Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 12-1946 Volume 64, Number 12 (December 1946) 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 64, Number 12 (December 1946)." , (1946). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/65 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]. /frtvw in thy dark- sheets shm-ethTtis O lit-tle town of B«tti-U-hem! H hopes and fears of all the /ears bove thy deep and dream-less alvepTh arc met in thee to -ni PHILLIPS BROOKS Jlvihor* . merly of the New Friends of Music; Louis DR. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY’S programs Fourestier, of the Paris Opera; and An- for the current season of the Boston tonio Votto, formerly assistant to Tos- Symphony Orchestra include five new canini at La Scala in Milan. which were com- symphonies, three of COMPANY, missioned by the Koussevitzky Music THE AMERICAN OPERA operatic venture, Foundation. One of these is by Oliver Philadelphia’s newest October 24 Messiaen, contemporary French com- had an auspicious opening on RUCTION Mozart’s comic opera, poser; another is Walter Piston’s Third when it presented the Harem,” under PIANO Symphony; the third is Aaron Copland’s “The Abduction from MODERN direction of Vernon Hammond, mu- NOTE Third Symphony. the NEW sical director of the company. Principal world by Beverly Lane, Ade- whole THE WORCESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL, roles were sung Bishop, and Leopold Simoneau. series held in Worcester, Massachusetts, in laide MASTER-COMPOSER October, enlisted for the third consecu- and Philadelphia Or- tive year the famed Choir Jinuidi chestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor. Dhe were Among the soloists who took part PROF. PAUL J. WEAV- ic Jesus Maria Sanroma, pianist; Astrid ER, head of the Music »7 - Rosalind Nadell, con- :,t £ rmusical, Varnay, soprano; department at Cornell standard of James orof their high tralto; Agnes Davis, soprano; and University since 1944, cause value. and economic Pease, baritone. Walter Howe is director died in Ithaca on Octo- merit STOLZ, the Austrian Aryan volumes of the festival. A NEW CONCERTO for piano and or- ROBERT age of Sequence WORLD ber 14 at the ot Uninterrupted WHOLE Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer, who left his native land in G*> Perfect for chestra, by fifty-seven. He joined Progression practical necessities which he had gained enormous popu- Natural are MYRA HESS, distin- composer, will have its North American the faculty of Cornell in in in Three- of music guished English pianist, premiere on December 29, by the Dallas larity through “Two Hearts the full enjoyment 1929. Professor Weaver 4 Quarter Time” and other operettas, is , on October 12 Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antal Paul j. the home, school, appeared was born at Reedsburg, rea returning to Europe for what is appar- Weaver %-=a=S=£end «"^usi-sm s» in her first New York Dorati, with Ellen Ballon, noted Cana- After his ni'eZt sSr5 Wisconsin. tal» con- students' « P church and ently a tour of triumph. In fact, in one ^combining the .1— recital since the War, dian pianist, as soloist. Miss Ballon re- training at the University of Wisconsin vancement, a stage. and the audience, which cently played the world premiere of this city, Graz, they have actually named began his melody. cert and New York University he in his honor. He will conduct sym- overflowed onto the work in Rio de Janeiro. street professional career at Racine College, phony concerts and gala premieres in ONE actually stage of Town Hall, gave Wisconsin, and continued it at the Uni- GRADE he student of Europe. On his lirst approach tumultuous PHILADELPHIA-LA SCALA Opera almost all the capitals In the very .*®!?° modern her a most THE versity of North Carolina, where the ex- cS direct, return to the United States, of which he begins to P' aY playing. Contents and heart-warming ova- Company drew an enthusiastic audience cellence his work attracted national , of LJ? C p i ano ioundat Material Myra Hess is now an enthusiastic citizen, Mr. Stolz to a solid Teaching tion. According to press to its opening performance of “Rigoletto” attention. With all the natural qualities Descriptive Major his latest include J?g Transposition— rose when Miss 31. debuts added much will conduct the premiere of Di«g"s-Vmua reports, ‘‘the audience on October Two of a leader, he placed music upon a basis Rhythmic Music__Note Read- opera, “Timberlane Town,” which is to Y q) Hess appeared, remaining in the hall to interest