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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 5-1-1920 Volume 38, Number 05 (May 1920) 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 38, Number 05 (May 1920)." , (1920). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/668 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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This orchestra ing the position of the hand upon the keyboard, at¬ orchestra, and and of wide interest to musicians every¬ CHARACTERISTIC FOUR-HAND PIANO PIECES solo'ii public schools of Rochester, and his aim is first gave monthly concerts, but so great taining freedom, training the eye, especially in leger exclusively to. the na.rks ^ni the opportunity of thorough musical educa¬ where. Hearty congratulations ! - ■■ ■ they have been obliged lines, in staff positions and cultivating a musical ear. By Geo. L. Spaulding Price, 75 cents tion to any student who enters the college. -- - s* the These studies are all tuneful and interesting to prac¬ . Familiar nursery tales are cleverly retold in the AMERICAN COMPOSERS’ ALBUM Edgar Stillman Kelley, Pilgrim The son anil daughter of the late tice. Altogether this set of study pieces promises verse ad libitum to these new duet numbers for was produced with eminent soloi! S. 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The last two million dolla_ _ The six easy pianoforte compositions in this little FOUR-HAND EXHIBITION concert included the Inflamatus of Rossini, break against the management because the .volume comprise the best set of Mother Goose did not include any of the difficult pieces, but only (with Luisa Tetrazzini as soloist), ns well a.s demand of the players for an increase in gl10.000 wn* the stated nmnnnt of How- Melodies the publishers have ever seen. They can PIECES FOR THE PIANO those of medium grade and of special merit. other notable music by chorus and orchestra. salaries at one time threatened the actual icome tax paid by John McCormack, the be played or sung and will delight the child pianist The final number was the Farewell Sum- existence of the orchestra, and the only re¬ .enor. Galli-Curoi is said to have paid called Enid, in Oklahoma, which, f__ _ Price, $1.25 phony (last movement), during which, follow¬ course is so substantial an endowment that $80,000; Tetrazzini, $100,000; and Caruso cessive seasons, has indulged in functions of or the little singer. The teacher of children will be The numbers are both original duets as well as SPAULDING ALBUM ing its first picturesque tradition, one musi¬ the management will be able to grant these a like amount. this kind and has not lost a penny. Plaees interested to know that these numbers are also pub¬ cian after another blew out the candle at his increases and meet its other expenses. far larger spot on the map arrangements of compositions by such writers as For the Pianoforte Price, $1.00 desk and left, the stage, till only the conduc- A ten million dollar I is to be might well sit at the feetf of this tiny town lished separately in sheet form. Anver Schnrnenka, the composer hn 111 as a War Memorl Rachmaninoff, Grieg, Tschaikowsky, Moszkowski, . A new collection of intermediate grade. Spauld¬ tor, Dr. Walter Damroseh, was left. This of pedagogic works, Is n rigorous and learn how to do it. Dvorak, Gottschalk, Brahms and others. While this ing’s work is so well known that it needs no intro¬ ended one of the most notable events of the dlers, in Washington, D. C. VERDI—CHILD’S OWN BOOK musical world during its full and brilliant old man of seventy, since his birthday “The Groldsmith of Toledo,” a compilation offers excellent material for recital or duction here, and the many lovers of his music will season of 1919-20.