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l)nnk t0 Ue Only With Thine Eyes Arr. by Wil|i;lm skconoo OLD ENGLISH ,\ll< SIGRID ONEGIN, world- famous German-Swed- ish opera singer, died in June at Magliaso, MORE MONEY Switzerland. Mme. One- MAKING gin, who was well known IF YOU'RE to American audiences, was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 1, 1891. She studied in Prank- Sigiud Onegin fort and Munich, Ger- many, and also in Milan, Italy. She de- voted several years to concert work and then in 1912 made her operatic debut at Stuttgart in “Carmen,” with Caruso as the Don Jose. Her American debut was made in “Aida” with the Metropolitan Opera in 1922. Prom 1922 to 1933 Mme. HERE. THERE. AND EVERYWHERE Onegin was a member of the Berlin Staatsoper. Her greatest roles were those IN THE MUSICAL WORLD of the Wagnerian operas.

VINCENT PERSICHETTI AND HERBERT NORMAN DELLO JOIO, New York com- amateur violoncellist for years, and prior ELWELL were the winners in the recent poser, has won the Town Hall Composi- to the war, traveled extensively as an composition contest conducted by the tion Award for 1943 with his “Magnifi- amateur, playing concerts in various parts Juilliard School of Music in New York. cat” for chamber orchestra. The award of the country. Mr. Persichetti, born in Philadelphia, is consists of a cash prize of two hundred paying real estate taxes in the city of of the Composition Department of and fifty dollars and a performance of THE WINNERS in the young artists’ head New York. Governor Dewey, in signing Paying off old debts; (4) Life In- the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music. the work next season by the National contests conducted in connection with the (3) this bill, paid a well-deserved tribute to is what His winning composition is a Dance Over- Orchestral Association under Leon Bar- streamlined convention of the National with it-what would happen surance; and (5) The Bank, we don’t the cultural influence of the Association. every ture. Mr. Elwell, head of the Composition zin. Federation of Music Clubs, held in New happens at an auction where bid up the prices of goods at all. And of Cleveland Institute, York City May 6-8, are Fredell Lack, horse that s up Department the composer farmer there wants a shoes and other if besides doing this we (6) refuse to HERMAN HANS WETZLER, those dresses and the award with his Introduction and SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF MEXI- violinist; Zadel Skolovsky and Gladys won conductor, died in New York City on THE for sale. pay more than the ceiling prices; and and stuff. Allegro. CO, under the direction of its distinguished Gladstone, who shared the piano award; May 30. He was born in Frankfort-on- all we wanted, no more for what we have to mezzo-soprano, win- If we tried to buy will go still higher. (7) ask founder -conductor, Carlos Chavez, opened and Nan Merriman, And the prices the-Main, September 8, 1870, and studied up no for of one-thousand-dollar award would bid the prices of things in that sell— no more in wages, more LEWIS W. RODENBERG, blind printer, its sixteenth season on June 4 in the ner the we And the majority of us will be with Clara Schumann, Humperdinck, and paying Mexico City. Among in her class. up and up. Instead of goods— pricer stay where they are musician, and poet, has received the in Palace of Pine Arts, and same old spot again—only worse. Bernard Scholz. In 1892 he settled New to pay Migel Medal in recognition of his work in the soloists appearing with the orchestra $10 for a dress we’re going now. City and for many years was or- York Imre Hart- of shoes behalf of the sightless. Mr. Rodenberg, are Claudio Arrau, pianist; THE PHILADELPHIA OPERA COMPANY $15. Instead of $5 for a pair a bank account. We ganist at Trinity Church there. In 1903 And we pile up violoncellist; and the Polish violin- singers an accomplished violoncellist and pianist, Wetzler Symphony Or- mann, has announced a number of new we’re going to pay $8. our family protected in case we he formed the YOU, before have is one of the first persons to write four- ist, Henryk Szeryng. to be heard next season. These include E WANT TO WARN chestra, which was selected by Richard that there aren’t that’ll Despite the fact die. We have War Bonds make part music in Braille, and is also one of Jane Cozzens and Brenda Miller, so- you read this page, that you’ve Strauss in 1904 for a festival of his own W dresses or shoes or anything on a new house brilliant young conduc- pranos; Alice Howland, contralto; Wil- any more the down payment the few individuals who can read four- SYLVAN LEVIN, got to use your head to understand it. music, conducted alternately by the com- we’re Gil- else than there were before, the war, or help us retire some part music in Braille. Wetzler s tor of the Philadelphia Opera Company, liam Horne, Joseph Laderoute, and you that-if after poser and by Wetzler. In 1925 We also want to warn pay a lot been appointed conductor of the bert Russell, tenors; John de Surra and going to be suckers and day. And we don’t have taxes after orchestral legend, “St. Francis of Assisi,” has read it carefully you don’t bother to PAUL CRESTON’S “Symphony No. 1, Peabody Conservatory of Music Opera Robert Tower, baritones; and Elwyn Car- more for them. the war that practically strangle us won the one-thousand-dollar prize at the understand it—you may choral and ter and Seymour Penzner, basses. enough to Op. 20” has been voted the annual award Festival in Evanston, Il- Company in Baltimore. The to death. North Shore after this war as poor as a of the New York Music Critics’ Circle as orchestral conducting classes of the Con- wake up linois. Ifor Jones, church mouse. the best of the symphonic works by servatory will be in charge of THE CHAUTAUQUA SYMPHONY OR- is what is known as Inflation. Bethlehem (Pennsyl- This American composers which had their PIERRE MONTEUX, conductor of the conductor of the CHESTRA, which had been directed by Al- inflation has occurred — to a York premieres during the past sea- vania) Bach Choir. And New San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, has bert Stoessel from 1929 until his sudden every son. greater or less degree—during received the honorary degree of Doctor death in May, is having three guest con- are going to “LAST ’CELLO” of Stra- This year Americans war period. And in every case on rec- of Music from the Philadelphia Musical THE FAMOUS ductors during the present season. Wil- 12S billion dol- SUSANNA E. DERCUM, opera singer and divarius, so named because it is said to make—minus taxes— ord the people have been left holding Academy. lem Willeke had the directing honors for ’cello made by the mas- voice teacher active in Philadelphia be the last great 15 to 25 Howard Hanson from lars. the bag! from July ; years, died in that city on June 9. been purchased from the estate many ROBESON, noted Negro singer ter, has 26 to August 8; and Vladimir Gol- this year, we civilians are not PAUL July But Our government is doing a lot of She studied voice in Philadelphia and in late Emanuel Feuermann, world- and actor, has received the honorary of the schmann will conduct the final weeks going to have 125 billion dollars’ . . . ration- Europe and for some years was chair- virtuoso, by Russell B. Kingman things to keep prices down degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from famous from August 10 to August 25. worth of goods to spend this on. Jersey. Mr. Kingman, al- ing the scarcest goods, putting ceiling man of the composition contest conduct- Morehouse College, at Atlanta, Georgia, of Orange, New only going to have 80 billion ed the Eurydice Chorus of Philadel- a busy executive, has been an We’re on things, stabilizing wages, in- by first Negro college to honor him thus. though Now listen closely: prices the DR. HARL McDonald, composer, and dollars’ worth. The rest of our goods phia. creasing taxes. But the government The bidding for scarce goods is go- manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra, are being used to fight the war. sounds as if it can’t do the whole job. So let’s see Maybe, doing this concerto for violin which ing to raise prices faster than wages. B. BECK, has written a at the DR. JEAN isn’t fun. But being shot at up reported will have its premiere next Wages just won’t keep up. what we can do about it. professor of Romance it is either. You have a (Competitionssonip is that three well-known front isn’t fun, Languages at the Uni- season. It said So what will people do? well as to are seeking the privilege of This way the 45 billion dollars duty to those soldiers as versity of Pennsylvania violinists hearing. U. S. workers—whether they’re la- the money THE CHICAGO SINGING TEACH- giving the work its first public will make us prosperous yourself. Ybu can’t let and considered the lead- THE CLOSING DATE of the Patriotic borers or white-collar workers—will pocket the ERS GUILD announces the seventh an- that’s burning a hole in your ing authority in the Song Contest, conducted jointly by nual prize song competition for the W. W. or- If, instead of running Clubs and S. LEWIS ELMER, ask the boss for more money. Since out with our the country on fire. United States on the mu- National Federation of Music start setting Kimball Company prize of one hundred ganist and choral direc- extra dough, and trying sic of the Middle Ages, the National Broadcasting Company, has to bid on dollars. Manuscripts should be mailed not Phila- October 31. All details tor, was elected Warden everything in sight, died on June 23, in been extended to and not later than we buy only * * earlier than October 1, Guild * Dr. Jean delphia. Dr. Beck, a na- concerning the contest may be secured of the American what we absolutely October 15. Full details of the competition need and do some 57th of Organists at its recent tive of Alsace, played a from Miss Rhea Silberta, 200 West may be procured from E. Clifford Toren, other things that aren’t fun, we will odv«rtis*m»nt, prepared by the annual dinner meeting This cathedral organ at the age of five, and at Street, New York City. 3225 Foster Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. come out all right. Iscontnbuted in York City. Mr. War Advertising Council, twenty was compelled to give up his post New That leaves 45 billion dollars’ with AWARD NATIONAL BOARD of Delta Elmer has long been ac- If, for instance, we put this money by this magazine In co-operation as organist of the Cathedral of St. Ger- THE EURYDICE CHORUS THE compositions National Music Sorority, an- tive in Guild affairs and worth of money burning in our jeans. America. of injury to one hand. He of 1943, to stimulate choral Omicron, into (1) Taxes; (2) War Bonds; the Magazine Publishers o* vais because an for women’s voices, is announced by the nounces a National Composition Contest Lewis Elmer he brings to his new po- Well, we can do 7 things with this then turned to the study of medieval mu- S. chairman of the committee, Miss Susanna open to women composers. The award sition the fruits of many collecting of ancient musical billion dollars. One will make us sic and the Bond. 45 Dercum. The award is for one hundred will be a one hundred dollar War years’ experience as a church organist. instruments. His collection is considered poor after the war. The other way dollars, to be given for the best composi- Unpublished manuscripts in solo voice, all was the One of his positions, that of organist of one of the finest in the world. He three or more parts for women’s string, woodwind, brass, piano, organ, and will make us decently prosperous. tion of Memorial Presbyterian Church in labor is scarce, a lot of them will books on early the get author of a number of voices. The contest closes October 1, and small instrumental ensembles will be ac- for Brooklyn, was held for thirty years. He it. And farmers and business men music, the collecting of the material full details may be secured from Miss cepted. The closing date is extended to the billion dollars Use it up was a member of the Council and the This way 45 careful and Chorus September 1 and full details may be who feel the pinch are going these entailing the most Dercum, Chairman, The Eurydice ; to ask KEEP Examination Committee of the Guild, poor PRICES it out Philadelphia secured from the chairman, Mrs. L. Bruce will make us Wear painstaking research. Award Committee, c/o The more money for their goods. Art Alliance, 251 South 18th Street, Phila- Grannis, 219 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, and in 1934 planned the merging of the do with If each of us should take his share of Well, the minute these people-that Mate it THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIA- delphia, Pennsylvania. Illinois. National Association of Organists billion dollars (which aver- means maybe the A.G.O. this 45 you and plenty of your Or do without TION has been relieved of the burden of ages approximately $330 per person) friends and neighbors-get this mon- out to buy all he could ey, MUSIC’ 489 and hustle they’ll begin bidding again for DOWN! AUGUST, 1943 "FORWARD MARCH WITH . — —. —

Editorial Compositions in Which Gems of Indian Music American QBUUStt® ffiQ (B QJ (B U S ffl> (£> PUBLISHED MONTHLY Have Been 'Transcribed PHILADELPHIA, BY THEODORE PRESSER CO., Pa. Harmonized by and editorial and advisory staff DR. JAMES FRANCIS COOKE, Editor Guy McCoy and Ava Yeargain, Assistant Editors Thurlow Lieurance NE OF THE PRIME FUNC- us go through life “half alive.” We b ert e ry Kar^W.'Lehrken* Blanche Lemnion Peter H u*h°ReLOVE E— On the Wings of Joy. 491 we complimented an what by TONKA (A Sioux Love Song) F-Sharp) .35 elderly music teacher upon her spirited performance of wings of joy. High Voice (Original Concert Edition) SILVER THROATED FAWN MUSIC AND CULTURE Violin or Flute ad lib. (Range E MY (Sioux Love Song) (Range c— h).. .40 Grieg—Nationalist and Cosmopolitan Percy Aldn • Grainger 492 Invitation to the Dance. exclaimed, One of the in of . Weber’s She “Every which F-sharp) ; .60 ways we account for the miracle Innocent Merriment with Music Fran- • P. Adams 493 (Spirit Maiden) Flute or Low Yoice (Original Concert Edition) NEENAH The Spirit of the Spirituals Ruby Elzy 495 time I play it I get the thrill of joy the infant prodigies is that nothing Violin ad lib. (Range d-flat g-flat). .60 Violin or Flute ad lib. ( Range d-flat — — E-Hat) .60 O’ER THE INDIAN CRADLE MUSIC IN THE HOME that I felt when I went whirling seems to be hard work to them. Most (Range E—a) 40 Musical Radio Barrage Against the Axis Alfred I. , Morgan 497 Orchestral Acc. to Key (G-flat) . . .50 • Low — " ..l\< Classical Recordings of< High Merit Hugh Retd m around the ballroom at my first of the many we have known always Love Song) High Voice (Recital Edition— Easier RUE (Pueblo The Etude Music Lover's Bookshelf 8. Meredith Cadman 499 !” High Voice—Violin or Flute Obbl. Piano Accompaniment) ( Range F—g) .60 dance have seemed to be having the time of (Range E—g) 50 MUSIC AND STUDY Low Voice (Recital Edition— Easier This is a plea to our more serious- their lives every second of the day. )r ' Low Voice—Violin or Flute Obbl. Teacher’s Table • 7 Maier 500 Piano Accompaniment) ( Range d— E) The Round c E-flat) 50 JnUn (Range — The Saga of the Westminster Choir . Dr F Wdda nuon 501 BY WEEPING WATERS (Range minded readers to get more fun out Practice to a prodigy is just a joy- MOON OF FALLING LEAF.... Do It x ourself! rtlui GUu 503 . . SAD d-flat—D) .50 The Goal of Church Music Dr T T* mm Noble 505 High Voice (Range c g) 50 of their music. Learn how to let ous, riotous game. — The Woodwind Ensemt flor 506 DYING MOON FLOWER (c—E) . . .40 b-flat 50 Qualifications Responsibilities Competent Instrumental Mu Director Low Voice (Range —F) and of the yourself go in your music, revel in it, The great masters, from Pales- FROM GHOST DANCE CANYON Will mm D Revelli 507 .’0 (Little Sweetheart) High Voice (Range g-sharp— F-sharp). SA-MA-WEE-NO Developing the String Orchestra // -hi Berkley 509 Violin Obbl. enjoy every measure. Some mistaken trina to Prokofieff, have revealed in- ( Menominee Love Song) Questions and Answers Dr. Karl W Gehrkens 510 Low Voice (Range b—a) .50 Medium Voice ( Range F—F ) .50 Discovering the Soft Pedal Jafb Eisenberg 511 students study so intensely, so comparable delight and rapture in GHOST PIPES High Voice (Range THE SPIRIT OF WANNA The Story of the Elementary School Orchestra ’• Cook 513 d—g) .50 High Voice (Range F—F) .50 Beethoven Helps Build American Bombet meticulously that they make impos- the creation of their works. Wagner, Technic of the Month—Loneliness. Op. 5, No. 5 by Robert Franz Guy Maier 535 Low Voice (b—E) .50 . .50 sible whose emotions Low Voice (Range d—D) the . very progress they seek. were more explosive HER BLANKET (From the Navajo) MUSIC WALA KA KELO (I Love (Range d -sharp—C) .35 WASTE Classic and With strained eyes, tense muscles, than most, showed his delight by You So) Medium or Low Voice Contemporary Selections Warnor !s Song S. Heller, < 45. No. IS 516 HYMN TO THE SUN GOD (Range ( Range d—D) .50 taut nerves, they fall into the great standing on his head, crawling under ’• n Beghon 516 c—a -flat) .50 Danse Erotique THE WEAVER (The Blanket Her The Forest Brook Harold njborouyh 518 error of not finding pleasure in every the piano, or climbing up a tree to INDIAN SPRING BIRD (Ski-bi-bi- Rosary) Medium or Low Voice In the Hall of the Mountain -Km-.:. Ertv rd Grieg; Art ms Slavit 519 la) High Voice (Range E a)...... 50 —-E)‘ — (Range b-flat .40 Ardent Marigolds Criebel 520 minute of their practice. the let loose his uncontrollable bliss 521 Watch A Rustic Holiday / Brown Medium High Voice (Range d g). ... .50 WILD BIRD Before an Arab Tent Glen Barton 522 High Voice— Flute Obbl. (Range d practical sportsman, the golfer, the when he had completed an extended Medium Voice (Range c—F) .50 My Jesus, I Love Thee Adoniram J. Gordo-. Arr by Cl Kohlmann 523 g) — ...... 50 524 In Merry Mood Miner W 1 den Gallup billiard player, the fisherman. Note work. Wagner worked hard for days, Low Voice (Range b .50 E) . — Low Voice (Range b—F) ...... 40 Vocal and Instrumental Compositions how securely lightly disciplining and dieting his body so LOVE SONG (From the Red Willow WI-UM (A Pueblo Lullabv) (Range My Secret (Medium Voice* Anna P Risher 525 but each holds

' 526 A Prayer of • i thorn Pueblos) ( Range o Supplication < » F ch d— i —D) E) .50 Low Voice Sacred Song *. CL - his putter, his cue, his fishing rod. that he might enjoy the hours of Gavotte (Violin and Piano- F> :ncoU Couperin; Arr. by Leopold J Beer 528 , Hornpipe ,-i -Felton old The above represents only a partial list of the Indian Songs which Dr. Lieurance has (From Water Music) (Organ). H If they musical creation. had to be in- Buy Broom (One grasped them like pick-axes He transcribed and harmonized. 3 Piano. Six Hands* tFoIk Dance* Arr. by Evelyn Townsend Ellison a30 they would get inferior results with tensely alive and exultant. Here are Delightful Pieces for Young Plovers 532 his words : “I have only The Merrymakers—March ...... J J Thomas every stroke. Yet we have known own a mind My Canary Richter 532 PIANO SOLO NUMBERS BASED ON INDIAN THEMES Three Forrest 533 perfectly well-intentioned students to live, to enjoy i.e., to work, as an Buccaneers , — Little Swiss Clock iam Scher 533 AMERICAN INDIAN RHAPSODY BY THE WEEPING WATERS (Gr *who went about their work with artist, and produce my works; but (P. Orem) on Themes Suggested 4) .. Technic the W. . .35 of Month by Thurlow Lieurance (For Concert Loneliness Maier 534 FROM AN INDIAN VILLAGE (Gr. Robert From, Op. No. Arr. by Guy strained appearances, as though they not for the muddy brains of the com- Pianist or Advanced Students—Gr. 5. 5; 8 1.00 .40 THE ) JUNIOR ETUDE Elizabeth Cest 548 were condemned to chain mon herd.” GHOST DANCE—Transcription by a gang. BY THE WATERS OF MINNE- Isidor Philipp (Gr. 5 y2 ) .SO MISCELLANEOUS We have known a score of No wonder that Dean Swift fre- TONKA—Transcription (Gr. 5) 40 IND “N flute call music TEACH CHILDREN JOY IN MUSIC . and love Let Your Studio Help You Gail Kind 494 SONG (Gr. 4) Teach. Am Concert Edition (Gr. 6-7) 60 35 Flymg on the Wings 496 workers who have been eager to suc- picture oi the famous cinema actor, Mischa Auer, and quently repeated the toast, “May you of Mu-ir A Sister of St Benedict This TO A GHOST FLOWER (Sa-ma- Smallest 496 Simplified (Piano Pupil’s Ed. —Gr. 3).. .35 Finger" I Dixon his son Tony, portrays the keen interest in music study they wee-no) (Gr. 4) The Etude Musical 504 ceed, but who have gone about their LIVE all the days of your life!” In 2 S Quiz . D Perlee rh have inherited from their famous ancestor Leopold Auer. Musical Bingo , u 508 Cr ltckefcller our editorials -Missed Notes"...... iixon 508 study wrinkle-browed, squint-eyed, we have often dis- Even r,, h% George III Knew 508 and cussed what has been called the VIOLIN AND PIANO NUMBERS k g the Ios of rap 512 crook-backed; as though what by ON - a 'Lath INDIAN THEMES T>fo rK r i Few Minutes Blanche D ^osceot a Teacher Andcrse" 512 r Arthur ( Hal they “the inspiration of the ideal.” BY THE WATERS OF MINNE- What the D 812 were trying to do was far from being one of the most psychologists luminous The IOUX INDIAN Accompanist Ought to Know - n R Lombardi FANTASIE ' ! ! TONKA 60 .60 Ce eSt ns Answered* Douly 537 . Nicholas joyously '?, . . people soar to success, ' ' '. ! pleasurable things life. their practice successful following GHOST PIPES (Cello ad lib.) Ar- The m^Code f I 1 in Some, during a ofOur National Anthem ?!£ ranged by Fred Cardin 70 nd Choir Fry ->39 5 Questions Answered rir Henry S periods, have had the expressions of safe crackers about to luminous ideal. They are so lifted up by the delight of flying *«Hln Questions Brain* 54* Answered . . Robert Band Questmns 546 Answered ' William D Keoell* commit a crime. toward this great objective that they are not conscious of Letters from Etude 552 Chorus Directors are invited to send Friends Somewhere in the precious writings of the great American anything like work. for a list of the Choral Arrangements ”v- :%rt. psychologist, William James, there is a passage in which he Life without an objective is a pretty dismal affair. We of Indian Numbers by Thurlow THEODORE PrESSER Co. sa Lieurance. makes clear in his own characteristic manner that most of may be pardoned if we repeatedly have pointed out this 1712 CHESTNUT STREET PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. (Continued on Page 536)

490 "FORWARD march AUGUST, 1943 491 with music THE ETUDE , —

of . The path this progress (Free Music) is alwav same direction: from fear to Music and Culture in the confidence from distress to bliss. > Music and Culture

In Tune With Nature nature (whether by To enjoy that we mean maintenance of our physical good the health or ability to fly to the moon and our control the I am looking well ahead!) lightning— We must understand nature—put ourselves in tune Music with Innocent Merriment with this latter we must first her. But to do divest our- such arbitrary conceptions selves of of “right” Conference with “wrong” as blind us to the factual A and stirs of Instead of the old-fashioned nature. world of good and evil, endless strife between science en- visages a state of heavenly bliss in which all 3ranUin /2 JUami good because {3/24 things will be deemed rendered un- derstandable through scientific thinking. in the Distinguished Columnist current realm of music the limitations of scale, harmony, and rhythm bar the way to that under- Expert of "Information, Please!” exploitations of the full standing and tonal world Author of the Current Best-seller, "Innocent Merriment that would constitute tonal “heavenly bliss.” a deeply inspired genius like Grieg yearned and strove intuitively towards the attainment of such SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY ROSE HEYLBUT musical progress and musical bliss as that out-

