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541 OCTOBER, 1946 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” . . '
Editorial UR COUNTRY is now confronting a made the first American piano famine and O in Philadelphia in piano be necessary for it may 1775, we may be proud of (Tjcnutvii® thousands to wait for $§<£>. wn(E fYhfflon f^ianoA the exalted standards two, three, and even four Wanted—a MONTHLYslrsXITUIV of manufacture held by PitRLISHED a fine in- Philadelphia i, Pa. years to secure Presserpufsser Co., the foremost American By Theodore strument of standard makers for well onto two advisory staff make. The demand will editorial asd centuries. The best de- COOKE, Ea"or probably far exceed a JAMES FRANCIS signs, the best materials, dr. new instruments. million and the best workman- the great De- andedu*Xon.me KglW^gkensKen w Dr. Guy Maier During ship have given Amer- Designed and written by well known teachers ^Nicholes Douty courses ot Herald B«rk|ey BUBANK METHODS are the original systematic, graded _ pression the manufacture everywhere. The e ican pianos a wonderful by successful teachers Dr - He ’ instrumental study. Used Pietro Deiro william D. Revelli of pianos was markedly methods are imitated, but have not been excelled. reputation for longevity. reduced. During the War ELEMENTARY METHODS . . . . PRESS ER- We often have played on • RUBANK $.75 BY THEODOR $.75 BASS (E(, or BB(,) Bovey . J^UNDED~T883 zero. The CLARINET Hovey it went down to grand pianos or TRUMPET Robinson .75 XYLOPHONE or MARIMBA American CORNET .75 TROMBONE or BARITONE Long .75 supply of existing instru- TYMPANI .Whistler 1.00 over fifty years old which HORN (F or Ei,) .'...Skomicka .75 VIOLIN Book 1. .Potter with all Yoder .75 ments, together DRUM VIOLIN Book 2. Potter .60 had been regularly tuned FLUTE or PICCOLO .Petersen .75 VIOLA Ward .75 October, 1946 new instruments that can SAXOPHONE Hovey .75 Ward .75 Contenti for and repaired and which OBOE Hovey .75 STRING BASS Ward .75, .Whistler .75 be turned out for some Jkcmicka .75 BELL LYRA .... in surprisingly good PRICE 25 CENTS were VOLUME LXIV, No. 10 years to come, will hardly condition. .75 DRUM be adequate to keep pace FLUTE EDITORIAL Not everyone has the .75 SAXOPHONE enormously in- Wanted—a Million Pianos. with the TROMBONE or BARITONE OBOE means to purchase a new .75 VIOLA creased interest in music (F or E|>) SkOrnicka .75 BASS (E|j- or CULTURE HORN MUSIC AND .President Harry S. Truman 545 “top price” piano, and Significant Place in Modem Life consequent Music's Margaret Humphrey 546 study and the • RUBANK ADVANCED METHODS . Templeton is a class of ex- How I Taught Alec there OBOE ...... Alec Templeton 547 in- $1.00 * musical * * for Voxman-Gower * * ' * CLARINET ’ * demand in Music CORNET or TRUMPET TROMBONE c Humor Curtis H. Larkin 548 cellent utility instruments Around the Worl . Gower-Voxmdn 1.00 “The Stars and Stripes Forever” struments. The situation FLUTE Voxman-Gower 1-00 BASSOON .... which have character, 1.00 SAXOPHONE . Voxman-Gower MUSIC IN THE HOME is really critical. .Alfred Lindsay Morgan 550 tone, and stability, and Promising Radio Year A Cadman 551 If you aspire to buy . ...B. Meredith The Etude Music Lover’s Bookshelf which serve their pur- a new, fine piano, deter- MIEAUK MUSIC AND STUDY pose. It is this type of in- Dr. Guy Maier 552 which make you can The Teacher’s Round Table mine Allan T. Bentham 553 strument upon which by Bland Memorial Dedicated afford and register your Elise Lathrop 555 Great Sopranos of Yesterday (Part 2) PIANOS BOUGHT far the larger part of Camil Van Hulse 557 name at once with a Learning to Play the Organ movers of the city of Philadelphia, in- 558 Etude prints this picture of a truck of one of the leading piano American students have Musically ... .Robert W. Buggert The Percussionists Can Play dealer, as you would for been to get old pianos during the great piano shortage. Papers from ....William D. Revelli 559 dicating how eager the public has in their Can Conducting Be Taught? printed enticing advertisements headed “Pianos Bought. had to depend Joseph Szigcti 560 automobile. Even coast to coast have The Absorbing Art of Violin Playing a new Hcrold Berkley 561 homes. The Violinist’s Forum at that you may have to .Dr. Karl W. Gehrkens 562 Questions and Answers Then there is a third 563 stand in line a long, long Important Announcement without ideals, ,! Edwin Hughes 564 of piano, made by commercial manufacturers -The Piano Student’s Problem of Memorizing time to secure one. Fortunately, in the case of the piano, you need class “price market.” Many of these instruments might better MUSIC not “hold off” and wait for the manufacturer to bring out new to meet a Inferior materials, Classic and Contemporary Selections be known as “junkos” rather than pianos. Connell 565 models. "The WALTER R0LFE Autumn Moods Gra t manufacture, poor workmanship, condemn them from 275, No. 2 567 the daily papers have been displaying rushed Dance of the Spooks Bert R. Anth , Op. From coast to coast Robert Syd Duncan 568 always poor investments and have a depress- Promise of the Dawn advertisements for several years from dealers seeking to pur- the start. They are
: 570 No. in D major Wolfgang Ann: den Mozart SECOND PIANO BOOK Minuet 6, ceiling price on these ing effect upon the work of the students. Wing Foo Cecil Burleigh. Op 1. No. 1 571 chase second hand pianos. There was no Sequel to “A CHILD’S PRIMER” Strauss 437 dealers do to keep up standards in the post- Emperor Waltz (From “The World’s Great Johann Op. instruments, as there was in the case of used cars. The trading What will the piano Waltzes”) Art. by St King 572 sophisticated ad- ancient pianos, altered war period ? The public is growing more and more This second or follow-up book also Driftwood Walt€T I< Idas 574 was sharp and exciting. Some dealers took of teaching but one selective. Piano manufacturers know this, and we predict heres to the principle Vocal and Instrumental Compositions the cases, repaired the works, added mirrors or some other gim- and specific idea at a time. All essentials regard- Lord’s — .Carl A. Preycr 576 pianos of the future will be made with more The Prayer (Sacred Song low voice) cracks, and behold—reborn pianos! In thousands of cases the that the less costly William F. Sherwin ing. technique, time and key signatures, phrasing, Day is Dying in the West (Organ) musical values than has been the case in the ’ Kohlmann 577 “reborn” instruments are likely to last only a few years at most. consideration for (From “Organ Transcriptions of Favorite Hymns i Arr. by Clarence etc., are explained simply in a pedaling, dynamics, Gluck through the splendid models Menuet from “Orpheus” (Violin) Christoph Willibald Von