill is to sing a slow, Delegating the very extremes of ultra-modern are always hovering was underlain with a the same responsibility tinuing this favorable beginning. colors in their brains or feel them around o assist him in his cacophony, all on you, atenal ur enunciation; only sustained chromatic scale of one oc- to Guiomar Novaes and harmonic euphony be- their foreheads. P Pose. The words ex ra Octavio Few, certainly, will disagree with The whole business “m!Lfmeant practice drill in Till you reach the something the principles tave on a single breath. As breath Pinto, her husband, that had been Guiomar heavenly land more than a W h enable him Novaes’ thesis that great 344 ( Continued on ^!u to sing at all. control improves, then, the young reposed in them, Columbia Concerts music page 352) The secret should continue to act as a of all singing lies in singer begin his drill dia- may in enuncia- Corporation asked that the Pintos good will intermediary. THE ETUDE MAY, 1942 345 m

aught In- annexed Alsace-Lorraine. Vibrato: How It Is Played and I it in the established the New York Normal Stage The pmv set for World War I, training teachers. He at- 1914-18 and HANDS you America’s First (ireat Musical Pioneer stitute for . almost ouin TEmpoj besides World War II, 1940-? iomposER'5 tended teacher conventions,- the SHEET literature. It MUSIC: Lowell Mason had Instruments ( Continued from Page 310) writing and composing tri- for Woodwind umphed. His efforts of a has been estimated that over a mil- lifetime MUSIC had been unique in the Washington, D. C„ bombarded migration increasing. Elaboration lion copies of Mason’s books have been single- ness of purpose with which (Continued from Page 311) and burned by British fleet. “Oh of water ways, and steamboat sold; one collection alone brought he set mass education in music Say Can You See.” Peace 1815. traffic on the Mississippi and its him $100,000. In 1817, he had mar- above all Always Monroe Doctrine, 1823. Stephen tributaries. Mark Twain born, Abigail Gregory, and had four else. he attacked the ried to at the Special drawer con- doubt, has contributed much Foster born, 1826. 1835. American clippers made a sons, the youngest of whom, William problem point where he woodwind vibrato used, why has it out struction in Tonkab- knowl- could reach the greatest mu- it be his artistry as an oboist: his IN EUROPE: Napoleon escaped last gallant stand against steam Mason, a pupil of Liszt, became number inets keeps sheet not been taught, and how can orderly, safe re- of people: in the sic neat, instructors? edge of voice qualities must be from Elba, 1815. “100 Days War” navigation in the “roaring ’for- America’s outstanding artist teacher churches findable. Musi- taught by instrumental and vi- say it's so con- in his cultured tone and ©154! IT and Waterloo. Napoleon to St. ties.” Railroads were beginning: of piano. Two other sons, Lowell, Jr. through psalmody; in the public cians flected venient it almost TKEOOOIE PS ELSE! schools; through music brato. Helena. only twenty-three miles of track and Daniel Gregory Mason Sr., estab- widespread HANDS you the The Importance of Woodwind II. want. MUSIC: Chopin, laid in teacher-training, through you It is interesting to note that many Schumann, 1830; 2,218 in 1840; 9,021 lished a publishing business; a third, publi- Many beautifully Vibrato TONKabinet with a vibrato, but Mendelssohn, Liszt, Wagner, in 1850. Vail and Cornell tele- Henry, with Emmons Hamlin estab- cations of all kinds. His sons fol- crafted We must first realize the importance vocalists sing in sizes to suit Verdi, Glinka lived. styles, teach voice they usually Weber dies graphed over 1700 feet of copper lished the famous piano manufactur- lowed him: making and selling the home, the school of the woodwind vibrato. When we when they 1826; Beethoven dies 1827. wire, 1837; and with Congres- instruments of music or bond. symphony make no reference to it. Perhaps the and Hamlin. The first ranking . . . it to be played ing firm of Mason (melodeons Ask your dealer for listen to any Exactly as he wished or write vibrato is and so indicated on the score. That is sional aid, Morse built telegraph present Daniel Gregory Mason is the as well as pianos), music pub- TONKabinets artist or soloist on the flute, oboe, or development of a cultured 1827-1850. Peace and Plenty for free literature end the big advantage in controlling tempo lines between the human voice, or easily Washington and lishing, teaching. I natural to son of Henry Mason. Lowell Mason Despite the nearest dea er s bassoon, we usually hear the vibrato in the new. the modern, the electric BIOGRAPHICAL: Thanks to success Baltimore name. String players in practice. . . 1843. Thomas Edi- died at his home, Orange, New Jersey, Civil War, he never doubted the used to a greater or lesser degree; developed by way . bv THE of the first hymn-collection, Lowell son born 1847. Mexican War, 212) of success in devel- in 1872, at the age of eighty. destiny of the United States or TONK MFC. CO. (Dept. many of the instrumentalists use it have a great deal Mason able ELECTRONOME was to give up banking. 1846-47. Gold in California, 1849. his 1980 N. Magnolia Avc. Chicago teaching vibrato, probably own right to live, to work, to continually—as a matter of fact, one oping and (Tr»d« Marti Hag. U.S. Pat. Off.) He returned to Boston, in 1827, and P. T. Barnum brought Jenny Lind means of secur- IN AMERICA AND EUROPE: teach, to give all that he had to seldom hears these instruments with- because the physical became organist at three churches, to America, 1850. discerned. Al- ELECTRIC METRONOME The years after 1850 were music. Mason’s son, William Ma- out a vibrato. Speaking of the violin ing vibrato are readily . professional, teacher one of which was Lyman Beecher’s. Growth . . first choice of of piano industry: “In troubled and reddened with son, and his grandson, TONKahin e is Flesch points out: most any string player who studies Daniel vibrato, Mr. Carl and student in determining for them- He also was president of Handel and the single year, 1829, it has been of time their blood: Civil War in America, its Gregory Mason, have distin- “From a purely theoretic standpoint his instrument over a period selves the accuracy of timing. Haydn Society, 1827-31. Aided by estimated that Springs run down, their tension weak- 2500 pianos were horrors modified by the glorious guished positions Music for eventually develops a vibrato. There in American Sheet the vibrato, although the means ens. the tick-lock of the old-fashioned Woodward, he adapted Pestalozzian made, valued at $750,000. In 1850, rise of Abraham Lincoln. In Eu- musical history. heightened urge for ex- are certain easily identified technical metronome becomes irregular, like a teaching to music. He established the there satisfying a were over 200 establish- rope, the attainment. worn-out dock. But the controlled im- Boston Crimean War of France pression, should be employed only points necessary to its Academy of Music, in 1832. ments at work upon musical *£u|d TAUGHT pulse of "The Metronome That Oper- and England against Russia, It is not PIANO TUNING if It is not as easy, however, to get a It Fifteen on record that Lowell Ma- A n 1 a when it is musically justifiable. Yet ates Electrically" can’t go wrong. hundred pupils, children and instruments, the musicians. value of the an- 1853-56; Splendid field for men and women must always heat time at the exact Indian Mutiny, 1857. son ever asked what’s Baldwin Piano Co.. celebrated violinists good vibrato on woodwinds as on adults, attended in first year; the use? For, School endorsed by Steinway & Sons. we consider the and nual product being nearly $2,- mtrs. tempo for which it is set. No springs, Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871, with his great W W. Kimball Co. and other leading piano admitted that strings. Some of the Teasons for this children were taught free of charge 600,000.— contemporary, Walt Write lor in formation of our day, it must be nothing to wind: simpler plug it in, nip “Grove’s Dictionary of in Principal which Bismarck besieged and Whitman, Dr. William Braid White, difficulty in teaching and playing the switch and note the improvement in if they would attend a full year. Un- he could say in truth: in nearly every case they employ an Music,” American Supplement. your performance; change tempo with der captured Paris after Sedan, and I hear America School of Pianoforte Technology woodwinds are: his guidance Teacher Conven- IN EUROPE: singing. uninterrupted (though technically hand without interrupting beat. A restless peace 5149 AGATITE AVE.. CHICAGO one tions of 1834 were established. unobjectionable) vibrato.” This state- 1. Existing methods of teaching During leading to Revolution in Ger- GUARANTEED FOR 5 YEARS first year of Conventions, twelve many, ment might be just as applicable to and using vibrato are not in 1848; seizure of power in MARIMBA PRICE *12.50 teachers came. By 1838, there PLAY A DEAGAN flute and oboe players, agreement with one another. was an France by Louis Napoleon, 1848; our celebrated Ask you/ Dealer about FREE enrollment of one . . 2. The actual physical character- hundred thirty- master . bassoon futile insurrection in Italy, 1848, Easy to and in some cases to the trial offer, or write direct to four, coming from ten states, Music of the African istics of vibrato production are and in headed by Cavour, Massini and Bushveld always popular . . . players. We find that flute and oboe 1849, the attendance had analyze. profes- FRED.GRETSCH mfc.co. grown to one Garibaldi. Prosperity and inven- richly satisfying. players use an almost continuous hard to Many (Continued from Page 316) 'A Miktis ol Musical Instruments Since III] A thousand. This was the beginning of players cannot them- tiveness in England; also a great Write Dept. E. vibrato, while bassoonists use it some- sional teacher training 60 BROADWAY, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK in U.S.A., and had advance of liberalism sparingly, as the vibrato selves tell exactly how a good under Cob- it is almost J. C. DEAGAN, INC., CHICAGO what more colossal influence on future entirely vocal. Neither in the develop- den and Bright. Steel supplanted center of the ring must choose not always effective in the low vibrato is produced. They often ments. the natives nor the busy pioneers had is wood in shipbuilding, a partner. The Afrikaans is the soul of the instru- and British any sense words, ranges of the instrument. Also cer- say it "In 1836, che introduction of instruments. Even to- Rebuilt Band & of music were quick to “Staan, Pollie, staan laat ment, it comes naturally, accept Ericsson’s day, instrumental —En jou WM. S. HAYNES COMPANY tain bassoon passages seem to sound and into the schools was formally au- (American) music confines it- gedagte gaan, invention —Dat vir kan se, or not at all. ! Orchestra Instruments of the self chiefly to jy my Flutes of Distinction better without the vibrato. thorized, but the board forgot to ap- screw accompanying the —Of propeller. Cunard and jy vir my wil he,” are translated appreciate what can be done 3. The real artists on woodwind HONESTLY REBUILT— FULLY GUARANTEED propriate any singing, and lending stout support STERLING SILVER—GOLD—PLATINUM To money. Even this failed other Transatlantic for into “Stay, Polly, Plea*? specify Inatruiueni you are In- lines started. Stay, and think vibrato one need only instruments are so much in de- quote- to stop Mason. dancing. The instruments in with woodwind terested In ami we will price* He taught without pay While use are hard, So that Catalog on request Distributors King Band Instruments. immigrants flowed to the you can tell me, if you the New York Philharmonic- mand as players (even more so for an entire year and bought concertina, the guitar, and the listen to U/CVUJIllli AA Dept. E-5. 1613 Chestnut music America, Americans, want me.” Through 108 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Mass. vVLTlYlAlin l/U. street. Philadelphia. Pa. and especially double-bass (which the years, that Symphony Orchestra and note the than string players and vocal- materials for the pupils from his musicians, lends itself to child’s also went to Europe to song has taken romantic ists) they are avail- own pocket. amusing effects among on elegant oboe vibrato of Labate; or the that not A year of this was too study, especially the natives values, at Leipzig. who turn so that it is no longer consid- Barrere with his Little able for teaching, even though much for the public conscience, and the bow the wrong way and Etude Advertisers Open the Doors to Real solo flute of MUSIC: Rise of Romanticism, ered a game-song, but in 1838, the have fun with it a courting Symphony. Imagine how dull these they do know how to pass on board went the whole and Wagner, generally). These song Opportunities SWING PIANO! way Berlioz, Liszt. Ros- songs are sung Polly’s thought being expended would sound without their knowledge or acquired Learn to play real Swing Piano. Send for free Home and appropriated the necessary in Afrikaans, a instruments Study Folder. TLACHERS: write for business Q^e- sini, born same year new upon her choice funds.” — “Our as Lowell language that of a husband! vibrant, rich vibrato! We find skill. CHRISTENSEN STUDIOS. 