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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 11-1-1949 Volume 67, Number 11 (November 1949) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, and the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 67, Number 11 (November 1949)." , (1949). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/156 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]. L 1 L II Li the music magazine 'GOUNOD £ MOZART! ViAGNER l* { u 1 TT~9 November 1949 Goodby, Mr. Johnson Price 30 cents by H. W. 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No. Title Composer 23142 O Holy Stairs 1 .30 9807 Christmas Toy Symphony 26051 Santa Claus (parts only) Hewitt .75 24405 Tommy's New Drum .... Preston 2 Vi .30 25499 Tommy's New Drum .... Preston 2 'A .30 26253 Toy-town Soldiers Richter 1 Vi .30 16076 Two Xmas Melodies Garland 3 .40 7609 Under the Mistletoe . Engelmann 2 Vi .40 . Bernard 5 .50 7615 Under the Mistletoe . Engelmann 2 Vi .50 23143 Venite Adoremus THEODORE FRESSER CO., Bryn Mawr. Pennsylvania ETUDE-NOVEMBER 1949 1 Don't Miss These Features in the December ETUDE the music magazine Founded 1883 by THEODORE PRESSER Vol LXVII No II Philadelphia, Pa. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THEODORE PRESSER CO., Aldredge Mawr, Pa. Sing Ho for Christmas By James Editorial and Advertising Offices, Bryn The real-life drama behind the composition of Bethlehem,” “Silent Night,” “O Little Town of Dk. James Francis Cooke, Editor-in-Chief “The Messiah” and other beloved Christmas John Briggs, Managing Editor music. Dorothy F. Garretson, Associate Editor Guy McCoy, Assistant Editor Editor J. Clees McKray, Music Maier Harold Berkley Nicholas Douty Karl W. Gehrkens Guy By Mario Lanza Gest Learned to Sing by Accident Ruth Evans Buhman Maurice Dumesnil Elizabeth Pelletier Mario Lanza, most widely-heralded new singer Alexander McCurdy William D. Revelli Wilfrid of the day, tells the story of his rise from truck-driving to fame and a Hollywood career. Charles Muench, who this sea- prize of $50 in Class 3 for a choral 1949 CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER. son succeeds Serge Koussevitzky work. as conductor of the Boston Sym- FEATURES Bampton Page phony Orchestra, opened his sea- Mentlelssohn’s operetta, “Die Advice to Young Sopranos By Rose Francis Cooke 7 RICHARD STRAUSS: 1864-1949 James son on Oct. 7 by playing the same Heimkehr aus der Fremde,” was Rose Bampton, leading soprano of the Metropoli- Goodbye, Mr. Johnson H. W. Heinsheimer 8 11 program as that performed at the recently produced by the Lemon- What Is Your Vocal Problem? Lauritz Melchior tan, discusses the perplexities that beset young First Aid for Ailing Brass IF. Illume 12 orchestra’s first concert in 1900, ade Opera Company in New York to about them. Let’s Help Our Young Orchestras Arthur Fiedler 18 singers, and suggests what do under the direction of Wilhelm City. It was given in an English Use the Pedal—Don’t Abuse It llruce Bemcard 14 Let Them Doodle! Margaret Jones Hoffmann 17 Gericke. translation entitled “The Stran- Sanders Rieder 19 Why Not Take Up Your Music Again?. .Kathryn ger.” Principal roles were sung A Psychologist Looks at Music 1 ictor Scholer 23 The New York City Opera by Ruth Kobart, Margaret Rit- Into Tone By Henry Levine Editorial: The Day of Gratitude 26 Swing Your Company will include as a fea- ter, Francis Monacchino, Lewis Is your piano tone dry, hard, percussive? Read ture of its current season Serge Brooks, Peter Hodshon and DEPARTMENTS Mor- this well-known teacher Prokofieffs fairy-tale opera, “The ris Gesell. the method evolved by Musical Miscellany Nicolas Slonimsky 4 and composer for adding depth and sonority to The Pianist’s Page Guy Maier 15 Love of Three Oranges.” This will Music Lover’s Bookshelf /i. Meredith Cadman lo your tone. be the first presentation of the The Vienna State Opera is The Teacher’s Round Table Maurice Dumesnil 18 work in New York since it Pictures Have Impact Walter R. Olsen & Nell McPherson 20 was reported to be among the for- Sing a Swig A Good Bass Is Hard to Find Daniel G. Rodman 21 given there by the Chicago Opera eign musical organizations to be Fighting the Famine of Strings Edwin O. Gerschefski 22 Company in 1922. brought to the United States (Questions and Answers Karl W. Gehrkens 21 this On the Claque By Earl Wilson and Hector Berlioz Bargain-Counter Carillon Alexander McCurdy 23 season. While no details are avail- Junior Etude Elizabeth A. Gest 60 A Broadway columnist and a 19th-century com- Sir Thomas Beecliam will able at this time, a tour by this of Christinas conduct several orchestras in the group seems well poser-critic prove that this aspect of musical per- MUSIC assured. United States this fall and also formance has not changed greatly in 100 years. Classic and Contemporary Selections will lecture on Mozart at the Winter Frolic Ernest M. Ibbotson 27 Li- Dame Myra Hess and Lotte around a new Wurlitzer Piano this year Sonata XVII in A Major Domenico Scarlatti 28 brary of Congress, and on Handel Lehmann have recently received Autumn Night Forest M. Shumaker 31 for the Handel Choir of Baltimore. honorary degrees of Doctor of Woodland Waterfall Gerald F. Frazee 32 On Christmas Eve, or any evening, it’s a happy family Music, the former Hand Bells: Ancient Art Revived Paso Amoroso Giuseppe Stabile 34 being honored that gathers around a Wurlitzer Piano. Twelve O’Clock Waltz Stanford King 35 The Louisville Philharmonic, by Cambridge University, the lat- By Marion Harwood Poetic Fragment from “Les Preludes” Franz Liszt 36 its name now changed to the Louis- ter by the University of Portland Whether you play or sing, or merely look on and listen, of “ringing Did you ever hear “Boh Major?” Or ville there’s enjoyment in a Wurlitzer for everyone. for Vocal and Instrumental Compositions Orchestra, has commissioned (Oregon). And in spur?” Did you know that a “peal” of bells is Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming (Organ) several works for the coming sea- your children who learn to play it now, there’s music at technically 5,000 separate sequences of notes, Arranged by Ralph E.