Some of these reborn pianos remind us of the trick of the old- past. The elevation of musical taste, clear and concise manner. (From “Fifty Classic Masterpieces”) Arr. by Karl Rissland 579 used to put mercury into of piano tone heard when demonstrated by great artists over the little instructive pieces are melodious and fashioned dishonest horse dealer who The many Delightful Pieces for Young Players like well as on the concert stage, will make it increasingly Interesting. There is variety of style, rhythm and arrangement Jolly Darkies (Piano Duet) Karl Bechter 580 the ear of an old nag and tickle it until it pranced around a radio, as Forrest 582 Japanese pianos Autumn Days . .Sidney like the cheap — and each is attractively illustrated. two-year-old. When the mercury flopped out, the tired old plug difficult to dispose of instruments At an Indian Camp J. J. Thomas 582 For delightful and pleasurable piano study, we recommend balloon. which we are told could sometimes be secured for as little as sixty- Spooky Time Roxana Paridon 583 collapsed with it, like a punctured the use of "The WALJER ROLFE SECOND PIANO BOOK”. $1 .00 K. Kim, President of the In a Southern Cabin Ella Ketterer 584 Other responsible dealers did a fine job of reconditioning. In five dollars in the Orient. Dr. Helen 596 Seoul, Korea, recently told us of Are You Acquainted With JUNIOR ETUDE Elizabeth A Gest fact, many of the responsible music houses specialized in taking Ewha Womans University at during wartime. MISCELLANEOUS good, used pianos, thoroughly reconditioning them, and selling the Japanese pianos they were forced to use Walter Rolfe The Significance of the 554 rarely lasted over two "A CHILD’S PRIMER" by Bland Memorial them at moderate prices, which represented very good value These pianos sounded like xylophones an,d Opportunities for Piano Tuners. . A Modern Piano Method for the Very Young important service at a critical time. years. Band Questions Answered William D. Hecelli 556 to the consumer. This was an Mrs. Middle C Voice is that it has been sus- Based on the Story of Questions Answered Dr Nicholas Douty 587 Now that OPA ceilings are off new pianos, you probably One remarkable thing about the piano Organ and Choir method. Musical notation is Questions Answered the years of This work may precede any good firs! grade piano come tumbling out of factories like ceptible to so few changes or improvements during Violin Questions Answered imagined that they would and the pupil is given a familiar tune from approached in a simple manner general principles the piano is the same as the necessary to sustain mass production automobiles. Fortunately, the making of fine its existence. On the very start, gradually building up a little repertoire so Entered as second-class matter January Phild., Pa., character of the mate- the small child’s interest. 16, 1884 at the P O. at pianos is both an art and a science. America has established a primitive instruments of Cristofori. The Qot hi ; ore Prater Co., tor ™ - ™ » Th < definite child appeal. 75tf ti t A carefully planned primer with record for making some of the finest pianos in the entire history rials has changed, the style of the case has been altered from time — introduced by Dr. Hanchett in vr art. superb instruments have repeatedly been selected to time, the sostenuto pedal was e of the Our A an< p°*«sions; also Dominican Reauh?ir r, u Hamu ? in Costa Rica, Cuba, of the 1873, the tone has been broadened, improvements in the key and SAM FOX PUBLISHING COMPANY “SrTyi w' Mexico, Nicaragua. Panama. Republic of Hon by the world’s greatest artists in competition with those Paj° an ut b American countries except the Guianas. $2 75 a vear in r^ j xt ^° well as in the scale and iron frame have been C" ,OUnd,:,nd Ever since John Behrent action assembly, as • ' of the world. RCA Building • Radio City New York, N. Y. Single c^y, Pn« «' 50 a * »1 mh« foremost manufacturers 25 «m5 (Continued on Page 556) 543 1946 "FORWARD MARCH OCTOBER , 542 WITH MUSIC" THE ETUDE ”
Music and Culture Music and P«»ure
Music’s Significant Place in Modern Life
USIC can make the life of the average man From a Group Discussion with richer. Music can help to further a better un- M derstanding between nations. Music can clear the mind of the tired man, and can put to flight the troubles of the day. Thus the credo of President- musician Harry S. Truman, the while Congress was f-^reAident uman embroiled in a bitter debate about the extension of the OPA and the loan to England, the while the women’s mushroom lobby for the OPA was headlined PREPARED ESPECIALLY FOR THE ETUDE MUSIC MAGAZINE BY LEROY V. BRANT as accusing the Capitol police of “pushing the girls around” and then lying about the pushing, the while Iran was reported clamping an ironclad censorship on This interview was secured for The Etude by Mr. LeRoy V. Brant of San Jose, California, whose articles all outgoing from her borders. news have previously appeared in The Etude. Mr. Brant is an organist, pianist, and teacher who was born in For months a group of California music correspond- Nebraska but who has spent most of his life in California. He studied at the College of the Pacific, at the ents had planned to discuss music with the President, Chicago Musical College, and with Xaver Scharwenka, helix Borowski, and Clarence Eddy. He has the degrees had prepared for his consideration a case for music, of B. Mus., M. Mus., Associate Trinity College, A.A.G.O., and is the organist of Trinity Episcopal Church the case contained in nine questions. Mr. Truman felt at San Jose. By special arrangement with the White House Mr. Brant flew from San Jose to Washington with Note. abundantly justified in giving some thirty minutes a group of journalists to secure this interview. — Editor's out of his busy career, to discuss earnestly the prob- lems which the musicians saw confronting them. He gave time to music on the grounds, as he expressed it, that we must cultivate spiritual matters even in the enjoy life. This help is of a different type from finan- the category, and prominently, because of his belief midst of the plethora of problems offered by material cial or political help. It is a help which enriches the that a knowledge of music, at least enough to under- ones, for when men become as close to each other in man’s graces. It is a help which gives him relaxation stand it, makes it easier to live. mind and spirit as they are in science, the material from the sterner things, for the moment, and thus fits 6. “What, in your opinion, is the most valuable problems will, little by little, approach the vanishing him better to meet them again. Also, the President function of music for the average person?” point. thought that he might have gained some insight into Entertainment and relaxation, was Mr. Truman’s Nine major questions were asked the President, all the minds of other nations from what he has heard concise answer to this question. of which he readily answered, with an evident insight of their folk songs. 