52 Kimball Hall. Chicagc American Music,” Mason developed out of pre- The that (1792) . Retired after “Wil- chief occasion for singing is all 4. It is impossible for Howard. dominantly high Dutch strains, also that the vibrato is used in almost high liam Tell” and the “tikkie-draai,” Other in 1837 (the year is used along or big dance get- and school and college teachers to cities followed suit soon with English, by whites types of passages—solo, ensemble, Queen Victoria and together, usually on after, including Buffalo, Pittsburgh came to the natives alike. It has a Saturday nights even unison passages with other demonstrate vibrato on all the flavor and after work, Cincinnati, Chicago, throne in England). The a piquancy when all hands sing and woodwinds (or on brass and Cleveland, San age of which reflects its sturdy woodwinds. virtuosity dance—and Francisco and St. Louis. begins: Pianists—Liszt. pioneer origin, and the dancing, of definite- de- strings, too) effectively enough Lowell Ma- is often very diffi- But how was this fine vibrato son Rubinstein, cult ly native color, had launched music in the schools Thalberg. Violinists: to translate—especially consists in standing by our woodwind soloists? In that students may imitate in songs still veloped for good, and, (after Paganini) like Marching on one spot and the in addition, established Ole Bull, Wie- to Pretoria) of moving many cases, no doubt, the vibrato was them in securing this effect. robust ody, the teacher training. In niawski, Vieuxtemps. humor which is not head, the arms, into all 1835, he was Singers: at all offensive in developed naturally or by Imitation, Even with all of these problems con- awarded degree Lind, Afrikaans sorts of swayings of Doctor of Music, the Patti Sisters, Mario. but which might and contortions. At others there was experimenta- fronting the teacher, it should be pos- prove e and in A Definite honoris causa, by the University Conductors: shocking in literal tikkie-draai,” everyone con- of Von Buelow, Richter, rendition. tion, and acquisition of vibrato by sible at some time for him to master ond ProcKol Sy stent New York, and was the ributes something, first American Leopold Damrosch, by way of enter- error. Some of these per- some essentials, and to experiment wkick ALL Piano Student* Theodore Origin in ainment, trial and to be so recognized. ChUdren's and all kinds ond Teockers Should Investigate Thomas. Russian Nationalism Songs of humorous have paid no attention with vibratos until he has acquired be- songs are formers may “It was the mission of Lowell gins The character of heard. Some of the Bush- Ma- with production these songs is the physical character- the knowledge which will enable him 1 son of A Life ex- ve d songs directly to VoL —For Beg inner* 'too to break down the doctrine of tremely simple, > have very interesting for the Czar by m study getting the proper vibrato, to lead the student to some degree Vol. the talented Glinka in St and g ^ backgrounds. istics of 2—For Students witk few, and to show that providing translations Petersburg, 1836. for have achieved it through of success in getting a fine vibrato Fair Knowledge . .*1.00 its them One, others may foundations were largely myth- have a notion that at least, has an American his- many of them close attention to physical changes. on his instrument. Vol. 3—Advanced Studcsb *1.00 ical.” — “History of Public School 1850-1872. originated as niy—whieh almost Glorious Autumn children’s game-son^ got me into diffi- most refined, What are the characteristics Music in the and u ies One of the finest, and of U. S.,” Birge. gradually developed because of my ignorance of SHEFTE PIANO IMPROVISING BIOGRAPHICAL: Mason left an adult- vibratos we have ever heard is, good vibratos on the woodwinds? Boston oi universal American oboe Due 'OR ALL in 1850. After — appeal. or,,,, folk-music at the time I PLAvma 5 LOO two years in Europe Take perhaps, that of Henri D'e Bucher of to its delicacy, the oboe is probably IN AMERICA: he PMy S i<; Population Stay for ' mov- returned to , example. S When 1 fl rst came here, New York. With Undoubtedly rt m f? Angeles Philharmonic Or- the most difficult woodwind instru- ^ Piano teacher ing up to the Geo’rge that ’ went the Los 30,000,000 with im- F. Root song began” as to a manager •houkt write us and William B. Bradbury a child’s ring who was inter- ment on which to develop he game, in ested m my chestra. Mr. De Bucher, in addition to a fine vi- for apecial adver- which the one programs of Bushveld tising plan. 346 who stands being an artist on the oboe, is also a brato. One method (used by several ( Continued on Page 355) fine vocal teacher. This factor, with- (Continued on Page 353) MUSIC tie so. wa»ai« Art. FORSTER rwausHte me • CMlCAftO THE ETUDE AMY, 1942 347 " •

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the fact that ultra-modernism Private Teachers (Eastern) our American has m Teachers (Western) CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEGE such interest is part of Accordionists Private Challenge tQ H came here, in taken hold of many of our young A , life. When my father M«mb*r of th§ North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools composers, dazzling them were but two orchestras in with its 1871, there 3 MAY MACDONALD HOPE CORYELL KATE S. CHITTENDEN- York Phil- ‘newness’ and blinding them to RUDOLPH GANZ, President the entire land—the New the Eu Pietro 2)e Repertory — Appreciation * Concert Pianist Artist Teacher Pianoforte — the The- true purpose of musical creation. — Orchestra, and 853 7th AVE.. harmonic * THE WYOMING, Godowsky | father They have developed great As Told to ElVera Collins Pupil of Teresa Carreno and Leopold YORK SUMMER MASTER odore Thomas Orchestra. My technical NEW SCHOOL N 775 Colusa Ave., Berkeley, Calif. L.A.S. 5530 skill in the science of then founded the New York Sym- polyphonic FIRST SESSION—SIX WEEKS SECOND SESSION—FIVE WEEKS and, some time writing, but they scorn to have deal- phony Orchestra, is very good FREDERIC FREEMANTEL June 24th to August 4th August 3rd to September 5th MUCH these days after unless there a ROSE OUGH ings with any forms out of E HEAR S after, Major Higginson created and the past. conservation, and great reason for making a slight change. n VOICE Voice Instruction Study at a school of the highest professional and academic accreditment where For Their goal, it seems to me, is not about supported the Boston Symphony. only N Former Assistant to Lazar S. Samoiloff of 24 home study lessons, courses of instruction have been arronged especially for musicians and teachers placed upon the im- Finger memory is a help in playing Author music, stress is X in Hollywood Principals of Voice Production and seeking advanced summer study. some years, these four orchestras to write but to outdo the W "The Fundamental * Studios at Them of avoiding all waste. Ap- with security. The bellows manipula- Reopened Her Voice Singing"; also "High Tones and How to Sing entire symphonic in- modernism of the European moderns. portance * 1931—8TH OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA Selected represented the AVENUE Studios: 205 West 57th Street Faculty of Nationally Recognized Master Teachers apply to any tion should also be established when * parently these warnings Telephone Glencourt 6115 Circle 7-5420 terest of America. To-day, there are “Certainly, one cannot condemn an New York City Phone the most im- beginning, to learn a new selection. GANZ, SAMETINI, GARDINI, SORANTIN (Violin and Orchestra} Max WALD and intelligent and earnest material object but N (Composition), Hans ROSENWALD at least sixteen major orchestras, group whole- (Musicology}. Helen CURTIS (Class Piano) of time. As a If we are careful to play a piece as HOWARD (Dalcroze Eurythmics), is the waste Mollie MARGOUES (Piano), Reinhold many smaller ones which are but a sale — still, I wish our composers portant 3 EDNA GUNNAR PETERSON Mo,y ' first ALBERTO JONAS S «RNON (Music Education). HESS ('Cello), we shall have a busy year nearly correct as possible the DUNKELBERGER (Theory), Mark LOVE acknowledged first- would remember that music nation, m —Artist Teacher (Voice), Noomi COOK (Voice) Merle step behind the must Concert Pianist Virtuoso WEST (Piano Teacher Training), Don TUTTLE (Radio), every moment of time, we shall have a distinct pattern Celebrated Spanish Piano DEMOREST and WEDERTZ radio come, not only ahead of us and Angeles, Calif. Organ) Oscar ANDERSON, rankers. And besides, thanks to from the mind and 3 229 So. Harvard Blvd. Los Teacher of many famous pianists KNOPINSKI, BOOS, METZENGER and SLUSSER to follow and future repetitions will (Band Clinic), Hazel LANGEMAK will be valuable. FE. 2597 19 WEST 85TH ST., N. Y. C. Tel. Endicott 2-8920 (Melody Way Class Piano), and many others. again, the incredible enthusiasm for the intellect, but from the heart. Any our time 3 be made merely for improvement. If, n are wondering how accordionists On Thursdays in Philadelphia, 132 South 18th Street. Write lor Illustrated Summer orchestras has created not hundreds great art must always remain We Catalog — For further Information address the Registrar. the 1577 or Locust 9409 going to meet the challenge for however, we rush through the first Tel. Victor but thousands of high school sym- supreme and faithful portrayal of are LAZAR S. SAMOILOFF Not connected with any Conservatory, demands upon their time. playing carelessly, we are likely to jj phonic groups. They range among all human emotions — of the strivings increased N Voice teacher of famous singers CHICAGO MUSICAL can accurately predict develop a poor pattern which later COLLEGE shades of excellence, but at least they and longings, the Perhaps we From rudiments to professional engagements loves, and hates, M EDITH SYRENE LISTER R. A. Elmquist, Business Manager stalwart ones with strength must be discarded; and thus the time H Beginners accepted. Special teachers' courses are there, and working up to high the pride and humility, the achieve- that the AUTHENTIC VOICE PRODUCTION in this is lost. M 64 EAST VAN BUREN STREET character will accept the challenge spent doing M 610 So. Van Ness Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS performance standards. ments and the failures which come to of 405 Carnegie Hall, New York City N matter how busy Few of us employ the use of our the late Some years ago, I was invited by all of us. and resolve that no Collaborator and Associate Teacher with W. prac- Warren Shaw and Endorsed by Dr. Floyd S. Muckey the Music Supervisors’ they may be, they will continue to full mental equipment when we Convention in “In my opinion, many of our young ELIZABETH SIMPSON Wednesday: Troup Music Studio. Lancaster, Pa. look but not see, and 5 Chicago, to conduct progress with their music. Others will tice. We do Thursday: 309 Presser Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. two concerts with moderns have failed to realize this. Author of "Basic Pianoforte Technique" J an orchestra of three give up without a struggle and not listen but do not hear. Each of us hundred high They have concentrated on form, H Teacher of Teachers. Coach of Young Artists. Summer Study in New York find time to practice. has latent talents within us if we N Pupils Prepared for Concert Work. Class Courses enwood school students. At the first concert, which is the fruit even try to (Frank) (Ernesto) of the mind, and N in Technique, Pionistic Interpretation, Normal will use them. By continued ef- we played the “Rienzi” Overture Every accordionist wastes enough but h Methods for Piono Teachers. RICHARD McCLANAHAN and lost sight of feeling, which is the LaFORGE-BERUMEN STUDIOS constant mental alertness, M Matthay CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC at the second, the Prelude to time each day which, if properly fort and 609 Sutter St., San Francisco; representative. “Die language of the heart and the spirit. h Voice—Piano 2833 Webster St., Berkeley, Cal. Dirts ion of L indenwood College far in music. we can train our eyes so that we can * Frank teacher of Tibbett New technical methods should first Meistersinger.” Both are difficult They utilized, would send him LaForge Lawrence since 1922 be for Women. Thorough prepara- reject the idiom of the N past 1100 Park Ave., Corner 89th St., New York learned in connection with the simple tion for careers in music under pieces. The performance was remark- Note carefully that we refer only to look at a sheet of music and observe a solely because it is of Tel. Atwater 9-7470 elements of music, gradually built up distinguished faculty. B.M. the past, quite degree, certificate and diploma able, and even more “wasted” time which should not be more in one glance than formerly we Private Teachers (Mid-West) into a vocabulary of gratifying was forgetting that ; performance. in piano, voice, violin, organ, human expressive- harp, otiier the keen, unaffected used for rest nor would see after several moments of instruments, pub- enthusiasm with ness is both timeless confused with that lic school and ageless. music, theory, har- is in RICHARD mony, history and which these youngsters none healthful recreation. scrutiny. Technic required the 3 ARNOLD SCHULTZ RICHARD McCLANAHAN McCLANAHAN S appreciation — over Originality and technical novelty are of music. Well-equipped stu- N Representative TOBIAS MATTHAY Foundation Course in tho seventeen—concentrated This brings us to the subject of development of the mind just as for Teacher of Piano Matthay dios, upon Principles of Piano beautiful buildings on baton not enough- for the creation Private lessons, class lessons in Fundamentals Technic is useful to either of music. the revolutionary treatise players or teachers. 