to the presentation—one, in the at Cornell that made an appeal to the Scales and Chords Dictionary. in January. i the last note of a long and demanding person of Elena Danese, Italian colora- be produced on Broadway bril- Tests and Games^ for entire student body, attracting a ing MUSIC listen absorbed, to applaud, Gilda; and the program, to tura soprano, who sang liant faculty (including Egon Petri) . His and to cheer.” other, Enzo Mascherini, who was the THE AMERICAN FRIENDS of Czecho- remembered Easy lovable personality will be GRADE TWO sustained through EVERY other lead- slovakia presented at Hunter College in r Rigoletto of the evening. The thousands of students. In 1927 he student int ® ®® Original Melodic by The aasmcclassics— roles by Eugene Conley, New York on October 29 a program con- Arrangements of *e chromaUC GEORGES ENESCO, noted Rumanian ing were taken directed the Glee Club of the University and OCCASION sisting entirely of works by modern Czech 01 composer, conductor, violinist, arrived in Lillian Marchetto, and Nino Ruisi. Giu- of North Carolina on a highly successful composers. Among the premiere perform- the United States in October, his first seppe Bamboschek was the very able tour of Europe. Franz Alters was the Music. visit here in seven years, for a series conductor. The performance was pre- ances conducted by Orchestra by traveler, -and of appearances as guest conductor. Mr. ceded by an address by Dr. James Francis Concerto for Piano and MISS JOY HOMER, author, The Etude, who spoke Pavel Borkovec, with Rudolf Firkusny as relief worker, who was a daughter of grade three which "sound diffl- MUSIC Enesco, who numbered among his pupils Cooke, editor of Descriptive the soloist. Sidney and Louise Homer, died Octo- Origlnal > grade — many outstanding American violinists, to the audience first in English, then in , he third ke* pl WORLD cult" but is in dies by Heller. THE WHOLE including Yehudi Menuhin, is scheduled Italian. Dr. Cooke was introduced by ber 23 in New York City. ^u as stu Original Etude? « Harmony the H. Birchard Taylor, president of the AS PART of its twen- R^ ding_Keyboard to appear as guest conductor of Mr. d’- PERFORMS the *»« T"“ LOVES and National Symphony Orchestra in Wash- Philadelphia-La Scala Opera Company. ty-fifth anniversary, the JOSEPH G. ESTEY, vice-president of 2S&3K3 and an amateur catalogue ington, the Cleveland Symphony, the Eastman School of Mu- Estey Organ Company, the complete Chicago Women’s Symphony, and the CHRISTOPHER LYNCH, young Irish sic conducted in Octo- golfer of note, died in Brattleboro, Ver- ORGAN COLLECTIONS Rochester Symphony Orchestra. tenor, a protege of the late John McCor- ber a Symposium of mont, on October fourteenth. COLLECTIONS (No. 35) Orchestral PIANO . Ploy. American Qrgan pieces the w . W mack, made his American radio debut on of composition Dominant Seventh 3). ^ forms ^p (M-C No. Classics (No. 33) the regular Music. Sixteen works SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK, noted com- Diminished Seven ^ and Chopin at Home familiar Organ RICHARD STRAUSS’ “Ariadne auf October 1, during Monday . 25 Form — Con , raction 4 65 ^ ^ Pieces (No. (No. 29) broadcast Firestone Hour, had been selected by Dr. poser, conductor, teacher, and a leading and Arpeggi Material Concert Piano ,1.75 Modern Organ Pieces Naxos” had its first professional per- evening of the Chords __ Valuab)e Recital Violin British music, died Music (No. 11) Movement of the Handel in York City, when it was transferred for this gala occasion to Howard Hanson, direc- figure in present day od Famous Dance 22.00gO The Slow formance New mk Co„po,itio»s 1.00 October 16, at the age of Home ’ 36) October 11 by the New York Carnegie Hall. Howard Barlow, regular tor of the Eastman in London on Grieg at 1.75 Sonatas (No. given on Gardner Read . of Sir Granville was Emer- Classics. Pieces (No. , the. City Center. conductor of the Firestone Orchestra, School, out of a total seventy-eight. Piano each book Light Piono 75 City Opera Company at priee S1 QQ (No. 8) submitted, and these were played Professor of Music at Birmingham Modern Piano Pieces VOCAL COLLECTIONS Laslo Halasz, musical director of the City was the director. eighty itus ’ iy5 Symphony vice chairman of the Cor- into,(No- 34) . ... (No. 9) 1.75 conducted. The principal parts by the Eastman-Rochester University and Pianist,r, Theme y/hole World Sings Center, ' 175 ads The Plays (No. 30) Ba „ Composers presented were of Trinity College of Music, MUSIC the W. W. - 1.75 Ella Flesch, Orchestra.