7. “Do you believe that a national minister of music, into the purpose with which they were framed. The He told how he had begun the study of the piano or of the arts in general, could serve a national need questions and his answers were: at the age of eight or nine, had continued that study and assist in building up a greater national culture? for some five years, and had then given it up because (Note. It has been suggested that it would be the part Music's Contribution to Peace the other boys called the study a “sissy” one. But he of wisdom to emphasize spiritual matters to a degree 1. “Do you believe that music can make a major thought all boys, as well as girls, should have such an equal to that which material ones, especially war, are contribution to a lasting peace between the nations, enriching experience. His own daughter also began her emphasized. Your answer to this question, if in the and if so, in what way?” music at about the same age, taught by her father. affirmative, will not be interpreted to be a nonrealistic The President remarked that music is an art com- When reminded that Mary Margaret Truman is prob- emphasis on impractical matters, but rather a realistic
mon to all great civilizations, and , that it could help ably the only person living who can boast of having attitude looking toward the day when it will be possible ” in war, when soldiers would better march to battle to had piano lessons from a President of the United to lay aside the big stick.) martial strains. He quickly added, however, that if States of America, Mr. Truman chuckled and said he The President pointed out that music is a phase of they might fight a better battle to the music of a hoped the lessons did her some good. education, and should receive neither more nor less military band, men might also make a better peace to Mr. Truman also wanted it distinctly understood, attention than any other branch of schooling. When the accompaniment of a great symphony orchestra. and gave his permission to be quoted on the point, he was reminded that the cabinet boasts no portfolio Music has been a great help in maintaining a civiliza- that when he spoke of music he did not refer to the of education he said he was perfectly aware of that tion, and music is international. It was Mr. Truman’s so-called modern music. He likes melody, harmony, fact, that the question of a minister or secretary of opinion that as nations sing and play each other’s and he does not like noise. His music is a relaxation to education had been a bitter political one for a quarter music, so they gradually grow to understand each other him, he repeated, and a pastime. of a century, and that he expects to have considerable better; hence they will, little by little, ease some in- 4. “Does the performance or hearing of music in to say about this particular matter within the reason- ternational stresses. When you have sung in a quartet, these present trying days help to relieve your nerve ably near future. In the meantime, he pointed out, the or choir, with a man, you are less likely to try to get fatigue, or the tensions engendered by your many state superintendents of schools of the various sov- the better of him outside the concert hall, so the duties?” ereign states have almost ministerial powers within President thought. The President made it clear that he was not the their jurisdictions, and if those men elect to use their 2. “Do you believe music has already made a major worrying type, in any event, but he stated that he has powe*6 to promote the fine arts, and music, as well as contribution toward lasting peace between this and a radio by his bedside and a piano by his- desk. Ob- the mill run of educational subjects, they are free so the Latin-American, or other nations, and if so, will viously, music means much to him. He said that the to do. What they do will be determined by two things, you cito instances from your own observation?” effects of the two different types of music, that is, the Mr. Truman thought; first by their own educational
Mr. Truman replied that unquestionably such con- music that he makes and the music to which he is inclinations, and second by the . requests or demands tributions have been made, especially in the case of only a listener, are different. He likes both effects, made on them by their people. North and South American countries, where an inter- and considers that both effects are valuable. When 8. “In your opinion should the average American change of orchestras, choruses, and other forms of troubles do come, music can take his mind off them. municipality subsidize civic music, such as orchestras, music has been abundant for the past few years. A choruses, bands, and other like activities, when it is mutual adaptation of ideals, he called the exchange, Music and the Three R's financially feasible so to do? If you believe in such and an adoption of mutual ideals. The Latin countries 5. “It has been suggested that the subjects most subsidization, w'ould you care to suggest a percentage have helped us with their colorful rhythms; we have important for young people to study are reading, writ- of an annual budget which should go for such a pur- helped them with our elements of musical formalism ing, arithmetic, history, the subjects pertaining to pose?” and sound theoretical practices. In this common spirit their lives’ work, and music, in the order named. Do Mr. Truman thought that such matters must in all of helpfulness, of good neighborliness, we have grown you agree with this analysis, and will you cite your cases be worked out locally, although, he added, it was to understand each other better, and are therefore the reasons for such agreement, or against it?” his opinion that in most cases excellent bands, orches- less likely to fight when we disagree. The President was hardly inclined to assign a cate- tras, and choruses, attract people to the cities -which S. HARRY TRUMAN 3. “How has music helped you in your own life, and gorical order to the subjects named, but agreed with possess them. From that standpoint, he suggested, to attain ycur present high station? (Note: We are the main theory of the question. He thought everybody they might be very, very good business. He commented Thirty-third President of the United States of America not attempting to ascribe any definite political value should, of course, know the three R’s, and he esteemed on the attraction which the orchestra in his own city, to music, or any magical properties to it, but only to history as one of the most important of all subjects Kansas City, is to the public in general. When asked Mr. Truman is the second President of notable musical attainments to occupy this show how it may help any successful man in business, because, he opined, if people understood the lessons if he thought a twenty-five cents per capita annual exalted po hi „ ” our second President, profession, or trade.) of history there would be' no more wars. He was em- expenditure for music about right for the average Thomas Jefferson, was a musician of unusual ' ability for his ',,,- peri » 1 1 The President felt that music has helped him to phatic in his belief that music should be included in municipality the President (Continued on Page 556) Etude is especially proud to give its readers Mr. Truman’s opinions upon his favorite Evocation' OCTOBER, 1946 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC 545 544 ” • —