138 acres near St.. Author of on Ixiuls with and instructions. And, limited finger dexterity. H Lecture-demonstrations for teachers 12 lectures facts, as one of the They how to make the most of a piano technique — principles, procedures, materials. its frequent concerts, operas, may suffice for a feat of engi- Private lessons, 806 Steinway Bldg., New York City playino-classes. and two lectures on other musical attractions. For real high points in American practice time. In other words, how to "The Riddle of the Pianists' Fingers" "The Languase of Music". catalog and view musical neering, but not for book, write the difficult feat Extra Instruction Needed published by the University of Chicago Press Six weeks—July 6 to achievement, I look August 15 Harry with affection to of practice efficiently, which means a 622 FINE ARTS BLDG. ILL. Morehouse Gage, Pres. building a bridge into other I CHICAGO, Private lessons at any time. the wonderful human Box 1242, St. Charles. Mo. summer camp at In- souls. perfect coordination of eyes, brain During the recent depression many H EDWARD E. Particulars from Our only reason for listening TREUMANN terlochen, conducted by Dr. of our fellow accordionists be- 806 Joseph to any and muscles in a combination of con- 3 RAYMOND ALLYN SMITH, Ph.B., A.A.G.O., Concert Pianist—Artist-Teacher Steinway Building, New York City Make THE ETUDE Your Marketing Place music is, not to follow its Maddy. Here, M Recommended by Emil Von Sauer, Moritz Moszkowski Personal 'phone: Kingsbridge Etude during vacation time, centrated effort. We shall use the moaned their fate, because they had Dean 9-8591. Advertisers Open the Doors to Real tonalities or atonalities, but to feel and Josef Hofmann. hundreds of gifted Central Y.M.C.A. College Opportunities students are learning of selection a plenty of leisure time to practice, but, Studio, Carnegie Hall, Suite B37, 57th S». _____ sent and rejoice in the a new as * School of Music at 7th Ave. to work human heart beat Tel. Columbus 5-4357 New York City intensively at music. These demonstration. A very common pro- unfortunately they did not have the Complete courses leading to degrees. Coeduca- pulsing through it. If M Summer Master Class—June to Sept.—Apply now. children ever this uni- tional. Fully accredited. Day or Evening. Low tuition. are in no sense cedure is purchase in- M Music Lovers to earn prodigies' versal heart to learn it by numerous funds with which to LIBERAL COMMISSIONS they are beat is conveyed by m Kimball Hall, 306 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois securing subscriptions regulation high school repetitions. struction or instruments when M for THE ETUDE. Part or means of the Much of the time, how- new fuN new polyphonic forms, time No Cost or pupils, with a full Private teachers in the Obligation. Write for com- program of aca- I shall ever, spent in doing this can be saved. needed. The scene has changed now larger cities will find P plete details TODAYI say, ‘All Hail.’ But while the E Address: demic work, and DR. FRANCIS L. YORK this A N T destined for future modern An intelligent scanning of a new and there are plenty of funds avail- 3 column quite effective in advertising theif w J output M CIRCULATION concerns itself Advance Piano Interpretation and the Theory work DKP’T careers in all fields. They more courses to the thousands THE ETUDE are chosen with selection before playing is recom- able so we would like to express the N required for the degrees of Mus. Bach., Mus. Mas., of Etude readers MUSIC MAGAZINE form than with humanity, I L712 for their musical can H and Ph. D. in music. CHESTNUT ST., PHI LA., PA. abilities, in state- mended, will who plan to pursue advanced study with think of it as this gives the player an hope that accordionists make N DETROIT INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL ART an wide competitions, only as a transitional and rewarded by phenomenon opportunity to analyze the signature, the most of the present opportunities H Detroit, Mich. established teacher away from home. r the privilege that has little to do N JLILLIARD SCHOOL of working at time, OF MUSIC- their with creative mood, technical difficulties and and use at least a part of these 1I1ITITTITTT music under masterly art. instruction. dynamics. If for their musical educa- I.rnest Hutcheson, President I have heard the key is one with extra funds “All of these splendid many novel forms THE ETUDE advertising pages are the developments fiom our young which the accordionist has had dif- tion. marketing centre point to marvelous work composers, but never JUILLIARD and en- a single ficulty, he will be benefited by play- The average accordion student has for thousands. It pays to read ETUDE advertisements, SUMMER SCHOOL couraging progress. modern’ work that has suc- and And I am con- ceeded ing the scale of that been taking only a thirty- or forty- vinced that in conveying the key for a few write the advertiser—"I saw it in THE ETUDE." George A. Wedge, Director they represent only human es- the sence of minutes to familiarize himself with five minute lesson once a week. This beginning. I have tenderness, of the intimacy the greatest con- the fingering. July 7 lo August fidence between like-tuned The difficult technical makes a yearly average of only 14, 1942 in everything American minds, of lone- and iness, of measures and cadenzas should be twenty-six to forty hours which cer- for LEARN "SWING” MUSIC nature CONCERTO ACCORDION Quick course Accredited music a m a few ’ —not even in lyric to> players of all instrument* courses leading to diplomas, years time own arrangements —make tout teacher's > we taken as ntsofor •‘hot"rtoi breaks.nreaks. choruses, ^hln'T T i songs which exercises and worked on tainly is not enough if an accordionist and ORCHEST RA by w. meter embellishment*, chorTzsesTohbt.ciu^fohblirstna certificate, should reflect figurations,IS, blue note*,DUiPfi U-*lnh. t .. . - and Bachelor of Science and WOrM in aI1 all of whole tones, etc! Master of Science branches ese. separately; for Mozart style. Dignified. Unique. degrees. ofmuiic Beethoven when an entire selec- wishes to prepare for professional modern dance ARRANCINC Instrumental and vocal conveyed them; so Playable also os Solo—or with String Ensemble. lJuetB.n , trios, instruction for beginning id tion is repeated quartette* and ensembles—special choruses and Wagner, and over and over for the playing. No matter how excellent a Solo part, 27 pages, $2.00. With Orch. Ports $4.00. modulating to other keys — suspensions— advanced students, repertoire Brahms, and ever anticipations classes, methods and benefit e 'Tec1*— wln Modernism's so many more. of just a few troublesome teacher may be, he can accomplish Through music dealers or C.O.D. from Wme*”oJo' *» fc*ckcr<£md^- materials, public school music, Shortcomings But they subordinated theory, composition, and rorm— measures, there CLEF PUBLISHING HOUSE ELMER B. FUCHS musicology. Department “Believing as I th e sheer mathematical is a waste not only just so much in a short period, as 370„n Lewisi Avenue. for high school students. do, I am often study 24-1 8 36th STREET LONC ISLANDCITY, N. Y. Brooklyn, N. Y. why the asked and grouping of time but also of energy. American composer of intervals—to the What is thirty minutes pass very quickly Special one-week Unit has not more Courses in all branches of music e ted greater values. They important is the fact that such when an entire week’s practice must See THE SUPER A and music himSelf as cons realized, as did •Team to play the education. H Picuously ascal, repetitions afas hash? his interpretive that ‘The heart tend to cause the player be reviewed and the following week’s ACCORDION BY MAIL! 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The playing the work so irresistible. Beethoven is a compo- Then! is perfect. The Four Score—and 1 Instructor cl One of Our Three Motor Organs one with re- sition that grows on (Continued from Page 348) perform- Fretted Instruments peated hearings, and this substantiation of ance is a far finer speak of feeling I do not mean than any other AMERICAN its essential merits university sentimentalism; I mean the honest, on records. 1 CHICAGO sincere reflection of what goes on in major., Op. Beethoven: Sonata in E-flat Guitar Recordings and Flamenco hearts — the universal all human Jascha Heifetz (violin) THE SCHOOL OF 12, No. 3; CONSERVATORY over- heart beat, the great human (piano). Victor and Emmanuel Bay eor9' C. JCU tone, without which the finest array \f set 852. Htusic of tonal forms remains just so many Marcel (Trio) , Debussy: Sonata No. 2 offers accredited courses in Piano, WONDERED guren recordings in Album A- 118 marks on music paper. Voice. E HAVE OFTEN e^MUSIC (harp), Moyse (flute), Lily Laskine Violin. Organ, Public School Music, students are suf- Standard Guitar Selections and “I that our young moderns if all guitar hope set Harmony, and Orchestral Instruments. 56th SEASON Merckel (viola) . Victor CHICAGO become the and Alice ficiently wide awake to take Albums A 174—A 186, both contain- will not let themselves Confers Degrees of B. M„ A. B„ and W 873 of slaves of ‘modernism’! I know they M. M. advantage of the many recordings ing Latin American Folk music. was not Accredited courses in piano, vocal, violin, organ and all other branches of It is a pity that Mr. Bay available. num- have warm human feelings like all Distinguished faculty including guitar music now A Music and Dramatic Art leading to himself more in this Virtuoso Recordings bit urged to assert inquiries regarding this of us. Perhaps they are just a ARTHUR C. BECKER ber of recent performance (as he did in the recent MUSIC ashamed to show it. Only a slight subject leads us to believe that Of special interest are seven double DEGREE—BACHELOR OF early SERGEI TARNOWSKY Brahms sonata) for in this to found in the Decca MASTER OF MUSIC push in the right direction is needed MME. MARIA KURENKO guitarists are more and more begin- face records be DEGREE— of Beethoven the custom of to encourage them to free themselves sonata realize that in their efforts classical section. Miguel Llobet is RICHARD CZERWONKY ning to State Illinois the eighteenth century is still ob- Under Authority of from technical preoccupations and WALTER KNUPFER to master their chosen instrument here represented with a Bach, Sa- suave tone is most allow their hearts to speak through served. Heifetz’s recognized rabande; Canciones Mexicanas by of national and A Division of Drenau College SAMUEL A. the study of recordings by Unsurpassed faculty of artis. instructors, many persuasive, and he plays with fine in- LIEBERSON All branches of music. Distinguished fac- music. When they do this, our na- play a most important Ponce, Estudio and Andantino by Sor, international reputation. Preparation for artists should ulty. Splendid equipment. sight. The Dept, of Drama oilers a 3-year Course careers as teachers