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AN OPERETTA, “SONG OF NORWAY,” about Edvard Grieg and using much of his music, had a most successful opening recently in New York City. Episodes in the life of the great Norwegian composer contribute to the story, and many of his most familiar and haunting melodies are adapted to the musical score. In the ex- cellent cast is Irra Petina, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Association.

FRANCO AUTORI, conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, who has just finished his first season with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra as suc- cessor to the late Albert Stoessel, has been reappointed as conductor for the summer season of 1945. HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE SOLOISTS, to the num- IN THE MUSICAL WORLD ber of twenty-seven, have been engaged by in a series of six pairs of concerts on MRS. HARRIET AYER the New York Philhar- Monday evenings and Tuesday after- SEYMOUR, a leading monic-Symphony Or- noons. American pioneer in the chestra for the new sea- Held of musical therapy, son which opens on Oc- THE NEW YORK LITTLE SYMPHONY, died on July 30 in New tober 5. Among these Joseph Barone, director, will present a York City, at the age of are Zino Prancescatti, series of six concerts on Friday nights sixty-eight. She was Jascha Heifetz, Erica the option for the broadcasting rights during the coming season. As formerly, widely known as an ad- Morini, Fritz' Kreisler, for the remaining five years. the orchestra will introduce young Amer- vocate of the use of mu- .saac Stern, Gregor Piatigorsky, Claudio ican soloists, conductors, and composers sic as a cure for certain Arrau, Josef Hofmann, Wanda Landow- JOSEPH BONNET, distinguished French in formal debuts. These include Don- forms of illness. Mrs. ska, Rudolf Serkin, Kerstin Thorborg, organist, who had made his home in New aldina Lew, soprano; William Bodkin, Seymour was born in Charles Kullman, and John Brownlee. York City since 1940, died on August 2 baritone: Mary Michna, pianist; Albert Chicago and was educated musically in at Ste. Luce sur Mer, near Rimouski, Brusiloff, violinist: and Harry Hewitt, Germany. For a number of years she was SAMUEL BARBER'S “Violin Concerto” Quebec. Just last year he had been given composer. on the faculty of the Institute of Musical was included in one of the recent pro- charge of the organ class of a newly Art. Largely as a result of her observations grams of the fiftieth of the healing power of in her season of Sir Henry formed conservatory of music in Quebec. A NEW NOTE in industrial recreational music Wood’s Promenade Concerts hospital work during the First World at Albert Mr. Bonnet was born at Bordeaux, activities was registered in August when Hall in London, with the Australian War, Mrs. Seymour founded the Seymour France, on March 17, 1884. He was for the employees of the Gruen Watch Com- violinist, Eda Kersey, as soloist. School of Musical Re-education. In 1941 some years organist of the Church of St. pany were guests of the company man- she established the National Foundation Eustache in Paris, and succeeded Alex- agement at a performance of “Rigoletto,” of Musical Therapy, of which she was THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON opera andre Guilmant as organist of the Soci- given by the Cincinnati Summer Opera president. broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera ety of Concerts of the French Conserva- Association at the Cincinnati Zoological Association are to be continued for six tory. He had made several world tours Gardens. years under the terms of a contract re- before the war. THORNTON W. ALLEN, New York com- poser and music cently announced by the Metropolitan FRITZ KREISLER’S next radio appear- publisher, died on July Opera Association, 30 at Hyannis, Massachusetts. Included the Texas Company, LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI will return this ance will be on October 9. The remaining among his many activities and the Blue Network. Under the agree- month to the New York City Cester as dates in the NBC “Telephone Hour” was a period ment, the of eighteen years as managing editor of Texas Company continues as music director of the New York City series, which began July 17, are January the sponsor “Musical Courier.” while still in college for the coming season, with Symphony. He will direct the orchestra 1, February 19, and April 16, of 1945. he won fame as the composer of the Washington and Lee Swing, which he wrote for his alma mater. Following this he formed a music publishing company C^ompetitiond and wrote, on request, a great many college songs. the Air . . presented by NBC University of LEON SAMETINI, head of the violin . department of the Chicago THE SIXTEENTH BIENNIAL of Columbia University and the Metro- AN ANNUAL COMPETITION to be Musical Col- lege, YOUNG ARTISTS AUDITIONS of the politan Opera Association. The opera must called the Ernest Bloch Award has been died on August 20. He had been on the National Federation of New World” Thursdays at 11:30 p.m. (EWT) by Music Clubs, be not over seventy-five minutes in length established by the United Temple Chorus the staff of the Chicago Musical College Course 111 in “Music of the which carry and the awards of $1000 each in and by a native or naturalized American of Long Island, for the best work for about forty years. Mr. Sametini was born National Broadcasting Company piano, violin, voice and classifications, will citizen. The closing date is September 1. women’s chorus based on a text from or in broadcasts "Music of the Rotterdam, Holland, and became The 1944-45 of independent radio stations associated with be held in New York City in the spring 1945 and full details may be secured from related to the Old Testament. The Award known as the infant prodigy of the of 1945. State auditions will ” begin October 12, and in- begin around Eric T. Clarke, Metropolitan Opera Asso- is one hundred and fifty dollars, with New World the NBC network— embraces three main Netherlands. At the age of fifteen he was March 1, 1945, with district auditions, ciation, Inc., New York, 18, New York. publication of the winning work guar- half-hour pro- a protege of clude thirty-eight weekly musical for which the State winners are eligible, Queen Wilhelmina and was approaches: a) Chief historical anteed. The closing date is December 1, Cities,” following. The exact date of the National presented by her on a concert torn-. At grams. Titled "Music in American contributions; b) Compositions about THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL and all details may be secured from the Auditions will be announced later. All sixteen he was graduated from the con- the contributions to * CONTESTS for Young Artists, sponsored United Temple Chorus, Lawrence, Long the series traces cities; c) Music by composers definitely details may be secured from the National servatory at Prague. After by the Society of American Musicians, is Island. coming to the fostered in the popula- Chairman, Miss Ruth M. Ferry, 24 United American music identified with certain cities. announced for the season 1944-45. The States he appeared as soloist with Edgewood Avenue, New Haven 11, A PRIZE OF ONE HUNDRED DOL- centers, both large and small, of the classifications include piano, voice, violin, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. tion Connecticut. LARS is offered by The H. W. Gray Com- violoncello, and organ, with various ages . cradle of pany, Inc. to the composer of the best Western Hemisphere . . Boston, for each group. The contests will begin "Music the New World” and its com- anthem submitted SIR HENRY WOOD, of A PRIZE OF A $1,000 WAR BOND about in a contest sponsored religious music and the singing school . . February 1, 1945, and all entries will by The American Guild of Organists. well known British con- panion NBC University of the Air courses be the award in a nation-wide com- must be in by January 15. Full details is ductor Lima, Peru, center of viceregal music . . petition conducted by the Cincinnati The closing date January' 1, 1945. Full who was just are broadcast as a public service for the with entrance blank may be secured from Symphony Orchestra, for the writing information may be secured from The about to celebrate his focus of musical enterprise of a Mr. Edwin J. Gemmer, Sec.-Treas., 501 Williamsburg, American Guild of Organists, 630 Fifth advancement of education and entertain- “Jubilee Overture” to celebrate the fiftieth Kimball Building, Chicago, Illinois. fiftieth anniversary as a Avenue, New Y'ork in the Colonies . . . from early days to the anniversary of the orchestra, which takes 20, New York. baton wielder, died on ment under the American system free of place during the coming season. The com- present. THE SOCIETY FOR THE PUBLICA- THE EIGHTH ANNUAL PRIZE August 19, in London. enterprise, operating in the interests petition is open to all American citizens of a TION OF AMERICAN MUSIC has SONG COMPETITION, sponsored by He was famous for hav- and works submitted must be between "Music in American Cities”—broadcast free people. announced its twenty-sixth annual com- the Chicago Singing Teachers Guild, is ing inaugurated in 1895 ten and fifteen minutes in length and Sir petition. Composers who are American announced. The award is one hundred the Promenade written especially for the anniversary. Concert Henry A Service «i Radio citizens (native or naturalized) are in- dollars, with guarantee of publication of series, which in June of Wood Corporation vited to submit manuscripts. These should the winning song. Manuscripts ot must be this year opened its golden jubilee season AN AWARD OF $1,000 to encourage be mailed between October 1 and Novem- mailed between October first and fifteenth, “the writing in Albert Hall, only to be bombed at the of Amercian operas in gen- ber 1. Full details may be secured from and full details may be secured from Mr. eral, very first concert. Sir Henry was born in and of short operas in particular,” is Mrs. Helen L. Kaufmann, 59 West Twelfth E. Clifford Toren, 3225 Foster Avenue,

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Editorial SI tube http© ® SJL W..MC of iL SphereS 1 03) tH 0 5 ® OB (B $ ® I PUBLISHED MONTHLY PA. CO., PHILADELPHIA, COURSE Vols. I and II THEODORE PRESSER 1 WAGNESS ADULT PIANO BY URING the past four staggering years millions of people Note that two great civilizations for centuries held that music and College Students A first instruction book for Adult, High School, Designed throughout staff and, looking up to the death- sprang from the harmonious motions of heavenly bodies. Even featuring the highly effective Chord Approach. editorial AND advisory have risen each morning beginners, the course progresses in an easy, to appeal to the older FRANCIS COOKE, Editor fraught skies, have realized that the new day might be though it be myth, it is a persistent myth. Myths have wonderful precise manner with ample foundation material at each DR. JAMES D logical and Editors includes Ava Yeargain, Assistant to provide substantial progress. The musical content Guy McCoy and (still practiced clandestinely even in phase Music Section their last. They have asked themselves, “What is going on in the vitality—witness alchemy of Classical and Operatic melodies as well as favorite Dr. Rob Roy Peery, Editor, a choice selection Page extracts from standard piano literature, all ol which this monstrous condition?” As they view our big, flourishing cities), and astrology, the hundred-million- folk songs and Harold_Berkley ^Fon Reed universe to bring about Price, One Dollar per book. are especially arranged and edited. Pietro Deiro ur. ncjix, **/ SS^cgck Revelli fire, their thoughts have gone out to the valiant dollar racket, which even its victims subconsciously realize is non- Dr. Nicholas Douty Karl W. Gehrkens the tornado of ONE, FOUR, FIVE PIANO BOOK men and women — their beloved hus- sense. Thus, with the music of the spheres. 1883 BY THEODORE PRESSER By Bernard Wagness and William B. -FOUNDED Even Shakespeare wrote poetically: Coburn. A practical approach to har- bands, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, mony study for the advancing student. sisters, and sweethearts — who have “There’s not the smallest orb that An indispensable aid in developing and proficiency in fluent furthering student fire thou beholdest chord performance. The procedure of staked their all to put, out the so this book is unique, in that as soon as a October, 1944 Content* for that in a world of peace But in his motion, like an angel sings, principle is stated, it is used as a Secondo we may go on teacher. to the melody played by the creating, constructing, laugh- Still qtriring to the young-eyed Price, 75 cents. CENTS dreaming, VOLUME LXII, No. 10 PRICE 25 ing, loving, playing, and praying for Cherubim.” I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE 553 THE WORLD OF MUSIC better of life. Dr. Roy K. Marshall, Assistant Direc- A patriotic album for all Americans. a kind Contains easy piano solo arrangements EDITORIAL it is that for tor of the Planetarium at the famous (with words) of eight famous national 555 Strange, very strange, un- The Music of the Spheres songs. Fingered and phrased especially known centuries Man has been trying to Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, points for teaching purposes. Beautifully illus- AND CULTURE trated in Red, White and Blue through- MUSIC D. J. Mari Gancher 556 link terrestrial harmony with the spheres. in the Institute’s library to a work by a out, this folio makes a delightful, inter- Beware of Discordant Voices Strickland 557 esting and appropriate gift for every Music American Doughboys Hear in India. Lily 55H However fanciful the idea may seem to contemporary of Shakespeare who was young student. Price, 35 cents. The Compleat Musical Home .Ralph Bartlett Webster Asklund 5(H) Fifty Years of Settlement Music Gunnar modern science, it engaged the imagina- possibly the greatest philosopher, mathe- Francis Cooke 561 Teachers—send for a complimen- The Childhood and Youth of Edvard Grieg. . . .James Kurenko SO.'f of his era, tary copy of HOW TO TEACH THE Physical Coordination in Singing Maria tion of at least two of the foremost scien- matician, and astronomer

' An Informal ADULT BEGINNER. tists of ancient times and was accepted by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630 A. D.). The by Bernard Wagness. MUSIC IN THE HOME Discussion Lindsay Morgan 561 A Radio Beethoven Festival .Alfred millions of people; The Chinese, in the book is known as “De Harmonice Mundi” The Etude Music Lover’s Bookshelf ...B. Meredith Cadman 565 738 So. Campbell Ave. dim past, were among the first to divine a - and was dedicated to James I of England. MUSIC AND STUDY Chicago 12, Illinois. The Teacher’s Round Table Dr. Guy Maier 566 connection between the heavenly bodies Kepler showed that the planes of the or- Weak Low Tones William G Armstrong 567 and the tones of the pentatonic scale. Ages bits of the planets passed through the “I Always Have a Picture in My Mind” Dr. Thomas Tapper 568 How Much Good Organ Literature Dare I Play in before modern astronomy and its fabu- center of the Sun, the moving factor in My Church? Frederick Kinsley 569 Tempo. Rhythm, and Phrasing Carol M. Pitts 570 lously intricate mathematical computa- the great planetary system. What was Need Care! William D. Revelli 571 percussion Instruments tions the remarkable from a musical standpoint The Etude Honor Roll 572 were known, wise men and the * The Violinist’s Forum Harold Berkley 573 musicians of Cathay, viewing the heavens was his mathematical comparison of the Richard Questions and Answers Dr. Karl W. Gehrkens 571 Creating a Durable Musical Memory Andor Foldes 575 with their naked eyes, were assigning the musical intervals to planetary move- Musical Fathers and Sons Paul Nettl 576 names of planets to the ments, which he thought was as impor- Technic of the Month—Finale, from Rhapsodie Hongroise. No. 6. tones of the scale. by Franz Liszt Dr. Guy Maier 597 Later on, in Greece, Pythagoras (582- tant as his other discoveries. The har- MUSIC 500 B. C,), according to his disciples (as mony and rhythm of the movement of the Crooks Classic and Contemporary Selections left planets seemed a very real thing to him, Dance of the Skeletons Milo Stevens 577 Pythagoras no bocks) , saw even more Leaves in the Wind Percy W. MacDonald 578 definite relations between the planets and although he compromised himself by TENOR Romance R. Schumann, Op. 28. No. 2 580 Souvenir of Old Vienna Francesco DeLeone 582 music. Thus, one of the greatest Greek drawing fictitious horoscopes for the Em- He Leadeth Me (from ‘‘More Concert Transcriptions of Favorite Hymns") A Great Operatic William B. Bradbury (Trans, by Clarence Kohlmann 584 philosophers, mathematicians, and as- THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES peror and for Wallenstein, a concession Flickering Candles Harold Locke 586 explained Star, Leading Concert The Juggler Carl Wilhelm Kern, Op. 192, No. 6 587 tronomers presented the following, repre- This famous picture by the eminent English painter, to superstition which he was a Vocal and Instrumental Compositions sented in modern notation by Dr. Ralph G. F. Watts, has frequently been called "The Music of necessity for existence. Artist, and Radio Show Me the Way (Sacred Song—High Voice) H. Alexander Matthews 588 the Spheres," although the artist entitled it "Hope." Ase’s Death, from ‘‘Peer Gynt” (Violin & Piano) Dunstan and known as the “System of Could the theories of this strange mys-

Edvard Grieg ( Edited by F. E. Hahn) 590 Favorite Who Sings the Seven-Stringed tic, regarding the harmony of the spheres, Morning Prayer (Organ) (from ‘‘Gems of Masterworks") Lyre”: These Song Favorites Peter I. Tschaikowsky (Arr. by Paul Tonner) 591 at some time prove of practical advantage to man? Who knows? Delightful Pieces for Young Players Nete; lowest (shortest) string, highest note; likened Dance of the Little Wooden Shoes (from “Side by Side") (Piano Duet) to the Moon. Leonardo da Vinci, who died four centuries ago, spent much of of Radio Listeners Ella Ketterer 592 Fathers (Piano Duet) o his life deploring the fact that man could not fly, and made designs Faith of Our (from ‘‘Favorite Hymns”) -c A Dream Bartlett Henry F. Hemy (Arr. by Ada Richter) 592 o for flying machines which are surprisingly like our own in this Who’s Afraid? William Seller 594 Paranete; (string) to Venus. u next to lowest ; likened By the Waters of Come Trip Along H. P. Hopkins 595 -*-> day. He was laughed to scorn for even dreaming of such an Gipsy Rondo (from “The Child Haydn”) . .F. J. Haydn (Arr. by Ruth Bampton) 595 H impossible thing as flying. Minnetonka Lieurance Technic of the Month L Finale, from Rhapsodie Hongroise, No. 6 0) Paramese; next to Mese; likened to Mercury. Dr. Marshall always has taken a curious interest in the musical The Bell-Man .Forsyth Franz Liszt (With lesson by Dr. Guy Maier) 596 O-i m o- THE JUNIOR ETUDE Elizabeth Gest 608 speculations of Kepler, because he is himself an accomplished Recessional De Koven D MISCELLANEOUS Mese; middle string; principal or keynote; likened violinist. to the Sun. Goin’ Home Dvorak-Fisher “The Winnah" (Marie Rogndahl) Possibly through the universality of their profession, astron- Voice Questions Answered Dr. Nicholas Douty 599 o Mighty Lak’ a Rose Nevin Organ and Choir Questions Answered Dr. Henry S. Fry omers, peering out to the various universes with which we are 601 o Mars. Violin Questions Answered Harold Berkley 603 Lichanos; forefinger string; likened to Forgotten Cowles uetj surrounded, take greatest interest in all phases of life, notably * Entered as second-class matter January 16, 1884 at the P. O. at Phila. Pa. the arts. Many have been interested in music. Stars and Stripes under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1944, by Theodore Presser Co., for H Hypate; likened to Jupiter. U. S. A. and Great Britain. w Parhypate; next to Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), whose development cf the Dutch CD m Forever (Vocal arr.) Sousa £ invention, the telescope, brought the vision of the heavens thirty $2.50 a year in U. S. A. and Possessions, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil. Colombia. o G. m' Hypate; highest (longest) string; lowest note; Rica. Cuba, Dominican Republic. Ecuador, El Salvador. Guatemala. Mexico. Nicaragu 1 times nearer the earth, was raised in the home of his father, PRESSER CO., 1712 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 1, Pa. Paraguay, Republic of Honduras, Spain. Peru - likened to Saturn. THEODORE and Uruguay. Canada and V .. Distributors for OLIVER DITSON CO. and THE JOHN CHURCH foundland, $2.75 a year. All other countries, year. (Continued on Page 612) Music Publishers and CO. 1 $3.50 a Single copy, Price 25 cents. I OCTOBER, 1944 .55.5 534 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC ' THE ETUDE — — —— — , ”

so many thuds ana thumps. Ob- come to our ears as composition played effectively on a prnno Music and Culture viously a Music and Culture on a concert stage, might well m a Piano store or when played equally well on the sound cacophonous same piano in our home. composition, the performer, But even though the faultless, yet another factor, and the instrument are occurrence, may well destroy most far too frequent in Music American Doughboys Hear in India Voices pleasure. This destructive factor Beware ai Discordant ruthlessly one’s tonal in which the performer plays. We is the environment auditory irritants in the en- shall now discuss those performer’s vironment which militate against the best combined with musi- efforts irritants which, when produce that characteristic nerve-grinding StricL(a nd ly 2). 'illari (Randier cal tones environ- hodgepodge hereinafter to be referred to as mental cacophony. Distinguished American Composer a composer sets down his conception of a When Long Resident in India pleasing succession of tones, he does so on the naive the age of fire and has con- D. J. Mari Gancher (b. New York, N. Y., July 13, 1899) began music study at other sounds .will compete with Levey, assumption that no his musical activities ever since. Among his many teachers have been Otto Schweers, Henry finued and overthrow them. Too, when a virtuoso with soul- Alberto Himan, and Warren Heddon, For ten years (1919-1929) he played piano in theater orchestras. He O THE AMERICAN SERVICE men and women haps the most loved of all Hindu deities. off stream of scintillating of personal adding stirring inspiration runs a then became interested in business and has since devoted his time to the manufacture newly transplanted to the alien soil of India, not The flute is to households in India what the piano Machine Manufacturers) he scarcely suspects that in the next instant machines, taking over the management of a forty-year -old firm (Automatic Adding passages, T the least of unusual first impressions will be or radio is to our own domestic scene. Tuned to the of his friends, who said, No- audience will gush forth in sibilant then nearing bankruptcy, which he brought to prosperity despite the prophecy two ladies in the their introduction to the native music of that ancient various Indian scale-modes, of an octave compass or business back least of all a musician.' Today he is the owner of the business. Music contrapuntal cacophony no less body can bring that ; chatter, producing a and fascinating country. Their ears are accustomed less, little wooden flutes can be bought in any bazaar then became his hobby and his joy in his home life . Editor's Noth. than a buzz-saw accompaniment. destructive to his art to the occidental system of melody and harmony, and for a few annas.* Though the intrinsic value of this performer is that he must reckon The grim fact for the whether it be a classical program performed by a great flute is small, one is amazed at the music that comes with noise noise being any sound — rymphony orchestra, the popular music of a name- out of it in the hands of a capable player. Yes, our whatsoever not produced in ac- band, or the jive and swing of the ubiquitous juke- Service man will soon become familiar with flute songs HE GREEKS again had a word for it cacoph- musical inten- cordance with his box, the basic structure remains unchanged. In other -wherever he may go, for the flute is the universal in- ony (pronounced ca-cof'-ony) . This strange, bad- only will it ruin his dis- tion. Not words, our music form is harmonic, u'hile Indian music strument in India, from Madura or Trivan—in the sounding term means just that bad sounds, or T position, already quite tempera- centuries before our extreme is monodic and was developed South to Darjeeling, Simla, and other hill more precisely, the condition charactertized by harsh, mental, but it will reduce to sheer own continent was even discovered. stations of the Himalayas in the North; from Bombay discordant sounds. noise itself his most exquisite, his If, in leisure hours our men should walk in the In the field of musical performance there are four - The normal Indian anna is one-sixteenth of a tenderest, tones. The musical tone, Maidan or park in Calcutta they may hear the oldest value of an sources of cacophony. Whether or not consciously felt, rupee, or about two cents. most tenuous of sounds, is fragile woodwind instrument in the world—the flute. A Ben- these cacophonous situations do annoy us all. They beyond the frailest of mirrors . . gali Hindu ambling along playing a bamboo flute is a lead not only to a state of crankiness, but worse shatterable by the softest of whis- very common sight. The melody will be strangely minor, they prevent the aspiring musician from attaining the pers. with the characteristic evasion of cadences that leaves proficiency which he so ardently seeks. For this rea- an impression of vague elusiveness. But after awhile, son, both the teacher and student must become ac- LILY STRICKLAND Beware of Cacophonous if one is at all responsive to music, the charm of the quainted with these sources of cacophony, so that Surroundings flute player’s meiody will begin to work its spell, and Famous in the Occident and in the Orient every conscious effort may be made to eradicate them face the fact, obvious the hearer somehow accepts the fact that the music from the music room, or from earshot of the musician. We must as it is, that on’y in a silent me- belongs to the instrument, the man. and the scene. to Calcutta, or to the Assam-Burma border, where at dium can the musical tone sur- The flute is the second oldest instrument in India, Eewara ol Cacophonous Composers present our allies are fighting the Japanese in the dis- vive. When tones float in a me- and its genesis goes back thousands of years to the the sources of cacophony for the per- tricts of Imphal and Kohima on the Manipur front. What are god-man Krishna, who is credited with being its in- introduced Myitkyina former? Briefly, they are the cacophonies ventor. legends say that he charmed both man and At and beyond the border lands—from himself, the Delhi by the composer, by the performer by beast with his immortal and magic melody. He was to Lahore and Srinagar to the Hindu Kush and instrument; and lastly, but most important, by the the god of the shepherds and the herders, and per- the northwest frontier of Afghanistan—always there environment. will be the flute-songs, though the players may be Wc may pass over the cacophonies introduced by Hindus, Buddhists, Mohammedans, or Assamese. D. MARI GANCHER the composer with the hopeful remark that accept- J. IN HIS MUSIC ROOM ance of a composition by a publisher assures the per- A Curious Cacophony former of the minimum amount of noise. Much undue Our soldiers are bound to run into some street pro- condemnation, however, is heaped upon the composer a virtuoso, would be intolerable cession incidental to the many Hindu religious festivals when cacophony wrongly attributed to him actually parents will yet attempt to how —when a group of musicians with flute, cymbal, bells, proceeds either the performer’s inability to do from raise musical children despite such and drum, will lead the band of worshippers of Kali, him justice, or from performance on an inferior or atrocities negligence all this, of — Shiva, or lesser gods and goddesses to the river. It will unsuitable instrument; or, more likely than not, from manifestedly, is a problem falling be a colorful scene but the music will probably be a hearing the composition against extraneous sounds in more in the sphere of psychiatry meaningless cacophony to the ears of the newcomers. the environment. For example, play a Bach three-part than of music. Our boys will be vastly amused by the drum -players fugue. If someone in the room now starts to carry on and their incredible rhythms—and they will respond a conversation, that conversation invariably becomes Beware of Cacophonous to the excitement of the fast tempos beaten out by the unintended fourth and leading part in the tonal Instruments obsessed drummers carried away in the emotional complex thus created, destroying, of course, the entire It ought to be clear to any par- frenzies that are the inevitable part of religious pro- composition. Bach, palpably, must not be held ac- ent, to any student, that pleasing cessionals on festival days. countable for conditions beyond his control. WANDERING MENDICANT music cannot be gotten out of an Our Johnny Doughboy and his instrument that can produce only confreres of sea and air have a Beware of Cacophonous Performers foul tones. Obviously, the remedy treat in store for them when they performer’s contribution to cacophony is all too is The proper tuning and regulation of nin across their first real drum- the simultaneous striking of dis- obvious. Not only the instrument. The instrument, MR. AND MRS. GANCHER player. They may find one in the ordant tones, but also the striking of single tones in though tuned properly, may yet Maidan, sitting hey employ the Hammond Organ, the Solovox. at the base of one arcing violation of rhythm, of nuance, of musical produce a cacophonous result if and the Novahcord in securing effects. of the many great statues the Brit- in general all these are here included meaning ... compositions played upon it do not ish nave erected to their heroes. the meaning of the term. Whatever the per- fit its within quite tonal make-up. Thus, Anyway, the lads will pause en- former does to displease or shock our ears, by so much there are a number of fountain-like piano pieces, such dium of noise, the beautiful is overpowered by the tranced. They are familiar with the does he contribute to cacophony in music. It is, of as Ravel’s Jeux d’eau, which come off very badly on ugly, the sweet by the sour. Our ears lose all sensa- convulsive antics of the "trap-art- course, the responsibility of the teacher and the duty cheap upright instruments and which require for their tion of tone; we become aware only of noise. Conse- ist” of a swing band who, with dis- of the pupil to seek, by proper educational procedure most superb performance the best of grand pianos. quently, playing music in a noisy environment is but torted face and gymnastic move- and practice, to remove this most evident variety of The student, therefore, must play only such composi- to swell the volume of noise. The Ave Maria played ments, beats out his rhythms on annoyance. tions as sound best on his instrument in his home. at the circus would no longer be the Ave Maria. the drums. Yet the drum in India, Even though the teacher be a Carl Czerny, and his Few people really appreciate the immense difference Mr. Stokowski is credited with saying that "Music said to be the oldest instrument in Franz Liszt, still cacophony will not have been in pupil a tone obtainable when the same instrument is is a Painting on the Canvas of Silence.” It appears that old land, was mastered by eradicated if performance is permitted on an ill- played in different locations. How many of us, having clear, then, that no student can hope to drum-players in techniques un- or inappropriate, instrument. piano out heard a piano in perform well sounding, A a dealer’s store, bought it on the who practices dreamed of in a noisy room, for he never gets an by our most epileptic- of tune is one of the most tortuous of afflictions to the strength of its clear, brilliant tone, and then, having opportunity to hear music. It cannot be too appearing jazz drummer. The drum cultured ear. How so many homes can endure pianos proudly installed it in our strongly overfurnished sitting room, urged that students has been called must have a quiet room in which the heart-beat of so out of tune that performance upon them, even by have sickened to our heart when the crisp tones now to practice. No NAUTCH DANCER OF THE HIGHER CLASS SNAKE CHARMERS AND THEIR PIPES India— ( Continued sounds ( on other Continued on Page 605) Page 607) 556 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” THE ETUDE OCTOBER, 1944 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC 557 known for all time as the music room. All that made Musical knowledge coming through these channels Music and Culture It musical was the piano, the music racks behind the has increased musical intelligence so that what once damask curtians, one part of a shelf in the bookcase was obtainable only through hours of practice, now devoted to a few books on music, and Aunt Edith’s becomes clear through mentally quickened activities. half-million-dollar music building, the last word in col- harp with its pathetic broken strings, which had never The real progress is in the brain and not in the fingers. legiate musical equipment. I was not surprised to see been played upon since this girlhood heroine died—it We think faster now because we have the best tonal in this exquisite and complete edifice, a large section was intimated of a broken heart. and technical models, not away off in some distant city. devoted to the record library and radio-phonographs, In this day such a music room would appear ridicul- New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, London, which I was assured are incessantly in demand. Thou- ously incomplete without a fine modem radio and a Paris, or Leipzig, but right in the heart of our own sands and thousands of students going back from col- superior record reproducing instrument. I have long homes. This has whetted the interest of the student, lege to the home, bring with them new standards of since ceased to call these amazing radio-phonographs, raised his understanding incredibly, and made his own taste in literature, music, and art. They are no longer which open the gates of the great literature of the art, practicing conspicuously more interesting. content with cheap, tonally imperfect instruments, nor "machines” because their delicate, scientific precision On a business trip to the Southwest I visited Austin, with cheap furniture which makes the living room a and advanced construction remove them from the Texas. A friend took me to the University with its new. center of confusion rather than a beautiful, hospitable class of things that in the ordinary mind is asso- place in which to live and work. ciated with a machine. They are really the result My music room is inspired by the genius of of millions of dollars spent in laboratory research the eighteenth-century master furniture-designer, experiments, and have become as essential a part Robert Adam, and my piano, furnishings, and of modern music rooms and modern musical radio-phonograph are in that fashion which has education as the musical instruments themselves. always seemed to me simple, elegant, and chaste. No Stradivarius or Guarnerius strove longer or I often wonder what would go through Mother’s harder to preserve tone values than have the mind if she could come in and actually hear her makers of these instruments. More than this, the hallowed Boston Symphony playing the Cesar best examples are encased in masterpieces of de- Franck “D Minor” with the sound coming with signer’s art. The makers have employed the finest incredible similitude, not from a screechy “morn- interior decorating artists obtainable to insure ing glory” horn, but from a masterpiece of the appearance and style which, like the great achieve- designer’s art. Such glorious music would even ments of the masters of furniture-making of the have lured Father from the “smoke house.” It past, may be brought to fit the finest homes of seem;, like a dream when I realize that anyone at today with the certainty that from an artistic comparatively small expense can possess records standpoint they will be of enduring beauty, as and a receiving set which virtually make him the are our precious Duncan Phyfe chairs which are patron and the proprietor for all time of great now in my own dining room. symphony orchestras, great opera companies, Many well-known musicians arid teachers now great quartets. No kings of yesterday could claim laugh at the attitude of educators three decades this musical wealth. It just doesn’t seem real. ago when they contended that radio and repro- The “Compleat Music Room” is a dream. I ducing instruments would do away with human dreamed about mine long before I could afford Musical Home musical activity in the home. That is, they my collection of fine music, my music books, and The Compleat thought that these instruments would supplant my instrument and records, which were bought the need for mu.tic study and practice and lead with the idea of securing the highest obtainable to an era when people would no longer bother to quality. Not everyone can realize his ideal, but Musical Results What Your Household Must Have to Secure Ideal take the time and trouble to learn the art, save music can be brought to the average living room in the cases of those who desired to become pro- in a measure to suit one’s means. I realize that fessionals. Exactly the opposite has occurred. The in most homes the piano and the radio-phono- present enormous expansion of musical activity graphs must be utilitarian, “all purpose” instru- in the heme is due to the fact that the doors to ments. It may not seem necessary to have the by Ralph Bartlett ^Velder the world of music have been opened by these best possible set to take care of Lowell Thomas radio-phonographs. Standing on the threshold Amos ’n Andy, fireside chats, America’s Town of a new world of television, already we see great Meeting of the Air, Information Please, prize figures of the opera, concert, church, and forum fights, and Duffy’s Tavern. brought visually to the music room which becomes Numerous excellent smaller model sets are well once shook the hand of Brahms. (a) Those who took lessons at home spiritually, intellectually, politically, and artis- CHIPPENDALE RADIO-PHONOGRAPH made and have a fine tone for their price range. Izaak Walton in his agreeable ing the hand that BY CAPEHART HEN in 1653 (b) Those who went in town to the conservatory or tically vital The artistic purity of my boyhood home surroundings just as to modern living as the dining Many families have these in different parts of and engaging style wrote “The Compleat to private teachers room is to our daily physical well-being. ( Recrea- was also shown by my Mother’s horror of anything their homes—the bed- Continued on Page 612) Angler, or The Contemplative Man’s heights of Victorian era, save the novels of Dickens (c) Those who ascended to the lofty W all that one shomd related to the tion,” he endeavored to set down the of Tennyson (which she lessons at the Universtity with teachers following the fishes of the waters and Thackeray, the poems know about the art of catching Knowles Paine, a smil- ventures looked upon as second rate to those of Emerson and traditions of the able Dr. John of Merrie England. Thus the present writer Lowell) and the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, which ing gentleman with affluent sideburns. the household musical , to tell what, in this day in which had a were regarded as a forgivable comic relief to Bach, As we lived far from the center of the city, we have been immensely increased by the develop- joys succession of teachers who came to our home. They musical instruments,* Beethoven, and Brahms. ment of the fabulous electronic intimately music in the All of my uncles and aunts and cousins had fine usually stayed to dinner, and thus coming are the things most necessary to make upon pianos in their homes, and they boasted of their Stecks, into our family life made a very real impression American homes of active and well-intentioned people realize Knabes, Mason & Hamlins, Baldwins, and Chickerings. me. of today, a profitable and joyous experience. To Some of the instruments were My father was a wholesale ship chandler and, al- one must look back a few decades Ours was a Steinway. the great advance, the sellers of uprights, one was a square, but most of them were though a college man, spent much of his day with after the manner of the retrospective best grands. There was one French Erard and one English hardy men of the sea. It was my mother s constant the hour. Broadwood which were pointed out as permanent fear that he would revert to the crudity of our own The principal figure in home musical interest must foreign to American musical interests. Through sturdy ancestors who sailed the seven seas in romantic always be someone, skilled or unskilled, who loves aliens, of some perversity of fate the only cousin in our group windjammers. It was doubtless for this reason that she music” and has the ambition to bring the members very great who became famous in the professional musical world, was so careful of her cultural bulwarks. Therefore, one the family to a better understanding of its came from a family of very moderate means, which day when Father first talking power. Such a one was my mother who, although Mas- surprised us with our inti- could afford only an old plebeian Bradbury square. machine, boasting morning-glory sachusetts to the core, would have resented any a huge, bright blue piano was, as it still is, the center of musical corner of mation that she was a Boston Brahman. Her family The horn, which he placed triumphantly in the culture in the home. The top of the instrument was our boy of associations and her four years at Wellesley had kept parlor, Mother broke down in tears. I was a music, usually littered with music, but always, mind you, ten Mothers her in touch with models of good taste in art, at the time, but I have never forgotten music of the masters. We saw to it that no neighbor ”1 literature, and also in home furnishings. anguish nor the look on her face when she said: could come in and find it harboring musical trash. The best types of the handicraft of Sheraton, Hep- Now don’t want that ugly, horrid screeching, squawking (six whose and then there was a copy of the Atlantic Monthly, the plewhite, and particularly Duncan Phyfe of thing in my house. Just think what it will do to Ralph! just essays of Walter Pater, or the exotic prose of Lafcadio of a priceless chairs glorified our dining room) were As a matter of fact I was thrilled by the blare getting me Hearn, together with issues of Punch or the London as significant to Mother as the ritual of stirring Sousa March that came out of the unholy Illustrated News. Mother evidently did not polished up once a week for a trip to Boston to hear think that funnel. The blue “morning glory” was promptly moved of Wilhelm this was an expression of cultural snobbery, as was "the orchestra” under the stringent baton to Father’s den on the top floor, a region to which inferior that of a neighbor on whose library table there Gericke. Mother usually told me sotto voce how were Mother contemptuously referred as the “smoke house. life, the willowy always a few paper-covered French novels, garnered he was to the dream of her earlier The name was not undeserved, as Father was a furious European tour from the banks Hungarian Arthur Nikisch. On one occasion I was on a of the Seine. smoker. with Gericke, who said Everyone knew that no one in the home “spoke a word permitted to shake hands Shortly thereafter Mother gave a tea to a concert- you are shak- of French.” The insignia of culture, however, with an omniscient smile: “Little boy, evidently master of the orchestra, Timothee Adamowski, which gave them much comfort. In those days there were was attended also by his brother Joseph Adamowski, avoid confusion, the author refers to these electronic three classes of music students: *To the cellist. instruments hereafter as “radio-phonographs." With this consecration, our parlor became OCTOBER. 1944 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 559 "FORWARD MARCH WITH 558 MUSIC’’ THE ETUDE ’ . . . . . —

