October 1935) James Francis Cooke

Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 10-1-1935 Volume 53, Number 10 (October 1935) 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 53, Number 10 (October 1935)." , (1935). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/838 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]. t*si THE E Music 'Magazine October 1935 PPrice 25 Cents THE ETUDE HISTORICAL 1^ the Choosing of MUSICAL PORTRAIT SERIES An Alphabetical Serial Collection of C!)ri£tma£ Cantata^ The World's Best Known Musicians ePPu^jlisher'sP hFotesêpartmenl Josiah K. Lilly—B. Green- much Wsteriana,^ now ^ in Mem. Bldg.^PittsburgX’Pa" Editor JAMES FRANCIS COOKE THE ETUDE Associate Editor EDWARD ELLSWORTH HIPSHER Published Monthly By Music Magazine THEODORE PRESSER CO. ALL LOVERS OF MUSIC 1712 Chestnut Street 1 MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER, 1935 PENNA. Vol. LIII No. 10 The World of Music mtereuins and Important Happenings and Activities I Q tiadmonv AND THE WOMAN’S SYM- cS phony ORCHESTRA oi JlftL' “TRISTAN AND STEPHEN FOSTER’S HOMESTERHOMESTEAD mn MÂL ^COMPANION the collec- — "faba Sund. ISOLDE” celebrated its Pittsburgh, which had been Michi^ tion 0{ folk music published in Am«*» strom conducting, is re- seventieth anniversary by Henry Ford and “lov’e ; memory of done generations before this term ported to have drawn the ~ a performance in the Hof gan, was dedicated as a shrmem memory ^ musical vocabulary-had iU centenary c«e attendanCe—fifty SUNOSTSOM Hans (now National) Theater the composer, on July 4th, brated at the Big Southern Harmony S g 6> thoKusan(|__at anv one of the summer Sym- von Bulow Munichi with Wilhelm and ninth anniversary of his birth. °n Jujy 10thi at Benton, Kentucky. The book “omano^ ^ Concerts in Grant Park Furtwangler conducting. Chancellor Hitler sat •« , ~ZT ' T rnl>j was compiled by William Walker P The organizations of “mere men" had to be ,n• the• 'box which• -:.JwaToccupied by Wagner’swr»„n*r>a THE— FOURTEENTH™T™nn®Fw-rTj GENERALr.FNF.R AT. CON- ^sburg,,,South South Carolina, and published at contentedsue t, with ten to twenty thousand asa. patron and friend, King Ludwig II, on that VENTioN of the American Guild ot Organ- New Haven> Connecticut. their best. With a woman of ability and per- musically memorable night of June 10, 1865, ists met jn New York from June 24th to 28th, ^-.-f first sonality as conductor, and with a Board oi when royalty and nobility were liberally with nine hundred members registered.iniat- “LA TUIVE,” by Halevy, which was sprinkled throughout the audience, and the tendance—the largest number ln “e h>st°ry J Porie nn Februan Baroness Cosima von Bulow sat with Wagner, of the organization. It was the first meeting heard1835, hadon any earlier . b in this season a OHMBjnf of the ■•Metropolis of the Lakes," this or- ihh~ older organization, performance at Budapest, with Fritz g gan;zatjOI1) now in its tenthi year, is an out °u-^rgKn pTffttive on Tanuarlf 1, 1935! conducting. standing monument to the achievement, which became effective on January ss——-^ . „„«ihle with the right sort of leadership and THE BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY of Charles H. Doersam is the newly elected AUSTIN ORGAN COMPANY, one P methods. Wellington, New Zealand,- • ■ celebrated,” on May warden.--- _ of thew _largest,___ oldest_ and most respected of ° _» Sth, the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary t> a vdftttct FFSTTVAT is Drom- the organ building firms of America, is rctir- “OLD MORRISON” OF TRANSYLVANIA COLLEGE, THE FIRST IN¬ of the birth of the great musical triumvirate, THE BAYREUTH FESTIV ,<TPr°“ in(ing, from business;business, by a vote of the BoardBoardôf ol “THE NIBELUNGEN RING," on the STITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING WEST OF THE ALLEGHENIES Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederick ised a revival m the summer of 1936. Directors at a meeting on June 12th. The pacjftc Coast for the first time in its entirety, Handel and Alessandro Scarlatti, with a pro¬ nun i= announced for six performances, reasons given are both a decline in the demand ^ annoUnced for the coming season of the gram devoted to their works. “Parsifal” for five, with two complete presen¬ for organs, due to changes in the moving pic- San Francisco Opera Association. The artists tations of “The Nibelungen Ring.” ture theaters, and the desire of the Austin wi„ bc principally from the Metropolitan the e from the responsibilities of with Artur Bodansky ct Drogm^^fOT^JulyC^hôf^Hie"^New\lusic So- INCREASES IN ENROLLMENT of stu- Music and Football at Transylvania Hetv of the Royal