or performers. tional progress will be even brighter/’ part, as this helps them materially Etude brilliante by Coste and “Three Symphony orchestra. Choral club. Military radio, opera and teaching posi- Of the three instrumental sonatas Address Registrar for Thorough preparation for concert, band. Vested choirs (a capella and accom- Bulletin their technic and develop Guitar Duets” played by Miguel '). to perfect tions. Weeklt recitals, lectures, school of opera, training in students’ Smaller vocal and string ensemble which Debussy wrote in his last year, units. Performance of two operas. Frequent DePAUL to present the better type Llobet and Maria Luisa Anido. There symphony orchestra, bureau for securing positions. student recitals. Public school music. Course UNIVERSITY the ability the present one is the most dignified. In conducting. Opportunities for hearing Room 401, 64 E. Lake Street, Chicago. in musicianly are also listed several recordings by concert artists. RL of guitar music a The work is rhapsodic and elegant, Moderate rate for board and room in virtuoso, Luise ^ t manner. To get the full benefit, a the Viennese guitar College Dormitory on 350-acre campus. Musical Results distinguished for its tonal coloring SUMMER MASTER SCHOOL DEGREES: B.Mus. ind fl.B. with major in mm. record should be played slowly at Walker; Schubert’s Serenade and a For catalog, address: rather than its thematic ideas. Three ( Continued from Page 291) quality also Minuet and BRENAU CONSERVATORY first in order to listen to the Minuet by Weber, Three Summer Sessions— May 14 to June 21, OX M-4 GAINESVILLE eminent French musicians here give GEORGIA of tone produced. Note carefully the Allegretto from Boccherini’s “Quintet it a brilliant performance, and the -SMOPOLITAN June 25 lo August 5 and August 6 to September 16 daughters, Eve Curie (pronounced phrasing and expression, clearness No. 3” by Luise Walker with String recording brings out all the hues and Ev Key-ray) is well, in SCHOOL OF , known Amer- MUSIC this list of tone in rapid scale passages and Quartet. Another record in Special Summer Courses in Public School Music, School of Acting, tints of SHIRLEY GANDELL. M.A., Oxford ica as a pianist. She often Debussy’s harmonic and tonal flORTH PARK COLL£G£ has spoken University. England, President sonority in full chord progressions. is by the guitarist, Miguel Borul, Children’s Musical Training (Robyn System!, Oxford Piano Course palette. 38th year. Accredited. Of her untiring labors in acquiring Offers courses E. Clifford in all branches of Music. Certificates, If this is done patiently and per- Danza Gitana and “Variaciones por Chausson: Concerto in D major, diplomas and degrees. Toren, high interpretative facility. Op. 21 Desirable board- Member of the National Association of Schools of Music 50th ing accommodations. Located In down- sistently, a student will soon notice Granadinas,” also one containing Director The delightful English humorist, Jascha Heifetz (violin), J. M. San- town musical center. Year Box E, 306 S. Wabash Ave.. Chicago. a great improvement in his own per- Mazurka and El Vito by Regino Sainz Send for free catalog. Address John R. llattslaedt. President Jerome K. Jerome, wrote in Three roma (piano) and the Musical Art Quartet. formance. It is an indisputable fact de la Maza. Trains students for active musical careers in Men in a Boat, “I like work; it fasci- Victor set M-877. that the guitar reproduces beauti- “Spanish Guitar Center,” of their chosen field. Progressive faculty. Conserv- Among Chausson’s few works The AMERICAN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ator/ occupies own building. Piano, nates me. I can sit and look at it for this INSTITUTE OF voice, nFTDAIT fully, and the growth in the number New York City, offers ten double face violin, cello, reed and brass instruments, church hours.” The trouble with many un- sextet ranks highly. Thematically it MUSICAL and choral music, theory, music education and UEillfUIl ART six 577 Kimball Hall, Chicago, 111. is distinguished of guitar recordings in the past few records by Guillermo Gomez and expression. Fall semester begins September 16. successful people is that they spend and in at least one DR. FRANCIS L YORK, Chairman years is quite remarkable. Among the by Francisco Salinas, most of which Write E. CLIFFORD TOREN, Dir. too much time looking at work and movement, the first, it achieves a DR. EDWARD B. MANVILLE, President 3201 Foater Avenue, Chicago, IllinoiA. Member of the Victor Seal records we find these compositions by Spanish not enough striking loftiness of purpose and de- National Association of Music 8chools. Red consist of hours in doing it. While Founded 1897. All branches of Music and Dramatic Art. School of Sacred Music. Faculty made by Andres Segovia; “Fandan- and South American writers. One of much of failure is sign. Its slow movement is deeply of 70 artists. Accredited due to misdirected Teachers' Certificates. Diplomas and Degrees. guillo and Preludio” by Torroba; the most interesting personalities in HEIDELBERG COLLEGE effort, remember that many of the felt and highly individual. H. B. MANVILLE, Business Manager Gretchaninoff 52 Putnam, Detroit, Mich. Tremolo Study and Etude in A major the guitar world is Vicente Gomez. CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC fine creators have literally produced : Twelve Songs; Maria TIFFIN, OHIO by Tarrega; Mozart- performer of the QLfhflanbJnHlitutp nf(Dufitr mountains of works which never Kurenko with- the composer at the ‘‘Theme Varie” As composer and Dogreo courses In Piano. Voice, Violin, Organ, Sor; Theory and Public School Music. have become piano. Victor set 862. Canzonetta by Mendelssohn- music in the motion picture “Blood Outstanding worthy of great con- Confers Bachelor of Music Degree, Master of choir. Expense moderate. Catalog on request. BALDWIN-WALLACE Music Degree, Artist Diploma sideration. Once we complimented A famous exponent of Gretchan- Tarrega; Vivo and Energico by Cas- and Sand” he has become famous H. R. BEHRENS; Director CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Faculty of Nationally Known Musicians the great Thomas Edison upon his inoff’s songs gives us a delightful re- telnuovo-Tedesco; Mazurka and Valse throughout the English speaking BEREA, OHIO (suburb of Cleveland) BERYL RUBINSTEIN, Director, 3411 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio cital by Ponce, is still in his hundreds of successes and the aged here with the composer at Affiliated with a first class Liberal Arts College. Fandanguillo by Turina; countries and since he the Four M1LLIKIN CONSERVATORY piano. and five year courses leading to degrees. Faculty Gavotte, OF MUSIC inventor replied, ‘‘For every success of Artist Teachers. Send for catalogue or Informa- Prelude, Fugue and Courante late twenties a most successful career DECATUR, ILLINOIS tion to: there have been a thousand failures.” Brahms: Wiegenlied; and. by Bach. All of these were recorded seems assured to this unique artist. Staendchen; ALBERT RIEMENSCHNEIDER. Dean. Berea. Ohio SOUTHWESTERN CONSERVATORY OF FINE ARTS Otfer* thoro trainingin music. Courses leading to Lotte Lehmann (soprano) by that incomparable artist, Segovia. His remarkable technic and sound Chartered- Dallas, Texas Bachelor of Music Degree. Diploma and Certifi- . Columbia Teachers Certiflcales- cate in Piano. Voice. Violin, Organ. Public SchooL disc 17300: Julio Martinez Oyanguren has re- musicianship enable him to present Aceredited Clyde Jay Garrett, Director Degrees Music Methods and Music Kindergarten Methods FACULTY OF cently classical THIRTY-FIVE ARTIST-TEACHERS Bulletin signed a contract with the in recital the best of the sent free upon request BOSTON UN IV. COLLEGE OF Two Summer Terms: June 1-July 11 and July 13-August 22 Dunn.ng Normal June 10-July 11 under W. ST. CLARE MINTURN. Director Victor Company and so far has guitar literature and in addition he . ... . Mrs. Laud German Phlppen. Peterp , Tkach Cho.r School July 13-2a SMITH Alfred Mlroviteh Plano Mnler Claw June 1-2S. The Best Music “Off COLLEGE MUSIC recorded the Grande Overture Op. 61 has become known as the outstand- Francis MacMillen Violin Master Class June 1-20. A M. degrees, Summer and diplomas. Voice. Piano. Organ, ff rite for folder. Eleanor Hyde, Registrar. School of Music Violin. Cello. Brass. Wind and Percussion instru- by Giuliani and his own “Flamenco ing perfprmer of “flamenco.” During FOR ments. Public School Music. Theory. History of SINGERS t;.° fltfiene the Record’ MEN AND WOMEN £™sic. Musicology. Composition, Church Music. Suite.” the present season Gomez has joined Apprentice Theatre—Now Canting principal* & chorus for faculty, including Boston light A heavy 14th Session, many opera. Broadway, nl*o Mummer Theatre pre- June 22 to Aug. 1 symphony Orchestra members. Cultural opportu- In the Columbia catalog note the celebrated dance team, Veloz and sentations, Producers A Remit* invlteo. (Continued, from Page 300) nme6_ we of_ Boston . Attractive (Also Separate Screen Youngsters' Dept.) Graduate dormitories. Catalog, For terms, Apply Sec'y and undergraduate ^irred II. Meyer, Dean. more Suppe, 1780 B’way. N. Y. Theory, courses in 53 Blagden St., Boston, than two dozen recordings by Yolanda, and the group has been Composition, Musical Literature Musicology School Oyanguren, tour with from Gliere’s third symphony, Music and all branches and these Include compo- booked for a concert ap- which M USiC di8tin Kuished fac- Stokowski ulty Taredl e A Revealing New Book in Two Parts sitions of great variety. pearances in the leading cities of the has recorded in its en- PnS6d“"/f ot Smith Among them, College staH.staff CradLfGraduate College of Fine Arts tirety, course of study leading to PARAGON OF RHYTHMIC COUNTING the “Grand Sonata” Canada. Aside ALEXANDER taking two. sides where M.A degree. by Ferdinand Sor United States and RAAB the Certificate in Music P?dagoir^ Academic credit erantod Ri FOR ALL RHYTHMS deserves Syracuse University latter took one. 1 special mention, the classical and flamenco by BMVeekly as this is from faculty andstuitents? PARAGON OF HARMONIZING one ac l* e lor Haydn: Quartet in of the greatest selections Gomez also performs CHICAGO • ® of Music C major, Op. compositions for SUMMER 54, No. For applied fo CLASSES 1CC5 • bulletin address 0 Master of Music 1; Budapest guitar, and his cre- String Quartet. Victor Arthur FOUR KINDS OF HARMONIZATIONS the recording shows dance compositions of own Piano, Piano Teacher Training, Voice, W. Locke, Director set 869. Hoorn Send for explanatory circular Oyanguren at his best. Other inter- ation for the dance numbers. The TEN WEEKS Violin, Organ, Cello, Harp, Composition, 2, Sag, Hail Northampl.n, STARTING JUNE 10th Beethoven: Man. EFFA ELLIS PERFIELD esting Public School Music Quartet in F major, Op. . „ items by the same artist are recordings which he has made for f— 86th St. (Park Ave.) New York City All the advantages of a large University. Special 135; Budapest String Quartet. Colum- Capricho Arabe and several preludes the Decca Company display his won- dormitory, with 35 practice pianos for women Mr. RAAB will hold his music bia set 489. GREENSBORO by CHICAGO CLASSES in his own students, 5 pipe organs COLLEGE Tarrega; Elegie by Massenet; derful skill, and they should be in The attractive School of RIVERDRIVE Serenade Studio at SUMMER SESSION—July 6 to Aug. 14 little Haydn quartet Music SCHOOL OF MUSIC & ARTS by Schubert; Gavotte by the record library of every guitar the FINE ARTS BUILDING For bulletin is a thing Greensboro, N. address of joy from beginning to C. 84 Riversiiie Drive Rameau; “Sonata in A major” by enthusiast. The three albums A-17, Dean H. L. BUTLER end. Thematically Mark Hoffman, Dean New York For further information uirite it is neither pre- City Cimarosa; Waltz in A major Op. 16 A-60, and A- 117 are devoted to his Room 3 5, College of Fine Arts tn 08I>he re. FREDERICK G. Director tentious nor astounding; B°1L ! KOEHLER, by Syracuse, N. Y. what Haydn a^WcSS! Tma R " Brahms; Allegro and Rondo by own compositions and music from Alexander Raalt. 2516 music, 1 Dormitories Warring Str., Berkeley, does with his Tm Mentor iSSonaf pu 11 Calif. material is _MUSIC. AiMeuti'lllon ji! SUMMER SESSION Aguado; what makes Write 0r bulletin ”2! Sth °°ls of and a number of shorter other Spanish composers. Album "nd e* Students may J enter at any time. pieces Chicago phone—“SUPerior 5664” 330 catalogue and information address Secretary by Spanish composers. A-265 contains selections from “Blood The Decca catalog offers Oyan- (Continued on Page 352) THE ETUDE MAY, 1942 35 :