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The Childhood and Youth of Edvard Grieg Music Fifty Years of Settlement A Musical Playlet for Young Folks

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recently the latest spontaneous hi I of the flmes in New York Los Angeles . ^ Cjiinnar Grieg, became and Editor's Note. S IN ALL of the playlets in the author’s series, I can’t think about the game! Settlement and, later, of the "Musical Playlets for Young Folks” (first pub- Mother Grieg: Let him alone. He is happy. .. „ of tthp university the cooperation - lished in 1917) including those upon the lives John Grieg: What is that tune you are whistling, Through raised. In time, the A , began. were heart entered the slums of New funds 1894 a blonde girl with a dream in her League, larger quarters available. of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Edvard? N that dream Junior were made giving mu:ic lessons to ten children. In 1944, at 55 East miru York City and began School’s present quarters Verdi, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Wagner, the objec- Maren Grieg: It’s a Scotch tune, John. the oldest and largest of its I has grown into the Music School Settlement, Growth tive of these texts has been to make them as prac- Father Grieg: Let him answer! Jubilee, however, the Music Schoo An Amazing country. In reaching its Golden tical, instructive, entertaining, and playable as pos- Edvard Grieg: It’s called The Campbells are Coming. kind in me , a oMmnl in 1897 and remained twelve mere length of existence. It stands as the first Settlement celebrates more than David Mannes became post for one year, sible. The characters represent persons at various ages Great Grandfather Grieg brought it with him from some ninety similar insti- Farwell who occupied the settlement music and the model upon which succeeded by ^rtliuYArtl ur and naturally there should be an allowance for the- Scotland when he left his home to come to live in project in years, to be charge of its present director, has provided musical and social assistance foi over tutions have been founded; it mo, a«.school atrical incongruities, dnee the performers must be Norway. Once I heard it played on the bagpipes. distinguished service in the entirely SSL »» «•* students; and it has rendered thi y J of relatively age. Mother Grieg: it, Edvard? fifty thousand Melzar Chaffee, now m his of twenty seven similar Can you imitate self-expression, and the voluntary self- of UOo students “democratic vprocesses of racial equality, In the matter of costumes and any kind of scenery, Edvard: I’ll try. (Re tries and all laugh) discipline that is the soundest the ingenuity and research of the teacher are far bet- John: Mother, why don’t we have Norwegian music 1 — safeguard against delinquency. = tW ^1 ter than any specific directions:" which might be diffi- like that? The blonde girl whose dream success? What has the Musi,- School the'secret oYthe School’s impractical in most cases. Therefore, the Mother Grieg: do, it is nothing like the w£t exactly "^ ,oul - cult and We but began the work is Miss Emilie duplicated byothcrgroupsin oh, Settlement accomplished that could be teacher is given the widest latitude in devising cos- music I studied in Hamburg and in London. Our music Wagner, who still conducts pi- of the musical work. 1 tip-. There are three answers: the character tumes to suit the pupils selected to play the various is a music of the farmers and the workers, and not ano classes on Long Island. As ;! s. roles. No curtain is really necessary. Audiences often so much of the concert hall or the parlor. a child, Miss Wagner heard a sss rs a — it p * a at-ur are greatly amused by watching the scenery being Edvard: But couldn’t be made a great music of with it. those connected placed into position. This playlet was presented in MS all Norway? approach and in its methods In its by Mrs. Fanny Reed Hammond of Holyoke, Massa- Father Grieg: Yes, if a big enough genius comes School ranks among of instruction, the chusetts, and was found to be practical and successful. along. settlements of the the first-line school Edvard: What might a Norwegian dance sound like? teachers are experienced world. The THE PEOPLE OF THE PLAY Mother Grieg: Well, it might sound something like EDVARD GRIEG IN HIS PRIME is admitted specialists, and no student this. (Plays Grieg’s Alexander Grieg: Edvard’s father. Norwegian Bridal Procession) unless he shows a genuine interest in Gesine Hagerup Grieg: Edvard’s mother. Edvard: I think it is lovely, Mother. If I did not smell of Norway, with its streams and waterfalls and is no 'play- and love for music. There want to be a minister would like to forests Maren Grieg: Edvard’s sister (six years older than I be a composer. and lakes and fjords which are alive with No solo work may be ing at” music! John: Ha! Ha! Ha! ( Children laugh uproariously) fairies and trolls and merry people! accompanying pro- Edvard) studied without an Father Grieg: Don’t laugh, children. There is no Mother Grieg: But Edvard, music study is difficult harmony, Ingeborg Grieg: Edvard's sister (five years older than gram of theory, ear-training, higher office than that of the servant of God. and you must practice long and work hard. Come, barely Edvard) ensemble work, and history. A Ingeborg: Edvard is so full of mischief! children, it is John Grieg: Edvard’s brother (three years older than But time to get at your lessons. students who can nominal (ee is paid by Maren: Teacher called him a little rascal, when he Maren: Please play for us first. Mother. Not the granted Edvard) afford it—those who cannot are played hooky. music of Beethoven, Bach, or Mozart, Edvard Grieg: Famous composer (six years old at the that you studied scholarships from a broadly adminis- Mother Grieg: Edvard! would in opening of the play) What my father, the Hamburg and London, but the music of the Nor- tered Scholarship Fund, the mainte- Mayor of Bergen, have said to that? It isn’t true, wegian people, that dream Ole Bull: Famous violinist (thirty-three years older you may bo heard in con- of which is the chief delight cert nance than Edvard) Edvard? halls all over the world. < Mother Grieg plays

Edvard ( guiltily ) : I didn’t it, Mother. piano solo arrangement Arthur Sullivan later (“Sir Arthur Sullivan”): mean Every of Movement from Grieg’s morning when I went through the woods to school, "Concerto in minor,” arranged Irish-English composer. (Fellow-student of Edvard A by Levine) I heard the trees and the rocks singing. at Leipzig.) Curtain. Father Grieg: Always dreaming! Dudley Buck: (American fellow-student of Edvard at WAGNER Edvard: I did not want to sit all long, ACT n. EMILIE Leipzig.) And day shut School Settlement up in an old schoolroom. One day I looked and I saw Scene I. Founder of the Music Frau Schultz: Grieg's landlady at Leipzig. in America. little men dancing in the hills. ( Music stage. Hall The Dining Room at Landis, the suburban home of movement Carl Reinecke: Composer. Pianist at the Royal Con- off of the Mountain King record ) Look, Mother! Close ihe Griegs. The family, Father Grieg, Mother Grieg, servatory, Leipzig. Maren, your eyes. Don’t you see them dancing now? ( Edvard Ingeborg, John, and Edvard are seated .around condi- clergyman describe the pitiful Edvard Hagerup Grieg wr as born in the Norwegian closes his eyes and Mother Grieg puts her forefinger the table at breakfast. The time is that of a visit of the under- tions that existed among city of Bergen, June 15, 1843, and died there Septem- to her mouth to hush the giggles of the children) the great Norivegian violinist. Ole Bull. Historically, of New York's East Ole Bull did his privileged dwellers ber 4, 1907. He first studied piano with his mother, a Then I saw a dream picture in the clouds. It was an not have violin with him at the time, drew lived Side; and the pictures he well-trained musician. He entered the Leipzig Con- Arab girl dancing. (Anitra’s Dance by Grieg is heard but the author introduces one by right of poetic license. graduated in her mind. When she was ANTHONY DI BONAVENTURA servatory in 1858 and remained for four years as a in the distance. This may be an unaccompanied violin Edvard Grieg is now fifteen. As the curtain ascends, she determined from Goucher College, Typical Music School Settlement student who recently appeared at Lewisohn pupil of Hauptmann, Richter, Rietz, Reinecke, Wenzel, solo or a record) Then I just couldn’t go to school. the family is seen with bowed heads as Father Grieg must lie along that her life’s work Stadium playing the first movement of the Third Beethoven Concerto, in C minor. and Moscheles. He made many appearances in Europe It was raining terribly. I came to a house where there is heard saying grace. relieving, some of those the lines of as a pianist, but is best known as a composer whose was a water spout gushing and I stood under it until Curtain. she must do and conditions; but what works are famed for their strong Norwegian color. I was soaked. Then I went on to school. Father Grieg: We thank Thee,- dear Lord, for Thy means settled. Her professional capital consisted of the entire student body and how she must do it was by no Ingeborg: And when Teacher saw him standing goodness in providing this food. We thank Thee for thorough knowledge of music. their parents. All during the of boundless good will and a ACT I. there like a drowning kitten she was afraid he would peace in the land. We thank Thee for the blessings visited the most densely crowded sections, and year, concerts are given and Thus equipped, Miss Wagner Father Grieg, smoking a large pipe and reading a catch cold and sent him home. of good health. Amen. the young people needed most was a chance to interest them- Parents’ Teas are arranged, decided that what newspaper, is discovered at right stage. Mother Grieg John: Then it was too late for him to come back. Edvard: Amen. Please pass the fish cakes, Mother. beautiful and wholesome. Accordingly, she made friends the proceeds of which go selves in something is seated left stage and is knitting. In the center, in Mother Grieg: Edvard, you couldn’t have done this! Father Grieg: Edvard, not so quick! Have patience. children whom she saw playing along the Bowery and the crowded East- toward enabling others to have with a group, are Maren Grieg, Ingeborg Grieg, John Grieg, Edvard ( cheerfully ) : Yes, Mother. I tried it four Edvard: But Father, I’m awfully hungry! them; played with them—and told them that if they lessons. Mr. Chaffee states; Side streets; talked with and Edvard Grieg. The young folks are sitting upon times and it worked every time. Ingeborg: He’s been up for hours. I saw him riding music! “We do not come to her own small room, she would teach them claim miraculous would the floor, playing a game of dominoes. Edvard Grieg Father Grieg ( chuckling to Mother Grieg ) : Gesine off on a pony. • . little children who properties for . ten slum music. It once, Miss Wagner had ten pupils . would Almost at is whistling the tune of The Campbells are Coming. dear, I am afraid you had better make a musician of John ( derisively ) : Watching for the sun to climb that could come out of a piano and a fiddle, and be idle to say that tough came, learned of the wonders him. He never will be satisfied with Bergen, where over the fir trees on the fjord! year, Miss Wagner’s room little street boys MELZAR CHAFFEE Curtain. raced back to the streets to tell about it. Inside of a become re- 1919 the fisheries smell miles out to sea. Maren: Or trying to hear a chorus of mermaids came crowding to see if they, too, could claimed characters by Director of the Music Settlement since was too small to hold the applicants who the Ingeborg Grieg; Always whistling or singing! Edvard, Edvard: love the strong smell and a leader I of the sea. It is the down by the strand! first music settlement school mere ( Continued on in this important movement. have a share of the fun. That is how the country’s Page 606) OCTOBER, "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" 1944 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" 561 560 THE ETUDt :

think, he actually knew Beetho- Mot-vint her Just thoven i from anyone I have poui down oil different y ever physic the doctors better than all the play notes; he makes the ' Music and Culture He doesn’t just piano Music and Culture had heard” ^ church today I a Dudley Buck: It was so cold in sound llke ” be marvelous. r .^ He'mast the organ with my gloves on. to play Wi h he wouldn,t me snufI ; Ingeborg: Dreamer! Biooklyn, new «' but 1 md Edvard: Do you have organs in EE? Y perhaps, but I did see little elves Edvard: Dreamer, play them? it a11 and do the Indians drop about that and tell me yg j-Forget about ” . ^ everywhere. Buck: We have wonderful organs MOTHER CjRIEO Physical Dudley oklvn 0r Coordination All the Children: Ha! Ha! Ha! Elves! see an Indian in other h churches and we rarely your who lets who cannot see elves. They there’s Hauptmann, me make Edvard: I pity anyone in a play. Then New York, except rmisic?music. doesn’t laugh at them. (.Edvard goes to the piano have : and Then, were making music like this. Sure, do the Indians ?nwn harmonies Arthur Sullivan: my ownh I must write and plays his Elfin Dance) play whQ toi d me an over- Dudley Buck: I know that they will listen for elves in the woods know anything about an orchestra. Ingeborg: I always heard their music. frlwhen I didn’t drums, but I never Yes! : Yes. What did in Singing after this, Edvard. music pop / (eagerly) you do? Edvard (drawing a piece of MotSr GR^ Mother, I saw a man riding through music. Why, y have kept my ears open. Mother. As Edvard: And this? It’s a piece of oh I basket) : What’s played Wagner’s the woods, carrying a violin case. Play it for me. you, when they “Tann- wrote it, Arthur Sullivan! T n,rnte to hymn. . in Mother Grieg: Edvard, could it be Ole Bull? a melody like a ent fourteen nights succession and A Conference with Arthur Sullivan: Oh, it’s just l ' here x W it be, Mother? wonaer,u1 ' Edvard: Who else could day. I may use it some , 2T„p i» w Father Grieg: You’re telling the truth, Edvard? goes to the pmno And then Edvard: Please play it. (Sullivan vrother Grieg: Really. its a to the Edvard: I’m not fooling, Father. Christian Soldiers) Oh I went around orchestra play- and plays Onward, EnvARD ' Then Grieg: Oh, that he might be coming here! with me and 111 them how to write for Mother wonderful march, Arthur! Leave it learned from their horse’s ers and John (going to door ) : Listen! ( Sounds of coming fiom Noiw y play it for Mother, who is instruments. hoofs outside, made by cupping the hands and beat- Internationally see me. ^ Distinguished Russian Soprano hollow wooden box ) ^ out the rhythm upon a great Reinecke ing (Enter Frau Schultz) Schultz: Madam, the is here. °f Frau Star of the CBS Sunday Evening Edvard: Mother, it is Ole Bull! (Enter Bull. He is a Here’s your glass come in. (Exit Frau Schultz, Radio Hour Frau Schultz: Come, Edvard. Mother Grieg: Bid him rugged man of forty-eight, thirty-three years older brush and a m deeply) milk, and here is your comb and Carl Reinecke. Bows and forceful) vnter than Grieg. He is folly in at the Bahnhoff and y Madam. I rejoice with you over the The train is probably Carl Reinecke: SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY ROSE HEYLBUT Grieg. You thought I rings) , Ole Bull: Aha! Alexander be hery any time. (Bell A He has great imagination and mother ought to recovery of your son. wouldn’t keep my promise. Where is this young Edvard door! there she is, down at the promise. told about? need someone to lead us in Shell want fine you me We adthttr Rttt.t.tvan: must go quickly. Professor! He tells Mme. Mono Kurenko has earned the unique distinction of being We Mother Grieg: Oh, Herr me known for nof one buf several music of tomorrow. *1 hear a wonder- specialties. She is the Norwegian play for acknowledged as the world's foremost interpreter of Russian to see you alone. , Won’t you me? music. She has vibrating about your playing. been said to fully deep and characteristic sounding board door)'. Edvaid. Ed- possess the most perfect frill to be heard today. She has had Mother Grieg (calling outside Reinecke: Madam, I do not practice. Edvard an eminent career in Norway. The aim of my life has Motliei Carl opera both here and abroad, appearing with the Chicago within the breast of < Enter Opera, the (Exit Sullivan and Buck) the classics, Moscow Opera the Paris vard! Edvard! learn to play more of such as Opera Comique, and other leading draw strings across it and enable it to speak has taken must operatic organizations. She is well known as been to Edvard) Ah, Edvard! It of this a recitalist and Grieg. Embraces Just listen to the beauty exquisite has sung guest performances with the ranking that its deep voice can resound in the hall of been. Mozart American orchestras. It is not generally known out so get here. How sick you must have or rondo) that so long to < Mozart sonata Mme. Kurenko also holds a masters art on a sure composition. Plays a degree In law! At the same time that she was studying the temple—to build up our Norwegian Mother. I feel fine now. Im with Edvard: Don’t worry, Wonderful, Herr Master’ But every Umberto Maiett, at the Moscow Conservatory of Music (where writing this Edvard Grieg: she was graduated with highest foundation. have come. Look, I’ve been honors, including the Gold so glad you and every country should have its Medal), she worked at the University in advanced MARIA KURENKO Father Grieg: wonderful ideal, Ole Bull. violets—the day and every age social science A for you. It is a song about In addition to her stage work, Mme. Kurenko in bed, just think of great mu i I feel some- has been heard extensively over Bull (taking his violin in hand to play the Norway. own music. When I the radio Ole used to see on the hillsides in Where recently she launched her second recital series over lovely violets I makes me vibrate through and through, the Columbia Network. Some seasons The melody of Grieg’s I Love Thee or Solvejg’s Song. (If thing which bock, she was starred on the Carnation Milk development of musicianship may safely be it for me. program after an interesting adventure. Play in a cathedral. I see St iurd-Slgurd Her services begun at the performer is not a violinist, the illusion may be proud your as music rings were desired for this program but the final contract a young age. Indeed, it is helpful for the Mother Grieg: I’m sure I’ll love it. How required an audition. By no means convinced Scandinavian crusader, with all his fol- that auditions on seventeen-year-old presented by having the actor turn his back to the Violet) Jorsalfar, the do artist full justice, Mme. Kurenko declined the audition vocal beginner to approach work father would be of this! ( Plays To a in her own right—buf see his great march in entered it audience and play upon a violin with a “soaped bow" lowers, moving forward. I under an assumed name in order to test her theories. with a firm background of musical Mother. I have so much to tell you! Radio auditions are "blind " The knowledge—ear- Edvard: Oh, candidates perform unseen, phonograph some short Grieg piece is pre- in one room and the iudges, in another, listen training, theory, harmony, history, while a of Your letter about Louis Plaidy, your triumph! to the broadcast results, and piano. No one Mother Grieg: reeling somewhat like Madame X., is seem to hear in the music Grieg: Don't get so excited, Edvard. Mme. Kurenko sang "blind" and got the was granted a diploma from sented) : This what I me laugh. How he kept shouting Mother — contract. In this the Moscow Conservatory, piano teacher, made conference Mme. Kurenko discusses important phases of the : sec ill with their vocal art. in of Norway’s future. (Plays, and all applaud vocifer- fingers higher, Edvard: (reclining in bed) I them Editor's Note. any branch of music, without demonstrating fluent to you, “Always slower, loud, raise your ously) ships and their shields and their spears Every night ability on the piano. Finally, then, we come to the higher, higher!” Edvard: It is so beautiful it makes me feel like go to sleep, I hear the music of their wonder- singing itself. Purely vocal studies should coordinate Edvard: He drove me nearly crazy, Mother. He when I Sigurd Jorsalfar the first crying! ( Music on phonograph of two steps—that is to say, to raise my fingers stiffly, just as the Ger- ful march! they should not be wanted me begun Ole Bull: So you are Edvard! Your mother told arranged for orchestra ) Don't you hear it, until the student has been pronounced a man soldiers raise their feet when they do the goose March, sound me you started piano lessons when you were six and does physical specimen, and has acquired a foundation of step. Like this, Mother. ( Jumps out of bed and Mother? AM GLAD to talk to twelve. What The Etude because musicianship. commenced to compose when you were Carl Reinecke (putting his finger to his lips) : Shh— the goose step) I have long considered this magazine was it? back into bed, you rascal, or he is going to sleep. Mother Grieg: Jump I among the most helpful influences in Edvard: Twelve Variations on a German Tune. side the bed) A Physical Approach again! you like it here, Edvard? Mother Grieg ( kneeling at the of the you will be sick Do musical world. The value of its articles is it? Again, the first Ole Bull: Where fine. Edvard! is so very tired. steps of purely vocal study should Edvard: Yes and no. Some of the teachers are Dear He is best proved by the fact that teachers and : Master ! It was burned by acci- be based Mother Grieg Alas, could hear him play Bee- on a strictly physical approach. Perhaps the Old Moscheles. I wish you students clip them and file them for per- dent. beginning should be made in the consulting room of manent reference. I have seen many dis- Ole Bull: We might all be better off if our first a reliable laryngologist! A throat examination before putes settled by one of the parties to them works were burned. (Turning to Edvard again) What vocal lessons are begun, is helpful. bringing out an old Etude It cannot be too (Edvard sits at the piano and article as final else have you to play? and much stressed that singing is a function of the body. Very authoritative proof! It is a splendid plays the Patriotic Song, Op. 12, No. 8) Good! “The Winnah’ The first business of the teacher is thing to build up such to inculcate It like the boys and girls singing in the confidence. good. sounds sound physical habits which are the foundation of Knowing that The Etude stresses educa- fjord. One of the most extensive auditions ever held in good singing, but which have nothing to do with song tional values, I am pleased to discuss what, Edvard: That’s just what I thought. Electric Company, as such. The pupil must be taught America was that of the General to me, is the most helpful how to stand— (putting his hand on Edvard’s shoulder) approach to vocal Ole Bull held find of America" for a slumping, defective posture defeats good tone to "The Undiscovered Voice study. That is the fact that singing pro- Fine, Edvard! It is plain to see that the Music Fairy genius is basi- duction. He must be taught the radio “Hour of Charm" which, through the cally a physio.ogical how to hold his upper has brushed against your cheek. Alexander Grieg, process, which must of Phil night feature body: how to open his mouth. Thus far, he has Spitalnv, has become a Sunday be combined with artistic development. not waste no time. Send this boy to the great Royal Con- The sung a tone yet these in millions of homes. Ten thousand applicants were three points — steps are vital to singing. Next. of the best teach- of equal importance to the servatorium at Leipzig. He is worthy the student must be taught how to breathe. heard in centers all over the country (twenty-nine singer are body development, He must ers in the world. Some day he will be one of the musicianship, eighteen inhale his breath so that it is supported by the cities) . The search was limited to women over and purely vocal training. ab- greatest men of Norway! dominal muscles and sent against the years of age, but that did not prevent some ambitious diaphragm. He must exhale it Curtain. 11 ?' so that it resonates in the singers, who admitted to sixty-eight, from apply! First a Sound Body chambers back of the nose. The judges which the When this preparatory and purely Scene II. throughout the country of Sound physical development comes first. physical mechanism is in sound Editor of by the The future order, actual vocal Leipzig in 1860. The scene is in Edvard’s bedroom, The Etude was one), were amazed singer must build up his body work begins with the singing of extremely contestants and his bodily pure vowels. where he is recovering from an attack of pleurisy. high average quality of the resistance exactly as an ath- In every bit of vocal work he does, the student must has been a student at Leipzig for two years. Housewives, secretaries, teachers, college students, lete does. No one should start vocal Edvard work be aware of purely physical implications. clerks, among His genera! he is discovered in a dressing stenographers, workers were before he has arrived at the As the curtain ascends and war stage of full habits of living; must be calculated bodily along the lines of gown in bed. His fellow students, the Irish-Entflish those heard. The winner's prize was to be a thirteen- development. This is equally impor- sound health. Alcohol and tobacco are detrimental to week “Hour of tant for boys and girls. composer Arthur Sullivan, and the American Dudley contract at $150.00 a week with the No matter how spec- vocal health because ' they cause deterioration of the Buck are seated at the side of the bed. Charm.” The winner. Miss Rogndahl of P°rt tacularly a girl of thirteen or fourteen may Marie mucous membrane. At the time I was a student land, Oregon, Oregon sing,, she should not be allowed in Curtain. was a junior at the University of to do so! Moscow, my sister was studying 8 medicine, and she w'hen she all hy Vocal work must be made to was “discovered." She astonished wait until she and her friends often discussed is the results of their Arthur Sullivan, I have always heard that clear, at least sixteen in some cases, r Edvard: sweet, sympathetic voice, with an extraordinarily — w here observations in the anatomical physical theater. In their dis- the Irish had big hearts. It’s wonderful of you to true intonation, interpretations maturity is slower, it must wait secting and by her artistic work, they could tell immediately, from the bring this basket of fruit and flowers! she longer, regardless of age. It me At her first Charm'' may safely be appearance of these membranes, appearance on the "Hour of said that whether the person Arthur Sullivan: Sure, it’s nothing, at all! The Lord chose ce ' no singer who continued develop- as her leading Lieuran had or had not smoked! It may be “smart” to they’re number, Thurlow ing through a long take up made the fruit and the flowers and sometimes b and worthy career, be- a cocktail By the Waters a11 MARIA KURENKO glass or a cigarette—but no wise of Minnetonka, and delighted \ AND HER SON gan singer serious vocal study in an immature would her beautiful always He is a venture to do so! presentation of Mr Lieurance’s staff sergeant with the American Army overseas physical state. * italicized words are actually those of Ole Bull. MARIE ROGNDAHL Again, the The vernal masterpiece. conduct of the (Continued on Page 598) OCTOBER, 1944 562 "FORWARD MARCH 1FITH MUSIC "EORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC ” IF. ETUPt 563 . - ;