lined above. And other inspired composers in other lands (Scriabin and Stravinsky in Russia, Ravel and Debussy in France, !> llus and Cyril RANKLIN P. ADAMS has the music hobby, to spend twenty-five cents for a gallery place at millions ‘In- Scott in England, Puccini in I’ ly, Albeniz in which is no news to the of the matinee performance and have a grand time. Spain, Bela Bartok in Hungary, MacDowell, John F formation, Please!” listeners who have Then Sousa gave open-air concerts twice a day Alden Carpenter, and Gershwin in America) were heard him lift his voice in song. Of course, Mr. at the old World’s Fair. With each of these per- The scintillating Franklin P. Adams of ''Information, Please!” THE GRAINGER MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA repertoire It not slow to take the hints that Grieg had thrown Adams has a number of other hobbies including formances, my grew. grew to em- Mr. Percy Grainger, now an enthusiastic American, has not forgotten the land of verse, capable translations from the Latin, tennis, brace all the old chestnuts Light Cavalry, Zam- Everyone felt sorry about it all. No, I have no out. That, perhaps, is the main i ason why some his birth. This sky-view sketch is of the museum in which Mr. Grainger has de- all type song degree of Griegness seems founded in well-nigh good stories, and his family—all of which add up pa, Maritana, and of those tuneful things that special taste for the illustrated-slide of posited his valuable collecton of musicological data, trophies, and rare first editions. to a zestful enjoyment of living which is, perhaps, one doesn’t get to hear any more, now that the —I just happen to remember them. the best hobby of all. The music hobby goes deep individual theater orchestra has gone out. Those “Then I came to New York and went to all the with him, though, and he approaches it as sheer little orchestras did a great deal towards famil- concerts I could hear. And now I’ve become com- fun. He has no particular musical training, al- iarizing people with light, tuneful music. So did pletely spoiled in my music. I live in the suburbs though he assures you that he is fluent on a the illustrated songs, back in the days of the old now, and Heifetz, Reiner, and lots of other fine number of instruments, chiefly the musicians are neighbors of ours. Grieg- Nationalist and Cosmopolitan harmonica and the concertina, Sometimes we go to their homes, “which is pretty much the same sometimes they come to us, and thing except that you play without generally music-making forms part HE MENTION of “nature-voices” brings m? accidentals and therefore have to of the evening’s fun. I enjoy it if always to another of Grieg’s major contributions Personal Recoilectiuns of Edvard Grieg cheat a bit.” hugely. And I don’t, I can Tto musical progress—his approximations to Mr. Adams believes that the mu- get up and go on to bed, right in “Free Music,” that is, music in which all intervals sic hobby takes best when caught the middle. You can’t do that at a least, not so readily. are freed from the limitations of scale, in which Written Expressly for THE ETUDE by young. concert—at all part-writing is freed from the conventions we “My father played the piano That’s why I’m spoiled. call “harmony;” and in which all rhythms are well,” Mr. Adams states, “and even “Unfortunately, I can’t theorize freed from the inevitableness of regular pulse- though he couldn’t read notes, he about music. I’d be pleased to be beats, particularly in the direction of sliding in- played pretty much everything by able to tell you just how one tervals (an inspired modern use of which we may ear. My Aunt Julia and my Aunt can go about getting the music study in the exquisite slow movement of Cyril Jennie played, too, and I grew up hobby, and what one must do to Scott’s “Quintet for Strings and Piano”) and hearing all kinds of music, and stimulate it, and all the fine things ; intervals closer than the half tone, so transcend- knowing what it was and what’ it it can do for you, once such stim- IIS CELEBRATION OF THE CENTENNIAL ingly employed in the American Arthur Ficken- OF THE GREAT NORWEGIAN M iSTER meant. It’s important to know what ulation has been accomplished. But scher’s “From the Seventh Realm,” for string and things are. Lots of people have a I don’t know. I know only that mu- piano quintet. Many passages in Grieg are nudg- glimmer of recognition when they sic is a fine thing to know and to ing their way towards sliding and closer intervals. hear a certain tune in three-four live with. I wouldn’t do without it Part Perhaps no better example could be found in his Three rhythm—but when you can say myself, and I’ve found that the music than the chords in Measures 12 to 20 of right off, without any hesitation, people who live with music and talk his arrestingly original song, The Maid of the ‘Oh, that’s Wiener Blut, by Johann about it are generally the most in- This is of Mountains (Veslemoy) Op. 67, No. 2. The Free the third section of o most Strauss,’ it makes you proud. That teresting companions. Lots peo- interesting article by Mr. Grainger, who was. HERE THEY ARE! Music-presaging potentialities of this chromatic kind of pride is wholesome because ple are dull about music, but lots of * a sense, an artistic foster son of the great From left to right, Oscar Levant, John Kieran, Clifton Fadiman, and F. P. A. part-writing are not fully apparent on the piano, Norwegian composer. it sends you back for more. Asso- people are dull anyway. of course. But if we play the accompaniment on ciations with home and early fa- “Gilbert and Sullivan are par- five theremins (or other instruments capable of miliarities foster it. Also, I have a good memory. variety shows. I wonder how many remember ticular favorites of mine. Gilbert, the librettist, sliding tones) and play it slidingly, we find our- them now? The music itself was pretty awful and said he couldn’t carry a tune—but he had a re- passion for speed are all manifestations “'cb all composers. A Feast of Melody full of bathos, and people knew it; but they were markable sense of rhythm and a wonderful feel- selves fairly within the domain of the music of its respective those known as progressive field—of the same urge- the u conversation If mistaken, the first melodic line. That’s the future. to Relative to the above, an amusing “People often ask how I happen to know those fun just the same. I’m not ing for the singability of the know nature better, to live on The connection between such closer tei between some including Mau old songs and ballads that keep cropping up on song to be used in slides was The Little Lost Child. why he blended so well with Sullivan’s music. approximations with her, and if need French composers, be, to master her Musi to to Free Music and the goals of human progress history rice Ravel and Frederick Delius, was repeated the ‘Information, Please!’ show. Do I specialize The house grew dark, and first of all the slide You’ve got to understand the words to get the clearly shows us the path from enough: such musical super me by the su in old popular hits? Not at all. I don’t know how showed a highly chromatic version of the outer real value from any song. is obvious procedures help ti°n and the propitiation the last named. Talk turned on of hostile forces t to attune men’s thoughts and feelings to a keener (nrii ject dear W or why I happen to remember them, except that cover of the song sheet. Then someone with a tive music and much of to modernist French musicians: folk-music) through musics highly serviceable tenor Value in Patriotic Songs understanding of the processes of nature. Freud- conception, are the French I heard them when they were the rage and they tremulous but otherwise in religion, of a antecedents of modern beneficent De shopwor stuck to me. voice would sing the song, and at given places in “Just now, of course, we’re more interested in ism, Einstein’s relativity, children’s interest in (worship-music, from The composers present gave the usual Perotinus to Pales' I, everything connected with flying, and the modern ri- reply of our cen “Melba and Eames and all the great singers the story, the slide would change to show the patriotic songs than we were, and for one, think °n to the fearless of that period < the early years all-embracingness of scle! turyi; Po-Qe came to Chicago when I was a boy, and I used various stages in the lost-ness of the little child. it’s a fine thing. Why don’t they teach the chil- “Debussy and i Continued on 492 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC’ AUGUST 1943 MUSIC" 493 THE ETUDt , "FORWARD MARCH WITH n°t in the^sei music at all—at least, Your Studio Help You Music and Culture Music and Culture isn’t ^ Lei Teach music. It s expe ^ which I understand , ultra-modern orchest j going to hear an member east^oea back. I haven t the work some years . portray, what the piece was meant to dren the old patriotic songs that used to be known , ailu Klaxon Factory _That s of the Spirituals as ‘Fun in a The Spirit the about it IMPRESSIONS of childhood and sung—songs like Columbia, the Gem of of the km |AHE are h it-a lot of cacophony Ocean, the Battle Cry of Freedom, and Tramp, I got out of ing.” How many teachers forget hear in a Place where ‘ y this whl Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching? Those one might expect to x they prepare a studio in which horns, in different keys childr last two, by the way, were written by George Root, try out automobile youngsters in their teens will Solution of the Race Problem cheerful. What baffle and spend much Religion and Music a day when nobody feels too 0f one of the maternal great grandfathers of my a wo their time. what people could get out of such children. Patriotic songs serve a dual purpose; me was first furnishing my studio, centuries have values When I Ruby Eliy, born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, has won for He instinctively sang quarter tones No, music must proud , they alive is -even its composer. 1 keep the spark of patriotism that can plastered the walls with diplomas and herself a large audience of admirers, not merely be- before the time of Schonberg and Stravin- the people, and that everyone certificates A New Aspect of Negro Music necessary to all of us, and they familiarize us that reach these cause of her beautiful voice but because of her whole- quarter tone? that the great Then I realized that pieces of paper sky. Did you ever try to sing a understand. That is the value might some philosophy relating to the use of music to bring with good songs and good singing. reference, and a sop to There are certain peoples throughout the which, m a de- be fine for my vanity, harmony, and breadth in the solution of classics have. It is also the value but understanding, “The difficulty with to-day’s patriotic songs is little to children. world to whom these are as natural as half makes people react to the they would mean I wanted race problems. that many of them were written for the purpose ferent way of course, my pretend studio to mean something to students, The great-granddaughter of a slave, Miss Elzy feels tones and whole tones. For instance, between Gershwin, Kernel do not to be an of providing the nation with patriotic songs at tunes of Berlin, that the true essence of the spiritual may be lost if its in itself. E on the fourth space (640) of the treble is a final test of education short notice, in a time of sudden emergency. Well, that popular reaction in itself peculiar nature is not understood. As a child, her friends Pondering this problem of musical staff and F on the fifth line (704) there are, I do believe that when, year education discovered that she had an extraordinary, natural voice. you can’t write them to order. They must stand musical worth; but relatively speaking, sixty-four vibrations. whistle conveyed other than by an instructor, In direct answer to the prayers of her Methodist mother, as the result after year, millions of people sing and I recalled of a completely sincere and hearty scholarship in the Methodist- Halfway between these two steps, or there- value own childhood experiences in she was granted a working airs, those airs have the human my taking piano desire to get a certain thing said, and the desire certain sponsored Rust College at Holly Springs, Mississippi. abouts, is a quarter tone. If you try to sing The studio, like my teacher, be the basis of music. lessons. breathed the Unfortunately, or fortunately, there was no academic and the feeling must come first. Otherwise, no which must it you will probably slip down in the crack « A o fnv T nov» oatr +ViP nnlv t.riP.k abOllt the personality of music and of the great music course at this institution, and her "natural" voice matter how valuable the sentiments expressed, composers. on the piano between the two notes. often Her studio was furnished with rare pieces was "let alone." the songs have a certain synthetic ring de- music hobby is simply to get it! Early and of fur- which Dr. Charles C. McCracken, a visiting professor from A wonderful illustration of the quarter person who has the advantage niture from eighteenth and nineteenth-century feats its own purpose. Mind you, I’m not criticiz- is the motto. The Ohio State University, heard her sing, and this led to a tones may be heard, if your ears are keen on, and drawing rooms, quaint chairs with tall, ing the intention; it’s a laudable and perfectly of hearing good music from his childhood carved scholarship at that institution noted for its fine music enough, in the records of “Nina de las about music backs, little couches covered with department. This was followed by a two-year Rosenwald understandable sentiment, to want to turn out who takes a hand at doing something multicolored Peines,” the famous gypsy flamenco singer Scholarship and a two-year Faculty Scholarship at the patriotic songs at the time when such material himself, opens the door to the finest kind of per- satin. There were tapestries showing foreign Institute of Musical Art of the Juilliard Foundation of of Granada. Now most singers, in producing if you know scenes, many of them featuring dancing seems most needed. But working to fulfill a pur- sonal fun. Play some instrument, and New York City. Since then she has sung with symphony this quarter tone, are out of tune (flat or pose doesn’t ever give us the kind of how. If you don’t, you can always sing. Leon playing. An old spinning wheel stood demurely orchestras at the Lewisohn Stadium and at the Holly- sentiment sharp) . That is not the case with the Negro wood Bowl. She has also sung at the White House. She that rings true. That must spring from the heart. Henderson won a new place for himself in the in one corner. Curious little desks and chests con- singer trained traditionally in producing demonstrated has given over seven hundred performances of the role national heart and mind when he tained odd-shaped China cups and vases. these effects. This training presents an ap- Test of Serena In George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess." The of Time zestful ability sing songs. Once, on the ‘In- had perfected a composition his to When we by an —Editor’s Note. pealing, indescribable mood, half spoken, “Of course, it’s difficult to generalize about pa- formation, Please!’ program, Mr. Henderson old composer. Miss Graham would say, “Let’s not half sung. It is not a formal training but triotic songs because of our standards of com- failed to recognize Captain Jinks of the Horse use either of the new grands this time.” That one that is obtained by ear through associa- parison. old The stand-bys that we all know are Marines, and I sang it for him. He was so pleased meant we would play our selection on a beautiful tion and evolution on the plantations or in not recent material. They sprang from the Revo- that he made me an offer. It’s difficult to find old box grand piano, tinkling away with the same the smaller Negro churches. In some of the lution and the Civil War, and the fact that we room accommodations in Washington these days, sounds which these artists had once produced. HE SPIRITUAL is the product of many larger churches we strive to adhere to the know them at all proves that they have stood so it was proposed that, if ever I had need to go different factors: sacred, economic, more formal music, and the peculiar, -inti- the test of time. No one can possibly Inspiration from Picture? judge of our down there, I stop with him—and after the day’s T racial, and religious. It is possible mate, pleading, praying, expressive charac- current output in the light. same Even some of business was settled for both of us, we regale each Most impressive were the clusters of pictures that its real essence may be lost to future ter of the spiritual is lost. the best songs of the first World seem War to other with singing. He would teach me songs that looking down at us while we played. An artist’s generations unless certain almost intangible The instinctive Negro scale invariably wane a bit when we compare them with the old I didn’t know, and I should return the compli- conception of the death of Chopin. Beethoven in elements and traditions are preserved. Con- consists of a flat sixth and a flat seventh, familiar ones. Over There has stood the test of ment. We would have a fine time of it, he said, his study, leaning over the piano and pondering sider for a moment the position in which and a slight tendency to flat the third. time, of course, but how many others match up singing till the cows came home. I harbored his next notes of composition, the white-haired my race found itself in the New World. It This again depends upon the mood of the with it? There are some patriotic numbers in doubts about the activity of those cows; if they Liszt—these pictures and countless others had is not necessary to rehearse the coming of singer. However, when Negroes gathered Irving Berlin’s This Is the Army. I have an idea got close enough to where we were singing, they two effects. First, they stimulated an interest in the Negro to America. All that we read does together on the plantations, in some mys- that Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition is might refuse to come home at all. But the point the musicians frequently led to the reading not make a pleasant picture. That, how- terious manner they sang—entirely without going which to turn out to be the real thing, too. That’s in Mr. Henderson’s gallant in proposal is an im- of their lives. Second, their presence every ever, is in the past. A great new common- training—in four parts, and sometimes a hazardous prophecy, in of course, but I have a portant one. If a like astonishing- man that, with, at that youngster conscientiously tried his best to play wealth was in the making. Labor, as inex- five, six, and seven parts with reason for making it. In the first place, the tune time, the weight of national quarter tones were con- problems on his their compositions well. Because of the presence pensive as possible, was necessary, and the effects, even though is rhythmic, simple, and somewhat reminiscent shoulders, could let off steam and find tinually used. Now it should be remembered a lift in of the portraits of these artist in the walls, and African Negro was cruelly exploited in this of the sturdy old hymn tunes that come from the the music hobby, it must be a good hobby to have. which serve movement. He did not ask to come to that, prior to the time of Johann Sebastian heart. And the sentiment has because of the antique furnishings already stood the And so it is.” the well-tempered clavi- to bring reverence minds, there was America, but he was helpless to prevent it. Bach, who devised test of time. The idea of putting your trust in to childish youngsters However, the ugly pictures painted by aboli- chord tuning system, it is very probable that God and helping yourself little misbehaviour on the part of the at the same time is not (Written one month before her untimely passing) choral have intro- in the lowered their tionists of the terrible treatment of the many of the works may new. One Colonel Valentine Blacker, who lived studio. They unconsciously Negro in the South were true in only a few duced, instinctively, quarter tones. Authori- from 1778 voices on entering, and even the most mischiev- to 1823 is credited with having urged the unaccompanied ous manner. instances. ties have assumed that his men to ‘Put your trust in God, my boys, but Musical Oddities—Bells student took his lesson in a serious di- The plantation owners came to be very fond Christianity. The Negro’s natural reverence works of Palestrina and Arcadelt and di Lassus keep Remembering took down my of the powder dry.’ And similar directions are this studio. I along seize of their workers and, in the relationship of the for the divine was developed in this way have been interpreted in that way. on record as having proceeded from Oliver Crom- plomas and stored them away in a trunk, by J(arry £(lis portraits “Mammy” of the white family in the South, there Christian lines. At the great house he heard well. Anyway, it’s an eternal sort of truth. a picture catalog and prepared to order So the times. Naturally A Singing Household place® was an affection, respect, and regard which mil- hymns and the songs of the ‘sky pilot’ song has every chance for what ac- of the great musicians and illustrations of Swiss Muleteers tie up their Bac lions of Southerners cherish as a part of their imitative, and with a rich background of African They tell me that I sang in church when I was tuarian tables call life expectancy. little bells at where they composed their masterpieces. tain places on the civilization. It became identified with family rhythms and a fertile imagination, he adapted a child of four. Singing was as much a part of Alpine roads, lest the vibra P1C “What we are trying to do now, though, is to issues of The Etude supplied with many bring down me needs. our life as breathing. When my great-grand- an avalanche of snow. f*^ tradition, and, even after the Civil War, when these to his own popularize the fourth stanza of The Star-Spangled tures. As I could not go to Munich for my “The Art of Ringing," a book my people were freed, neither the Whites nor the mother, who lived to be one hundred and six Banner, which is, perhaps, the only stanza published in niture, daily trips of that don in as did my teacher, I started An Instinctive Creation started to 1796, stated: “As an athletic Negroes were able to bring themselves to give up years old, got up in the morning she song to have vital current application. Excellent exerci, secondhand shops. an amusement, furniture stores, antique started to make high, clear, soprano voice with there are few of so noble anything which had been so precious as had been Then he began to create. He sing. She had a as the other stanzas may be from a general a na auction I purchase point so conducive to houses. Among other things the texts of part of which marvelous carrying quality, which was unfor- health and employing ar this understanding relationship between the songs while he worked, a of view, they reflect the spirit and the so r an which needs of faculties, old box grand and an old organ heard from both mental and corporal white folks in the great house and the workers were derived from the stories he had gettable. When she went to the door to greet 1812. as th the delight and f nea the Art of Ringing.’’ of my students. Relatives Bible. had almost no musical instruments. the rising sun and thank the Lord for another Some of the directions' in the cabin. the He “What about other present-day music? I really not willingly added magazines to unlike problems in stray books and The it that the Therefore, he had to depend upon singing. He day in a burst of song, the neighbors a quarter wouldn’t trigonometry. white plantation owners saw to know what to tell you, because I’m not The term, music library. “The Ringing . full nothing about music as it is known to West- of a mile and a half mile away used to say, “All’s Isle,” has e spiritual nature of the workers was given knew an expert. I only know what I like myself. And longong To-day picture as s applied to England. as I see Mary studying a attention, even though in the beginning the ern civilization, and he had no knowledge of the right over at the Kemp house because Aunt Fan- what I like myself is something melodic, with waits asking Headgear of Greek war for her lesson, and hear Johnny slaves, allowed to congre- intervals of scales. So he instinctively made his ny’s singin’.” All day long as she went about her horses, accordir as a group, were not the sort of spiritual lift and drive to it that will Euripides, about musical ins was adorned with smal the construction of an old gate. In the great house the Bible was read to own scale to fit his own moods, or the mood he daily tasks, she would continue to sing. Thus, reach people and touch them and make bells to ea them re- purpose of terrifying ment, I feel students are time he was singing. from earliest hours I have been the foe and satisfied that my _ the workers and they were taught the principles happened to be in at the my saturated member. Too much of our so-called modernism spurringspurrin e warriors to the fray. ing more of music than their routine finger cises and AUGUST, 1943 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 494 compositions. 495 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC THE V .

on the Wings Doiothy ™ y Flying of in Marian Anderson, pos- Music HEN NILES TRAMMELL president of NBC, Music the Home Music and Culture Nobodyy could Hayes have had . in and Roland that) when By A Sister of St. Benedict told Mr. Morgenthau early June that for them. This P sibly ask more tha t Toscanini wished to conduct four con- nlt develop W or talent warrants it, °PP the NBC Summer Symphony to assist a L is n o color PROJECT, “Fly on the Wings certs of available,^ ere of Music -> u with the quality and the tradition of the Negro talent will become in the Treasury Department’s bond drive, ha:raw , proved to be a very successful further is a matter^ incentive f spirituals. talent. All success Secretary Morgenthau expressed his delight with to Amy pupils. On a poster were pictured I y°a vari In our home we had no instrument of any and persistence. considerable “alacrity.” Said Secretary Morgen- talent, because United States Army forts. Near the Barrage o thing, top Musical Radio last kind not even a banjo. were taught to love is the - 1. * Bond Concerts conducted — We “opportunity” self of the fort thau: “Previous War you ma y printed2. the name and also and appreciate the spiritual as a contribution of is everywhere if a lar artist have been thrilling experiences to opportunity 3. it easier for by this which I am em number to make the pupils to evolved itself, concert work, on 4. find > all those who have heard the Negro race which the race had worthy. In my printed me and, I am sure, to At the bottom was a point pertaining and which still seems to me a higher achieve- b„ki„g after m'£* t them. I am very happy to hear of his offer in co- ' hard These were the "maneuvers.” music. The following ment than the imitation of Western music. At 6. operation with the National Broadcasting Com- public as suggestions: Against the Axis warrants it, the may be used home, song was likely to break out at any mo- enough,^and', if m" talent pany to devote four concerts during the summer 7. of Claiborne Counting of Bonds. ment through the day. Someone would think will recognize it. 8. Fort — months to the sale War cannot be a mmock a melody and would start singing it. Soon we spirit of the spirituals 9. Fort Snelling—Fingering “I accept this offer with alacrity. Please con- The Dr. deeply. The late deep appreciation would all be singing it. spirit. It must be felt Fort Grant—Scales and Arpeggios vey to Maestro Toscanini my Tuskegee was once contribution he is making When I left the South to study at Ohio State George Washington Carver at Fort Sheridan—Note Reading or for the magnificent 5 Cl wonderful Chords oCincL if orc^an of to find all the the Treasury but to America. I ap- Jy -Alfred University, my mother had little idea what my asked how he was able 10.5. Fort Sumter—Hand Position, Phrasing not only to are known to 11. service being work was to be. However, I knew all the time I products in his laboratory which Dynamics preciate no less the splendid ren- for dollars. He said, i the National Broadcasting Company.” was in Columbus she was devoutly praying have produced millions of Fort Leonard Wood—Pei fectly-played dered by but the Lou concert on June 20 was given me at home. On the day I was given a trial at works and I works and I works, Piece Toscanini’s first in Uncle the most vital figures in the musical world. some unusual works with the Columbia Sym- the University, I was so nervous that when I where they are.” before an audience of women Sam’s of shows me Fort Duquesne—Memorized Piece Orchestra. However, in his the spirituals services as well as a delegation of With the exception of the four Treasury con- phony Thursday opened my mouth I found that no sound came The singer who strives to sing Fort McHenry—Duets, Trios uniformed who His second and third concerts, certs, the NBC Summer Symphony Series remain evening broadcasts (WABC—11:30 to 12 mid- out. I was simply scared to death. However, a without the divine spirit will be like the man British Wrens. Fort Bragg—Music Appreciation Dr. Black. The con- night, EWT) Barlow has been able to realize grow into 18 and 25, were presented before audi- under the baton of Frank , week later I took the elaborate musical I. Q. test plants pebbles and expects them to on July Fort Ripley—Required Practice certs under the direction of Dr. Black are of at least some of his plans. And there is just rea- and passed with flying colors, so that the scholar- ences made up of soldiers, sailors, marines, and lilies. Fort Dix—Informal Recital considerable inter- son to believe that his Thursday broadcasts ship matter was settled at once. coast guardsmen, est this year. Early may have had a larger audience than his Sunday Finally, the time came for graduation, and I Elzy Each pupil Is given a little aii plane made from and the final con- Ruby the season this concerts. The series of broadcasts which this is to be in gave a recital. Through the kind offices of the colored construction paper, winch is also num- cert which 1 Septem- conductor turned enterprising conductor arranged with Marjorie Woman’s Society for Christian Service of the bered. These airplanes are pinned on the poster heard on ~dln Editorial over the facilities Lawrence will not soon be forgotten. The Aus- Methodist Church, my mother was enabled to and the aim Is to “keep them lying,” They may ber 19 will have an of the orchestra, tralian soprano, who now sings from a wheel audience of men in come up from the South to hear me. In the first The passing of Ruby Elzy on June 26, at the age visit any fort as often as they v, sh, but they must States and his own efforts, chair because of her unfortunate affliction, was group, of songs, which was an Italian group in operation in Detroit, re- visit every fort at least once before they the United of thirty-three, after an give to the presentation in splendid voice, and the material which she the Italian language, I saw my mother drop her great potential informal recital. te Maritime Service. moves a very unusual figure of their The acher records the Mr. selected for those broadcasts of hav- of the works se- and Barlow head as though she was praying—as she was her country. She was just fort or forts This idea value to her race and to number of the which the pupil may lected by the Music was both unusual and highly interesting. accustomed to do when she was worried or manage- ing audiences com- starting upon a concert tour under the “fly" to—in the pupil's assignin' nt book—and the Critics Circle of The Philharmonic broadcasts for this month prising all branches frightened. When I asked her why she dropped had a list of im- ment of Mark Byron, Jr., and pupil then places his own number Into the blocks New York as the will be under the direction of two noted con- her head she said, “Why, Honey, I thought you of Uncle Sam’s uni- portant appearances scheduled. Her aspect of the provided for this on the p<> r. Every he time formed services best compositions ductors—Fritz Reiner and Dimitri Mitropoulos. had forgot your words and were making them of the sanest and most race question was one places his number In a fort, a counts one more Toscanini’s. of the past year Mr. Reiner will conduct the concerts of August up." no patience was sincere we have ever known. She had point to his credit. com- 8 15. first concert will be an all- No foreign-born by American 1, and The with the stupid hotheads and radicals of either dis- The Informal recital is one t the ‘‘high-spots’’ has dem- posers. The win- orchestral one, but thereafter a group of Two Greed Assets violence conductor race who were working toward and in gl\> recital alone composition tinguished soloists will be heard. John Corigliano, the project. Each pupil his onstrated his pa- ning religion, I profoundly feel, of understanding normal ad- Music and are two chaos, instead and limit year, Paul violinist, is scheduled for the program of the and may invite five or more y its. I had to triotism towards of the the very great assets in the national life of our coun- vantage to all. “Sym- Nathan Milstein, the violinist, for' the number as my studio Is sm.ill. The invitation the Allies more Creston’s eighth, and try. By that, I mean the Negro’s natural love for phony No. 1,” was the fifteenth. Josef Hofmann, the pianist, will cards can be mimeographed h r the pupils. Each strongly than Tos- music and his instinctive reverence for God are in the first heard in the first concert under the direc- teacher can think of some arti tic way of design- canini. Since travel heard be so deep seated that, if fostered, they will always of two concerts. tion of Mitropoulos (August 22) and Claudio ing them. was difficult this be a power for good. It must be obvious that this Composers repre- Arrau, the Chilean pianist, will be heard in the We had also a "Dal Segiu Hospital. It con- summer, the con- is the common ground upon which an under- sented on each concert of the 29th. tained two “wards"—one for Absence of Assign- ductor decided to standing, resulting in harmony in life between program were in When Alfred Wallenstein raised his baton to ment Bouk, where they lost e point, and one stay at his home two races which must exist side by side, will un- attendance, and conduct the concert, Music for an Hour, on June for Missed Lessons, where tin lose five points. at Riverdale in New questionably be evolved. It is to this end that I the critics assem- 20, he celebrated at the same time his tenth One can make another “ward'" for some other York City. But, said hope to dedicate my life and talents. Both races bled the day after anniversary with the station (WOR of Mutual) purpose. These points are deducted from the his son Walter Tos- have their functions and contributions to make the second concert Wallenstein’s record of achievement has estab- number of good points. One with the highest canini, he could not to this civilization, and friction is both unthink- to pick the winning lished him as one of the major American con- score may receive prize. remain idle, and he able and wholly unnecessary. a work. Compositions ductors of the air, and has earned for him the it not to When the recitals, I made did want I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to my pupils gave their by William Schu- reputation of performing more “Firsts” than the let this summer in- white friends, particularly the part of the evening’s program to explain programs, in Methodist NILES TRAMMELL man, Morton Gould, any other director in the country. His placed gold terrupt his musical Church, who have helped me unforgettably. For project to the guests, and the pupils Aaron Copland, since he became musical director of WOR, have Roll. T“e barrages against instance, when I was a girl of eleven in a little shields beside their names on the Honor Harris premieres of the works of con- the Axis. and Roy offered many plan Mississippi town, I found that the white folks of is especially good for boys heard besides the symphony of Creston. temporary composers as well as countless per- is These four concerts the only ones that were therei are not the town immediately took it upon themselves to This project can last indefinitely, and to his of the lesser-known works of the Toscanini has given Treasury De- Dr. Black informs us that the response formances just or to assist the give aid and assistance to my mother, who was no need for prizes. pupils will work particularly gratify- classic composers. He believes the public wants The partment’s bond drive. During the 1941-42 sea- concerts this year has been a widow with four children. They enabled the sake of in the season, best in music, but he also likes to pioneer. her better playing. son, the noted maestro conducted the NBC ing. After his presentation, early the to gain her heart’s desire to give us the educa- Saint-Saens, the result, his programs are as unique as they — Symphony in a series of five special bond con- of a seldom-heard symphony by As a tion which best suited us for life. Consequently, call from another are refreshing, since they provide listeners with certs. In the latter series, no studio audiences conductor had b, telephone we all received college educations from the heart for bringing the opportunity to escape, as he puts it, “from the were admitted. It will be recalled that on April orchestral leader thanking him an of the South. I have reason to be proud of the work to his attention. And after his all-Men- cliche experts of good music.” Virgil Thomson, “The Smallest l inger. 25, 1943, the conducter appeared with the or- careers that my brothers and sisters have Ania Dorfman as critic of the New York Tribune, recently said in had, chestra in a brilliant War Bond Concert at Car- delssohn concert, featuring and I sure that our white friends idea that that “Alfred Wallenstein’s Sinfonietta am are also negie Hall in New York. The event, which piano soloist, his mail disabused the his column all lu driller ton composer. Strings play year in and year proud. Let us keep our minds and hearts 2 featured the conductor’s son-in-law Vladimir Mendelssohn is not a popular and Symphonic focused the fine things that this summer dis- more music from the eighteenth and twen- upon are being done Horowitz as piano soloist, realized $10,190,045 in The Philharmonic concerts out both races, and there will be wrong Barlow to present centuries than do any other two organiza- by no place for the The fifth finger is played with a War Bond sales for admissions, and an addi- rupted the plans of Howard tieth han ^ in the world.” Mr. Wallenstein figures that irresponsible trouble makers who are trying to tion more than any other one on the tional $1,000,000 for the original manuscript of tions on ^ played over 1,000 first performances over create a race or a class hatred. ordinary scale playing, one should play Toscanini’s arrangement of The Star-Spangled he has All Negro asked for an v the has is a fair chance. tip of this finger. This gives strength Banner. America can be proud of this noted WOR. The new 10.500 0 to Mutual’s WOR, Alfred Wal- If he has not had a fair chance in music, how Ion Liberty Ship, cision. be used it the war. At RADIO Before he came Ignace Pori, A flat fifth finger should musician’s efforts to help win named after the ^ : can regard the fine great Polish patriot-musician lenstein had earned an (Continued on Page 536) we opportunities which an big chord in B seventy-six, Toscanini proves himself still one A the ways in the shipyards stretches. The Scherzo of the California SMpbuih “»'orK Chopin, really gives the little finger a " 496 "FORWARD MARCH AUGUST, 1943 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC 497 WITH MUSIC THE ETUI* m ,

