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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 2-1-1936 Volume 54, Number 02 (February 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 02 (February 1936)." , (1936). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/841 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]. jn This Issue GETTING FUN OUT OF MUSIC" by Hendrik W. Van Loo, SPECIAL NOTICES AND Meeting Piano Teachers’ Needs ANNOUNCEMENTS first year at the piano JOHN- M. WILLIAMS SECOND YEAR AT THE PIANO Either or Both of These Manuals FREE to Any Piano Teacher— FEBRUARY, 1936 65 Editor JAMES FRANCIS COOKE THE ETUDE Associate Editor EDWARD ELLSWORTH Music Magazine HIPSHER Printed in >J» MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND ALL LOVERS O United State, of America Vol. LIY No. 2 . FEBRUARY, 1936 The World of Music Interesting and Important Items Gleaned in a Constant JT atch o Happenings and Activities Pertaining to Things Musical Everywhere DR. GUIDO ADLER, ROME’S OPERA SEASON opened on the JEAN SIBELIUS, the renowned Finnish eminent musicologist of composer, who celebrated on December 8th traditional Eve of St. Stephen (December Vienna, who, till pensioned his seventieth birthday, had received on No¬ 26th), with a performance at the Royal Opera a few' years ago, was the A ROTARY CONCERT IN THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP GROVE House (formerly Teatro Costanzi) of the vember 7th the gold medal of the Royal phl'- harmonic Society of London, one of the most leading professor of musi- 1 “Iris” of Mascagni, with Gigli in the leading cologv in the University of tenor role. It was a resplendent social event rarely bestowed and also most coveted of Vienna, and who still is active in his scientific with the Royal Family, Rome’s diplomatic musical distinctions in all the world. •a-1>- I’,,, ( .. ill..- h.- iml.h.h.il and government corps, both church and state, GIANT GRAND PIANOS, eleven feet and memoirs under the title Wollen usd Wirktu. a large chorus, orchestra and soloists. Rach¬ its aristocracy and many distinguished visitors eight inches long, are being built by a Lon¬ One of the early champions of Wagner, his present—in fact a society spectacle not often maninoff will appear on one program as soloist don firm, to please radio pianists who com¬ book relates his experiences at the wst Bay- A Great Objective for Rotary in a concerto with the Philharmonic Orchestra equalled in the world. A new “Cyrano de reuth Festival, with Wagner, Cosima, Lisa Bergerac” by Alfano is to have its world plain that the present length of strings is of London, and on another day he will appear responsible for the “wooden” tone in the as guest conductor of this famous organization. premiere in this series. upper treble register of their instruments •8-tf ■8-»• HE fine aims of the Rotary Clubs in all parts of the has been decorated by the Governments of France, Belgium, “CARMEN,” announced for two perform¬ KURT SCHINDLER, conductor, composer when heard over the air. THE HISTORIC MUNICIPAL OPERA T ances in the third week of November, by the and musical editor, and founder of the Schola •8-1- of Berlin-Charlottenbcrg, which has been world are too well known to need recounting. Their Italy, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany; he is a Cleveland Symphony Orchestra under Artur Cantorum of New York, of which for seven¬ THE STATE OPERA of Vienna in its renovated and modernized to become^ a na¬ ideals and their spirit have benefited our civic and member of the Society of Political Economy of Paris, the Rodzinski, sold out the house for both nights, teen years he was conductor, died on Novem¬ opening week offered as guests three Salzburg tional theater under the name of the German business life in a really magnificent manner. Similar service Statistical Societies of Paris and Hungary, and the Academie Festival celebrities: Dusolina Giannini as "a 0|>era House, was reopened on November 15th with such a demand that there was a third ber 17, 1935, in New York, at the age of fifty- clubs have extended the idea, and there can be no question du Var, France. This world acquaintance and personal performance on the evening of December 2nd. three. He was a native of Berlin, Germany, ravishing Tosco’’; Ezio Pinza as the Don Gio¬ with a performance of "Die Meistersinger.'’ and was educated in the universities of Berlin vanni of Mozart’s masterpiece; and Emanuel 4--► that this has lubricated our complex problems of living in contacts with men and movements abroad have been placed, THE METROPOLITAN OPERA COM¬ and Munich. List as the Baron Ochs von Lerchenau of “Der WALTER HENRY HALL, one of our innumerable very important ways. con amore, at the disposal of the Pawtucket Rotary. PANY of New York is to be congratulated on •a-»• Rosenkavalier.” Furtwiingler aroused “wild foremost authorities on church music, and Now comes a plan to enlist Rotary to employ music as one Music is the only universal language. The International having successfully navigated the shoals, THE FERDINAND HILLER Orchestra¬ enthusiasm” by his reading of “Tannhauser”; especially that of the male choir, died in New of the means of furthering its great objectives. The pro¬ Service feels that this universal characteristic of the three rapids and stormy currents of a troubled re¬ tion of Handel’s “Theodora,” which was done and revivals of Lortzing's “Czar und Zimmcn- York, December 10, 1935. Born in London organization, so that on December 16th it for the only German production of this ora¬ mann” and of Nicolai’s “The Merry Wives of April 25, 1862, his training was finished al the posal has come from the fertile brain of Dr. William H. thousand eight hundred and forty-seven Rotary Clubs, with opened the present season with a splendid per¬ torio, at Cologne, in 1860, with Dr. Hiller Windsor” pleased patrons with a taste for Royal Academy of Music: and at twenty-one Tolman, now a resident of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, hut their membership of one hundred and sixty-one thousand leading, is on display in the Ryerson Library formance of “La Traviata” in which Lucrezia music of a more sprightly iflood. he came to America and liecame organist and erstwhile a citizen of the world. Dr. Tolman is one of the in sixty-seven countries of the world, can be utilized in a Bori was the Violetta, and Richard Crooks of the Art Institute of Chicago. .3-1- choirmaster of St. Luke's Church, German¬ foremost economists of the times. plan whereby these Rotarian centers may promote and the Alfredo. The troupe will visit Philadel¬ ISIDORE DE LARA, widely known com¬ town, Pennsylvania, St. Peter's, Albany, New phia and Brooklyn for four performances each. KATHRYN MEISLE has won a distin¬ poser, died on September 2nd, at Paris. Born York, and St. James', New York City. He After extended deliberation he came to the conclusion support State music festivals, to the great delight and inspi¬ Long life and success to this group with its guished success with the San Francisco Opera in London in 1858, he was musically educated founded the Brooklyn Oratorio Society and that one of the ways in which Rotary might be of most ration of these world centers. Company, when, as Erda in “Das Rheingold” splendid traditions. mostly in Italy. His “The Garden of Sleep” was a Professor of Music in Columbia l m- service to communities all over the world was to formulate The power of Rotary, in furthering such a movement, she “sang gloriously,” recalling the “voices of was long a favorite, especially with contral¬ THE AUCKLAND SOCIETY OF MUSI¬ great Erdas of other days.” Later, as Fricka versity from 1913 to 1930 when he became a plan in which Rotary might back the organization of could be tremendous. Rotary might acquaint itself with tos; and of his several operas “Messaline” professor emeritus. His anthems and other CIANS (New Zealand) recently gave a pro¬ in “Die Walkiire,” Miss Meisle was “regal, regular choral festivals in hundreds of our cities everywhere. the splendid work already accomplished by the American gram devoted to the works of Schubert and was produced at La Scala of Milan, with church music have been widely used, as is his dignified, poised, with a voice both opulent Toscanini conducting, and later at the Metro¬ This plan was inaugurated with the idea of establishing Choral and Festival Alliance, Incorporated, founded by Schumann, including the “Trio in B-flat” of and fresh.” “Essentials of Choir and Voice Training. Schubert; the “Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44” of politan of New York. 4-► in Pawtucket an International Friendship Grove, promoted Mrs. William Arms Fisher, and lend it the practical support Schumann; and songs of both masters. THE SECOND MASS, IN D MINOR, a LE THEATRE DE LA MONNAIE, the by the Pawtucket Rotary. This Grove consists of sixty-seven which groups of business men would gladly give if they took •(! *• PROFESSOR C. SANFORD TERRY, the - seldom heard work by Luigi Cherubini, was eminent English musician and writer, has time-honored Opera of the Belgian capital, trees, each of which symbolizes each of the sixty-seven coun¬ the time to analyze the profitable results which come from LOUIS ECKSTEIN, Chicago music patron, presented on December 7, 1935, by the Uni¬ has commemorated the centenary of the birth who chose for his “vacation” the sponsoring received from the University of Leipzig the tries where Rotary has been established.