should have found an of Beethoven implies, Allied Nations, and tion among the that Ger- Music in the Home Beethoven’s Music from the Dawn of Society many—the land of birth—should Music in the Home the great composer’s have lost sight of musi- to the Middle Ages Beethoven was opposed to HEN THE WINTER BROADCASTS cal message. all “Somehow we seem to be built all wrong his music with its of the NBC Symphony Orchestra tyranny, and heroic im- But somehow we manage to get along.” always have a universal begin on October 29, there will be port, will message Thus runs the old topical song. If Thomas A. Edison W appropriate It is at this eight programs of Beethoven works presented for mankind. time had invented the phonograph in time to record the The Toscanini should have Etude under the direction of Arturo Toscanini, who A Radio that Maestro planned roar of the dinosaur instead of (1877) in time to record is regarded today by many leading critics as a Beethoven Festival. the roar of two world wars, the archeologists, anthro- and music editors the greatest living interpreter of Beethoven. Who do critics think are pologists, and musicologists would have been spared radio? In a first A similar festival of Beethoven works was the top musicians of national many tiresome investigations and speculations about given five years ago by the Maestro; praise conducted by Musical America the ways noises Beethoven Festival radio poll this and of men, women, and animals in Music Lover’s Bookshelf for those first places and one concerts and requests for another spring, three tie were the misty past. Moreover, there would be a basis of series have prompted the decision to present awarded NBC programs. Arturo Toscanini scientific, historical accuracy about musical beginnings the new Beethoven Festival the beginning October won first position in “symphony con- which must now be largely conjecture. 29 and ending December 17. This group of ductor classification"; John Charles Thomas, Fortunately there are such scholars as Dr. Curt concerts will represent the first half of Tos- feature artist of the “Westinghouse Program," Sachs who, after numerous excavations in libraries, canini’s winter engagement. Following the place as a “male has reconstructed Any book here was given first vocalist”; a remarkable picture in “The Rise reviewed may Beethoven cycle, the sixteen remaining weeks and "The Telephone Hour” conducted by of Music in the Ancient World, East and West.” The be secured from THE ETUDE MUSIC of the season will be divided into blocks of was chosen as the book is by no means Donald Voorhees best as “dry as dust.” For instance, MAGAZINE at the four, with Maestro Toscanini and two guest “orchestra with featured soloists.” NBC’s we learn such interesting facts as: price given plus conductors—Eugene Ormandy, of the Phila- postage. “Music of the New World” and CBS’s “School “Music was called to rank with the liberal arts long delphia Orchestra, and Malcolm Sargent, of balloting before Alexanderine of the Air” were tied in on educa- scholars linked it into the classi- the London Phi'harmonic. Ormandy begins cal quadrivium tional programs. The first-place “female with arithmetic, geometry, and astron- his series on December 24, Toscanini returns omy, and the trivium vocalist” award to Marian Anderson for her of grammar, rhetoric, and dia- on January 21, and Sargent will be heard lectic. guest appearances on various programs is beginning March 18. “Everyone in Israel considered another NBC triumph because of sang, and playing the lyre and Toscanini, in his Beethoven cycle, plans to the timbril was a common the fact that her radio bookings have been achievement, at least among present a wide selection of the composer’s women. R WereMtL Cad,man chiefly identified with the "Telephone Hour.’’ symphonic works and concertos. Noted in- regular winter season of the Philhar- “When the emperor (Chinese) wished to ascertain strumental and vocal soloists will appear The with whether his government was right monic-Symphony Orcheatra of New York Will or not, he listened being sending an order such the conductor during the series. Although not as the following: do not mean. What I want is the real to six pitches, the five tones of pink, very 8, with Artur Rodzinskl as the scale, and the "D Could announced, it is quite possible that the begin October you get me a fine, heavy satin, the deep and fiery.” festi- eight kinds of musical instruments, conductor. The program of October 1 ends and he took the color of the enclosed light val will include Toscanini’s outstanding read- brown sample, at The ensuing demand, sent March 30, 1867, bears all odes of the court and ballads of the village to ing of Beethoven’s the summer series of the Philharmonic, and see if Szontag’s? “Ninth” or “Choral Sym- they the earmarks of a precious old dowager preparing for for corresponded with the five tones.” (The idea of an 2) phony,” and it is to be hoped because of the enormous requests tickets, Ditto for the deep-rose? a heavy his magnificent emperor using season: music to decide affairs of state is 3) Is reading of the “Missa Solemnis” also will be it has been decided to present the final con- the enclosed pale pink available in a good “Many thanks for the received worthy of Lewis Carroll.) package we today. i quality heard. Many radio listeners will remember cert of the summer series in Mad -on Square at 4 to 5 fl.? You do not mention the pink dressing One of the most curious things gown. Please York. Dr. Rodzln ki will con- that the book records 4) Ditto for the blue, the Maestro’s previous broadcasts of this work. Garden in New which is to be even lighter, let me know when will send it. is the peculiar ancient you I am returning to and the guest of Chinese interrelation between if possible, definitely not It was the late Lawrence Gilman who called duct this program, the darker. you the larger pink satin sample; I should like to the five tones of the scale and the colors, elements, Toscanini “the unique interpreter” of the occasion will be the popular American 5) Has Szontag enough of the new -red or crimson order planets, and the 100 yards of this, but it should have a smoother “Ninth cardinal points thus: Symphony.” “His realizing of the first soprano, Helen Traubel. texture, like the green sample; not so twilled, but movement,” said Mr. Gilman,” . . . exhausts Two Sunday morning program of which quite open, which makes for a finer lustre. color Notes kung slicing cliiao cilih yu The the contents of the music. In the celestial previously written, h ive been so we have Cardinal points Nor tli East Center West South only, suits me perfectly. And the price? slow movement he searches the living, Planets Mercury heart unusually interesting of late that we feel im- Jupiter Saturn Venus Mars “For the meanwhile, you may send me the rest—20 of Elements wood water Beethoven. . . . And when he comes to the refer earth metal fire pelled to recall attention to them We yards—of the enclosed pale pink; also, if the price is Colors black violet yellow white red end of the Choral Finale . . . realize we that to the program of E. Power Biggs, t lie organ- reasonable, the residual 38 yards of the green. the re-creator has stood throughout at the ist, heard from 9; 15 to 9:45 A.M KWT, and “Of the heavy pink satin, of This valuable historical study begins in which you last sent me creator’s side, at one with his vision and his the dawn New Voices in Song, featuring the "artists of civilization 12 yards, I could use another 12 yards. faith.” and reaches up to the indefinable Middle Of Toscanini’s performance of the of tomorrow,” with Maurice Brown and the “Please inquire in Ages (500 A. D. to 1400 A. D.) the draper’s shop on Stock-im- “Mis'a Solemnis,” many critics have written Eisen Columbia String Ensemble, heard from 9:45 Curt Sachs, born in Berlin, Square (in the ‘Silver Wreath’) whether they at length; Mr. Gilman said June 29, 1881, at first that Toscanini’s network). still have to 10:00 AM., EWT (both CBS was an art critic, although trained 6) some of the very wide, heavy, pink-and-blue performance was another one of the count- as a musician. Biggs, who p'.ays on the Baroque organ in the From 1904 he has been a satin ribbon which I saw there; it was used for sashes less evidences of the conductor’s genius as an musicologist. In Germany he Germanic Museum at Harvard University, rose to great distinction and about a quarter-yard wide. If this can be had, I interpreter, for he “feels and in 1904 became visiting deeply the personal should like has an instrument which lends Itself ex- professor at the Sorbonne to get some of it. Please see about it. and human quality” in the Mass. in Paris. In 1938 he came tremely well to broadcasting. Recently he has to America and taught in New York “We could use more fine, narrow lace (blonde) This proposed Beethoven Festival will no University. > also been giving a series of programs ,f old con- “The Rise of Music in more of the half-wide, at 1 fl. or 1% fl.” doubt be one of the most important musical the Ancient World, East), certos, trios, and so on. In conjunction with and West” Incidentally, Wagner’s favorite color seems to have events of radio for the early part of the been pink. What a man! And Arthur Fiedler and hi3 Sinfoniet . and with By Curt Sachs what a subject for im- winter season. It is highly significant that other musicians. These program have all Pages: 324 mortalization and for caricature! The persistence with the so-called “Fate Motive” of the composer’s Price: which his works are played shows their “Fifth Symphony” should have been adopted been sponsored by the noted mu : al patron, $5.00 priceless Mrs. Elizabeth Publisher: human appeal. Yet when they were first produced, as a victory theme by Allies. Sprague Coolidge. W. W. Norton Company. Inc. the That the they In New Voices in week!;, we hear were subjects for incessant satire, such as that rhythmic implication of this motive spells V Song, young singers whose reat prom- of the rapier wit of Oscar Wilde in “The Picture of in the Morse code, remains one of those talents show Richard the Inexplicable ise Darien Gray”: “I like Wagner’s music better strange paradoxes which it is for the future. These short v<> al recitals than hard to explain. It would take a genius as great as that of Wagner any other music. It is so loud that one can talk It is as though the inventor of the code, by are excellently devised; the srY tions are the himself to encompass the magnificent and at the whole time without people hearing what some divine inspiration, selected the rhyth- varied and of interest to all admirers of fine one says.” same time preposterous nature of the man who, in “Richard Wagner and the Seamstress” mic impulse of Beethoven's ‘ Fate Theme.” song literature. Moreover, the sinners them- the words of his seamstress, studied color Translated from Wagner’s Original And the fact that the parallelism between selves know how to project the songs, and the tones, Letters by Sophie even kept his musical scores in folders of Prombaum the two was not noted until this war, seems string accompaniments by Mr. Browm and gleaming velvet, and retired to the fabulous “Red Chamber” Pages: 62 to imply that fate played its hand. One can- his ensemble are in keeping with the mood of the Vienna-Penzing Villa, to await solitude Price: $1.25 not, in our estimation, fail to see the hand of fate in of the material chosen. and the note of victory better than Toscanini? For inspiration. Frederick a great deal, he 1 Wings William Nitzsche, definitely a Publisher: Frederick Ungar particularly if one is familiar with the been the staunch supporter Over Jordan, the Negro spiritual group, is of democracy for schizo-phrenic, used to "FROU-FROU" WAGNER aspects of the life lo still claiming say that Wagner was a disease. of Beethoven and the part that fate years, and because of this a wide audience on the airways at 10:30 cartoon an exile from his Be that as it may, A which appeared in "Der Floh" (The Flea) played in his working career. nat on Sundays he was a disease which the of As one writer has said, land. Mr. Gilman, among others, (CBS Network). The singing, of this all- Vienna in 1887, lampooning At the Court of Kings has said that Ti psychiatrist, the dramatist, the musician, Wagner's extravagant attire. certain aspects of life held an immense importance canini’s performance egro choir remains has and the of the “Fifth as impressive as it always public at large for Beethoven, Symphony" been have spent years in diagnosing, with The eighth in a series of small biographies of great so much so that they became, in a “heroic and beautiful, and and the interjection talks of colored heavy satin in stock, the kind you used as great in its intensity of religion in the no indication of ending to musicians by Opal manner of speaking, personified. a e Rev. the investigation. line my white Wheeler is one on Handel at the “Thus he seems, at sweep of drama as the symphony Glenn T. Settle, narrator, provides a unique dressing-gown (with the flower de- one period itself.” Beethovi an Now comes a series of amazing letters between court of kings. The most picturesque and certainly of his creative life, to have had a personi- the giant, emerges from welcome contribution There sign) ? the pages of the “Fifth ” to these programs. Wagner and the most fied idea of Fate,” which a just his dressmaker, “Fraulein Bertha” vehement musician of his age, Handel has was his designation of the there are passages where the isn’t any other Over Have you any more of the dark yellow which “music drives like program quite like Wings < Bertha Goldwag), intrigued impulses in life that called a’fln, translated into English by Sophie used the pen of many biographers. The volume forth the heroic in man. ing sword.” It is ironical that we for valances on the little tables? that “flaming Prombaum. The letters has many simplified settings Perhaps Toscanini’s performance of swor were discovered by the Vien- P. S. Please for piano of the master’s Beethoven’s do not confuse Nr. 2, the deep-rose nese journalist, Daniel Spitzer, and tunes, and there are original black and “Fifth Symphony” in his coming Festival will sound were first pub- color, with the former violet white draw- lished in shade of pink, which I ings the musical note of victory German at the suggestion of Brahms. They by Mary Greenwalt. around the world. For it w tlle . transition from aie in . winter the “Handel . summer to Library at the is quite possible, indeed more than probable, n] of Congress at Washington, D. Court of Kings” that vic- aVOriteS C. . 0n manv Programs, heard througl They reveal By Opal Wheeler tory will be ours in Europe by that time. And who RADIO w nti H° a sybaritic voluptuary whose desire for m^’ WlU be returning, and most of beautiful clothes, lavish Pages: 135 plus among the great conductors of the world should sound EL materials, and exquisite colors BOOKS music pages should be available pre; knew no bounds. Price: $2.00 the tim in the dailv For instance, imagine a male human time thisZ appears 564 "FORWARD in print. Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. MARCH WITH MUSIC OCTOBER, 1944 THE ETUDE "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" ! )

HAT CAN ONE DO to Music and Study strengthen weak low tones?” Music and Study W A question on the lips of many especially those sopranos, whose voices hollow, sepulchral tone in the low range. remain the “remnant of the girl’s voice.” So excellently constructed for our pur- There are three prime How Long to Practice essentials to pose is this final phrase of the song, The tones of low pitch; namely, an adjust- Star, by Rogers that we repeat it. How much time do you think reasonable ment of the vocal ligaments that will for a girl of twelve who has had lessons Round Table permit vibration throughout their entire for two years, to practice, and what part The Teacher’s length; an enlargement of resonance Weak Low Tones of that time could be used playing “just for fun?” space; and a contact of the larynx with She likes music but not to the exclu- poetic, sensible, and the spine. If all of these are missing, let musical English sion of everything else, and is willing see they by texts. If such translations were us how may be regained. (Copyright G. Schirmer, Inc.) to work two hours—more if she can be ucted available Cond There are two ways, the one a pro- singing. Her teachers want her to spend I am sure that the glorious heritage of I a l y o e four hours every day. Schubert, Schumann, nounced darkening of tone, a protrusion Brahms, Franz” and E a a o a a This week’s piano lesson-assignment is Wolf would not long remain of the lips, a forceful bid for power of as follows: caviar r a e o oo a a 0 tone, and creation of a “break” in the 1. Scale, chords, thirds, sixths, tenths in the general public. a o a e o oo aier scale: and the other—well, we shall see. E-flat. o oo o a e o 2. Wiener Waltzer, Gurlitt; Avalanche and For head tones the vocal ligaments are o a e a a e Curious Story, Heller: Intrude, Bach; Doc Concertos closely approximated at their back ends, “Sonata II,” Mozart; Whispering Wind, Mus. oo o a o o 8 and their vibrating length WiMam -Armitrona What are the best classic- greatly short- Q- Wollenhaupt—all being memorized.' concertos for Sing first the words, then the first?— vowel 3. Legato study; Mathews, Grade 4. Noted Pianist students to study D. A. B., ened. For medium tones they retain their Texas. combinations, following as near as pos- 4. Finger Exercise. close approximation, while their vibrat- sible 5. Review Work. Music Educator the rules pertaining to the words. and Usually I begin with the Haydn “D- ing length is extended. For chest tones 6. History of Music. With the voice resting upon the elevated major Concerto” or the Mozart their back ends are slightly 7. Harmony for Beginners. “A-major separated, chest, upon leaving the I in the word I would like your opinion. Concerto” (Koechel No. 414). The and they vibrate through their entire latter “its” and approaching Mrs. R. P. F., Arkansas. Y in the word — is now very difficult to procure, since length, but not their entire breadth, be- it “eyes,” allow the jaw to drop easily and Oh, what a hot spot you’ve found for is published only In European cause—well—they are just not “built that editions. well. Then with “smiling me! If disapprove the amount of lips,” a moder- I your Or I assign separate and appropriate way.” give brilliance to the low and middle sounds, while ate darkening of tone, or its equivalent, a slight girl’s daily practice and her course of these yawn- veise movements from other Mozart concertos. Now adjustments of the vocal ligaments are high notes would be shrill and shrieky.” Then, songs. Most of the German as there ing sensation, and an abundance of breath, sigh the training, the teacher—who is obviously Brahms " ” not made voluntarily, we'll The Weber Konzertstiick is also but through the effort made to were but two registers, ail notes below, the one where Brahms is pretty awful, one tone of Y to the upper front teeth, “spreading” it good, serious, and thorough will be hurt. chosen by produce a head tone, a — leave us of my favorites, as are the Mendelssohn medium tone, or a chest tone: the head voice starts were included in the “natural, or admit, but the Englished lines from eye tooth to eye tooth. While holding it so If I approve the present routine, the stu- hence, it follows that retention of. any of chest voice;” song, Auf deni concertos in D minor and G minor, and one these and as we well know the results of carry- aghast. . . . The focused, slur it slowly down from the note to the dent’s musical study may be unbalanced positively tones will hold A note ills “Caprlccio Brillaut.” the vocal ligaments adjusted for it. ing upward the chest voice of today, Fly, Birdie, Mine! and For an easier but we may take it B: then to connect the notes and her progress impaired. Therefore, Schiffe is called, Should a head or B and C, use the final z Correspondents with this Depart- strictly classic concerto, tone a medium tone be carried that the medium voice of today is the chest voice thus: not I sometimes of sound of the word “eyes,” forming eyeszonthee. whatever “snap,” long-distance opinion I are requested to limit Letters begins downward ment Miss Robyn’s che lining unchanged, the vocal ligaments will he pre- the eighteenth century. to Words. use "Kinder In cases where the habit formulate must be taken with a shakerful One Hundred and Fifty vented from vibrating of carrying downward the Concerto’’ (Mozart). through their entire length, and And so the “two registers” remained until the “Fly, birdie, mine, com- head tones has been long standing, the muscles which of salt, for I have not heard the girl play, low tones will be wanting. ing of Manuel Garcia, Rhine first (1775-1832) who, to produce adjust the organs for head tones and know nothing at first hand of her Fly over the Therefore, the may have become so vocal ligaments must be caused to the extraordinary effects of brilliant high notes and And flap your wings set that a stretching of them may be necessary, and capacities—musical or extra-musical. Low Wrists vibrate through their entire length; this, and enlarge- powerful low notes, developed the chest voice in the for this no exercise surpasses the following: But I know exactly what most of the In the bright sunshine. ment of In a recent movie there were a number resonance space, and contact of the larynx low part of the range to a degree that still wants to “fool around,” that’s an- left a gap of teachers who read your letter are saying of close-ups of Hurbl j>l lying with the spine, are secured with an through a darkening of several weak tones in the middle of the voice. It was. other matter. ... By all means, let her With thee up yonder Lankow to themselves! . . Here’s the gist of extremely low wrist. Could this have . tone, or its equivalent—a yawning sensation. perhaps, Garcia’s innovation that caused Ex. 2 go to it! been the angle of the movie Pacchierotti. their thoughts, and mine, too: I would were I, camera? Now, just as the effort made to produce a head, the last of old, famous singers to deplore We all envy Mrs. R. P. F. her address, Several of my puptla commented on this, to Rossini, For the usual upper grammar grade or I would were I, medium, or chest tone adjusts nnd I thought I detected in their the vocal ligaments for the composer, “the depraved modern which is Arkansas.” Any- eyes a taste, and the junior high school student the assign- “Sweet Home, Were I!” the glimmer of suspicion lh.it their teacher tone, so the effort to produce any other kind of growth of a ‘noisy’ style.” one who lives in a town with such a ment is, of course, impractical. It is too was not the paragon they thought she was! tone adjusts them for it; and as an adjustment for Then came Manuel Garcia, second (1805) who lovely, musical name couldn’t help play- It Is hardly necessary to add I long and elaborate. But if your girl is How would you feel, singing such rot? that do an open tone includes a separation of the back ends divided the voice into three registers, and later in- This, the French U, is formed by placing the tip ing and singing beautifully! . . . And not teach "low wrist." of talented, well-known Botschaft ( Message has plenty of time outside of The of the vocal ligaments, and as it is this separation vented the laryngoscope just think what nostalgic music those —Mrs. R N.. Michigan. which showed him the remedy the tongue in contact with the lower front teeth and school hours, enjoys practicing, and has begins thus: that is the cause of the “break” in the scale, the open for the “break” he words “Sweet Home” are making at this created in the low range; namely, protruding the lips while enunciating the vowel E. the least inkling of ambition to become tone is I get a good win think avoided in our “other way.” an approximation of the This moment in the hearts of millions of our laugh never I back ends of the vocal liga- in general is to be retained in opposition to professional musician, then assign- breezes, a the “Fan, ye fan the cheek of ments, or, as he said, boys on the far-flung battlefields of the your trying to get out of that trap! “A determined ‘pinching’ of the dropping the jaw for the higher tones. ment is not too strenuous—especially if Of my sweet lady; The "Medium Register" The answer, however. Is a cinch. Al- glottis.” Excellent in the case of the light, “heady” type of practices earth she regularly two hours a day. Gently sport ye with her tresses!" Then, as an “opening” of tone is Then, i necessary to a as La Grassini did voice in Good luck and great happiness to your most every outstanding oncert artist is not use the chest voice, in which low tones appear impossible, is the use I sure that all sensible teachers am agree change to chest voice, how may the low range be what way did she develop of the girl in her musical life. distinctive. The physical equipment—that her low range? There could vowel /; but in using this vowel, careful thought with me that, until she grows older, two In the name of common sense why developed without it? Years ago one often have is, technical approach— which he employs heard the been but one. and that—our “other way.” With should be given to dependence upon the sighing power hours a day should be the extreme limit couldn’t the translator at least have used remark, “She sings her lowest tones in the voice resting is as characteristic and individual as are the medium upon the elevated chest, absolute of the breath, as the vowel is highly conducive to of her practice; and I do not hesitate to Singing In English the obvious and musical “waft” register”—an impression given by the instead the musical and Intellectual qualities he absence of a dependence was placed upon the sighing power of the open tone in the low range. add that the two hours should include This may be out of the regular line of of “fan?” sudden and pronounced tonal change, and breath for power brings to his art. His lavish endowments a missing of tone. The tone was moderately For acquaintance with the tonal sensation of 7— her singing practice also. Round Table questions, but may I ask break’ And what a comedown is in store for in the scale. In the year 1849, a gentleman darkened upon approaching this exercise: why, especially enable him to produce extraordinary re- the note G or F, second For work period of this length the now during the war, a us in the English version of Die Mainacht approached the celebrated Italian soprano. La Grassini. line first, and the tone held when singers perform German songs, they sults, often in spite of iaulty physical focused on the upper front assignment is well rounded, and includes who do not sing them in English? ( May Night) which begins: had sung an Italian air, and thinking he was teeth—this in opposition to resting the voice approach. Therefore, it Is unwise tor stu- upon the everything essential except practice in A. D., paying — Kansas. a compliment said, “Ah, Madam it was admir- throat; a forceful bid for power of tone; dents to imitate the "technic” of a well- a sudden sight-reading. This omission is a serious Your question is able; so always coming up in rr in, auucr trie moon much more so because you did not use the and pronounced darkening of tone; known concert pianist unless the artist protruding lips: one. . . . And right there’s your answer wartime, and indeed at most other chest voice!” La times, Shines thro’ the lapping leaves. Grassini replied, “The chest voice? and recession of the tone to the dome of the throat. the “just for fun” part of ques- is a good visual as well as aural model. L to your too. . . . Wiry aren’t the What is great Lieder When her pale, drowsy light that?” The gentleman then produced a chest In those rare, tion. . . . Passing pleasure in piano play- other words, if he is one of sung in our language? I think there are Over the tone. “Oh, don’t do that you will ruin your voice!” The Throat Free meads she throws — In this ing comes from the joy of reading new many reasons. Among almost non-existent artists whose ap- said La second exercise the tone is darkened upon these are (1) Be- And the nightingale warbles,— Grassini. She never had sung chest tones, yet Explanation: Resting the voice upon the proach with the chest, or, approaching 7 from above. material, or working at it, not for per- cause singers feel that music and text I happens to coincide did not realize it. go sadly from copse to copse." as the old masters put it, supporting the voice from fection but for technical and musical scientific, technical which pro- are often so inextricably wedded that methods Now as La Grassini did not know the of the chest to leave meaning the throat free, left the muscular Ex. 4 facility, good tone, and pliant rhythm. translation in any other language duce the best results with normal stu- tlie expression “chest weak- But the crushing disillusionment voice,” it could not have been in mechanism free to form a close succession strike without of adjust- Two of those “to-be-memorized” pieces ens their projection. (2) Singers have a with dents, then he may be imitated general use in the nineteenth the final emotional climax century; and as the ments; hence, a close succession of tones, with no whicl i jjjtciu. and the Music History might well be re- natural — or unnatural — repugnance to harm. There’s your answer. gentleman complimented her fejjffi’iaiL' a emerges like this: on not using it, there sudden and pronounced tonal change. A moderate placed by sight-reading material, and by singing in English: also they make Now, as for this whole wrist business: must have been a serious I ya I ya I ya I eto- a objection to it. “She sings darkening of tone upon approaching the weak part of — a light, colorful composition by con- tor a fetish of presenting songs in their origi- “Where, If excessively low wrists are natural her lowest tones in the medium register!” Is this the the range extended O vision whose smile the vibrating length of the vocal temporary composer. I do not mean to nal texts. com- answer? (3) The poetry of the German Streams you and your students, if you feel ligaments without causing a separation like the blush of of their back disparage Gurlitt, Heller, or Wollenhaupt, Lieder is sometimes of dawn crook such poor quality Through fortable, easy, relaxed while you ends; hence, no "break” in the scale; the depths of my absolute depend- ICET but advise using such composers spar- that the text is of little consequence. soul- your dig m t0 Two Registers One Where on earth wrists unmercifully, and . ence upon the sighing power of the breath for power ingly, and always with the antidotes of art thou?" listens almost exclusively to the glorious the keys as were scratching The celebrated teachers of the eighteenth of tone though you century counteracted any tendency toward excessive A careful practicing of the foregoing exercises will some stimulating music of today. music. (4) Most of means divided the English transla- G e out an ivory then by all the voice into two not three registers; darkening of tone, while do P ng flapping fox-hole— — — holding the tone focused on much to aid the singer to gain strength and control Round table teachers, I am sure, are tions are so inept that singers throu th, ma- namely, are embar- meadsmea°ds and n ^ play that way. overwhelming the natural, or chest voice; and the artificial, the upper front teeth prevented recession in that part of the vocal range and copses, no doubt! The of the tone which very often shocked at the prospect of a four-hour rassed to enunciate the senseless beginners or head voice: and un- So, I don’t think jority of us. young and old, meaning that when the voice reaches to the dome of the throat—the focal point of hooty, causes trouble. twelve-year-old girl. the singers daily grind for a musical idiocies perpetrated by the are wholb * a certain height, * * trans- to blame, do you? ' and advanced alike, are happier with some artifice becomes necessary to * * . . . An Such a routine is unwise, since it may lators. admirable pro are carrying it higher. This ect for one of normal hand position—wrists that was somewhat clarified by our well-krinu-n . "God sent His quickly warp the girl’s enthusiasm for I believe this last reason w Manuel Garcia singers upon earth outweighs all neither too high too low, throug when he said, “A singer should, by premium nor mm? With songs of sadness and of mirth, puts a ' music and certainly on the others in importance. Here, for freely- clever management, ex- ship modify a vowel, rounding it as • to some which the rotary mechanism flows \ slovenly, unconcentrated practice. If, ample, are sensitive miKim ,•* the That they might touch the hearts of men some “gems” selected at ran- personage toe and toe voice ascends. If a vowel remained constantly for translating Angers articulate loosely, And bring them back to after two hours of planned practice, she dom from a well-known edition open, as A when heaven again.” of the or two music pours into sounded in the word ‘madre,’ it would hundred G«m,n out unimpeded —Longfellow S°'C piano. 566 "FORWARD OCTOBER, MARCH WITH MUSIC 1944 "FORU ARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" THE ETUDt 567 £

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RGAN LITERATURE is still the least known to the general public of any music that is used Music and Study O in this country. This, of course, is true because it is not an easy task to master the works of the great composers. It takes long, hard work over a period of years to acquire a genuine repertoire, and in the past twenty-five years the skill and ability of How Much Good Organ Literature In My Mind the average organist have increased immeasurably. I Always Have a Picture Many comparatively small churches now have young organists who have come from splendid schools of music. Such schools are usually associated with univer- sities where the highest ideals are emphasized in Pictures musical education. This is as it should be, for our Dare I Play In Music, Imagination, and One, “Well-Tempered Clavichord’’) organ literature My Church? ong-continued inquiry among peo- th t- would never improve if it were not made him think of a colony of ple of all classes assures one that insects r for the courageous group that is continually striving ning hither and thither. LJ most of them “see things” as they Asked to sdm£ to give its best. listen to the insects, he replied that Granting music. he could „ I that we do have these excellent schools in A few admit only see them clearly enough to do all parts of our country a physical reaction to that h,°, with serious young students U ‘ marked rhythms, like foot and finger tap- that the motion was distinct. This attending them, the young organist Sh °W3 coming out of that he pictured the ~J-reclerich ping or swaying of the body. Still fewer rhythm. these schools has some very definite problems to face. e are entirely unresponsive to either I once played the Grieg Let us suppose that he will be V the Butterfly to an playing in church, as physical or imaginative audience of approximately will no doubt stimulus. But for one hundred be true. His first temptation, particu- the great majority it with the request that larly if is seems to be true that each person he blessed with a good instrument, is to put write An effort is made on the part of some churches music arouses the imagination and sets what his imagination pictured. into use the music he has mastered after to This quite logically brings us It was many long correct the foregoing to the music of Bach, free the run of a moving picture amazing how uniform hours of work in the difficulty by announcing in the as no one film, was the response- music school. He has acquired could discuss church or organ music very calendar that silence is requested during the sometimes short, sometimes long, often except for the type of a good repertoire and he is anxious playing long without this reference. Butterfly. Everyone to use it. Herein of the You will find that Bach not persisting prelude. When this is done, you may be sure throughout the entire per- seemed to carry in the subconscious lies the question that confronts every young covers the church calendar in his mind person that it chorale preludes. formance of has probably taken the organist some time a composition. a totally different type of as he goes through the metamorphosis from If you think it is necessary to educate winged insect student to achieve this your congrega- When music comes from result by establishing himself as a tion the composer’s but everyone used the words, to church organist. He is often amazed to find that to the point of enjoying Bach, or their a good musician. More than these chorale hands tagged with a picturesque title— great deal of the repertoire likely he started by giving preludes are equivalents: rise, fall, poise, flutter, he has acquired is not a good beginning. Many of them are The Butterfly newly a series of organ recitals at periods when of Edvard Grieg, for example everyone mentioned usable in the service of worship. He also finds people familiar to a great sunlight, and the that the could listen number of people, so it might —the imagination takes ma- to the organ without any thought of a be the hint (from jority mentioned flower congregation does not listen to his carefully prepared well to start with the familiar s. particular service in ones and gradually the title) and sets out on a picture- preludes and postludes, mind. This is sometimes done introduce An infinite number oi but uses these portions of the those that are not quite so people have been by presenting a half-hour recital familiar. As making adventure that is both vivid and service to get “settled” and “unsettled,” before or after the postludes, choose wW definitely impressed and delighted respectively. the more familiar fugues and fan- definite. This by the service. In this way the congregation learns is true for most, perhaps to enjoy tasies first, and occasionally hammer stroke on the er—an pageSOo) by Joseph Bonnet with many compositions extremely i Continued on RIVERSIDE CHURCH of other ’FORWARD MARCH publications analogous WITH MUSIC” to ( Continued on Page 600) OCTOBER. 1944 THE ETF "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 569 » — -

