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August 1936) James Francis Cooke Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 8-1-1936 Volume 54, Number 08 (August 1936) 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 54, Number 08 (August 1936)." , (1936). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/847 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. 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Copy- : right, 1935, by -Theodore Presser §m P;-p$r3ic°e02TceynT —41111— SPECIAL NOTICES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS I SPECIAL NOTICES *?*&&&** ..r,ro^7v,?,^kJaaia the ETVDE Editor Copyright, 1936, by THE ETUDE JAMES FRANCIS COOKE The Magic of the Blue Danube Associate Editor EDWARD ELLSWORTH Johann’s teacher insisted that he practice before a large Published Monthly HIPSHER k NYONE who can change the color of a river must be a By Music Magazine /% very great genius. Johann Strauss did not do this in mirror, so that lie could see how he appeared to an audi¬ THEODORE PRESSER CO. 'i- fact, but he did it in the minds of millions of people. ence. Once, while he was thus engaged, his father entered 1712 Chestnut Street A MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND ALL LOVERS OF MUSIC the room and was furious when he found that his son could PHILADELPHIA, We have traversed the Danube for hundreds of miles, from PENNA. Regensburg to Budapest, and blue is the color we never yet play. Later, however, he was reconciled until he had the Vol. LIV No. 8 • AUGUST, 1936 have seen. Mostly it is yellow. At Passau two other streams, tragic realization that the son was so amazingly gifted that one green and the other black, pour into it; and for his own fame was in jeopardy. some distance there is the phenomenon of a river with At his father’s death at the age of forty-five, the fame The World of Music three distinct ribbons of color. But that did not make of the “Waltz King” was already firmly established, and any difference to Johann Strauss, Johann II consolidated his or¬ chestra with that of his father Interesting and Important Items Gleaned in a Constant IF atch on Jr. In his dream mind the and toured Europe. For ten years Happenings and Activities Pertaining to Things Musical Everywhere Danube was blue, and blue it remains. From Passau down to he played at the summer con¬ Vienna the Danube is perhaps certs at Petropawlovski Park in THE NATIONAL GYMANFA GANU THE MINNEAPOLIS KING EDWARD VIII has intimated that in St. Petersburg (Leningrad). SYMPHONY ORCHES¬ he will continue the same patronage of the (Festival of Sacred Song) of the Welsh or¬ more beautiful than the Rhine, TRA will have seven Royal Philharmonic Society of London which ganizations of America will be held on Sep¬ as it has something of the majesty In 1863 we find him Director of tember 13th, at Convention Hall, Atlantic triumph of opera in Eng- Lilian Dimitri conductors for the season he gave as Prince of Wales.
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