on a raid up the Com- Recordings and of producing Negro troops Guitar The Vibrato: How It Is Played and Taught secret to the success South Carolina, re- prepared in bahee River, in A Challenge Id this effect is in being seven hun- sulting in the capture of Flamenco advance. bondmen who were bellows action dred and fifty for Woodwind Instruments Accordionists The reason that the camp. 351) over to the Union (iContinued from Page the middle of the brought must be reversed in fellow Ne- MERLIN Page 349) she and her ( Continued from arrow Once when first measure, (indicated by by the Gomez Colonel, James and Sand” played ( Continued from Page 347) the groes and the white signs) is that the beginning of these vocal choruses. for knowledge is power. We sincerely Montgomery, were helping Quintet with second measure must be accented, hope that ambitious accordionists all aboard gunboats Carlos Montoya is another flamenco easily slaves to climb give these and distinct accents are more effect recordings are to be over the country will which had gone up the river to artist and his produced when the bellows are being first-chair oboists) is to use a com- Following are some of the things to matters some thought and try to and perform other mili- found in Album A-197. a closed position than the rescue throat and diaphragm vi- avoid in vibrato their lesson schedules for two opened from song bination double tary operations, Harriet sang a when they are fully extended and "Flamenco” or pulsation. One may develop 1. Too wide an extent in the vi- COLLEUE satisfaction bration lessons a week. What a fr* frppHmpn: are ready for the return action. The diaphragm or breath vibrato by brato pulsation: at the end of a year to realize that “You cannot play guitar a la fla- the prog- fifth and sixth measures show the pronouncing foo-oo-oo-oo as he there has been twice as much creation in the menco unless you have it and feel it as the first and Of all the whole CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC formerly was the case. same bellows action breathes into the instrument in a ress as East or in the West inside,” said Vicente Gomez to the not always second, and we believe that accor- pulsating rhythm. One cannot Additional lessons do is the recent conversation. slow prac- The glorious Yankee nation writer during a the practice time neces- dionists can benefit greatly by a great deal of success at first, mean that best. as far as the sixteenth expect these measures so they de- greatest and the It dates back A professional music school in an attractive sarily must be doubled, because there ticing feeling for it may develop after Come along! don’t and ever since has been the but a good velop skill in manipulating the Come along! century of the National is a wealth of musical knowledge close application. The throat may be college town. (Member be alarmed; means of expressing the folk music which can be learned without work bellows when such effects are in- combination with the dia- Schools of Music.) to give and exciting used in Association of dicated in the music. Uncle Sam is rich enough with its complicated at the instrument. phragm by pronouncing huh-huh- 2. Too slow a rate of pulsation: have been urging you all a farm. rhythms of Andalusia and other instruction for carefully selected For sometime we will at first be either too Thorough of Spain. To hear huh, which Bellows Reversal for Certain Effects accordionists to be more careful southern provinces artist teachers. fast or too slow, and will sound very students in all branches of music under when playing legato passages. We Such was the spiritual: an expres- one of the modern flamenco players We have been asked to explain why harsh. It may take six months or bad Special training in hand and choir direction. find them particularly careless in sion of the Negro’s vital experience. and see him in action, he seems to some accordion music is marked for produce any really satisfac- could go through every major his right more to the bellows in the the playing of measures like the One have a dozen fingers on Write for catalogue describing Ohcrlin’s conservatory the reversal of tory vibrato tone in this manner, but experience of Harriet Tubman and of full chords measure. The answer is third and fourth in our musical hand. The strumming middle of a the beginner should not be discour- courses and its superior equipment (200 practice example. There are two reasons for find that she expressed her victories with the thumb downward and up- ! that it is done to produce an effect results will be worth it. rooms, 23 modern organs, etc.). Degrees: Bachelor of in songs: songs that are now known finger, aged— intended by the composer. The in- this. The first is that the fingering is ward with first or second the 3. is often produced Irregularity: spirituals. Harriet Tubman’s The flute vibrato Music, Bachelor of School Music; .Master of troduction to the overture “Imperia,” often ignored and another fingering to us as use of all the fingers with a back- in much the same way, but is usually substituted which hinders rather magnificent life is not only the key to hand stroke, drumming on the strings Music, Master of Music Education. a faster and more vibrant vibrato than aids in a legato style. The sec- American Negro music but to the whole near the bridge, varied by the most bad than that of the oboe. This is prob- Frank 11. Shaw, Director, Box 552. Oberlin, Ohio. ond reason is that the duration of Negro experience itself. Through her rapid scale passages, gives one the ably due to the extensive use of the time is not observed and there- we see that music was an expression impression of a full orchestra higher range of the flute. fore the lower notes are not sustained of the Negro’s struggle and not of his g°°tarantas, tien- ing and although they modern music. Music of all, and most teachers may seem was a means, a tos, alegrias, do not ad- burlerias, peteneras, 5. Too much rigidity. unimportant, they are really vitally leverage, a shrewd resort; vocate its use, although Mr. Gustav it was a fandanguillos and also the tangos so because they enable the accordion mask for the real Negro who was, Langenus, the eminent clarinet and guajiras played a la flamenco. 6. Not enough intensity. PEABODY CONSERVATORY to enter the musical world as an beneath the melody, thinking, teacher of New York City, does men- plan- These are the dances and songs A\pa^ji|gjre/ Baltimore, Md. instrument of fine interpretation ning and advancing. Such tion it in his clarinet method. The things to work for, on the other was the played by the Gypsies and humble A slight rather than one that merely pro- spiritual’s meaning in origin and throat vibrato (at times quite fast) hand, are a refinement of the vi- REGINALD STEWART, Director folks as well as by the greater artists. duces combinations of sound. such is its significance when the does enhance many tones and gives brato, control of vibrato for different During the last century Patino and Pietro Deiro will answer questions Robesons, the Andersons and the them needed intensity for accent and musical effects, and a complete nat- Poco el de Lucena were recognized as Recognized as the leading endowed musical, conservatory of about accordion playing. Letters Maynors sing these chants to-day. expression. When the clarinet uralness so that the vibrato does not the outstanding flamenco exponents. vi- should be addressed to the country. him in care brato is used at all it is usually a nat- seem labored, but an inseparable part Among the modem artists, Vicente of The Etude, 1712 Chestnut Street, ural one; cultivated of the tone production. Gomez, Carlos Montoya, Mathilde to the extent as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Thomas Britton, on other instruments The instrumental teacher who can Cuerras and Nino Sabicas deserve it would cer- tainly sound poor. successfully demonstrate a vibrato the “Small- Co at Man” special mention. SUMMER SESSION It may be argued that the vibrato on one of the woodwind instruments Even now it is impossible to find a ( Continued, from Page should be used only in should be able to teach students to Staff eminent European “General” Tubman, Com- 302) published “Method” or other tech- solo passages, of and American masters in all grades but we find nical exercises that it is used in all kinds use a vibrato on other instruments. and branches. dwelling, showing the right poser of Spirituals removed all trace of the of ensemble In case of high school a brief excerpt of which is hand combinations, whenever students it is shown morning’s system used by flamenco play- occupation from his per- the player feels the usually better that the student avoid here, provides a good example of ers; one artist claims need of it. Unison ( Continued, from Page son, and spent that because 344) the evening either in the use of vibrato entirely rather SPECIAL COURSES such measures. The bellows manipu- of its many intricate strokes and practicing on the viol da gamba, much lation is the only means by the or various vibrato in one or all of the in- than to overuse it, as the vibrato which journey to the Heavenly Canaan,” in complicated rhythms, fla- as studying the books and struments, PUBLIC Dr. accordionist can denote tonal shad- MSS.^ of menco and, of course, we would sometimes will come naturally with SCHOOL METHODS— ernest G. HESSER one of Harriet’s biographers said. which, cannot be reduced to musical during his long life, he not expect ing. When a fortissimo is desired it con- notation, twenty-four clarinets in a growing maturity and greater ex- Harriet Tubman’s use of song was trived to and can only be learned GROUP INSTRUCTION in PIANO olga e. prigge amass a very valuable col- band to develop — is necessary, in order to produce it, as extensive as her work by listening and being a vibrato. It may be, perience on the part of the player. for her lection. His house (originally shown in per- however, to send a large amount of air into a stable) son. that in certain types Teacher and student alike cannot GROUP INSTRUCTION in and people, and she gave seventy years or was divided However, several of the pub- of WIND STRINGS—Robert bolles into two stories, of which music this the bellows at one time. The first more out of a centenarian’s lished solos by effect would be desirable ignore the psychological approach as life to the lower served Vicente Gomez con- These courses are designed measure of the as a storehouse for or pleasing to meet the requirements of State Boards accrediting musical example the cause of her people’s tain some flamenco —the proof would lie in well as the physical—the sort of advance. his coal, while the upper made passages with the Summer School work. shown begins fortissimo so three Probably the most a long explanatory experimentation. thing one might call development of celebrated achieve- narrow room, so text, and the recordings things must at low that a tall man The actual Special occur the identical ment of her life, one already use of the vibrato is the “esthetic sensibility.” courses in French, German and Italian. that may well could scarcely stand mentioned give one a clue up moment. The right upright in it. In hand piano key be the envy of any white to this fascinating ° Performer ’s particular taste, There is no patent path to the American this rude concert-room style of guitar Tu Tl ITION 820 to $35 according and the bass button must be played woman, he was ac- and he can best develop to study. was her leadership of an im- customed, playing. Perhaps the day that taste by mastery of the vibrato—it must come every Thursday will come is ening Practise pianos and simultaneously while the bellows are portant military evening, when to as many fine organs available. engagement in the to entertain one of the talented players will string and as a combination of application of being given his friends with intel- ocai an abrupt pull. If any Department of the South. find a way soloists as he can, as the basic principles mentioned here, circulars mailed Even dur- lectual conversation to make it possible for well as FREDERICK R. HUBER, Manager one of these three actions is and the best artists on a ing this affair Harriet struck students to his own instrument, of carefully guided experiment, up a chamber music that acquire at least a funda- so that and moment late the effect is ruined. The song. London could ne may have Arrangements for classes now being made. She had led three hundred mental knowledge of some standards of eval- of intangible but omnipresent musical produce.” this interesting uation phase of of his own results. 352 guitar technic. sense. MAY, THE ETUDE 1942 353 ) ) . . . ^ .