are, of course, more or less irregular, but fre Music and Study eqUetl occur just as do rhythms of five or seven tly bafS Music and Study be found in ’ Thes groupings may several internal e arra ments. nge- A careful study of text and music will d grouping, the real rhythmic and a choir 6 can®*®rea analyze a composition for itself, if not % too C conductor will explain °.mplex If the the term “rhvth . ’n rightful meaning, analyze a section its with th' Tempo, Rhythm, Phrasing their opinions of the best rhythmic grouping ask and them sing the passage in then have two or three Percussion Instruments Need Care! die rhythms, they will readily discover 1 the correct b® become much more sensitive *®® and to this most tant. element of all music whether ltnPor- RUMS and their parts are deserving of and Card Pul demand the same care and consideration that m the finest k are accorded woodwdnd, brass, Phrasing D and L; William 2). PeJli stringed instruments. Phrases are short sections of varying length Much of the lack of attention given the percussion or less complete in themselves 0re terminated bv a n o i® instruments is probably due to the fact, that in most HE PRECEDING of some kind. The intelligibility of 6 ARTICLES in this series have any any music depends^"' instances the equipment is owned by the school, col- time establish within very slight deviation UP°® dealt with various phases of the interdependence of these phrases ' orchestra, choral training in- metronomic tempo indicated, he needs further prac- and th lege, municipal band, or and is made avail- volving C°n ' T the acquisition of certain nection with each other. They may be to members of the percussion sections without techniques or likened able tice. It is time well spent for any young conductor to toe" Iam_ skills by the singer that, matical sentences. easily be corrected he may become musically practice A sentence of literary cost for its use or upkeep. by giving due attention to the The batter head (the side played upon) should be many varieties of beats in many different d' 0ur more proficient. contains a subject ® uniformity of tension of all tempi and a predicate, each with Since these musicians have no investment in the the drums in the section. tensioned to a middle low Ditch; namely, either and then test his accuracy with the metronome. j^ ' It is obvious that no conductor can ous modifiers. In like manner 11 are frequently The tension rods should be lubricated at least once secure a better Few compositions, other than the military march, a musical sentence? equipment, they inconsiderate or negli- tone than the 0”' individual is capable of producing. tains a musical subject or phrase gent in regard to its care and usage. a month. When drum heads have been used for such Nei- move with exact, clockwise regularity. In all good edi- followed by ther ' it?18 an‘ can he inspire the singer to color the swering phrase. neglect indifference a period of time that their response is lost, the heads tone more tions, tempo variations or alterations usually are care- This and of attitude on the part imaginatively, with deeper feeling should be removed from or greater musical fully indicated Perhaps no element of music more of many school musicians is often responsible for the the drum and soaked in cold sensitivity and should be considered always as quickly reven than the singer innately the cultured water, flesh, hoop, and all; then dried with a possesses. adjustments of the basic musician than beautiful inferior performances and poor condition of the drum damp tuned too high, In these tempo and not as changes. phrasing i iT When bass drums will vibrate too respects and in many others, wise, cloth and placed back on the drum, without tension. the conductor Accelerando, ritard, piu mosso, poor or broken phrasing Is the equipment to be found in these organizations. quickly and thus make the performance of of meno mosso, and so stamp of ' tones longer necessity is always limited by Wuil Much of the lack of uniformity the musical of tone quality and caliber forth, indicate either a quickening cal ignorance. Some of the most important points to be considered than quarters impossible. When tuned too low, the and technical proficiency or slackening of the of his group. But in all If the singer in giving proper care and maintenance to pitch to be found in our bands can be attributed to those basic rate of movement and should gives only values and interval, percussion tones are too long in duration, thus making sixteenths, elements which are always be in pro- of notes concerned with tempo, without instruments are these: one or more of the following: (1) unevenness of ten- rhythm portion to it as ebb and flow. the sense of the phrases, he is eighths, and quarters impossible. phrasing, style and Sudden accelerandos and nothing but interpretation, he alone is master machine, sion; (2) unmatched heads; (3) warped drum shell; ritai ds paced too slowly to be in accord regardless of how accurate he Separate tension drums can be more easily adjusted and he only is responsible for with the proper maybe The success or failure, artis- flow of the In good vocal writing, Snare Drum (4) uneven batter or snare- head; (5) batter or snare try composition, upset the movement of the the relationship of to proper pitch levels, and each rod tightens only one or mediocrity. In discussing these music to head torn most important music and are text is so close that Much argument has been evinced as to whether or around flesh hoop; (6) hoop binding on phases of like scars on an otherwise smooth sur- the separation of the area or spot upon one side of the drum. When the musicianship, none is phrases shell; dried, more basic or of face. agrees with the division not the snare-drum head should be loosened following (7) damp, or worn head. greater significance of the text Hence, a bass drummer learns the correct technique for pro- than -tempo. An incorrect tempo carefu a rehearsal or concert. The average Rain covers should be provided the entire percussion study of the text will reveal the pt professional ducing proper valuations he also is learning the alters the entire meaning of a .per tonal group composition, and one ing. In addition, drummer who is using his instrument several hours section of the marching band. Many fine instruments of the primary Rhythm music published bv first-class amount the bass drum must be tensioned in order to purposes of a conductor should houses have been ruined through lack of such equipment. be the The term has been so carefully each day will do only as much tensioning or loosening produce those specific valuations. immediate establishment rhythm is often used loosely to edited that the of the tempo needed best mean “ac- phrasingg is Drums should be kept in a case or zipper bag to cent ’ and “time.” usually indicated. as is essential. The important point to consider is that when interpret the composer’s ideas. Indeed, so commonly is this mean- dampness, be it in winter or will not in use. ing applied that to If it is noted that summer, cause the Bass Drum Sticks many it means merely metrical phrasing 1 , analogous to the drum head to loosen or relax, regularity of time-accent. punctuation of literary whereas dryness will The appropriate style and type bass-drum stick Important Points This is not the true mean- composition without which Snare-Drum Sticks is ing of the literary a tighten the heads. Heat or cold usually will not affect The following term. It is hoped the following discourse- is unintelligible, essential to the successful performance of every bass- points all enter into the considera- will clarify it will readily be the drum heads unless accompanied Snare-drum sticks should match in w'eight, length, tion this misconception. seen that a careful by dampness or drummer. °f tempo. First, what is study and know. edge of the meaning of the term; phrasinge dryness. and roundness. The orchestra drum has a light batter Cent a ranges a is essential. Since the modern bass-drummer is called upon to do Wh S the basic tempo of the heterogeneous mass of notes into composition at hand l nto A J' If, due head and therefore does not require sticks as heavy fV iong and short, In to dampness, the head is tightened beyond much more than merely provide beat, and how may it be determined? m either duple or triple polyphonic music in which the it is neces- Is a flexible tempo grouping. the phrases of the its normal as the parade drums, which are deeper and have Time divides ' a tension, the heads should be loosened the needed, as in tempo rubato, them into groups of equal d part are constantly sary that attention be given to the equipment which and what does that duration overlapping and are of same heavier batter heads. Often we have observed term Take a number varying®i *f ? number of turns as- was used to pull the heads drum- will enable signify? Are different tempi of notes of equal length lengths, and where the him to obtain the desired effects. necessary and how may and give development and con- beyond their natural playing tension. mers on parade using orchestra drums and drum they be PhaS1S t0 every second the Bass-drum sticks are used chiefly to: (a) maintain determined? What is > third, or phrase 1,1 one ,rt meant fourth l“ occur* 1 by andante al- and theh note independently In long periods of dry weather, or if kept in over- sticks, pounding profusely, yet producing a very small legro, a tempo, music will be said to n/thT otber?h proper tempi and precision; (b) produce various tonal, and so forth, be in a par,s - 1* ls with their variations of pin rhythm of two Particularly sential that the heated rooms and no moisture tone of inferior quality. Hickory sticks are preferable mosso thiee, or four, when provided, the heads accentuation, and dynamic effects; (c) produce meno mosso, accelerando? what is meant is " 8 conductor proper What is the distinc- “time How- ”? understand cl rly the delinea- I should be loosened or for marching purposes, as they are weighty and dur- tion a 11Umber of H?n a breakage will likely occur. note valuations. between largo, grave, andante, bars or measures are ’ ve opment, and and andantino; iPtho emphasized lntcrdepende:. e of the phrases. However, with normal care and usage, the able. For concert purposes, either rosewood or light between ner drums The most effective and practical bass-drum stick is allegretto, allegro vivace, ' “* and presto? Are the ““ * will sound more effective hickory is recommended. i«v,^r:„;r and the tone be more con- one that has the heads of distinctions between ritdrd, ritenuto, Assets ol Artistic made lamb’s wool, with a and rallentando Performance sistent if the heads are clear, not loosened except in extreme large head smaller or all treated similarly? 'yben a,1 parts on one end and a head on the other a brief discussion of move simultaneous and phrase to- dry or damp weather. Bass Drum some of these points may not ® broken, | end. This particular stick is most efficient for produc- be amiss. pliraslng, marked by breathing in im- The bass drum being larger than the snare, takes ing sustained beats of soft quality and for soft, street P a S ’ * S partlcularly discernible cxceed- Tensioning the Snare Drum more abuse and therefore requires a great deal of inffh. „u ?? and beats. Tempo g objectionable. If phrases are too long to be man- This is a phase of attention. All rods should be greased monthly. Once y J drum care that is often over- All concert bass -drum sticks should According to “Webster’s n °ne brcalb be the double International Dictionary” - staggered or relayed breathing looked: however, the finest percussionists each year both heads should be removed from the „ i° spend con- head type, since this enables the Tempo is the rate of movement, can always be drummer to produce the degree of speed employed. siderable time and give much care to the tensioning shell and the shell carefully cleansed. The edges of or slowness at which ° a roll when necessary; whereas, the stick with but a piece or passage moves. the hythm is one marked or carelessly of their drums. the shell should be paraffined about one-half inch It is of . have In tensioning greatest weaknesses of treated cadences the snare drum, start the single lamb’s-wool head does not permit effect. indicated by adjectives at ™ nrTn?? in a this the beginning as largo, fluently !' tlstic Performance. be with the batter side, from the edge to avoid head-binding. in - It should always applying tension to one screw adagio slow passages it bornp u! The lamb’s-wool beaters that are extra large and have and further qualified by adverbs disappearsTompletef tbat as molto, non ducing a curious pro ' tllese are punctuation points, and and going clockwise around the drum not across to The drum heads should be dampened with a soft troppo and by ” stagnant or dead that an abundance of wool are not so practical, as they do references to the metronome 1 ng N 10Ut proper the cloth by using a circular allegro movement, ’ whlle hi Phrasing the music is unintelli- opposite rod, as is frequently recommended. Give motion around the heads. what f. gihip T-v, ' , not permit the drummer to play his beats with the Most music is now so carefully edited should he a f K rc that the adjec- buoyancy often We and s no place for careless inaccurate each screw' approximately a half turn, keeping the The heads are then placed back on the shell and tives used to succeedsSoiinvf?" nhract or precision that is necessary. The stick used for march- indicate tempi ' f 1 are authentic, and with pushed. 5 hurried in artistic hoop as even permitted to dry for approximately forty-eight hours. This is usually Performance. as possible. Frequently test the tension ing purposes should be of the metronomic indication be“auseX?h v, TH made a superior grade of usually given, the proper fused with ree elements of the head with the forefinger To tighten the heads of the bass drum, the key or rate of time or «- discussed, tempo, rhythm, and as tightening proceeds. piano felt over a soft core. One must be careful movement may be determined. “ rather uhj-n-i-.- not bar-grouping. than with 6 tbe verv When the batter head is rod-handle should be given one or two half -turns, then In - foundation of musicianship. up to normal tension, it to use a stick which is too hard, as it music of the Classic thrmiPt, L.k- . will produce Period such indications 10 1 should the rod opposite should be given the were styde and artistic interpretation develop. give in just a little to the pressure of the fore- same number of almost never written in Temnr, very unmusical tones. If the hard-felt stick is used, it by the composer, l ate finger on turns; this process is continued until all rods although of fhovement essential to the the center of the head. on each should be less without much attendant danger, meaning f / and played with force and volume than if since most of it °f the Follow head have been properly tensioned. This was To the imposition. the same procedure in tensioning the snare method of using a softer beater. peifoimed by pupils of the uneducated, a Ph *?K . composer who had rhythm thtP^* ls S head, but tensioning the rods will help retain the “round” studied two or four not regufc tbe '^fe-stream correct do not apply as much tension as in the case of the his works and knew his intentions. is frequentlv nnt ? ? phrasing? of the music, and These works have S nece of the batter head. drum, as well as establishing a tone of uniform quality been so quently not a"d COr ssary for intellectual comprehension, Test the head tension with the Tympani excellently edited that the director appreciated or enjoyed If thi.t n of today el1 forefinger, near the and pitch. bars is not Plng of f understood expressed, center of the head next to the be guided by almost any good necessarily two and ? the eviripn?^ 7 and clearly Tympani are subject to atmospheric conditions and edition ttn Ttf may CS °f snares. The head should give freely this 1 and one, or one be tb good musicianship In- to pressure, a must be given every attention. 16 r mC aS 3 8Uide and' three I hi correct m are apparent. Tensioning the Bass Drum During cold, dry ’ the little conductor not necessarily ght ° more so than in the case of the batter head. shLriUld bi bars tempi ’ broken weather, or if kept in a steam-heated e 50“ffamiT‘ar four and four £* rhythm, and room, the heads metronomic indications ,? PhraTes The tonal For proper tensioning the batter ;t°’hat l •wo; &te musical hon quality and crispness of the head will head should be shrink he knows exactly how fast „ thr», , illiteracy, no matter to such a degree that the low tones cannot be a speed of accurate tin , determine tightened approximately 60 ’ 92 ian four tones higher ’ ’ ttSSTiSZ* v the correct tension. Do not tighten the than the ana so on, is. a ues and Pitch be. produced. When this occurs it is necessary Bearing i,^ intervals may heads opposite head. to stretch to the extent that the tone is "glassy” This will eliminate “barks” and will Since andante, mind that these earmarks hard, nor the heads. This is done as follows; allegro and of , three are the (1) remove the other adjectives are rela- good loosen it to the help the drummer control the tones and note valu- tive Ctansldp those degree that it produces a “soggy” tone. counterhoop; terms and cover a considerable variance larger - we can consider next (2) moisten the head well on both sides; in tempi 8 aspectsasnppf Many drums are ruined because of the ations. fhe young conductor « style and constant (3) repeat the moistening operation two or in his study of the work ®AND, interpretation. loosening three times should ORCHESTRA of the heads. good axiom to follow is, consult the metronome, A at five-minute intervals the head will practice with it as — thus become the author- Leave the heads at normal tension.” ity until he has thoroughly prone to attach too importance to soft and loose; (4) replace the head on the kettle and established in his beat the 'Personality^ much It is not various CHORUS i tead - uncommon to hear several qualities of tone rates of movement E d I f K o/ artutrp cos apply tension by means of screws, drawing the counter- needed. If he cannot Q y Win* rv - win in the BAND ond ORCHESTRA! at y Wlll,om srzL r greater part of a major scale in some D. z n or a drum •4 hoop down about one-half inch evenly Revelli lovely inauLily Pons. MARCH — OCTOBER, 1944 WITH MUSIC 'TORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 571 THE ETUDE 1 1 1 —

O Connor. Ida Perkins (Mr,rs , - James) Music ,19 and Study Paalz, Leo (1895) 1 Peak, Josephine (1912) Pollock, Mamie Lee" *Fi,hi.„‘snback, A Rapid Detache (1900) Music and Study Porter, Miss Helen if you would help me with a Amelia ,i, I wonder 1 * Porter. Mrs. Lottie (iq,,, certain pet problem of mine that is, a J. ’ — Potts, Katherine (1903) rapid detache with the hand (played

Price. Grace wrist) . I am told that Thomas (Mrs ,, from the my bow- ' T of ' melody—particularly in the works Pugh, Mrs. E. J. (1883) (1917) ing is of the Franco-Belgian school. As of Roll I understand it, the older method teaches the Franco-Belgian composers. But its The Etude Honor Rasch, Alwine (1910) horizontal hand movement from the the The Violinist’s Forum effect is in inverse ratio to the amount Reed. Helen J. (1902) wrist, and the modem school uses a ver- it is used. Too much of it soon creates Reid. Emma A. (1897) tical movement. After watching and an- Richardson, an impression Caroline F ,,, alyzing my rapid bow strokes, I find that of heavy sentimentality. Loyalty Riemer, Carrie moves neither horizontally Seventy Centuries of Reader A. De ( 1897 my hand nor This bowing is an invaluable exercise ' Conducted Rlslov, Sigurd vertically, but in a "between the two” di- by (1913) for the development of a singing tone. Rorex. Mrs. J. F. (1903) rection. The typical vertical movement of Rudesill, Carefully studied, it develops great sensi- Henrv M. (1890) the hand is used in rapid string crossings to sixtj point, no tivity of PARTIAL LIST of Etude readers who have been supporting the periodical from twenty-five Rumohr. Matilda (1894) at the but matter how much my touch in the right hand and an Octobei, 1943. arm turns inward (as required by the awareness in years. These names came in response to a request printed in the Anniversary Issue of the player of the tone- Salmond. Robert (1898) modern technic) the hand does not make as the old Etude files list of loyal Etude enthusiasts producing function of the bow’s elasticity. A had been discarded. There is little doubt that this Sauermilch, Milton a completely vertical movement when I could (1892) But the be . Scales. violinist who practices extended many, many times. Neile S. (Mrs. J~ pi am playing on a single string. ... I it must ’ (1306 Schawe, Olga > think one reason for my difficulty is the beware lest Some of the most distinguished musicians of the past century have been enthusiastic Etude readers, and (1899) it become a subconscious many of Schliflfer. Lena (1919) fact that I am in the habit of playing Prominent Teacher habit: he must them have been contributors—Eugene d’Albert, Leopold Auer, Wilhelm Backhaus, Harold Bauer, always know exactly Schmitt. Miss Laura T. rapid passages with forearm and finger Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Calve, G. Cam- (1894) when and where he is going to David Bispham, Ferruccio Busoni, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Emma Schmitz. Mrs. Estelle strokes. ... I feel that a knowledge of use it R. ( 1894) and Conductor panari, William C. Carl, John Alden Chadwick, Ceclle Schmitz, Mary ' the exact hand movement necessary in in his solos. Carpenter, Teresa Carreno, Enrico Caruso, George W. M. 1 1903) Schwartz. this case would be of great help to me, Chaminade, Walter Damrosch, Ernest von Dohnanyi, Rudolf Friml, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Amelita Galli-Curci. Ella T. (1919) and I shall appreciate any light Rudolph Ganz, Shultz. Mrs. E. R (1899) you can Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Percy Grainger, Alexandre Guilmant, Mark Hambourg, Ernestine Schu- on the question. Senftleber. Mrs Christina throw from a combination of the arm, wrist, mann-Heink, Sir George Erl. 1917 A Problem in the Mendelssohn Henschel, Victor Herbert, Josef Hofmann, Louise Homer, Rupert Hughes, James Sewell. Mrs. Let.ih The composition that really made me Potter (1912) and finger strokes, avoiding excessive Huneker, Ernest Hutcheson, Reginald Shearer. stop and think about my detache bowing deKoven, Lilli Lehmann, Liza Lehmann, Edwin Lemare, Theodor Les- Raymond C. (1912) use of was the Presto from Bach’s "First Solo any one of them. Combining the "Concerto" chetizky, Mischa Levitzki, Josef Lhevinne, Gustav Mathilde Marches!, William Mason, Sheppard. W. S. (1912) Mahler, Guy Maier, Sonata.” To play this movement detache motions in this way enables the bow arm W. S. B. Mathews, Smith. Alice P. (1898) Nellie Melba, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Lillian Guiomar Novaes, I Will you please tell Moritz Moszkowski, Nordica, Smith. Mrs. (which, had to learn, really means con- to remain relaxed, and the result should me how I should eo Ornstein, Arthur (1913) play Vladimir de Pachmann, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Isidor Philipp, Eduard Poldini, Powell nected and not detached!) and to keep the tremolos in the finale of the Maud Smith. Minnie R. (1906) be a tone which is both round and Giacomo Puccini, Sergei the notes connected at a rapid tempo, Mendelssohn “Concerto?” Should they be Rachmaninoff, Carl Reinecke, Hugo Riemann, Hermann Ritter, James H. Roger., Snoddy. W. F. (1918) seems almost impossible with the wrist brilliant. played with a wrist and finger motion Monz Rosenthal, Olga Samaroff, Emil Sauer, Snyder. Grace M. 1901) Marcella Sembrich, Xaver Scharwenka, Ernest Schelling. Edouard alone; and yet the tempo is such as to only, or from the forearm—the rest of bC ynl SC0tt willlam Snyder. Matilda C (1886) ’ H. Sherwood, Alexander Siloti, John Philip Sousa, Charles Villiers warrant a hand movement rather than the arm being semi-rigid? I have been ,? Stanford Stilt. Mrs. Rae ™T * Livingston told ° ow ng llst alone would represent (18911 the supposedly clumsy foreann stroke. that they can be played with the seventy centuries of continuous reader loyalty. In other words. Splller, I.vihelc A Drdla Triplet t i-uf Taliaferro (19oci “feather bowing”— 1 is were to be recorded calendarwise —H. R., Texas. that is, two notes to for one reader, Stell. Mrs. ( 1 ' that reader would have had to have his subscription Fre**ff unlock a door—the former tion should and (1918) be considered and used as Practice it at first quite slowly, Colcord, vertical making forearm stroke must be Mrs. Daniel (1906) motion approaches the horizon- one combined motion, called in to help. Lawrence, for neither func- sure that the is evenly spaced for Cole. Mrs. Abigail S. (1903) Marjorie F. (1918) tal and bow There must be a pronounced moves in almost the same line tions quite inward turn Comstock, Mrs. Florence Lipsky, Morris (1915) a- satisfactorily without the each note. Watching yourself in a mirror (1917) as the bow of the forearm throughout Crane, Jesse Loekmiller, Lotta (Mrs. does when it is playing on a other — first, to G. (1902) G. F.) (1892) —no matter whether it is a question would help you to do this. Crosby, Lillian Logan, Miss Katharine single string, utilize the maximum flexibility of the C. (1889) M. (1894) ^ 2>C. '*) one of the greatest ad- of changing bows in a legato melody or Curtiss, Luckenbill, Ruth 0 , As you feel yourself gaining the neces- wrist; Alice (1914) (Mrs. Paul) (19181 vantages of the modern way of holding and second, to provide sufficient Cushman, Luedtke, Elvira the production of a rapid spiccato. Mrs. John W. (1908) (1901) the sary control, increase the speed slightly, bow pressure in the bow— the so-called “Russian” method Presto forte. The of the Bach “G minor Solo gradually eliminating the staccato. After is that it I have Davidson, Miss MacNamara, Mrs. permits this inward turning never heard of the "feather A. (1914) G. G. (1904) Sonata,” because of its musical grandeur a week or of this Deakyne, McFilton. M. of the forearm so kind of practice you bowing” being used in Miss Eva B. (1910) E. (1898) to take place without and subtlety such a passage, McGinnes, of phrasing, is an outstand- should find yourself playing the study Denslcw, Mrs. Ruth W. (1908) C. R. (1906) tne least tension in the and doubt very much that enough McGinnis, arm—something ing study in expressive detache speed Dornsife, Mrs. John A. Mrs. H. (1913) playing at the tempo of the Drdla triplet, (1917) which is impossible and and clarity could be developed Draa, Dr. Charles Magrath, Louise B. with the older equaled, in fact, from it. C. (1889) (Mrs. J. J.) (1901 t — only by the famous with a barely perceptible pause after Duprey, Grace Maither, Mathilde ttl methods. Of course, if a violinist wished to (1917) Ehrmann (1902) Preludio from the “E Major Partita.” devote Mallard, I each note. Now you should pass over to Cyrus S. (1906) But, as you have discovered, half a lifetime to mastering it as some Max. the in- cannot conceive of playing it with the — East. Florence M. (1907) Mrs. R. C. (1914) ward the portato bowing—that is, drawing the turning of the arm is not sufficient do to fingered octaves—he might be able Eggen. Olga Melady, Pauline (Mrs. wrist motion only. For one thing, most C. (1903) John) (1915) to permit bow without pause, but giving each note to Elwell, H. B. Meyer, Mrs. Albert the vertical motion to be accomplish such a feat. But it would, (1912) (1912) of it requires a volume of tone which a slight pressure from the hand. Emanuel, Gertrude Micheimore, Mrs. E. used exclusively. The in the end, be a mere stunt, (1917) (1905) To make this possible, only the arm can produce. More bow and the Miles. Miss Kate (1894) the following example shows how this bowing — knuckles would have to be held ver- question would remain “Was it worth Fallis, Miller, Mrs. Orman must be taken in the forte passages, less Eugenie (Mrs. O. B.) (1899) L. (1911) tically is usually indicated: while?” Miller, Sidney above the bow-stick—which would Fail-lamb, Miss Mary P. (1894) L. (1903) ShTfo in the piano sections. But even in the Mock, John F. make holding the Falloon, Mrs. Pearl E. (1899) (1900) bow a practical impos- softest places some arm should be used; Molthop, Julia B. sibility. Ferber, Mrs. Elizabeth (1913) (1883) WZhJj? As with most other * * * Mong. Miss things in otherwise the tone will become weak as Fullhardt, Frederick A. (1915) Florence E. (1894) life, one Moorhead must compromise. For a pas- Mary E. (Mrs. J. well as soft. If you find the tempo too G.) ussfa)(i 896 ) sage Morris, Mabel requiring a full Garrett, Lois (1906) (1913) tone in the upper rapid for a comfortable use of the fore- Morrison, Caroline ialf of the “What a divine calling is music! Though Gay, Mrs. Owen W. (1909) (1898) bow, the forearm should be Mueller, Frances arm stroke, the probability is that you Geesey, Jacob J. (1899) (1917) turned inwards everything else may appear shallow Mumaw, so that the top of the are taking the and Gholston, Mrs. W. D. Esta (1901) movement too fast. A A few days of practice on the portato (1908) Murphy. wrist is at an angle repulsive, even the smallest Gildner, Mrs. Annie of about forty-five of J task in music Laura M. (1890) (1910) tempo = 80 is quite fast enough. At should make it easy for degrees to you to transfer Gilpin. Mrs. Sara S. the stick—the fourth finger is so absorbing, (1894) X/, a faster tempo it is almost impossible the bowing to and carries us so far Newell, Minnie /aJ . the Serenade—and then Grau, Mrs. Monroe (1914) B. (1901) generally leaving Nichols, the stick. This encour- to do justice to the musical Laura E. (1899) ages content of you will soon be able to play the triplet away from town, country, earth and all a maximum of flexibility ' in the the piece. ETUDE 5 legato and in good rhythm. worldly things, that it 572 ADAMS. FIRST SUBSCRIBER. W. S. bow wrist, and finger is truly a blessed WHcf WflqTL joints, and—the In brief, it can be said of the detache Used with " OLD FRIEND "aid turn discretion, the portato has gift of God.” forward OF THEODORE PRESSER. of the arm being essentially that the march with best tonal results are obtained a very expressive effect in MUSIC" certain types —Mendelssohn El OCTOBER, THE j 944 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" 573 t —

Music and HE PET QUESTION which has confronted me Study teachers covering the wiese entire count while on concert tours in various parts of the Music and Study eluding any one-room in ' schools tw’ country is, “How can I build up and memorize at •bay T remain. a series of concert programs and keep them in a state Moths in the So far as the Piano actual instruction of constant readiness for performance upon demand?” music is concerned, it is fairly * not so difficult to memorize a few compositions, Several months ago In discussing the Jj It is in the elementary schools series of works memorized care of a piano of the but to keep a so that they in the home we suggested e Ure country—at least it is “Tadellos" becoming ? reproduced (flawlessly) , as the Ger- that a moth spray be used occasionally, Answers may be Questions and 1 of all there is singing, say, is no mean task. If they are practiced too but we are now informed by a piano and in ePn mans the singing experience 1 become stereotyped or stale. dealer that some moth sprays leave a is considered? much they core Creating a Durable sticky be the of the entire Thomas de Quincey in his “Confessions of an Eng- residue which might injure the musical exZ • Conducted by ence. In many schools, Eater” wrote: “It is notorious action or cause the felts to become un- sight singing n lish Opium that the occupied the center of the strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and glued. This dealer suggests that camphor stage but th memory or situation is gradually trustworthy as you trust it.” The ancient other moth repellant be placed inside changing for of becomes better, so that in 6 think of the the case, and that in addition the piano more and more Greeks used to memory as a kind of men- schniS should be opened and any learning to read vocal music ' tal muscle which becomes stronger as it is used. Musical Memory evidences of JCcirl 1AJ. (jehrlend is conl moths ’brushed or blown out. will ered merely one of a number If compositions are not practiced enough they lose This of i mn tant items—so far finish which indicate be considerable trouble but is much bet- as music education*' that polish and a thrilling de- ln ter than having moths eat your hammers Mus. Doc. general is concerned. gree of attainment. However, the pianist who keeps and dampers, thus ruining the piano. In the second place, there equally “perfect” a delicate Debussy arabesque, a Professor Emeritus is the listen (In a conversation with a well-known ing lesson, and here the thunderous Liszt rhapsody, and a sparkling Delibes- improved phone" piano expert we learn that there have Oberlin College graph, together with the Dohnanyi valse is like the juggler who keeps in the not allow himself to fall into the bad availability and been instances where a liquid spray has reduced price of fine air at the same time a feather, a cannon ball, and a Well-Known Hungarian Diana habit of using the pedal indiscriminately records, have com Virtuoso caused serious damage to the wires and Music Editor, Webster’s New bined to cause jeweled casket. as so many young pianists in- “music appreciation”-** other metal do. Most parts of the instrument and listening lessons are often One of the greatest problems of every performer is experienced pianists use the pedal too International Dictionary called—to to the wrist plank, in one case causing leaven the entire “memorizing” a number of quite different compositions much; at least they use it without suffi- lump of music educa- Andor Foldes was bom in Budapest repairs that cost $150.00. The same ex- tion, making the and keeping them up to a high degree of perform- in 1913. His musical studies were done under the eminent cient discrimination. pedal is music hour a The a happy virtuoso, Erno Dohnanyi, at the Royal Hungarian Liszt pert tells us the best remedy is to have deeply satisfying ing excellence. Many a career has gone to pieces be- Akademie. After tours in Austria. France, highly valuable mechanical device for experience, and stimu Holland, Sweden, Italy, England, and Finland, he concertized in America. His the piano tuned frequently so that if cause of a bad memory which, as new' repertory of classic lifting lating a great many children works were and the dampers from the strings, thus to love modern music Is very extensive. He has made it a point to include American there is moth trouble it may be imme- learned, could not retain the old pieces. works on all of allowing the strings music deeply and permanently. his programs in our country, and many American diately to vibrate freely. But composers, including Cowell, LeRoy Robertson, detected. Little saucers of di- Before discussing memorizing, let us consider and let us not forget is In the third place, that no Siegmeister have dedicated works to him . Editor’s Note. chloricide that it also a device there is to be found crystals, which is the repellant two memories seem to function in exactly the for “damping” all the strings and thus more and more “creative same recommended by the work”—an at- U. S. Government, way when storing up new works. In fact, our own stopping the vibration. The modern auto- tempt to encourage children to may be placed in the piano case and express process mobile needs accelerator themselves in terms ability in the of memorizing is changing con- are of especial an to enable the of inventing melo- value where the instru- stantly, growing stronger or weaker. Anyone driver to make it go faster; but it dies, suggesting tempos can ment is to be needs and other expres- Some of us may have closed for any unusual develop the dominant powers of memorizing. what the poem is about. just as much to have a brake to enable sional details in their It is all fine length of time.—Editor of own performance, mechanical memo- The Etude) . largely a matter of properly directing our efforts. Translated into the driver to stop it! making musi- And in both piano up alto parts, and the like. ries, while our auditory Fi- cal language, playing and automobile driving, nally there this means taste, dis- , is that most important and visual senses do not de- Discipline and Development that we must be well About the Damper Pedal crimination, and self-control are velopment all, needed. of the injection of instru- function well. Again, we are as a acquainted with rhythm, Q. How conscientious mental music into “public school ” There matter of fact, no “bad” and no may belong primarily to should the student music tempo, and the general be in observing the Originally, “good” natural memories. All memory work is a editor's directions for About Music in Elementary all music in the schools con- mat- the visual type, but at the musical structure of use of the pedal? May one ever use sisted ter of personal discipline and development. Of course, the of either singing or learning theo- the same time have an the pedal where none is indicated? Most work before we can com- Schools retical facts. there are those who, through some bad practice, ac- auditive or performers I hear in recital “cheat” in But more and more in the mechanical " mit it to memory. this matter. quire “bad memories, in that they actually seem to But My own teacher is inclined Q. I wish to secure information regard- past twenty-five years it has seemed inclination. The best logi- that is not to wink at the use of the pedal in certain ing the teaching be unable to remember things that are familiar to enough. We of music in the elementary cal and normal that some children condition, of course, is passages- From the student’s should have an adequate viewpoint, is schools, especially about the smaller them. The human mind is such that it knowl- the prefer playing to singing— can remember when all three types of resultant gain in technic from pedal schools and those served by or at least to edge of the circuit best the things that it understands—things that musical forms, abstinence worth the effort required? music teacher follow a foundation course “make memory have an equal plan.—W. W. in singing by but a sufficient knowl- E. E. F. sense.” It would be absurd to ask the average person — lessons in piano, violin, clarinet, trumpet, share, with perhaps a A. Music teaching in the elementary to remember a series of Chinese sentences without edge of the composer's A. The use of the Ho question will be answered and so on. So the somewhat greater per- damper pedal is dic- schools of the in THE ETUDE instrumental music life United States has become unless accompanied knowing the meaning of the W’ords. Therefore, might help also in tated partly by a general principle, by the lull name movement has progressed we centage of the most partly almost universal and address the by leaps and except in rural schools of inquirer. Onh initials, memorize more readily memorizing his works, by the directions or pseudonym bounds, music that we understand. If important, the given by the composer and in given, will be published. and today we have thousands of auditory some parts of the South, It is car- we try to memorize pieces that even if that may sound when he wants to fine bands, are above our tech- type. have a certain effect ried on for orchestras, string quartets, the most part by the regular nical ability and understanding, we must not expect strange on first hear- . produced, and partly by the “ears” and and other ensemble groups What we want to re- grade teacher, with widely varying in high immediate accomplishment. ing. There are various taste of the performer himself. schools all over the country. member, or—to put it amounts of supervision by a music spe- We learn schools of actually learn- The principle refer would have applied more quickly those things in which we are differently I to is that the cialist. to rural schools also, This is only a very brief —what we do Many of the older grade teachers sketch, but most interested. ing “by heart.” Some say pedal is to and it is Watch the average boy who uncon- be released when the harmony the children in the rural dis- it already occupies not want to forget—are had no musical training at all. but today more space than I sciously memorizes that we should first know changes this, tricts and an immense amount of informa- notes, the little — of course, in order to pre- practically those in certain southern ought to take for black all teachers’ training institu- answering a single tion about baseball. the piece quite well on vent “blurring.” But the States who will suffer He knows the names of the play- dots on white paper. modern com- tions require at least most from the nar- question. If you want to go into the sub- But some music; there- ers, their records, batting averages, the instrument, before poser, and especially the modern impres- rowmindedness and shortsightedness ject and all sorts of we do not want to re- fore grade teachers who have been of more fully I suggest that you buy things, we begin to memorize. sionistic gradu- our legislators. largely because he wants to know about them. composer, often wants precisely (Remember this a copy member those little dots ated in recent years are much better failure of my book “Music in the Grade The movie fan Others, such as the a blurred effect; therefore, he of the present Congress memorizes the names of scores of actors as dots. What we want ANDOR FOLDES disregards equipped, so far as the next time Schools” which the music is concerned, may be secured from and actresses and is famous German piano the principle and calls for pedaling which you vote for a congressman! able to give their genealogies, to remember are the than used to be the case. publishers of this magazine. pedagog, will The music So far their whims, their attire, their marriages, their George Leimer produce the effect that he wants. as music in rural schools and musical sounds which those little dots symbolize. supervisor is a much better musician, is con- divorces. They (once the teacher of Walter Gieseking) advocate cerned, Much of this information is , the Finally, the musician of taste and dis- two things have composed of might also represent a tune we want too, and more and more supervisors been happening to sing after learning of a piece by heart entirely without crimination are transient episodes of no permanent significance. In- the help uses the pedal at such points St fifteen or twenty When Shall a Prospective having heard it in the movie, in the ballroom, or in graduates of four -year courses, many of years. inIn terest, and of an instrument. Through such a method we arc and in such a fashion the first^ interest only, is the basis of his remarkable school. as to produce what them with °m Sc ools What we actually want to remember is the master’s degrees in addition, are beinS memory of compelled to listen with our inner ears. have tc , We he feels is a consolidated ’and ^ Artist Begin to Specialized these trifling bits of celluloid gossip. There- good musical effect. This is Grade teachers an0ther sound of these notes—the tune, the accompaniment, are still not as well pre- Station fore, memory imagine the sound of the music and commit it tc . experts not considered to be "cheating” ^^ know that musical interest of a the figuration, and the but pared for teaching music 00m sch° o1 Wl11 Q. Should a person planning to be a thousand and one things which, memory that as they ought have very intense type is way. Such a method can be employed merely putting into disaDDeared Tr, , concert the foundation stone of all good operation the taste ' get e a1 pianist go to a general college combined in our minds, finally make up that to be, and music ' the won- only in supervisors are still not CC y consolidated musical memories. cases where the student is well advanced in which the pianist has h0ni with se J where he studies music rather incidentally, derful, unforgettable been acquiring in as good musicians eia hundred pupils piece of art, a sonata of Beetho- the as is desirable, but y can or shall he begin specialize technic of the instrument, to the extent that he his years of study and offer J. at once to A musical memory can be purely auditory; ven’s, a fugue of experience. As a both are better than educatlonal facilities after that is, Bach’s, or an etude of Chopin’s. will be able matter they were a gener- the kniatld than graduating from high school?—C. F- one which to play the piece after having memorized of fact, the high-grade artist < remembers, above all, the sounds them- may ation ago, so I can at least room school; therefore, it away from the report nprog-s the A. If you have selves tone, instrument. It presupposes a very actually know a good deal more about the movementmoveVT f?'toward have real talent and pitch, tone-color, and so forth. It can be Understand the Language ress. consolidation has comprehensive technical equipment. the matter than the some chance of winning success as a visual; one which remembers editor—although I In very that a certain piece be- These notes are part of a language, a recent years the increase in public gins musical lan- In my opinion the two methods .should be admit that pianists as well tion, and in performer you ought to be study- on the left-hand page, or combined. as editors musical many ruralTreas that a page is turned guage, which we have to learn, just as we learn instruction in the South has the music' hig a a French At the beginning, at least in the first four or five years often disagree with one instruction is piano intensively at this time. Of certain measure which another in the been notable, fully equal to contains certain notes. Or, or Latin in school. We might have been able and as more money be- that in cities course, can to learn of study, we must learn on the instrument whether matter of pedaling. and villages-sometimes you ought to be taking harmony be made up largely of mechanical, muscular, comes available for educational it is a short poem in French just to recite it once for our we wish to or purposes, In superior and music needs and nervous not. In our first memorizing attempts Now, how does all this apply to the the second place, history too, for a pianist reactions. This latter is the kind of mem- teacher there will be more and more there is at a special occasion, but it will not stick in we must begin young student? music teach- a fairlv to be an u ory that enables with small and easy pieces, then move Well, in general the stu- ing. tOW all-round musician, and if y° us to recall the motions required to our minds unless we know This is one of the reasons ay what it means. Similarly, on successively to more difficult dent had why we can manage some 1 a certain work, ones and learn them better follow the pedal mark- musical a course in English or or the fingering of a diffcult pas- in music, we have to know people should be both sad and by countles, each what a sonata, a fugue, without first playing them on the ings pretty closely. If county other subject field sage, perhaps long after instrument. he feels that using indignant U eri entirely outside the we have forgotten everything or an etude is, before because of the refusal P “tendent S we can learn it successfully from Today I use this system of our general who has of But C >1 nected of learning chiefly for re- the pedal at a certain point would make clrn ge of music, that will be all to the good. tbe Piece. Memory rapidly becomes memory. Natmnal Congress last fall to Ch°°ls in the a h ? ? We must temporarily identify ourselves with freshing older works of the legato pass the except those county if you ought a an automatic my own repertoire, and espe- smoother or the rendition bill which want to play in public you physio-mental record. If you the great masters, would have given and lar J Brahms, Mozart, Schubert, and cially on long financial aid Ser vil- 3 ' train rides I like to “read” otherwise more effective, let lages Tffis ! 1 to be practicing four to y °.Ul wrist watch and “play him seek the to w from three or - and lay it up for repairs at others, while thousands of schools so the muslc th? we learn what they said. Just as in through” in mind, that they tion also sit ua- five out er S my works which I want to play on advice of his teacher or of some other or six hours a day, straightening ’ you wil1 tbat for days you auto- learning might have had better educational 16 & numbsr of a poem of Longfellow’s or Byron’s, it will be the concert facili- have counties your lcai1 look stage and which I have not had lin oppor- mature musician about it. But let him ties, countv sun’ technic, familiarizing yourself with at your wrist for the time, although including mote music teaching. ° f mUSic no ^ much more difficult for us, perhaps nearly impossible, tunity to This ’ - watch practice for a long time. times with some piano literature, dis- is there. The very vivid fpechdSte acquiring taste and to learn it by heart, should we fail to v ^ understand imagination of the sounds, ( 574 crimination Continued on Page 604) l-ORU ARD MARCH in performance. 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Music and Study DANCE OP THE SKELETONS A little grotesque dance picturing skeletons capering around a plantation churchyard. The staccato notes must be exaggerated like the “blood and thunder” music in the movies. Grade 3. MILO STEVENS Moderato M.M. J-=84 % iia A=f r f 3k f f ibf -#r |