The Listening Art Music in the Home Music in the Home Time was when the musician was concerned about finding leisure to keep up his repertory and at the same moment a working familiarity with the ever-expanding catalogs of the music pub- lishers. Now music lovers who are not perform- The Etude Merit ers, but who have come to find the art indispen- Classical Recordings of High sable, know that it is impossible to hear more than a mere fraction of the musical wealth that is available. Therefore, listening guides are im- portant and essential. One of the best of these Music Laver’s Bookshelf peter ^Jducjli Peed that we have seen recently is “The Challenge of lu Listening,” by Howard D. McKinney, professor of music at Rutgers College, and W. R. Anderson, lecturer at Morley College, London. Such books Any book here reviewed may are like the guides who accompany one through be secured from the art galleries of Europe and point out beauties THE ETUDE MUSIC of “meditates upon the ancient state MAGAZINE at the other recording group in the eight years and grandeir any masterpieces which otherwise might remain price given plus performances of Scotland”; and the finale has in its existence. Reproductively, these been called postage. “the gathering of the clans.” unobserved. to-day as they were when Although this are as satisfactory is This work will be appreciated by the sophisti- picturesque music, we prefer to accept the first issued in 1935. work cated listener who cannot, through his own regarding these recordings are without these specific illustrations, bearing Certain facts j n musical knowledge and training, comprehend the performers are a group or- mind only the fact that its composition was worth knowing. The in- thousand-and-one things about a masterpiece for the express spired by impressions of Scotland. It is ganized by Adolf Busch in 1935 not the only an educated and experienced mu- letter of the law here but rather which purpose of presenting the Bach Brandenburg the spirit which i„ £. m,utk (dadtman know. At the end of each chapter are Mendelssohn sought to evoke. sician must Concerti at the International Music Festival lists of music, most of the works of which are year at Florence, Italy. There is no question that Mitropoulos held in May of that makes available through records. by the inimitable Everett Shinn, whose wash Before the performances were given, more than more of this score than either Weingartner or The book is ably done and is very readable. It drawings in color are masterpieces of their sixty-eight rehearsals were held, in which not Iturbi did in previous recordings. Furthermore is dedicated to the late George Fischer, former genre. It is one of the most fascinating musical only the technical but the interpretative prob- the Mitropoulos performance has been richly and president of J. Fischer & Bro., one of the most gift books to appear during the r.ast year. of the were exhaustively analyzed, realistically recorded. lems works beloved leaders in the music publishing industry. Frederic Chopin according Adolf Busch. Later, Busch and his Prokofieff: Classical Symphony in D major, Opus 25' to “The Challenge of Listening” By Andre Maurois England, and The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, players performed the works in direction By Howard McKinney and W. R. Anderson Pages: 91 (9x7 inches) it Columbia decided of Vladimir Golschmann. Victor set 942. was there that the Company Pages: 302 Price: $1.75 to perpetuate the performances on records. There is a lack of proper balance in the record- Price: $2.75 Publisher: Harper & Brothers ing here; the string tone seems The solo artists in the ensemble include the too massive at Publisher: Rutgers University Press following well-known musicians: Adolf Busch, times. Prokofieff did not intend this work to be VLADIMIR GOLSCHMANN You Need Music! violin; Rudolf Serkin, piano; Marcel and Louis played like a modern symphony, and his scor- Beethoven for Children Ruth Vendley Mathews has prepared a brief Moyse, flutes; Evelyn Rothwell, oboe; Aubrey ing is not weighted. Much of the sly humor and A child’s biography of the great German for music in life which all readers must find ven ORELLI: CONCERTO IN C MAJOR (arr. Mali- Brain, horn; and George Eskdale, trumpet. the ingenious details of the .scoring are lost in original convincing. is supplemented piero) for Organ Strings the master, interpolated with simple, com- Each chapter with and (3 sides), The Brandenburg Concerti of Bach are among volume of sound conveyed here. There is positions and arrangements of themes from more exceedingly well selected quotations from famous C and Sonata in D major, for Strings and Organ more volatility his most important works for orchestra. No one and musical discernment in the (1 side) played by E. Power Biggs difficult works. Much of the text presents imagi- men of the past and the present (several of these ; (organ) and who knows these works intimately will deny that recent Mitropoulos performance than heard here, Arthur Fiedler’s nary conversations consistent with the back- from articles which appeared originally in The Sinfonietta. Victor set 942. they are of considerable musical appeal and even though the dynamic gradations are more is attrac- Etude) . book excellent for This is a welcome set, for there is not too ground of historical facts. The work The makes an work much enduring worth. Like old friends they wear ex- limited in the latter set. In our estimation, the teacher have the table in the waiting of Corelli’s music on records. It is not actually tively illustrated by Mary Greenwalt. In the to on ceedingly well, and for this reason we call them Golschmann is most successful in the slow move- opinion of your reviewer, for educational pur- room for patrons to read while waiting. Your an organ concerto, since the organ does little “The Good Companions.” ment, which he plays with considerable regard more than render a few brief solos and act as poses with children, fingering should have accom- reviewer recommends it very strongly for this. Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor (Scotch), for shading and phrasing. In this movement he a bridge. The work, originally published in Rome panied the musical text. Many children will find “You Need Music!” Opus 56; The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, is more successful than either Koussevitzky or in 1700, was entitled “Sonata for Violin and Bass the book delightful. By Ruth Vendley Mathews direction of Dimitri Mitropoulos. Columbia set Mitropoulos. But in all the other movements Viol or Harpsichord, Opus No. 3.” Since “Ludwig Beethoven” Pages: 95 5, sub- 540. both of the previous recordings reveal more of stitution of the organ for the harpsichord was By Opal Wheeler Price: $1.50 One welcomes this set because its conductor the imaginative content of the music than is permissible in Corelli’s time, Malipiero, the ar- Pages: 160 Publisher: Neil A. Kjos Music Company has given the work a finely imaginative read- heard here. ranger, has followed tradition in this respect. In ing, a Price: $2.00 performance which lifts the music out This is a delightful little work, fresh and rearranging the Sonata for a group of strings of the Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. History of commonplace rut in which most con- vivacious in spirit, with significant themes. The A Remarkable French and utilizing the organ broadly more than in ductors would seem simple to confine it. There is not orchestration, despite its apparently Music the original manuscript, Malipiero has accom- the organic Metropolitan Opera Stories affinity between the movements means, is skillfully achieved. There is a sort of Henry Prunieres (pronounce it pree-neeair) plished an admirable job, quite in of keeping with this work that the The stories twenty-five operas from the exists in the composer’s “Italian modern Mozartean flavor to at least two of of one of the more highly regarded of the French the early eighteenth century spirit of the music. Symphony. For con- repertory of the Metropolitan Opera Company, this reason this composition movements—the first and last. Of all the musical savants, has covered the period of musi- Moreover, he has substantiated more fully the has been fashion widely disparaged as a symphony. ductors who perform the work, none have been New York, told in interesting, dramatic cal development from the Middle Ages to Mozart rich tone production of string writing, for which Actually, it is has with occasional, helpful notation examples and a set of symphonic impressions more highly praised their readings than in “A New. History of Music,” a splendidly inte- Corelli is justly famous, and has added greater for of Scotland, and the vivified very appropriate illustrations (many might better have borne that Koussevitzky. For this reason one laments by grated presentation of music’s foliation from very tone color. The “Sonata in D major” is one of title. Mendelssohn did not not in color) by Tenggren, make up the contents of early roots to the splendid days of the Courts provide a program fact that the Boston Symphony leader was , Corelli’s church trios. Here again the arranger’s for this work, but one has been read since his Helen Dike’s new book which has been sponsored of Vienna and Paris. It will serve as a valuable extension of into it Thus chosen to record the work, particularly Corelli’s original scoring gives it we find the opening movement In v ' eU by the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc., of Npw book of reference for years to come for those richer expression. described as con- existent recording is definitely “dated.” veying the composer’s because York. There is foreword by Edward Johnson, who desire to view the musical scene through reactions to his visit of this fact, recording, a The music of Corelli is distinguished for its to the Mitropoulos Illustration by Everftt Shinn Holyrood and ’ the remembered story of precedence, an General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera Asso- the eyes of a French scholar. Most of the larger aristocratic bearing, its poetic tranquillity, and, of Marv superior reproduction, takes CHOPIN AT HIS LAST PARIS CONCERT and Rizzio. The second movement ciation. The work has been written with a broad books of this type are by German, English and in its conventional dance-form movements, for is described it is the one we recommend to our readers. as a scene of rural gaiety among sides focus to make an entertaining and very compre- American writers, and represent high degrees its dignity of style and earnestness. These quali- the High The spacing of the work here on four landers. There is a perfection un hensible appeal to the folks who know opera via A Charming Pictorial Life of Chopin of cultural achievement. Mr. Prunieres’ work is, ties are happily manifested in the material of freedom in this is awkwardly accomplished with a bad and scherzo, which has the vitality o radio, as well as those pay ten or more dol- ndre Maurois has written a very engaging we believe, the first French work of this scope recorded here, and we recommend this and inevitable necessary The surfaces who A set to the unexpectedness break in the finale. fluent of the classics, such lars for a seat before the proscenium of the great short life of Chopin, of particular interest to to appear in English. The translation is attention of all readers. as Tovev the discs we heard were gritty. notes . m Fingal’s Cave. The £ theatre Broadway. people. The book is exquisitely illustrated by Edward Lockspeiser. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. third movement Kreisler Allege at Thirty-ninth Street and young 1-6; played by the has (arr. Scvitiky) : Praeludium and been called a reverie in which “Stories from the Great Metropolitan Operas” “A New History of Music” Busch Chamber Players, direction of Adolf Mendelssohn minor; The Indianapolis Symphony Orchil"’ 84 By Helen Dike By Henry Prunieres Busch. Columbia sets 249 and 250. conducted disc 11- V by Fabien Sevitzky. Victor Pages: 413 recently reissued which Pages: 247 Columbia the above sets in This is the violin and piano composition Price: Price: $5.00 especially decorated albums. The standard Kreisler In the o $2.00 BOOKS of the wrote “In the style of Pugnani.” Publisher: The Macmillan Company performances here has never been challenged RECORDS and sua Publisher: Random House by iginal version it owns much of the charm tty e " of the eighteenth- ( Continued on Pad 499 498 AUGUST, 1943 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC "forward march WITH MUSIC- the etuoe : 7 ”

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Chopin's Coloratura Style * T THE END of last month’s discus- ZA sion of some of the specific mani- Hound Table “ festations of Chopin’s genius we The Teacher’s The Saga of the Westminster Choir promised Round Tablers a detailed anal- ysis of one of these qualities—the com- poser’s “coloratura” style. For, in his HEN the Westminster Choir College employment of bass, such ornamentation lies the as this, would soon realized that pall . with was started, it was the Monthly ' * From a Conference secret of Chopin’s melodic greatness. Col- Conducted not with Chopin. Nowhere But has hi! fi most available form of human musical oratura, as it is here W used, is synonymous spun magic been woven with with more S' expression is the voice. While many play instru- embellishment or ornamentation; it summate effect. In fact, the Chopin far the greater must depend refers to Chopin’s stylization of Berceuse ments, by number the old the is like some master ™ Italian bel canto, which he Zard Sboc. upon singing. It seemed to me that the training adapted to who shatters the rainbow into ^°kn *WJi((iamdon, Wind. the a the piano idiom in order to create the fj/jaief bits of color, arrange, of these people could best be accomplished nor- the fr^n^ Conductor, and President, illusion of singing. 0 Founder, choirs of sing- an infinite series of enchanting mally through the churches, with Two composers patte^ stand out preeminently and finally, breathing The Westminster Choir College, Princeton, N. J. ers of all ages. Mus. Doc. a sigh over for their mastery of this florid style— 2. remnants, restores the rainbow “In the earliest colonial days in America, sing- Mozart and Chopin. Both were thor- Noted Pianist to it prismatic perfection f design ing was limited to the Psalms, and our forefathers oughly saturated and color with the Italian opera After Music Educator that flight of fancy, i were limited, in New England at least, to only influence, both were geniuses and think wed SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY ANDREW MARTYN in its in- better come down to earth, don’t strumental adaptation. With this differ- y01r* ence— . . . Let’s examine the Berceuse Mozart’s coloratura is chiefly dia- more closely. Don’t be dee ved by tonic, therefore purer and stronger, while the inno cent-appearing left Chopin’s is preponderantly ! md; it is a tough The saqa of the Westminster Choir is now a part of American of organ are Dr. Alexander McCurdy. Dr. Walter Baker, David chromatic, assignment therefore to men, , size. Dr. Williamson points out that while there have Hugh Jones, and Mary Taylor Krimmel. The Choir, during the more precious and exquisite. Apparently musical history Countless Chopin followed no sc rule, so been innumerable newspaper and magazine critiques of the past six years, has sung repeatedly under the batons of many illustrations can be culled from you’ll just its of the greatest living the have to learn by rot. Choir's work, this conference is the first article of kind to conductors—Toscanini, Stokowski, Or- works of these composers to where he discards show Canton, Ohio, in 1887. mandy, Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Barbirolli, Rachmaninoff and the third for appear. Dr. Williamson was bom at , their individual methods of embellishing the flfili of the dominant His lather was a United Brethren clergyman. Dr. Williamson others. Among the great master works presented repeatedly by melodic lines. Thus the theme seventh. And don’t t: to “fake" of the slow this left was graduated from Otterbein College at Westerville, Ohio. these eminent musicians with the Choir are the Mozart movement of Mozart’s hand, for the substi utlon of "Requiem" the Rossini "Petite Solemnis"; familiar Sonata in Correspondents with this Depart- the fifth His interests primarily were in the development, beautification, ; Messe the Beethoven C Major; ment are requested to limit Letters for the Ninth third In the wrong human voice. His objective was teaching Symphony" ; the Rachmaninoff " Bells Symphony"; the to One places will and enrichment of the Hundred and Fifty Words. Verdi cast a blemish on the singers, not singing. He concluded that the "Requiem" ; the Beethoven "Messe Soiemnis"; the Bach Ex.l balance of the end conducting Andante_ entire texture. methods advocated by Francesco Lamperti and his son, Gio- St. Matthew Passion"; the Mahler "Second Symphony"; parts of "Die Meistersinge’’" Both the theme vanni Battista Lamperti, stood at the forefront of the old and "Parsifal"; the Berlioz " Romeo and Chopin’s and first variation are approach is another matter. Italian bel canto principles, and accordingly he studied for Juliet "; the Berlioz "Damnation of Faust"; the Brahms "Re- Subtle, completely diatonic Not an accidental fluid chromatics melt the diatonic ten years under Lamperti exponents, Herbert Wilbur Green, quiem"; the Prokofietf "Andrew Nevsky"; and other outstand-

appears until the , texture of his themes, resulting in florid md variation. Al- David Bispham, and Herbert Witherspoon. For several years he ing works. —Editor's Note. ready in the first passages which are endowed with such vacation Chopin em- taught voice and conducted the choir at the United Brethren ploys one of his fan Dayton, Ohio. In 1920 he became choir director at charm, novelty, and surprise in them- tr devices, that of Church in adding a close the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Dayton. The success of selves that one often fails to observe that conn mntal voice to the the Choir was so notable that in 1922 it started upon tours It remained tor Hector Berlioz in 1862 this the ornamentation original melody, ev, as he varies io make is the end itself and the wealthy i eappears in lovely diatonic to many eastern cities. In 1924 Mrs. H. f. Talbot, a pungent comment upon ordinary singers: coloratura not the means. In other words, theme. Note especi ly the subtle dis- variation with patron of the arts, became sponsor for the Choir. Through her "A singer able to sing so much as sixteen meas- Chopin the sonance of the sync, ed v coloratura often constitutes sixteenth-note munificent gifts, the Choir was enabled to make extensive ures oi good music in a natural, well-poised and Ex.2 the very passage substance of the music, for he in Mea-sun 13 and 14—also tours in America; and in 1929 and 1934, tours, which created sympathetic voice, without effort, without affecta-

' Paris, is unexcelled in Europe. The concerts in London , in mixing consonance with Turn now to the first Nocturne in Chopin's specific dir, ions in the nota- a furor, were mode tion, without tricks, without exaggeration, without dissonance, B -flat minor, tion of Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leningrad, Moscow, Stockholm, Hel- hiatuses, without hiccuping, without barking, with- fundamental tones with pass- Op. 9, No. 1, and note In the next vai ’ ion (Measures 15 ing the sinki, Oslo, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam not only drew im- out baa ing such a singer is a rare, a very rare, an chromatics. No one else has third and fourth measures - to 18> not to emph., :e the melody (in — equalled how mag but also received this mense crowds and astonishing press criticisms, excessively rare bird." master distiller of the heady, ically Chopin melts the the grace notes) but accentuate gent- bitter- simple theme recognition from the foreign governments, worthy of visiting sweet, pianistic potion. of the first two ly measures, and how the persistent A-il s. If Measures 15 diplomats. The Westminster Choir was the first foreign choral Often Chopin this miracle DB. JOHN FINLEY WILLIAMSON cannot resist the chro- is transcended by the cascad- to 18 are played plar nno enough, sup- organization ever to appear in Russia. etc. matic coloratura even in ing coloratura State Opera it was the announcing his of Measures 11 and 12 If ported by rich D-tl. is in the bass, a At the Vienna Again, the slow movement theme themes. Take you other than the State of the the well-known Nocturne need further evidence, examine single, long drmper dal may be em- only organization, C minor Sonata, in Opera, ever allowed to sing at the F -sharp major for example; Measures 1 and five tunes which they droned already 2, 5 and 6, 13 and 14 of ployed for most of tl • four measures. in the third the Opera House. At this performance the after measure the melodic break- next Nocturne in At beau- over and over, Sunday E-flat major. Op. Measure 19 th. rainbow is Choir received nineteen recalls at the down begins with the D-natural; 9, No. 2. This Sunday, as a religious duty; ought to clinch matters' tifully shattered and scattered to the end of the program. The group num- Ex. On the other certainly with very little hand if you want an exl four winds. From her.- on, it is a take- bered sixty voices on its first tour and but tended example of forty voices on the second. Mrs. Talbot Chopin’s florid style, off into the clouds! The sky is the limit, musical joy. Gradually, as study the “First at all times took an intimate, personal Concerto, in E minor. so long as your bass k, eps its Teet firmly America developed, choirs Op. 11, or the interest in the organization and ac- “Second Concerto in F on the ground! Not once must the un- came into existence. In many minor, companied if on tours. She was the Op. 21”; both are you and almost wholly dulating left hand waver. Both sponsor of the Westminster Choir and, of these, there was very little compounded of coloratura subconsciously material. the audience must l>e in the early days, made its touring contact with the spiritual pur- Of the shorter compositions, the aware of its hypnotic sway. possible. She thus gave the Choir, as a ceuse Ber- poses of the Church. In fact, is a glowing business investment, be- illustration of And beginning with this nineteenth some } 400,000 , masteiy Chopin’s the professional choirs which of this compositional Chopin cause she realized that she was assist- , measure it t , how device. In- is curious note singers, in deed, in the Berceuse ing in providing America with what is employed famous With each it is as though alternates bars of chromatic coloratura repetition the fragile shape Chopin were now a "going concern " of great value some instances but not all, of deliberately writing with measures of diatonic ornamenta- the theme emerges ever more say an cs in musical art. The Choir and the ex- on his coloratura firmament were anything but godly. Too quisitely, like the long technic What an tion. for all the world like the Choir College are now upon a self-sup- cherished remem- enchanting essay often the old-fashioned or- brance of a it is! The of stars in a velvet sky, with ordered porting basis, insofar as current oper- sight, sound, or incident. single reiterated Trv measure “cradle” ating expenses are concerned. ganist of the Church looked fs you will, you cannot base supports a patterns of constellations everywhere recapture its four-measure theme o In 1932 his playing as the most Ineral details; yet in which hasTo twinkling through the soft shimmer Dr. Williamson moved his upon retrospect it emerges than twelve ^ more four-measure activities to Princeton, New Jersey to important factor in the serv- Ex. 6 idealized, more alluring variation c > glimmering star-points. each time sure to number be near the great cultural center, and its essence them for id en In l&e th 15 gifted player, permeating warmly, 0 ii all music there is nothing ice. If he was a its con- done in quasi S particularly to have contact with the tours passacaglia After }’°u softened by time, its style One display of celestial fireworks. the congregation to remembrance way to compel famous Princeton Theological Sem- he wanted made all the more awareness of have rhythms, lts precious by distance: the origTal explored its subtle inary. At Princeton, through a gift of find it out every Sunday. He en- haunting melodic curves, and its Mrs. J. Livingstone Taylor, of Cleve- Ex. 8 ' realize that, through Almost any Mozart slow 1 did not movement of- chanting chromatic cm land, Ohio, twenty-two acres and four fers similar diatonic and examples. Note in Mozart incompara' splendid, modern Georgian Colonial his gifts and training as a second Pni ^°n on a volutions, you will vote it an that the diatonic, “normal” quality of niann nc . buildings were secured, making an choir director, he might pro- e e '" ble example of pianistic coloratura, the theme is retained in the tio^ a pear ideal background for the now-famous repetition p in the firs Chopin is one of the most difficult of all duce the results which would or variations; scarcely ever is a chro- The variations Westminster Choir College. The Col- ceasp xteen an measures compositions to play immaculately lege has a faculty, in normal times, of enhance his position in the matic or out-of-scale tone introduced. before the end nf P ‘ eCe (at th colorfully. thirty-two outstanding musicians and and in the community, The theme remains its own strong com- flats) where "occurs * C- Church 0I t • • * educators. There are thirteen pipe plete entity to the end. ln the entire OdUlatiOn as well as make closer bond Bercc!-se organs in the buildings. The teachers THE FAMOUS WESTMINSTER CHOIR \Vi, h the dim °1 composer a flat, “Perfection should be monotonous, one-key^ 500 "forward every true artist"—Beethoven AUGUST, 1943 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC 501 march with music the etude which thrilling. The musicianship, the Music and Study very far unless we employ the same technic mental have ment, the physique, and the voice of the masters and all the great orchestras becnf^' ERTHA GLAZ is one the very few young Music and Study proper training in the public schools’, 0f adopted. brin„T artists who is able to bulwark her theories are increasingly Us between religion and music. When voices that superior D!/° H with rich and distinguished experience. our work was graduated with first started we had Contact With Notables Maynor was us in 1936. Still in her early twenties, Miss Glaz considerable antagonism La t has .won from organists She was one of ten singers earning of the old school, simply because of our reasons for locating in Princeton, over acclaim both in Europe and America for her ver- “One °’000 they did not popula- “Conductors often ask me what ' abilities the operatic understand our purposes and were New Jersey, is that it is the center of a is th satile on stage and in con- 6 flrst unwilling to investigate radius thing 1 would recommend in taking Viennese by birth, she them. This, however, is tion of fourteen million people within a U p cert. A had her prelimi- now well, I Dq It Yourself! fortunately past, largely with choir. Very would insist first ^ training at the Vienna State due to the indis- of fifty miles. This put us in easy contact upon a nary Academy of putable 8°°d recognition our artistic work has received. the great symphony orchestras, enabling our en- posture, standing or sitting. This should Music and made her debut at the State Opera in be me “The Choir College, when it an all-time habit; it greatly only eighteen. with started in 1925, was tire student body to work with these wonderful assists in brin° Breslau when After a year of con- A Conference based upon the idea of training young been on about correct breathing. For n8: certizing throughout Europe, she was musicians groups. Toscanini, for instance, has instance i if engaged as who not only would be good choirs where the ^ organists, good vocal- our campus five times this year, conducting re- seen singers have been leading contralto at the famous Glyndebourne ists, and good conductors, but also mitted to cross their knees. Festival in would con- hearsals. In fact, many of the greatest living But this stiffen Opera England. That same season scientiously take over ^h' the program of Christian conductors have been in our College recently, diaphragm and inhibits correct breathing she appeared at the Prague Opera House and at J^lertLa QtCIZ education Th and young people’s work as training second step is the correct Opera Festival at Interlaken, a part of giving the students first-hand, artistic attack upon all the Switzerland. In the larger vo 6 i objectives of Church life. It is English language. joined Salzburg for this in studying masterpieces under foremost mu- of the Lamperti insisted 1936 she the International Opera Distinguished Young Contralto reason that so many of th 1 our graduates are known sicians. Every student in the school must play a all vibration is in the voice box. The Guild and attracted wide attention throughout as Ministers of ordina A Leading Singer of the Metropclitan, Chicago, Music. keyboard instrument. singer practices trying to Europe. Otto Klemperer brought her instrument or an orchestral say words, instead to the “It has been my privilege and ^ joy to work with Our orchestra normally numbers sixty. Our Choir trying to attack the vowel from the United States in 1937 to sing with the Los Angeles St. Louis, Los Angeles, and San Francisco Dp cra Companies hundreds of these young voice bo” men and women, and is just an average college group, known as a pro- When my choir attacks a vowel Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of on such a littf' the thing that has inspired le me most is the sin- fessional choir because they sing with these great phrase as this Mahler’s “Lied von der Erde” and Bach’s “St. cerity and dignity with which they look upon orchestras. Every college group throughout the John’s Passion,” and her American success was their FOR THE ETUDE BY MYLES FELLOWES religious responsibilities, as SECURED EXPRESSLY well as their country can do the same thing, if they will affili- instantaneous. She has sung Brangaene to musical efficiency. After all, is not music in the ate themselves with Kirsten Flagstad’s Isolde in Chicago and Church, the orchestras in their corn- San which is not carried along broad, Francisco, and tolerant lines of sincere devotion, little was chosen as or- more than a poor travesty? chestral soloist by I use The point to remember is that the breath must the sound is soft, like “When a little grunt but Toscanini, Kous- fill the lower part of the lungs; that is to say, it Sincerity and it is not really the words, ‘con- Dignity that. It is the elemental sevitzky, Sir Regi- work,’ must be felt mainly in the area below and behind Fi vibration of the centrate on equently we are asked to what vocal chords, it must we be nald Stewart, I do not mean vo- the ribs. The equal flow of breath is regulated attribute the fame that the innately in perfect Intonation and Westminster under Fabien Sevitzky, by the diaphragm; likewise, the amount of tone. Choir has full control cal technic alone, received. There is no to permit dynamic changes. secret and Fritz Stiedry. but a general This, of course, is the natural way of breathing about it. The third mu- To me it is due to Divine guid- step is the production of conson- Miss Glaz has “al- sical and may be observed in young children . . . and ance, to a ants, so education, wonderful faculty, and to a that they are correctly articulated finished in all animals! Some people lose it as they grow splendid wife, but never most including the who never has missed a permitted to interfere with vowel concert waiting for her study of one in- up, and then the trick is to recapture it. of the Westminster Choir, nor production. final American strument. The “As to the budgeting of the breath, for musical failed to give a subsequent merciless criti- phrases, I inclined cism of European citizenship pa- best service the am to avoid too much thought the work of the Choir after the Successes to it. Nature has unfailing concert. Mrs. Williamson pers” and is en- young singer can an way of making has been Dean “The European trips of the Choir were tirely devoted do himself is her own adjustments. When you speak loudly, or of the College since the beginning an unceasing to and is delight. Through the kind walk quickly, responsible for to ‘‘American correlate his mu- or lift something heavy, you are the course of study and offices of President Hoover and President grapefruit and sical studies to not conscious of telling yourself how much breath for the curricula. Very fortunately Roosevelt she is we had many wonderful intro- gifted in American lunch other arts — or muscle power to put into the effort. Somehow, doing things that I cannot do. ductions. Of course the Choir was, in a the correlation between For instance, we believe counters.” Her poetry, painting what you want to do and that the conduc- sense, in training, like tor a football team. We opinions on sing- what you try to do balances itself, with the result must be not merely a musician, and sculpture, but had regular rules conducive to health and must have the dramatic ing serve to ex- dramatics, history that you expend your breath and your energy power of a great rest, which were severe actor. Think and could not be plain, in part, her of arts and styles. according to your needs without really beinglcon- of the famous conductors evaded. After all. the singer himself is his scious of it. To mind, that you know and you will own success, and All of these are my same principle realize how true own musical instrument, this is. Our and these instru- to offer a chal- vital to polished holds good in singing. If you tell yourself how conductors’ course is one of ments were given as four years. Before careful attention as lenging incentive stage work, and much breath to give out and when to give it, you the student approaches a rare Stradivarius. this, the become tense the fourth year, he has Without to other young it is quite impos- and your vocal flow suffers. But if had College Eng- Choir lish, tour could not have succeeded. But you plan your phrases intelligently and musically, Public Speaking, English Literature singers. sible to project we had lots of fun advan- the very need of and Drama. Why Drama in and cultural “Young singers a satisfying per- the moment adjusts your breath a college de- tages voted to which the young people enjoyed for you. That is only another reason why care- music—particularly the music of often ask me formance without THE ADMINISTRATION hugely. Some HERTHA GLAZ ful, the Church? Mrs. Williamson, BUILDING very amusing incidents oc- ‘what one must a deep knowledge complete, and intelligent musical preparation who con- One of four large, handsome ducts these structures. curred. No member of the Choir forgot must precede all actual singing. drama courses, says: ‘The do’ to assert one- of the inter-rela- ability his vestment or his one to express the reality of mood suitcase, but at self in our im- tion between mu- through mumties. It has been point the For the Contralto the spoken word, brings my ambition, however Conductor did forget. It was at mensely exacting profession. That’s a difficult sical line, poetic flow, plastic flexibility, and dra- to the individual the make the to our emotional work of the Choir and debut in England, in whence “While there is no difference in the basic freedom through the spoken the School’ of historic Bristol, question to answer! If a single, ready-made recipe matic ease. Purely vocal studies are merely a vocal word that such a nature that came helps bring about all of our students many of ->ur pilgrim fathers America, for study would be un- training of the various ‘ranges’ of voice, there perfection in coordination'’ upon will look to success could be found, part of the well-rounded preparation that must This it as a mission, rather e arrived at the are a points is the great desideratum of than an obligation hall, and in the dressing room necessary. Of course, no such recipe exists. What lie back of a rounded performance. few that the contralto should watch the conductor! t is hard to put this into ound that I especially. Accordingly, the student in words, but we realized had left my dress trousers in the young singer must do is to perfect himself, “As to vocal methods themselves, I cling to the First, she should understand that it the final years of that there his were certain artistic ondon. The only is work must have taken part in values that mnne! thing I could do was to borrow through the hardest kind of hard work, in two Italian ‘school’ of pure bel canto. The goal of the natural timbre of her voice that gives it the perform- could not buy. ance of It .„„,d be j‘ pau ^ rom so its character. For at least ten plays. tap„s"b,e r us f obliging usher. He wore my brown very distinct branches of study. The first has to tonal production must always be the smooth this reason, she should reso- dream of S trousers “There are securing, with a money all evening. with experience. lutely avoid any artificial interference those who ask why all of our consideration do with training, and the second flowing of the voice without any tension or pres- with her stu- the services of the ’ Music, dents are required internationally at the time stress, Both are vocal career. natural voice, whether it be in the direction to study solfeggio after the famous mast of our great national essential to a sure, and without any least suggestion of a break of conductors and musicians 1 manner taught in who have , ! P 'ing of immense Our ‘darkening’ her lower tones through pressure, great European conservatories sm 1 gr “ at value to the people. between the registers of range. One of the fac- or deal of time at the school oncert The First Step The reason is thoroughness. rehearsing halls are crowds ‘forcing’ her. upper notes. Either one is a true It makes their sub- tal thronged with vast tors in securing this is proper breathing. In my choral masterpieces for C ° sequent work so much performances™^' bviously i “The first thing the young singer should do is contralto or one is not; if one is, the natural more definite and so much our der v& great relief and exalta- opinion, breathing should be as natural as pos- con- students are not merely tinia f simpler. In the case of studying in th* tbe music to assure himself, through competent advice and tralto timbre will supply its own color if the Westminster Y,’ . concerts - In the churches, sible. There is no difference between the ‘singing —and Choir manner of college it was indispensable. students, but l is All of the great are mTkW ! as a c°nsolation and an inspiration. counsel, that he really possesses the natural breath’ and the breath required for talking, one not, no amount of ‘darkening’ will alter conductors music and presenting great In as exer- speak the language of solfeggio, it under world f amps here in talent (both vocal and dramatic) that a public the fact. and we could not „„„w and overseas, it puts our boys cising, and just keeping alive. Too much preoc- masters before a critical contact accept engagements if metropolitan with career inborn aptitude is “That does not mean, however, our singers were not the best. There is no morale build- demands. But, while cupation with artificial technics of breathing that a suitable as The American er familiar with it as voice is to take with the alphabet. Nor could now coming int •* its place.’’ the foundation of singing, it is by no means the become confusing and may lead to constriction. range spread is to be neglected. The wholesome own, largely because ° ltS these young people ever aspire our American?*™ whole story! aspirant to professional honors way to proceed is to begin vocal to be conductors the The development on of results from superb standing if they were unable to look training. must be willing to work, to concentrate on that those tones of the middle register that come at a score school Our^uh?PUb 1C and system is marvelous All deep hear it mentally. I feel that There is noth- things are song, somehow work to the exclusion of all else, and to sacrifice easily and naturally. When they have American mu- it in hke it seems been per- sical the world. The Ver>J education, in a bigger sense, advance in th P ?.? centra l essence oil the many pleasures of life in order to devote first and VOICE fected so that a smooth vocal flow will not get voices rf. of us, song; as if is second na- during the past st were but ” twenty yearn wrappages and hulls fullest homage to his art. ture and no longer a matter of conscious effort, 502 Sten "FORWARD —Thomas Carlyle. MARCH " WITH MUSIC” AUGUST. 1943 FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 50 3 THE ETUDE ! S 8 " —