is the singer s of Ali-Baba? I have concluded, now, Singer in human message. It Popular Woman Radio message out and that it is the Confederate raider, the The Most task to search this ‘blues’ song can S.S. Alabama, which is known to have give it back again. A well as a put into Table Bay, long ago! The (Continued from Page 315) hold essential sadness as by Schubert. I am not implying nostalgic mystery of the Malay song, Another song expressed in the though, makes it sound like anything SOLOS that the sadness is PIANO bull’s eye of NEW should hit a clear, it is there. The but a battleship. SHERWOOD’S one instrument makes pure way; only that OF reuser Co. orchestra and same Added to the Catalog of Theodore P can detect tonality, and I work at the tune not interpreter, then, discovers Another quaint song is the Train toe least slip in pitch, I intelligent DISTINGUISHED the pitch merely to learn it but to make it sec- and tries, in com- to Kimberley. If you, as a stranger, the instrument and correct this note of sadness UP-TO-DATE STUDY, RECITAL, trans- ond nature. Next comes rhythm, the to respond to it, to hear the words, they will mean little ATTRACTIVE AND bv ear I make all necessary plete sincerity, ARTIST-TEACHERS heart-beat of every composition. real human sym- to you. In Afrikaans, they are, “O AND RECREATION MATERIAL positions by ear. The re-create it, to voice I average listener, I think, is conscious- stimulate a like Tante Sara, met jou bloekom blare,” “Now for the responsibility side! pathy with it, to of rhythm only literally, is, r MYRA KINC, STANFORD approach my singing ly aware when it is in the hearts of those who which, translated “O ADLER , know that I sympathy P. Marhius Paulsen Elves in the Moonlight (27204)(Or. 2 )4) .30 Little Btiuirrel* ami Chipmunks equipment from that marked, like maich or waltz time, If you have a religious song to Aunty Sara, with your blue-gum 25 Waltzing in Old Vienna (27231) (Gr. 3) .35 with a different listen. (27181) Kir. 1 The singer, however, must go leaves.” What does that signify? co-workers and this, naturally, deeper sing, try to find and to experience the Violin, and conductor of ARNOLD, IIVCII KI.OIIR. JOHN N. of my Artist Teacher of Shoulder to Shoulder (30849) (Or. 3). .50 the alert. My than this, he must establish the pulse of religion. If you are in- Quite simply, it means that when the the Ten Step (27187) (Or. S) 30 keeps me constantly on exaltation Sherwood Orchestras. Composer of LANE, VERNON whether of a ‘blues’ of the song. Never must it be allowed a love song, think how it first trains began to run to the great opera, Cimbrians; premiere in Copen- BACH, JOHANN S. performance, terpreting The Hindu Dance (27190) (Gr. 3) 30 to lag, 01 run ahead, 01 deviate in diamond center of Kimberley, there Philadelphia Gavotte (27214) (Or. 2)4) 25 classic ballad, must be any feels to love and give that feeling hagen, overture performed by Serenade Mexhtame (27232) (Gr. 5)4) -30 song or of a the beat that shortage fuel, fire- Bisphatn Medal for White Sails (27245) (Gr. 8%) 35 better worked out and freer of fault way from gives life to back in your singing. That is what we was a of and the Symphony. Winner of song. Even opera. LONDON SUITE LAURENS, EDMUND than that of the musician who rea- the when measures are mean by sincerity of interpretation. men used the wood and the branches best American liy William Haines Siesta (Gr. 5) .25 accelerated, or slowed (27142) sons out his effects. I must never let up, the inner The secret is to live your song as part and leaves of the blue-gum tree. Instruction from eminent artist-teachers is available to talented students Cantering (27167) (Or. 3) ..25 LISZT, FRANZ rhythmic pattern must not life, Since the train affectionately people down. For these reasons, I be al- of your life. Exactly as in you was at Sherwood. Degree courses in all in- (Gr. .25 from the beginning of their studies Elephant Pranks (27169) 3). Hungarian Dance (27216) (Gr. 2). .25 the scholarly lowed to vary. first what you are feeling called “Aunty Sara,” and since, dur- music, conducting, theory, and composition. Fun at the Fair (27170) (Or. 3). .25 work quite as hard as must know struments, voice, public school MATHIS, JULES ing run, the leaves of the blue- . in her Mayfair Town (27108) (Gr. J) . .25 singer, even though I work in a and you must be absolutely honest Sherwood's low-cost Slimmer Courses, June 22 August 1. Dutch Windmills (27173) (Gr. 3). 35 Creating the Mood Enroll now for different way. your expression. Only then can you gum swayed out of the fireman’s box, all-expense estimate. 412 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. MENDELSSOHN, FELIX Ask for RAINES, WILLIAM “Though I spared the task of “In third place comes enunciation, the hearts of others. the seemingly outlandish words take Reverie (27220) (Gr. 2) .25 am reach (Or. ))••• .35 Pierrette Dances (27130) learning my songs, beyond hearing It is important that the audience “As a parting bit of advice to am- on native meaning and color. That is BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN MOORE, DONALD L. repeating them, I work inten- should understand every syllable of youngsters, make up your the charm of all of our Afrikaans Afternoon on the Green (27189) (Gr. 1) .35 and bitious ( Music School Allegro con Brio (27235) (Or. 3)4). . .40 every word. Only then can they songs, they be food-songs On Tiptoe (27219) (Or. 2) 25 MOZART, WOLFGANG A. sively at their projection and inter- grasp minds to work, work, work. Don’t try whether MUSIC INSTITUTIONAL MEMBER OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS OF BENNETT, ALEXANDER Sleepy Time (27223) (Gr. 2) 25 pretation. I try to penetrate to the the meaning of the song and follow to sing in public until you have been (like Onions and Potatoes, which tells Dancing Party, The (27191) (Or. 2 >4) .35 O’NEIL, RONALD core of each song, to discover what it the shades of emotional meaning be- assured by competent judges that us that he who peels is certain of BIZET, GEORGES Voice of Spring (27126) (Gr. 4) 35 has to say to people. With that pic- hind it. Enunciation should be clear your powers are strong enough to his meals!), or lullabies (like Siem- OF MUSIC . . -JUILLIARD SCHOOL Castanet Dance (27212) (Or. 2)4). .25 OVERHOLT, CHARLES E. ture in mind, then, I try to build up without being exaggerated. It is often reach out to others and move them. bamba, which threatens, humorous- IIHAHMS, JOHANNES Pretty White Sailboat (27185) (Gr. 1) .25 the clearest, most honest way of re- helpful to recite one’s words, in nat- Don’t try to ‘sneak’ auditions by ly, to slap the adored little baby on ERNEST HUTCHESON, President Waits (27225) (Or. 2) 25 READ, EDWARD M. stating the message. I try to hear as ural speech, as though one were re- professional rehearsals and the head peculiar twist of native Happy Hearts (30848) (Gr. 40 haunting —a CHOPIN, FREDERIC F. -i) many different interpretations lating the events or emotions REBE, LOUISE of my of the waylaying people. They are so busy Cape Colored affection!). Chasing Butterflies (27213) (Gr. 2). . .25 CHRISTINE MUSICAL ART songs as possible poem to friend. INSTITUTE OF Tyrolian Echoes (27230) (Gr. 8) 35 —I go to concerts, a This brings two ad- at their own job of rehearsing that Another kind of dance is the “vas- COPELAND, BERNIECE ROSE GEORGE A. WEDGE, Dean study phonograph recordings of the vantages with it; loose, slovenly they can’t pay much attention to you. trap,” or “firm tread” which, though Bed Time (27208) (Or. 1 ) 25 RICHTER, ADA On Christinas Morn (27178) (Gr. 1). .25 eminent singers of to-day enunciation is Bunny Rabbit (27229) (Gr. 1)4) 30 and yester- overcome, and the sig- Apply for an audition and if it is not very popular now, reflects European Individual vocal and instrumental instruction. Classes in Theory, Com- Two Little Neighbors(27165)(Or. 1 *4) .25 First Star (27131) (Gr. 1)4) .30 day (especially do I love niflcance of . . Geraldine the When I (Or. . . words stands Wake Up (27228) 2) .25 In a Sailboat (27164) (Gr. 1)4).. .30 out as granted immediately, try again and rather than native Hottentot activ- position, and all branches of music education. Owl, The (27136) (Gr. 1 )4) .30 Farrar and Frances Alda) and I lis- the foundation for DE COLA, FELIX , the interpretation again and again—making yourself ity. The difference is that, as its title Three Christmas Songs leading to B. S. M. S. degrees in instru- Romance in Vienna (27157) (Or. 4). .35 Courses diploma and and (27198) (Gr. 1)4) .35 ten attentively to the radio. I do not of the song. In nearly all cases, the ready, in the meanwhile, to be fit implies, the vastrap is danced with singing, and public school music departments. FEDF.RER, RALPH W'ind’s Song, The (27206) (Gr. 2). .30 go to mental, night clubs as they hold no at- words set the mood and meaning; for your chance when it comes.” the feet, which move exactly as they Across the Footlights (27192) (Gr. .35 RUBINSTEIN, -J) ANTON traction for me. Each the music Catalog on request. Full Moon (27201) (Or. 4) 35 interpretation intensifies and embellishes do in a lancers, instead of with the Angelic Dream (27210) (Gr. 2) 25 Prayer (27180) (Or. 5) 35 brings a new point of view; some re- them. That is why it is wise to begin swaying body. 120 Claremont Avenue, York Song at Midnight (27234) (Gr. }) .35 SAAR, LOUIS Room 122, New VICTOR veal errors in my own conception— interpretive work with a thorough Like of the FORREST, SIDNEY Toccatina (30838) (Gr. 4 ) 50 the words, the music others serve as object-lessons study Mister Frog’s Morning Swim SCHER, WILLIAM in what of the words. Music of the African Bushveld songs is extremely simple, (27188) (Or. 7 >4) .25__ not to do! In all cases, I “In Bagpipes (27233) (Gr. 3) .25 measure my fourth place, then, comes the of rhythm, often reflect- Two Little Towheads (27207) (Gr. 1 .25 marked and ) Danse Hongroise (Gr. (27177) 3). . .35 own work against my ideal musical FRANCK, CESAR of what interpretation itself. That is, Bushveld ing the sturdy melodic pattern of SCHUBERT, FRANZ that song should be, criticising, the O Holy Bread of Heaven com- mood or feeling of the song must Dutch, Swedish, or German ancestry. Intermezzo (Gr. . (27200) (Gr. (27217) 2)4). . .25 paring, altering, (Continued from Page 346) 8) .25 correcting, quite as be crystallized and carried over to the SCHUMANN, I am delighted to note the unmis- EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC GALLUP, MINER ROBERT though I were W ALDEN two separate persons, hearts as well as the ears of the takable growth of interest displayed Romance (27221) (Gr. 2)4). . songs and wished to hear some. In In Merry Mood (27182) (Or. 3 .25 .25 one who sings and one who judges, listeners. The first requisite in cap- here in the songs of my native land. GANSCIIOW, THEODORE SMITH, JOHN STAFFORD all innocence, I sang my arrange- of turing this essential feeling is com- Heigh-Ho! Away We Go Star-Spangled Banner An Individual "Method" ment and translation of Gertjie (a Both my album of songs and my (27261) (Or. (27152) (Gr. 1 1)4) .25 Plete sincerity. Public is Vi) .25 .1 . . performance “T om q q .3 f „ boy’s name, pronounced Ker-kee) series of records have warranted STAIRS, LOUISE E. d e Plai m meth0d GLUCK, C. W. VON a curious thing! Its ultimate result is The University of Rochester of on pm-,H t /-z No “repeat” editions of new programs, Chipmunks (27248) (Gr. 1) 25 work— n ^ sooner had I finished, when the Ballet Music (27211*) (Or. 2) 25 Dreamy iS aC ~ e^ect~^e effect on the hearers of Daisies (27227) (Gr. 2) 25 ceoted sinmlv ns rlv° f gentleman became very angry and and our broadcasts seem to attract Jolly Cobbler, The (Or. 1 Sy em Howard Hanson, Director HANDEL, GEORGE F. (27139) 2). . .25 and song and singer. Yet any conscious On a Winter Day (27176) (Gr. not as list /f asked the curiosity of all kinds of people, Gavotte in B-flnt 1)4). .25 a of rnlesT*‘°r what sort of trick I was try- Raymond Wilson, Assistant Director (27215) (Or. . . others 2). .25 On Venetian Waters (27205) (Gr. 3 MyJ striving after eiiect 14) .35 firsf 0 ; effect means rum!ruin! Theine from all parts. The Bushveld That Turkey GobbIer(27162)(Gr. annrficmh ing to play upon him—because the music HAYDN, FRANZ J. 1)4) .26 S°ng t0 moment the singer says to himself, is well worth investigation. It is Summer session Sabbath Morn STEVENS, MILO listen to it as q f opening bars of the song, note for such June 22-August 15. RCA Victor has released seventeen com- (27222) (Or. 2) 25 P 6 ‘ ° f Here is a dramatic-or ten- Glider and the Gull, The verses Ind sad, or note, not too difficult for amateurs to have Classes are taught by the regular faculty positions by American composers re- HELLARD, ROBERT A. music m tn T}or followed Just Before the Bat- (27203) (Gr. 2)4) .35 m der—passage; I must and guest instructors. Courses lead to Dolly's aan imnrc.ccinv, '*v,„ ! . make my work tle, a try at it; it opens up an entirely corded by the Eastman-Rochester Or- Bedtime Song (27153) (Or. 3) 25 r Mother, which I had never Little Colonel SWIHAR, VIOLA SLATER Bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctor’s Degree. (27202) (Gr. 3t4). 35 i °r 1 field of folk literature; chestra, Dr. Howard Hanson, Conductor. Playful Lten toli°and ^ heard nor even new and, best Breezes (27181) (Or. Whirligig, The teytoenjoy heard about. My 2)4). . . .40 (27174) (Gr. 3)... .35 fi^henltlen can > he runs the risk caricature. I think about it of theory is of all, it is invariably buoyant, sunny, HOPKINS, II. P. TALBERT, EMMA PETERSON that, during the ’70’s or School th