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ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI tHE ANALYSIS of the internal history exists in a kind of polarity in relationship: between father and periods of generations. DOMENICO SCARLATTI -A. sson has long been one of the T This theory of generations fits in most interesting problems of psychology, and if we agree with modern psycho- admirably with the teachings of analysis, there Freud, if we understand r to mean that each exists, as a rule, between fathers and sons a tragic tension which subsequent generation follows a style of life and art opposed to lequently leads to that neurotic that of the pre- complex designated by Sigmund Freud as the ceding generation. We can observe this difference in generations following each Oedipus complex. Without going into this weighty problem in great detail, one other, granted that the sons are not can say: Fathers and sons put in the shade by the fathers. do not always agree, and sons often delight in lead- The statement is often heard—too little tested as to its reliability ing a life diametrically opposed to that —that when of their fathers. The choice of an occu- parents force their children to study music, they often create in them perma- pation is often an expression of this opposition. a nent aversion to music. More often, however, the opposite i true father,: The matter begins to be particularly interesting —when for us when we scrutinize the try to diive the desire for lelationship music out of their children. Then it may be that the of those fathers and sons both of whom were composers; thereby we musical son develops a gigantic energy, are reminded of that view of history in that the musical aversion of the father inaugurated by the historian, Ottokar Lorenz unwittmgjy Spurs and transferred °n the musical genius of the son. This was the case with Hugo by his son, Alfred Lorenz, the musicologist, to the field of music! o But let us speak of those Tne older Lorenz advances the theory cases in which the son took up the musical call- that every generation of mankind, made ing of the up of father. all those who live at the same time in a certain third of a century pos- In earlier times there was sesses its own style of life, philos- the case of the Renaissance composer, Orlando ophy, and art. The style changes • di Lasso (1532-1594). His two sons, every thirty to thirty-five years, and Ferdinand di Lasso (d. 1609), and

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FINALE, FROM RHAPSODIE HONGROISE, NO. 6 With le$son by Dr. Guy Maier on opposite page. FRANZ LISZT The Technic of the Month in three parts) ( J = 96 - 112) (A story A A ILi ^ f f Conducted by Quf mcuer pfff p-p ^ p p p p p p

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m JL M. 4 5 4 - RACTICING the last page of Liszt’s Ex. 2 i. » < 3 m m • m m » m ' ~ it 2 P ft serves two pur- £ I rpf Sixth Rhapsody —m p *-i— f rf r r r is presented >- (1) the student ^f-pT r r f tc f f f f f f e~t 0 9 Pposes: 9 best octave etudes in I with one of the

4r-H 1-4 i i i mastering this L f r r r-~n piano literature; and (2) (#= tackling the rest of the piece page before ft r7\ play- m- puts the student well on his way to f last part of the • ing the whole difficult BS -F-0 P confidence and brilliance. * » i :-• j— Rhapsody with f outset this finale should be » 'T At the P f i- played slowly, hands sep- and memorized ' r\ ± ..ft ^ j E 1 arately, without looking at the keyboard. Jf (V Be sure to accomplish this with all lost motion ruthlessly eliminated. The left- hand “skip-flips” must be negotiated with the utmost ease and accuracy (don’t 4 4 4 peek, even once!) with hands flipping f\ 1 P • if - • — i 9. L_ 1 _ U- 3- --ii / V t h hw ~ w • tm m • am“— — E E efpL 9m P71TBZ effortlessly over the key tops. There must l L m Tr * » • " W m _ L— • A fe 0 __ m pjf1 X — — ' 9 9 — . -4 .. . — 7 ) — P m * 4 • u r be no change in technical approach when etc. n ^ Sdats mmmrn- the octave scale passages appear (Meas- ure 9). Hold hand high and close in on Combine these impulses as usual. J 10 the keyboard: play with the maximum After you have mastered this page, of 15 of finger stroke and the minimum of course you will learn to play the whole , - \>±* wrist and forearm movement. Aways use Rhapsody! The only obstacle in the way race which the i i*~ • - a E_ fill»l|f hr the fourth finger on the black keys to is the cruel endurance 1 9 • X 1 I tX L_ 9— -J — V LJ : XV — w - last half dozen pages exact from your i in-and-out r- i i smoothness, to reduce ! -*Jvr 9 W ^ ^ u _t I —m u —l _J rm u inure — 1 to play music. I movement, and to encourage “finger” mechanism. Cheer up! Anyone with ordi- d “From the time I married, I had a great desire to learn his hear- to study till articulation versus the wrist and fore- narily good octaves can “wow” saw how much it adds to a home. But 1 never could find time 1^ this exciting piece if he is will- 4 long and ers with arm snatch, stroke, or whack, so the children were older and all in school. Then I was determined to learn. to falsely advocated by octave methods. ing to tailor the cloth of this last section All this applies, of course, to the right to his own fit—that is, to cut it to suit also, be forever on its himself. Therefore, for youthful stu- has seen hand which must “My music dealer assured me it’s never too late . . . that he guard against those futile up-and-down dents and apprehensive “octavites” I sug- more and more adult beginners in recent years. Then he made a suggestion movements which exhaust the pianist gest drastic excisions as follows: Count- Organ said that here all I : he showed me the Hammond and and make the acquiring of a rapid, bril- ing from the first measure of the Allegro that was needed I played a few notes liant octave technic virtually impossible section of the Rhapsody, play through was a way to play rich, satisfying music more easily. measures; for most students. Measure 42; cut the next eight glorious and full and spine-tingly , . . the tones were After thorough single-handed practice, starting at Measure 51, play through 72 through work at both hands together very slowly Measure 71; cut from Measure beginning at Measure 103, (no looking at keyboard!), quite forte, Measure 102; “So here I am now, not much more than a beginner, and playing of the Rhapsody. m the end with fingers played in key contact when- play to I had dreamed of. My music that is truly lovely . . . more beautiful than ever possible. For young students and for pianists is so enticing and so ever-interesting that it keeps leading virtuosic equipment, I fur- Hammond Organ In Measures 15 to 18 the names of the with less than !” that the first pages of me on to bigger things. Playing and practicing are my pet hobby notes which come in the first and fifth ther recommend out also. In other- sixteenths of each measure must be thor- the Rhapsody be cut piece with the oughly memorized. These groups of four words, don’t begin the Giusto ) and C-sharp ma- sixteenths must be practiced hands singly D-flat ( Tempo pages, but start right out and together in rapid impulses, thus: jor ( Presto ) engaged solely in war with the Andante section. The moral of the story is: If you have now because we are music inside you that begs for expression, work. But you may wish to join the get acquainted withthe Hammond Organ. many families who are planning for a In thousands of homes and apartments Hammond Organ after the war. Hear and

richer experience for try the Hammond Organ now . . . most etc. it's making music a etc. thousands of families. You can’t buy one dealers have reserved one for this purpose.

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hours who dedicated his “Klavierbiichlein” to to make singers rehearse explored. Art means style and style in- sion not son. The opposition of — case. This is his eldest the son as is so often the volves a deep and penetrating knowledge on end, is a subconscious Physical Coordination which has killed to the father one. It a most harmful habit of the correct way in which music is to displays itself first cf all in the life chosen Voice beautiful voices. Very promising Questions be performed. Immediately, one asks many a life of constant in musical by Friedemann, mov- singers, after a year or two in Singing what is the correct way? Of course, there one might almost call it a vagabond leads or as chorus ing— of a comedy, either as is no one correct way in the sense which is in sharp contrast developed “nodules” on life— to the invariable frame in members, have (iContinued from Page 563) single fixed and in principles of the old master, who had swerec/ Lj DR. vocal cords, which often result NICHOLAS DOUTY which a composition is set. But the style the the dignified position This disaster is grown up in of the Here we can the death of the voice. of the work is different. old cantors. What inward struggles the solely by overwork. practice hour should be made to har- speak of correct and incorrect interpre- caused No questions will be answered in I HE ETUDE unless accompanied must be brilliant Friedemann had to fight out we by the full tiame who direct vocal work the inquirer. Only initials, monize with sound physical sense. The tations without implying fixed mechani- Those and address of or pseudonym given, will humanly consider- do not know. His roots were in the old be published. is never to sing too much, more thoughtful and first thing — calness. which he tried spasmodically responsible for voices and age from too long, or too heavily at any one time. Style means the coordination of all the ate—they are many remark- to free himself. The often glowing, often Over-singing is far more injurious, in the originally, into the lives. America produces elements that went, capricious sonatas, formations of a genu- if we hear only a few long run. than under-singing. A difficult of the song. Thus, the student able voices, and creation but restless genius, are products of are short, it is because ine a vocal problem can be corrected with time. must learn about the composer who cre- or if their lives be cor- soul hovering between beaming brilliance throat can mean the the of wrong conditions which must An overstrained ated it, the spirit of the land and ' ” piove of the and dark night; they are forerunners of lo Cure a Vibrato the tone quality and power hoarseness through the cooperation II,,,, of the voice end of all singing! Where times in which he lived, the character- rected and the singer's of romanticism. Friedemann is the type of control of it. You should en- should be at- students themselves, of teachers, and contralto pupil luiio has a vibrato deavor persists, no vocal exercises music of that land and those i }iave a to understand books istics of the highly gifted son of a supreme genius q of both types, for America’s professional music. of appears to come from nervousness when only by this tempted; instead, a competent doctor times, about the language, the circum- producers of MhiC h means is the perfect teacher pro- a father. in church. When she first came to me duced. Please consulted. Indeed, many “sing- writ- he sings study Shakespeare’s “The Art should be stances under which the work was decided, but 1 started proper breath- of Singing" Also Johann Sebastian Bach’s second it was most and Proschowskl's “The Singing ing” problems can best be rectified in ten. and about the significance of the and vocal exercise on a medium School'’. These son, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788) a exercises books may be had through decided swell. It is better but combination with doctor and teacher. to which the music is set. tone making a the publishers of The Etude. poem his father. In many of his emulated per- yet what l would like. What can 1 do for The second step in sound practicing is It is the song rather than the singer Musical Fathers not as sonal sketches and letters he identifies complete cure of this insidious malady? practice the right way! I am pur- style of interpretation. a Why I» Her Kange of Tones Becoming —to which sets the have also a soprano with a nice range, but himself with his father who, to him, is 2 1 Smaller? posely general on this point, because artist like the American Marian An- vibrato that her tones are not true An and Sons highest authority, as when he with such a can the desig- you know an exercise to cure this? Q. I have studied with present there is no single "right way” that derson, for instance, sings Mozart in the to pitch. Do my teacher himself and Johann in for two from Page 576) nates Sebastian as / right 'ft using the vowel oh ascend- years and I believe she is competent. apply equally well to every throat. The pure Mozart style, while her style of (.Continued 3 4m first space treble clef, and Recently I had an audition, anti-Rameauists, though a whole world ing the scale to V. the singing six num- pupil between them must is very differ- as teacher and the singing a Negro spiritual Lasso (d. 1625), likewise chose music changing to ah? She has a range from bers in English, French, and Italian. separates the two and they belong to Gradually My individual approach interpre- E-flat with teacher's report determine what the ent. In both cases, her stylistic a career; Ferdinand became, like his low G below Middle C. to D or was that I was under pitch, generations opposed to each other Philipp my range II is highly t ones, but I want more resonance was getting shorter, and that TO PAW'S IP A M O this is done, it acquisition of this Rudolf lovely even we GREA T is to be. When tation is sound. The father, court Kapellmeister, and Emanuel imitated his father’s bourgeoise to G. the second space. Can I were to change my type of compositions, be- for the teacher to supervise the involves long study. The court. from Middle C advisable sound style became organist at the Munich cause the shorter and well-balanced life. But in contrast have your help nant tone throughout the scale. See that same lines. treatment. cannot overdo in speak- your pupils sense of tonal security will develop exercises, it must be practiced (always One sion and life. youngest son of Bach (1735-1782) and the produce this kind of tone and do 2. Your ot reiy upon the and just in proportion as you learn how to sing Singers on sure physical basis!) slowly and ing, laughing, shrieking, singing. One Let us examine the dynasty of Bach. old resonance of the bones — Speakers a master is just as great. From Johann a 1 s the head correctly without forcing the tone. the should alicays remember to avoid unnec- eldest Y "J and face alone, carefully—first one tone and then The son of the great cantor of St. Sebastian a disposal it there has been preserved 6re are ^ wo kinds the use 3. In the limited space at our of °f books upon very slowly at first, then more essary work of the vocal cords. In pro- Thomas’ was Wilhelm Friedemann to iCe impossible to discuss and to explain next— Bach sentence which he was accustomed ' thooretical books and practical would be on es. ^J°The varying volumes of fessional work, however, we often find (1710-1784) . former govern the and more rapidly. Not that father and son express when he went with his eldest explain carefully the theories the laws that V lce the singing voice. Perhaps exactly the opposite. One must appeal were in .? Reduction and often contain pictures tone produced by The artistic part of vocal study can any way unfriendly to each other son from Leipzig Dresden. of to nearby nusc ^ upon “Acoustics” in the first es » bones, and cavities involved. the long article wait until the vocal to the producers of musical comedies, —on the contrary, 'f 'J safely be made to Friedemann was the “Don’t 1 “History of Music” might “Friedemann,” he would say then, er ac^ exercises, the use of which volume of Grove’s have been well radio, and other branches of the profes- avowed favorite of tenH s *° this difficult and de- Cleans the tissues and physical groundwork Johann Sebastian, (Continued on Page 602) increase the strength and the resili- help you lo understand and clears the voice en ot the "FORWARD MARCH vocal organs, and therefore to im- batable subject. WITH MUSIC” ETUDE " m THE OCTOBER, MARCH WITH MUSIC i 944 "FORWARD 595 ) — " —

mediocre organ composi- lating. A performance will not notices of new ' he sends 1 ~ your congregation feel -V. receive such information make that it m tions. When you belongs in the worship service. Many make an earnest effort to become ac- of expe- the standard compositions requested by Organ quainted with it. From personal ami Chous Uuestiojvs Much Good Organ Literature most the congregation are nostalgic and to How rience I find that this has been many members bring back memories helpful in adding to my repertoire of that distinctly helpful in American music. are establishing a Dare I Play in My Church? worshipful atmosphere. If someone In closing may I remind you that we ex- presses approval of your rendition started to talk about preludes, postludes, of -Answered HENRY S. FRY. Mus. Doc. Page 569) such a number, do not be scornful Lf ( Continued from and offertories, and that in selecting of his approbation; accept it and try music for the church service we must again to please. remember that we are dealing ho questions those used by Mr. Bonnet. composers is denied us, so start to de- always will be answered in THE ETUDE unless accompanied by the full satisfied in the church, and Also, never be with your rep- name and address Contemporary music should be added velop your own initiative in selecting with personalities 4-jopklni of the inquirer. Only initials, or pseudonym given, will be pub- ertoire. not give up your !t(j 4j. P. lished. audience. You will find Do desire to haturally, in fairness to all from time to time; otherwise the efforts what is good in American music. Do not not a concert-hall friends and advertisers, we can express no opinions the musical standards times to play some improve of your times in the Century catalogue. as to the relative qualities of various organs. composers would never appear wait until these compositions are recog- it quite imperative at appears many of new this name you may be sure compositions that congregation, but step softly. Each time you see other organists. Quite often a of the standard melodic, is well written, on your program. New composers deserve nized by that the piece is and knows,” though, as I have across its pedagogic purpose in a way encouragement, and if their work is ever perfect gem is found in a number by a “everybody * * * puts like. The list contains a few of !ty -0evelopment front of the out of tune, and a number of them IACCCS& < (Finger Technique) 2985 In An Old World Village. F-l choir loft as possible. This change would bring sounding as soon as the pumping process be- 3458 The Snowflake’s Story, C-G-2 (Rhythmic Legato) (Alternating Hands) singers and organist closer together, and would gins; that is, sounding without stops being Come and Play. G-l (Rhythmic Legato) any 3169 Pussy Willow, C-2 (Finger Technique) 2996 benefit the 3000 My Little Goldfish, C-l, (Left Hand Melody) choir members who must now stand drawn. What can I do to correct these diffi- 3166 Bounce the Ball, C-2, (Forearm Development) 3001 The Captains March, C-l.... (Time Study) in a very small space and face the side wall, culties? Would it be possible to change the 3451 Hiking, C-2 (Finger Staccato) My Pretty Ce'lo, C-l, ..(Left Hand Melody) 3159 Jolly Santa Claus, G-2 (Legato) 3003 thus throwing their voices against the wall wind supply mechanism so that wind would 3004 The Garden Waltz, C-l. . (Rhythmic Legato) 3160 Guess Who, F-2 (Legato) 3007 The Big Soldiers, C-l (Double Notes) instead of “out into the chapel ” Would the be supplied by electric motor instead of 3457 See Saw, F-2 (Legato) Skip and Dance, F-l (Rhythmic Legato) 3453 On the Merry (Legato) ms imp 3039 organ be too far from the motor? The motor is treadles ? E. J. G. Go Round, C-2 MED MUSICIANS 3046 Little Boy Blue, C-l... (Left Hand Melody) 3449 The Dream of Little Boy Blue, C-2 in a small closet just 3050 Santa Claus. C l (Finger Technique) outside the choir loft, (Finger Technique) A. The reeds of the instrument may be dirty, 3051 My Littlo Pet, C-2 (Double Notes) and would be about ten or twelve feet from 3455 A Riddle, G-2 (Finger Technique) 3l»o4 Rabin Red Breast. F-2.. (Finger Technique) which would interfere with their pitch 3456 The Robin’s Song, . Technique) the organ when moved. S. O. M. G-2. . (Finger 3058 Fairy Wish, G-2 (Finger Staccato) — 3163 The Imp in the Clock, G-2 . they might spread out of tune and eventually 3061 Christmas Is Here. F-2, (Finger Technique) (Finger Technique.) a Better Income A. The reed organ tone probably go “dead.” advice would be to get an mand 3101 Little Red Skin, F-l, (Alternating Hands) does not Our 3167 The School Bell, (Finger Technique) G-2 3109 Moonbeams C l (Double Notes) “carry” to your congregation, and being close organ mechanic to correct these faults, but 3165 An Airplane Ride, D-2, (Alternating Hands) 3111 In the Country. F-2 (Rhythmic Legato) 3454 The Playful Echo, C-2 (Staccato) to the organist probably drowns out the sing- if you prefer doing it yourself, remove the 3117 Out On the Ocean, C-2. . . (Rhythmic Legato) 3460 Tho Woodpecker, C-2 (Staccato) 3119 Boy Scouts, f 2 (Finger Technique) ing of the congregation to the organist. We tremolo and take out the reeds with reed 3450 The Elephant's Trunk, F-2 (Staccato) 3580 The Bold Knight, F-2. .. .(Finger Staccato) suggest your consulting with the builder of “puller,” which is probably installed in the 3164 Mr. Third Takes a Walk, C-2 (Double Notes) 3582 Careless Mary, F-2 (Finger Technique) 3168 Busy Little Bee, Am -2. (Finger Technique) . 3583 Old Man Winter. Dra-2 (Staccato Study) your organ about the distance between organ organ, clean reeds and put them back. If they 3161 Sail On Little Boat, F-2 (Legato) 3584 My Valentine. G-2 (Finger Staccato) and motor. It might be advisable to save the are sharp, hammer them to straighten them, 3162 Jumping Rope, C-2 (Arpeggios) 3585 The Big Clock, C-2 (Time Study) Conservatory amount of the cost of the proposed changes and if flat, file the open end to sharpen them. University Extension Ask your dealer for Century Music. If he Ask your dealer for Century Music. If he towards the purchase of a suitable instrument. We recommend, however, that you have an cannot supply you, send vour order direct cannot supply you, send your order direct In the event that you finally replace the organ organ mechanic to give the instrument the to us over to us. Our complete catalogue listing over Our complete catalogue listing 1903 - CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC - 1943 with a more fitting instrument, should necessary attention. know of no reason THE WORLD'S LARGEST HOME STUDY you take We 3700 is 3700 numbers is FREE on request. numbers FREE on request. care of the facing of the choir members in why a blower cannot be substituted for the MEMBER OF CENTURY MUSIC PUBLISHING CO. placing the new instrument. treadles to supply the power, and suggest that CENTURY MUSIC PUBLISHING CO. 254 West 40th Street New York 18. N. Y. you consult the Blower Company located in 254 West 40th Street New York 18. N. Y. your State, whose name we are sending you. Extension Courses by noted teachers, leading No entrance requirements except for Degree Q. I am enclosing the specifications of a two-manual organ in which I am interested. Q. For some time I have been interested in to Diplomas, and Degree of Bachelor of Music. Courses. Credits earned by using your spare Does this indicate that the organ contains a an organ ( electric or pipe) for my home. I do total of 487 plus 572 plus 12, or 1071 pipes? not know the names of the various manufac- time for advancement. Do you think the specification all right for a THIRD SACRED turers, and You can prepare yourself for a better position small organ?—N. M. therefore have not been able to ASSOCIATED learn much their products. Will be SONG CONTEST, $150.00 about you by studying at your convenience by the Ex- Catalog and illustrated lessons sent without A. You are correct in assuming that the so kind as to send me the names and addresses instrument contains 1071 pipes, based on the of these manufacturers? The construction of For details, write MUSIC PUBLISHERS, INC. tension Method. obligation to you. Check coupon below. statement of the specifications. We are taking the home is in wood, has six rather large THE HARMONY MUSIC it for granted that the usual couplers are in- rooms and the living room is 65' x 22' x 12' Presents cluded, and consider the specification a good —J. C. C. one. We would prefer a larger Pedal organ, PUBLISHERS A. Your living room is certainly of ample OUTSTANDING if possible from the financial standpoint. WORKS proportions, and are sending you list of A DISTINGUISHED FACULTY OF ARTIST TEACHERS — HIGHEST STANDARDS OF MUSIC INSTRUCTION Box we 743, Chicago 90, Illinois some manufacturers by mail, which we suggest FOR PIANO SOLO Q. Recently I read that the Wanamaker you might use in your investigations. organ is larger than the one at Atlantic City. We doubt very much that you will be able to have WHAT PROGRESS ARE YOU MAKING? EQUIP YOURSELF FOR A BETTER POSITION Thisis Your Opport unity—Mail the Coupon Today! I have always had the opposite idea. Please Bach— Busoni an instrument built at this time. advise me as to this. Is the Atlantic City organ Chaconne $ .75 proof of quality is important for inter- A one advise Your musical knowledge position in- in an auditorium? Kindly me how to your and Q. I would like to obtain a very small, in- deFalla — ested in further musical training. Our courses offer UNIVERSITY EXTENSION Dept. A-453 address a letter to Charles M. Courboin. G. F. CONSERVATORY, — Spanish Dance No. 2 come today—are the result of the training you expensive, pipe organ—containing two man- 75 you the same high quality of preparation which 1525 E. 53rd Street, Chicago, Illinois. PIANO TEACHERS! A. The Atlantic City organ is said to have uals and pedals. I thought you might be able given ability. train- Friedman-Gaertner have your natural Additional has Please send me catalog, sample lessons and full information in the Philadelphia to help locate such an instrument. Will developed and trained many successful musi- 32,913 pipes and the organ me 6 Viennese Dances 1.50 ing will open fields, opportunities, regarding course I have marked with an below. Store of Wanamaker is said to contain over you also give me an opinion as to the approx- up new new cians and teachers in the past. X GLAMORIZE YOUR TEACHING 30,000 pipes. We do not know the exact num- imate price for building an organ of enclosed Guarnieri greater income and higher standing in the musi- Piano, Teacher's Normal Course Voice Learn the secret of playing and teaching: popular ber, but at least the Wanamaker organ is specifications, as well as the addresses of sev- The Little Horse With The Broken Leg 40 NATIONAL STUDY music jazz, HOME COUNCIL . swinpr, jump, boogie-woogie. Give cal Piano, Student's Course than other instrument except the eral organ builders nearest my home, who world. Choral Conducting your students what they want. larger any MacDoweil The Council is an Association of which we are a Atlantic City organ, which is in the Audito- might give me more information?—W. E. S. TODAY! . Public School Mus. Beginner's . .our new 100-page INSTRUCTION The Eagle 60 D — Clarinet U in that city. You can address Dr. Charles It ru l es an d illustrations to work from. rium This valuable training, through our Extension member. includes the outstanding correspond- * iC ^ , A A. The policy of The Etude will not permit O Public School Mus.—Advanced Dance Band Arranging eacher s (personal) Instruction Manual. Descjibes M. Courboin at 481 Fort Washington Avenue, Mozart-Frey schools in lesson-to-lesson our recommendation of a particular organ Courses, may be taken at home with no interfer- ence the United States with headquar- assignments for the beginner, me- New York City. 15 Waltzes (In one Volume) 50 Advanced Composition a^ vanced builder or type of instrument. We should ters at Washington, D. C. Members are admitted Violin student. Order now... today! ence with your regular work just by devoting to rice $10 complete, insured and postpaid anywhere* think a more practical arrangement would be Niemann Ear Training & Sight Singing Q. Will you kindly advise me how the only after rigid examination of the training courses Guitar for you to secure a small unit organ of two The Humming Bird 75 self-study the many minutes each day that ordi- „SAVANAUGH PIANO SCHOOLS Stopped Diapason is built? Also please give History of *75 Fifth Avenue ranks of pipes. This would give you a four- Silver Cascade 75 offered. Music Mandolin New York 17, N.Y. me the address of Jesse Crawford. If you do narily go to waste. The progressive musician, as foot Flute of different quality from the four- Harmony not have his address, would it be possible for Ravel-Schmitz We are the only school giving instruction Saxophone foot Flute Harmonique you specify, but it busy as he may be, realizes the value of such in you to send me the specifications of the Wur- Pavane 60 Cornet would be a unit of the Stopped Diapason. music by the Home-Study Method, which includes —Trumpet Reed Organ buy litzer Organ upon which he made numerous study and finds the time for it. Well paid positions war bonds and With this arrangement the Stopped Diapason Strauss-Gruenfeld records?—B. M. W. in its curriculum all the courses necessary to ob- Advanced Cornet Banjo would be duplexed to the Great organ in place Soiree de Vienne 75 are available to those who are ready for them. STAMPS tain the Degree of Bachelor FOR VICTORY A. The stopped Diapason is constructed, gen- of your suggested Melodia. Your specification of Music. Name Age Toch erally, of wood, but we have known of a would require four different ranks of pipes, Capriccetti, Op. 36 1.00 it too! It's Street stop that name. We quote from which might be preferred if you are willing YOU can do up to YOU! A Diploma Is Your Key to Success! No metal by 3 Piano Pieces, Op. 32 1.00 “Organ Stops” by Audsley—“A covered labial to pay the price. If you wish a separate Bour- City State stop, of 8 ft. pitch in the manual divisions, don for the Pedal organ (as indicated in your Weinberger Polka and of 16 ft. pitch in the Pedal Organ. The specification) it would be preferable to an from “Shvanda" 60 Are you teaching now? If so, many pupils have how English name, though time honored, is neither extension of the Swell Stopped Diapason. University Extension Conservatory ou correct nor desirable, for the stop has no re- Your pedal department would be very in- Y ? Do you hold a Teacher's Certificate? iwr technic, accuracy, memorizing, sight- semblance to a true Diapason in form or tonal- definite with only a Bourdon included and no 25 West 45th Street e ding and 1 5 3 R D Have you studied like to earn rousoular oo o**n„«^ « Playing thru mental to the unimitative flute manual to pedal couplers. The specification 5 2 5 EAST STREET (DEPT. A- 4 5 3 ) CHICAGO. ILL. Harmony? Would you at 0n u,cb ity.” The stop belongs adnimized '# Q results. Practice effort n0 ol? i! stopper. For should include couplers or more definite ad- New York students. 8 ™0118 pianists teachers and family, and is equipped with a the Degree of No ' Bachelor of Music? obligation* see “Bourdon” in the ditional pedal stops. We suggest that you ad- a!ke details of construction !1 Studi°*. Dept ^ 64- K Covim, California Audsley book, “Organ Stops.” We suggest that dress different builders for their prices. 600 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC THE ETUDE °CT03ER MARCH WITH MUSIC r 1944 "FORWARD 601 .