learned to Sixey. However, he use his Culture Alec calls me «^>yNE SOMETIMES hears it said that it is diffi- Music and th 1 cult to express humor in music,” began Mr. of the barest fundamentals Culture -nncl he had a grasp of Templeton, “and I think that is a greatly mis- Music and was rapid. We began by playing music hfs Progress taken point of view. Music abounds in humor! Finding In all my teaching, I have simple duets together. humor in music provides one of the richest sources of ^ much ‘system’. The great thing never believed in too is entertainment that the music lover can have. Cer- children an awareness of, and a love tn encourage in tainly, he must keep his wits about him to find it, but ° enable them, by the ‘ and to most r good music, that only adds to the fun. What is humor, actually? make good music come out natural means possible, to of For centuries, philosophers have been trying to analyze way. With Alec, though, I was Humor in Music the keys in a musical the thing that makes us laugh. To me, the best ex- Templeton observe any ‘system’ at all. The point hardly able to planation was put forth by the great French scholar, I Taught Alec but to keep How get him to learn, him from in his monumental work, ‘Le was not to Henri Bergson who, never gave him regular lesson wearing himself out. I Rire’ (‘Laughter’), tells us that the root of laughter A Conference with later, he would come to me at week- periods- much is incongruity—the unexpected shock that comes when Interview with teaching was done, and have An ends when my regular a a completely unexpected result climaxes a normal set well continue for ten or twelve ‘lesson’ that might of circumstances. The lowest .form of humor is the tired out, he would hours When he was physically give incongruity of purely physical situations. Take, for in- ^Jempieton'empi I knew he could absorb no more, a great sigh. Then stance, the banana peel ! If a tiny toddler or an infirm things. J4umplirey spend the time listening to The listen- slips on a banana peel, we simply feel sorry; Wlargarel and we’d old man Internationally Pianist and Composer then he was ready to go on— Renowned ing refreshed him, and there is nothing incongruous about an infirm person’s South Wales music he had heard as relaxation, as part when a pompous, inflated, fat man wear- Piano Instructor of Newport, playing the slipping. But of the lesson! ing a high hat slips on that banana peel, we experi- to them, SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY MYLES FELLOWES “He got his new pieces by listening either ence a reflex of shock which, reflecting nothing on our gramophone records. He had in my playing or on a powers of sympathy, makes us giggle. It is incongruous machine, and would literally little stool before the to see such a man go down in a hurry! The higher ETUDE BY ROSE HEYLBUT them. For his own SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE wear ‘ records out by repeating forms of humor, of course, move away from the purely His ability to combine artistic amusement, he could learn a piece by heai ing it once; physical and bring our mental activities into play. Alec Templeton needs no introduction to American audiences. completely unique side-splitting fun has made his name a byword in every locality that has a concert hall and radios. would repeat the - integrity with for' formal study, however, we com- Reflexes are reinforced by intellectual perception. If ever an artist treated music as a human thing, it is Templeton. His humor is never of the wise-cracking sort; en- All the way home, he position, section for section, until he had mastered it There we have the root of all jokes; and the keener C-sharp minor. That he loved! realizes that music is one of the ingredients of living that make man America, this year, tirely dignified, even scholarly, he simply Miss Margaret Humphrey to for him!’ he kept all its developments. There was never joke, the better its humor. For instance, there is The visit of hear it again. ‘Oh, play it thoroughly, in the belief, Mr. Templeton has done a great work in America. The following conference herself terms her great begged to rejoice. In demonstrating this a climax in what Miss Humphrey as he and getting him to practice one hand delightfully cerebral repartee credited to Disraeli. marks Alec always spoke of himself the slightest need for that readers of The Etude Mr. Templeton's views on finding fun in music. —Editor's Note. and above all, warmly kmd. repeating— brings to the " mpsical romance." Sharp, jolly, — Prelude he the effects he wanted in his political rival. Lord Palmerston, sent Disraeli teacher of South as I or me ‘He wants that at a time. He would hear His great ranks as the foremost music him, never Miss Humphrey reached the of transforming his of his speeches, for which ‘Dizzy’ returned Miss Humphrey says that that piece!’ So as soon as we mind, and then find his own way a volume Wales. One of seven children herself, must have training she longed played it for him—never stopping into tone. For that reason, I seldom this reply; ‘I shall lose no time in reading your book’! was not easy for her to have the musical house, I sat down and inner conception It grand- though, the best fun of all comes from exploring was no jive in his day. Had he lived now he might environment was thoroughly musical. Her the brass band had naturally transposed You have to think it through a moment—then you are me, for Her home to think that purposes and music in all its forms was of band in the interpretations music for its unexpected developments. certainly have taken a try at it, if only for father was a maker of violins, the sharp key of the original to a flat key shocked by the incongruity two Newport teacher experiment myself. girl, she had lessons from a play, when the it funny! “Has it ever occurred to you, for example, that of experimentation. So I made the part of life. As a instrumentation. Hardly had I begun to First Public Concert of losing time. That’s what makes could herself earn the means of Phantasie sketch to is simply a superimposing and then had to wait until she heart-piercing cries. ‘That’s not has all this to do with music? Much! In- the last movement of Schumann’s glorious What the amounts had begun little one broke into “What instruction. Only after she herself learning a tiny piece called The Village the jive out of securing further they played—it's all “One day, in congruities in music make the best jokes in the world. (Opus 17) leads directly into The Merry Widow Waltz? of jazz figures on real Bach. Take with her own studies, it; he wailed; ‘that’s not what teaching was Miss Humphrey able to go on Forge, Alec stopped short over a certain chord, which the measures in the ad- Mr. Bach, and you have a real Prelude and Fugue. of piece he heard on the Fields!’ There is music which is laugh-provoking in itself Well, it does! Have a look at of her former teacher. Much different—he wants the this time under the instructor loved. I told him it was the dominant seventh. is self- was mine he dances of Beethoven, for example, joining column. completely solid musical background Thus I learned the great responsibility that some of the country Miss Humphrey's resolved it himself, and at once worked teaching, she has con- child so keenly Immediately, he Sullivan’s setting of Gilbert’s words. To Now follow them directly with the final theme acguired. Never content with simply in caring for the musical safety of a and much of , their dominant and taking refresher his way through all the keys, resolving of the Widoio Waltz and you’ll stantly continued her studies, coaching attuned to tone that, at the age of four, he felt pain in seventh chords. After that, he marched through the shocked to find that the two work with Egon Petri. key differentiations. be* Miss Hum- seventh Established as the ranking teacher of her locality, house, chanting, ‘He has learned the dominant were made for each other! And “There are ever so many ways in which great music in a tiny boy named Alec phrey was brought to interest herself Absolute Pitch Plus chord!’ the shock is funny! Schumann lends itself to funny experimenting. Something about recognized the child's phenomenal gifts, Templeton. She at once “At six, he played his first public concert. Alec and a hit waltz—-who’d have the opening bars of Mozart’s Fantasie in D-minor set Humphrey is Temple- job. Keys and set about developing them. Margaret “Thus, Alec himself began to teach me my least always loved playing in public; was never the thought it! In similar fashion, the me to thinking that, by altering the harmonies a bit, the who gave him his musical start, him. only has he ton's first teacher; one and tonalities were natural to Not preparatory his discouraged by it. Together we did the Jewel Song from Faust slides something quite Wagnerian might result. And so it aid of responsible patronage in furthering develop- enlisted the absolute pitch, but a most highly sensitized Music examination for Licentiate of the work for the Licentiate of the Royal Academy of into Sweet Rosie O’Grady; just at did! Merely by changing the bass, I switched from studies, prepared him tor his absolute pitch. As a tiny thing, he would recog- Music, ment of College, Royal Academy and entrance to the Royal College of —and presently,- he was ready for the Royal the end, where the horns take over, pure Mozart into Tristan! little friends that came to play with him, by well as in formal nize the diffi- and guided his progress in musical taste as where the Earl of Plymouth was his patron. The Gounod makes an unmistakable “Another source of fun lies in tracing similarities feacher with whom the sounds of their bicycles. In later years, before he scholarship. Miss Humphrey remains fhe one examination was not without its terrors greeting to Miss O’Grady. I have between compositions. The most blatant form of ‘sim- asked cult written most enjoys working. From kindly, jolly little Miss was accepted by the Royal College, we were both Templeton for him, but he thoroughly enjoyed the oral examina- often wished that the soprano iliarity,’ of course, is the open-handed borrowing with Newport, Wales, Alec Templeton still derives to tea by Sir Walford Davies, that grand old man of Humphrey, of in. When master tion. I waited in the anteroom while he went singing the Jewel Song might make which hits are sometimes manufactured from classic more stimulus and greater guidance than from any other English music. Sir Walford had absolute pitch himself, Templeton have brought the he came out again, he was radiant. ‘Sixey,’ he cried, the switch! Again, one of the themes. And that is not funny. Sometimes, of course, he knows. This year, Mr. and Mrs. the fun of it, he flicked his finger against and, just for few States for a well-earned post-war ‘it was gorgeous! They simply asked me to hum a earliest examples of a pure boogie- a theme simply cries out to be parodied. Much of the beloved teacher to the United a china bowl on the table, and said, ‘Templeton, how Miss Humphrey devotes much thought to the progress tunes, and name a few notes, and place a few chords. woogie bass can be found in—von ‘sweetness’ of Tchaikovsky falls into that category, and holiday. many tones do you hear there?’ Alec promptly replied, first thought is for of her sixty-odd pupils in Newport, but her It was just marvelous! I’ve got maximum marks!’ Weber! In the second movement explains, no doubt, the frequent appearance of Tchai- she explains to readers ‘Seven.’ ‘Heavens,’ exclaimed Sir Walford, ‘he is right! "her boy." In the following interview, of his A-flat Piano Sonata, there kovsky tunes in hit song dress. For the most part, There are seven, but I can hear no more than five!’ of The Etude her method of teaching Alec Templeton. The Fibre of His Life is a quick bass figure that simply however, my feeling is that great music is best left Editor's Note. Well, to go on with the story, tonalities themselves — begs for a superstructure of boogie alone. were natural to him, but he had to be taught names is not his playing, “To me, Alec's outstanding trait improvisation. Weber’s Konzert- and relationships. He had to be made to understand but his complete musical awareness. Tone is actually stiick offers a similar bass figure. Tonal Similarity his that there were reasons why Prelude might be the fibre of his life. It was never difficult to teach such Both are excellent jive—I’ve tried The similarity that I have in mind is a very different through a cousin of mine that I first heard made to sound different through the use of different a pupil! I seem to see the little Alec now a tiny boy, «tt WAS — them many times! thing, illustrating what might be termed the ‘common of the farms»near keys. straight I of a little boy who lived on one in a blue sailor suit, with his hair cut in a “As far as I can analyze my own property’ of tonal sequence. After all, every bit of -L and was said to have remark- enthusiasm. Cardiff, Wales, who bang, and every nerve alive with eager swing modernizing He Learns to Use His of the great music we have, is put together from some sort of able musical talent. I was asked to hear the child play, Thumb And he always knew what he wanted! Once when he masters, it is this incongruity that combination of the surprisingly few notes of the for a to and readily agreed to do so. X was prepared “As to his actual playing, Alec Templeton’s first was staying with me, a sister-in-law of mine came motivates me. It is difficult for me chromatic scale. Hence, it is not difficult- to see that talented child. I was quite unprepared for a wee encounter with developing technique was a struggle. take lesson. ‘Etudes It her She was studying Schumann's to analyze too deeply, however, be- well could play anything similarities of combination might have occurred toddler, only four years old, who seems incredible, today, that this should have been the Symphoniques.’ her, I had quite for- In working with cause I never plan my parodies. to different people. Thus, the first bars of Haydn’s ever heard, and in the strangest manner. Too case but it was! Having done all I he had — his playing standing gotten little Alec, and when I looked up, suddenly, simply They come to me. If I go String Quartet give us the tune . of Home from stool, this babe B major little to reach the keyboard a up, neglecting his thumbs, and often using his elbow saw it him to the was time to dress him and take to the opera and hear a voice Sweet Home in three-quarter time. The Londonderry would stand before the instrument, reach his tiny when he wished to complete an octave stretch sister- he evening train home. So I excused myself to my quality that to piano with his fingers seems me to be Air leads directly into the Rachmaninoff Piano Con- arms well over his head, and play couldn’t reach, his habits were all wrong. Worse than in-law, Alec, who and the music stopped. Whereupon hooty, or forced, or in any way certo (Number One) and a hit song of years ago, probably reserving ; only—he never used his thumbs, that, he had to go through the sorry business of un- ‘He had been sitting quietly by, set up loud objections. incongruous (and therefore fun- called Oh, Doll, directly leverage on the front board, to keep You Beautiful grafts onto them for a sort of learning bad habits before he could be prepared for wants he must the finale—the music isn’t over, and ny!), it suddenly strikes me that Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto! One of the most himself going! That was my first encounter with Alec good ones. It was not easy. to First, Alec had to be per- hear how it finale had ends!’ He knew a definite it would be a great joke to in- amusing examples of this tonal similarity is to be Templeton. suaded to sit down while he played. We tried higher come, him, he and he wanted it. All the while I dressed corporate that quality into an ex- found in Strauss’ Village Swallows Waltz; the theme “I was happy to teach the child, never realizing that chairs, and regular piano chairs with books on them; kept crying and got into a fearful state of grief. And great deal more than I could aggerated skit. And then I do it. to which it is not only similar but identical is—the he would teach me a finally, he made friends with the notion of sitting Not on all the way home in the train, the tears continued. In none of Perhaps the first thing that gave me my my parodies, however, Bourree of Bach’s Suite in D! Again, you can build teach him. a chair piled with cushions—he was still not five satisfied- until he had heard the last movement was he has there ever been the slightest yourself wonderful really musical introduction to Alec was an outing we old. a Theme and Variations (none of years The next gi^at problem was to get him to It made 1 is this almost uncanny awareness that has intention of disrespect. I original) starting took him to the Fields, to hear the When them , by out with the song It Ain’t made together. I use his thumbs. I would explain that he ear, had five fine possible for him to his learn all his music through wrote Mr. Bach Goes to Town, it Gonna Rain No More as theme, and following it, with- Grenadier Guards Band. He enjoyed the playing fingers to work with, counting them over with him. yet never to let own inter- music that he that hearing influence his ALEC TEMPLETON came to my mind that one of the out a break, by the ‘Raymonde’ overture and the Prel- enormously—he has never heard was One day, he suddenly cried, ‘He has five fingers—and pretations. The feeling of music is in him. My teaching best reasons another—but what you’re sixth! This picture of Mr. taken in Chicago, at convention of the why Bach didn’t write ude to ‘Carmen.’ You will find the identical figures in not able to enjoy, for one reason or the You’re his sixth finger—Sixey, that’s that Templeton was a had to do with bringing music and seeing jive himself is all! Rachmaninoff Prelude in who you are!’ The to him— American Legion, where he entertained an audience of sixty thousand. the fact that there And Shostakovich, for all ( Continued on Page 593) impressed him most was the name has stuck, and to this day he didn’t take too much of it at one gulp!” "FORWARD MARCH WITH OCTOBER, " 546 MUSIC the etude 1946 FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 547 Music and Culture under the sidewalk of the Strand. There were no of seats, yet the hall was crowded with thousands Music and Culture “standees” to hear the band play. On March 4 the party began its three weeks’ trip to South Africa. * On the torn- of the British Isles the party covered nine four thousand, three hundred and sixty miles in weeks, played one hundred and eleven concerts in Forevei sixty-five different cities, and was received every- and Stripes where with wholehearted enthusiasm. This was the Stars Sousa’s Band to England. The first was The fifth visit of the in 1900, followed by six months through Europe; second was in 1901; the third was in 1903, playing all countries in Europe, including Russia; and the fourth, of England, the World in 1905, was in all the cities and towns Around Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, for six months. Then, finally, came the World Tour of 1910-1911.