BHrSI to eight- Patriotism The Junior Etude will Class A, fifteen Music and Class Class A) years of age ; (Prize winner in Club Outline award three worth while Etude een Junior Junior fifteen Class B, twelve to ; American than prizes each month for the What Is more stirring to an Musicians in China (iContinued twelve years. The Star- Street most interesting and C, under hearing a rousing performance of like tne Names of all of the prize Spangled Banner, whose challenge, original stories or essays penetrates Contest their con- challenge of every patriotic song, subject, and winners and true Bn jCiiiie Wj. Jordan Terms on a given deeply into the heart and soul of every tributions will appear on history, for correct answers to patriot? Songs record the nation’s dolce? of The renew our is meant by open to all boys and this page in a future issue singing them, we free Americans, (f) What puzzles. Contest is our whether Etude. The thirty next best contributors pledge to defend the right earned by is a gavotte? girls under eighteen years of age, patri- tune. That is why it is so very neces- (g) What brave forefathers. By arousing people's K ARE QUITE ACCUSTOMED or Cnntpstants will hp o-ivpn a rafinfr n f honorable a Junior Club member otism, songs have turned the tide of our our American concert sary for every music student to study Doodle saved to Musical Program are grouped according to nation’s history. In 1812. Yankee musicians going from place scales. They are as important to a a town from being attacked by the British; W Republic en- composition as a set of THIS in 1861. The Battle Hymn oj the to place, even from one continent to musical bones month’s program, it is SUBJECT FOR MONTH Like last couraged many more enlistments for the order to present their is to your body. idea of opera 1917 Over There boosted the another, in difficult to get a good n Union's cause; in though the Chinese as nothing else could programs to as many different But use a scale playing it on the piano, morale of the soldiers music from ,eic have done; and now in 1942. Remember Pearl possible. But if you were quite different from ours, which, at and voices are j audiences as since the orchestra y Harbor arouses both the civilian and military Pa., not you might be sur- first hearing, may make their music get the melodic at the Junior Etude Office, 1712 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. population to defend their country. visiting in China absent. But you can All entries must be rceeived us, later than May 22nd. Winners will appear in a later issue. In the words of General Pershing. “Wars prised at some of the methods Chi- seem fantastic to composers who the following: Air, from charm in are won by good songs as well as by good to reach their have studied it carefully find in it Ar- — — nese musicians use "Orpheus”; Chaconne, from CONTEST RULES soldiers.’’ beauty. Some American fifty words. M. Kallcikl (Age 15). listeners. real and the Spirits, from 1. Contributions must contain not over one hundred and Josephine mide”; Dance of corner and your addresa in 2. Name, age and class (A, R, or C) must appear in upper left New York Standing a window you might some European composers have even duet ar- than one sheet of paper, no at "Orpheus” (either solo or the upper right corner of your paper. If you need more see little of players and “Iphi- sure to do this on each sheet. A.GEST a group Gavotte, from typewriter. rangement) ; 3. Write on one side of paper only and do not use a the street carry- b- d for you. singers come down 1 in Aulis” (also duet or solo) 4. Do not have anyone copy your work ... genia requested to hold a preliminary contest and to snbmit not more man ing a small carpet. This carpet would “Alceste.” 5. Clubs or schools are a March of the Priests, from six entries (two for each class). eligible for prizes. be spread upon the sidewalk and A 6. Entries which do not meet these requirements will not he X T Also listen to as many recordings Junior upon it the musicians would seat A can. Club Outline of Gluck’s music as you themselves to begin their concert. 0 £ <1. Assignment for May Some of their instruments might Drawing I itles dame strike you as having very queer a By Edna M. Maull shapes. For instance, one shaped like k- Biography Keyboard Harmony return an American banjo at the lower end, Festival Puzzle The class should be divided into Bells of Scotland; the players If you had lived in the eighteenth (h) Sing the tune of London i *X following words wUl spell tables and draw the title, as best has a neck, or stem, longer than a The Initials of the two or more groups, each group to JUNIOR MOZART CLUB century instead of the twentieth you Bridge and clap the rhythm. Under 0 of a festival occurring In May. broom stick. Another player would be the name gathered around a table. Each player they can; the other players guess the Winter Haven. Florida would be must give all words. more familiar with the each quarter note beat, in the first * Answers drawing, the group performing expertly upon a tiny in- h meaning much (In music) is provided with sheet of paper and title from the name of Gluck, as 4 1 . A term he was one of the two measures, play the tonic major composition for solo voices, strument made from half a cocoanut 2. A sacred black crayon. calling the title first scores one point. great opera composers of hr X Music and Patriotism that time. triad (in any key you select) . chorus and orchestra Play shell until all have fitted with strings. A third brass Instrument In a sym- One player from each group goes The game continues (Prize winner in Class B) (a) When and where was Gluck the triad with the right hand and A 3. The largest member of orchestra draw, or for a cer- born? the group would perhaps 0 phony to the leader, who whispers a title of had a chance to add the root in the left hand. In “The Messiah" Through tills period of war there shall be be beating rhythmic 4. Composer of the oratorio of minutes; the group strokes on both a song, opera, and so on, such as tain number In acquisition; (b) What was his full name? the third measure change to the AN EXAMPLE OF CHINESE MUSIC 5. A faint reflected sound an art. one that Is majestic sides of a small drum hung around of measured silence or The Blue with the highest score wins. disposes the evil side of life and illumines the (c) Mention two of his best known NOTATION 6. A symbol Turkey in the Straw, his neck, while Rt'ad from. .upper left-hand earner dozen. 7. Opposite to legato world with brightness, as it thrusts its tones operas. the fiddler’s melodies 7 he English equivalent is the darkness and enrap- ! f J shown below. 8. Composer of the Symphony “From against the clouds of , , would all be flowing Lon. JonJ g \A from two strings. ures the American people to lift their voice Gluck was bnd & ir New World” a modernist in his day, 3 fa It. my But the music itself would 9. term meaning slow in song. and his rival, Piccini, was conserva- probably A 10. A famous Belgian violinist The musicians of our nation have unalter- j J seem to you more strange than the tive and opposed to new ideas. Both J' J* able faith that the strength of music shall fall -my down fall-IYiy down manner in which it was were invited to write an opera to the presented. tried to imitate its effects in their Inspire our nation to march forward in It might patriotism and victory. This momentous art same libretto strike you as just a medley own as a test, so the public dominant work. This, you will agree, is the for who triad; measure four is tonic of outlandish sounds Is greatly loved by Americans, has could decide which was the unless you un- highest compliment not mourned with sad music and rejoiced best again. Finish the tune in similar that any one derstood that the Chinese with bright music? And so It Is with patriotic method to pursue in writing opera. use a scale could pay to the Patriotism manner. Play in good rhythm and music of another Music and music, because one can not hear the drums Gluck’s entirely different from ours. A scale, was considered a master- without country. (Prize winner in Class C) beat in our patriotic music without giving a stumble. as you piece. know, is the set of musical salute to his country. : Dear Junior Etude : (i) The Farmer in the Dell is an- Patriotism is love of one's country, and Dear Jcnior Etcde intervals or steps which must playing the piano very much, and Junior Music Club has such good times Therefore. Americans must open their ears VIOLS but is not in J. Goertz of ; Bernard A. Daly Earli Nancy Jean Noyes; Martha ; Ruby ters from the following : Etoile W. Duval; Dwight sary to press them, but it Robinson ; does make square makers, which HARP; Graham; Norma Jane Reneker; Blblann Maclejewska; Lennlnger; : will be printed Julia Cuth- Shirley Ockenden Nancy Clexton ; Elaine A. Mildred Wat- them smoother. bertson; Sally Payne; son: Ophelia Martinez; My Madison ; Anna in ninth Ruth Jacoby; Eleano; Shannon ; Marian Louise Arnold Dolin; a future issue of the Junior is in BEAT but is not in Ruth Etude. AUwme; Mary Harrington; Kyle: Nellie Johnson: Eleanor Waldron; Fritscne; Doris White; Put them in an envelope and send So, hurry BLOW; Helen McSweeney Carol Vldette Hart- up. Find Grace Betty Timmons : the wool; knit M. Zischkau; Martha Betty Neiszner ; Charlotte man; Laura Anne Hamilton; to the Junior Etude M. Duval; Mar; Elaine Schwet- Office, S. Gierse ; Elinor 1712 one or My tenth is iheresa Lamber; Rees ; Dorothy Ann Tyson ; more squares of four and a in STRING but is not in Patricia Marr; Jeanetti ger; Dorothy Dmohoski; Jane McLeod; Vera Reneker ; Catherine Cox ; Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Campbell; Lorraine Lambert; Roy Cecelia A. Preobrajensky; Dorothy Penn- half inches; send to BOW. Roland Freeh Doyle: Regina Brown; Cora Walter: Esther Okoniewski; Elsa Junior Etude. , Pauline t de Grandpre Charlene Jernigan Wharton; Marianna Gordon; Anne Him- sylvania; and they : will be Pietilo ; George Kasarda Mania Kunstmnnn sewed to- Hurry up. The blankets Reed ; are needed. ; Bette C. Miller; Willian Vivian Proctor Dwight L. Reneker mtngway; Coleman Sutters; Adele Ford; Ratliff; ; ; Barbara Jackie Duncan; Walter Mann; Rose Jean Dye: Hilda Dotson; Rebecca Bardsdule Helen Manners; Irene Gatlin; Emily Rogers; Answerl Tannhauser. mary Abellng. Francis Senn Richard Barrows ; Dorothy White. Vivian Dale. 356 N 2IL K£nB may , 1942 THE ETUDE 35 7 . — . . —