phy corresponded exactly to his style, Fathers and particularly the style of his last sym- Musical and his operas and, phonies above all, MUSIC SERVICE The Fall Season the classic, liberalistic “Magic Flute.” Publications Violin Questions ” Sons Beethoven also had a musician as a With the opening of school, many teachers BAND METHOD, Simple, practical and thorouch. “&d Setters Will, mediocre talent, full of FAY will have need for bows and violins. Good, father; a weak- each 75 14 Boobs f are scarce, and Page 598) Manual, $1.50. moderate priced instruments (Continued from nesses in character who, like Leopold .Tea- i'cr's METHOD, Newest manner of procedure. desirable bows almost unprocurable. We are to capitalize on FAY STRING Mozart, wanted the genius * * * eilch fortunate in having available a number of 4 Boobs 75< 1'iano acc., $1.50. -Answered L HAROLD BERKLEY really good bows in the price range of the ^£)ea(erd fluentvery wh ere! more to the pretty of his son. But Beethoven, who already —Manual including } rJlea Jina we want to listen once BAND BOOK, Gilbert & Sullivan favorites. average student. Violins, too, are here in the to the new Napoleonic caVOY this he meant belonged era, each 35* numbers, and all of genuine musical worth. Dresden songlets?” By 25 Books No questions will be answered in THE ETUDE unless accompanied by the full name was stand for it. His open —Complete score, 1 at. opera, which at that time would not opposi- and Dresden BAND LIBRARY, 17 numbers, each complete address of the inquirer. Only initials, or pseudonym given, will be published. BOWS, well balanced, good quality, $10 to $30 which the famous tion to his father he extended to the SAVOY world famous, and in with score society and against with score $1. VIOLINS, hand made, good makers, $35 to $150 Hasse, and his wife, the singer ruling noble the en- Double numbers Educational Works Italian, PROCESSION, March of Dignity by Cross. Piano the word vironment which did not understand FESTAL Send us your order. We will give you our Faustinia took part. Bach meant him. Mavhew Lake. For band and orchestra. Arr bv best selection. If it does not please you, your ironical, The social pressure to which he was ex- 01 BALLO, Scarlatti. Arr. by A. H. Branden- “Liederchen” to be somewhat TEMPO money will be cheerfully refunded. We think by . . Clarinets. Concerning a Shoulder all that his youth was transformed burg. For 3 Pad a bridge to the proper shape. That is apparently considered it beneath posed in his in though, that you will find complete satisfac- and FREE COPIES. Also FREE PHONO- W. H. B., New York.—I have not sufficient is required. It would be extremely difficult for Beethoven in'o a ruler-psychology, Send for tion as we are accustomed to dealing with dignity to compo:e for the opera. and GRAPH RECORD CATALOG XX space at my disposal in these columns to deal you to learn to play, left-handed, a violin LOUISE ROBYN that he became adequately many of America’s most discriminating artists. to the theory of fathers and it so happened a Napo- with the Wrist-and-Finger Motion. fitted in the usual way. According However, surprising that in the field of music. this Motion is so important to good Your accident must have been a pretty bad sons, it is therefore not leon MUSIC SERVICE PRESS For those seeking more expensive instru- MASON bowing that I plan to MARY RACON discuss your letter blow to you, and I sincerely hope that you our article at ments, our stock will be found to hold many of became one cf the most famous Into the sonatina of we now 1166 Sixth Avenue N.Y.C. 19 length on the Christian “Violinist’s Forum” page of the do not find it too difficult to readjust your the finest instruments available, including the his time, and wrote insert a scherzo: Johann Strauss, father December issue of The violin RERNARD WAGNESS operatic composers of Etude. Meanwhile, I technique, for it is evident that your that Strauss was a scintillat- hope that the reply I sent means lot to you. ANT0NIUS STRADIVARI, 1687, “TheKubelik” in a style completely different from and son. Papa you by mail will a pioneer of the enable you to understand the essentials of the of his father. He is, in his sweetness, ing spirit, the Viennese ANT0NIUS STRADIVARI, 1706, Hill Collection JOSEPHINE HOVEY PERRY Motion and its relation to bowing in general. A Stainer (?) Model of style, the actual waltz and the operetta, but his family ANTONIO STRADIVARI’S HISTORY grace, and fineness (2) There is no doubt that a shoulder pad L. C., New York . —From your letter, I am and others of lesser rank. We do not publish predecessor and greatest influence on life turned cut to be highly problematical. which presses on the back of a violin does inclined to think that your violin is not a a catalog, but gladly supply full details and adversely affect the genuine Stainer, German For one prices of instruments in your price range. LOUISE ROBYN Mozart, whose teacher he was in London, And his son, the future waltz king,, suf- volume of tone. Your but a copy. letter was written before the August issue thing, I have never seen a printed Stainer and one can say that the accents of the fered not a little because of the domestic of TECHNIC TALES—Beck 1 $0.75 this magazine appeared. In that issue, the label; all those that are accepted as genuine Introduces 15 essential principles in first year called, He took his mother’s part “English Bach,” as Christian was circumstances. question was discussed rather fully, and doubt- are in manuscript. Another reason is that piano technic coordinating mind, eye, and hand. KENNETH WARREN entire work. against his father, something not at all less you have already seen it. Stainer did not set his purfling particularly Illustrated. echo through Mozart’s near the edge—but most of his imitators did. TEACHER S MANUAL TO TECHNIC TALES— In the case of father and son Scarlatti, unusual. And in his effort to put himself The Maker Prescott It is not generally realized that there are as f^are ‘Uiofini Book 1 75 that, the younger, the saddle, he founded, in opposi- on sale. the contrast is found in into The only complete book Miss S. E. N., Connecticut. many imitation Stainers around as there are East Jackson TECHNIC TALES—Book 2 75 —Abraham Prescott Hill Products ^8 Appraisals (1685-1757) picked out a sub- tion to his father, his famous orchestra. Illustrated. Prospectus Free. worked in Concord, imitation Strads. Some of them are very good Continuation of Book 1 with J 5 lessons for Domenico, N. H. between 1830 and Chicago, #4, III. year study including marcato chords, SQUIER, Author and Publisher 1850 making, indeed, it well be that second ject for his musical creation entirely dif- The older Strau s was reactionary; the V. C. chiefly, violoncellos. He is not instruments and may triads, two-note slurs, etc. Battle Creek, Michigan listed in the reference books, but his work is yours is. You should send it for appraisal to TALCS— ferent from that of the older man. Father younger, revolutionary. The melodies of TEACHER’S MANUAL TO TECHNIC known. It is, in general, quite ordinary work. a dealer such as Shropshire & Frey, 119 West Book 2 .75 1725) devoted cider Strauss are still somewhat stiff; Alessandro Scarlatti (d. the One of his instruments would be worth today, 57th Street, or The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., Exceptional TECHNIC TALES Book 3 (Chord Crafters) . . .75 — himself entirely to operatic creation, and they are rooted in the folklore of the if in good condition, about seventy-five or a 120 West 42nd Street, both in New York City. ROBYN-HANKS HARMONY—Book 1 .75 hundred dollars. Either firm would, for a small fee, give you RARE OLD VIOLINS A Junior Course, for students of any age, in established the famous Neapolitan school. Viennese "Vorstadt.” The waltzes of the ADS written harmony, keyboard harmony, and ear- CLASSIFIED an appraisal, and would advise you regarding On the other hand, it was Domenico who younger Strauss are sophisticated. They training. A Bergonzi (?) Violin the best means of disposing of the instrument. We have just purchased a style of the feverish life ROBYN-HANKS HARMONY—Book 2 75 directed the harpsichord represent not only the of FOR S ALE: STEINWAY CONCERT Mrs. L. S., New Jersey.—The inscription in- Even if your violin should prove to be well-known private collection of rare HARMONY— Book 3 75 ROBYN-HANKS into new, hitherto unheard of Vienna at the time of the Emperor Franz GRAND ABSOLUTELY LIKE NEW. SUB- side your violin is that of Carlo Bergonzi, the genuine, I am afraid that you must not expect KEYBOARD TOWN 75 Italians Joseph Holstad, solo violins, all in prime condition. This STANTIA I. DISCOUNT. finest pupil of Stradivarius. He was bom in to get twelve thousand dollars for it. Not even Includes mere than 75 little melodies for early paths, and introduced the capricious, the Josef I, but also the pleasure-loving Grove, Minneapolis, Minn. offers an opportunity for those who 337 Oak 1683 and died in 1747. All his work was done an exceptional specimen would bring anything training in note reading. unexpected, and the impudent into in- European spirit of the dying nineteenth wish to invest in a beautiful old Italian, ROBYN-CURLITT 75 in Cremona, Italy. He also inserted this in- like that amount. At the present time, Stainers Alessandro SINGING MADE EASY—Book one dol- French or English master priced far be- Folk Son;S> mi) Famous Piclures ROBYN-HANON 75 strumental music. In fact, century, of a world which was slowly tot- scription in violins of other makers which he range in value between fifteen hundred and lar. Eastern Studios, Chambersburg, Pa. low present market values. ROTE CARDS 75 according to con- repaired. Moreover, the same label is to be three thousand dollars, according to condition $195 to Pliin I* B.ifinnei and Domenico were, tering toward catastrophe. The two found in hundreds of old German copies and history. Occasionally more has been paid $1875. Write for new free catalogue. temporaries, different in character, but Strausses represent generations alienated of WANTED FOR OUR ARMED FORCES Bergonzi. So there is no telling by an enthusiastic collector—but not much • out- what your , (Mor Cut MARY DACON MASON diff ersnt- their musical style. Musical instruments of all kinds includ- even more in from eath other. — violin be. If it is genuine more. Worts ing pianos, organs, band and orchestra, may a Bergonzi, FOLKSONCS AND FAMOUS PICTURES . .. 1.00 FRANCIS DRAKE The relationship of Wolfgang Amadeus Quite different was the case of Richard accordions, phonographs, capeharts, orga- and in good condition, it may be worth ten BALLARD First instruction in notation, rhythm, scales, Not a Strad Licensed & Bonded Dealer-Collector (1719-1787) trons and for shipment to our thousand dollars; if it is a German copy, it etc. Cut-out pictures and flash cards add in- Mozart to his father Leopold Wagner, in who~e shadow his son Sieg- chimes fighting nii’ii overseas and for convalescent may not be worth more than fifty dollars. P. A. L. C., Canada . —There is no possibility Rm. 408, 320 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N.Y. terest and value. problematical. And the lat- is extremely fried Wagner lived, even though the hospitals. your idle silent instrument that your violin is a genuine Strad. Stradi- FIRST CLASSICS AND FOUNDATION Now As you live so near to New York, I would career of the great genius, a case the can be of service in winning the war. Write varius never marked his violins “Original”; HARMONY 1.00 rocketlike ter was greatly talented. In this advise you to take it there and, for a small us air mail or wire complete description Second year material including simplified career broken off so abruptly in the prime son. Presumably fee, have it appraised. Shropshire & Frey. 119 and if he had thought some such mark neces- father overshadowed the stating price. We pay full cash value. classics and elementary harmony. 57th Street, sary, it is hardly likely that he would have the master’s life, can be referred back greater Birkel-Riehardson Co., 730 W. 7th Street, West or The Rudolph Wurlitzer BOY MUSIC 75 of Siegfried’s fame would have been used an English word. There are thousands Los Angeles 14, Calif. Co., 120 West 42nd Street, are experts on JBepentmtulitp especially for to 16. to the father-son complex, Mozart’s of a A first piano method boys8 if he had by chance been the son whose opinion you could rely completely. upon thousands of violins bearing a “Stradi- THE PIANO 1.00 ADULT APPROACH TO father wT as rooted partly in orthodox of the varius” label: some of them were made by Hn'nce 1874 iberbmg a Clientele FLASH CARDS 100 reputable master tailor instead FOR SALE: Slightly used classics (vocal, Could It Be Genuine? fine workmen and are excellent instruments; Catholicism, partly in rationalism of that son of the titan of Bayreuth. Siegfried’s instrument;! 1. piano, organ, violin, etc.) of JBiScrumnatmg String piapers List 10*. Fore's 3151 High, Den- P. M. J., North Carolina. the majority, however, are factory-made vio- time. wanted to of his child a nature, (Dept. E) —The label in your He make was a charm'ng, unEissuming ver lins of which even the label does not pretend BERNARD WAGNESS BERNARD WAGNESS 5, Colo. violin purports to be that of Antonio Stradi- SPECIALISTS IN VIOLINS, BOWS, REPAIRS, etc. prodigy, and his efforts in this respect that of his to be genuine. I am sorry to say it, but the PIANO COURSE PREPARATORY BOOK 50 completely different from varius, but the likelihood that it is a genuine CATALOGS and LITERATURE on REQUEST — chances are that your violin belongs in the New, logical, and practical procedures based were one of the reasons for the rapid father or even that of the grand-styled FOR SALE: (New Jersey) pipe organ, Strad is very small. There are thousands of latter class. on the laws of physiology, psychology, and development cf the genius of the boy, Wil- unified, single phase motor. Swell organ old violins with interesting-looking, faded with Cosima. Siegfried’s own daughter, 598, pedagogy leading to real achievements great organ 366, pedal organ 128 “Strad” labels in them that never were within lOtttiam andSon. beginners. but also for his premature physical ex- frieda Wagner, who now lives in Amer- pipes. Nine couplers, ten pistons. Beautiful Copy of a Kloz Violin three hundred miles of Stradivarius’ workshop. 207 South Wabash Avenue Chicago III . tone, excellent Box S. H. c/o — 4, 1! condition. PIANO COURSE—Book 1.00 haustion which finally led to his tragic D. D. K., Michigan . There is little likeli- ica, has told us that her father frequently ETUDE. Some of them are quite good instruments. If — Reading cards covering three octaves, rhyth- that violin is Josef Kloz, PUBLISHERS OF AMERICA'S ONLY JOURNAL death at youthful age. are really anxious to have your violin hood your a genuine mic drills, keyboard harmony, etc. Interesting a disappeared when Hitler, at that time you DEVOTED TO THE VIOLIN ITS for he never, so far as is known, branded his AND LOVERS pieces to play. appraised, I suggest that you send it to either Although Wolfgang tenderly loved his : slowly climbing to fame, visited Wahn- FOR SALE Have you a Persian kitten instruments. It is almost certainly an inferior ENSEMBLE BOOK—Supplementary to Piano in your studio? These gorgeous mousers of the firms I have recommended to Mrs. L. S. "VIOLINS AND VIOLINISTS'* father, one of the most respected com- fried:—so deeply did Siegfried Wagner German copy. There are many of them on Course—Book 1 75 will help save your valuable music. Mrs. Edifed by Ernest N. Doring COURSE Book 2 1.00 posers and an authority in the field of This u. L. Wauls an Accompanist the market, for Kloz violins had a consider- PIANO — hate unnaturalness and bombast. Wetmore, R. D. #4. Corning, N. Y. Specimen Copy 25c— 12 Issues for $2.50 PIANO COURSE—Book 3 1.00 J. L. S., New York . —Living so near to New able popularity at one time, and a number violin teaching, he remained his whole can also be seen in operas of Sieg- TECHNIC FUNDAMENTALS 40 the York City, you should, I think, have little of lesser makers sought to cash in on this YEAR ETUDES 75 life long in decided opposition to him. COLLABORATOR W ANTED: Male, lyric SECOND fried Wagner which, although like those ana melody difficulty in finding a pianist to accompany popularity by inserting facsimiles of his label For developing style and accuracy. writer wants collaborator Against the will of his father he left the of his father were derived from German with appearance, personality. Under 32 you. Why not talk to the organist of your in their instruments. A genuine Josef Kloz AUBU5T GEMUNDER &"50N5 THIRD YEAR ETUDES 75 53 W. 56TH ST.. NEW YORK years of age. Share country studio, reason- church? He would probably know who the would be worth, at the present day, from EIGHT CHORDAL ATTACKS 75 hated Salzburg court. And against this legends, are simpler, more charm- VIOI.INS OZiD much able board. 150 miles from New York City. neighborhood. The easiest $150.00 to $300.00, according to its state of & NEW Fourth grade materia! covering all chord- pianists are in your Expert Repairing, Send for Catalog E paternal will he married a girl whom the ing, and less that time a ^ing 0, 10 obligations. Send Photo. Recom- attacks. burdened. At i l way to find a pianist is to let it be known preservation. father mistrusted greatly. mendations. Dave Morse Studio, Granville, i He associated simpler, more natural generation was that you are looking for one. If this means Concerning the Zanti Violin with free-thinking groups in Vienna and following the rather theatrical genera- does not bring results, you can write to the JOSEPHINE HOVEY PERRY Art, 120 J. H.. Indiana . Alessandro Zanti worked in it seems that it was also FUSE Secretary, The Institute of Musical — against the will tion. Siegfried felt the style of his father OLD ITALIAN VIOLIN by Andreas VIOLIN PLAYERS PLEASURE PATH TO THE PIANO 1.00 New York City. She would Mantua, Italy, from about 1765 to about 1819. Basic Principals of Violin Playing of his father Corelli, school of Guadagnini. Excellent Claremont Ave., Pre-school material using the black keys as that he joined the Masonic as bombastic, differ- concert an advanced student He made some quite good violins, modeling by Carl Jaspan, 18 Short Lectures. Secrets and subconsciously tone. 1 -piece back, golden brown know if the School has of Violin Playing: Revealed. Price S3. 50 the first aporoach. Familiar rhymes and stories lodge—a fact, however, which did not varnish. Bargain at $485.00. Drake town. most of them after Stradivarius or Joseph IC20— 14th St., N., St. Petersburg, Fla. introduce foundation instruction. entiated himself from it. Francis in your keep him from later inducing his 320 East 42nd Street, New York Guarnerius. A specimen of his best work, in BUSY WORK FOR BECINNERS 60 father These are only a few examples from 17, N. Y. Left Handed a good state of preservation, would be worth A writing book furnishing entertaining and in- to join the society. But, while To Play Wolfgang the history can be all structive busy-work for young piano beginners. of music. Many more J. G., North Carolina . —There have been a today about $350.00 or $400.00. But he, like became a zealous member of MORE BUSY WORK 75 the lodge, found. We see here an ancient psycho- number of violinists who, having suffered other makers of better quality violins, also FINE HAND-MADE VIOLINS BUILT 75 Leopold remained, except left hands, have learned to had his imitators, so I cannot assure you that THE HOUSE THAT JACK for one single logical law, is already damage to their the effect of which fully as good as $50,000 old “Strads” are , Clever preparatory material covering reading handed; that is, to bow your violin is a genuine Zanti. If you wish visit, an outsider of the lodge. civi- play the violin left now being offered in Frasers for $300. and playing in four octaves. Attractive little seen in the primitive beginnings of take or send it to the left hand and finger with the right. to be certain, you should a Truly a work of art, with enchanting, pieces and illustrations. It seeems as if father with and son at the lization. the in- firm of violin dealers for appraisal. 1 One may take, for example, To do so, however, takes will power and reputable singing, yet powerful, tone. Made so well close were RELEASED—Make your recita completely alienated. The most the it means starting again they will last for centuries. hostilities of fathers and sons among lusical finite patience, for fnv P parties a huge success. Sen The next best thing to owning a Fraser important historical fact in this 6 from the beginning. That you are willing Does a Reader Know Him? relation- but - right primitive Negro and Indian tribes— pamphlet O. R. Olsen, Auror Violin is to have me repair, revoice and Minn volumes for your love of the R. H., Ohio . —I can find no mention any- ship is that Wolfgang, from this opposi- to do so speaks adjust your present faulty instrument at likewise this ancient psychological law your strength of character. where of a maker by the name of Gellum. tion, violin—and for low cost. developed into the great classicist, re- of The nearest I can come to it is Giovanni Gel- is still effective in a manner highly V LI) will, I am sure, have the good wishes Get Particulars NOW! Oliver Hi Ison Co . t)pTh ? ?. CONCERT VIOLINS ... Pi You in that he completely ttsmansh mini, who worked in Brescia. He was bom overcame the nar- fined and productive culture in our ‘P- One beautifully inlai everyone who reads this. of US in 1864. chiefly CHELSEA FRASER, Violin Expert Distributors, Chestnut St, tnne - Unusual opportunity. Test necessary. Any in 1804 and died He was a Theodore Presser Co., 1712 T Phila Pa, row rationalistic world of his father. tnrmi»i specially built violin is not modem world, the history A St. and likewise in available. O. W S„ 5 Jangoc the relative positions guitar maker, though he made some violins 2025 Stark Saginaw, Michigan He became a free man, viaoe,Pla-l Bristol,n good repairer can change whose philoso- of music. Penna. and cut which today are worth about $250.00. of the bass-bar and the sound post, 602 " FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC WITH MUSIC” 603 THE ETUDE OCTOBER, 1944 "FORWARD MARCH — ”

dulge in before we get results. Precisely a few ounces of melody-making bird as we do not charge our minds Creating a Durable with life, singing high in the sky.” words and sentences we are going to TEACHERS! use PIANO I have often wondered if Miss B, hav- WHERE SHALL I GO TO STUDY? when we meet someone on the street ing listened to his playing, ever again Musical Memory but immediately start a fluent conversa- walked with heavy steps. The experience tion about the weather or daily happen- should have given her wings. Certainly memorizing will (Continued from Page 575) ings, so become easy DRILLS SPEED she left the room a little altered, no (Western) (3 Private Teachers Private Teachers (New York city) and natural when once we master the Cards in Place longer a militant person. Nor yet did "trick” of it, which in one sentence is: Back of Keyboard she leave HELEN only as sym- for Teaching Beginners “on the wings of song”-—but H. FREDERICK DAVIS ANDERSON for which the notes stand slow learning, many repetitions, and and great certainly differently. Teacher of Many Successful Singers Concert Pianist bols, Is naturally an important clever use of the combination of all three It was a wonder-working piece. If we know experience All Branches of Singing Taught. Beginners Accented Interesting course—piano, harmony help in memorizing any types of memory. Jf ice think of these Sight Reading which made the beholder wonder if Studio: 606 Templeton Bldg Salt Lake City, Utah Many Successful Pupils to hear on the piano or there what we expect consciously, we won’t fail. As a practi- Phone 3-0316 (or 4-5746) for appointment is any limit to the similitude of music 166 W. 72nd St., N. Y. C. Tel. Sc 4-8385 violin merely by looking at the music, Write for Free Circular cal example, take the Beethoven Baga- Complete Set of 32 Cards, Keyboard Finder and and the object to which it may be it will be definitely easier to remember. telle in G minor, Op. 119, No. 1. Pirs t Book of Instructions — Only 50/ HAROLD HURLBUT MARIA CARRERAS mental picture dedicated. On the other hand, the concentrate upon the initial four meas- Paris New York Perhaps Aristotle it best — —Hollywood Renowned Pianist of a certain piece, the accompaniment, summed up Developer of Singers "INTERPRETATIVE AUTHORITY" ures. Drill No. 1 “line” SIGHT-PLAYING easily and quickly learned and all inclusively when he said: “The Nadine Conner (Metropolitan Op.-N.B.C.), Henry — N. Y. Herald-Tribune the figuration in the bass, or the by tiny tots, For stressing visual Cordy (Tenor Chicago Opera Co.) and many other Allegretto of any age, with these soul never thinks without (apart from) Teacher of successful concertising pianists. of the melody, also can help us a great or beginners Speed Drill Cards. accuracy stars of Radio. Screen. Opera, Stage and . 8 2 teaching easier and quicker for images.” Accepts talented students. l Makes class or individual 2150 Beachwood Drive Hollywood 28, Calif. deal in memorizing and in keeping that 169 E. 78th St., New York City Tel. Bu 8-0311 rh rfr\ instruction. picture steadily in our minds. LUCIA O'BRIEN LIVERETTE MRS. HENRY HADLEY (Inez Barbour Self-confidence plays a great part in V p EASY TO USE— Speed Drills consist of 32 cards with any process of memorizing. We should complete and easy-to-follow instructions for their use. 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Therefore, do not hurry at the beginning. photograph the notes with your men- AN ADVANCED STEP— Speed Drills are an advanced of keyboard positions AND UP Take it easy. Wait until you really know tal camera. step in aiding the student to quickly identify the note on ( Continued from Page 556) give your child the best Concert Pianist—Artist Teacher It costs so little to MARGARET HENKE staff with the key the a piece, or at least a sizable portion of 2. Close your eyes and recall the the on piano. These handy cards in music when you choose a Gulbransen 229 So. Harvard Blvd. Los Angeles, Calif. Voice Physiologist stress visual accuracy, recognition of- the FE. 2597 it, before ever attempting to play it from notes to memory. keyboard posi- Console, one of America’s Smartest Piano Teacher of the "Bel-Canfo Art of Singing" tions, producing rapid visual, mental than those he produces from his instru- and muscular Fashions. Its smartly compact encasement Beginners and advanced memory. 3. With your eyes still closed, hear students coordination. ment should be permitted. Obviously, to LAZAR S. SAMOILOFF Overstrained, defective voices adjusted the notes as played on a piano, on an tempts nimble fingers to express themselves Voice teacher of famous singers 610 Riverside Drive—New York— Edgecombe 4-2388 Repetition Repetition learn music, one must first hear music. musically while its glorious tonal fidelity and More organ, on a xylophone, by a string THE LARGE NOTES make vivid mental pictures. This From rudiments to professional engagements Therefore, members of the family should inspires a life-long appreciation of beauti- quartet, by a band, by feature is important, but best of all ... children like Beginners accepted. Special teachers' courses “Repetition is the mother of learning.” and an or- Speed EDITH SYRENE LISTER stay out of the music room unless they ful music. New pianos are now available to Drills. They should be used at the first Dr. Samoiloff will teach all summer at his Studios. AUTHENTIC VOICE chestra. lesson, anti the PRODUCTION In no other part of the long process of Drill No. 3 musicians, music teachers, and music students. Write for catalogue—Special rates for the pupil should have a set tor daily home practice. are content to remain silent both as to 405 Carnegit Hall, New York City' 4. At the keyboard, play the pas- For stressing rapidity duration. learning a piece is this old truth more playing the keys speech and as to action. A family so con- jiiarTi Write for FREE Collaborator and Associate Teacher with the late W. sage with strict attention to every ^ ^ 610 So. Van Ness Ave., Los convincing than in learning how to mem- SIGHT-PLAYING is becoming more and more Angeles, Cal. Warren Shaw and Endorsed by Dr. Floyd S. of a re- siderate of its student will in a booklets of exquis- Muckey member i | orize something. Without a sufficient detail—fingering, phrasing, pedaling, quirement of pianists, and students at the very start, Wednesday: Troup Music Studio, Lancaster, Pa. should much shorter period of time be enabled ite Period and expression it. Thursday: 309 Presser Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. number of repetitions, nobody can learn marks—everything. be trained to attain Speed Drills will lay the foundation ‘ ELIZABETH SIMPSON > Conventional De- to boast of a good musician in its midst. "I anything by memory. Later we need less 5. Play the passage flawlessly from for proficient sight playing. Consoles, and Author of "Basic Pianoforte Technique" (FRANK) (ERNESTO) On the contrary, families permitting "Ut sign and less repetition, but in order to memory eight times in succession. If Super-Scale Grand Teacher of Teachers. Coach of Young Artists. LA FORGE-BERUMEN STUDIOS GET YOURS TODAY — Speed Drills may be obtained any interruption of their student mem- 4 Pupijs Prepared for Concert Work. Class Courses you make a after Voice achieve this “easy” learning we have to mistake you have from your local in Technique, Pianistic Interpretation, Normal —Piano music dealer, or send direct to us, the pub- ber by auditory or visual distractions, Methods for Piano Teachers. Among those who have studied with Mr. La Forge are: go the hard way and perhaps overdo it played it three, five, or seven times, lishers. Complete set of 32 cards with instructions, only 50c. will find his interest in music flagging, Marian Anderson, Lawrence Tibbett, Richard Crooks, 8 ' ‘ N 609 Sutter St., San Francisco; in the beginning, just to make sure that play it all over again, flawlessly, until GULBRANSEN CO. and Mme. Matzenauer. to say nothing of almost certain in- D e p, B 2833 Webster St., Berkeley, Cal. Drill No. 4 an 1100 Park Ave., Corner 89th St., New York we can do it later. you have played it at least eight For stressing rapid vis- irascibility. People Tel. Atwater 9-7470 JENKINS MUSIC COMPANY, Kansas City Mo. crease in who would Repetition, however, often diminishes times perfectly. De Pachmann often 6, ual, mental and muscu- dare thus to disturb concert artist Private (Mid- West) lar not a Teachers interest. After Henry IV had tasted par- played a piece a hundred or more coordination RICHARD McCLANAHAN with years of proficiency to his record, Representative TOBIAS tridge a few times in succession, he times in succession, without a single MATTHAY ought to be infinitely more circumspect DR. FRANCIS L. YORK Private lessons, class lessons in Fundamentals exclaimed: "Toujours perdix!” (“Always mistake. Lecture-demonstrations played the Liszt transcription of Schu- in novice. Advance Piano Interpretation and the Theory work for teachers about bursting on the While partridge!”) A repetition of a great deli- 6. Finally, master the next few i “I Always Have a Picture required for the degrees of Mus. Bach., and Mus. 801 Steinway Bldg., New York City bert’s Hark! Hark! the Lark. And she little Harold is laboring over Gurlitt or Mas. measures. cacy had satisfied him. Remember that Then take eight measures did it with exactly the same aplomb and DETROIT CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Engelmann, it is little short of criminal JAMES MORRISON repetition without interest is valueless. and continue to memorize them in the same heavy stepping Detroit, Mich. In Mind” tempo with to permit May or Mary to frolic in and Once a piece, any piece, is well memo- the same manner, until the whole My TEACHER OF VOICE which she came into the room some mo- out of the room, or for Mother herself rized, it should serve as a permanent composition can be played at least EVANGELINE pos- . Invention for Pianists” Perfect . This New LEHMAN, Mus. Doc. vocol technic and Artistic Interpretation. ments before. . time, plenty of to shout in, “Mary! Come here this min- “A