On to the "Dark Continent" J-arUn Although the boat, the “Tainui,” was about one- ly Curth M. third the size of the “Baltic,” the sea was unusually calm while passing through the Bay of Biscay. During JOHN PHILIP SOUSA these three weeks on the water the various members With his famous line-up of great soloists and the Sousa Band playing "The Stars and Stripes Forever," the broken timbers. Luckily no one was hurt. of the band practiced daily in their respective state- in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1911. regularly pro- beneath night that, besides the ten of the concert was played with half rooms, so as to preserve their embouchures. A few band ber one The remainder colorful rendition. »^ven encorek April 19 they left on “sleepers” again for Cape depot. It was a spirited and grammed numbers, I counted band on the stage and the rest down below among rehearsals were held on deck. The “Tainui” arrived at On through the the in the Pageant At Adelaide, in the Province of South Australia, the band began touring carpenter who erected the stage Town on March 23, just twenty days’ sail from Town, playing a farewell concert there On January 9 the ruins The local Cape Here, Bournemoutl ;they returned Grounds before sailing for Tasmania. This took three seventeen bands headed the reception procession. of England. From undertaker. He denied, however, trying to Plymouth, a distance of five thousand, seven hundred south h was also an in at the Exhi- band missed the t , weeks on the water. Sousa’s Band was the first Amer- eleven concerts were given one week London. Two members of the both ways! and seventy-six miles, according to the ship’s log. to get business Building. June 30 the party returned to driving about one hundred the dock was the cause for great ican musical organization to visit Tasmania. It gave bition On so they hired a taxicab, Leaving England en route to Cork, Ireland, the The landing at London’s Palladium afternoon and evening concerts at Albert Hall, in Melbourne for another return date of a week, ten of and thirty-five miles, but reaching through Holyhead, in Wales, observing excitement among the populace. All the inhabitants party passed the the fourteen concerts being given in the beautiful matinee concert. turned out to greet the party, and the Launceston, to cheering audiences which packed JOHN PHILIP SOUSA in time for the Castle, built hundreds of years ago, and seemed to have Holyhead next afternoon, May 13, Exhibition Building. Another return date was played the band drove through the main streets in carriages to hall at both performances. The portrait by Harry S. Waltman, existence. Their steamer crossed choppy From his favorite oil Catastrophe still in for Melbourne on the steamer in Ballarat, followed by another week of concerts A Near the City Hall, a magnificent structure, where they the party sailed member of the National Academy. Sea in quick time. After their baggage was trans- band played in a Irish “Ulimaroa.” The first Australian concert was booked (twelve) in Sydney. These last were even more suc- At Merthyr Tydfil (Wales), the carried one hundred and were received by the mayor and civic authorities, who ferred at Kingstown (they cessful in patronage than the previous engagements. so small that a tem- his upon their first visit for Sydney, about five hundred and eighty miles from Dr. Herbert large armory. The stage was they arrived in Dublin half welcomed Mr. Sousa and men HE AUTHOR is deeply indebted to out fourteen large trunks), During the first engage- about five feet high, was built Continent.” conductor, who for many porary platform, All the baggage had to be carted from to the “Dark L. Clarke, noted band part of the an hour later. ment at Melbourne, the front of the stage. During the second On March 26 they left on years was the cornet soloist of the Sousa Band in Kingstown to Dublin, as the Irish railway company T were lined up in front in band played three weeks Sousa’s trombonists special train for Kim- and who some years ago told in serial form of this concert, supply cars large enough. a Sousa’s famous marches. could not at the immense Glaciari- the greatest the performance of one of berly, called the “Treas- trip. Sousa always referred to Clarke as Unfortunately, it rained most of the time while the um, with a seating capac- Down came one-half of the hastily built addi- ure House of the World,” of all cornetists. He was with Sousa on the famous Crash! although this did not interfere ten of his men, band was in Ireland, ity of five or six thousand, often received tion, burying Mr. Sousa, with about famous for its diamond world tour, when the March King was with their sightseeing. A playing twice daily for a mines. Along the route with all the enthusiasm ac- number of the players drove purchased total of twenty-nine con- nobility. the bandsmen corded some eight miles to Blarney certs. greatest and a quantity of grapes at The tour, the Castle to kiss the famous The party arrived at two cents a pound, and longest professional tour ever Blarney Stone. After the pine- Invercargill, New Zea- attempted by a first class mu- the most delicious “operation” some “blarney” land, on July 31. At the sical aggregation, commenced apples at six cents a was kept going on in the first concert, an amusing, in August 1910 and continued dozen. band for many days, this if irksome, incident oc- until December, 1911. A total The band was invited jollity being worthwhile, as curred. It was discovered of sixty-eight people made up to inspect the diamond it prevented the “boys” that some of the large the group. Sousa paid nearly mines, and the members from becoming homesick trunks were missing, in- $4,000.00 a week in salaries dur- were escorted over the en- during so many dark and cluding the trombone and ing the entire journey around' tire operation, riding in dreary days. The band tympani trunks. Mark the globe. This was considered a small tram-car a dis- played in Cork, Limerick, Lyon, Sousa’s second chair an enormous sum at the time. tance of twelve miles. The Dublin, Belfast, and Lon- trombonist and baggage- The success of this remark- value of the daily output man, nearly collapsed. able tour was due in no un- donderry. of these mines then aver- IT the party However, arranged for certain way to the amazing On February aged $400,000.00 On March he Laird Line special train personality, the judgment, the sailed on a 29 the party arrived at a to run back No diplomacy, the courage, and steamship for Glasgow. Johannesburg. The reg- to the “Bluffs” to see if in the endurance of Lieutenant concerts were allowed ular sleeping cars had the missing trunks had Sun- Commander Sousa himself. Scotland anywhere on three berths, one above been left on the steamer. the JOHN PHILIP SOUSA Sousa, Entirely apart from his great days. At Edinburgh the other, providing little Meanwhile, Mr. JOHN PHILIP SOUSA musical achievements, Sousa concerts were held in Wav- head room for turning With the Sousa Band' at the St. Louis Exposition, 1904. who was the very essence Wi,h the U. S. Marine Band, Cape May, New Jersey, August situated was what men call “a real 26 . 