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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 5-1-1936 Volume 54, Number 05 (May 1936) 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 54, Number 05 (May 1936)." , (1936). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/844 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. 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It is NEVA, Switzerland, cele- Symphony Orchestra of New York, giving world’s oldest theaters, was destroyed on of a dozen kinds of cheese in the last stages of mortifica¬ brated recently its first as his reason that, “After a half century of manuscripts in the Library tion, the stench of stale beer and the smoke of cheap a new game being widely played in musical circles, and it continuous conducting,” he now “feels the February 8th, by fire. of Congress at Washing- CuMlNn Nathan centenary. Foundedin 183S, monopoly cigarettes, we found an atmosphere that had all adds a new thrill to musical life. If you play the piano, you Bloc through the generosity of necessity for a release from the great respon¬ ton D. C. A “Symphony in D major" was KING EDWARD VIII is said to be “no the flavor of an embalming fluid. Just why this was sup¬ can secure these works arranged for piano in the “Analyti¬ the Geneva financier, Francois BarthoUni, it sibility of presiding as music director of a heard for the first time in any form what¬ permanent orchestra.” ^ mean performer” on the concertina, a popu¬ ever in a hundred years, and for the first posed to be magically beneficial to art we were never able cal Symphonic Series” by Dr. Percy Goetschius. These have had as its first director, and head of the violin lar British musical instrument of the accor¬ department, Nathan Bloc, who continued till time at all in the composer’s native Rome, to find out. all of the leading instrumental parts indicated by cues; THE TWELFTH HASLEMERE FES¬ dion family but rather small and of hexago¬ when on a program of January 5lh at the 1849. Franz Liszt was engaged as professor Musical atmosphere was a very expensive commodity, and, after the work has been heard over the air, one has TIVAL of music from the Middle Ages to nal shape. Augusteo. A “Symphony in C major” was of piano for the first year. Other famous the 18th Century, under the direction of when it concerned itself with buying tickets for concerts, the fun of taking it to the keyboard and studying the professors have been Bernhard Stavenhagen, 4—----t* heard for the first time in its revised form, Arnold Dolmetsch, will be held from July THE BETHLEHEM BACH FESTIVAL on December 11, in Casclla's native Turin. operas and recitals, to say nothing of standing in a queue effects. Jose Iturbi, Henri Marteau, Hugo Heerman 20th till August 1st, at Haslemere, near and Emile Jacques-Dalcroze. will be held on May 22nd and 23rd, with for hours in order to get admission. Again, let us suppose that Josef Hofmann is announced London. Bruce A. Carey conducting. The programs of JOSEF STRANSKY, eminent as musi¬ How amazingly has the situation changed! It is now to play at a certain hour. Do not let an opportunity like the 22nd will be of a miscellaneous nature, RARE 17th CENTURY MANUSCRIPTS, “IL CAMPIELLO (The Little Cham¬ cian and art collector, died March 6th, in possible to secure records of many of the great sympho¬ that pass by. Get the program, by all means, and secure collected by Sam Franko, veteran violinist whilst those of the 23rd will be devoted pion),” a comedy opera by Wolf-Ferrari, New York City, aged sixty-one.