Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 1949 Volume 67, Number 12 (December 1949) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Fine Arts Commons, History Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, Music Education Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, Music Performance Commons, Music Practice Commons, and the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 67, Number 12 (December 1949)." , (1949). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/68 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ETUDE the mu U0SA.1.pr 0 ne Mario Lanza: I Learned to Sing by Accident DECEMBER, 1949 PRICE 30 CENTS J. S. BACH The Old World’s Great Musical Performances NOW FLAWLESSLY ETCHED ON C A P I T O L RECORDS TELEFUNKEN! That name has long Thor Johnson, conductor of ter, who died September 8, at his sounded the note for the great music of the the Cincinnati Symphony Orches- home in Garmisch, Germany, world. Music conducted and performed by tra, has scheduled four world aged 85. premieres throughout the present foremost artists —recorded at all three Peabody Conservatory, in Europe’s season. These will include Eric De Baltimore, began its Chopin Memo- speeds with a fidelity that makes your living Lamarter’s “Cluny”; David Dia- rial Festival on October 21 with mond’s “The Enormous Room”; a great concert hall. an all-Chopin program by the room Aaron Avshalomofl’s Symphony English pianist, Solomon. Later No. 2; and James G. Heller’s masterful in the season Chopin’s two piano For now, Capitol has etched these Rhapsody for Orchestra. In addi- concertos are to be presented by Telefunken performances, as well as other tion, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ the Baltimore Symphony Orches- Concerto for Two Pianos and Or- Long-Playing Microgroove Non- tra. classics, on chestra, and Carlos Chavez’ “Toc- The New Friends of Music breakable 33M rpm Records. Now you may hear cata for Percussion Instruments” opened its fourteenth New York will be given U. 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Giannini’s “Blennerhasset,” will Orchestra performing Ein Heldenleben?— Hear Ernest Bloch’s new “Concerto this season present Vaughan Wil- Symphonic” for piano and or- liams’ pastoral opera, “Shepherds Max Thurn as he directs the Hamburg State chestra, received its first perform- of the Delectable Mountains,” Opera Choir and Orchestra in a thrilling inter- ance on September 3, at the Edin- Kurt Weill’s “Street Scene,” and burgh Festival, with the British Benjamin Britten’s “Albert Her- pretation of Bruckner’s Mass in E Minor, and Broadcasting Corporation Scottish ring.” evening after evening of other soul-stirring Orchestra, directed by the com- New singers announced to be and Corinne Lacomble as performances by the Old World’s musical greats. poser heard with the Metropolitan Opera soloist. The work was given its Company this season include Elisa- British premiere on September 6 betta Barbato, Erna Berger, and with the Philharmonic London Lois Hunt, sopranos; Eugene Ine Orchestra. Conley and Peter Klein, tenors; 1 enchantment of Christmas is piano is higher, but the abiding gloriously mirrored in your child’s advantages are so great that in The Dra-Mu Opera Com- Paul Schoeffler, Ferdinand Frantz, eyes. You can keep that enchant- terms of true value, a Steinway is pany, an all-Negro group which, and Enzo Mascherini, baritones, ment bright by helping her look the most economical of all pianos. for the last four years, has been and Denis Harbour, bass. A new at life through music. And you And you will always have the presenting opera in Philadelphia, conductor will be Jonel Perlea. can start this Christmas — with a satisfaction of having yielded to opened its fifth season on October Steinway. Mary Garden arrived in the your finest impulse. The Steinway’s 24, with an English version of United States on September 28, Is the Steinway the one piano golden voice and magnificent pres- Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffman.” her first visit here since her re- you should buy? 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Steinway Hall, 109 W. 57th Street, Jonas, Kapell, Kitain, Krueger, Landowska, Artur Rubinstein, a tribute to honor the foremost the ninth annual winner of the The initial cost of owning this New York N. Stokowski, Uninsky, and many more. Over 1000 19, Y. Schnabel, Serkin, Stern, music living opera composer, the event Leventritt Award, which carries schools and music departments of leading colleges use the Steinway Illustrated took on the nature of a memorial with it appearances with several is the superb Early American. Terms to suit your individual convenience. Your tribute to the great German mas- leading symphony orchestras. local listed in the classified telephone directory. Steinway representative is STEINWAY THE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS ETUDE DECEMBER 1949 1 HOW MOM AND POP BOUGHT MY NEW PIANO... Composers of today CHOOSE BALDWIN MUSICAL M ISCELLANY By Nicolas Slonimsky Have you ever heard Atauos by course, represented by an ascend- “Eh bien, maestro! Tonight we Lednah? The ing scale or arpeggio. The fall » are playing the second act of ‘Wil- Etius by l Trazom or r >f~>rM When they stopped at the piano store, the dealer physical spiritual, is names of these composers are not or showm by liam Tell.’” “Tout entier?” re- showed them a new kind of spinet piano. an intervalic drop over an Ir delight. to be found in any music diction- octave. Go torted Rossini with feigned back- f is is *- ary, but if you read them r if Ex. 5 wards, you will find that Trazom A young composer sent his first ro geh - en Handel. is Mozart, and Lednah is a - stray published composition to Rossini. Gleich wie der Reg - en und is sonata, and Etius is a appreciation, Rossini sent him a Atanos a Just as tho rain and In suite. An Atauos by Trazom is sim- portrait of himself, inscribed. “To is expressed by alternately ascend- recording of a Mozart sona- equal in musical proficiency.” ply a ing and descending intervals. my As a “Isn’t this ta, re-recorded backwards. Schnee von Him - mol f U lit A friend asked Rossini: result, the cadences become plagal snow from heav • en fall rather strong, maestro?” “Not at Ex. 13 and the whole harmony assumes a all,” replied Rossini. “I really un- fascinating modal character. Mau- derstated the case. Don’t you see, Be -den ke dies: Bald zur rice Hoffman of Manchester, New Now to I no longer compose anything. Think of this: from - sin He had Pop lift one end. What a change Hampshire, manufactures these Ich ver Anyone who writes music is at I am sink our heavy, old upright! “records in reverse” as a hobby. i} least my equal in industry, if not Modern composers might derive my superior.” - zur Lin ken some interesting ideas from such • Recht en, bald * * « the right, now to the left experiments. ir.g in -to deep miro A definition of Relative Minor, # « # as reported in “The Musical Stand- This method of intervalic illus- Lovers of Bach seldom realize Ex. 7 ard” of February 1, 1864: “A tration (which was not invented that besides his greatness as a pretty cousin, aged eighteen.” by Bach hut was adapted by him builder of absolute musical values, * * * from earlier uses) emphasizes the he was an amazing musical illus- It is always a fascinating pas- effective utilitarian technique of trator. In his vocal works, Bach time to trace the original inspira- and his predecessors. sets the words of the text to music Bach tion of popular baUads. Charley listener did not have to hear quite literally. I fall at your feot The White, the old-time Negro min- all the words to understand the The word “far” is rendered by strel, claims to have traced the Then played it.