-CHICAGO GUITAR Published by THE CHICAGO GUITAR SOCIETY in the interests of the classic guitar.

Vol. 1 No. 7 22 E. Van Buren St., Chicago 5, Ill. May, 1963

Miss ALTER, JACK CECCHINI to give May Recitals

Recitals Set for May 8 and May 15

Guitarist Jack Cecchini and colora­ tura soprano Helene Alter will make appearances in May before professional music groups . Mr. Cecchini will ap­ pear May 15 in a program sponsored by the Chicago chapter of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Miss Alter will give a program May 8 for the Musarts Club. Cecchini will perform works by Villa-Lobos, Richard Pick, Turina, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco. The 8:15 p. m. program in the De Paul Univer­ sity Auditorium, 25 E. Jackson blvd., is free to the public. The program is part of the organization's Sprin g Fes­ tival that week which will include a Monday program on television station WTTW, a program by Dr. and Mrs. MISS ALTER iack cecchini Rudolph Ganz at Roosevelt University on Tuesday , the perform ance of works by new composers on Friday at De SOCIETY TO HOLD JUNE 24 SOCIETY'S MAY 5 Paul, and an orchestral program on Saturday at Northwestern University's DINNER IN AZTECA CAFE PROGRAM FEATURES Thorne Hall. TheAztecaCafe, an informal and The May 15 pro gram also will fea­ cordial Mexican restaurant at 210 ture pianist Lydia Smutny Sterba in GUITAR, VOICE West North Av., in the Old Town works by Dvorak, Kennan, and Stein, The Chicago Guitar Society will and the St. Patrick's Boys Choir from area, will be the scene of the Chi­ hold its monthly meeting and pro­ Rockford, Ill., directed by Karl Gart­ cago Guitar Society's dinner for gram Sunday, May 5, in Room 500 ner. They will sing works by Poulenc, members and friends Monday, of the Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Ryterband, and Brittan . Dr. Hans June 24. Michigan Av. Tischler, associate professor at Weather permitting, the dinner A meeting for members will be Roosevelt University's Chicago Musi­ will be held in the restaurant's out­ held at 3 p. m. Refreshments will cal College, is chairman of the Chica go door patio. Honored guests will be be served at 4 o'clock and the pro­ chapter. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Ferreri. The gram will be given at 4:30. Non­ Miss Alter with pianist and com­ society sponsored Mr. Ferreri in members are invited for refresh­ poser Rudolf Beck are to give the first his debut classic guitar recital at ments and the program. A $1 dona­ full performance of Mr. Beck's song McCormick Place in February. tion will be requested. cycle, Nachklange aus Wien (Echo from While more complete details will The program will feature a guitar Vienna). The program will be at 2 p.m. be announced in the June Chicago duet by Leclair and solos by Villa­ in the Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Mich­ Guitar, dinner reservations will be igan Av. The nine part eye le was Lobos, Richard Pick, Castelnuovo­ limited and we suggest you make commissioned in 1928 to commemorate them early. The dinner price will Tedesco, and Turina. A guitar trio the 10th anniversary of the founding of be under $5, for both Mexican and will perform works by Diabelli, the Republic of Vienna. Mr. Beck Harry Budka, Almeida, and German, spent many years in Vienna. The American selections. Reservations and accompany Helene Alter, color­ Musarts Club is an organization of may be made by writing to the Chi­ atura soprano, in works by Jerome professional women in the field of fine cago Guitar Society, 22 E. Van Kern and Richard Pick. arts. Buren St. , Chicago 5. page 2 CHICAGO GUITAR PROGRAM NOTES