session. ' eight times in Composer, Singer, It should be the one piece of succession without any ""he use of this exerciser a few minutes and Teacher, with a record of STUDIO: III WEST 82nd ST. ( Continued comment. ute! ... I told you to get those cur- from Page 568) daily is guaranteed to improve the touch of many musical triumohs here and abroad, will accept which we think when we want to learn error. NEW YORK CITY “Have you ever, by any chance,” the any pianist. It has been stated that pupils in voice culture and interpretation; Appoint- tains!” If a De Pachmann could not en- by many the next one. It should be our piece After all, the way to memorize is to it will revolutionize pianoforte technic. It ment by correspondence. de pianist began, “seen or heard a lark?” dure auditory assaults, how can such we develops the muscles of the fingers, hands, EDWARD E. TREUMANN resistance, as far as memorizing is con- memorize. necessary factor; and Studio: 167 Elmhurst Avenue, (2) to suggest a “No,” she replied, she had not. But she reasonably expect frail little Harold to and arms in a new and wonderful way and Highland Park Concert Pianist—Artist-Teacher cerned, and all the succeeding tempo or rhythm so quickly that users are astonished. (3), Michigan pieces which again is a fac- had heard about the lark in England. stand up against them! The ap- Recommended by Emil Von Sauer, Moritz Mpszkowski pliance consists of an ingenious arrangement should be easier to memorize. tor necessary to be a-nd Josef Hofmann. handled as much by Somebody had told her that it rises and Auditory, like visual, art requires isola- of rings and fine silk covered elastics, which Private Teachers (New York city) Studio, Carnegie Hall, Suite 837, 57th St. at 7th There is a great deal of difference the imagination creates resistance on the “downward” and Ave. be- as by the hands. sings as it lifts itself into the atmosphere tion for both its development and its Tel. Columbus 5-4357 New York City Percussion Instruments assistance on the “upward" movement of the tween studying a work of the old mas- We have spoken thus far of the it Summer Master Class—June to Sept.—Apply now. com- and keeps on singing even after has appreciation. The painter at his easel fingers. The effect of this is noticed immedi- ALCARO MUSIC STUDIOS ters, such as a sonata by Scarlatti, poser and the ately, greater speed and brilliancy being at- and mental pictures he visions disappeared from sight. scarcely create masterpiece if could a tained. Private Lessons—Home or Studio CRYSTAL WATERS any modern piece, such as one of the as he writes, of the listener the Need Care! and “Exactly,” he said, “and singing from between the strokes of his brush some- Think of it. Even as you play the first day, Instruction in a 1 1 branches of music, con- Teacher of Voice charming short compositions from moving you can sense a peculiar certs given. Beginners, advanced accepted. the pictures that music arouses in so high in the heavens, its song is not one were to flip a dab of mud. Nor, were change taking place in your Special courses for children, “Microcosmos” him. playing, the fingers becoming stronger high school and adults. Radio, Screen, Concert of Bartok, for instance, ( Continued from Page 571) Let us now - see what the influence so much a matter of sounds as it is his masterpiece completed, could it be and stronger every moment. A NEW WAY— Write for Appointment Opera, Pedagogy which, although written just a few years °f a THE MAGIC- WAY, to practise, programmatic title is or may be, the shadow of sounds. And then—there appreciated if viewed projecting out of means strong, Studio: 2497 Tiebout Ave. Bronx, 405 E. 54th St. healthy, happy fingers, and mind. Saves time New York City ago, already has become a classic of with drying; upon the performing Tel. 7-7873 paper or a cloth to delay artist— pianist, for is the lark itself,” he said. “You should ashpile. No, properly to appreciate it, too. Fordham New York City Tel. Vo. 5-1362 a an Send for valuable literature today. piano literature. In learning a Scarlatti example. (6) allow to dry thoroughly. (Usually see one. If you hold it in your hand, it must be framed, so as effectually to sonata we are aided by many factors, As a guest Price $10.00 twenty-four to forty-eight hours is suffi- at the house of a pianist of it has so little weight that you scarcely block out all other distracting visual such as familiar patterns of melody world-wide Manufactured and sold bv and cient) . reputation I heard the play- ounces, perhaps not so feel it. A few stimuli. So, too, in auditory art. All audi- CHAS. T. MARSH, Ltd. harmony, the comparative lack of coun- mg of a When the tympani are not in use. do young lady who had come for an much as that.” tory distractions must be blocked out SJJ5 East G4tli Avenue terpoint, as well as the rectangular, easily audition. not release all tension from the heads. “Now,” he said, “here is a problem for both in the development and in the ap- VANCOUVER, B. C., CANADA understandable and playable rhythms. entered They should remain tuned to A (Large „ with decided aplomb a pianist who proposes to reproduce the preciation of the art. Failure thus to All this we cannot find in Bartok. emphatically,” Here drum) and D (Small drum). one would is uttered in the most isolation can result say, moving lark’s song which achieve auditory only Your is an entirely new world a a Make THE ETUDE Marketing Place where we have If the heads become dry and make a quick tempo, stepping heavily. (and which singer, re- in what has been referred to as “envi- When ethereal tones Etude Advertisers Open the Doors to Real to find our way first, before we can un- 3 ready, cracking noise during tuning, use a dry y® she was requested to play member, weighs a few ounces more or ronmental cacophony.” Opportunities derstand the meaning of it. I suggest ything lubricant, such as flaked graphite or she had “memorized.” She less) and to present it on an instrument Precious, then, are the rewards of soli- that in the beginning, the pupil ayed concen- talcum powder, rubbing it into the edge the C-sharp major three-quarters a ton!” tude to the performer in his practicing Prelude and that weighs of "Solitude is the school of genius" . . trate more on works of the . ^ older mas- of the head and top of the kettle. Do rom the pirst the piano as hours, to say nothing of the vf ™ Volume of the One must not think of composer so observed Gibbon, the great historian. ters, and approach modern composers “wweii-Tempered not use any kind of grease, vaseline, or Clavichord.” ... No an instrument to be turned into a lark in his creative moments. In one year of In summary, the teacher and student gradually. comment. oil on tympani heads. and to fly high as a singer, but as an solitude, coupled, of course, with judi- •must guard against four cacophonies: The truth is that memorizing can be When the heads become dry and old instrument over which the shadow of a cious playing before selected audiences the cacophonous composer, the cacoph- taught and can be mastered, if only C Pin we they should be replaced. ^° ’ she P'ayed passes. Taking his place at at intervals, one can achieve far more Pra “Vienna Carnava singing lark ony produced by the performer himself, take our time and don't become S discour- Our ' ’ ’ next discussion will be concerned Again no comment, the keyboard, the pianist said: “Let development, musically speaking;, than in the cacophonous instrument, and lastly aged in the beginning Th^ by faults and mis- with modern procedures teaching en slle was years of forced learning against for the fu: requested to play some me try to make this instrument of many distrac- and most vicious of all, the cacophonous takes which of thlng most us, if not all, in- of the percussion Liszt tions of sight sound. instruments. —if she “had it.' hundreds of pounds echo the sound of and environment. 604 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC ETUDE October, MARCH WITH MUSIC THE 1944 "FORWARD . 60} —

t Fifty Years of Settlement Music t 9* % (Continued from Page 560) “GIT OIM BOARD with music. samovar is lighted; a girl in Russian act of coming in contact SIXTY-EIGHT SONGS IN SIX CHAPTERS COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME CONTAINING costume (from home, not hired!) But we do believe that where an innate exe- chance to de- cutes a dance; a work-worn old grand- love of music exists, the 1. SONGS mother is urged to sing a song of OF CONVICTION 4. WORK SONGS velop that love by active participation the Don that she has known from her child- does wonderful things! The point is, 2. EARLY DAYS OF AMERICA 5. SONGS OF NEGRO ORIGIN hood and suddenly, the new crop however, that musical feeling must come — of X study little Americans realizes that America 3. BALLADS - 6. first. After that, the ‘art’ of music ROUNDS to live means a blending of foreign strains, not is to give the child the chance an exclusion of them. New tolerance Over with the thing that he finds interesting. is An Incomparable Collection of Stirring Folk Songs As Sung By Free Men the World born and the dangerous bridge between We are immensely proud of the fact — the native-born youngster and his For Mixed Chorus or Solos (Can Also Be Used lor Duets or Trios) Price $1.00 Net that, in the fifty years of the School’s old- world background is safely spanned. Available Except Canada existence, not one of its students has at your favorite music shop or direct irom Mr. Chaffee makes it clear that ever been brought before a magistrate. pro- fessionalism is not the goal of the In a densely crowded area, that is a School EDWARD B. MARKS MUSIC CORPORATION R.C.A. BLDG. RADIO CITY NEW YORK 20. N. Y. far as to say —and yet distinguished professional ca- record! I should not go so *** ***y* $*** *'*******5* ***** *’**'»'*** have gotten their start there. that music as such has kept our young reers Marie Rosanoff studied people straight; rather, it’s the disci- Roemaet at the Music Settlement before plined turning of their energies into School winning the further statement said; “Certainly Young, M. O. (Mrs. John) (1904) something they love. scholarship that took her to work undei in a way other communities can Pablo Casals; Samuel Dushkin began at the best Zahrend. John (1910) I important work of pianos! A Broad Program the School and continued at the Paris start the enormously Mght music is to be as serious and (fas “No more than two per cent of our Conservatoire. settlement Famous musical leaders in all branches earnest as possible in the teaching of students are the native-born children of The distinguished pianist, Ray Lev, as of the art in all parts of our country to follow, must propor- came to the School as a distinctly under- music. Everything that is native-born parents. The largest (foreign countries as well) , and recent grow out of that. The standards must be tion represents foreign strains — strains privileged child of thirteen, consumed American composers of high ability in and highest there can be no compro- r it in repair by a love of music but completely of the — comes. . Keep that seem to be naturally endowed with un- varying fields, from George M. Cohan beca _ one. mise with playing, ‘fancy pieces’ that the don't neglect it more later a love for melody and rhythm. And when aware both of her gifts and of her field and George Gershwin to Howard Hanson Meanwhile, _Qnd be worth students might like, with ‘show,’ with you harness such natural endowment to of expression. After eight months of and Quincy Porter, all, according to their deficient background material, or with QlfbflaniJnalitulp of(QuHtr disciplined study, you give the young- study under Rebecca Davidson Miss Lev own words, have found, in their youth, that does not serve the cause think about that takes played for Ernest Schelling, who asked anything priceless inspiration in The Etude. It is Degree, Master of Music Degree, Artist Diploma sters something to Confers Bachelor of Music of music as honestly as it is served by them off the streets. Not all of our stu- her if she would not like to become a quite common to hear active musicians WARD LEWIS, Dean of the Faculty of artists. though. They come pianist. Miss Lev confides that she “liked the most distinguished highest standing in present-day BERYL RUBINSTEIN, Mus. D., Director 3411 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, O. dents are ‘youngsters,’ of the caught and The AMERICAN SOCIETY of PIANO TUNER-TECHNICIANS. Inc. Charter Member of the National Association of Schools of Music to us from six to sixty. Kindergarten tots the looks” of Mr. Schelling so well that “The students are soon musical life say, “I was brought up on run in after school—and grandfathers she said “Yes,” without realizing where held by uncompromising sincerity. And The Etude.” Address correspondence to 6747 N. Sioux Avenue. Chicago, III. come in at night, after a day’s work in her answer would lead! It led to the once you have them, there is no limit factories and stores. And all of them, winning of the New York Philharmonic to which the work cannot aspire. The It would be difficult to find a medium OF A DIVISION COLLEGE WESLEYAN CONSERVATORY MUSIC— OFWESLEYAN I’m happy to say, feel that they get Scholarship with study under Gaston confidence that is built up by honesty of comparison between the Indian nautch PIANISTS, LOOK! Our Break Bulletins bring you fascinating arrange- Institutional member of National Association of Schools of Music life richer than Dethier, and of the Tobias Matthay in music carries over into the other pro- girl and her dance, and any dancers we something that makes ments for building extra choruses of popular songs the students are not afraid to have in for here we have ballet, with novel breaks, bass figures, riding the me.ody, etc. -with in the humdrum existence of the streets.” Scholarship, with advanced work under grams; America— Degrees: B. M. and A. B. major music Music American Send 20 cents for sample copy. Out of the strictly musical curriculum that great English teacher—ultimately, open their hearts and their problems; to tap-dancing, interpretative dancing, and For Catalogue and Information address: has grown a broad program of settle- it led to one of the most distinguished take us into their homes; to heed with many other varieties, all different and PIANO TEACHERS! Many of your students want to play Swing as well confidence such counsels as we are able individual. The Dean Wesleyan Conservatory Macon, Ga. ment work. Under the direction of Miss careers among American pianists. Doughboys Hear in India as Classical. You can stimulate their interest and in- to give. All that grows out of a com- But in India all nautch dancing is crease your income by adding “Swing Piano” to your Suella Kroell, the School’s Social Wel- teaching program. Axel Christensen’s Complete In- investigates the en- Varied Activities pletely honest musical approach!” based on the same principle handed down struction Book enables you to teach pupils how to fare Department (Continued from Page 557) glamourize popular melodies with perfect time, touch ancient, styl- vironmental conditions of each student, Home-talent is recognized by partici- It is this attitude that built Emilie through the centuries—an and rhythm. If your local telephone book does not list OSMOPOLITAN BALDWIN-WALLACE a “Christensen School” send for teachers’ wholesale that is providing advice, medical assistance, per- pation in the School’s broadcasts, sent Wagner’s dream into the school that has ized, and unchanging art-form price and particulars. school or CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC and rightly so. It is indeed the basis and MUSIC sonal help, and summer vacations for out over New York's Municipal Station, served as the pattern for America's music traditional. For a small nautch there is CHRISTENSEN SCHOOLS OF POPULAR MUSIC SHIRLEY GANDELL, M.A., Oxford BEREA, OHIO (suburb of Cleveland) background of ’all music, the most im- usually a flutist, and a drummer who 752 KIMBALL HALL BLDG. CHICAGO ILL. University, President. need them. Elaborate case and directed by Miss Cara Stanford settlement work. It is this attitude 4, England, Affiliated with a first class Liberal Arts College. those who to instrument of ancient signifi- Offers courses portant 41st year. Accredited. Four and five year courses leading to degrees. Faculty histories are maintained—and through Kibbe, who is also in charge of the that America pays tribute on the fiftieth plays two drums called the Tabla-pair, in all branches of Music. Certificates, of Artist Teachers. Send for catalogue or informa- cance, symbolism, and tradition, in- diplomas Desirable board- right smaller and degrees. tion to: them much of the School’s finest service School’s music library, where over ten anniversary of the Music School Settle- a drum for the hand and a ing accommodations. Located in down- from the legends of the ALBERT RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Dean, Berea, Ohio separable town musical center. comes to light. thousand works of standard classic ment. one for the left. Since the nautch-drums LEARN "SWING" MUSIC Box E. 306 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago. pre-Vedic days of gods and half-g.ods— Quick course to players of all instruments—make your repertory are loaned, free, to students are “concert drums” they are tuned, and own arrangements of “hot” breaks, choruses, obbligatos, written of in innumerable allegories in embellishments, figurations, blue notes, whole tones, etc. How It Works and members of the ensemble groups are distant cousins of the tympani of our MODERN DANCE ARRANGING the great epic poetry of the sacred books. Duets, trios, quartettes and choruses M1LL1KIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC orchestras. The fourths and fifths in uni- ensembles—special Sammy B. comes to his lessons pale and the orchestras. But the “showy” as- —modulating to other keys—suspensions—anticipations DECATUR, ILLINOIS There are some two hundred and fifty create effect of —organ points—color effects—swingy backgrounds Schools—Colleges and listless. His teacher reports the fact pects of music-making are not stressed. son the harmony—and the Write today. Offers thoro training in music. Courses leading to varieties of drums in India—from the nearest approach to harmony that ELMER B. FUCHS to Miss Kroell, and immediately an in- The goal of the School is to foster and Bachelor of Music Degree. Diploma and Certifi- 335 East 19th St. Brooklyn small doroo, or hour-glass drum, to the one hears in India. The drum-rhythms, 26, N. Y. l cate in piano. Voice, Violin, Organ, Public School vestigation is made. Sammy is sent to a further a love of music as a force that Music Methods and Music Kindergarten Methods The Etude great ceremonial drums used in Durbars however, are so varied and interesting CONVERSE COLLEGE "I€ doctor; a diet is prescribed; if Sammy’s is part of rich living. Mr. Chaffee is justly in size, shape and hrusi Bacon, Dean, Bpartansourg, tt. C. Bulletin sent free upon request an infinite variety that one not feel the need of fur- parents cannot afford the diet, the Social proud of his young celebrities. He is — does W. ST. CLARE, M INTURN, Director decoration. ther instrumentation. The piercing melo- WM. S. HAYNES COMPANY Welfare Department lends a hand. In equally proud of the three little beginner- Honor Roll amusement in leisure dies of the flute, the staccato beat of the Department of Music six months’ time, Sammy’s card reports students who gave a “concert” in their Our men, seeking Flutes of Distinction KNOX Galesburg. Illinois will be fascinated by the drum drums rising and falling, and surging to Thomas W. Williams, Chairman a complete cure. two-room home one Saturday afternoon, (Continued from Page 572) hours Catalogue sent request. ri A professional music school STERLING SILVER—GOLD—PLATINUM COLLEGE upon D Q [j f\| p nI a “nautch dance.” One may a crescendo in the last lap of a nautch, U in an attractive college town. Harry M. is a terror to the block: he’s brought in a crowd of ten-year-olds to players for Thorough instruction in all branches of music. Special train- be fortunate enough to be invited to the need nothing more to augment the fas- Catalog on request ing in band and choir direction. 46 artist teachers, ganging up with bad company, and his hear them and raised twenty-five cents Starr, CONSERVATORY unsur- — Mr. Charles (1894) passed equipment (200 practice rooms. 23 modern organs, etc. i Hindu and treated of one of the oldest dances in schoolmates avoid his for Stauss, John home of some wealthy cination 108 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Mass. OF MUSIC Degrees: Mus.B., School Mus.B., A.B. with music major. corner hang-out the Scholarship Fund! (1893) E. Miller W»da . Pres. Stevens, in which case he will see the world. SHENANDOAH Catalog. Frank H. Shaw, Dir., Box 5104, Oberlin, Ohio. for fear of hold-up raids. The School That explains spirit the School, Mrs. J. P. (1907) to a “nautch”; Courses leading to the of Stewart, Mrs. Zaidee T. (1894) dance as well as higher Let us hope that all of our Service-folk B. Mus. Ed. degrees. Rates sends for Harry and has a chat with which, in even more a better type the B. Mus., and the last analysis, is Sutor. Miss Adele reasonable. In the heart of the Shenandoah (1894) girl; for the brazen, free- in India may have the opportunity to flute, the like of which no one in the him. It develops that Harry likes the important than the lessons, the outings, Sister class nautch Valley, Dayton, Virginia. Answering Etude Adver- Y M. Angelina (1900) Sister nautch girl who roams the streets hear and see a first-rate nautch. Also, service ever heard in America, but once drum; arrangements are made for him and the parties. This is blended from Mary of Jesus (1920) lance tisements always pays > Sister M. Henry drum-player looking for an audi- that our newly arrived Americans will hearing, will never forget. The snake- to "do something about it.” A year later, enthusiasm, service, consecrated serious- (1914) with a lower type of a class of danc- have the unique pleasure of seeing charmer melodies are unwritten but tra- { and delights the reader. J. the hang-out knows Harry no more, his ness of purpose, and the firmest pos- ence is the for centuries in India. The and hearing the snake-charmers—that ditional, and are handed down from gen- gang is dispersed, a drummer has been sible conviction that music must be ers famous when very young, are pretty and strange caste of Asiatic gypsy that wan- eration to generation by the caste of discovered, and the juvenile court has earned before it can be enjoyed. Every girls, beautifully costumed in gay hues with a ders from place to place carrying baskets snake-charmers—marvelous, weird melo- been spared another potential delinquent. note sounded in the School is animated Wall, profusion of jewelry. Their “sloe eyes” of serpents, ever ready to stage a show dies that charm the listener as well as CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEGE In summer, camp vacations and daily by this spirit. The littlest beginner is Mrs. Mable V. W. (1890) Walters, Mrs. T. with kohl; their henna- for a small price. The snake-charmer is the cobra! 1867 by Dr. F. Ziegfeld RUDOLPH GANZ, President boat trips are made possible for J. (1903) are darkened Founded students made to feel that he is doing proud Weidmger, Mrs. Florence Bradley (19 and feet are attractive and a vagabond, clad in saffron rags, impu- The tonal quality of the poonji is pierc- CONFERS DEGREES OF B.MUS., B.MUS.ED., M.MUS., M.MUS.ED. and their mothers. service; for tinted hands that he is fitting himself Harry A. (1914) Member of North Central Association and National Association of Schools of Music welch, intended by the Deva Dasis dently wise in secret love; an opportunist ing and nasal, similar to an oboe. The Together, the music departments and something give Mrs. Sylvia Storrs (1912) alluring, as SPECIAL splendid; that he can ALL BRANCHES OF MUSIC. INSTRUCTION FOR CHILDREN AND NON-PROFESSIONALS Wells. Mrs. is trained from and a rascal, perhaps—but a fascinating instrument, made by the snake-charmers the welfare department arrange teas, pleasure this N. D. (1914) (bride of the gods) who to others by means of ^ Address Registrar, 60 E. Van Buren St., Chicago 5, Illinois ’ ane Dutcher (Mrs. Norman L.) of the an- rascal. He is the master of a unique in- from a gourd, has a drone attached parties, get-togethers. The gleaming Chaffee tit?. childhood in the intricacies music at which he works. Mr. Whittier. Ruth E. (1918) traditional dances of India. strument called the poonji or gourd- ( Continued on Page 612) Wood, Mrs. Geo. E. (1902) cient 606 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC ” ETUDE THE r ' WITH MUSIC” 607 OCTOBER, 1944 FORWARD MARCH . : : — — : . , , , "

Alice, please play for his own compositions, after which All: Yes, us! Alice: I have never played before Junior Etude there is a moment’s silence.) Contest listen to music like such a distinguished audience. I The Junior Etude will award three at- paper, Alice: I could and put your address on upper AMERICAN CONSERVATORY very much honored but I prizes each month for the neatest that forever. am do tractive right corner of your paper. or essays for could. And not play very well yet, you know. and best stories and answers Fanny: Indeed we all Write on one side OF MUSIC— CHICAGO Contest is open to all boys and of paper only. Do ( bowing ) Miss Alice, puzzles. now I think it would be wonder- Mozart: al- to not use eighteen years of age. typewriters and do not have any- to escort you to the girls under ful if the great Bach would play low me piano. one copy Courses in piano, vocal, violin, organ, public school music fifteen to eighteen years of your work for you. plays a brilliant piece, Class A, for us. My brother actually wor- (Alice not and all other branches of Music and Dramatic Art leading to age; Class B, twelve to fifteen; Class C, Essay must contain not over one hun- ships his music, don’t you, Felix? by any of the composers present, under twelve years. dred and fifty words and must be re- the recital to close.) DEGREES-BACHELOR OF MUSIC-MASTER OF MUSIC Mendelssohn: All true musicians bringing a prize winners will appear Names of on ceived at the Junior Etude Office, 1712 All: Yes, you play very well. Thank feel thus about the music of Bach. this page in a future issue of The Etude. The faculty is composed, of 135 artist instructors Chestnut St., Philadelphia (1) Pa., must leaving , by Bach: Thank you, thank you. But I you. But we be now; The thirty next best contributors will re- many of national and international reputation. the 22nd of October. Results of contest am not deserving of such high otherwise you will lose your prac- ceive honorable mention. your name, age, and class in which will appear in January. Subject for Moderate tuition rates. Desirable dormitory accommodations. Students’ praise. I merely compose as best I tice time. Put you enter on upper left corner of your this month’s essay, “Playing duets.” self help. Bureau for securing positions. Particulars furnished on request. can and I’m sure it could be better. Alice: I do hate to see you go. Please (Goes to piano and plays one of come again. Member of the National Association of Schools of Music. ELIZABETH A. BEST his own polyphonic compositions.) All: Yes, we will. Red Cross Afghans Letter Box Send for free catalog. Address John R. Hattstaedt, President Beethoven: There is so much we can Mendelssohn: In the meantime, keep Herr up your practice and you will all learn from your music, be Not many squares were received (Send answers to letters care of Junior AMERICAN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Alice Johann. a good player. Junior Etude Red Cross af- Etude) A Surprise fur lor the 582 Kimball Hall, Chicago, 111. Alice: I shall try so hard to make ( Exit all but Alice, who turns sloivly ghans during the hot weather. Per- Dear Junior Etude: I began taking more and towards piano.) music lessons when I was (Playlet) your compositions sound haps it was too hot to get them ten. My sister plays the piano, too, and one brother is going more like your playing of them. Alice: From now on I’m going to but now that cooler weather to get a guitar and the ready, other wants a mouth organ. My sister and I practice twice as are always -JUILLIARD SCHOOL OF MUSIC* Mendelssohn: You play them very much and twice here, remember our military hos- so glad to get The Etude. First we is look at the new pieces and then ly ff^aut ^J-ouquet well yourself, considering your age. as well. Then when they come the puzzles. pitals need the afghans more than I am sending you a kodak picture of my sister and me. ERNEST HUTCHESON, President Alice: Oh, thank you, sir. I like your again, maybe they can be proud ever. Make your knitted squares From your Alice (a music student) friend, CHARACTERS: ; Mozart; Maria Anna Mozart (his ' of the way I play their Songs Without Words” so much music. four and one -half inches; make your Lillian Todd, Minnesota

sister, also called Nannerl) ; Bach; Beethoven; Mendelssohn; Fanny Men- INSTITUTE and I often wondered how you (Curtain.) woolen-goods squares six inches. OF MUSICAL ART delssohn (his sister) thought of such lovely titles for Squares have recently been received GEORGE A. WEDGE, Dean SCENE: Interior with piano, a large screen, chairs. them. from Gladys M. Stein, Angela Mor- Elizabeth (All but Alice enter and seat themselves.) Individual vocal and instrumental instruction. Mendelssohn: As a matter of fact, rison, Hilda Schuler, Elsa Sone- and Lillian Instruction in theory, composition and music education. Mozart: Alice will be here any mo- Maybe I am asking too much? many of those titles were suggested bright. Todd ment now to begin her practicing. Mozart: Not at all. We’ll be glad to. to me by Stephen Heller. You know, Junior Club Outline No. 36 Diplomas and the B. S. and M. S. Degrees. Beethoven: Yes, you ean depend on Alice: Is it true that you and your of course, who he was? French Opera Composers sic Is Fuji Catalog 'on request. that. Alice never misses her prac- sister traveled all over Europe Alice: Yes, sir, certainly, because I Mn tice. when you were little and played have studied many of his pieces. (Prize Winner in Class A) Dear Junior Etude: 120 Claremont Avenue Room 432 New York 27, N.Y. Three outstanding I enjoy the Junior Etude very and Nannerl: That is why she plays so for kings a— French com- much and queens? My teacher says he was called the “It’s off to work we go.” Yes, going to posers of opera born in the nine- have been a winner in the Junior Etude Con- well. Mozart: Yes, that’s true. We’ll play “children’s Chopin.” play a two-hour concert is going to work, test. Music is very important to me and I have teenth century are Gounod, Bizet, but it is fun because it is music. I have had six years of piano study and three years Mendelssohn: I’m glad we decided a duet for you that we played on Nannerl: Fanny, you are like me played two-hour concerts almost every Sun- of voice. So you see I am studying hard for to give her this surprise, because those trips. Philadelphia Conservatory THE MANNESi (Mozart and his sister we each had a very famous brother. day for two summers. I work eight hours my musical education and I hope to become each day but before and after work I she really deserves it. play a duet composed by Mozart.) You must be able to play your “toot” a music teacher. of Music out a few scales on my cornet. It is pleasure, your friend, MUSIC SCHOOL Fanny (to Alice: From Mendelssohn): I always That was lovely. Thank brother’s exceptionally well, it is it is 216 study with Artist Teochers. you music fun, relaxation for body and soul. Barthynia Massey (Age 13), South 20th Street Complete courses lead- | remember well so It is hard to say who gets the most fun Maria Ezerman Drake ins to Artist’s Diploma or Teacher’s Certificate. Special how she played much. Really I am so thrilled I so we hope will play one of North Carolina. courses for children. Class and you Managing Director individual instruction. from music, the performer or the listener. Violin, viola, cello, harp, piano, voice, wind instru- your Spinning Song at the last re- can hardly speak. I think I ments. Opera, Conducting:, read the “Songs Without Words” for us. The performer has the fun and satisfaction Faculty headed by Chamber Music Depts. Write: cital. once (turning to of giving Honorable Mention for July Olga DAVID & CLARA MANNES, Directors Beethoven) that Fanny: I will be glad to. ( Plays one.) enjoyment to the audience, plus Samaroff, Mus. D. 157 EAST 74th STREET NEW YO*K 21, N. Y. the fun of creating musical tones which fit Courses leading Bach: And I love to hear her play you were a pupil of Haydn, Sir. Alice: (to Mendelssohn) I am sure to Degrees together to produce music. The listener can Puzzle: my polyphonic music. So many Beethoven: Yes, I studied with Papa no other composer ever wrote such relax and have the fun of musical moods gripping his Nettie Lou Graham, Mark Muessin, pupils play it carelessly and it is Haydn in Vienna. And I took les- fairy-like music as you have. Some and Massenet. Name a well-known emotions. Young and old enjoy the martial strains of a marching band as Ellen Rea Tye, Doris RIVERORIVE SCHOOL OF MUSIC so painful for me to hear it! sons from you, too, Wolfgang; opera by each. Kenneth Lowe, & ARTS do of your compositions sound just well as the flowing music of the symphony. BOSTON UNIVERSITY Music, Roberts, Martha Duval, Barbara Ann 84 Mozart: Alice is coming now. Let us you remember? like elves and pixies. Please play b—What city was the center of of any mood, of any origin, gives Riverside Drive fun to the perfurmer and to the listener and Lee Bopp, Janet Dal- New York City all stand behind this screen. Mozart: Of course I remember, and one of them. French opera? Keane, Nancy Coffec/e c/lMudic must give fun to the war-stricken peoples. (Alice enters and goes to piano. you were a very ziel, Betty Maier, Frances Mincrief, Offering complete courses in Piano, Voice, Organ, FREDERICK G. KOEHLER, Director excellent pupil, Mendelssohn : I’m c Massenet, while student at the Carl Curry (Age 15), Pennsylvania. glad you like them. — a Violin, Cello, Brass, Woodwinds, and Percussion instru- Mozart Ludwig. Bobby Stout, Enid Ford, Dorothy ments, puduc School iviusic. Composition, Dormitories comes forward.) ( Plays t .e Church one of his gayer compo- Paris Conservatoire, received IV.usic, Musicology. Chorus, Glee Club, Orchestra, Band. Catalogue on request Mozart: Alice (To Colby, Anita Morris, Emmie Brink, Faculty includes members of Boston Special Summer Session How do you do, Alice. I am Beethoven) Will you play sitions.) famous “Prix de Rome.” What Prize Winner in Class B for Essay* Symphony. Bache- lors and Masters Degrees in all musical subjects. Dorms Wolfgang Amadeus' Mozart I for me, Patricia Dworski Georgia Costa, Anne Belting, George and please? Bach: And now, little girl, we have advantage does this prize bring (Age 12), New York. Catalog. COLLEGE OF MUSIC, 73 Blagden St., Boston. have (Beethoven Armstrong, Ellen Falmer, Ruth Col- come with' some of your old nods gravely and seats all played for you; we would like to the winner? Prize Winner in Class C for Essay friends to visit you. himself at piano lins. and plays one of to ask you to play for us. is meant intonation? Gloria Mortimore d—What by (Age 11), Idaho. fll\)iei\e X Theatre Alice: Oh, Oh! How thrilling! Do A Revealing New Book in Two Parts Ik Star making. Students seeking: professional engagements e—Into what classifications is the coached by Stage, Screen, Radio and presented in pro- you really mean it? (The others p PARAGON OF RHYTHMIC COUNTING ductions for showing to B’way-Hollywood Talent Scouts and human voice divided? Instrument Spelling Puzzle public. 13 way also Summer Stock. Spring course opening. FOR S EC' Y SHUBERT. 1780 BROADWAY. N. Y. come from behind the screen 1 Honorable Mention for July ALL RHYTHMS and in a f Suspension is the term used by Stella M. Hadden PARAGON OF Mozart presents them to Alice.) HARMONIZING Essay: applied to _ y harmony when a tone in a chord- j. COLLEGE OF MUSIC Mozart: This is my sister, Nannerl the first letter of an instru- Phyllis Take FOUR KINDS OF HARMONIZATIONS iVj — i progression is delayed, and it does Fremper, Anne Beasley. Amy Ka- C O B S Est. 1885— ( Alice returns her curtsy.) This is zemba, Jackie ment having keyboard and pipes; Send for explanatory circular Complete musical education. Preparatory n not take its place in the new Sherman, Marilyn DeWitt, department ce EFFA ELLIS PERF1ELD for children. Teachers’ training Felix Mendelssohn, and this is his o” Espenshade, Mary Carolyn Hoak, plus the second letter of an instru- courses leading to diplomas and degrees. 9 tones a 103 East 86th St. (Park Ave. I New York City chord until after the other GIoria Goldman, 1925 Chest-nt St., Philadelphia, Pa. sister, ?7 . Imogene Wielpurtz, Fanny. This is Ludwig von p la ment played with sticks; plus the have done so. the suspen- A"n Myers, Emily Kloc, Shirley I Play <2 ^ Beethoven. (Alice 1 a * returns their e E>a ' rcl Shirley third letter of a small, high-pitched ivin). r,F Ann Mentoun, 0 sion pattern herewith in at least HeI n bows individually.) this is the Frances Moncrief, Esther letter of brass And 0n, i flute; plus the first a r four major and four minor keys. Doris Green-way, Rae Lester, Ora great Johann Sebastian Bach. Rimrt, T last let- y’/°yce ®°hins, Anita Leonard, George wind instrument; plus the OLD SUBSCRIBERS MUST COME FIRST McMurtne,Mnv, Ann (Bach bows with much dignity.) M Buzby, Leona Taylor. ter of a brass instrument used for The drastic paper curtailment, ordered as a Alice: This is simply wonderful. Just a Program giving military signals; plus the Wartime measure by the Government, frequently makes it impossible for imagine! All my favorite com- f I rize letter of a large, low-toned us to send copies of the There are many arias from the Winners for July Triangle third 1 current issue to new subscribers. posers! How did it happen? instrument; plus the first We are endeavoring to see that there is above composers’ arranged woodwind a operas Puzzle: no interruption in service on Mendelssohn: You practice so faith- letter of a large, deep-toned brass renewal subscriptions, but this can only be for piano solo. Also listen to good assured if fully and thoughtfully every day I °lass A, Betty plus the third letter of orders for renewals reach us during the month previous recordings of them sung by well- Morrison (Age 16) instrument; to the that we thought you deserved a h instrument played with the month of expiration or early in that month. On both new known opera singers, as this will give Indiana a string and renewal e reward, so we decided to come and Class B, without a keyboard; plus orders service will begin just as soon as it is possible a better idea of the music than the Elaine Folk (Age 14) fingers but for us to supply the visit you. Now that we are here, r letter of a Scotch wind copies from the very limited order that piano arrangements can possibly do. Illinois the second we are permitted to print. Your what would you like us to do? e Glass c, Barbara instrument. Find a group of instru- patience and understanding of this s (N.B. The next Outline will appear Fenn (Age 10) situation are respectfully solicited. Alice: Play the piano, of course. New playing together. in the December issue) Hampshire ments 608 "FORWARD October, MARCH WITH MUSIC MARCH WITH MUSIC” THE ETUDE 1944 'FORWARD 609 . . —