transmit one Music and Study in New York, suggesting that they radio. The of our performances to America by Music Study immedi- The Etude Musical and result was that our little company was Quiz States. ately engaged for a tour of the United the singer should go a half tone higher in both eighty American cities, We appeared in more than (u (^harlei \r(ee a special point of condemning the all-too-com- directions and perfect them; then work, and / another half and found that our experiment, hard mon practice of teaching the choral singers to tone, and so on. Never should the great- range be stretched idealism brought a splendid result, and hoot. By this I mean the production of white precipitously or artificially. worked hardei HE CONSISTENT and intelligent est satisfaction. Of course, we listener , tones, based on an unnatural forward-pushing f “Each young singer has furthei to-day knows almost as much ° problems of her own- than ever after that and polished up a about m of the tone. Far too many choral masters waste due to causes T as the average musician as individual as throat does. The Goal of and bone came the war. Church Music time inculcating the repertoire—and then ResponsfT10 utterly erroneous notion structure for the dissemination of all this 6 —and no single method of study can be the Salzburg Opera musical inf that the lips “I offer the account of 0 13 ' must be forced forward in an artifi- suggested that will solve all of them. As ambi- tion are radio and its commentators, a gen- Guild as an example of what earnest and 1. exceU* A Conference with cial oo. This is poisonous! The lips should never eral hint, however, I think one instruction in our public schools, ^ progresses bes^ by tious young singers can do by way of providing and the be distorted out of their natural position and use. following the line of most resistance! creased number of fine books Don’t con- themselves with the practice that may be difficult and articles The singing of a real oo should contort the face centrate on the things you already music. How much do you do well—work If did it, young Americans remember? no more than the natural pronunciation of the to find otherwise. we Count t^Wo at the hard tasks. If a student has a fine voice points for each correct answer. can do it, too! The point is to try. It’s a mistake 2. Fair: 50 k n word ‘you’ does. And where the actual vowels of and only meager musicianship, he average: ” should subor- to sit back and wait until a ‘big’ offer comes along, than 60; good: 70; excellent-’ an the words to be sung requires no oo at all, the dinate his vocal work to his general ' or musical or until a ‘big’ producer offers to back up your higher. Mus. Eqc. sound should never be forced into them. The studies until a balance is reached. And vice versa ‘trick’ (if trick it abilities. Work up your own venture and have it No longer performing is this be!) is to control resonance 3. famous Eminent It is also very helpful to listen to strine English-American Organist and Choral Director all the really ready to show those ‘big’ ones. Suppose, for a quartet: ° completely and naturally, on every vowel, and good performances that one can (as Retiring Director a student, I moment, that you yourself were a producer. A. Kolisch Musical of St. Thomas’ Church, New York City according to the natural demands of each vowel. went to the opera every night!), not to imitate, And only Would you have more confidence in a young B. Budapest by a completely natural method of pro- but to get as much as one can of the feeling of duction can this complete control achieved. artist who came complaining of the difficulty in C. Flonzaley be one’s work ‘in action.’ And learn languages! When training the I getting started, or in one who invited you to wit- SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY STEPHEN WEST boys in the sound of oo, for ex- sing 4. D. Pro Arte in seven, myself, and feel that the more flu- ample, I get them to sing scales down, ness a polished (if modestly mounted!) perform- to the ently A soprano who used to be a contralto I speak a new tongue, the better interpre- is: syllable lu-lu-lu, forming the vowel by the strike ance and to judge for yourself of its worth? I A. tations I Lily Pons can give when singing in it. of the glottis and the rising of the tongue think the answer is more self-evident. B. Rose Bampton ANNOUNCING his retirement as or- “Along with training, however, the 5. PON carried on together—and I may here note a than by the shape of the lips themselves. young singer “The initiative the young artist can show in C. Maria Jeritza ganist and musical director of St. Thomas’ fact that needs practical experience in working on the gives me great pleasure: our boys rank overcoming the obstacles to his career is, after stage. Here, D. Elisabeth Rethberg U Church, in New York City, Dr. T. Tertius higher in academic standards than those of other Importance of Words precisely, is the greatest hardship all, part of his necessary equipment. And whether One of the following Noble makes it clear that he is not abandoning preparatory schools, the young American singer encounters. surnames belonged thus proving that con- “Complete purity of voice production must lie We know the problem is one of vocal to technic or one of two brothers, one his life’s work of music. “It is simply that, after that there ought to be a great 6. a great tenor and the centration on music behind many more opera acquiring the necessary other a every vowel professional training, the great basso: sixty-two years in church music,” Dr. Noble study companies in which beginners can serve their encourages ex- and diphthong of best method is to find the line of greatest re- A. feel it apprenticeship—but they do not exist! Williams states, “I is time to let go the reins so that ceptional alertness the English language. What is sistance and diminish the to be done difficulties by doing B. Blspham I may devote my newly won leisure to the pleas- and discipline of about it? The one thing not to do is Only in this way can something about it yourself!” to C. ure of composing. There are still some themes mind. sit back and wait for them to be organized. 7. De Reszke But to get back the choir master build running through old One remedy is for the various music schools and D. Journet my head!” to our methods of up a sound tonal qual- conservatories Dr. Noble assumed the directorship of St. training! The first to present both acts of operas and A great English music critic is: ity which will later in 1913. the first officiate whole operas, not just once or twice a year but A. Richard Aldrich Thomas’ He was to at step in the education infuse and project the regularly. the great organ in the then-new edifice at Fifth Another possibility for young artists B. Olin Downes of the young chorister words to be sung. In are Avenue and Fifty-third Street; and under his is who ready to join an opera company, but can- C. Ernest Newman to provide him with church work, it is im- distinguished guidance, musical not find a place through an insufficiency of opera D. Philip Hale the services of a thorough knowledge possible to lay too houses, is to take the initiative St. Thomas’ have developed into the most highly of the background of great a stress themselves. One of the following is not in three-four upon time: perfected, perhaps, of any Protestant church in music. Music is given the words. Here, mu- A Success ul Project the country. Prior to his coming the A. Polka to United as a major subject at sic is merely the back- “A States, Dr. Noble served as chief organist of Ely number of young artists did just this in B. Waltz St. Thomas’ Choir ground for the proper Europe some years Cathedral for five years, and of York Minster for ago, and the result was the C. Mazurka School, just as it is emphasis and color- Salzburg Opera fifteen years. The Etude has asked Dr. Noble to Guild, now unhappily dissolved D. Sarabande at York Minster, and ing of the words which because of look back upon his rich experience war conditions and the scattering of In and to select the forty boys are carry the meaning of France the note and also the company. Key of C are for discussion those points considers The group began in Vienna. We called: which he taught elementary the service. Great care were very lucky to find a first-class of most practical value to choir masters in de- theory, just should musical direc- A. Do as they be taken that tor and an inspiring veloping the quality of their own groups. would every word is clearly stage-director interested in B. Un be in any our project. The company itself “The purpose of church music is to stimulate musical conservatory. enunciated, properly was made up en- C. Ut tirely of young and comparatively a truly devotional attitude in the congregation; Only upon such emphasized, and col- untried artists D. Si a who wanted to perfect themselves and who were and this can be achieved only by creating a more groundwork can the ored with the exact Double stopping is: willing to work. We came to rehearsals with every than ordinary quality of beauty. The respon- actual choral work be shade of meaning that A. Playing two organ stops at one time detail of the score perfectly prepared, sibility, of course, rests with the musical director. built. If the boys are the text requires. I and set to B. Term work at applied to the action of a musician Part of that point. We spent four full months in his duties have to do with the organ, and still worrying about like to call this word who performs on more than one instru- we intense ensemble work, musically and drama- can touch lightly upon these, since it is to recognizing key sig- painting, and to con- ment; also known as “doubling in be tically. At the start, we had no funds to speak taken for granted that the church organist natures, time indica- trast it with the mere brass” of, but we found a very gifted young painter ‘knows his business.’ A far greater responsibility tions, and intervals, utterance of words to C. build the Playing two or more notes at the same is the scenery and design the costumes in close one imposed by his charge of the choral they cannot be ex- Photo by Charles James Fox and music. Unless the time on a stringed groups. cooperation with all of us. It was in no sense instrument Whether these groups be large or small, pected to render mu- words are made to D. Dr. T. Tertius Noble at the organ of the famous St. ‘glamorous’ but was, in A method of playing the tympani whether the mechanical its simplicity, adequate facilities at the director’s sic effectively. Thomas' mean something, the 8- The lute Church on Fifth Avenue, New York City. and effective. At first we did was: command (such as acoustics, so on) be good “For one hour service nothing but work. - and each becomes bor- Then A. An early or bad, one or two small engagements were offered. type of flute it is quite possible for him to create beau- day, I work with the ing and the devotion- 1 an Our first B. “Pipes of tiful big venture was an invitation to take Pan” and inspiring singing. The point is, he must boys on voice production and singing. There is al element is dissipated. Thus, good choral work part in the C. A stringed himself be Interlaken Festival with our presen- THE ORGAN THAT JUNK instrument fully aware of what he wants by way nothing mysterious about training the child voice requires (in addition to the sheerly musical ele- tation BUILT D. A of of Cosi fan Tutti’—which was all horn singing quality, and he must know how to —simply, it must be understood. The first essen- ments of learning the notes and producing them) we had Arthur to Stopes, Aviation 9. The get it! show for a season of intensive work. Our per- Mechanic of Philadel composer who later harmonized many tial is to treat it with absolute naturalness. Like the greatest possible attention to natural and formance Phm, made an organ out of the old made an immense success, and we got of two hundred chorales of Martin Luther was: the ‘professional’ care of the adult voice, the de- beautiful expression, and exquisite phrasing seventy beer and Beauty of Tone First other engagements, cans, a few “hunks” A. Bizet culminating in a chance to of old wire anJ velopment of the child’s singing must be based which last is all too much neglected. To sum up, othei pieces of junk “First, he appear at Salzburg during the great from pinball machines’ B. Bach must work for great beauty of tone. on freedom, ease of emission, and proper reso- the choral director must never lose sight of the festival sea- organ has Th P son. a standard five-octave C. This can be developed only by the most careful And that was a success, too! An American keyboard wh P Gounod nance. There should be nothing forced or un- fact that the purpose of his work is to bring out this was heard on the and thorough manager chanced to drop in to hear “Hobby Lobby” D. Brahms groundwork. The nucleus of my natural about it. In this regard, I wish to make the most devotional aspect of the music before us there, and the radio, pro-ram °on many musicians own choir is the he was so well pleased that he did a very were surprised bybv boys’ group of forty voices, and him. That must be the supreme test of his work. wonder- organ-like tone. the Now it « it is with these ful thing. He put through remainre fn? youngsters that our training be- To accomplish it, he strive, not for ‘effects,’ a trans-Atlantic tele- “« »™°"e to ANSWERS must “ org„ conc gins. St. Thomas’ phone call to the National Broadcasting Company 4 rrnere Church has the advantage of but for the greatest possible beauty of tone and Wurzburger Floivs. the maintaining a choir school, founded in February, ORGAN interpretation. 0—8 1919, in which 504 B L O 9 musical and academic studies are “It may happen that (Continued on Page 538) "FORWARD — "V—-9 O—f O— H— MARCH WITH MUSIC’ THE ETUDE AUGUST, 1943 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC 505 — ” ; —

the Music and Study ing greatly to general effectivene blend” °f “ensemble when it makes t[ ANY OF OUR PROMINENT and highly Music and Study its rean >« the score. This “tooling Peara instrumental music educators in i n and Bce competent 0 ,f( * of Forces of our ensemble on the part of the the M are now in the Armed coun- oboe is most effective color devices ° e of They are being replaced by teachers with less of a g 0od the try. COre ‘ experience, and understanding of the plain language, “not too much Itl training, of a eoJ makes it more desirable ^ responsibilities involved in the carrying What Shall Play when we h various We situation look ^ music program. Such a repre- Next we at the bassoon part out of the ^°W Qualifications and is only used in the tlle challenge not to the music program bassoon score under exami sents a particularly to those who have taken has it been given a fair 1 itself, but share of lyric • 'In” that during these critical times. melodic or “solo”—parts? is over the reins Does it have ’ S° school music program is in the hands of in Our Woodwind Ensemble? at all, or is it the “bass line” throughout^ los The its future will be ^ en ' •these teachers and determined tire number? More often it will be Responsibilities of the an arr degree by the results of their teach- rather than a composer of anger to a marked an original . w Therefore, it is not only their challenge, but will use his bassoon Wh° ings. so unimaginatively on arranging an eighteenth “ also their opportunity. rUcaurence century dance Iff ^Jayfor f Since this is true, an evaluation of the quali- will seem that only the il bassoon is capable in fications of our teaching personnel would seem Competent Instrumental ing over the original “basso continuo” line y both appropriate and interesting. Due to the keen interest daily in the case of a and enthusiasm evinced by readers of the articles contributd by Mr. staccato ‘Alberti ° feW bass-T' mon™s °9°' 15 w'fh pleasure that we present another even so, a conscientious et ii°l series of articles by this arranger can The Competent Teacher well-known arranger and author often of works for the woodwind ensemble. age to ungroove the bassoon In the September issue of part, at to analyze the qualifica- The Etude, Mr. Taylor will offer a list of materials, representative lei^T' When we undertake of the various types of mus, playable by woodwind in a while, to “free it” from its Director c groups. With the opening of school fust “basso perpeS tions of the competent, instrumental school music Music SU ° zh °uld P rove 9teat value as a guide to the selection of material and give it, occasionally, an inner, tor u 'c melodic teacher, we are likely to be quite astonished by woodwind ensembles . Editor s Note. mn And certainly once we have left the eighteen t the versatility required of those selecting this century field, the bassoon has no right to be field of the teaching profession. Should the order frozen ke onto the bass line from beginning qualifications, as presented by your edi- to enri of these 2). li^evelli Its pleasing, l,j VUiifiam rather-slender-quality at first glance a bit illogical, he would upper registerg tor, seem is just begging ™ N OUR PREVIOUS DISCUSSION of the possi- to be used lyrically suggest that the entire field of the teacher’s re- empttf spaces; that is, measures rest distributed bilities And of the woodwind ensemble we have then the horn part. Yes. what sponsibilities be given due consideration before at various times among all the instruments about the I in the horn to such a test. spoken of the choice of suitable materials for part; has some attempt been attempting to arrive at a final decision of a fair dismally if they were subjected score. This is mentioned prominently at this point made to make the group, the recall early teaching days when, and have insisted that an amazingly part interesting? Or is it, alas evaluation. I can well my because there has been in the past and alack that a deplorable I asked the ques- varied cross-section of the various types of music bogey “traditional horn part”? studying with a noted teacher, desire on the part of both uninitiated True it is that music di- for Teaching for one to be able to available can be successfully offered certain compositions Desire tion : “Is it really necessary by the wood- rectors and publishers require a daintiness to see every bar in a score and a the wind quintet. delicate facility of technic The primary requisite of the competent teacher perform upon the various instruments of filled” . . . that the “something for each instrument to horn cannot While there can be no gracefully like to teach. Yet, is it band and orchestra in order to be able to teach completely satisfactory do all the time. offer and which, therefore, is a simple one. He must It may seem ridiculous to speak must be left substitute for actually “laboratorying” to the have altogether too many in- them satisfactorily?” His answer was: “It is quite a composi- of an orchestration four other more agile and glib not a fact that we of only five instruments as members of tion—that is, playing it suf- impossible to acquire a technical proficiency upon over and hearing it first- being in the quintet. Still, without assigning dividuals in the teaching field who are not danger of being “overpadded,” but the ridiculously hand—nevertheless, there are certain florid their profession? The suc- so many instruments. Nevertheless, you will be a features and fact is that a completely or extravagant parts to the ficiently devoted to “solid,” straight, up- French horn, will usages which one can look for in a quintet score the instrument cessful teacher must and does have a genuine more efficient and successful teacher if you and-down tutti use of the should have an interesting which will five instruments, from part. with a good musical give a strong clue as to: beginning devotion for his work; he is enthusiastic, inter- learn to produce and play to end of a quintet score, 1. does not elementary studies and selections upon How the number is going to “sound;” and realize A Bit More About "Color" ested; he enjoys his students, associates, and tone, even by half the true potentialities 2. Just of the tone- various instruments. Technic for teaching how complete a grasp of quintet color and A favorite device work. His personality is such that the members of the variety offered by the in woodwind writing is to toss scoring the woodwind quin- his purposes, especially public school music, is rela- composer or arranger has at tet, composed themes back his musical units look forward to being in as it is of five and forth from one instrument to his command. entirely different unimportant, but remember, you will al- tone-colors. another. This presence. He is not only a teacher, but a friend tively continual changing of tone-color is There are certain ways have the respect and admiration of your salient characteristics in (There are delightful and and advisor of all in his classes. certainly worth-while fascinating. However, to make it woodwind quintet scoring exceptions to students if you can produce a tone of fine quality that can be looked for the above; most effective, While such a qualification might at first seem for example, and to keep it from sounding dis- and which can serve, a several-voiced Bach the instrument you are teaching.” Then he as we have said, as an indi- Fugue or connected “easy to fill,” experience has proven that more upon similar type of composition and as though the quintet were about cation of the validity of can success- continued, “You can tell a person how a rose the score. Every quintet fully call to teachers fail in this requisite than in any other. for most of the fall apart,” occasionally be score instruments to be a theme should color, its petals, shape, may be looked at as a success or a failure play-P All too truly devoted to their profession looks. You may describe its in ing nearly all the time. carefully dovetailed few are orchestration, Skillfully arraneed fnr from one instrument to the never describe its and we shall attempt herein to are willing make the sacrifices necessary size; but remember, you can set solidly used, and with the next one that continues and to forth some of the usages stronger, more “solid” it. fragrance!” and characteristic fea- registers for As to becoming a truly great teacher. each instrument an example, often in quintet scale tures of quintet writing that the music carefuHy worked writing a It is our responsibility and we must see to it director, upon, the woodwind will quintet can offer be taken all the way to bot- uninitiated in the intricacies of woodwind quite a fulf down from top Ability to Teach that we are proficient upon each instrument to scor- sonorous, organ-like tom. In ing, can tone when all order to connect this smoothly, so that WILLIAM D. REVELLI use as a guide in selecting material fiJe instal- is of ability to the extent that we can do more than talk about that ments are thus kept the The second qualification that will “sound.” going together.) end of one instrument and the beginning of For that is the main purpose of teach. One might like to teach, one might have a it. Incidentally, that is my primary objection to this A article, to suggest and devotion program as it is ways and means of finding Key keen desire to enter the teaching field and yet perience, active study, observation the music-education training woodwind Parts Flute music that “sounds.” not have the ability to teach. The teaching of to one’s profession. If more of our school instru- conducted to-day. Can we not devote more time In looking over a It is self-evident quintet score • that the small chamber certain n Q rf<. is so complex and mental teachers were equipped with a thorough to the learning of music and eliminate just a wee group, particular may music in our public schools not being able to be looked at closely *F1= of all of the band and of talking that we employ brilliant display of dy- y Let1 US firstfita broad in its scope that its importance might and practical knowledge bit of the tremendous amount examine the oboe part. namics or percussive effects, Oboe instruments and a better understanding do about it? Which brings me to the third quali- nor majesty or We have easily be underestimated. Not only must we be orchestra grandeur said in a previous arfinio i. on any large scale, must, therefore, equipped teach, but must be prepared to of their individual peculiarities and character- fication of a competent teacher. rely tempted to make to we upon artistic craftsmanship, suggestions on ?" function in the band and skilled voice-leading, qumtet” “scoring teach instrumental music, which involves, among istics, as well as their color, (The Exude for Musicianship brilliancy, contrapuntal interest, January 1943) orchestra, and if more teachers would acquaint and in- oboe seems S Bassoon many other responsibilities, a teaching knowledge tellectual strength. to be the most tonal possi- you are somewhat amazed and slightly chamctetatil ^ of all instruments. themselves with the technical and Perhaps voice of the wind smSle of the band and orchestra quintet • ^ — the standards of our disappointed in my placing musicianship as the Such responsibility itself is, of course, a tre- bilities of these instruments, the sheer insistence by a in Color Sits orchestras would improve per- third of our qualifications rather than as the pec^T°n qualit mendous one. Yet, no teacher of instrumental school bands and appear to dominate the ®: y> Color, to a very great extent, ensemble If results ceptibly within a few years. The average teacher first. While musicianship is of extreme impor- is one of the most and the S music in our schools can possibly achieve oboe is going to be so °; i qualification, it is of no value in the music-teaching valuable assets of the woodwind important of knowledge of the is quite delinquent in regard to this tance, quintet. A skillful can be made most ‘th* — a higher standard than is his composer will make the effective by holding master’s degrees would fail profession unless it is preceded by one’s desire most of this, using his bmnTuL ^ instruments he is teaching. To meet such quali- and many instruments in and ability to teach. We must admit that many all kinds of combinations; and not Oboe fications takes several years of intensive study hesitating to drop fine performers and thoroughly educated mu- down to two or even a single under competent teachers, and only a few teach- instrument playing, sicians are failures as teachers. In the profes- if that is the effect he wants. ers have faithfully undertaken the fulfillment of Aftei all, color, in sional-performance field, musicianship would un- all its hues, is our main stock this responsibility. A good teacher has the faculty in trade with Bassoon doubtedly be given first consideration; but in the the mixed woodwind ensemble. of properly diagnosing his students’ weaknesses BAND, ORCHESTRA Look carefully, then, public school field, teaching is the primary factor. to see if the composer has and faults, and likewise is adept in prescribing made use of color to good w and CHORUS I do not intend to suggest that music educators advantage. One way to BAND and m not stick out, these instruct the proper remedies for the students’ progress note ORCHEST&A^n should shall not be capable musicians; in fact, I have this is to look for, yes, actually be togeth' and might well be a D. Revelli “look for” Wim a „ o dovetailed or “chainlinked” advancement. Such ability Edited by Williom RTveni as shown shov already stated that they must spend more time in (a) as gift, but in most cases it is the result of ex- 506 not disconnected, n (b) ab(>ve. Page &41 "FORWARD ( Continued on WITH MUSIC’ 507 MARCH WITH MUSIC AUGUST, 1943 "FORWARD MARCH THE ETUI teentn, or uuec aixceeuuis, or Music and Study them eaui he could Valent Musical Bingo rests, before go on to the next bar EAMWORK IS FUN—anyone who has it is necessary to have several Thus Music and Study disks , of „ played on a football or basketball team, that there will Unit in acquiring musicianship and in of time, so be a becoming better by. J4e(en C. t ltw° unit, or who is one of the crew of a Flying of school music could for be wise to choose the simpler uld tone—and they are many and varied. If tonal not meet the proficiency USICAL BINGO is an excellent game forms of rDythm Fortress knows the satisfaction and exhilara- resources are imaginatively worked out, and requirements of a major symphony a party. Each for younger students. orchestra. music students to play at that come from smooth and successful Developing Neither could For an advanced group, tion the program well chosen, a string orchestra the symphony orchestra musician given a card on which is drawn a this game M player is may b 6 teamwork. qualify as an instructor bear a most exciting by combining ade concert can be an event of absorbing musical of the junior high school staff with a key signature. Each card must tone and time trombone players, and so is not unduly tempted the first essentials of good concerted playing, note and a six- practicing in the front room, mother en- where nothing degrading in playing viola that it The successful to force his tone when playing forte; he can hear and these qualities should be the conductor’s sole aim music educator must be well tertained guests and brother had the radio on. himself—which is by no means always the case does not imply any shortcomings as a violinist. If during the early rehearsals of a newly organized educated, not only in the field of music, But the two but in main things needed for correction no viola players are immediately available, the liberal arts in a symphony orchestra; he learns the technique there group. For this reason, most of the rehearsal time as well. He must be able to seemed to be the meet training of the ear to hear ac- are many excellent arrangements obtainable the public graciously “What Became of following a conductor’s stick, and, by being in for the first few weeks should be spent on fairly and he must have the per- of My Inquiry?” curately, and concentration think of the mind to close contact with the conductor, acquires rapidly which call for a third violin section in place of simple seventeenth and eighteenth century mu- sonality, tact, and dignity to work clearly with his asso- The French a few measures ahead. sociates expression, "C’est la the habit of precision; finally—but certainly not violas. However, a viola section must be developed sic, such as the overtures and suites of Purcell, cooperatively. He must attempt daily guerre’” to ("It is the improve war!”), is used widefy least important—he learns how to read at sight. if the wealth of the string orchestra literature is the concerti grossi of Corelli and Vivaldi, or the his status as a musician and teacher. He a« an alibi in wartimes. Experience has that years spent in to be tapped. must rise above the position proved a few symphonies of William Boyce. Excellent study he is holding. He Present Even George III must conditions make perfect Knew a good string group will better prepare a young Generally speaking, it is advisable not to con- material and effective concert numbers are the continue to study important musical scores, service impossible. READER of The etude come player for a post in a symphony orchestra than fine a string orchestra to students only. Any “Concerto in E minor” by Charles Avison and the conducting, arranging, and interpretation. has recently He Our friends must who occasionally across a paragraph in Etude for De- the same length of time spent in a student sym- available amateurs should be invited to join; they “Sinfonia in C major” by C. P. E. Bach. In a more seek new and progressive means of improv- have The missed the customary A cember that phony. have probably played a good deal of chamber ing his teaching smooth and 1884 in which it is indicated modern vein, the “Serenade in E minor” by Elgar technics and the presentation of prompt response in correspondence, the helpful was music and their additional musical experience and the “Brook Green Suite” by Holst will be his subject matter. He must not overlook deliveries, and employment of music in industry the so on, are asked An Adequate Number necessity for to realize that millions known as far back as the days of George HI, who will be valuable to the younger players even if found interesting and not too difficult. taking care of the many details of soldiers and thousands of reigned in who Some people have a notion that string orches- their technical ability is not of the highest. Many which are a part of the organizational tons of war sun England from 1738 to 1820, and and ad- plies are Always One Eye on the Conductor continually being until 1776 was United tra music is “easy music.” Much of it is, of course, amateurs profess a dislike for “orchestra play- ministrative duties of the successful teacher and moved through- King of what is now the *he country. War traffic States. This fairly simple from a technical point of view; on ing”; nevertheless, most of them thoroughly en- Apart from accuracy of intonation, the con- conductor. These details are the “Gremlins” T has, of course, little paragraph is significant. of the first claim the the teacher s on transportation. The effect of senses was oddly other hand, a great deal of it is as difficult, joy a well-directed string group, for they find ductor’s chief difficulty at first will be to get the schedule and in most instances are music on the . The Theodore Presser Co. and and wonderfully mourning in technic and rhythm, as many of the standard that the required style of playing closely approxi- players to watch his baton. Both humorously and “extra-curricular.” Finally, he must continually The Etude verified during the Music Magazine, for endeavor to develop with staffs necessarily the Duke of Cumberland, uncle of George IH. symphonies. For example, such works as the mates that of chamber music. seriously he should continually remind the or- his capacities, so as to be a duced by re better war conditions, are A tailor had a which Tschaikowsky Serenade, the “Verklaerte Nacht” The conductor of a string ensemble must be a chestra of the necessity for watching his every teacher and musician tomorrow than he incessantly great number of black suits is to-day. y were to be of time. of Schoenberg, and the Prelude and Scherzo of string player preferably a violinist—who has a motion—making sure (at least until a fair degree » “d finished in a very short space — 2Vp,"“t Among his workmen there was a fellow who was Shostakovich call for a high degree of technical wide knowledge of the technical resources of the of rhythmic precision has been attained) that his Really, ln this always of patience-trying period singing Rule Britannia, the rest attainment. string instruments, and particularly of the means beat is simple, clear, and decisive. It is a good idea are very we and grateful to our the tailor Another tone colors are produced. Lack- to an occasional little joke on the orchestra. friend!, who have journeymen joined in the chorus. The point in favor of the string orchestra by which various play recognized that we made as a are doinv our his observations, and found that the slow training medium is the matter of size. A ing the. contrasting qualities of the wind choirs, The conductor may, without warning, suddenly to provide a far spread, ade^u^te time of the conse- symphonic orchestra of less than forty-five play- a string orchestra must be trained to utilize to suspend a beat in the air—not giving it when it Just whistle a bit if the day Se vi^ tune retarded the work; in be dark, when so many of ’ our foremost m V quence, he engaged placing ers is severely limited in the music it can satis- the utmost the color possibilities of the string is expected. Many players will come tumbling on And the sky be overcast; stated a blind fiddler, and, that they feel im ' If that music near the play c011 factorily perform. Anyone who has experienced to the next note—to the confusion of the culprits mute be the voice of the piping lark, ffi ^heth workshop, made him widest sense, is of very stantly The a ' ' Why, pipe vital imn° ? the lively tune Dawson. rehearsal of a symphonic work by a group lack- sr* and the amusement of the watchful ones. This your own small blast. to our nation P rtance of Nancy at this moment. design had elbows ing half the works most effectively after a short rest or a —Paul Laurence the desired effect; the tailor’s necessary wind instruments is not Dunbar moved likely VIOLIN obedient to the melody and the clothes ever to forget it! On the other hand, a sustained note. Another possibility is to make a were Edited by Robert Brains sent period. string sudden ritenuto where ( Continued on Page 540) 508 "FORWARD home within the prescribed orchestra of fifteen or sixteen players can MARCH WITH MUSIC” THE ETUD^ AUGUST, 1943 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 509 — —

