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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 7-1-1947 Volume 65, Number 07 (July 1947) 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 65, Number 07 (July 1947)." , (1947). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/182 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]. tmm *rv>- THE- FIFTEENTH ANNUAL Bach Festival CHARLES IVES, American composer, of the Baldwin-Wallace College Con- has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for servatory of Music was held in Berea, 1946, for a “distinguished musical com- Ohio, June 6 and 7. Under the direction position in the larger forms of chamber, of Dr. Albert Riemenschneider, the festi- orchestral, or choral music.” Mr. Ives’ val included a number of the shorter prize winning work was his Symphony No. cantatas, with the Mass in B Minor being first performed in New York in April 3, perforated on the second day. The various of last year. programs enlisted the services of the Baldwin-Wallace A Cappella Choir, the i'sucilvlvrdecital THE OUTDOOR CONCERT season has ^Oonc^S Cdoncenonceri ananad Opera Workshop, and the Festival or- s. J^or gotten under way in all parts of the chestra. country. On June 16 the Lewisohn Stadi- SINGERS um concerts in New York City opened a ON THE PROGRAMS OF LEADING THE AMERICAN SCHOOL at Fontaine- NEW AND FAVORITE SELECTIONS FOUND season of forty concerts; on June 19 the bleau, France, of which Robert Casadesus Watergate Concerts in Washington, D. C. is the director, has an enrollment of fifty- began its season of eighteen concerts six young musicians, of whom forty are played by the National Symphony Or- pianists. The school opens on July 1. AFTERWARD chestra. Robin Hood Dell in Philadelphia By Olive F. Conway 50 had an auspicious opening on June 23, when Dimitri Mitropoulos conducted the Low JUST 3tiele Choirs^fioir 3rinvisible FOR first of twenty-eight concerts. The six MME. LOUISE HOMER, world-famous AT DAWNING V HEMS JaaN weeks opera season at the Cincinnati Zoo n national Orchestra conducted by Fistou- THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL CHICAGO- contralto who for nineteen years was a Charles Wakefield Cadman 50 began on June 29, while the Hollywood By lari. This same work was given its first LAND Music Festival, sponsored by the leading member of the Metropolitan Low Bowl season will open on July 8. High Medium Medium Low performance in the United States when Chicago Tribune Charities, Inc., will be Opera Association, died May 6 at Winter it was played by Carmelo Carrozza in held at Soldiers Field, Chicago, on August seventy-six. LEONARD BERNSTEIN, young American Park, Florida, at the age of BLUE ARE HER EYES Philadelphia on May 17, with piaho ac- 16. The festival will feature contests in For the past eight years Mme. Homer had 50 conductor and pianist, scored a sensa- By Winfter Watts companiment by F. Cusumano. On this various classifications—vocal solo, dance, lived with her distinguished husband, the tional triumph late in April when he High Medium occasion it Was the feature of a program choral, band, instrumental solo, accordion, composer, Sidney Homer, at Winter Park, made his debut with the Palestine Or- presented by the Pietro Accordion Band and baton twirling. A series of prelimin- w'here she was honorary adviser in voice chestra in Tel Aviv. On May 1 he con- A DREAM of Philadelphia, directed by Arnold E. ary festivals will be held in various cities College. She made her debut ducted the same orchestra in the first at Rollins By J. C. Barflett 50 Crowe. during the weeks preceding August 16. Metropolitan Opera as Amneris performance in the Holy Land of his own with the reigning High Medium Medium Low Low symphony, “Jeremiah.” in 1900 and thereafter was a THE EMINENT AMERICAN educator, or- LOUIS KAUFMAN, noted Hollywood vio- favorite of that galaxy of stars which in- FORGOTTEN ganist, conductor, and Bach specialist. Dr. linist, whose unseen solos have featured cluded Caruso, the De Reszkes, Fremstad, THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL festival of By Eugene Cowles 50 Albert Riemenschneider, has retired ds over four hundred film scores, has been Destinn, Amato, Melba, Nordica, De Se- American Music of the Eastman School active director of the Conservatory at awarded the Musical Courier Magazine gurola, ScottI, and Journet. High Medium Low directing, of Music, Dr. Howard Hanson, Baldwin-Wallace College, Ohio. Dr. Rie- Citation for the “best instrumental solo” had an impressive opening on April 29, in GARDEN menschneider has held his present posi- in