Wedo not think Richard Pick was Sabre Room in Palos Park recently), bad-tempered when he composed and composes and arranges for band. "Bad-Tempered Grind Organ." On His more recent compositions include "Night Clouds," "Silent Snow," and a the contrary we suspect he felt fine. band suite called "Four Winds," all There is a certain jauntiness and published by Summy Birchard Com­ swin g to the piece that leads us to pany, Evanston. The firm has also think of Spring. published a choral arrangement of "To In any case the piece has a his­ A Wild Rose" for which Mrs. Budka tory. And of importance to its life wrote a set of lyrics. is Mr. Harry Budka and his wife, Mildred, former society members Sir Edward whose acquaintance we renewed in digging out the facts of the "Bad­ Edward German, composer of Eng­ Tempered Grind Or gan." lish light opera, was born at Whit­ Richard Pick composed the piece church, Shropshire, Feb. 17, 1862. in 1952 for his book which appeared After formal music education he be­ came musical director in 1888 of the that year, " First Lessons for Clas­ Globe Theatre in London and it was sic Guitar ." Now comes Mr. Bud­ here he received his first attention by ka, who for 12 years was a staff composing the incidental music for arranger for radio station WGN in Shakespear' s Richard III. His music Chicago. He became acquainted had a higher quality than was usual for with Richard Pick who occasionally Shakespear productions. His popu­ performed with the WGN orchestra. larity was assured with his incidental Mr. Budkafoundout about the "Bad ­ Tempered Grind Or gan," it caught Continued on Page 4 his fancy, and he arranged it for the orchestra which gave it several THE CHICAGO GUITAR SOCIETY FINE ARTS BUILDING performances. Then Mr. Budka made a popular arrangement of the SUNDAY, MAY 5 at 4:30 p.m. ROOM 500 piece and his wife wrote lyrics for this arrangement as follows: PROGRAM I still remember when you went away I heard a bad-tempered grind Richard Pick Patrick Ferreri organ play All of its bad notes foretelling the Sonata in D Jean Marie Leclair sad notes 1. Andante That sound in my heart every day 2. Allegro 3. Largo Since you are gone my whole 4. Allegretto world's out of tune And I keep praying that you'll II come back soon After awhile we will both learn Jack Cecchini to smile Etude No. 1...... Heitor Villa-Lobos At that bad-tempered grind organ Reverie ...... Richard Pick tune. Tarantella ...... Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Mrs. Budka, who uses the profes­ Fandanguillo ...... Joaquin Turina sional name of Mildred Livesay, and her husband are both members of III ASCAP, both have studied guitar with Richard Pick. Mr. Budka has been Richard Pick Ferdinand Pirnat Amado Canchola an arranger for the Hal Kemp, Dick Jergens, Earl Burtnett, Ted Weems, Helene Alter - coloratura soprano and Art Jarrett orchestras. Music is now his avocation instead of his voca­ Marcia Funebre ...... Anton Diebelli tion. For the last several years he has Spring Mist ...... Harry Budka been in the engineering department of Brazilliance ...... Laurinda Almeida the Chicago Bridge and Iron Works. Morris Dance (from the incidental music to Henry VIII) . . . . Edward German But on the side he teaches piano, All the Things You Are ...... Jerome Kern plays the instrument on club dates (the Bad-Tempered Grind Or gan ...... Richard Pick , Mildred Livesay CHICAGO GUITAR page 3