Academy of Music of dents are reported by many of the institutions London wen Va/iatiotsôTpiano,by Aaron of* musical learning throughout the country. THE CINCINNATI SYMPHONY OR¬ THE CAMBRIDGE FESTIVAL (Eng¬ CoDland- “Suite for Oboe and Piano,” by One widely known conservatory of the Mid CHESTRA, with Eugene Goossens conduct- no„ur lllc -- ERE is a very remarkable letter from an equally read his letter and see just how his ideals worked out. He writes: Sr pWonfand a “Suite for Solo Flute,” die Wet* reports a gôf^-venpe. land), in honor of the two hundred ar 'i anniversary of the birth of Hanc remarkable man who saw that a radical change was “During your visit here last spring, I promised to write you a by Wallingford Riegger. 19341M4 and of one hundred and ^seventy ^ g.ye Jrirs/tts:twQ performances each of -'—w-•*we only loved him as '**.'*£&do the English.) necessary and then had the courage to make that letter giving in some detail the story of the development of music r the same season of 1933. brought forth some of his most seldom heard change in defiance of all conventions as well as of popular on the Transylvania campus and the effect that this enterprise HANDEL, in a hitherto unpublished draw¬ “Die Walkure” (in German), “Tannhiiuser” works. Aside from chamber and orchestral opinion. ing, was reproduced in a recent issue of Music (in English), “Tristan and Isolde” _(in Ger- has had upon the general morale of the institution. and Letters oi London. It represents the- ERNO VON DOHNANYC , leader Mnong It is from Dr. Arthur Braden, President of Transylvania Uni¬ “I came to Transylvania from the presidency of California master in company with the frfamous singer living Hungarian musicians, has compoMd a Christmas season it will give two per- ^pol o ”^ ; , and open-air versity, the oldest institution for higher education west of the Christian College, Los Angeles, in the spring of 1930. In the J =--- J- “coiorfu1 and bnfimnt” ballet which recentty formances of tbe “Messiah,” with the Univer- the masterVTlie known as La Francescina; and Alleghenies. It was founded in 1780, as Transylvania College. California institution music is a large factor, and naturally so, M Coppersmith points out that this the had its premiere with the choreography^- ^ of Cincinnati 0ratorio Society; and the ^Tce of H^cule”Tnd “Susanna," the hi will support ^hrec origina„y an oratorio and containing at lea Washington and John Adams contributed to its endowment fund. because Los Angeles is a great musical center. When I arrived Henry Clay was a professor of law there; and Jefferson Davis in Kentucky, however, I found an entirely different atmosphere asssss=person" H?atoplaTs Sate at aboift 1745. sthe composer’s earlier Ruralia Hungarica and s-ewes®**: one of his finest choral inspirations. and many other celebrated men from the South graduated from * _cv- “Symphonic Minutes. and a different attitude to the fine arts. At Transylvania there -- the institution. was a very meager program of music and little or no interest “AUNT SIMONA,” by Dohnanyi, and GEORGE GERSHWIN is completing a During the Civil War the college was used by the Federal thMlatS‘ theatrical manager and one of the THE PANHARMONICUM, including two “The Poacher,” by Lortzing, had their Amcr- new opera of a serious nature, which us prom¬ in the program that was being offered. The dominant extra¬ original Savoyards who Lade seemingly un- hundred and fifty-nine single instruments,, ican premiere when given early in July by ised for early production. It is based o Government, as a military hospital, and naturally for this period curricular influence on this campus, as on many others, was dvina history^with the Gilbert and Sullivan which was constructed m 1805 m“Vienna, Vienna, by 5luucllLBstudents ulof thew Eastman School of Music. cclcbcelebrated play, “Porgy. with a Ne? • it ceased to function in the educational field. However, so im¬ intercollegiate athletics and particularly intercollegiate football. na«pH awav on July 10th, in a Regensburg mechanic named Maelzel, has jhe English translations had been made by Th • said that it is an opera. m operatic satires, passed away • _ ’ < . Loon i-pnnvjitpH anrl hparri at. the Frovincial xt_tt_j ,, 1 portant a foundation was not to be neglected. Here were rich This situation was demoralizing to the academic and moral and London, at the age of seventy-eight. been renovated and heard at the Provincial Norman Horn and the orchestrations t the’ nature of "Carmen,” with solos, duets traditions, particularly dear to the South, and also one of the most spiritual life of Transylvania.

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