and the form, etc. A por- propriate for the massed band Summer Schools in the leading cities and Tschaikowsky’s beautiful An- oughly analyzed as to nhnnv”- individual school band on the field or in — overflow attendance at the Summer “Fifth Symphony”; and trait of the composer is included. FOR THIS MONTH "One the dante from the audience will not THE COVER are the best evidence Until this work is ready for distribu- the concert hall. The tells Music Camps that placid The Swan. Among Score to Pour Score” concisely Saint-Saens’ publication order only want to join in the music but will serious students seize every opportunity represented will be tion, an advance of may something of the story of Dr. Walter the other composers favorite numbers musical equipment. be placed for a single copy at the cash be able to join in such in pro- to add to their Beethoven, Gluck, and Schumann. Damrosch’s long and active life Bach as “John Peel”, “De Camptown Races”, ALL THE BOYS Realizing this, many private teachers has prepared a fantasy price of 25 cents postpaid. Delivery will moting the art of music in America. Too the arranger and “Yankee Doodle” profitable to organize Easter themes. be made immediately after publication. “In the Gloaming”, treasury of musical memories find it most Sum- Christmas and IN CAMP, AenJ- What a rich each on as led by the members of the band. composer, and mer Music Classes. These classes can be enjoys a nation-wide this renowned conductor, Mr. Kohlmann excellent arrangements of old adults or of juveniles, but STUNTS FOR PIANO, A Very First Exercise Besides pianist can draw upon as he looks back made up of of not only as a composer, reputation, favorites, there are several brand new was high school students, of girls only or of many thousands Book, by Ada Richter-Few books of exer- over the years to the time when he as an organist. The spirit SINGING also with numbers full of the sparkle and OUR portrait on boys. A supplementary course during the at the organ in the cises for piano have been published the young man shown in the who have heard him loved by young appeal to a child’s imagination as of peppy band music as the wall over the piano, as given in the Summer months in history, theory, har- Auditorium in Ocean Grove, N. J., such great distinguished and old alike. The scoring is of note- COUNTRY interesting picture used as mony or music appreciation adds to the this new work by the unique and will attest to this. instrumenta- author of Kindergarten Class Book, My worthy quality—a complete the cover subject for this May 1942 issue. pupil’s interest and aids in his advance- While this fine collection is In prepara- tion’s given for every number. of Dr. Damrosch was born on January 30, ment in his regular course of study- may be ordered now First Song Book, My Own Hymn Book, A Second Volume tion, a single copy in- Sing, and many others. Mrs. Parts for all the principal band 1862 and as early as 1885 was conducting piano, voice, or of some musical instru- low advance of publication cash Play and at the be secured for 20c each, American Ballads such organizations as the New York postpaid. Delivery will Richter’s understanding of piano teach- struments may ment. price of 40 cents only York Sym- ing and her ability to solve while the piano-conductor’s score is Oratorio Society and the New Gather together a class of youngsters made as soon as the book is ready. problems and Folk Songs be post paid per single copy, during phony Society, and acting as assisting some Summer day, using as text material limited to the United States them have established for her a large 30i~ The sale is advance of publication sale. conductor of German Opera at the Met- such fascinating books as James Francis following among piano teachers. the special Collected and Compiled Dr. Damrosch your order now—to enrich your ropolitan Opera House. Cooke’s Young Folks’ Picture History of Scales, arpeggios, pedalling, hand cross- Send conducted the New York Symphony So- technic band library. Delivery will be made as Music ($1.00) with its packet of musical CHILDHOOD DAYS OF FAMOUS COM- ing, and other phases of basic by JOHN A. LOMAX ciety until 1927, and it was in 1928 that book by find- soon as the book comes off press. pictures to cut out and paste in the text POSERS— The Child Mozart, by Loltie Ells- are “sugar-coated” in this and ALAN LOMAX he began conducting the N.B.C. Sym- matter, as Thomas Tapper’s series of Ruth Bampton-Mozart, who ing their parallel in familiar stunts. For worth Coit and Men's phony Orchestra in the Music Apprecia- instance, Broad Jump is leaping about on IN ROBOT LAND—Tn Operetta for Child’s Own Book of Great Musicians of loved music even at the age of three, Songs of the cattle roundups on tion Horn's which were presented weekly Voices, in Acts, by L. E. Yeamans A 20 booklets <20 each) where the pupil, played the harpsichord the keyboard; Running on Tiptoes is a Two net work. For the last if Western ranges, of the lumber camps over a nation-wide light staccato study; Stretch Yourself fantastic city of the future here forms after reading the story and pasting in and “made up his own Louisiana several years Dr. Damrosch has been the Larger background for a very unique and of the Pacific Coast, of Piano teachers and students alike Shorter Compositions; Bach: the pictures, writes his own version of tunes” soon after, is a is an extension of the fingers over a one- the musical advisor for the National Broad- operetta. Two American rice field and levee about two hun- should take advantage of this unusual Compositions; and Chopin: Forty Piano the composer’s biography and then binds fascinating object lesson octave arpeggio; and Relay Race, a run- entertaining — casting Co. collec- themselves stranded in the fifty of them, forming a opportunity at once by ordering a single Compositions. Outstanding song the book (art style) with the needle and young embryo “ar- ning scale passage divided between the fliers find dred and last World Dr. for During the War Dam- (Edited H. of the Robots, which, with the ex- of American folk copy of this book at our special advance tions include: Famous Songs silk cord provided with each copy. The tists” or “composers” hands, one hand following the other. City real cross-section rosch at the request of General Pershing Song Simmith and Miss of publication cash price of 50 cents, E. Krehbiel) (Four Volumes) ; recent additions to this series Sousa, apro- The exercises are short and each is ception of Miss balladry. organized Bands of American Ex- — is the wonderfully the Parker) (Four inhabited entirely by a race postpaid. Classics (Edited Horatio Nevin, and Foster—should be especially pos subject of the first preceded by explanatory text matter. A Johones, is peditionary Forces and, in Chaumont, § virtu- With music, transcribed by Ruth Oratorio Repertoire (Edit- two Americans, Volumes) ; and feature of the book are the clever “stick of supermen. The France, established bandmaster schools. interesting. of a new series of books for musically GRADUATION AWARDS AND GIFTS FOR ed Nicholas Douty) (Four Volumes) drawings illustrating each “stunt”. ally the prisoners of their almost me- Crawford Seeger brilliant young It would take columns to give but brief In the high school age groups the seri- minded youngsters. men” MUSIC STUDENTS-Approaching gradua- Published in High Voice and Low Voice, copies may be ordered for a chanical hosts, have many hilarious ex- American composer! Here, truly, mention of Dr. Damrosch’s many activi- ous study of music history may be under- Well known in the field of music edu- Single tion days bring to mind the need for editions in the “Musicians Library” are: only at our special advance periences before they make good their is a gift for the whole camp that ties and accomplishments throughout his taken with Cooke’s Standard History of cation, the authors of this book have short time T. suitable awards and gifts. The customary Fifty Mastersongs (Edited Henry Music ($1.50) the beginnings of publication cash price of 25 cents, escape, accompanied by the two remain- will continue to “give” for many a long and useful life. Now in his 81st year, ; in har- combined informative yet thoroughly en- will given, Spirituals (Edited diplomas and certificates be Finck) ; Seventy Negro ing women whom they have wooed and he still keeps a busy schedule. mony may be made with Preston Ware joyable reading material with favorite postpaid. month. Only $5.00. of course, but the new graduate’s family William Arms Fisher) ; Modern Russian won. The women’s parts are to be played Although Dr. Damrosch has written Orem’s Harmony Book for Beginners pieces in easy arrangements selected and friends will want to more personally Songs (Two Volumes Each Voice) (Edited with Music male impersonators, and this offers an COMPANY notable major works for the opera stage ($1.25), and music appreciation classes from both early and late compositions THREE LITTLE PIGS, A story by THE MACMILLAN recognize the event. this connection Ernest Schubert: Fifty In Newman) ; and Child excellent chance for comedy. and for symphonic organizations, perhaps may be formed, using as a text book, of the master. Charming illustrations of for the Piano, by Ada Richter—Every 60 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK we suggest the famous Theodore Presser Songs (Edited Henry T. Finck) is not at all difficult and his most widely known musical composi- Clarence G. Hamilton’s Music Apprecia- scenes from the childhood of Mozart will who has heard the story of the “Three The music Co. Service as a “court of first resort”. An Jewelry designed after musical subjects melodies have a widespread tion is his song “Danny Deever”, which tion ($2.50) from the “Music Students be found throughout. An outline of mu- Little Pigs” will be overjoyed to play the the attractive extensive supply of appropriate gifts, de- is always welcome. Pins, pendants, principals will is released literally long has been a great favorite with the Library” series. program possibili- descriptive numbers in appeal. Only eleven be when this work signed sic appreciation and best baritone singers. to satisfy all tastes, is carried on charms, cuff-links, etc., come in various and in addition to numerous thousands of additional musicians will David Bispham in This latter text book also is excellent ties for young people of various ages, is this new hook of “Stories needed his life-time thrilled hand at all times in this establishment. metals to represent violins, lyres, pianos, most his desired advice his audiences on for use in adult classes, for whom many an added feature. This includes listings with Music” series. The choruses, which can be handled have access to much Among the more gifts hundreds of occasions with this popular each sea- drums, mandolins, etc. When engraved fairly large chorus, there pedagogy. low advance of pub- number. teachers recommend Baltzell’s A History of available recordings for the listening music is vividly descrip- effectively by a and The son are books on musical subjects, albums for the recipient, it is urged that orders three duets, and a quartet. cash price is $1.25, postpaid, and of Music ($2.25) as a text on that subject, program and full directions for a pres- tive of the frisky little are four solos, lication of music, musical jewelry, music bags, be placed early. The engraving is done THEMES FROM THE GREAT PIANO CON- William M. 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PIECES THIRTY SECOND-YEAR PIANO PIANO WILMANS edited by WILMAN and students alike. Be- of interest to teachers Here is a collection popular because qualities of its contents, it is sides the recreational are pieces of features. Among its pages of its diverse educational variety. Between its covers are rhythmic interest and dynamic more meditative COLLECTIONS in company with those numbers gay and sprightly and studio use. attractive study, , ^L.r.,1 a ov^piipnt hook for home RECITAL, AND RECREATIONAL MATERIAL AND my week in camp By BERNARD WAGNES5

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