increases in steps according to the THE SCIENCEOF MUSIC AND THE GUITAR musical scale. When the twelfth fret is reached the effective string by length is halved, the frequency is MARTIN STUDIER doubled and the tone is one octave above that of the open string. As one moves to the higher frets it will This is the first of two articles be noted that the frets are closer on science in music by Martin Stu­ together so that each succeeding dier. Mr. Studier is a nuclear block of steel the tones produced by fret shortens the string by the same chemist at Argonne National Lab­ the plucked strings would be weak fractional amount. oratory and a former president of indeed. The carrying power of the 2. The frequency is proportional the Chicago Guitar Society. classic guitar results from the ef­ to the square root of the tension; ficient transfer of energy from the thus if the tension is increased four plucked string to the lightly con­ times, the frequency will be double. structed body of the guitar which To tune a string to a higher pitch SCIENCE IN MUSIC then sets air into motion and pro­ the tension on the string is in­ duces sound waves. creased by turning the tuning key. (With specific applications to the 3. Frequency is inversely pro­ guitar.) Pitch. The pitch of a tone is de­ portional to the square root of the termined by the frequency of the mass per unit length. Sound sound wave which strikes the ear. A string of a given length which This in turn is determined by the is four times as heavy as another Sounds originate from vibrating frequency with which the sounding of the same length will have one half objects that set up waves which source is vibrating. The standard the frequency of the latter. The travel through the air and are heard pitch in the United States is based heavier steel strings of the plectrum when they strike the ear. Sound on 440 complete vibrations per sec­ guitar require more tension and thus waves consist of pressure varia­ ond for "A" above middle "C" . When a more sturdily constructed instru­ tions (areas of compression and this note is played on the guitar the ment than do the lighter nylon strings rarefaction) which travel at a veloc­ string vibrates back and forth 440 of the classic guitar. The lower ity of about 1100 feet per second in times per second, and sound waves strings on a guitar are wound to in­ air. Sounds which are very irreg­ are produced such that areas of crease their mass so that the de­ ular in pitch and intensity are called compression (and rarefaction) strike sired pitch can be obtained without noises. Periodic, sustained vibra­ the ear drum 440 times per second the strings becoming too limp for: tions produce sounds which are and one hears the tone A(440). adequate sound production. recognized as musical tones. Higher tones have higher frequen­ cies, lower tones lower ones. A Character of Musical Tones tone an octave higher will have The second article will appear in twice the frequency, one an octave the June issue of Chicago Guitar. The ear can distinguish musical lower one half the frequency. tones which differ in loudness (in­ For those with a knowledge of tensity), pitch and quality (timbre). algebra the frequency of a string may be expressed by the formula Loudness. The loudness of a f = _l_dT tone is determined not only by the 2LVm intensity of vibration of the sound­ ing object, but also by the efficiency where f is the frequency in vibra ­ with which the energy of vibration tions per second, L is the length of is converted into sound waves which the string in centimeters, T is the can strike the ear. Thus the sound tension in dynes, and m is the mass waves produced by a struck tuning of the string in grams per centi­ fork are relatively weak until its meter. This formula expresses in base is allowed to touch a resonating compact form the following three object such as the top of a guitar at laws: the bridge. Then a sudden increase 1. The frequency of vibration in intensity of sound is noted. The of a string under a given tension is entire guitar is caused to vibrate inversely proportional to the length with the frequency of the tuning of the string. fork. The guitar is found to be much As one plays a chromatic scale Richard Pick is preparing for pub­ more effective in producing sound on a single string starting with the lication a group of transcriptions and waves in the air than is the tuning open string, the effective length of original compositions. His column, fork itself. Similarly, if guitar the string is decreased at each suc­ The Sounding Off Board, will be re­ strings were strung across a heavy ceeding fret so that the frequency sumed when time permits. page 4 CHICAGO GUITAR

