May 1945) James Francis Cooke

Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 5-1-1945 Volume 63, Number 05 (May 1945) 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 63, Number 05 (May 1945)." , (1945). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/206 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]. — THE FOURTH OF THE WURLITZER SERIES ON "MUSIC PROM THE HEART OF AMERICA" The last lurking Jap has been cleaned out of the jungle. G. I. Joe can relax in the tropic night. All is quiet. Overhead blaze myriads of shimmering stars. War seems a million miles away. A soft, sentimental mood steals over him. Homesick? Sure but he’d never admit it! He starts hum- ming an old, familiar tune . beautiful, unforgettable Star Dust. "Gosh, that was her favorite,” he sighs, "mine, too!” Helping speed the day when he can return to his loved ones are the Wurlitzer factories, now producing war materials. Music teachers will be glad to hear that manufacture of the famed Wurlitzer Spinette Piano will be resumed soon after Victory. And, more than ever before, it will be a piano distinguished for modern styling, beauty of tone and lightness of action at extremely moderate price . an instrument teachers can heartily recom- mend because it offers fine quality without placing a financial burden on the families of their students. The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company Executive Offices • 105 West Adams • Chicago Awarded with Star, Do Kalb Division Awarded with Stars, No. Tonawanda Division " “ »rd, 1 „ Milchell Parish Wurlitzer is Ameri- ca’s largest manufac- Wurlitzer is America’s larg- turer ofjuke boxes WurlTTzer est manufacturer ofpianos all i, Am,,, produced under one name tea’s largest manufac- THE NAME THAT MEANS /Mi&uc TO MILLIONS r COUPERIN’S “QUI REGIS ISRAEL, IN- TENDE,” which was presented for the first time in 1705, received its first Amer- ican performance when it was given on March 26 by the Bach Circle of New York. The long delay in having the work heard in this country is said to be due to the fact that parts were not available for performance, since the first modern edition for voices was not published until 1933. THE MUSIC EDUCATORS NATIONAL CONFERENCE, in compliance with the recent request of the Office of Defense Transportation, has cancelled the six division conferences which had been scheduled in various sections of the country this spring. In their place a series of War Emergency Councils were held during March and April, at which many important problems were dis- cussed. A RECENT CHILDREN’S CONCERT of The ARTUR RODZINSKI has been reengaged Philadelphia Orchestra included on the for his third successive season as musi- permanent conductor of CINCINNATI program the first presentation in Phila- cal director and THE Symphony SYMPHONY ORCHES- delphia of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” bj the New York Philharmonic There will also be three guest TRA, Eugene Goossens, Reuven Kosakoff, young Connecticut Society. of great church and folk music to which Robert Grooters as nar- conductors for the season: Bruno Wal- conductor, at its con- composer, with they were introduced last summer by ter, who will conduct four weeks; George certs on March 23 and rator. the Trapp Family. They plan to attend Szell, who will take over for three weeks; 24, gave the first per- the “Sing, Week’’ at the Trapp Family and Igor Stravinsky, one week. formance of an unusual SERGE PROKOFIEFF’S Eighth Piano Music Camp this summer, which opens work; this being a set of Sonata was performed on March 20, on June 25. photographer, variations on a theme for the first time in this country, when NICHOLAS JOHNSTON, E at Francisco, is the organizer of a supplied by Mi'. Goos- ™ it was played by Vladimir Horowitz of San G0 S in that city, to be known sens to ten well-known A NEW VIOLIN CONCERTO by Harl a reception given by the Soviet Con- new orchestra American composers: Ernest Bloch, McDonald, Manager of The Philadelphia sulate General in New York. This was as the People’s Symphony of San Fran- Aaron Copland, Paul Creston, Anis Fu- Orchestra, was given its world premiere at the personal invitation of the com- cisco. Mr. Johnston believes that there priced symphony leihan, Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, by that organization on Friday after- poser. is need for a popular Walter Piston, Bernard Rogers, William noon, March 16, and repeated at the con- and to that end has engaged Sir Thomas Schuman, and Deems Taylor. Mr. Goos- cert of Saturday evening, March 17. The ARVED KURTZ, musicologist and violin- Beecham to conduct the first fifty-cent also concertmaster of the orchestra, Alexan- priced concert, to be given in May. sens, in supplying the theme, had ist, and a brother