Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 4-1-1934 Volume 52, Number 04 (April 1934) 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 52, Number 04 (April 1934)." , (1934). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/821 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]. fj§ THE ETUDE l n zJfCusic tJYCagazine Copyrttht, 1984, ty Theodore Presser Co. for V. S. A. and Oreat Britain 1 A MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR THE MUSICIAN, THE MUSIC STUDENT AND ALL MUSIC LOVERS JAMES FRANCIS COOKE ,712 17I4 CH^tn“tmADELPH 1 A. PA. EDWARD^L^WORTH HIPSHER frV1--/L V Vol. I .11. NO. 4 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA_APRI1 if THE WORLD OF -MUSIC Interesting and Important Items Gleaned in a Constant Watch on Happenings and Activities Pertaining to Things Musical Everywhere THE PHILHARMONIC - SYMPHONY HOWARD HANSON’S new American STEPHEN FOSTER’S memory was hon¬ THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT has SOCIETY of New York—oldest orchestral opera, “Merry Mount,” had its world pre¬ ored by a special program of his music in established a Department of Fine Arts, with organization of America and fourth oldest of miere on February 10th, at the Metropolitan Carnegie Hall of Pittsburgh, on January 13th, Carlos Chavez, the widely known composer such leading groups of the world—is asking Opera House of New York, thus becoming the seventieth anniversary of his death. The at its head. This Department of Fine Arts for a guarantee fund of half a million dollars the fifteenth native work for the musical stage Stephen F’oster Memorial, in the form of a is to function as a division of the Ministry to insure its success through the next three to be produced by this company. Composer, beautiful Gothic structure on the campus of of Education and will be housed in a sump¬ years. The three older ones are the Gewand- librettist Richard Stokes, and the story are the University of Pittsburgh, is announced tuous and nearly finished Palace of Fine Arts, haus Orchestra of Leipzig, with an unbroken American, the plot dealing with New England as to be soon begun. which will include a National Theater. The activity since 1781, when Johann Adam Hiller colonial witchcraft and religious zealots. Ed¬ movement contemplates the revival of the in¬ became conductor, and an authentic existence ward Johnson, Lawrence Tibbett and Gota digenous music wiped out by the Spanish back to 1743; the Philharmonic Society of Ljungberg had leading roles and there were Conquest and the creation of a rich national when, on January 19th, he played Bee¬ thoven’s “Concerto in C^Op. IS,” with^the months before the first concert of the Phil¬ CAPT. H. E. harmonic Society of New York, on De¬ cember 7, 1842. DANIEL AYALA, a full-blooded young ported to have the commonwealth. He began by leading begun another opera, “Die schweigsame Frau three concerts in the Town Hall of Sydney. Zweig, is based on Ben Jonson’s play of the THE VALUABLE COLLECTION of mu- HANDEL’S “JEPHTHA” had its first OTAKAR SEVCIK, eminent violin teacher, ? p,,‘- . 16th! at the Guildhall, Cambridge, England, lied on January 18, at Pizek in his native ,t THE JROCADERO °fp Paris.Jame^ for The Hague, ^seventy-five thousand florins by the University Musical Society. Dr. Cyril Bohemia, at the age of ’ ' toS ^demolished°to^’makeProom for a grand (about. thlrt>..1 ousan 0 ars • t is t us held in 1937. •i- EDGAR T. COOK, h; five years of service at 1 forrnances' of*choral ^master & of Doctor of Music, and the Chapter of the sotois”^ assisTing this fa|bus orchestra b^ex” and be- widely^known “£ SEft S» books, as a composer, and has left in manu- valuedx-arsssifiBivs contributor to The Etude. -1- when he recently took part in a New Yc .PH KINDER has benefit concert by playing in Bach’s “Cc d his thirty-fifth sea- certo for Two Violins,” with Toscha Sen recitals on the organ as the other violinist and Harriet Cohen FERNANDO GRAVINA, ayoung Spanish structed.” Jt was givena Whitho°rne laway his new lyric he “tried to write a good symphony, logical, wa^receiVed in°toofby^dwato VII at Wind! politan mu^ian^havtog been born^at* sor Castle, and in 1925 he received from the boul of Spanish parents, studied in Paris, to Holy See the title of Commander of the and now become an established resident of the Order of St. Gregory. Madrid. don page 268) Page 212 