social occasion to which Music and Study Music and Study all the church who sing TSon& at all ^ « Have this committee Vite4 sound out t!? ious persons who might 8 Var - When used with the beautifying (damper or Is be in 7 Whal a Sexluplet? as to the most Choir convenient time loud) pedal, the una corda pedal functions in Q. I enjoy reading your page in The fIor ing choir rehearsals, have hola- Etude and I hope you will be able to settle making possible mellow and brilliant tones at one a news item for a problem in rhythm for me. In The Etude the’ loTj the time with the same piano. Observe for Answers and same November, 1942 there appears a Toccata Questions and young people of high the school ase by L. Farnam and on the second page 7 Discovering the the excerpt from Berceuse by Ilj insky: vice and help, ad ‘ Soft Pedal and let all where the time changes to 3/2 I played it the L* members “talk ®mittee thus: it up" on everv Information Service occasion. SSlble A Music At the first choir Ex.l reu° work on the singing of hy 6 mns onw! The Real Significance of ‘‘Una Corda” and “Con Snrdino” and ones for the next ' 3 ancT Sunday 0f Conducted by the minister choose these cVrS imrrrr tf. rrr r rrrrrr £f both quality and variety, °r and let th ganist study them before This gives the effect of two triplets to each the choir ing. LeL‘ group of six. A friend of mine said it should Let the rehearsal begin nn * be played like this: r tUne even if all the singers are Lot L and let it close at the end of about e sempre una corda w Mus. Doc. minutes. Let flL ^ the list of zl hymns Copyright 1941 by D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc. U includ one new one, possibly Jacob Eisenberg was born in Alton, Illinois, February 19, 1894, and is very largely an aufodidacf, selected by the!! urns cu rrrrrr Professor Emeritus ganist, and let this one although he has had a wide and busy experience in many musical fields. Among his numerous musical a. E sempre una corda at the beginning of rr? be sung bv th choir alone at the Pianist" (D. Appleton-Century " in the music directs that the left foot de- church service works are "The Co.) , Weight and Relaxation Piano Playing," “ Natural berlin College i L !! Now it can be played smoothly either like say much more at my first type, having only a single this point but th Technics in Piano Mastery," and "The New Hanon." Mr. Eisenberg served two years in the U. S. Marines press the una corda pedal and keep it down way, but to me the accent is ’ different and accent; ought to help ^ and that in the third measure you get started during the First . Editor's Note. the right the beautify- the first way preferable. Which is correct? Music Editor, Webster’s New World War while foot employs 3 2. Can you give me any information you have the feel of a pair of triplets Persuade the minister to International Dictionary allow you ing (damper or loud) pedal as indicated about F. Leon Percippe? to have He composed Lift again. At any rate you were right and ten minutes every other Your Glad Voices, an Easter anthem Sunday by the pedal line. pub- your friend was wrong—which ought to during which you may have lished by Maxwell Music Company, but I the entire b. The dynamic indication for the bass is make you feel good! congregation have not been able to find out anything at practice singing some hymn HEN PIANOS were made with two strings pianissimo (pp) which directs a soft, gentle all about him. I would appreciate any help 2. I cannot find this name in any of -either a new one or else an old one you can give me.—Miss P. E. of my reference that to each tone, the pedal at the left finger stroke throughout the length of the books. Perhaps some of they do not sing well. During this shifted our* readers can tell us about him. The period tlie organist commonly called the soft pedal— excerpt which, if properly applied, will re- A. 1. has entire W A sextuplet (or sextolet or sex- charge of Maxwell Music Company was affairs, hammer action and keys to the right suffi- sult in the creation of resonantly mellow tole) is a group merged but he may feel like the of six notes having some asking the years ago with the Theodore Pres- minister to read the words ciently to cause the hammers to strike but one tones of soft dynamic color, even in its the arithmetical value of four of the aloud to the ser Co., but there seems same kind; for to be no infor- congregation. If this Is to be of their respective strings to produce softer tones. gentle crescendos and diminuendos. example, six eighth mation done have available about this composer. him read Just notes marked with a small figure six the first verse and then It was but natural to indicate such a change in c. The treble, beginning with the third meas- having let the congregation the time of four eighth notes. practice this. Now lone volume by the term una corda, the Italian ure meno or mezzo piano imp), sounded In this respect it is like the let him read the second verse triplet, Organist vs. Congregation to see way of saying one string. The term is still em- with rather sharp and determined finger which is a group of three notes played whether It needs a different interpreta- Q. I am an organist in a church in a small ployed when softer tones are desired in spite of strokes will result in resonantly brilliant or sung in the time ordinarily given town. tion; and so on. If the singers We have no choir or leader. Having make a the modern grand piano is made tones in their mezzo piano, to two of the mistake the fact that even dynamic same value; or the quad- studied organ for several years and having of any kind the organist stops, ruplet been trained to play the with three strings to each tone in the treble, two softness. or the quintuplet. But in ac- music correctly, explains pleasantly what was wrong, and tual I am puzzled as to whether to play the cor- for the tones in the high bass, and Thus do we have a fine example of the una performance the sextuplet is differ- asks them to do It again. Don’t strings each rect time as it is written or to follow the scold; ent from most of but string for of the low bass tones. corda pedal softening the tones of the bass the other irregular lead of a few strong voices in the congre- be firm in your insistence that they one each and note-groups in that it may be accented gation, these singers not always singing the sing correctly. The soft pedal action for the upright, or more mellowing their sonority at the same time; while in several correct rhythm and especially not holding different ways, whereas the Perhaps you are thinking is different in that the una of the final tone at the by now that modern spinet models, the sympathetic vibrations those same bass others are end of the line to its ordinarily performed alike in full length. all this is too Any suggestions as to what I much trouble. If so, I corda pedal raises the hammer action, causing strings enrich the sonority and brilliance of the that each group has but a single accent, might do to improve the music merely shrug in such a my shoulders and tell you the hammers to strike from a point closer, end melody treble tones. this falling on the first church would be gratefully received. note. —Mrs that anything that is D. D. M. worth having has ing in a stroke against the strings with lesser Telegraph poles appear to the eye close together The sextuplet may be performed in No to be worked question will be answered in THE for—you can’t get some- any one of three ETUDE force, and a correspondingly reduced quantity of when peering through the window of a fast mov- different ways, depend- acc° m P<‘ n

Music and Study of a Teacher HIS IS THE STORY of a movement The Choice that Music and Study started in a little brick school house at the T corner of Grand Avenue and Eighth Street, the pedal at the left be kept down continu- ha .Arthur Oiaf ylnJerSen ously Los Angeles, California, in the fall of 1907, ana until its release is directed by the In level and that results, more grew into a nationwide educational institution. term tre corda in Measure 35. HE CHOICE of a teacher is important. or less, will k 6 ' this time Miss Jennie L. Jones, b. While reached pendent upon the student himself At a teacher in the una corda pedal is depressed, these days teacher-training has ’rather lu upon the teacher. the above mentioned school, and, incidentally, a the right foot simultaneously engages T a high degree of attainment, especially the clarinet player, conceived the idea of The Story of In regard to assembling the beautifying (damper or loud) in the colleges and universities throughout the piano instruction, many pedal as sch of the school now have a certiAed list of S all children who played musical directed by the pedal line. country. Child psychology has entered into the teachers with h instruments and forming them into c. The it would be safe to have one’s an orchestra. dynamic power and shading of each work to a wide extent, and supervised teaching youngster teachers t It had been a custom to have the children per- phrase is guided by the tone has helped immensely to prepare the younger These are chosen for their training volume indi- h^' exercises to cated ground, and their proved form marching the music of a piano, as pp for one voice and mp for the teachers for their approach to instructional work. ability as Elementary pedagog^' and Miss Jones’ original thought probably School Orchestra other, though sending her The independent teacher was played by the Angers of the The parent cannot go far wrong in who is not connect d„ that an orchestra would give a more substantial same hand, while the crescendos child to such a well-trained exponent of instru- with any public school or conservatory and is fo rhythmic background for these drills. diminuendos of each phrase are recog- mental pedagogy. in all neighborhoods and usually is a well-tra In organizing this modest group, Miss Jones nized. The coincidence of temperamental disagree- pianist, conscientious, generous Initial Steps in a Vast Musical in with his t”^ not possibly have realized Movement America d. could the momentous Between the small staffs (staves) are long ment between teacher and student is less likely and with project work ever in mind. Such*’ it to ci * future was presage; but it is a singularly escendos and diminuendos fluctuating to be noticeable now than it was twenty years teacher can be depended upon to — give as sati fact that, included crescendos S prophetic in its personnel was and fluctuating diminuendos. ago. This .is because the well-trained instructor factory instruction as any other musician a little boy of serious mien, who played a small These indicate the general trend takes the differences in personality into a con- When your son or daughter of the wishes to take violoncello with unusual aptitude, and who was by C^fcirenee (Loob tone volume, such as crescendos and sideration in his work in psychology and meets the study of a musical instrument diminuendos give a bit to achieve national fame in later years. His name, following in alternation with the issue with a more complete understanding of thought and consideration to the points eni now known throughout the entire musical world, ever-increasing intensity than before. to a great fff merated. These are all important in arriving at is Alfred Wallenstein. (fortiszssimo) in Measures 39-40. When a parent sends a child to a high school the necessary conclusions which must be orchestra soon became very which, for the present, only e. Poco consid The popular and can be conjectured. become known as the “Los Angeles Junior Or- accel. and rit. repeat in instrumental class for instruction he can feel ered in fairness to continuous yourself, your offspring called upon frequently It alternation and was to play at entertain- had been the custom to hold “Concluding chestra.” Two or three players were picked from from Measure 32 to Measure 40 assured that the work offered will be on a high the teacher with whom you entrust the work ments, both in and out of school hours. Eventual- Exercises” for the eighth grade graduates of the each of city schools f. Measures the and assembled for re- 39-40 are taken with a single ly, orchestras appeared in two or combined schools of the city in the auditorium hearsals. depi ession three other of After several weeks of preparation a of the beautifying (damper or schools. The idea grew in popularity, but few one of the high schools. What could be more At- concert was given. To meet expenses it was found loud) pedal while the una corda pedal is of the schools were fortunate enough to have ting, then, than to have a combined orchestra of expedient to slight released. What the Accompanist Ought to Know a make a admission charge of Putting teacher possessing even a meager knowledge of eighth grade students play at these exercises? ten cents, the children themselves taking care of it all together we have a splendid ex- instrumentation. This, plan Arst into effect greater ample of was put February 1, the part of the seat sale to parents and an aural illusion in which Lj Q. B. atom Itarcli thunderous 1911, with an orchestra of about seventy-Ave friends. power is drawn from the instrument because the An Important Step ear was A N ACCOMPANIST acquires his ability through keyboard. players, and thereafter the orchestra became a A balanced instrumentation was, of course, made to hear what it thinks it He must be a splendid reader, hears— ZA accompanying. an able In 1910 the Board of Education, to regular feature of this ceremony. never possible, as there always slow and ever-increasing harmonist, capable meet the was a predom- accellerando, increasing of transposing almost any tone There are countless pianists who think increasing urge for school orchestras, requested For two years Miss Jones carried on alone. inance of violins, a scarcity of woodwinds, and power in Auctuation, starting composition to any key at sight, pp, a prolonged that they and he should Miss Jones to resign her Then, depression may turn themselves into accompanists have a position as school teacher as the work grew in volume, assistant almost a complete absence of certain instru- of the beautifying (damper or good working knowledge of loud) instantly without speciAc English, and accept the more important post of supervisor supervisors were appointed one by one ufttil the ments, such as English horn, bassoon, or pedal, causing experience in the Aeld. Fiench. Italian, even a decidedly blurred tonal effect. and German. The Usually they make a ridiculous accompanist of all city school instrumental groups. Her newly department Anally reached a total of six. string bass. Again, time did not permit the con- The three directions functioning display of their who has studied Latin in simultaneous incompetence. has an insight to Italian imposed duties consisted combination Spanish in visiting the different A few years later the segregation of the sev- sideration of really Anished work, since the per- make possible the effects of a desir- and French. The good accompanist schools, forming orchestras wherever the musical enth, eighth, and ninth grades and the estab- sonnel of the orchestra changed at least Afty able aural illusion. supports the singer. The Of per imperative Importance is rapid accompanist who subordinates sight-read- personnel warranted, and selecting suitable lishment of these grades as junior high schools, cent every term. Nevertheless, the concerts have himself to the ing, accurate tempi, soloist and and the ability to throw music. left literally runs after him like a puppy Miss Jones and her assistants with only the improved steadily in this respect. The prime ob- oneself into the. mood of the dog is rarely successful. soloist. These were busy days for Miss Jones. The wide sixth and lower grades from which to draw ject always has been to acquaint the children The idea that The the mediocre musical parasites, scope of her accompanist requires a peculiar kind work made it impossible for her to musical material. While this seemed for a time with the practical function of their instruments of who have ('ailed as soloists, alertness. He have the right to fall visit each orchestra oftener than once to constitute a serious handicap, it soon evolved in combining and blending with others, Making the must even be ready to cover up a month, the Most of a Few Minutes back upon accompanying as mistakes made by the artist. a kind of Anancial the intervening weekly rehearsals being con- that children of that age were quite as capable acquiring of a sense of ensemble, so essential to The crutch is rapidly passing. accompanist is really a conductor ducted by the best qualiAed teacher of each musically as the seventh and eighth graders. any kind of group work, and the ability to as- at the Accompanists are Blanche IV. jCath both born and made. school. similate the silent, potent language of the baton. Develops As far as can be ascertained, this was the Arst A New Orchestra In conjunction with the work in the school * j m fu bj »«** hi organization of its kind in the United States, so By 1918 the enrollment of young orchestra orchestras, the children always have been ad- STUDENT of the piano who had been absent from to Miss Jones must go the credit of starting a students had reached such a high total that it vised and urged to attend the Young People’s the instrument for some time found, movement that this in its Concerts, A on his has undoubtedly spread to all was impossible to assemble group en- Symphony and at one period a limited return, that he had become very parts of the rusty in country, the future possibilities of tirety. Out of this exigency was born what has number were permitted ( Continued on Page 544) his playing. As his practice periods were limited, he decided that the best plan would be to practice each day a small section of certain pieces, choosing those which would beneAt him most in his present grade of study. Each of the pieces selected and practiced was of a different character, tempo, and key. Thus Sinding’s Rustle of Spring was followed by Chopin’s Waltz in C- sharp minor; then Rubinstein’s Kamennoi-Os- trow in the original key of F-sharp, Godard’s Valse Chromatique, followed by Haydn’s Gypsy Rondo, and so on. The small portion which was allotted to his study time was practiced slowly and carefully with separate hands, great attention being paid to exactness, touch, expression, and phrasing One week of practice was given to each of these sec- tions. When the entire piece was completed, it was laid aside. As a little more leisure came to the student, he was able to prolong his practice Going back, and playing the Arst pieces studied as well as others not included in his selections’ /*Ao/o 6* 4*mjr Command he found it gratifying to A'or

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THE FOREST BROOK IK THE HALL OP THE MOUNTAIN-KING Grade 2-3. EDVARD GRIEG HAROLD WANSBOROUGH Arr. by Lewis Slavit Moderato m. m. J= uz Ibsens “Peer Gynt was produced 5- When in America by Richard Mansfield, the scene of the “Hall of the Mountain-King” was most dramatic. The vaga- bond Norwegian mythical character, Peer Gynt, drunk with illusions of adventure and grandeur, wanders through many thrilling experiences. The maker of this shortened and simplified piano arrangement has supplied excellent performance notes, which should be followed carefully. Ibsen wrote in 1867. Grieg’s music for the “Peer Gynt” play was composed in 1874 and 1875. Grade 3.

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LONELINESS t fectively evoke the spirit of the ab- tion. Note how it cannot decide to sent one—tears or beautiful music? which tonality it belongs until that ( Madchen mil dem roten Miindchen) This simple, touching song by final D major chord. With The Technic of the Month Franz needs little elucidation. The Again I have translated some of English lesson by Dr. Guy Maier on opposite page translation by G. M. melody must be treated differently in the text freely to assist the player. ROBER FR AN2 m each of the first three phrases of four No wonder artists refuse to sing these Conducted by cuer measures each. In Measures 1-4 be Franz songs, for here’s the English Slowly 4 ; °P-5,N, M.M. J =69-72 Arr.Jeby . 5 m Guy Maier 1 sure to keep the right hand thumb text given in the vocal score: and second finger pianissimo while “In thy dear eyes fondly peeping if we could be to - geth in our co - I would kiss thy lily hand, shl„ zy Jit . tie the melody soars over them; in Measures 5-8 emphasize the rich dark And bedew with happy weeping Loneliness, Op. 5, No. 5 melody of the right hand octaves. In Thy dear little, lily hand.”

Measures 9-12 play the melody very ( Translator anonymous ! bu Robert 3, softly and luminously, following each Not much consolation in that, is tone with a gentle, rotary impulse there? ... It is this kind of maudlin HAT’S ALL THIS TALK about of the consolation.” To those reas- toward the thumb and second finger. sentimentality that we must avoid, music being an “escape”? If suring words may I boldly add that The sudden change of key and char- for it is unworthy of the music. Bet- text and W that’s its chief function at anyone who expects to receive ef- acter in Measures 13 and 14 must be ter, by far, to ignore such a time, I none fective secret sorrow. Let let the music speak for itself. this or any other want consolation must “take a heart-rending in its anyone escape the wall part” in actually expressing the left hand play with heavy, de- Yet don’t ever forget—one of the of it. How can the emo- closed fills spairing footsteps here; but be sure best methods of developing singing of tragedy which has down tion which the soul? The best the lovely quality in your own or your students’ on us? Yet, how fortunate in these way I know to participate is through to mitigate the gloom with song. playing is to study song arrange- dark days are those who have music music—to sit down at the piano to major triad which finishes the The unhappy mood of the piece is ments, at first with actual words in to turn to, not for escape but for play a piece like Loneliness, to study its curious key vacilla- mind, later with the text discarded. solace, remembrance and restoration. it lovingly, to discover its beauties, to enhanced by If you were asked what brings com- polish its phrases, to bring to it all aching heart, would the quality of which you are capable. fort to a lonely, Cosmopolitan you be one who answers, “a good If you follow this path conscientious- Grieg—Nationalist and perhaps a weeping binge ly I am sure that in the end you will cry”? Well, (Continued from Page 492) does bring some small comfort, but actually be a partaker of the “con- spirit and “C’est vrai. Nous sommes toujours after all it seems such a futile emo- solation” as well as the “suffering.” Ravel are a rebirth of the tres injuste envers Grieg.” (It is true. tional upheaval, accomplishing little And once you have found this means traditions of Couperin and Rameau.” conver- are always very unjust concern- and leaving only chokes, sniffles and of expressing your own deeply felt Then Delius strode into the We Modern ing Grieg.) At least, that is how red eyes in its wake. emotions, you will probably be able sation with “Fiddlesticks! Grieg, plus Delius, in his Anglo-French, retold Isn’t there a more satisfactory way to share the discovery with others French music is simply of ‘Tris- the sentence. to find solace? St. Paul writes in II who also need consolation. the Prelude to the third act Ravel (al- If the progress-bearing influence Corinthians, 1:7, “As ye are partakers Which method do you think would tan’,” to which Maurice replied: (Continued on Page 543) of the sufferings so shall ye be also better assuage loneliness or more ef- ways a discerning genius)

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ber of Bach’s organ works have long in the realm of g 5 ^ fj Dn the sacred music Wings of Joy been highly estimated by musicians is with this end in U view thaV^u FLASH and amateur pianists. His apprecia- recordings are being Se VU1CE UUESTIOIVS offered t CARDS j^or If^iano ZlJeaclierd ( Continued 10,wt SPEED DRILLS from Page 491) tion of the grandeur and nobility of public. the Bach’s style is evidenced in his To many these chants The easiest and quickest way to teachl the piano keysjo tinv tots or principle of will an„ joy in quest of accom- to transcriptions. One of the fchief rea- solely because of Ppeal beginners of any age. is with SPEED DRILLS by Wallace & Winning. supervise the Chinese national their reli£? imf plishment, and Slg' we have many authenticity of Pearl sons for the estimation of his ar- nificance, while to Buck’s film, others th.f A System for Teaching Beginners on the Piano to Read Rapidly at Sight records of unusual results. We can- 'The Good Earth.’ If I find that the rangements is his affirmation of the have a wider appeal. not refrain Answered ly. DR. NICHOLAS from telling our readers ideas music’s rhythmic qualities. Petri has austere beauty D0UTY and revisions I have suggested of this music FOR CLASS OR INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION here the story of Major General to the producers have been carried chosen four of the most popular appreciated as much for Theodore Tu itself l * and his realization out, I am to Chorales arranged by Busoni and in- its devotional material for single note drill, giving the student return to give Govern- significance. (?nppfj Tlrillv contaln of musical joy, inspired in his Most \ boy- ment approval. I had just time corporated them into a delightful us know that Gregorian training to play quickly at sight. With SPEED DRILLS hood through to Chant reading The Etude. come to little recital. To our way of thinking rives its dc Philadelphia to state my name from students consists Pone r, will be answered in THE ETUDE learn to play before learning the music alphabet. SPEED DRILLS The General’s father was a this No question unless accompanied by the full name Chris- gratitude to The Etude and to you is one of the finest records that the Great, who is ^ supposed to h inquirer. Only initials, to be placed back of keyboard (on these tian Chinese and the boy and address of the or pseudonym given, will be published. of Thirty-t-wo Cards was brought for the articles and editorials; for Petri has made. selected ip,591 Are up in be^ompSiS a Cards in Place to the key Mission school and learned giving me the Cregorian Chant; sung by the Choir cards is printed the staff and the note corresponding aim, the ideals, the from the then-existent Back of Keyboard the English church language through read- joyous of the music the keyboard). Keyboard Finder and a Book of Com- objective, without which my Benedictine Monks of Saint and arranged a collection on ing the Bible and The Etude of chant, Music life could not have amounted to any- Benoit du Lac, Canada. Issued in the which became the prehensive Instructions for their use. Magazine, accepted church which came to the school thing.” He then U.S.A. by McLaughlin and Reilly told that he had Co. music. Like all early art, monthly. When this early Young Baritone munication with them and ask for an audition. he visited our office made a Six 10-inch discs \ Disappointed direct trip from Los Angeles in album. music reflects the If your own a few years spirit of man have an unusual baritone voice and I estimate of your many gifts is cor- ARE PICTURES OF THE CARDS SO THAT YOU ago he was in charge to fZ nil rect, FOLLOWING of Philadelphia and return fa journey The singing of the Benedictine the church nine years, five of which were you may be one of the fortunate ones to important was then the chief have studied work at the Nanking Mili- of spon great conservatory where I had gain “The help and protection” of some of MAY KNOW THE WAY THEY ARE USED six thousand miles) without Monks of Saint Benoit du Lac is most sor of art. event in a , tak- Gregorian them said these good and charitable people. tary Academy, the Chant was in different teachers. Each one of The Editor of West Point of ing time to visit impressive, quite as fine two Voice Questions other cities, to in its way tended primarily exceptional voice and both said it wishes you every good luck DRILL No. 2 DRILL No. 3 DRILL No. 4 ex- for had an DRILL No. 1 China. He surprised prayer l in For stressing rapid visual us by repeating, plain to as the but the late Antonio Scotti. All your quest. For stressing visual For instant recognition For stressing rapidity us that when a famous Solesmes Choir in resembled that of mental and muscular Chinese feels through the centuries its accuracy of keyboard positions playing the keys almost verbatim, certain significance 1 have met were not interested coordination editorials that he has a deep debt of France. The present group wishes to the teachers gratitude, as an expression of progress but in my money. As I have The Movable or the Fixed Do? similar to this one, which man’s earliest in my he had he permits continue the support, 1 little nothing to stand in his task, already begun by musical efforts dear old mother to have Q. In studying sight-singing which system read in his has given it an a boyhood at the Mission way added spare for lessons. is the most valuable, the movable until he has discharged that the Solesmes Monks, of restoring interest apart from money to or the im- school. These the church I sing my tongue seems tight and movable Do? I came in contact recently with had given him an ob- debt. The The 2. When Etude was responsible Gregorian Chant to its proper place selections some kind at the top of Root's “ Four-Year jective, a luminous for have been well chosen. there is a tension of Course” but hear it criti- ideal, a joyous General bulges when I sing and cized because Tu’s boyhood initiative and my throat. A vein out he gives the movable Do. Which hope, which later in the front is best? What inspired he I show little hollownesses of my are some of the best books on him to go wanted to thank us. This Chinese to at its base Sometimes these occur on A, sight-reading?—Mrs. N. F. New York, where he continued gentleman neck gave us a I here stood in front a mir- his new conception sometimes on G. of musical work and received Musical trying repose, breathing, A. Just which is the better system for sight- a de- of Chinese character Radio Rarrage ror, hours at a time gree and ethics reading. the Movable Do or the Fixed Do, is of Master of Arts from everything I know, and it is just the same. My PRICE - SPEED DRILLS £S Complete 50 c a great which we never can forget. a question of opinion. Some teachers prefer one 5 Eastern We often Against teachers tell me l must fight. What must I university. To give the Axis system and some the other. If you work hard us an jokingly have l do:' 1 get tight and tired told our friends how fight and what can Publish'd By JtnHIflS music COmPOnY Kansas City, mo. idea of his musical first teacher enough at either of them, you will probably prowess he sang The Etude assisted after I sing half an hour My had in making a Chi- (Continued from Page learn to read music fairly well. In our opinion for us, in a delightful 497) me force my chest voice up to C and then up manner, art nese Major General. the best system is to make yourself a good However, if some to D, E, and F. This was a tremendous strain songs of Schubert, musician, to learn to play an instrument or Schumann, and Etude reader, with this upon my voice and gat e me a headache. Soon copy of The important position two. preferably the piano or the organ, to Brahms, revealing a fine , in the field of to have cliqued my voice got down to E, then to D, and the baritone Etude in his hand, determines again in his latest study some harmony and counterpoint and voice to music. He had played first high notes were difficult and began to scare LOST $200,000,000.00 and excellent as violon- broadcast. with struc- training and in- follow joyously teacher told not to use the thus to familiarize yourself the some luminous ideal, cellist me. My next me is estimated loss from moth dam- terpretative with two major symphony or- ture of the music that you sing. Few singers That staggering sum the sense. He told us that, we shall be One of the world’s chest tones, but still the high tones do not parts, repaid again. best-known are willing to give the time and energy neces- age last year. Pianos, with hundreds of choice felt although Above all, chestras—the Chicago have the silvery ring which is essential, as his occupation if and the Phil- civic of sight, and out of was that of you want to succeed, musical enterprises, the St. sai*y to perfect themselves in these things, and are favorite moth breeding places. Out the learn to soar harmonic. His my voice is a warm, golden baritone. I do not military man, the appointment with the Louis that is the reason why so few of them are really reach by anyone except a piano technician, moth destruc- great inspiring on the wings of joy. Municipal Opera, provides the have the ease upon the high notes that the joy Remember the latter organization first-class sight readers. Cole and Lewis with costly results. of his life was music. hne was at the per- artists and great artists demonstrate. tion goes on unobserved but He told us from Coleridge’s “A musicians for a summer "Melodia” and McDonough-Cheve ‘‘Method of your piano mothproofed he had Christmas sonal request of Maestro 3. I must study some foreign languages. Protect your investment. Have conducted two large choruses Carol,” ‘Joy Toscanini, series of operetta Sight-Singing,” are well-liked books upon the rises in me like a selections on Co- Can I learn them from phonograph records? now by a competent piano technician. Have your piano in Nanking, sum- who was then the conductor subject. The Theodore Presser Company will and explained that “the mer’s morn.’ of the lumbia’s St. Or must I learn from a living teacher? This tuned four times a year. Louis Municipal Opera send you either or both of these books. Chinese people Philharmonic. It was Wallenstein’s would be difficult as I have no money. have a predilection As a kind of Program (heard AMERICAN SOCIETY of PIANO TUNER-TECHNICIANS coda to this editorial, Sundays from 2:00 4. Do you know of some well-known teacher THE for Brahms." He interest in the orchestra as a whole, More? then explained may we to 2:30 or conductor whom I can contact? I am a good Is She Soprano or Contralto Once that state P.M., I our sincere and deep EWT . The St. Louis his father he contends, actor, tall, had wanted him to which made him decide thin, Spanish type and good look- Q. I do not care to make singing my life become appreciation of the great Municipal Opera began its a military number of on conducting, twenty- ing; am emotional passionate, and an artist. work, but I do it for enjoyment and culture. man, and after his Etude and radio provided fifth Amer- readers who have season this year. My artistry permeates my song. Can you offer My voice is clear and powerful, though not ican training written us the springboard. A symphony FREEMANTEL will Saturday Night had sent In 1933, he intro- me any help and advice? J. M. and I play several instruments, him to a mili- expressing their orchestra of fifty, — exceptional, gratitude for the in- duced a fifty-seven voice singing tary school in Berlin. his Sinfonietta (now heard so you see I am musical. I have been train YOUR VOICE Returning to spirational help which on chorus and A. 1. & 2. If your letter accurately describes appeared Serenade Etude a dancing large choirs . one of which China at articles Tuesdays from 11:30 chorus of in several “I attended & concert given by Mary Stewart, a the outbreak to 12 midnight, your personal experiences, you have been un- I was so EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT of the first and editorials have brought twenty-five in the Temple of Music at the New York former pupil of Frederic Freemantel. to them? EWT), make up the permanent usually unfortunate in choice of teachers. impressed by her fine singing I travelled 10,000 Japanese attack and later he your World’s Fair. I wish to be a high soprano and 9:45 P. M. EWT at Shanghai in 1933 ur progress added his Sym- miles from Shanghai to New York for the privi- , in all lines company with To force your upper tones as you have done, in America phonic soloists from the last year I was a second soprano. This year lege of studying with Mr. Freemantel.” Columbia Network trained officers were Strings and ignoring needed so badly has been based other interest- completely the natural resonances of dropped and 1 am (Signed) Priscilla Pote-Hunt not upon our natural stage and radio taking the leading my voice seems to have that he was ing programs. the face, head, and nasal cavity could lead able s soon promoted and wealth Others of his “Firsts” classed as a first alto, though I am not FREEMANTEL STUDIO . Sj See Broadcast com- and hard labors parts in to only alone but include: the operettas. 13,000,000 one result, the hoarse, strained, and notes. I am seven- 205 W.,* 57th St. New York, N. Y. missioned a M^jor General. the Cantatas of Bach- to reach some of the lowest upon our concepts a persons uncomfortable production of which you com- will settle When in N. Y. But,” of freedom, right- complete have attended the 1808 per- teen and I wondered if my voice we asked ourselves, series featuring the plain. No one can sing well with a tight tongue, range extends “Why eousness, tolerance, twenty- formances some more in later years. My Write for Tickets has this enlightenment, five piano of this Municipal Opera a stiff throat, and hollows in the neck caused space amiable and attractive and concertos by Mozart, only to F, the fifth line, or G, the first young the higher spiritual and in the by contraction. It seems impossible that you Chinese paid forces which then a Mozart past twenty-four years of its above the treble clef, although my favorite JESSICA us the honor of a visit?” have opera cycle. have studied nine years without learning that C. Can carried us upward and He also existence stars can reach G and A above high He explained, ever up- conducted and the enterprise is said every well-trained vocalist experience “I have been a series over must give me any advice as to how I can realize sent to ward on the wings of WOR fea- to be a sense you America joyous achieve- turing currently a financial as well as of balance among the four funda- singing these high tones? Now 1 by the Chinese Joseph Szigeti, mental my dream of Government ment. the violinist elements of song, the control of the it does not sound DRAGONETTE an artistic strain voice and n success. breath, have to my anoth5' in which the resistance of the vocal bands, the We build, strengthen the vocal organs— America’s Beloved Soprano . Elisabeth good. L. E. not with singing lessons—but by sound, sci- p f, Sylvia use of the — exercises, Rethberg, the Marlowe, harpsichordist, is resonances and the free and com- entifically correct silent and vocal soprano, was fortable is a fine method and absolutely guarantee comolete satisfaction heard in formation of vowel and consonant A. Singing in a large chorus Book. Sent to no a heard every Sunday over with results. Write for Voice FREF. 6ty f li6der morning sounds. You seem these developing your musicianship, your feel- one under 17 vears old unless signed bv parent. and °Peratjc airs. to be in a fog about all of CHICAGO n^ the Blue network things, and and your ability to read at PERFECTV0ICE INSTITUTE,Studia C-558, 54 E. Lake St., Duke Ellington,™ the (8:05 to 8:30, EWT) if you hope to succeed you must ing for ensemble, noted Negro md someone you undertake a great deal of Classical Recordings pianist in a unique concert in which Miss to explain them so clearly to sight. Before of High Merit and “Swing” you you should have a fairly well- composer, has a you will be able not only to under- it however, program Marlowe plays harpsichord solos and stand them understanding of the principles of on Mutual’s WOR on but to use them in your singing. grounded Sun- is 3 enunciation, and voice production, also heard in - best breathing, (Continued from Page 498) day nights (7:00 an ensemble made . way to learn a foreign tongue to 7:30 P.M s the voice itself some harm. EWT) to speak it. or you may do up of . As Spanish is your native featuring herself, Vladimir Brenner, necessary as musicianship is, dance music in unguage you should have comparatively little Wonderful and a new of tone, century mood. pianist, Harry violinist, difficulty in singer needs first of all beauty style of writing, but in Ellington calls Glickman, learning the other Latin tongues, the solo the erable success the program to comfortably form his with his arrangement and Carl rench and Italian. Phonograph records may a knowledge of how present orchestral dress it ” Stern, violoncellist. Folks ability to con- emerges in the Explaining elp you to and consonants, and the concert hall, , make the sounds these tongues vowel .W" 1“ of there is in in quite a just cause music, 5S the East program ut waste his breath. Before it is different manner. he says: have found this will do little and not to Sevitzky to believe “it’s a st to teach you what the words trol — )$^ that many yie 0 f ean> these things under 1 resorts will welcome an agreeable In the great live, too late you should study to massive string writing w ispermg swing, eye-opener for Sunday city in which you them, but his version of or conversational st ou1 who not only understands the music on .^ not find it impossible to get into a teacher y* and swollen dynamic records music, mornings. ennt l to you and suggest Engravers effects which It is without sacrificing Ct a erson French and who can explain them richly reproduced. the Itar P who speaks an honest are of Zee and to develop them. If he is completely alien to eighteenth- emotion, the Competing with Miss Marlowe are to ^ earn these languages by con- exercises Bach-Busoni: Chorale impact of the versingv he will frankly tell you ^ Preludes I rhythm with him. sincere man century music; — Call the luster the organ de md one, Lithographers hence the effects are to of the programs of Avenir S voice is a high or a low Thee; In Thee is melody.” ° 1 every great city there are conserva- whether your Joy; Sleepers Awake; Elling- tori^ u you along in this line not what the composer ton, long Monfred, heard net- schools he will endeavor to improve Write to us about anything aimed at. regarded over the NBC ’ Private teachers, conductors and We Rejoice, Christians; as one of who a and nature that de- Egon Petri (piano) £- Fe anxious lines. After all, it is prefer the original icas work for on to meet exceptionally talented natural ITEMIZED PRICE LIST composition. How- foremost musicians the same period of time and n soprano or an alto. SEND FOR Columbia disc 71463. by admirers rsonable young brains cides whether you are a ever, since of Sundays. and ?f people who have made, stick to Sevitzky has had consid- popular music The organist, who is also SeVerance When the decision is finally Busoni’s transcriptions as well as by as wel1 as voice and g°od voice of a num- manJ a looks MUnt not try to sing in two types of musicians of the composer, has himself a for some of these in your own or it and do classic school^ shown some Mi, ranges or qualities. 536 sterns capable program tner great city put yourself into com- and in two different "FORWARD maker. 537 MARCH WITH MUSIC” AUGUST, "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” THE ETUDE 1943 ” f — —