of Efrem Kurtz, musi- given suggestions as to key relationships der Hilsberg, was the soloist, with Eu- cal director of the Kansas City Sym- and other necessary details, so that when gene Ormandy conducting. The new phony Orchestra, has been appointed THE PHILADELPHIA reception, the different variations were assembled, work had a most enthusiastic director of the New York College of CHAMBER STRING SIM- being they would form a homogeneous unit. both the soloist and the composer Music, to succeed the late Carl Hein. FONIETTA conducted by recalled many times. Fabien Sevitzky marked twentieth anniver- ROBERT DOELLNER’S Quartet No. 1, its April with winner of the thousand dollar RCA prize CHARLES GUY HOOVER, founder and sary on 15, ompetiliond concert given in the for the best string quartet by an Ameri- president of the Educational Music L a Ho- can composer, received its first New York Bureau, widely known in the School Bellevue-Stratford tel, Philadelphia. Abram performance when it was played on Music field, died on March 5 in Chicago. Dr. Fabien EDGAR M. LEVENTR1TT pianist, was 19 at a concert by the Chamber He was founder and editor of the Edu- THE Chasins, Sevitzky March has announced the 1940-41 FOUNDATION, INC., the soloist, playing a Music Guild. Also on the program was cational Music Magazine, and in young musi- sixth annual competition for Concerto in A major for piano, by Mo- String Quartet No. 2, by Comarg.o was president of the National Associa- the cians. This year’s contest is open to pian- by a similar prize for of Sheet Music Dealers. zart. Among the numbers performed Guarnieri, which won tion ists and violinists between the ages of the Simfonietta were Arthur Foote’s the best work from Latin America. seventeen and twenty-five who are resi- the Award “Aria and Fugue” and Ernest Bloch’s GIOVANNI B. FONTANA, composer, dents of the United States, and with the New York Concerto Grosse. The Simfonietta was JAY WHARTON FAY, Associate Pro- teacher, and organist for the past forty- is an appearance DR. Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Ap- founded by Dr. Sevitzky in 1925, and it fessor of Music at New Jersey College one years of the Roman Catholic Church plications must be submitted by June 15, has given premiere performances of Women, died on March 1, at New of Our Lady of Pompeii, in New York for and full information may be secured by many important American works. Dr. Brunswick, New Jersey. Dr. Fay had City, died on March 9 at the age of at 30 Broad addressing the Foundation Sevitzky is also the conductor of the connected with the New Jersey seventy-two. Mr. Fontana was born in been Street, New York City. Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. College for Women since 1933; prior to Italy and before coming to the United was head of the Instrumental States he had been director of the Pon- $25,000. is the that he A FIRST PRIZE of THE ESSEX COUNTY (NEW JERSEY) of the Rochester Public chielli Institute of Music at Cremona, composition contest sponsored Department award in a SYMPHONY SOCIETY, Mrs. Parker O. member of the faculty of Italy. by Henry H. Reichhold, industrialist and Schools, and a hold its Detroit Symphony Or- Griffith, president, will annual the Eastman School of Music. He was president of the Composers of the twenty-one Spring Opera Festival beginning May 10, author of several books on music as COLUMBIA UNIVER- chestra. the Pan-American republics are invited to in Newark, New Jersey. Operas to be as works for band and orchestra. SITY will be the scene well submit manuscripts. A second and third performed are “Carmen.” "The Barber had served also as director of on May 12-14 of the first Dr Fay prize of $5,000. and $2,500. respectively, of Seville," “Martha” (in English), "La the Plainfield, New Jersey annual festival of con- music in are included in the awards. The winning Traviata,” and “Madaina Butterfly.” the schools, head of the band school of temporary American compositions will be played by the New York College of Music, and music sponsored by the Detroit Symphony in the Pan-American Ithaca. THE FONTAINEBLEAU ALUMNI ASSO- conductor of the New Brunswick (New Alice M. Ditson Fund. Arts Building in Washington. CIATION in America, in appreciation of Jersey) Little Symphony Orchestra. The purpose of the fes- AN AWARD OF $1,000 to encourage the magnificent gesture of the French tival is to give encour- “the writing of American operas in gen- establishing, after the previous develop- people in in last summer’s ex- agement to the is PARTICIPANTS eral, and of short operas in particular,” war, a school for American students of • by ment of American com- perimental “Sing Weeks,’’ instituted announced by the Alice M.

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