Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 12-1-1921 Volume 39, Number 12 (December 1921) 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 39, Number 12 (December 1921)." , (1921). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/40 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]. 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"ir ters,Aaddressed ”0 * in^t^^-0yabUreadingt0^ mm* mm* ■ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 THE ETUDE DECEMBER, 1921 _ Single Copies 25 Cents VOL. XXXIX, No. 12 Christmas Again think of the thousands who had the best of all there was to have and who have never made use of it. For nearly forty years The Etude has been privileged to To think that one cannot advance technically after the join in the Christmas rejoicings of its vast assemblage of friends awe of twenty or thirty is absurd. De Pachmann virtually in all parts of the globe. revolutionized his technic after he was fifty; it called for enorm¬ How beautiful, how rich, how lovely seem the words: ous work, but he was willing to pay the price. If you feel “Merry Christmas” that the technical barriers are too high, then remember that in this year 1921! How redolent are these words of holly, fir there are manv other musical channels in which you may move and mistletoe ! How they chime with good cheer! How bright ahead as fast as your energy and persistance will propel you. they shine with Yuletide radience! The main thing is to get about it. Wipe yesterday from It was very hard to keep a smile in “Merry Christmas” vour mind as the waves wipe the images from the sand. Today four years ago. (Gracious ! is it four years since those dreadful is the thing, whether you are eighteen or eighty. Forget Whit¬ days?) Through all the mad struggle music did more than tier’s morose lines, and remember this beautiful thought from anything else to keep us sweet, and fortify our hopes for the revival of that brotherhood which is the definition of Christi¬ Longfellow: anity in its highest sense. Ah, nothing is too late— Christmas—the hour of supreme joy, the glad day of the Cato learned Grech at eighty; Sophocles wrote his grand “Oedi¬ year, when trouble is forgotten and hate banished! Music does pus” and Simonides , much to make it that. Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers. See to it that music gladdens your own Christmas. In this When each had numbered more than four score years; issue Lieutenant Commander Sousa, who has reason for great And Theophrastus at four score and ten Christmas rejoicing because of his splendid recovery from what Had begun his “Characters of Men." might easily have been a fatal accident, tells why “Music, Is Ax Chaucer at Woodstock, with the nightingales. Ideal Christmas Present.” Note that he does not mean At sixty wrote the “Canterbury Tales." merely gifts of pieces, records, books, etc., but gifts of lessons, Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last. instruments, tickets for performances, scholarships, everything Completed “Faust" when eighty years were past. pertaining to music. Get your friends and pupils to read his What then? Shall we sit idly dozen and say. pertinent and original remarks. It will help to make your whole The night hath come; it is no longer day? year more musical. Again, Christmas is never Christmas without the real For age is opportunity no less Christmas spirit of brotherhood. How can we send out our Than youth itself, though in another dress. Christmas greetings so that Etude friends in London, Buenos And as the evening twilight fades away. Aires, Paris, Nome, Melbourne, Munich, Johannesburg, Van¬ The sky is filled with stars invisible by day. couver, Rome, Toronto, Vienna, Calcutta, Dublin, Tokio, Shanghai, Petrograd, Christiania, Auckland or in every city, town and hamlet in our own blessed homeland will really feel The Music of the Ancients that vie would like to shake them by the hand, look into their When we get right down to facts we know little or nothing eves and say with all our hearts: of what the music of the ancients really was. We know that A Happy Christmas To Everyone of You. they had music, that they enjoyed music, and that AVy had many instruments which are represented by similar inistiu- Never Too Late ments to-day.