“Looking back upon thirty years of most famous soio Doys, participation, if an announce™* happy t service at St. Thomas’, I find There happened to be a convention necessary, it might be * k The stated * Goal of Church Music plenty of ‘thrill’ material. I am per- of music supervisors, from all over the lows: “We shall now f01 ' sing our am Choir haps less conscious of ‘great names’ United States, in New York at that Anthem,” or al Uuestiuns (Continued from Page 505) “So-and-So wiin than I might eari be, since the nature of time, and we were requested to give in singing our National y°u Piano Sdlds the Anth* congregation is such that it the presentation especially for them. On all occasions a choral the master feels handicapped in abounds groun in that interesting com- I do not mention this ‘extra’ work the National Anthem d ng his work by reason of inadequate modity. should ”f -Answered by S. No, it is the recollection of idly. I think it is an excellent thing facing the flag HENRY FRY, MuS. DoC. mechanical or the leader ^ resources, poor acoustics, musical , pleasures that stands out. for choir masters to look into. De- attitude of respectful j-eaturini an old, or dingy, or ‘dead’ attention Ex-Dean of the church When I first came to St. Thomas’, pending upon the facilities at their doors, men Pennsylvania Chapter of the A. G. O. building. In should remove such a case, I strongly back in 1913, times were their w different and disposal, choir masters can perform It is suggested that, urge the director to redouble his there when it own was no difficulty whatever a great the musical life of Country efforts— in service in physically inconvenient Love of for it is entirely possible to finding the ways to do so T and means of fi- their communities by stimulating in- members of he No questions will he answered in overcome these a band or orchestra.; THE ETUDE unless accompanied by the full defects. The tonal nancing extras.’ name and address Thus, I was enabled terest in special musical perform- of the inquirer. Only initials, or pseudonym given, quality whjle playing the Nation,,' will be pub- he can develop in his to is ed. Naturally, in fairness group, form and train a special tat" MY COUNTRY to all friends and advertisers, we can express no opinions and Festival ances of this kind. It is inspiring If only a single SONGS OF the tonal focus, or resonance, Chorus stanza of as to the relative qualities of various instruments. he of one hundred mixed voices. and rewarding to the participants, Th* arrangements for piano solo can National Anthem is lkl eaSY draw from it will sung th* « ? RICHTER Pr.. 75c. liven up the With the help ’ Arr. by ADA of that chorus, of my and it arouses the finest kind of en- first clned and deadest acoustics. should be used. own choir of forty first and second grades boys and twenty thusiasm among the listeners. And Our National ^-rxTr AAmericans in the men, Anthem is dy will be thrilled with this book of and of a sixty-five piece then customarily 7^^ano s” Q. Kindly A Gigantic sym- especially does the choral mas- sung at the piano arrangement* of 46 songs give details of membership in The list. My greatest difficulty is making it soft Musical Program opening of T °,r rasyto-plav phony orchestra, a meeting grown-up piano beginners will American Guild Organists, I was able to pre- ter find 2 USA Likewise of musical require- enough and still having some body to the tones. the opportunity of stimu- program, 0 with in- “Of course, but special readily played presentations ments, and so forth. Is there any insignia to these effects are not sent such great circumstance inv tliese What is electrifying the organ? Would you rec- works as Elgar’s lating a truly devotional All the favorite patriotic numbers are display membership? Play in the tempo originally in- easy attitude may warrant the Wj tevts If so, kindly explain. ommend it for a church organ? E. K. L. to secure, and they ‘Dream placing 0f The Stars ant Snipes Forever: — cannot be of Gerontius,’ it else " embracing composer . . . exactly as he Dvorak’s ‘Sta- through the beauty of the music he where. e —N. H. tended by the produced overnight. A. The instrument you specify is very lim- indicated Anyone who has bat Mater,’ and wished it to be played and so many of the great is able to produce.” A. Active membership in The American Guild ited in It is not in others. scope—the softest stop, perhaps, being the big advantage been in cathedral life can choral good taste to Organists on the score. That is appreciate works of Bach. Those ven- make or Compoier Gr. Price consists of Colleagues, Associates, the Great Dulciana. (You do not give any in- use No. Title in controlling tempo in the new, the the amount sophisticated concert Cat Fellows and Choirmasters, subject to following formation as to the Great is of constant, regular tures into the versions (Victory Theme from whether organ oratorio field are, Allegro con Brio the electric way ... by the per- the 2723 3 conditions: enclosed.) For your soft work you might add modern, repetitive National Beethoven . Peery ry Coast Artillery my own choir sung 26230 which is secured by successfully passing the plete information or can you tell me about the *12.50 day, and none The leader should address Marching Song Hewitt-Osborne 4 .50 PRICE repeated under six and with himself unaccompanied, care should required examination. Successful candidates the Divine, Clarence Gittins, one of be taken America Hadley 3 .40 organ in the Cathedral of St. John Store or our to those assembled (OD) Defend See it at your Music weeks) ; and and invite will entitled to append the letters (CHM) to like to the whatever special serv- their to establish the correct Glory of the Yankee Navy. March be in New York City? I should know pitch. (JC1 examination write to us for 6-day trial offer ices Sousa 3 .50 their certificate designation. The number of manuals, the number of stops. the the days themselves required. It The National Anthem should be 30860 Hail to the Spirit of Liberty. March requirements of all memberships (A.A.G.O., number of pipes and accessories. Also what was was a colossal musical Sousa 4 .50 program, and sung at a moderate tempo. F.A.G.O. and CHM) vary from year to year. the price of the instrument, and if it was do- mfg co (The March Spaulding 3 .40 FRED.GRETSCH it 16501 Hats Off to the Flag. Headquarters of the Amer- the donor. is the present or- always astonished If you will address nated, name Who Musical Instruments Since 1883 m me to note the metronome indications in 6818 Independence Day. Military March Makers ol the Service ican Guild of Organists, Room 3405 Interna- ganist of the Cathedral? Will you also give me effortless ease with which Cadman 2V\ .35 60 BROADWAY, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK the boys Version are quarter note tional Building. Rockefeller Center, 630 Fifth complete information about the carillon and and = 104 for 11825 Independence Day Spaulding 2 .25 men carried it through. the March. Sousa 3 .50 Avenue, New York City they will refer you to organ of the Riverside Church, in New York Of verse and quarter note (JC) Invincible Eagle. = 96 for 3’/j .50 of the Guild nearest the Rangertone Company of New course, one reason 30044 Liberty Bell, The. March . Sousa the Dean of the Chapter City? Does for it is that these the chorus.) .50 30761 Liberty Bell, The. March . Sousa-Peery 3 your address. Jersey produce chime and organ recordings great churches are 23403 Marine Corps Reserves. March Geibel 3 .50 all hundreds of years The slighting of INSIGNIA—Button or pin available for for sale?—W. P. L. note values in the 27356 Marines’ Hymn. The (From the Holl* old, and maintain members of the Guild. May be obtained in solid a firm tradition playing or singing of Montezuma) (With Words) A. We can give you some information for of the National gold for the sum of $2.00. with which the young choristers were Anthem Arr. Carleton 1 Vi «30 which you ask. The organ in the Cathedral of seriously impairs the beauty (JC) Men of Valor Klohr 3 .50 built quite pedals St. John the Divine, New York City, was familiar. They 8952 March. .Morrison 3 .40 Q. Please send information regarding knew what was and effectiveness No Surrender. Skinner. It has four manuals, and we think of both music and -30 pedal practice by expected of 15215 On the Old Camp Ground . Arr. Rolfe 2Vi to be attached to the piano for However you them, and thus the lyric. .50 about one hundred and ten stops. mu- Conductors 8235 Our Army and Navy. March . Kern 3 R. F. sical should rehearse for organists.— might get more accurate and detailed informa- material came within their 27154 Our Flag Adler 2 .25 painstakingly both get in touch with tion if you will address Mr. Ernest M. Skinner, grasp, instrumental and (OD) Our Gallant Officers. Polka Militaire A. We suggest that you needing only to 4 .50 needs, Massachusetts, requesting the infor- be . refreshed vocal groups in the Brillonte Engelmann some organ builders telling them of your Methuen, meticulous ob- 2534 Our Forever. Medley present organist of the and revived as it was used. Glorious Union or address the private party whose name we mation you wish. The It would servance 3 .35 of correct note values. of National Melodies ....Howard mail, who has a pedal Cathedral is Norman Coke-Jephcott. We are be a gigantic .50 are sending you by task to put such 18425 Our Invincible Nation . Rolfe 5 a mu- This Code bench for sale. When you have se- not familiar with the details of the Riverside for the National Anthem 11896 Ours Is Old With Words board and sical a Grand Flag. in- be- repertoire before the -25 satisfactory pedal board have it Church Carillon and organ other than we American is intended Spaulding 1 cured a to apply to every mode of or piano mechanic lieve the organ to be a four-manual instru- choir boys at short 14070 Patriotic America Spenser 2 -25 stalled by a practical organ notice ! However, civilian 15101 2 .35 ment built by Hook and Hastings. You might I performance and to the pub- Patriotic Day . .Crammond who can do the work. can offer a striking 25485 .40 church, asking for illustration Pride of the March . 3 address the organist of the of lication of the NoNon, The. Grey what music for such per- 19637 Pride of the Regiment. March as to where the information you wish. We also suggest that the American boy can accom- Q. Will appreciate information formance. Crammond 2Vi .30 reed organ, communicate with Rangertone, Inc., 201 r used two-manual you plish. 15963 -50 might obtain a Once a year, Salute the Colors. March . Warren 3 during Lent, it is J. A. C. Verona Avenue, Newark, New Jersey, for in- 17720 -40 preferably with pedal board.— Salute to the Colors. March. Anthony 2Vi to records. my pleasure to present 30849 .50 formation you seek in reference the Shoulder . 3 great to Shoulder. March. .Klohr sending you by mail list of indi- 6969 Soldier .35 A We are . . 2 Brahms ‘Requiem’ (with Boy. With Words . Bugbee two-manual reed organs English 22874 Soldier's -25 viduals having used WM. S. HAYNES COMPANY Song . Krentzlin 2 Q. There is a possibility some changes may words) and 14568 , the boys do a surprising- Stand By the Flag! Patriotic March for sale. organ on which I play church Do Not Repeat Too Often! be made in the Flutes of Distinction ly Stults 3 .35 the Hutch- fine job of remembering condition. services. The organ was built by it from 30111 Stars and Stripes Forever, The. March have a Cottage organ in good Q I ings, Votey Co., of Boston, is a two-manual STERLING SILVER—GOLD—PLATINUM year to year. Sousa 4 .50 I might secure an elec- After it has been given, Can you tell me where I like Zborotl if . Jreai 30552 with stops named on enclosed list. would Stars and Stripes Forever, The. March instrument? WMyou also request it is put away for trie blower for the the cost adding a Choir Catalog on twelve months and Sousa-Schaum 2Vi *50 available, used, to get an idea of of uubooinoxo ti me information as to left A pupil gets tired of a piece that The Stars and Stripes Forever. Trio, send organ and perhaps chimes, and additional stops dormant until just three weeks reed organs ? S. L. S. 108 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Mass. in Simplified Piano Arr. two-manual couplers. I know this is quite indefinite, before is repeated too often, when difficul- and Lent. And each _ Sousa-Carleton IVi *30 information can make some suggestions year I am are sending you by mail but perhaps you ties 461 Star-Spangled Banner, The A We pleasantly arise. Sometimes the parents your reed organ, and infor- as to what would add most to the instrument. surprised at the few slips *25 1S to blowers for 0 -._ . Arr. Richter 1 Vi be weary 4348 having two-manual I am not sure as to how much space would the boys make. of hearing it, too. A new im- Star-Spangled Banner, The (With Six mation as to individuals And it is just the needed for additions. The organ has a good petus Other Well-Known Melodies) reed organs for sale. same with is often given, when a piece perhaps most it could be used. PIANO! the anthems -50 tone, and of SWING and services. Arr . Rickaby 1 11870 r . Learn to play real Swing Piano. Send for free Home that aps Military .35 purchase used M. F. not March . Engelmann 3 1 may — The American boy is has been worked on, but ‘Kr\oi I Please advise where Study Folder. TEACHERS: write for business Qffer as fine material Front. .40 Q. electric Military March . Clark 3 and pedal-reed organ with suggest that you get in touch with CHRISTENSEN STUDIOS, 52 Kimball Hall, Chicago as is learned, is laid aside or three Valley Forge two-manual A. We to be found anywhere. I find for two March. Vocal Refrain suggestions . K. organ builders—requesting weeks. Goldman 4 .40 Slower G. H. reliable him alert, In the interim, made (Om v . ~ the cost of intelligent, exercises I addition and estimate of such devoted to his Yankee Doodle. Brilliant Variations you list of individuals of A We are sending stand- up of the piece Arr. 3-4 .40 sale. additions (if practical from a mechanical work, and difficult parts of the (nm %, Grobe reed organs for most cooperative. Best of Yankee used two-manual Doodle Kern 2 .30 Having . might be more practical would be "W.'r. ...y f0r.. Arr. point) What all, I am „ Ii.j wh„, may be used in various combinations, Yankee happy to explode once and V2L Doodle Arr. Mack 2 .30 a new to arrange for a new organ, using what satis- a natural IJ 529 Yankee in the midst of building for bent for" and, when out Doodle. Colonial a We are factory old pipes, case work, and so forth there all the quite mistaken the piece is brought propose to use the same Pianists Send for fret booklet show- notion ooa Arr. Greenwald 2 .25 in which we builders — 0 v , church have to are from the present organ. Organ can ing how you may greatly improve your that again for study, will be Yankee Doodle (With Six Other Well- the old one. It will ‘Americans sing through their the fingers araan that was in you the amount of space they require, technic, accuracy, memorizing, sight- Kn °wn -50 as it has tell Melodies) . Arr. Rickaby 1 thoroughly reading and playing mental- noses’! much more new 16A7< Youngv be gone over very varies according to the builder selected, thru agile than before. A American’s Patrol .... Lawson 2 .40 years. We would like which muscular co-ordination. Quick results. Practice effort d the past few additions and so forth. The instru- interest is taken, and the composition amount of minimized. Used by famous pianists, teachers and ment is rather small for the first addition to be students. No obligation. 538 is Studios, Dept. 63-1 ~ Covina, easily “polished up!” ThendarR Presser Co. a Choir organ. Broadwell California "FORW'ARD MARCH 1712 WITH MUSIC CHESTNUT ST. PHI LA. (1), PA. THE etude "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 539 AUGUST, 1943 — ) — — — B e

tone coloring are a most unlimited. contrapuntalists of the seventeenth modernists dabbled with the idea of 3. In The conductor who explores them century to the dynamic a thirty to several books (Spohr, David, Casorti) forty-piece military the directions say that the thumb, curved con- with patience will of to-day, composers — including band and imagination which vex, should be placed with the inner comer Developing the some would provide relaxation Violin be amply renaid by the keen interest many Americans—have written and enter- Questions on its point on the stick, and the outer corner for the string en- tainment for workers during in close touch with the edge of the frog. and enthusiasm of his players; by of their best music ] U nch Joachim, famous violinist and teacher, states in this litera- periods. It was he who String Orchestra the knowledge that he is bringing to semble. Furthermore, employed Ed- that the thumb need not be bent to any extent, for but should be them an understanding of the finer ture will be found music suitable ward G. Borgens, who first went pressed into the fork-shaped to _3lnlurct'eil by RGBE111 DRAIN E opening of the frog. qualities of any size and any degree work at Consolidated in 1939 ( Continued from Facie 509) of string playing; and by groups and held Are His Fingers Long Enough? the inner satisfaction that derives of technical attainment. a variety of jobs, from blueprint will be answered in THE ETUDE unless F. R. L.—Judging orchestras have been reader to inspector and Ho questions accompanied by the lull name from the tracing of your from the welding of a group of in- Many string machine inquirer. Only tntttals, shop and address of the or pseudonym given, util be published. hand which you send, I should think that for ten years, but worker. none is indicated—watching care- dividuals into a cohesive unit, a unit organized in the past playing the violoncello, it would be better if your fingers were a quarter fully see follows and who does capable of there is room and need for as many “Our first rehearsal or half inch longer, to who giving full expression to was attended although in the Service th? fascination of the violin, and all I have known of quite a number of support five Women Musicians share the not. If these, or similar, devices are most of the music of any style or more. Only a large city can by men in a small shop sr.me enthusiasm music students who made a back of female war-workers are not to for. the art of its construc- success of playing r C —The this employed once or twice in each re- period. a symphony orchestra, but a com- a downtown music store,” tion. A chapter on the selection and care of instrument with fingers no longer than Borgens out in the cold when the musical plums B left the instrument has been included, and should yours. As your Army Band Leader used to play hearsal, a marked improvement in Realizing that his orchestra is to paratively small town can maintain recalled. “There was a passed around by the Government, a saxophonist Vto be be of great assistance to the player. the violoncello, and has promised to help you announced that many musical positions be ap- large orchestra which would be a an accordionist, n is The steady stream of with your studies, I would advise you to try rhythmic accuracy will soon degree a training orchestra, the a string a trombonist, filled by female questions about violin a open which can be to ,-e now makers and their violins, which constantly borrow an instrument, and see what success parent. conductor will endeavor to have com- valuable asset to the musical culture drummer, and I played the on band instruments. Such per- piano erformei-s reaches The Etude, proves the great interest in you have with a few lessons. There are several are advised that they should inquire Although the conductor must al- positions of several different styles of the community. Such an orchestra “We made up in formers the subject on the good methods available, one of these being Century’ musicmus; has enjoyed enthusiasm and 1 nearest their homes, part of its subscribers, and For thirty- eight years recruiting station Langey’s being one of the finest editions be striving for purity of intona- on each program he rehearses, would give young string players an noise what we lacked j the by the public generally. “Tutor for the Cello." This may be the distinction of ways for a in numbers thev can learn full particulars as to procured published, vetyet its price is but 15c a copy.cc where through the publishers of The Etude. featured some of our very knowledge experience in or- may aoply for the positions now open. In the following list arc tion and rhythmic exactness, he of musical styles is as opportunity to gain and we returned to the plant how they latest Issues, including the works of four of today s to do positions available in The Grand Detache are many such Bernardel most popular composers. . to There Violin „ , , „ should not confine his attention to essential to the young musician as a chestral playing; it would bring some missionary work. Others Teachers, pupils and players will find them all of drifted WAAC. Applicants will be obliged to pass Q. E. H.—1. Concerning the execution of the the P. M. M.—1. You will have to show your sup- exceptional value, especially Kay Armour’s “Modem qualities for more than three knowledge of the resources his in- the community knowledge and enjoy- and are expected to bring their Grand Detache stroke, some on Har- these of in—a harmonica player, a guitarist examinations, authorities state posed Vuillaume Piano Method" and Walter Itolfe’s "Book violin to an expert, to be sure. them at your dealer or direct instruments when they are called. that it shoui'.'. be executed with the entire mony.” You can buy or four rehearsals lest the interest of strument. Moreover, a program of ment of a musical literature which, and a few brass You cannot tell from a written description us. instrumentalists. from" , , „ It length of the bow, and others cl£im that it recommend Century music whether it is genuine or not. Good violins by Teachers who use and his players begins to flag and their varied content will inevitably hold though little known, is of genuine was the most conglomerate should be made with the entire length or frac- win the everlasting gratitude of parents who can’t group of this maker are quite valuable. 2. Very few generally asked for teaching more a the attention Dictionary of Vi..lin Makers tion thereof, the latter generally within the afford the high prices enthusiasm to wane. The and interest of the or- value and beauty; and, most im- musicians that ever worked together A good violin makers made violins without cor- music. Century music helps you hold your old pupils upper half. The sound produced should be very and also aids in enrolling new ones. G. R- —A najati needed American Dcti'i- ner blocks. 3. enjoys the rehearsals the more chestra, no matter long it portant, fostering pride in the H. Bernardel was a good, but not a if group how may by but we were interested at short, but not as dry and crisp as that of Your money refunded without question, not first in’ male t of Europe and the United the ary of violin great, violin maker; he lived in Paris from 1802 fully satisfied with your purchase. • it will learn, and it must be be in rehearsal. of this music, it hammered stroke, because it should not have quickly group performance quantity, rather than quality.” States has just been published by the Rudolph to 1870. 120 West 42nd St.. New the sforzato characteristic of the “Martele.” the conductor’s aim to make every The string orchestra literature is would develop that selfless apprecia- Soon the Wurlitzer Compan> growing organization The arm should be moved back forth with Y It is called, "Known Violin and About Wood for Violin Making rich in York. N. NEW arut rehearsal interesting and enjoyable. music of almost every period, tion which is the true basis of all moved to a Sunday School was written and compiled by the utmost swiftness, each stroke being done room in Makers,” and E. M. I glad that interested in the nick of time, — am you were this is style, and Fairfield an associate in the Rare and followed by a notice- The surest way to achieve to counuy. From the great musical culture. the Central Christian Church, John H. in my article on “American Wood for Violin where of the Wurlitzer able rest. When performed with the whole bow IMPORTANT Violin Departmen Rudolph Making,” in a recent issue of The Etude, and spend plenty of time on questions of Borgens was it is called the ' grand detache .” When using ^ organist and first choir di- Company, with introduction to the that you are making violins from these woods. less bow it should be called the “petit detache.” tone and interpretation. r l; Wurlitzer. rector in his spare time. part by Rentie I note that you are making some of your vio- Eventually Gruenberg. in his work on “Violin Teach- nmoDERn pinna mETHDD The first section of the book contains a lins out of California spruce, and some of the band outgrew these quarters and ing," says of this stroke, “The grand detache ><» violin list of more titan known European North Carolina yellow forest pine. Your letter FOR BECinnERS A Rewarding Experience shifted to the is one of the hardest and one of the most help- Chamber of makers, witli ' "rt description of their is so interesting that we quote part of it; “I Beethoven Helps Build American Bombers Commerce ful strokes. It brings every single cord and beautiful tone qual- auditorium work, the pn ,v value of their instru- have studied the subject of violin making for A consistently for weekly rehearsals. muscle of the hand and arm into action and KRTHLEEn ARfDOUR and the < mal facts one should know 47 years while preaching in the Western North ments, improves the freedom and control of the bow ity, even in the strongest fortissimo < Continued from Page 514) However, the lunch-time musical about these dillYn it makers. Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church PRICE 15c EACH PART most wonderfully. For this reason, Leonard, decidedly new and original. It or the softest pianissimo, is essential sessions never (South), but have been retired for five years. Here is something materialized. Some of The astonish ! a number of American violin in his 'Petite Gymnastique.’ recommends an is issued in five parts in sheet music form and each I have my own basement shop, where I make part the regular price at 15c per copy, which , sells at makers is revs- t the second section of for a string orchestra, and any hint For the band members were m incessant cultivation of this stroke. The petit piano with some Consolidated families, re- the band. And he brings with him in key posi- my violins. I believe there are great possibilities enables the pupil to start the study of the the book, whirl i a approximately 170 crafts- detache should not be confounded is suggestion of dry- tions with the very little financial outlay. This modern work based of “forcing” or any hearsal night is the and could not in the yellow forest pine. It has the advantage is clear and step- week’s big event, his wife and three children, who sit be spared from men, working in II parts of this country. hammered stroke proper.” on the middle C approach and so of softness and sweetness of tone over spru::.” wise that the pupil is playing little tunes almost at corrected their diversified a their history educa- 2. ness in the tone must be the one on which precious jobs while they assembled, As and The “Grim" edition of the Kreutzer outset. illustrated. Teachers, be sure mileage is enthralled in the audience. per- The choice of the best wood for making vio- the Frofusely tional background, they have all experienced to see this outstanding work. at once. Therefore, one of the first formed, and “Etudes" is widely used. expended by ration book holders. One The network of musical organiza- took additional time out lins is all-important. Personally I am convinced 3196 Part I— Learning Letters on the Keyboard 3197 Part II —Notes, Bars, Time Signatures things the orchestra must be trained worker, travels for their own meals. that the secret of the wonderful tone of the who twenty-two miles tions at ConsoiiciaLta is ihe out- Besides, the 3198 Part III —Five Finger Exercises violins of Cremona lies in the choice of wood 3199 Part IV The 2/4, Time Signature realize is increase of tone — to that an to his suburban home in the after- growth Company officials reasoned, it which their makers used. The history of violin 3200 Part V—Introducing the 8th Note of a rather modest plan orig- would - - best pro- Make a making is full of stories of the care taken by is not necessarily ‘or even noon after checking out, makes a inally held by be harmful to morale if a worker PIANO SOLOS. ea. Major Reuben H. the masters of Cremona in selecting their wood CENTURY 15c duced by increasing the pressure of were allowed - (Capital letter indicates key-number the grade) forty-four-mile roundtrip back to the Fleet, former president to leave his bench for their master violins; how they went through of the com- New 3178 A Wish (Syrnp. No. 3), F—2 . Beethoven-Itolf the bow on the string. Bowing nearer factory at night, twice earlier than others, the forest, testing the wood by striking the 3180 A Prayer (Symp. 2). G—2, Beethoven-Rolfe weekly, in pany and now its consultant. merely to get to Chopin-Rolfe Three trees with a mallet. Similarly they tested the 3171 A Little Ballad, G—2 the bridge, or lengthening the bow order to rehearse his the bandstand and Etude -Friend TRIAL OFFER 3143 A May Day Dance, C—F—2 Crosby clarinet with years prepare for con- ago. when the plant personnel a timbers taken from old buildings. 3IG5 An Airplane Ride (Arpeggio), 2—D, Richter stroke, are the best methods of ob- cert. 3187 Andante Cantabile, Em—5 Tschaikowsky 3185 Ave Maria, F—4 Schubert taining more tone; extra Dow pres- When to Begin 3189 Barberini’s Minuet, C—2 Hasse the Ball, 2 Richter I. R. F.—Considering your late start, I should 3166 Bounce C— sure snouid be applied only when tne On a Firm Basis 3168 Busy Little Bee (Valse Capr), Am—2. Richter say that it is rather doubtful whether you 3 - 9.ssm>s of 3179 Chicades (Symp. 8), F—2, Beethoven-Rolfe score calls for an intense forte. In tne could become a violin virtuoso. Most of the 3155 Darting In and Out. C— 1 Armour “It wasn’t until I proposed that Armour great violinists began to study at six years of 3175 Dark Eyes (Easy), D—Mi—3 further interest of good tone, the Consolidated have 3170 Dancing the Minuet, G—2 Chopin-Rolfe the best musical age, or slightly older, and practiced three or 3190 First Waltz, C—2 Durand-Rolfe pianissimo of a string orchestra organization in the four hours a day. There must be, to begin with, 3184 Flight of Bumble Bee, C—5, Itimsky-Korsakoff country, with no 3188 Garland of Roses (Waltz), C—2 Streabbog fine talent for violin playing. should never be allowed to take on a remarkably 3154 In Rose Time (Waltz), F—Bb—1 Armour interference to factory work, that the ETUDE C THE list of pieces and studies you refer to as 3134 In Gay Costume (Minuettn), G —2. Crosby The — Jumping Rope (March Te.upo). C 2.. Richter uie ary, lifeless quality so often de- management having studied does not tell much. It is not 3162 — agreed to establish a 3137 Jolly Little Sambo, F— b—2 Crosby studied well you play manaed of the strings in a what you have , but how 3173 Laces and Frills, Am—2 Chopin-Rolfe sympnony budget for us,” declared. Post. extra) Borgens (U. S. Stamps Preferred ( Can. 10