FILANO GUITAR admirably for the voice, and it is no Pirnatis an engineer with I. T. T. Kel­ wonder that his songs were as popular log Company. Amado Canchola is head INCLUDED IN with singers as with the public ." of the printing department at Interna­ German's real name was Edward tional Minerals & Chemical Corpora­ BILY DISPLAY German Jones. He was knighted in tion. Helene Alter has appeared on 1928. He died Nov. 11, 1936 in Lon­ television station WTTW, at the Second An 1840 guitar by Luigi Filano, don. City chambe r music series, and has Naples, was among the instruments performed extensively for Chicago displayed in April by James R. Bily Morris Dance professional music groups. in the music department of the Chi­ References cago Public Library. Bily has dis­ Generally the term refers to several English folk dance forms, including played part of his musical instru­ certain processional dances, and the "Grove's Dictionary of Music and ment collection at the library for sword dance. Today, the term specif­ Musicians," edited by Eric Blom, 5th the last five years. ically refers to the dance as it is per­ edition, 1954, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., The April display included a formed by six men, three to a side. London. "The Macmillan Encyclopedia German lute, Mandolina, Mandolone, They carry a white handkerchief in each of Music and Musicians," edited by Banjeaurine, and a Rocking Melo­ hand or else a stick in one or both Albert E. Wier, the Macmillan Co., deon, a portable instrument that was hands which are rhythmically employed 1938, New York. popular with Army chaplains in the during the dance. Further emphasizing Civil War camps. the rhythm of the step are pads of Bily lives in La Grange. He small bells strapped to the dancer's playsthemando-celloandis a mem­ shins. The dances conform to a gen­ ber of the Suburban Mandoline and eral type but each village has its own repertory and own distinctive tradition CHICAGO GillTAR is the of­ Guitar Club directed by Frank Palm­ and style which lends considerable ficial publication of the Chicago er. Bily is especially interested in variety to the steps and movements in Guitar Society, a non-profit stringed instruments and has a Vina, the Morris dances. While costumes organization devoted to the clas­ the native instrument of India, and vary from village to village, they are sic guitar. a Koto, the native instrument of always gaily decorated with colored Suzanne Avery is editor. Mrs. Japan. He began collecting some ribbons. A Fool and other characters Regina Martinez is president of 20 years ago and has more than 100 often accompany the dancers. The the society. Richard Pick is instruments, but considers only dance is a vigorous and an essentially chairman of the board. half of them his real collection open-air dance; one that is usually per­ formed in the Spring. Inquiries and material for pieces. CHICAGO GUITAR should be di­ Music and Performers rected to society headquarters at 22 E. Van Buren St., Chicago 5, Continued from Page 2 NOTES SonatainD was originally composed Illinois. for two violins. Richard Pick tran­ music for Henry VIII which he wrote in scribed "Morris Dance, " and "All the 1892. Especially popular were the Things You Are." " Spring Mist, " three dances, including the Morris originally a piano piece was arranged Dance , performed in the first act. for guitar trio by Richard Pick. "Bad ­ Considered the finest of his more TemperedGrindOr gan" is from " First The Chicago Guitar Society wel­ serious music is the "Welsh Rhapsody" Lessons for Classic Guitar, " 1952. comes new members. for orchestra based on four folk melo­ "Reverie" is from " Lessons for Clas­ dies. In 1901, shortly after the death sic Guitar , Book Two, " 1955. Both of Sir Arthur Sullivan he was asked to books are by Richard Pick and pub­ complete Sullivan's unfinished score of lished by Forster Music Publishers, "The Emerald Isle." He completed Inc., Chicago. The Villa-Lobos Etude the score and went on to compose a No. 1 is published by Editions Max series of light operas that are impor­ Eschig, Paris, France. "Tarantella" tant in English li ght opera. These in­ is published by G. Ricordi & Co. ; clude "Merrie England," "A Princess "Fandanguillo" by Schott & Co. of Kensington," "Tom Jones," and Patrick Ferreri is a member of the "Fallen Fairies " (the latter written to musicians' staff of the American a libretto by W. S. Gilbert). Broadcasting Company. Jack Cecchini "Grove's Dictionary of Music and teaches classic and plectrum guitar. Musicians " has this to say about Ger­ He has toured with Harry Belafonte, man: "German's music leans to what Miriam Makeba, among others; appears is light and graceful, and the strongly frequently at clubs and shows in the emotional, not to mention the tragic, Chicago area, performed the guitar is beyond his scope; but his ideas were background for Frank Reynolds' docu­ original, their expression always re­ mentary on Mexico that appeared on fined, and his skill of orchestration un­ CBS-TV recently. Cecchini, 26, is a failing if rather monotonous. He wrote student of Richard Pick. Ferdinand