film music for 1946. His solo in Warner MRS. ALLENE K. BIX BY, composer, or- GOIN' HOME in MY Rochester, birds the Eastman Theatre, New tion for nearly half a century. He wall Bros. “Of Human Bondage,” for which Arr. Fisher 50 ganist, teacher, whose piano educational By Dvorak— Yorjc. A radio version of Dr. Hanson’s remain at the "College in the capacity of Erich Korngold wrote the score, brought works for beginners are widely used, died High Medium Low opera, “Merry Mount,” on May 3, was an an advisor, devoting more time to his re- Kaufman the award. April 21 at Binghamton, New York. Mrs. outstanding event. The closing concert markably fine Bach Library, .as well as Bixby, who was bom in- Tunkhannock, HOLD THOU MY HANDS on May 5 had Dr. Serge Koussevitzky as doing special work upon the completion THE VIRGINIA MUSIC FESTIVAL, the Pennsylvania, studied with Paul Bliss. By Graham Godfrey 50 guest of honor at the Founders’ Day pro- of his notable editions of the Bach first of what is expected to be an annual Many of her choral and instrumental Low gram. Chorales. His plan is to present his im- event of major importance, was held at works are included in the catalogs of the mense Bach Library to Baldwin-Wallace Charlottesville, on June 13, 14, 15. The Theodore Presser Co. IS THE KING OF LOVE MY SHEPHERD THE 1947 PHILADELPHIA MUSIC FES- as a memorial to his parents. A remark- National Symphony Orchestra, under By William R. Spence 50 TIVAL, sponsored by The Philadelphia In- able fact is that between Dr. Albert Rie- Hans Kindler, gave three concerts, in two ALFREDO CASELLA, internationally High Low quirer Charities, Inc., was held in that menschneider and his father, Karl Rie- of which a world-famous soloist was known Italian composer, died March 15 city on June 13. Featured on the long the presented. At the first concert Mona menschneider, long-time president of in Rome, at the age of sixty-four. He PACK CLOUDS AWAY program were the New York Philhar- Berea institution, a total of one hundred Paulee, mezzo-soprano of the Metropoli- wrote many important works, his last By Frances McCollin 65 monic-Symphony Orchestra, the U. S. with the University of Vir- years of service has been given to Bald- tan appeared being a “Mass for Peace,” written w-hile Low H Marine Band, the Washington Redskins win-Wallace College. This is perhaps a ginia Glee Club in Brahms’ Alto Rhap- Germans, Rome was occupied by the and Q Band, Fred Waring and His Pennsyl- concert featured John record for service to an educational in- sody. The second produced there in December 1945. PR Philadelphia Scala STRESA , 4YRr vanians, and the La stitution. Powell, Virginia composer-pianist. Corps de Ballet. Robert Merrill, of the By Wintter Watts 50 ERIC DUDLEY, director of the Cornell Metropolitan Opera Association, was an High University Glee Club for twenty-five outstanding soloist, and Paul Whiteman years, and since 1903, of the First Presby- was master of ceremonies. THE SWEETEST STORY EVER TOLD terian Church Choir of Ithaca, New York, By R. M- Stults 50 died in that city on May 21, at the age of High Medium Low PRIZE WINNERS in the fifth annual seventy-four. For some years before the young composers' contest of the National World War he was director of the Ithaca TAKE, O TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY Federation of Music Clubs have recently Conservatory of Music. announced. The major prize of one By Garth Edmundson 35 been Medium hundred dollars for a work for orchestra FREDERICK KITZINGER, conductor, went to Willard S. Elliot of Houston, who at the age of nineteen was an as- second prize of fifty dollars THE TIME FOR MAKING SONGS HAS COME Texas, while sistant to Otto Klemperer at the State in this classification was given to Samuel By James H. Rogers 50 Opera in Berlin, died May 23 in New York Thomas Beversdorf, also of Houston. First mtmorp City. He had accompanied the late High Medium In of Mobort A. fFilliamt, Quarlrrmanttr C. S M, tort in tkojirot battlo Ikt SouiJk prize fifty dollars in Class for a of Faoifio of 1, Emanuel Feuermann, ’cellist, on a world TO A SAILOR SON choral work, was won by Rosalind Burg- recently conducted H ARVKT GAUL tour, and more had TO SOMEONE inski of Lynbrook, Y. Second prize of N. operas and operettas in the United States. By Geoffrey O'Hara 50 twenty-five dollars in this classification Medium went to Penelope Svendson of Forest Hills, N. Y. First prize of fifty dollars in Competitions WHITE NOCTURNE music work, -was Class 2, for a chamber A PRIZE of one hundred dollars is offered By Paul Nordoff of Ithaca, Y., with 50 won by Sidney Cox N.