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(New York city) upon Russian music be frain from Private Teachers (Western) Private Teachers f Grieg Gershwin’s immortal song, Technical doubter compare the SONGS let the The Man I Love, Development doubted, is similarly indebted LUCIA O’BRIEN LIVERETTE MRS. HENRY HADLEY (Inez Barbour) —SHEET MUSIC- twenty-three bars (surely the to Measures 26 flrst to 29 of the slow Soprano whole work) of Stra- VOICE of the movement of Grieg’s Oratorio, Concert, loveliest “Sonata in C Graduate of Samoiloff's Teacher's Course Authority on the Art of Singing, BIRDS IN MY GARDEN limited Sacre du Printemps” minor Reasonable terms. Recital and general repertoire. Will accept a vinsky’s “Le for Violin and Piano.” In both Words Phone NO 2-1030 EX 1141 number of talented students. and Music by Lily Strickland Evening in the High these ith Grieg’s inspired phrases (Grieg’s 616 THE HENRY HADLEY STUDIO W and N. Normandie Ave. Los Angeles, Calif. _ (Range F to F) New York City BERNARD Price. 6 No. 4 (the melody 15 W. 67th Street Op. 68, Gershwin’s) the basic WAGNESS Hills, procedure is By Appointment Only. Sus. 7-0100 is Grieg’s own, not a the same: the melody 0 f which rises from the ROSE OUGH I Lualaat (The Hillman’s interval AM A VAGABOND folk tune), of the fifth to that of the VOICE Former Assistant to Lazar S. Samoiloff ALBERTO JONAS Words by Don Blending Music by Robert Op. 65, No. 2, the introduction seventh, and while it PIANO MacGimsev Song) , pauses on the in Hollywood COURSE (Range c to Celebrated Spanish Piano Virtuoso E—optional F-sharp) the Bride of Dark- seventh, Reopened Her Voice Studios at Price _ 60 Journey of the alto voice of £ to The the four- 1931 —8TH AVENUE OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Teacher of many famous pianists Op. 72, No. 14, part 19 WEST 85TH ST., N. Y. C. Tel. 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SAMOILOFF 405 Carnegie Hall, New York City POOR MOURNER'S GOT A in which he lived; similarities in order to disparage -PIANOul HOME Voice teacher of famous singers Collaborator and Associate Teacher with the late W. Beginners of Pre-School StMti l i his period to the grand Gershwin, Age Require AT LAST heir within whose music I worship. From rudiments to professional engagements Warren Shaw and Endorsed by Dr. Floyd S. Muckey Negro Spiritual form-flow of Bach and Wag- Quite on the contrary. Beginners accepted. Special teachers' co"rses Wednesday: Troup Music Studio, Lancaster, Pa. Its new, logical, and Arranged by scale I consider it prac- Gustav Klemm Dr. Samoiloff will teach all summer at‘his Studios. 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for the City Junior, and being chosen to a very salutary spirit of this leads overtures, and intermezzos, which tends to promote o PEABODY competition, simple, diaphanous, harmonic The Story of the Elementary School progress to all concerned. The foundation. Orchestra added Pursuant of this sensible and local teachers at the course, supervisors many Eastern publishing schools try to observe strict AMERICAN ( Continued, from Page 513) houses C^onderua lory respective have from time to time sent of their choice of candidates, nu fairness in specially adapted music to our or- invoking the rule of priority chestra BALTIMORE, MD. to be present at the final rehearsal those desiring the opportunity always department, which has been 0 f pupil in his last term of gratefully of the Los Angeles Symphony Or- renting them. Many so that a received and widely CONSERVATORY of these used. bovs will be given the nod chestra. This was during the years and girls later in life sixth grade In concluding, it is perhaps fitting FALL TERM advanced to OPENS OCTOBER 1st just founding of the the status one of lower grade who will have to mention the fact preceding the of professional musicians over that of late years chance later. all-city Reginald Stewart Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra some of them performing another junior high school, and all-

noted constant improvement in I believe we will even- Tastic reeds and Musical Composition the lastic reed quite satisfac- Ensemble? f tally fin d P ® course much more dura- 10 They are of for the Layman the cane reed. They do not warp, ( Continued from Page 506) ble than chip °r sPbt- (Continued test ten first class mu- from Page 545) In a recent failed to discriminate between a If an otherwise excellent piece of opposed to all arrangements icians An ex cane reed. There are several many clastic and a members of the class protest OKEILII music is found arranged as shown in cellent reason, in the earlier the market, I would sug- -ess**J years' clastic reeds on that they cannot write - music, , co^^ey'SS-c that example it (b) , seems to us that the was that many of these arrange’ that you experiment until you find they director gest have never composed. Yet the is perfectly justified, in the ments for winds served only which seems to be best for you toW to dem the one next day when the tunes are handed This interest of smoothness, in re-editing onstrate that the arranger Then get a fine cane reed and did not personally. in, everybody is 100 itistf the amazed at what they itvxe^; the £\\ number to conform with (a) well comprehend the the two for tone quality, intonation, t t 13 nature and test have been able to e * aVeS, above. basic stability; and let that produce. Many of e0^ musics- gfiFt. .:« c problems of the wind ease of playing, P edA s instru the tunes fall into the standard * to c voice. ments. be the determining factor as to the ua^ tTaA A „ Due to the fact that test COLLEGE , 1 d f so melody ie 1 ®Y c The Problem of Balance . . . manv I patterns, but often there are C ' and plastic reed. intend to re- rvoW - ?Al»L couises ^tn, ub^ of our fine original value of the p compositions for some with unconventional "Tradition" main neutral on the subject until the and original quintet are virtuoso grade and, there- reed is definitely considered the phrase relationships. Some of the MUSIC Scoring for quintet has to be done fore, practically plastic CONSERVATORY OF * unavailable f B or the reed. tunes are awkward and ill carefully superior conceived, s because, for one thing, we average high school groups, ssSs@S§i3ir* we must some of them are quite correct but have only five instruments derive in all; we a goodly portion of and Clarinet ° our wood Saxophone dull, yet always there are a few of school in an attractive SS>^ c b ‘ A professional music ool fS'%'S^ cannot, as in symphonic band, add wind material sc^Jvooi .Moderate WlCaq° from arrangements Will the playing of the saxophone real u_ or Q. merit. What the members of this town. (Member of the National aat ^TJenue take out a certain instrument or and, therefore, it be harmful to me? I have studied college v behooves us to prove to class U°^ ;ann R de several years and have con- do each year can be done by MicVnq° instruments until we get just the mand the utmost from clarinet for Association of Schools of Music.) slC anyone who siderable proficiency on same.—A. D., everyone who wants to take the u blend and balance we wish. Once offers us an s,t a arrangement. I New York. selected f Mn n those trouble. Those who do not know musi- Thorough instruction for carefully ,ols ° quintet score is Sch° finished, it is either first years when we f were ion trying to A. Many of our outstanding saxophon- cal notation, must, of course, either under artist teachers. isocio*' successful students in all branches of music A s! or it is not. Because of build up ail this some woodwind originally clarinetists. For ordi- Notio° material of ists were learn it or find someone who will direction. ber ‘ many a fine “major Special training in band and choir Aen' work” will never, school grade because the clarinetist with f we had almost nary performance, write out the melodies for them. uti o even with the lns+;+ most splendid profes- none, many study, can learn to play the saxo- selections were arranged proper The reader may protest that writ- Write for catalogue describing Oherlin’s conservatory sional ensemble in the world, that were without seriously hindering his fully not basically fit phone practice realize for the ing melodies isn’t composing music courses and its superior equipment (200 its full musical potentialitiespotentialities, woodwind quintet clarinet playing. TlanrnT U,7 .it • and oughtoimht not tn because have harmony. The not to upon the student's mu- music must rooms, 23 modern organs, etc.). Degrees: Bachelor of “wrong”^ instrument may navehave have been used. This will depend These were all In part this is true, yet is the Music Lovers to earn LIBERAL beeneen used IS background, standards, and experi- melody Music; Master of COMMISSIONS in certain places. In such a for those days,davx hut the sical Music, Bachelor of School securing but the arranger core of all musical composition, and subscriptions for THE ETUDE case the players who ence. For the young inexperienced player Part or are helpless; their works to-day in Music, Master of Music Education. full time. this field must the study of if without any formal musical train- No Cost or Obligation. Write hands are tied. op- I would not recommend for com- “Tradition” and re- erate on a much higher plete details TODAY! Address: spect plane; he saxophone until he has had considerable ing you find that you can compose Frank H. Shaw, Director, Box 583, Oberlin, Ohio. for the original composer’s must project himself right of the clarinet. there is no reason why CIRCULATION DEP'T ideas usually inside of study good tunes, the etude prevent their daringIlg to10 the playing music macazine “rnrronf” ° problems of each instru- The embouchures of the two are quite you should not take the trouble to 1712 CHESTNUT ‘correct”conect thetL Y IvDfn.A ST„ PHILA., PA. instrumentation mentmpnt before in he attemnts i, » Tito f different and the necessary changes and rudiments of musi- r learn at least the Set he ““'uujuiumaximum od th adjustments present problems which , guuu ,, g° enecteffec t ™. Of course, the composer cal theory. that th° ’ too"00 ’ they,P theth actual play- playersnlavers of the though wew would . should not be a part of the young composer instruments, wish to grant his To become a first-rate know exists therein inspiration er’s program I suggest that you continue The full sweep without you will have to master the difficult ®™ ector in too the study of the clarinet until you have MUSIC the Symphonic much hampering counterpoint, "JUILLIARD SCHOOL OF fi of his creative ideas subjects of harmony, Band fieldt is in a become a first rate musician, then the far superior posi- by purely have neither the Two tion; technical considerations, study of the saxophone will be much less and form. You may -Piano he can “edit”; HUTCHESON, President Music delete; writein- should ERNEST study nor the oppor- experiment his instruments care- complicated. inclination, the time, to discover the fully (FOUR HANDS) most fas- before attempting tunity to do this. But even though cinating combinations to compose INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL ART possible He f°r them. Yet become a first-class com- For has no he must be allowed ar- On ItiMrumciU Repairs you do not Dean players of all “tradition” to cope tistic GEORGE A. WEDGE, ages and abilities with- license. there is no reason why you about ninety He should be able to Q. Would you please suggest a text which poser, per cent of his litera- combine solid and deals with the repairing of wind instruments? should not write simple musical pieces instrumental instruction. Classes in Theory, Com- ture consists of scholarly musical Individual vocal and arrangements, and he inspiration Our instrumental repair man has been called your not being a first- Title,' Composer, an with intelligent any more than position, and all branches of music education. Grade feel free to improve and sym- to the Army and no one is available to do this the score pathetic handling novelist should prevent you in instru- At the 1 work. Miss V. Connecticut. class degrees Dance, Ketterer of the practical — R , to diploma and B. S. and M. S. ( l/2 ) at * Courses leading eems not to go techmque or a short story Roses and Butterflies, g° as Uque °off scoringSCOring from writing a letter music departments. Bilbro (1-2) satisfactorily.j£t?Ju as “ for woodwindswoodwinds, A. I highly recommend the textbook mental, singing, and public school he knows h , alin£TSfl h Guitar Serenade, —d in “ Brand, or a simple poem. Gaynor (2) ^Uenice can be blamed ‘ these two Aments “Instrumental Repair Manual” by on the arr ger aft "IT™ at Catalog on request. March of the published by Co., Elkhart, If you want to try your hand Wee Folk, Goynor 2 By Ethelbert Nevin the director "wuwuiUbd LU d.L Selmer and ( ) can fi, , , *° *ue at hathave £“25the most the r ?™ “ a harmony Claremont Avenue, New York Ballet of the Arr. by Ottilie £fTs best from Indiana. This is one of the most complete composition, seek out Room 122, 120 Bon Bons, Sutro a Briggs 2 ) cinating working, as ( time in the well Galloping Dawn world experi as an aesthetic, texts on the subject ever written. I am to instruct you in the rudi- Horse, Pierson (2 (4) 1.00 menting standpoint. teacher /2 ) with all the My Gondoliers 4 combinations sure you will find it invaluable. It makes You must insist, Shadow Is ( ) harmony. a Copy Cat, Briggs, | 50 Possible until he ments of ^ Good Night achieves the repairing so interesting that you will be- you not as * ' * (4) 125 effectect that it be taught .35 he is seeking. however, -of -the -Woods Glider, Venetian Love Song come fascinated with the book. be UNIVERSITY Saint Mary The, Wogness 2 - 3 (4). 1.00 of abstract principles to BOSTON ( ) 60 a body COLLEGE Lollipop Parade, but rather Briggs (2-3) 35 The Arranger: learned for its own sake, COLLEGE OF MUSIC Conservatory of Music. 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Birds and Animals award three worth while The Recital Birds and Animals in Music prizes Junior een years of age Class each ; (Continued) month for the ttude (Prize winner in Class A) B, twelve to fifteen Class most interesting and orig- ; Recital is another word for stimulation. The inal stories or C, under twelve years. by ff^aui J-ouyuet animals, too, such as the essays on a importance of a recital can not be overempha- about Names of all of the prize nieces given subject, and for Contest sized. For the past three years I have been Donkey, Ibert, cor- White by a winners and their con- teaching piano I have found that recitals little rect answers to puzzles. and Bobby and his Uncle John were mann’s Prophet Bird; The You can really tributions will are essential because more interest is displayed Nightin- composer. Contest is open appear on French to all boys and girls un- on the part of the pupil; they strive for per- walking through the park on their gale, a Russian song hoofs and hear this page in a future issue of The arranged by his little him der eighteen years of fection, and they gain that much needed self- hear age, whether a Ju- Etude. The way to the Zoo. The birds were at Liszt; The Lark, by Glinka, lhe American composer, nior Club thirty next best contributors confidence. Recitals that have a varied and arranged Then member or not. Contestants bray. will be given a rating of honorable men- planned program can be made so interesting their happiest, filling the air with by Balakirew; and then don’t Copland, wrote one called The are grouped according forget Aaron to age as follows: tion. that pupils, parents and friends will thoroughly cheery songs, and occasionally Bobby MacDowell’s musical description Mouse. And MacDowell enjoy them. The keen competition a recital of Cat and the SUBJECT FOR affords tends to stimulate the pupils' ambition. and his uncle paused to listen in ad- the swooping Eagle." one about our old friend, Br'er THIS MONTH wrote It is this power of stimulation that makes the miration to some beautiful music, “Uncle John, this is a Zoo, not only Rabbit." recital a necessity. for they were both fond of birds. a bird sanctuary. Were some played that at school Shirley Wilkins (Age 17), of the “Somebody Minnesota “I suppose “W WUa rorai birds were our first composers interested 9 in animals assembly once,” said Bobby. (P prima donnas, Bobby, All entries must be m *e Junior and you know too?” you must Etude Office, 1712 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., no. “Yes? Well, remember, later than August 2dth. Recital Edited, by W inners will appear in the November issue. The they have always been dear to the “Of course they were; only, you see Bobby, that while this type of music (Prize winner in Class C) hearts of our great birds CONTESTvvmtJI composers. can be imitated more its clever, descrip- RULESl\ULU easily entertains us with tribut »«ns >nust contain not The recital is always a big event in our com- ELIZABETH A.GEST over one hundred and fifty words. Beethoven, for instance, spent because 2 J“°" l a e many of their songs, whereas .’* ' t an c asS 'A. B or C) must munity. Most of us. live on farms, and recitals with character, it can never replace , appear in upper left corner and your address in tive ,the upper right corner of vour happy hours strolling through it is paper. If you need more than one sheet of paper, be in the country mean more to us because we the animals harder to describe sure to do them the more serious music of the classic this on each sheet. have fewer outside amusements than city folks. woods listening 3. W rite on one side of to the birds. You through music. It is more paper only and do not use a typewriter. their char- Rondos, nocturnes, sonatas, A. Uo not Each year all the pupils of our teacher have have heard type. have anyone ropy your work for you. his ‘Pastoral Symphony,’ acteristics that 5. Clubs or schools ate a recital in the schoolhouse. Folks come from must be imitated can mean something requested to hold a preliminary contest and to submit not more than and so forth it always have you not, Bob?” -lx entries (two for each class). miles around to hear us play, so Take, for instance, the suite by 6. Entries are so Saint- different to each person who hears which do not meet these requirements will not he eligible for prizes. makes us want to do our best. They "Yes, but I more or less forget it.” Saens, called quiet when we play, even the babies. Then the ‘Carnival of the but a piece called an Angry them, their hearty applause makes us realize how “Well, try to hunt for it on the Animals.’ The Swan we were just anything Musical Terms in Action radio Bear can never mean but glad they are for our music. programs sometime, and you speaking about to walk a long belongs in that suite. angry bear to anybody, and some- Music for Freedom This year some of us had will an is being recognize some bird songs Saint-Saens really wrote 1. distance to the recital as precious gas by -J4e(ena Sidis that suite 2.times that is not just what we want.” By Martin Levene (Age 11) saved for our tractors and needy driving. But Beethoven used in it.” for a joke, and in clever 3. all of us know our pieces well because the music he “I guess I like all kinds of music, “Now that I think of it, Yes, music makes us happy And miners, fact’ry workers recital is like harvest time—it shows the fruits Plink-plink, klink-klink on the Uncle John, describes elephants, monkeys, kanga- key, Plink plink, klink-klink Uncle John; descriptive, classical, of months of f—'thful work. I like to think of on the key, there are lots of pieces that imitate roos, And helps keep up morale; And farmers like to sing. Go fingers so nimble and and the slow-moving it that way. wee; Go fingers so nimble tortoise; gay, sad, romantic yes, I think I and wee; bird songs.” — For soldiers in the service Yes, music makes us happy (Age 11). “MODERATO, my child, also buzzing wasps and darting Margie Harmon “PIANISSIMO, gold- all kinds. And then, you see, it child, You re right. Most like And cowboys in corral, And helps win victories; Pennsylvania Don’t play it so wild; of the trills fish. You must hear this some Play gentle day, < v if it is to and mild; and fancy passages is still music. n trying Marines and sailors, coast guards It helps the flags It ought to go slower, in music can be Bobby, or you will of freedom you see.” It ought to never believe how be softer, you see.” traced to bird describe something.” And fliers on the wing; o’er seas. The Recital songs as their origin, clever it is.” Wave the seven and this “You certainly are right, Bobby, it (Prize winner in Class B) is especially true of the “I hope I shall hear it for it will clavichord is still music no matter what It The recital is an important thing to give the and harpsichord music, be as just like visiting this Zoo pupils confidence. Of course we must be well these instruments again.” describes.” were well adapted Red Cross Blankets prepared. The recital to my mind is one of the Could You Make a Musical “Of course, Saint-Saens uses the Instrument? to trills and important features in a musical education, as runs, since their tone whole orchestra Summertime should be good knitting time, to imitate the ani- it gives pupils a chance to compare and criti- was not sustained like the as there will be vacations with fewer activi- piano of mals, but there are cize each other’s playing and it offers an oppor- ML n Jordan to-day. several piano Sun, Noon (ini! Slurs in i^Insic ties than formerly and more time to knit. So h The eighteenth tunity for pupils to come in contact with other century ( Continued send in your squares for the Junior Etude Red on next page) performers and with all types of music from IRST, let us consider materials. composer, Rameau, wrote By A I < 1 1 ; t M. Bonner Cross afghans (four-and-one-half inches). If principle or rule pieces he Bach to the present time. A recital is also a to keep in mind. called The you have already contributed one or more You have all seen musical in- Roll Call of the Birds test of the pupil’s ability to play in concert The higher the tone and light squares, why not send some more? Remember, you wish to The Sonata (Beethoven!, his very best is demanded of him. Fstruments Hen. And another Cross never stops. when made of wood and early Red work sound the shorter French Jens Holm (Age 13), must be the stone composer, beams 'Victor Herbert) Squares have recently been received from ivory, such as the piano Daquin, wrote California and the or string or tube. one he Junior Club Outline Delle called of My Soul (Hymn), Gonzales Junior Harmony Club; Fay organ. And The Cuckoo. 1 you know violins are To make And the cuckoo Howard; Sally Jo Lewis; Margaret Jean Sa a good tune your instru- has 4. Hymn to the (Rimsky-Kor- made of wood and catgut. Probably also inspired two modern heske; Sue Evelyn Moore; Alice Schlottman; Honorable Mention for ment must afford at least com- No. 24 Wolf; Genelle seven dif- sakoff ) Charlotte Fougerat; Margaret you know, too, that in those posers, Arensky and Cyril sections ferent lengths, corresponding Scott, who Maness; Claudette Robert; Ann Montgomery; May Essays of to do, have written 5. Oh, Thou Subiime Sweet Evening Homewood Junior Music Club the orchestra where men are blow- re pieces imitating Review Muriel Andrews; Bernice Norton. mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do. the Annapolis, Md. ing into tubes If you have cuckoo.” (Wagner) The Recital to make music, their four strings a. Who was Clara all the same length Schumann? 6- Marlyn and Suzanne trumpets, cornets, flutes, as By this time Uncle and Stripes Forever Beverly and Ida Schultz; and so on, m the violin, John and Bobby b. How many Mary Virginia White; Sally McMahon; Vir- for instance, you shorten were piano concertos did (Sousa) Fredenburqh; Bernadette and Robert Bald- are constructed mostly of metal. approaching a bridge ginia McDaniels; Nancy Jo Brubaker; Margaret And them with your finger which Mozart write? win; Marion and Helen Sheard; Audrey you till you have spanned I- To the Rising (Torjussen), Goodman; Alice Tiffany; Louis Bonelli; Doris have seen that sheepskin is used a small lake. Kampa; Helen Donaldson. the required length to Two swans c. What is chamber Miller; Lucile Pederson; Marian Gruetter; Nettie Lou Gra- give each tone music? 8 - for the playing surface glided gracefully Beams 'Palmgren), Stinson; Belle Lawton; of drums. over the water, d. Which ham; Horace Mary composers are particularly 9. Russell Hill; Adella Mc- Clair i : Anna Brownback; But perhaps it will surprise de — Debussy) >EAIt JUNIOR Etude you to noted for started lessons when I was Bride; Gail Hoffhauer; Wallace Lessig; Bar- chamber music compo- I love music and hear of musical mother took Tub Lti de but letters care of Junior instruments made sitions? line tears old. My (Send answers to tina Simonds; Audrey Ella May; Kitty Eber- enough to take it myself. I like entirely of stone. „w i am large Etude) hard; Mary Elizabeth Coin; Phyllis Murdock; The xylophone in contests. e. Name four composers Answers he Junior Etude Janice Bams; Jean Kobinsky; Ella May Ket- this picture particularly Resides taking piano lessons I am a drum was constructed Junior Etude : in the noted School Iiand. Dear tridge; Edna Mcllhenny; Florence Roberts; as composers of opera. Moonlight: 2. Moonbeams; 3. injurette ill our High This month is a sort of anniversary for me, usual way of _ friend. Roberta Simpson; George Conrad; Marian wood and metals, but From your years since I started getting Sun of (Age 131. as it is three My Soul 4. Sun; 5. Star; 6. Josephine E. Free read the Junor page as Fetterman. recently a professor, fond of Carolina The Etude. I always making Terms Stars; South for the letters and essays 7. Sun; 8. Sun; 9. Lune (Moon) soon as it comes, experiments, I thrilled to find has made one entirely interest me ; especially was of f. Give a term meaning “sweetly.” several essay a prize winner and thank you very stone. A xylophone ’Yhiive^l'-ecn'readhi'g your Etudes for my of stone strikes great for the prize. East Letter Puzzle g. Give a term like them because they are a much meaning “with ani- cars ami I life I have loved good music and one as something quite new Dear JtwtOR because they are fun to noik All mv and Etu.k ; icln to me and been lucky enough to have listened to mation.” lot. My piano teacher have by Verna Lombard many interested five n Thev certainly teach a selections visitors were at- vmw J years old my father good method of good music on the radio. I played Ulat * 11,1,1 a nice, and she has a i.p a d« sir*> to play the piano so - very* Etude at two recitals. , The tracted to the m lirother takes accordion lessons, from The last letter of each of the fol- professor’s house, and Keyboard nu*. As the years passed on euchiiig Mv to thank you also, for raising the Harmony I excellently. My parents I want ,nv n,Ut4 ic more ud e both play very contest. Also, I would like published photographs inv more and and of a wind mill age limit for vour lowing words will give the name of and descrip- h. a tea room in the shape readers Using PJ’bving improved rapidly. I was in r hear from some of the Junior Etude the tonic, When 1 hope.that we to tions of his subdominant, and dll) my brother and a musical term used in notation. homemade instrument. snide in siliool I rei eiveil a clarinet ml in the United States. for < j!,.' . orchestra that plays theie. ^ , dominant, improvise ^pnsnnag and began play that an play in >he From your friend. But thousands of accompani- too. to learn to your friend. Answers must give all words as well years ago At the '‘ '' '' From Shirley Ockexden (Age 13), a the pitch l v n 1 solo your melody needs. ments to My Old clarinet wns Pjayjng Watch leaving Kentucky Home, liTa”---”-'!l British Columbia Chinese emperor who loved barely a ripple hytnphony orchestra in Indiana, as Anal answer. music a trumpeter in the wake I 16 some day All Through youngest player it. but that and see how and of the Night, and one matter,„1 in carried out the same idea. He course Bobby wanted Iln made he shortens or to watch other the vofn, t° My father was playing 1 .... ? lengthens the well-known 111 sound them. melody of your ( ft" 1 "' also a set of gongs from l" en orchestra. I have slabs of stone ' 1 2 . . . tube by fingering the stops. own selection. '” V01ce training and sing some in ? ' Public Contest cut to certain sizes and arranged A s you watch the swans, A Blind Scale Now you have Bobby 3 . . . ? the principle by think 1 am '“aching con- them in a frame, xylophone of Saint-Saens’ piano and Teastiale fashion. beautiful '' Silva . which all mel- Musical Program 0WI studying. I believe that giving By May 4 . . ? musical instruments these 'i.. ! are ody, called S0 " S 8 Upon these he could play very The Swan." *, helping me as well as my simple Pupils r 5 . . . constructed no matter Arrange am looking The pupil who gets the highest ? how different an American . forward to having a Play tunes Tom, played program in- recitii . eyes are “blindfolded. much as people now play that piece ° n, pupils, Players’ 1. upon from each other at our last I y own and my father's score is the winner. Each The ordinary name of the F clef; they are in shape and cluding patriotic have io, i' correct fin- marked musical glasses. recital, said Bobby, numbers and com- and lor '"cation chosen for some time evenly, with material. “and he Jrfor slowly and point off the score. 2. a composer noted for polyphonic Perhaps you played positions "'?", 1 <" 'he time I will have my mistake takes one can make it very by American composers own stmti" dl , no hesitations, If you should decide to well, too. I like ° 11111 devote all work gering gentle touch, experiment something as new it.” that I love my time to the The contest may be completed in compositions; 3. a brass instrument and as interesting “Speaking you have learned. Those who the scales, majors in making for yourself a of recitals, r mistakes, all musical in- to play upon as Bob, notice s .''ears of Tut: Etchf. no week, a month or a season, of low register; 4. a curved line de- the Chinese emperor’s have not learned any American has 'hern i“ study up and back a day, a strument of any kind, a 16CeS played com- has n "d Inspiration to me, as it minors, one octave here is the stone xylophone by P^nists tolu ‘“allymi* o and score along. Arpeggios noting legato; 5. measurement of was in his day. kT ? positions may substitute others. then with carrying the imitate bird songs, such other num- with hands separately, as Schu- bers. From your friend. may be added in the same way. small intervals. 548 Have Roby (Age 15), hands together. "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" Michigan ETUDE 549 THE AUGUST, 1943 — ——— — —

