Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 12-1-1928 Volume 46, Number 12 (December 1928) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology 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 46, Number 12 (December 1928)." , (1928). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/47 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]. PRICE 25 CENTS December i928 32.00 A YEAR THE ETUDE DECEMBER 1928 Page 893 I DO NOT CARE TO ▼ YetE thTHINK of singing as a com¬ wplete art, an entity in itself. And so I Berkey SING ALONE am called a soloist. BY Yet to me the gift of the human &<jAY voice, divine as it is, is not sufficient unto itself. In grand opera, flute or piano trill cadenzas with the coloratura; the full orchestra thunders the chords of a chorus. Opera stars do not sing alone. If accompaniment is important in opera, it is absolutely SOPRANO vital in concert work. Here the singer must rely entirely on METROPOLITAN OPERA one instrument—the piano. And only when the tone of the COMPANY piano harmonizes completely with the singer’s voice do you ★ have that “sweetest strain” the poet described—“a song in which the singer has been lost”. I realized this during my concert tours on the Continent. But it was not until after my arrival in America that I found the piano which possesses this sympathetic quality in the highest degree. This piano is the Knabe. When first I heard it, I was startled, so humanly eloquent was it. In its warm, rich tone, I seemed to hear myself singing. And soon I was singing. But I did not sing alone. The voice of the Knabe rose with my own and blended into it. My solo was a duet—and RADIO or recorded music at the turn our duet was a solo. of a switch... SYMPHION through an entirely new principle converts the Since then the Knabe has been my closest musical com¬ ordinary 60-cycle AC house current to panion. It sings with me in my home in Vienna. Each Fall 3,000,000 cycles . This makes possi¬ when I return to New York, a wireless from my steamer ble the use of the 201A tube with its far makes sure that the Knabe will be waiting to welcome me to wider range of frequencies and excludes my hotel apartment. The Knabe is with me on the stage of heterodyning and hum . Result: the Metropolitan Opera House, and on the concert platform. every tone is reproduced—as it is played. And whatever I sing, the Knabe seems to sense the emotion in my heart, and to express that emotion with a delicacy that defines every subtle shade of feeling. Because the Knabe is so responsive to my moods, it has become even more to me than the perfect accompanist. It has become an inspiration, ever urging me to sing my best. Like Madame Jeritza, you want a piano that can mirror your moods in music—that can echo your every emotion. Hear ruw iaJotU of.yi/iuAui the Knabe—the humanly sympathetic quality of its tone. Then you will know why Madame Jeritza chose it—and why Ponselle, Martinelli, and many others have chosen it, too. true of the Symphion playing recorded music or music over the air. 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