musical proportions. This greater was be- ANTHEMS by William Baines of THE COVER FOR THIS MONTH—The fan- REVERENTIAL the Teacher’s College, Columbia THE CHILD DAYS a feature recital. A single copy may be cause Mr. Kohlmann never played them Uni- HANDEL (CHILDHOOD ciful and engaging design on this month’s —In these war days, with the shortage versity, provides the student preparation regularly given in hymn books, with a clear OF FAMOUS COMPOSERS) by Louie Ells- ordered while the book is in as and it engravers and the need for issue of The Etude is the creation of the of music giv- understanding of the tempo marks, dy- worth Coit and Ruth Bampton Many at the Advance of Publication cash price was only in recent years he was prevailed — Philadelphia artist, to works that well-known Hy Gage. ing preference must be namic indications, and other signs and teachers already are familiar with The of 30 cents, postpaid. upon to let his transcriptions be pub- Rich in coloring, and marked with a brought out in time for special occasions, abbreviations used in the editing lished. Many already know his two of these Child Bach, The Child Mozart, and The spirit playfulness, it offers refreshing books of such as Christmas, Easter, the beginning numbers. The immortal melodies pre- Child Haydn already published in this ADVANCE OF PUBLICATION OFFER WITH- of piano transcriptions of favorite hymns, relief from the wartime tension in all a school term, or the opening, of the sented in these cello and now we have scheduled for of arrangements are series. Now, as a result of a continual DRAWN—All who subscribed for a single our lives today. NOTES not-too- PUBLISHER’S private teaching season, a long time usu- from such classic composers as Bach, request for additional books on other copy of this Christmas cantata through distant an appearance this collection of A native of Hartford, Connecticut, Hy is required for the completion of Mozart, Brahms, and others, organ transcriptions. ally and the composers, we have The Child Handel an Advance of Publication order will re- graduated with honors from the Bulletin of Interest to all Music LovErs editorial folk Gage A Monthly engraving and work on a book melodies are from French, Bohe- “in work.” This material, of course, must ceive or have received a copy, but no fur- Twenty numbers will be included in University of Nebraska in 1898. The fol- this kind, which church choirs may mian, Dutch, and Russian while the of sources. take its turn in the scheduled work for ther orders will be accepted at the low lowing year found enrolled at Pratt this album, and transcriptions him take up at any time and utilize over a Anyone wishing to place an Advance typesetting, engraving, proof reading, Advance of Publication price. Since we Institute, fellow enhance the organ rendition of these where he was a student number of years. Despite these present of Publication order for this on the no violence book should plate making, printing, and binding, now have placed market of the now noted cartoonist, Clare Briggs. hymns, they do to the melody handicaps, remit day production however, we the special Advance Offer price of which gives a period wherein any teacher The Call of the Star—A Christmas Cantata He later studied at the famous Academy to suggest that a Part Three to My Piano and continuity of the hymn, and may do not feel that it will be long before 60 cents, postpaid, with the order, to be so desiring may place an order in Ad- for Volunteer Choir by Lawrence Keating. of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Book be published, making, it possible for be used for accompanying solo or congre- Octoler 1 everything on the preparation of Rev- assured of receiving a copy of this vance of Publication enjoy a special This very attractive cantata provides 944 gational rendition of the hook and life has been devoted chiefly these young pupils to continue the same hymns just as Mr. Gage’s erential Anthems is completed and the without further charge as soon as low price. 45 of worshipful, festive musical as they it is minutes to the cartoonist’s art, in which work he successful plan of study rather than readily may be used solely as in- book will be on the market. published. Each of the books in this series gives continuity on the great story of the Sav- has been known for many years as an ADVANCE OF PUBLICATION switch to any of the usual type of piano strumental contributions to the church This will be a fine selection of anthems children a first acquaintance with attrac- iour’s birth. There are solos for soprano, important contributor to Philadelphia’s instructors designed for pupils more in service. for the usual choir made up of the best TWENTY PIANO tive music by a great master and, at the alto, and baritone voices, and a recitative The Advance of Publication DUET TRANSCRIPTIONS distinguished Evening Bulletin, and to OFFERS the ages from 8 to 10. cash price, of the church and voices out Sunday OF FAVORITE HVMNS, by Clarence same time, imparts information on the for tenor. But should no soloist be avail- such important magazine publications as Mrs. Richter has been working some at which a single copy of this book may Kohl- School membership. Many of Mr. Baines mann—Since so many life, particularly the childhood experi- able, any or all of these might be done All of the books in this list are in while this be ordered before it appears on have bought the Collier’s, The Country Gentleman,, and time on this Part Three, and the mar- are well known to such groups, preparation publication. The works two books already on the market ences of the composer. by the entire choir in unison. Besides The Saturday Evening Post. In 1943 he for offering for little second year pianists ket, is 50 cents, postpaid. First giving fine copies under one cover will be some low Advance Offer Cash Prices ap- and here Clarence Kohlmann’s piano solo tran- The Child Handel will include musical five choruses for full choir, there is a discarded his rigidly active schedule in is being taken from the manuscript stage from the printers will be delivered to ply only to orders placed NOW. of his best anthems, heretofore published scriptions of favorite hymns, excerpts from such Handel compositions number for a men's chorus or quartet, favor of free lance work and an occa- to a well engraved and completely printed advance subscribers. there are Delivery (postpaid) will be made only in separate octavo form, along with many who will need as The Harmonious Blacksmith, Minuet and a trio for women’s voices. This can- sional game of chess. and bound book, teachers have the op- nothing more than when the books are published . additional ones especially composed to the above title to give in F, Hornpipe, and Hallelujah Chorus. tata is not difficult, and its presentation portunity of placing an order in Advance them a clear idea Paragraphs describing each pub- TWELVE FAMOUS SONGS ARRANGED FOR compilation good variety give this as to of what this book will offer in four-hand All of ‘these numbers have been simplified could be undertaken with comparatively MUSIC FOR THANKSGIVING SERVICES— lication appear on these pages of Publication for a single copy, delivery PIANO—There always is a special appeal text and music content. Mr. Baines an- piano music. especially for this book, and the Hallelu- few rehearsals. Yet it has qualities which be as soon as published. Mrs. Yes, the summer has sped past and many to made to pianists in playing pianistic transcrip- so successful thems have been because Besides being very acceptable for two jah Chorus arrangement is for piano, will well reward the choir director and of the things we planned “to pitch in and The Child Handel—Childhood Days of Richter has been generous with original tions of beautiful melodies with which Famous Composers for Piano Pupils they utilize good texts, are singable, and average pianists four hands. The material as a unit will choir faithfully working out all of its pos- material, besides utilizing some favorite to use as four-hand di- do right after Labor Day” still remain Coif and Bampton .20 they associate words that help to fix the have a quality of fullness.- versions lend itself to presentation in dramatized sibilities and painstakingly rehearsing it melodies and adaptations of some stand- at the keyboard, these duet undone and here is the month of October Choraf Preludes for the Organ . Bach-Kraft. . .50 mood to be brought out or felt in the A single copy only may be ordered be- arrangements may be used to accompany form as a pupils’ recital feature or a spe- for a finished rendition. Price, 60 cents. when it is time for choirmasters to have Classic and Fol'c Melodies in the F’rst ard study materials. Illustrations add to rendition. instrumental Naturally, the publication. Advance of Position for Cello and Piano Krone .60 fore The Publi- group singing, of any of the twenty popu- cial undertaking for a class group. Its everything arranged as to the music to the appeal. Advance of Publication cash piano part in a published song copy often Lawrence Keating’s Second Junior Choir cation price for a copy is 25 cents, side also post- lar hymns represented. Since there is dramatic may be confined to be used in the Thanksgiving Season. It Book 25 price, 35 cents, postpaid. leaves the melody to the voice and calls paid, which, of course, should be remitted following directions for making a minia- My Piano Book, Part Three always time between the acceptance of will be a very serious thing to put off Richter .35 only for accompanying support or back- Nutcracker Suite— Piano Duet with any advance order placed for this the composer’s manuscript and the ture stage setting, tied up with the story making certain that desirable is actual music Tschaikowsky-Felton 1.00 READ THIS AND SING! (TEACHER’S MAN- ground. book. placing of the book on the market, those of the composer. The Advance of Publi- selected and ready for this special season Organ Transcriptions of Favorite Hymns UAL)—For Voice Students , Chorus and Choir In this book the arrangers have cleverly who want to be sure of a first cation cash price is 20 cents, postpaid, which is so rich a part of the religious Kohlmann .50 copy from Singers , by Clyde R. Dengler—Many school based their transcriptions on the har- Peer Gynt Suite—A Story with Mu«uc for the press at lower for a single copy. life PIANO PIECES FOR PLEASURE, by John than the regular price of American people. Piano Grieg-Richter music educators, chorus directors, and monic structures of these pianistic back- .30 M. Williams—The practical and sound may place an order now for a single Please remember that music publishers Piano Pieces for Pleasure Williams .60 choirmasters already have expressed great grounds, while at the same time weaving Practical Keyboard psychological piano teaching procedures copy at the Advance of Publication cash CHORAL PRELUDES FOR THE ORGAN By and music dealers are greatly handi- Modulation Peery .50 enthusiasm for the course of 36 lessons the melody Into the transcription. Spe- Read This and Sing!—Teacher's Manual advocated by John M. Williams have en- price of 60 cents, postpaid. Because of Johann Sebastian Bach, Compiled, Revised, capped in these war days with the lack given in Read This and Sing! Student’s cial care has been taken, however, tc Dengler 1.00 abled copyright restrictions, orders and Edited by Edwin Arthur Kraft THE ETUDE of experienced help, because of thousands of piano teachers to can be ac- —When and Gov- Reverential Anthems Baines .25 Book which w’as placed on the market keep the arrangements within the play- become the preferred teachers of their cepted only for delivery in the United such a well-known organist, who also is ernment limitations on paper there can Twelve Famous Songs—Arr. for Piano ... .60 early in September. With the heavy ing ability of the average performer Twenty Piano Duet Transcriptions respective communities. Mr. Williams al- States and its possessions. renowned as an editor and composer, for November be no guarantee from day to day as to of schedule of work for our printers and which, of course, also makes them avail- Favorite Hymns Kohlmann .60 brings forth compilation of Bach’s what numbers can be supplied in quanti- ways has advocated a generous use of a binders it has not been possible as yet able as study and recreation pieces for November is one of the most profitable months material high in recreational interest, Choral Preludes For The Organ, it is ties. LAWRENCE KEATING’S SECOND JUNIOR in the year for students, as it is then that the Those who place their orders early to have available for sale the Teacher’s piano pupils in grades 3 and 4. certain discriminating, organists will active teaching season is in full swing. We have the best opportunity of obtaining and this book provides just such material. CHOIR BOOK—It is always easy to dispel that Manual, so the opportunity still remains The famous catalog have tailored the November issue to meet this John Church Co. Mr. Williams want this collection, and that competent desired numbers, of course should has edited these numbers any concern about what the next gen- need, and yet lose nothing of its absorbing and they finish a selection in one key and for any who desire to become an Advance contains some of the finest copyrightec the stock of desired with special care, indicating proper eration will mean to our country when teachers of the organ will utilize the interest. a number be depleted must move immediately into a selection subscriber for a copy of the Teacher’s con- songs standing in high favor with phrasing numbers in this book with the pupils the early orderer still has time to make a and comfortable fingering so looking at statistics on the tremendous in another key. Perhaps in too many Manual at the special Advance of Publi- cert and radio artists today, and the JOSEF HOFMANN second choice whereas the choirmaster that they may be u :ed as “lesson pieces” sales of individual numbers and collec- they instruct. Every detail of editing has cases the responsibility goes back to cation cash price. major portion of in this The position of Josef Hofmann in the music the numbers cared in masterly unusual that any advice coming who waits until the last minute before for either young pupils progressing into tions of anthems for Junior Choirs. With been for a manner. world is so music teachers who neglected to give The Student’s Book is a splendid book will be such copyrights which can- from this foremost pianist is of first interest the third of Those wishing to subscribe for a copy tells of Thanksgiving may not be able to get a instruction grade study or for those so many thousands of young people tak- to all lovers of the art. He readers The some on the art of modula- course of study for individual or class not be utilized in any other piano album. what he feels should be the main musi- “grown-ups” who have been faithfully for delivery when published may do so Etude desired number and is likely not to have tion. students, but the book has been planned ing. part in Christian church services in cal goals of piano students. These will embrace such numbers as Re- the of Publication time to select a substitute making efforts through about a year or all parts of these United States, it is a now at Advance cash number. This new book provides material to especially for class use, and it makes cessional—De Koven, Mighty Laic' a Rose so price of cents, postpaid. DO YOU KNOW ABOUT Even under war-time conditions the toward comfortable keyboard mastery. surety that there are many substantial 50 WHAT help teachers in giving pupils a funda- available procedures which Dr. Dengler —Nevin, The Green Cathedral—Hahn. TELEVISION Besides having selected such numbers citizens in the making. AND MUSIC? Theodore Presser Co. is doing everything mental knowledge of how to progress has used with such great success in his others. Cradle Song—MacFadyen, and The Etude has striven to keep “up to the possible to render convenient, helpful as Gondoliers from Nevin’s “Day in Very permanent among the best sell- PEER GYNT SUITE by Edvard Grieg-,4 smoothly from one key to another, and own classes of high school students. Dr. An order be placed now for a minute" in the relation which this startling may Venice” have to the music of the future. service, and is ready to send “On Ap- suite, Marine's Hymn, Melody of ing Junior Choir books is one entitled Story with Music for Piano, Arranged by invention will for those performers who did not have Dengler has drawn his material from copy of this book to be delivered when In a special editorial, reviewed by some of our Love by Engelmann, Meditation by Ada Richter Private music teachers and greatest television experts, the editor explains proval” single copies of anthems to meet such instruction in their student days, many sources recognized as authoritative, Mor- Lawrence Keating’s Junior Choir Book. — published at the special Advance of ion, and the principles of this new scientific achieve- described needs such as for what voice, some good pianistic arrange- Its success has been such as to warrant many others in educational activities ment in a manner not hitherto seen in print. this book may be used as a self instructor and his adaptation of these various mate- Publication cash price of 60 cents, post- the ability of the singers, and the special ments of classic melodies, favorite hymns, the publication of this Second Junior throughout the country hold the story- since it utilizes procedures in clear and rials along with original material has paid. and standard vocal airs, Mr. Williams has with-music series by Ada Richter in high PUNCTUATION IN MUSIC occasion for which anthems or cantatas simple language and gives a wealth of been guided by practical testings with Choir Book by the same composer and selected Heinrich Gebhard, famous piano virtuoso, com- are desired. Single r and arranged some choice include splendid esteem, and needless to say, young pi- copies sent “On Ap- models of just how modulations are ac- thousands of students over a num- arranger. It will a va- poser, and teacher, who has been a soloist with number of NUTCRACKER P. I. Tschaikowsky, SUITE by bers from the most of the great American symphony orches- proval” are charged to the customer with complished without any “awkwardness” years. This Teacher’s classics, drawing upon such riety of racred two-part numbers, with anists have enjoyed them very much and Manual enlarges arranged for Piano Duet by William M. tras, has written a very lucid and practical composers as Chopin, benefited article, filled with notation examples within full credit given for unused numbers to offend the ears of listeners. In an- upon these lessons, and gives guidance Schubert, Schu- both parts comfortable in range for have been much by them. Felton Piano duets have an appeal for the grasp of the average student. It is “tops" returned mann, and others. While some of the story-with-music promptly. nouncing this forthcoming publication we as to gaining results from the use of this singers as young as the junior high as a lesson in “elocution” in piano playing. home music performers for personal This are giving anyone who so desires material also forthcoming publication may be school ages, and yet these selections are series book#, such as Ada Richter’s Kin- an op- and covers many things of pleasure, always favor- and are marked ordered now at MASTERPIECES IN THE JUNCLE PRACTICAL KEYBOARD MODULATION— portunity to subscribe for a single copy practical worth to any seeking to guide the bargain Advance of of such quality as to be satisfying to dergarten Class Book, Cinderella, Jack ites with recital and entertainment audi- Publication One of the great surprises of the war is that at the low Advance of Publication cash price of 60 cents, post- singing groups without tenor and And The Beanstalk, and Three Little For Class, Private, or Self Instruction, by cash others to achievements in vocal tech- duets mature concert groups, composed of great artists sent ences. This is doubly so when the paid. to the men at the front, have met w’ith amaz- Rob Roy Peery, Mus. Doe. Awkwardness price of 50 cents, postpaid. nique and tonal artistry. bass sections. Pigs are for youngsters in their first and — are familiar to audiences, and the ar- ing favor. Stephen West interviewed the mem- in anything is likely to affect one's stand- The Advance Offer of this Teacher’s We can only permit anyone interested second grades of piano study, this Peer bers of one group which had toured the Pacific rangements convey players and Isles and brought back many interesting tales to CLASSIC story-with-music book ranges into ing, and this is particularly true in the Manual will be withdrawn the AND FOLK in First to order a single “get-acquainted” copy Gynt and facts. MY PIANO BOOK—Part Three—A Method day the hearers something of the tone coloring of MELODIES the case of those appearing before any gath- book is placed on the market. Position f„r CELLO at the Advance of Publication bargain third grade. by Ada Richter For Class or Individual In- Until that the orchestral rendition. perfectly AND PIANO-Selected, This is the delightful ARE TWO PIANOS AN ering as singers, speakers, actors, organ- struction day orders will be accepted for single arranged, and edited by Charles Krane— price, since the Advance of Publication Everybody knows num- —Although My Piano Book, as demonstrated in these fine piano duet IN his of roy- bers in the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard ADVANTAGE THE STUDIO? ists, pianists, or musical directors. There originally published in two parts, copies at the Advance of Publication cash album will supply the young cello offer always means a sacrifice was arrangements by Mr. Felton of the entire Roeder, of the Juilliard Pupil Grieg, and to have them cleverly ar- Carl M. School of Mu- is no surer way of avoiding awkwardness price of $1.00, postpaid. with a alty, on the part of the composer, and sic, writes upon this subject in very helpful designed to take care of the kindergarten Nutcracker Suite by Txchaikowsky. They dozen numbers which are ideal for margin of ranged in easy-to-play forms in a book fashion. Teachers should give careful consid- than to be well prepared to accomplish developing the foregoing of the usual • beginner through that stage between the are for a pair of average good pianists or fingering and bowing eration to this live article. whatever is to be done before others. completion the echnique and the profit necessary to the publisher’s busi- wherein they illustrate the captivating of average kindergarten ORGAN TRANSCRIPTIONS OF FAVORITE for pupils who are in the advanced inter- ability to learn those Unfortunately, many who are respon- piano instruction HI effective points in ness. Quantity orders can be filled only story, as engagingly told by Mrs. Richter, CURINC THE MISTAKE HABIT book and the usual MNS, by Clarence Kohlmann—For many mediate period of study, since they range musicianship which sible for playing the piano or the organ piano method book, the success which years those contribute so after the book is placed on the market means a superb teaching aid with young “Why don’t my pupils get ahead?” said a who heard Clarence Kohl- from grade 4 to in technical de- much toward appreciation. young teacher to the great Kullak. “Bring grade 6 pupils. for church services, Sunday School piano teachers have had in giving their mann play as These numbers are at the regular price then established. piano them to me and I will tell you,” he replied. instrumental selections or mands. The pre-publication offer of this melodious, and After mie single These story-with-music books serve he had heard them, he said, “Your puDils sessions, assemblies, or general gather- younger pupils the first two parts of as accompaniments is a good Advance of Publications orders for are practicing mistakes instead of the notes. My any hymn tunes on book is being made at the Advance of rhythmic variety among lein. however, at the well in class or private instruction, and No wonder they do not get ahead!” Marguerite ings have not equipped themselves to Fiano Book, after the completion of the the piano or the organ, noted The arranger is copies will be accepted, Ullman, in a pertinent the expert Publication cash price of $1.00, postpaid. and editor, who on article, tells how to keep a smooth musical continuity when first kindergarten work has caused many manner in which he w faculty of Advance of Publication cash price of as a suite these Peer Gynt numbers, break pupils of this destructive habit. built them up to A single copy only to a customer. the Institute of Musical ‘ 1 of with the story, furnish fine material for Advertisement the Juilliard School of Music and 25 cents, postpaid. 610 THE ETUDE Advertisement OCTOBER, 2944 611 ——,

records are important. The dealer stores itself means a disciple or follower. As a moors in all weathers, was nothing out The Compleat Musical records standing upon edge in especially body the Sikhs—tall, bearded, handsome of the ordinary, and one of the letters to designed albums. The most economical men disciplined to war, brave in battle Herschel’s brother describes his being British raj caught in a severe thunderstorm. The Home way of storing sheet music is in a file like have been faithful to the and en- a modern letter-file, insuring better ac- are now fighting with the Allies on vari- gagements at country houses were not solely teaching ones, but were for private ( Continued from Page 559) cessibility, space economy, and protection. ous fronts. Music books, especially dictionaries, en- The next important fighting men of concerts as well. On one occasion he was cyclopedias, and special technical works India are the Gurkhas, fierce warriors gratified because the Duke of York played room, the kitchen, the library, but if pos- on subjects in which you are interested and hill-folk, as a rule short and stocky the ’cello with him.” sible every home should have a master are “musts” as soon as you can afford with Mongolian features. They are Hin- instrument of an advanced type, if only them. dus, yet as far apart in disposition from We are grate- to take advantage of the new world of In planning a music room, decide upon the peaceful Bengali Hindus as the poles. musical opportunity which this age is a harmonious style of decoration in ad- The Gurkhas, though trained to disci- offering us. vance. The days v'hen the furnishings of pline and methods of the British in the In selecting a fine radio-phonograph, a room were so incongruous that each use of modern arms, are apt in heat of the ear of the carefully trained musician NBC piece seemed to be fighting every other battle to cast aside their guns and draw TOSCANINI Serge KOUSSEVITZKY to these and the established reputation of the Arturo ful piece in a free-for-all battle, are happily out their kukris—sharp, curved knives manufacturer for a superior product, are passing. Make your music room a place and return to their Old-time style of buying tests one should observe. It is odd of pride in which you, your family, and fighting, for they are past masters with how a man, who, when he is about to your friends may ascend to new planes the knife. The favorite chant-like song buy an automobile will always seek the of musical joy and inspiration. of Gurkhas and hill-people in work or advice of an automotive expert, may. outstanding war is very simple. when he buys a piano or a radio receiver or a record reproducer, do no more than talk it over with his neighbor, his drug- gist, or even his barber. The cultivated Music American Dough- musical judgment of the musician is a far The Music of the Spheres (Conductors who safer guide. It is impossible to make a boys Hear in India cheap instrument that will have endur- ( Continued from Page 555)

ance, selectivity, and sensitivity in its i Continued from Page 607) tonal values. Bargains may be dangerous. Vincenzo Galilei, lutist and composer. Don’t expect to buy a Waltham, an Elgin, which is reminiscent of a bagpipe. To Young Galileo originally was expected so generously a Hamilton, or a fine Swiss watch for the many the poonji will always be the most to become a musician. In fact, many en- cost of a cigar-store watch. I bought a enticing instrument in India, for it is gineers, mathematicians, and scientists radio chassis at the Century of Progress different from any musical instrument have been extraordinarily fine musicians. in Chicago in 1933 which seemingly has that may be purchased in bazaars. It is There seems to be an unusual bond SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL as fine a tone quality as the day it was not for sale as are the drums, flutes, and between stargazers and musical art. The received in my home. I own a Cloisonne sarangis, but remains the immortal in- composer, Camille Saint-Saens, for in- program our vase that one of my sea-faring great- strument sacred to the snake-charmers stance, was an able and enthusiastic For a time Herschel directed the public great-grandfathers brought from Hong —once heard never forgotten. amateur astronomer. concerts at Leeds. He was an excellent Kong where it was made three centuries Before leaving the subject of popular Sir James Hopewood Jeans (1877- ), violinist and a fine organist. At Bath he ago. Its value increases yearly. It always Indian instruments in daily use in India, one of the greatest of modern astrono- played in the Octagon Chapel. His musi- pays to get the best at the start. we must not fail to mention the hour- mers and philosophers, has been so much cal earnings ran as high as four hun- publications in Thousands of homemakers are putting glass drum that announces the approach interested in music that he saw fit to dred pounds a year, a sum possibly equal- aside funds for the Day of Victory when of the animal trainer with his bear or write a valuable volume, “Science and ing between two and three thousand dol- the manufacture of new' models will monkey. He also is a vagabond and Music,” (1934) on these two closely allied lars in present-day values. permit them to secure what they may de- makes his meager living roaming the subjects. Albert Einstein, whose mathe- Gustav Theodore Holst (1874-1934), sire. It is none too early to make plans land putting on al fresco shows for a matical computations have excited the eminent English composer, in what many concert and for your future music room and to ar- few annas. It is not much of a show imaginations of astronomers everywhere consider his greatest masterpiece, the range to save for those things which will that our boys will see, but no doubt they and have opened new vistas for them is, symphonic suite of seven tone poems for make possible the fulfillment of your will feel so sorry for the wretched bear as is generally known, a violinist of al- large orchestra and voices, “The Planets,” dream for that room. After talks with and pathetic monkey that they will be most virtuoso ability. One of the most memorializes the music of the spheres. far-seeing friends, some of them archi- moved to toss a coin or so to the low- unusual examples of the musician-as- This inspiring work should be heard more tects of high standing, I find that many caste creature who whines for “back- tronomer is that of Sir William Herschel, frequently. on the radio. have also resolved to add to their music sheesh” for his reward—when one’s chief who until his thirty-third year was a If the moon can visibly affect the tides room plans not only television, but a desire is to liberate the animals and en- professional musician. In an article in of the vast oceans, what might not the screen for home movies and for talking chain the man. “Musical Opinion,” of London, Stanley heavenly bodies do for musical inspira- pictures which many will demand. These We must mention in passing the sword- Bayliss gives some very interesting ma- tion in Man! distinctive additions to the educational, dances of the Afghans at their own Mo- terial relating to the musical youth of the OLIVER DITSON CO. artistic, and entertainment life of the hammedan festivals of the Feast of the distinguished astronomer and discoverer family group, plus a well stocked library New Moon and other religious occasions. of the planet, Uranus. of records and books, will tend to make The Parsi on Bombay-Side has his fire- Born at Hanover, November 15, 1738 THE JOHN CHURCH CO. the home of tomorrow a citadel of joy dance, symbolizing the Sun as the fire (six years after the -birth of Haydn) and progress. of life. The Tibetan has his devil-dance Herschel received his early training from The World of Music Going back to my childhood musical at Buddhist festivals, and the Assamese his father, a bandsman in the Hanoverian THEODORE PRESSER CO. experiences, my mother used to say jok- has his primitive dances of war, love, Army. He entered the service as an oboist, ingly: “A piano is no better than the and harvest-time. If our men could wan- when he was a little over fourteen years (Continued, from Page 553) tuner who takes care of it.” In justice to der over the broad face of India they of age. Hanover and England were as- PHILADELPHIA 1, PA. your instruments, a line piano should be would find many interesting and varied sociated politically, and Herschel's regi- London and studied with his mother and tuned and regulated at least three times types of music and dancing which are an ment was ordered to the “Tight Little at the Royal Academy of Music. Prior to a year. The cost of the upkeep of a fine inseparable part of all East fcidian reli- Isle” in 1756, on a visit. English life made becoming conductor of the Promenade piano is only nominal compared with that gions. All dances are based on the sym- a deep impression upon Herschel, and a Concerts, he served as musical director of an automobile, but the average man bolism of old religions, whether of Ani- year later he deserted his Hanoverian for various opera companies. He was also who thinks nothing of large garage bills, mistic, Buddhist, Moslem, or Hindu faith. regiment and returned to England, stat- conductor of some of festival the leading KASTON balks at the piano repairman's bills of Perhaps the vast majority of India’s ing that “nobody seemed FOTO, N. Y. to mind whether choruses. Russell BENNETT Alfred WALLENSTEIN Paul WHITEMAN Robert ten or twenty dollars a year. in- STANLEY The illiterate (millions) population in outly- the musicians were present or absent.” tricacy of fine modern radio-phonographs ing districts will not even know that the Later he obtained an official discharge I.EO SCHULZ, who until his retirement is almost beyond belief. The wiring, the Second World War is in the process of and established himself in London as a in 1929 had been first violoncellist of the tubes, and the various parts are put completion, or that their own motherland performer, teacher, and copyist. New York Philharmonic-Symphony So- together with the most exacting scientific has been drawn into it. But the great Next we find him in Yorkshire, con- ciety Orchestra for thirty-eight years, precision. fighting castes of India now in active ducting a band for the Earl of Darling- died on August 12 at La Crescenta, Cali- There is, in addition to the radio-pho- service for the Allies will know full well. ton. The band, alas, consisted of two fornia. He was seventy-nine. Mr. Schulz nograph, a whole range of electric and The most magnificent and loyal fight- hautboys (oboes) and two French horns. was born in Posen. Poland, and studied electronic Instruments, including the ing man in India today is the Sikh, of The lack of instruments, however, did piano as a child. At nine he toured Ger- Hammond Organ, the Orgatron, the Nova- the warrior caste of traditional fighters. not deter Herschel from writing military many and Poland as a pianist. At thir- chord, the electrically amplified Guitar, The religion of this caste is a sort of music for this organization. Mr. Bayliss teen he began violoncello study at Berlin. and the Solovox, all of which are bring- Brahmanical form of Hinduism with writes : “A provincial musician in those He held the solo violoncello position in ing new delight j musical homes. “modern” innovations and was founded days had to spend a considerable time several of the major orchestras of Europe Cabinets for the preservation of master by Nanak about 1500. The word Sikh on horseback. Fifty miles a day over the and came to the United States in 1889. V-NBC NBC CBS Frank BLACK Gustave HAENSCHEN Paul LAVALLE Lyn MURRAY Wilfrid PELLETIER George SEBASTIAN 612 Arthur FIEDLER "forward MARCH WITH MUSIC" THE ETUDE

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he entire English-speaking surren- world Gilbert, directing the performance, the official have been largely forgotten, Pinafore, The Pirates dered to H. M.S. Pinafore. In an T 1879 Pinafore received an ovation from music lovers of Penzance and The Mikado will probably be American newspaper reported, "At present, of old New York. played and sung as long as the English lan- there are forty-two companies playing Pinafore Although no more perfect artistic partnership guage is spoken on this earth. about the country. Companies formed after has ever existed, no love was lost between its 6 P. M. yesterday are not included.” To enjoy the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan two members. Gilbert, a bluff typical English- to the utmost, you should hear them played Yet from this unprecedented American success, man with a sarcastic tongue and domineering by a Magnavox. Of this instrument, it is suffi- not one penny of profit came to Gilbert and personality, was a continual trial to the dark, cient to say that it is the radio-phonograph Sullivan. In the absence of an international Oriental-looking composer noted for his gen- chosen Kreisler, copyright law, any unscrupulous producer could tle charm and ingratiating manner. by Ormandy, Beecham, "pirate” the words and music. Horowitz and Heifetz for their own Homes. Moreover, each felt that he was lowering his To overcome this situation, the famous part- standards associating by himself with light *Send for Reproductions of Paintings: Set of ten repro- ners came to the United States and staged an opera. Each considered himself capable of ductions of paintings from the Magnavox collection — size llX"x 9", suitable for framing— at your "Authorized Version.” With Sir Arthur writing or composing works of far greater 5 Oi Magnavox dealer. Or. send in War Stamps to Sullivan conducting the orchestra, and 50d William importance. Yet while their serious efforts Magnavox Company, M Dept. ET, Fort Wayne 4, Ind. Ivlaanavoxi S c/wice yreat arlidfo RADIO J PHONOGRAPH

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