THE COVER FOR THIS Christians, Awake, Salute the Happy MONTO—The places, birth dates, lor cover for and in the World; this issue comes right case of - Light of the and Glory to with romance, down to those deceased, the Morn humor, and mystery. In viola. The result is a book of unusual the present date of death day love of melodious old anca ri the Highest. tne addition to the entertaining it occurred. d in increasing reduction aspects of value and interest to young musicians. folksongs where G0 in school enroll- and no one seems to get more work has purposely been kept ments, this work, it also emphasizes the urgent Besides embracing The due to the war, the small Carefully edited throughout and marked pleasure out of these than practically everv of the volunteer choir ensemble need for those who within the scope may frequently cooperation in the betterment with splendid educational qualities, its might be world famous composer, artist fill the role of the former termed “grown-up piano be- performer present no difficult problems large of school and country, a fact not operatic star, renowned and should groups. Dr. Monger, to be melodious contents are designed to ap- ginners.’’ The wholesome conductor has had out- lightly young lady and and necessitating lengthy and tedious re- anding dismissed in these times. peal especially to the early grade student. young pedagogue this gallery of success as an arranger and man are enjoying a piano duet best-known your order now for mu- The staging of this musicians hearsals. Place a edUC t0r nd operetta can be The twenty-two pieces constituting the arrangement of gives generous attention ’/ thoroughly understands achieved “Drink to Me Only With to of this fine cantata at our ni ^ very simply and with little ex- contemporary American single copy the needs of the players and original collection are here included, and Thine Eyes.” Composers As the limits pense, and no costumes a advance of publication cash price of each instrument, are needed other some of the composers represented are: Just lifetime reference volume, a help special as may be seen who wrote this lovely melody is in pre by than the clothing worn 40 cents, postpaid. Prompt delivery his work In this on the average Franklin, Greenwald, Haesche, Kern, not known. Some paring concert or radio program of new book. A single copy editors of song books notes" publication will make the work campus. It is very appropriate for use by Quiros, Papini, and as an entertaining upon of any or all of the 17 Tourneur, and Zimmer- have felt justified in attaching and informative Instrument Books high school, Mozart’s for early rehearsals. college, and amateur organ- man. book for spare time reading, available and the Conductor’s Score name to the music, but there is no defi- this volume (Piano) may izations, and no be obtained, when excessive demands are Prior to its publication, an order for a nite proof that Mozart had anything is worth many times the price at published, by ordering made on to which now either the chorus or soloists. single copy of this book, complete with do with the a copy may be secured by at the special advance of music. A physician of Bath, ordering in ad- publication Twelve principals are required, including prices—15 cents accompaniment, may be placed at the Dr. Henry Harrington who vance of publication at the advance each for the Instrument five died in 1751 offer sopranos, two mezzo-sopranos, one low advance of publication cash price of at the price of $1.00 CHILDREN OF THE SUN-.4 Book Books, and 35 cents for age of 24, also has been named postpaid, delivery to SINGING the Conductor’s contralto, two tenors, one be Score. Because baritone, and 50 cents postpaid, with delivery to be by some as the composer. Other made when published. It took Indian Songs for Unison Singing—By of copyright restrictions one sources a number 0f bass. There are also several speaking made as soon as the copies are ready. ascribed of years Dr. Thurlow Lieurance the sale of this collection the melody to a Col. R. Mellish to gather together the material Thurlow Lieurance— will be confined parts. to the United The sale however, is limited to the United (1777-1817) who sang it at the for this book, and the cost of of the most romantic figures in States and its possessions. single “Noble- the half is one A copy of this timely and effec- States and its possessions. men’s and Gentlemen’s tone portrait cuts music. The stories of his travels Catch Club” of cost very close to American tive operetta may be ordered now at our London. The 10 , 000 . living with different tribes authenticity of the words $ among and his ; $bj^t°#j4 Jip°#b;bx; special advance of publication cash price is well established. Indians in order to record J* They come from a of American of 60 cents, postpaid. Delivery will be mil#-# Greek Poet by the name of Philostratus, traditional tribal love songs and BALLADS made immediately their OF PAUL BUNYAN—Choral Cycle upon publication. about whom little is known music would make fascinating THY GOD REIGNETH—/l General Cantata except that ceremonial far Mixed Voices and Narrator; Ballads he studied by and taught at Athens for the Volunteer Choir , by Lawrence Keat- and THE CHILD OF reading. Etlu-1 Louise Knox, Music by May A. later BETHLEHEM- 1 Christmas Strong settled in Rome and it is believed the years he devoted to the mu- ing—As a reminder to all organists and Cantata for Three-Part Mixed Voices Out of —Now a picturesque character in our he died in about the year (S.A.B.) choirmasters that a new musical season 245. or of the American aborigine, American American folklore, Two-Part (S.A), By Louise E. Stairs, Ar- sic the story of Paul GEMS OF MASTERWORKS FOR THE OR- Ben Jonson, the English dramatist who knows that these had uncovered for lies just ahead, here is a non-seasonal helps cannot be ex- ranged by Danforth Simonton music lovers have Bunyan was conceived by the vivid im- GAN Compiled was born in 1573 1943 —To meet — and Arranged by Paul cantata, Thy Reigneth, and died in 1637 and pected today. Allowance must be made through Dr. I.ieurance’s transcrip- agination of God by Lawrence the changing choir conditions them the lumberjacks as they Tonner—Here is a of who is buried in throughout new book organ se- Keating. In this cantata, Westminster Abbey with for war-time transportation problems harmonizations many hitherto spent long winter Mr. Keating, • the country due to the depleted tions and evenings around the lections that is well worth possessing. It the inscription “O rare ranks of who is well-known by reason of his very Ben Jonson” over which slow up the mails and the express beautiful melodies which have fire men singers, we have prepared hidden place in their bunk house. He was is an all-purpose book, designed his grave, besides writing a special espe- successful Christmas and Easter can- tragedies, companies and war time loss of experi- so to the romance, religion, the idol ADVANCE OF PUBLICATION arrangement of this very popular meant much and inspiration of the loggers, cially for the beginner, in that it is writ- masques, poems and some enced help Christ- tatas, has aimed at composing a work non-dramatic in the Government postoffices folklore of the Red Man. Many con- arousing in mas cantata (originally published and them dreams of great deeds ten on two staves, thus making it easy works, exercised his classical scholarship and in for suitable for general use by the average OFFERS music supply houses require that singers and many choral societies and miraculous feats in four-part mixed voices) for Soprano cert as evidenced in the to play on small two-manual and pedal translations from the Latin and Greek we dispense for and volunteer choir of untrained voices. In the duration with wait- Alto, featured the Indian songs which stories they up. poets. All of the hooks in this list are in with an ad libitum part for have made This choral cycle organs, and the Hammond Organ. Need- It is his excellent translation of ing until the last the this, he has been notably successful in preparation minute to execute plans ha.* transcribed, arranged, is based two verses by for publication. The men. Tenors and Basses may be com- Dr. Lieurance on of the best episodes, “The less to say, it will also be found useiui Philostratus and which he en- and secure needed materials. Because the past, and the present instance is no low Advance Offer Cash Prices ap- the bined on this part, and harmonized, and now for school and Winter of the Blue Snow” and “The by the more experienced organist who titled “Song to Celia” which for the range is lim- exception. Elsie Duncan Yale has col- provided the ply only to orders placed Theodore Presser Co. always has main- NOW . ited not too high for Basses community singing sixteen melodious In- Death of Paul’s Moose-Hound, Niagara”. can adapt the registration to meet the texts now known as “Drink to Me Only tained an nor too low laborated on the text, which includes Delivery (postpaid) will be made unsurpassed stock of music of reasonably Miss With for Tenors. The work is so arranged, how- dian songs are to appear in a Strong is widely known for her requirements of a larger instrument. Thine Eyes.” when the books are published. all publishers and likewise Scriptural passages to be read by the pas- has made a evei, for unison singing groups in many compositions, Paragraphs that it may be done entirely with priced book among the outstand- The music itself is worthy of note as it tor or narrator. describing each pub- specialty of direct mail service a to music treble voices schools, or community gatherings. ing choral works being “Slumber comprises a careful selection of arrange- lication appear in two parts, Soprano and homes, Songs is on these pages • buyers everywhere, There a great deal of variety pro- this company espe- Alto, if desired. In these sixteen numbers there will be of the Madonna” which won for her the ments from the works of the masters. vided in various cially urges its many friends the parts, including and patrons The solo National Federation of of the composers represented in CHANGE OF POLICY—War time restric- requirements are easily met; some of the most favorite numbers, such Music Clubs prize Some arias for each of the solo voices, male Album of Favorite First Position Pieces to help out in the war situation tions by order- there thirty selections and on paper consumption have created For Viola and Piano are solos and duets for Soprano as By the Waters of Minnetonka; Ski-bi- in 1927. Her years of experience in vocal the more than ex- chorus, trio for treble voices, 50 ing as far ahead as possible. and soprano Ballads of Paul Bunyan—Choral The Theo- Chopin, serious problems for magazine publishers. Cycle and Contralto, but some of the Contralto bi-la; Wi-um; and others along with a pedagogy at the University of Michigan, cerpts are: Bach, Brahms, Han- and alto duet; the whole being skilfully Strong dore Presser Co. will send to _ .40 responsible solos Liszt, Mozart, After considering every possible Child of Bethlehem Christmas may be sung by a Baritone if avail- few which are appearing in print for the Northwestern University, and now at the del, Franck, Mendelssohn, blended to create interest avenue Cantata individuals suggested materials among the of A- B Stairs-Simonton to meet able. Tschaikowsky. paper saving, the publishers of The .40 Fourteen musical numbers, includ- first time. American Conservatory of Music give her Schumann, Sibelius, and singers and avoid monotony on the part Child s Czerny any described needs or Etude Arnold .25 classifications of ing care been taken in choosing have solved this problem through Favorite Hymns— Piano Duet choruses, duets, and solos, make up This is the last month in which this great consideration for the vocal instru- Great has of the audience. Richter .35 music, and on orders placed now procedures which, First Ensemble Album Monger allow the interesting assure the range of each voice the musical content to make this volume in their opinion, will all the privileges contents. The time of per- volume will be offered in advance of pub- ment and Some idea of the text may be gleaned Parts, Each .15 that would be extended be the least “painful” to the formance is about forty-five lication. offer permits order- part being well within the compass of playable for the average organist and it many thou- Piano Conductor .35 were the order placed minutes. The advance from the following titles of the individual Oemsof Masterworks forthe Organ Tonner in September addition to the sands of loyal Etude readers. In other .60 Choir directors troubled with loss of ing one copy now at the advance of pub- the average choral group. Scored for a should be a welcome numbers: Thy Reigneth; The Stars; Portraits of the World's Teaching music secured God words, Best-Known “on sale” dur- or music library. we desire to give our readers the Musicians men singers will do well to secure a first- lication postpaid cash price of 20 cents. chorus of mixed voices, baritone narra- church home The Sun; The Sea is His; O Forest Fair; | qq ing August will be Singing Children charged in the 1943- greatest possible of the Sun. . . . Lieurance .20 You can be among the first to possess magazine value and ’ from-the-press copy of this timely tor, and piano, this cycle should prove The Valleys; Purple Hills; The Lilies; the Sixteen Short 1344 “on sale” account pub- O best Etudes Lemont .25 and other classifi- use for the small possible service, and at the same Thy. God Reigneth Cantata lication by placing their orders popular with many high-school choral this book and enjoy its O Fear Not Ye Who Trust Him; Forget Keating .40 cations of music which, when now at our time, to fulfill Tidings of Joy Christmas Cantata for secured for of 60 cents, postpaid. This is a spe- our patriotic duty by meet- special advance of publication cash price organizations. sum Not God; from which it might be gath- Mixed Voices examination are limited to ing the paper Stairs .40 thirty days of cial advance of publication cash price situation, as instructed by We re For America Operetta “on approval” only 40 cents, postpaid. This offer will A single copy of the Ballads of Paul ered that the fall of the year would seem will have the October re- FIRST ENSEMBLE ALBUM-For All Band the Government. Fitzgerald-Hall .60 be withdrawn in ordered at the spe- and the offer is good only in the U. S. A. appropriate turn privileges just September, as copies and Bunyan may be now an time for a performance as though the music Orchestra Instruments—Arranged by delivery One procedure we find it necessary will be available cash price of and its possessions. Immediate of work. to were ordered in September. then in plenty of time Howard cial advance-of-publication this discontinue It may take s. Monger-with an eye to the just as soon as the book is the allowing of credit real for early rehearsal. 40 cents, postpaid. Delivery will be made will be made Why not reserve a copy of this very various other courage to throw off coming fall educators copies after organizations have the the Summer term many music off the press. paid-for subscriptions have lethargy as soon as publishing details are com- comes fine cantata now at the special advance benefits of music, but action today will will be considering for their expired. In the past, can perform a very be a bless- new material this has been done ing in the teaching pleted. of publication cash price of 40 cents, post- great service to our country in these or other music ac- classes. In answer to the demand for as a convenience to readers days paid? It will be sent to immediately who neglect when tivities this Pall. you to renew war happenings, working speeds, something “new" the Theodore Presser immediately, but who might TIDINGS upon publication and you will then have wish and intensities of efforts put such a strain OF JOY—A Christmas Cantata for Co. is proud to recommend the First En- to avoid a lapse in the continuity FAVORITE FIRST POSITION it for future reference. It is sure to prove upon the Volunteer Choir ALBUM OF of emotions and physical set-ups. of Mixed Voices semble Album. Arranged so that it may be their copies. Starting with tjie The AND PIANO-An un- useful. current only way (S.A.T.B.)—Text Operetta in Two PIECES FOR VIOLA a private music teacher, a school PORTRAITS and Music by Louise E. used with practically all instruments, the E’RE FOR AMERICA, issue, the mailing of copies will cease OF THE WORLD’S BEST- precedented interest in the study of the music educator, a choral Stairs There is no better way to cele- parts are ts-Music and Lyrics by Marian Hall, with the month of expiration director, a choir KNOWN MUSICIANS, with in score with two or three others and in and credit Thumbnail Bio- brate the open- various orchestral instruments master, a band leader, an orchestra con- graphical the anniversary of the birth of making four ook by Theda Fitzgerald—From copies will not be mailed henceforth. Sketches—All Of us harmony parts designated as participation has swept through ductor or admire the Christ than to the last meas- ensemble , anyone else active in the music well with music, and no director A, B, c, bars of the overture We suggest that, in order to prevent informed person and many and D, corresponding in all books g schools in an inspiring an profession of us are of a volunteer this operetta the American interruption can do justice to his or her inclined to choir could make a wiser so that any to- es of the impressive finale, FAVORITE HYMNS—in Easy Arrangements in issues, subscribers renew wish that we were possessors instruments may perform This, of course, heralds the mu- musical responsibilities decision than to tunes, clever fashion. Piano Duet-Compiled and Arranged by promptly upon and opportunities of much information perform this cantata gether. There will packed with engaging for receipt of the first notice on things pertain- bq books containing fruitful days which lie ahead of during the coming during the which will live sically is calling 1943-1944 music sea- ing to our coming Christmas season. The four harmony rics, and sparkling dialqg Ada Richicr-Here another of Mrs. attention to expiration. By so vocations, avocations parts for Flute, Br> Clarinet appreciation and achievement, do- son is to meet hobbies message who at- us, both in ing, disappointment the opening days of that or other things of peace and joy that it brings (Bass Clarinet), ng in the memories of those Richter’s wonderfully useful compilations and annoyance may of interest to us. For any- Bj, Trumpet (Cornet), certainly no more “tried and true” en- season with plans well laid will serve as an performance. The for for young students, and one which will be obviated. and needed one interested in anodyne for all in these Alto Saxophone nded a successful found music, who can think (E(, Baritone Saxo- thusiasts for good music can be materials at hand. The troublous times, its loveliness of enjoy real popularity, with teachers and world is full of of anything that bringing home once phone), usic is truly unique in would give a more com- Trombone or Baritone, F Horn the men and women who them- those of us who always have needed again the great event of of richness of harmonic than students everywhere. Containing twenty “the prehensive view the nativity (English elodic line and it. of the growth and de- Horn), E[, Horn (Alto or Mello- have had the thrill of making last minute” and often in the past we velopment the Christ Child. Phone), beauty of such numbers selves of the most popular hymns, it was sug- of music through Violin, Viola, Cello. Books xture, and the of the need for easy have been able the last and as Being fully aware THE to obtain things that we three or four The cantata contains ten numbers and with song, We’re for America, gested by the remarkable success ac- COMING SEASON’S centuries two harmony ; the title instruments, NEEDS—All needed at than to be able parts will be provided material for the less usual the last minute because of the to takes about forty minutes to perform. Heart, It’s Conversa- corded Mrs. Richter’s My Own Hymn teachers of music and other active read about and look into L>9 Piccolo, “11 as Live by Your scarcity of easy music speed of the the faces of Oboe, Bassoon, B 5 Saxo- have noted a real mails, the ability of sources the Solos are provided for soprano, alto, waltz song, At the we Book of easy piano solo arrangements. workers ought to take time before prominent musical phone, and Ej, nt Time, and the the viola. Also any of supplies to personages of all tenor, Clarinet. In one book there grade publications for give phenomenally prompt baritone, and is gratify the most The duets will be of an easy grade more August days run past to countries who, since the bass, and there be the fternoon Tea, should of Favorite consider service and the Middle Ages also bass part for String Bass, realizing that our Album frequency of speeding- either as a chorus for men’s voices and a duet throughout, and the primo and secondo “The Coming Season’s Needs.” Many composers, uba, and itical audience. Pieces' for Violin and au- conductors, Bass; (a per- . train schedules which through music for soprano and in another , First Position parts will be of about the same difficulty, thorities are every hour pedagogues, or and alto. The text, which has ussion a refugee girl on the of the opinion that those of performers have book) parts The arrival of up of pieces with ex- the day and night facilitated helped been compiled for Timpani, Drums, just Piano was made so that they can be advantageously in- who are in positions express enrich the world in part from the Scrip- Livermore Junior College Mr. to help homes, com- company and through music? Beneath Lyra. The Conductor's Score mipus of possibilities for the viola, postoffice deliveries. Under tures, also contains ,p. to be m- cellent terchanged between the players. A verse munities, student bodies, churches each portrait there will be original material by lano competition is about adapted this and war conditions every a biographical B°ok) gives suggestions for effec- ; a song August Molzer, of Denver, thinking person the composer. Some tj serves as note giving known details of the numbers in- e ens the student body purposes of the ( Continued on next page ) as to birth embles that may be made up lgurated by excellent collection to the 550 cluded in this work are Break Forth into f story replete h the above motivating factor in a "FORWARD MARCH mentioned parts. ,e 551 WITH MUSIC’’ ,, ,n/-n 1 r/rTU MIKIC” THE ETUDE AUGUST, 1943 z : :

~| of each hymn will be included with the works for young musicians will be newly to be affected when changes of address music, a feature which will make certain available to them also. Conforming to are desired. Paced with unusual condi- the book’s usefulness in accompanying requirements of the present day “treble tions, as a result of the War, involving congregational singing. The hymn favor- and bass from the start” system, it has inexperienced clerical help and inaccu- ites to be represented racies in handling mail, include: Abide come to us through the hands of a skilled we are sure the With Me; Come Thou Almighty King; editor and teacher, and its every page average person will be reasonable enough Jesus. Lover of My Soul; Lead, Kindly reflects unusual thought and understand- to understand how necessary it is to allow Light; Nearer, My God, to this extra time. Thee; On- ing wffh regard to its preparation. The Your co-operation will ward. Christian Soldiers; . . Praise God, forty-odd studies in the book are con.- be appreciated . and when you send from Whom all Blessings Flow; in of address, Rock of fined to the keys of C, P, and G, and change please include the Ages; and Sweet Hour old as well of Prayer. . each bears: an attractive title. There are as the new. Ada Richter’s gratifying success is the a number of illustrations, and the popu- reward of industry, keen awareness, and lar oblong format will be used. In every discernment, plus a bountiful measure of way the book will reflect the compiler’s I natural gifts. Her rare ///// understanding of superior musicianship, and we predict its Letters BOB JOFES COLLEGE the problems of early grade students has immediate popularity with teachers from HAS BEEF f CALLED made her a leader among composers who everywhere.

I write for them, and the appearance of Until it is released from the press, a her Etude Friends name on a new publication is prac- single copy of The Child’s Czerny may tical "AMERICA'S assurance of far reaching useful- be ordered Every year at the special advance of pub- The Etude strives to make its ness. lication cash price of 25 cents, postpaid. f September number overflowing with While this book is in practical, activating, worth-while preparation, a Deliveries will be made as soon as the arti- single cles. copy may be ordered now at books are ready. Tangled Regarde ce/Ze programme, Mes- the Fingers MOST CFESUAL COLLEGE" sieurs eZ Mesdames! special advance of publication cash price To The Etude : One of my teachers, who wag of 35 cents, postpaid. The sale, however, a mini] of I Busoni, pointed out to me that most "i !i,-ie,i is limited to the lingers” in piano United States and its playing are due to failure to study the fingering ’ possessions. at the very outset S(( ADVANCE OF PUBLICATION to be sure that Bob Jones College stands without apology OFFER WITH- the fingering is just th.’. right one to bring out the DRAWN—Those who ordered a copy of musical effect and at for the the same time prove the most natural and "old-time religion" and the abso- Rhapsody in D Minor, by Ralph the Federer, most comfortable for the plater s hand Th in has, in many editions, been lute authority of the Bible . . . SIXTEEN Advance of Publication by this time carefully and defi- Bob Jones SHORT ETUDES for Technic and nitely worked out by a wise and experienced have received this work in its editor. 1 published Phrasing Ho used as an illustration a Juft College , By Cedric W. Lemont-The nota- hand believes that education is not form, and with this month the passage m the lovely Spanish X

PICAL of the present day opportunities for Do not have to be Children! the piano teacher is the report

of one teacher who found it easy to encourage grown-ups (some of whom were parents, relatives, or neighbors of chil- Grown-Up Beginner s Book dren she taught) to start piano FOR THE PIANO study just for the joy of play- By WILLIAM M. FELTON PRICE. $1.00 ing favorite melodies them- Here is a book of piano instruction material for grown-ups, high school age pupils selves. Grown-ups with busi- and college young men and women, that really leads towards a definite goal—not ness the digital or working hours much dexterity of the virtuoso—but the ability to play the many fine composi- tions of intermediate grade, and the playable arrangements of classic and standard shorter than a generation ago compositions, that are available. It begins with the rudiments, but quickly has the now have leisure time to de- pupil playing interesting melodies while making rapid acquaintance with fundamental technical problems. vote to Keyboard illustrations assist in correlating the notes of the music and can afford printed page with the keys of the piano. piano lessons which for some Everything in the book is designed for the adult student—the music will appeal to the adult intelligence, reason were not available the pieces and exercises are arranged for playing by fully- to matured hands. While intended for use them in childhood. Progressing Piano Studies with a teacher, the explanations are so FOR THE GROWN-UP clear and easily understood that the STUDENT diligent self-help student may get much By assistance from WILLIAM M. FELTON PRICE, $1.00 the study of it.

Here in this book are gathered together etudes that have all the char- actenstics that appeal to adults the ; same type of material employed in the authors Grown-Up Beginner's Book. They have been carefully graded in Play With progressive order, Pleasure the fingering plainly marked, and the editing has b^en most thorough. AN ALBUM FOR THE GROWN-UP PIANO STUDENT Teachers will be delighted with, so comprehensive a course of studies under one cover. CompUed and Arr. Adult pupils will welcome the economy effected and will by WM. M. FELTON PRICE. $1.00 appreciate the opportunity of perfecting their technique to a point where they can play the Teen-age students not-so-difficult pieces of composers such as Schumann who have completed the first books of instruction Mozart and and pieces, as well Haydn among the classic writers and Nevin, MacDowell, as adult pianists of limited attainments, or with little Engelmann, Cadman, Kern and time to practice, can get lot others too numerous to mention among0 a of fun out of playing these num- the moderns. bers. There are arrangements of folk songs and ballads, gems from the operas and overtures, selections from the classics, pieces in light rhythmic style. Many are well- known as radio "signatures’’ and movie "theme music." None of the arrangements requires more technical pro- ficiency than that Melodies acquired by the pianist able to play Everyone Loves grade three music. AN ALBUM OF PIANO PIECES Partial List of Contents Beautiful Dreamer FOR _ THE GROWN-UP MUSIC LOVER Foster On Wings of Song Mendelssohn Coronation March, from The PropheZ...Meyerbeer Evening Sounds from the Vienna Woods Strauss Prayer, from Hansel and Gretel Compiled and Arranged Spanish Dance, No. 1 Mosziowsii Gypsy Song, from Carmen The Swallow Serradel! By WILLIAM M. FELTON Jeame with the Light Brown Hair ZZ.Fotte, Theme, from Finlandia. Sibelius The Kiss Waltz Two Guitars Russian Gypsy Melody PRICE, $1.00 Love’s Old Sweet Song ZZZZlolloy Valse, Op. 70, No. 1 Chopin Waltz, For grown-ups from from the Merry Widow Lehar 1(5 to 60, this new volume is a Norwegian Dance compilation Grieg Were You There? of light opera and grand opera favorites, Negro Spiritual folksongs classics and light rhythmic selections. Each number has been chosen because of its popular appeal but there are many pieces included that will not be found in ordinary collections. All of the 56 melodies have been arranged or revised BOOK so that they may be plaved and en- OF PIANO PIECES joyed by pianists BOOK OF PIANO DUETS who have had only a few seasons of study, uven ambitious youngsters can attempt these ver- FOR ADULT sions because BEGINNERS FOR ADULT although the harmonies are full and pianis- BEGINNERS tically ^good, PRICE, all of the notes are written "under the 75 CENTS hands and PRICE, $1.00 octaves constitute the only demands in this After the first few months of learning regard. the "geog- Here is an album raphy of the keyboard of 19 numbers that will have and in getting the right a n long, useful, and pleasure-giving life around the e r,ght th| ng the right time, Partial List of , «. there piano in the average Contents ?s fhen‘Jhe°rhIen e chance to begin home. It is ideal for this pur- • enjoying one's own ren- pose, but T some older beginners will hnd it especially Alleluia! dition of some attractive music. Mozart That is where this helpful to their piano Liebestraum (A Dream of Love) Liszt book comes in. It provides progress by enlisting the aid Caro Nome, from Rigoletto clever, easy-to-plav ar- of playing Verdi Mazurka, rangements ot mates, younger or older, who have a little Clayton's Op. 67, No. 2 Chopin favorite melodies from classic Grand March Blake folk more piano-playing experience. The Mill in the Forest Eilenberg operatic and standard sources along with Neither part is diffi- Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming Foster a dozen cult to play, being My Normandy tompositions bv favorite perhaps what would be assigned Cradle Song Berat contemporary com- to the Brahms posers— pieces average younger student in grade 2, or early Pavane ...... Ravel 27 in all. Dancing Marquise Lemaire grade 3. Prelude in G Minor Rachmaninoff Entr'acte Gavotte Gillet Procession of the Sardar Ippolitoff-Iianoff Estrellita (Mexican Serenade) Ponce The Rose of Tralee Glover Fifth Nocturne Leybach Serenade Drigo Hornpipe, from Water Music Handel The Skaters 1T’aldteufel Jesu, Joy of Man s Desiring (Chorale) Bach Spanish Dance, Op. 12, No. 4 Moszkouski Joyful Serenade Published by Gabriel-Marie Spring Song, Op. 74 Chopin Juliet’s Waltz from Romeo and Juliet. ..Gounod CS °/ Spring Strauss The Little Brown Church in the Vale w?‘f Pitts Waltz of the Flowers, from Naila Delibes THEODORE PRESSER CO. 1712 CHESTNUT ST PHILADELPHIAWPA.