APRIL 1931,. The Etude Historical Musical Portrait Series An Alphabetical Serial Collection of THE WORLD'S BEST KNOWN MUSICIANS Music To The Front C< Et Id iS&fVBL “ LD GIMLET EYE” (Major General Smedley D. But- that was far from any firing line—a battle for life. referre (C I ler, United States Marine Corps, Retired, to you) has Soon General Pershing put “Old Gimlet Eye” in command ' Anthems, songs, V J given us his autobiography, through Lowell Thomas, in of the camp, with orders to clean it up. The camp he describes ius. R«. Richmond, i a book which bears this famous soldier's expressive military as “a disgrace ever since the A. E. F. first landed at Brest; and pseudonym by which he was known to his own troopers. (Old when the influenza epidemic swept over France it became a Gimlet Eye, Adventures of Smedley D. Butler. Copyright, 1933, pest trap.” On the day Genral Butler took command, two by Lowell Thomas. Farrar and Rinehart, Publishers.) hundred and fifty men died in this military death hole. Burn¬ Probably there never has been a more intrepid warrior, in ing with the anger and chagrin of not finding himself and his the annals of fighting. This very fighting men at the front, but “as vivid book reveals the General’s far from the front as it was possible irrepressible scorn for all obstacles— to be without jumping into the bullets, shipwrecks, disease, and ocean,” he, like a fine soldier, ac¬ even for the forces of nature. It cepted the inevitable, “rolled up his was usually possible for “Old Gim- sleeves, dug in and determined to let Eye” to “get there” with the make it as decent and comfortable flag flying, when everybody else de- a place as possible.” dared it unthinkable. Many of his How bad the situation was can toughest tussles were under the be imagined, when, with sixty-five withering tropics, in death-soaked thousand men in the camp, there jungles, miraculously dodging seem¬ were “twelve thousand cases of in¬ ingly certain doom. After incredi¬ fluenza and no doctors in many of bly dangerous experiences in China, the outfits.” On top of this, the the Philippines and Central Amer¬ Leviathan (once the German ica, which won him two Congres¬ “Fatherland”) turned up with ten sional Medals of Honor and sixteen thousand more men on board, four other distinctions for fighting, he thousand of whom were down with naturally expected that, when the the “flu.” Picture the tragic situa¬ greatest scrap of all came in 1917, tion in which “Old Gimlet Eye” “they” (always that mysterious, mys¬ found himself! The field hospital tic “they,” which controls the fate held only two hundred and fifty, of the real workers, not the wire and twelve thousand of our mothers’ pullers) would want a man of his sons were lying sick in the mud! repute and proven ability to get into There, my worthies, was a shell-less the action on the front, as soon as battle which should rank with some possible. But the same political of the greatest conflicts of the world. machinery, that kept the magnificent It was the battle of saving men—not General Leonard Wood and the destroying them; and, whether the strenuous Theodore Roosevelt in General realizes it or not, it was the America, saw to it that Butler, one climax of his exciting and distin¬ of the most sensationally victorious guished career. Strange twist of soldiers our country has produced, Fate, that, which put a Pennsylvania never got any farther than the United Quaker in command of the battle States reception camp at Brest, with death. France. This camp “Old Gimlet But this editorial could never have Eye” described on his arrival, thus: been written for The Etude were “We were assigned to two choice residential plots of it not for one thing. That is, the General’s instinctive appreci¬ mud. Acres and acres of mud flats with dripping, de¬ ation of the immense value of music in keeping up the spirits jected \ha\i-Colored tents. Beyond, a cheerless steel sea of his men amid the most dismal and disheartening circum¬ half hidden in fog. Shivering cold, blea\, death-stricken stances thinkable. —a hell of a place.” After this practical soldier had repaired his field kitchens, had fed his men hot soup, had found warm blankets for them Imagine arriving in such a spot in command of twelve and had built bonfires all over the place, with wood bought at hundred men (one hundred died on the way over, of “flu”).