1882. erly Market Hall, over in the night. The of punctuality, determined man,” strong, courteous, witty, band played in many South African towns, the last Melbourne. Each province (or state) in Australia then to start the evening concert on time, even without the well controlled, and just. His stop being Durban. (1911) had a different railroad gauge, and as Mel- missing instruments. Local musicians generously vol- bidding. Years men loved him and were eager to do his Dr. Clarke describes the departure from Durban: bourne was in the Province of Victoria, and Sydney unteered to lend their trombones to Sousa’s four trom- official circles, which took with the Marine Band and in “It was amusing to see the way in which the Kaffirs was- the capital of New South Wales, a change of trains bonists. But the New Zealand trombones were found gave him a kind him frequently to the White House, handled our baggage. There were some large instru- was made in the middle of the night at a small town to be high pitch; also, they were of a small bore and position was too complex of international urbanity. No ment trunks, such as those for the Sousaphone, bass named Alburys. No “sleepers” were provided on the bell, and Sousa's men could not even use their own high dignitaries ever was for him. No presentation to drum, and tympani, as well as the large harp box. second railroad. Great was the misery of the band mouthpieces! Yet Yankee ingenuity and “gumption” he was given a royal welcome. Deyond him. Everywhere These fellows were like bees around the pier, but “boys,” some of whom growled: “Why did I ever leave came to the fore, and the concert was given as usual, Willow Grove Park (Philadelphia) The tour began at where a couple of ordinary baggagemen handle all home?” with the large audience none the wiser. During the 1910. The band made a four months pre- on August 14, the trunks with ease, there were a half-dozen here on intermission, the missing trombone trunks arrived. throughout the Central and Eastern liminary tour each trunk, always in each other’s way. I took a snap- Sydney and Melbourne But the tympani trunks went back on the boat to Canada. It played a full week to United States and shot of eight or ten Kaffirs trying to carry the harp The City of Sydney accorded the “March King” and Hobart, and were not seen again for many weeks. at the old Madison Square Garden crowded houses box.” his party a royal welcome. An immense crowd of peo- The next stop was at Dunedin, where the band was York City) in December. On Christmas Eve the (New Arriving at East London, where there was no dock, ple escorted them in a parade from the depot to the booked to play a week of ten concerts at Garrison Hall. entire company boarded the White Star Line steamer, the ship was moored about one mile out in the Indian Town Hall headed by a great massed band made up Dunedin is admittedly the finest built city in New “Baltic,” bound from New York to Liverpool, arriving Ocean. All the members of the party were lowered in of all the musicians in Sydney and nearby towns. Zealand. Another week’s series of concerts, eleven in on New Year’s Day, 1911. Upon their arrival in London, wicker baskets by means of a derrick out over the side Sousa’s Band played twenty-seven concerts here in all, began that same evening at King Edward’s Bar- Lafayette, the famous impersonator, met his old friend, of the boat to the waiting tug. It was Good Friday, two weeks’ time. racks in Christchurch. Between the roof and the walls Sousa, and the latter’s family, taking them to the hotel April 14. Two sacred concerts were played at East On June 4. the party entrained for Melbourne, where (the two not meeting) of this tremendous armory, there in his automobile. Poor Lafayette later was burned to London. A short time later the party reached Port a similar reception awaited them. An immense band was an open space which made it practically like play- death in a theater fire at Edinburgh, Scotland. Elizabeth, the greatest market in the world for ostrich of four hundred and fifty performers, led by a splendid ing out-of-doors. There was some complaint from the The first foreign concert was played on January 2 feathers, the finest specimens of which have always looking fellow who directed from a high pedestal, band members regarding the cold. It was amusing the at Queen’s Hall, London. The first week’s receipts JOHN PHILIP SOUSA come from this district. played The Stars and Stripes Forever in front of the next night to behold a couple ( Continued on Page 590) approximated $22,500.00. Dr. Clarke states: “I remem- With the Sousa Band, Hambura OCTOBER. 1946 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" 549 548 "FORWARD MARCH WITH " MUSIC the etude merits, but one wonders if the n ri2ht has its listener of radio on Mondays can Music in the Home who plans an evening follow The Jazz Mania the Home through, with them all. Music in switch the dial and get Jazz Book.” Edited by Paul Eduard one can of course, another “Esquire’s 1946 is by no means the Publisher, A. Barnes nmerarn But dial twisting best way Miller. Pages, 201. Price, $2.00. S. radio entertainment. We recommend Company. m vet profitable and plan an evening with their radio to of your re- m all listeners who This is a book review and not a review programs in their evening news- n^view the scheduled viewer’s opinions about Jazz. While there are millions Year paper usually provides the schedule Bookshelf Promising Radio rwner The Sunday who ask, “Why Jazz?” there are still other millions The Etude Music Lovers A week, and this of the schedule bacillus. of the best programs Is chronically infected with the jazz In music out and place beside the radio. e00d one to tear It these form two armed camps as hostile as mad bulls one’s temper sometimes should it hear- will save time and in a ring. On the sidelines are those who, while the family is engrossed in turn out that one of the ing some jazz productions that have high ingenuity to part with it paper and unwilling at the and charm, are still bewildered by the senseless, mo- Inj _^j(frecl oCindday Yl^lorgan evening Any book here m notonous din of groups of players who at best can reviewed may variety always on the airways. Columbia’s upon with sympathetic tolerance. be secured from There is only be looked ETUDE MUSIC nights, and other nights THE Sunday and Monday too, The army of jazz enthusiasts is now enormous, and MAGAZINE at the Mutual .Network we get on NBC. price given plus PM., over the far better variety than A defi- there are thousands who collect incredibly ugly jazz programs by Sundays 7:00 to 7:30 offer a postage. TIME of writing, summer October 1 American Album of Familiar Music collected shaving A T THE extended through nite rival to the records, just as one woman we knew rounding out their term, has been f A way of the airways are a Texaco Star Theatre, featuring James old-time barber shops. The “why” of jazz become '30 is the mugs from October s rumors that it may be- at 9 with the turning of the leaves and singe ‘“JS’ the programming pursues JTx. and featuring young But here again, a is that millions want it and are reputedly willing to fall and winter this program r, Melton brisker days the resumption of the well as many presresent- which leaves one with the im- the stars of tomorrow as similar course. All of pay over a billion dollars a year for jazz music in taken place. Since broadcasting come multitude o programs will have the attention of a imagination in musical programming is forms in night clubs, in vaudeville, on the very far ahead, day stars has captured pression that various no longer reveal their plans the tim S likes companies from coast to coast. At needed on the radio. If one a good mystery, radio, with name bands, and from other sources. That of coming events. How- listeners badly cannot give a true resume spotlight with th Mondays, 8:00 to we Tibbett shared the Inner Sanctum on 8:30, it has added a “punch,” a “zip,” and a color to Amer- once said: “The best of Lawrence there is ^lljereditli C^cichman ever, since, as Lord Byron Camilla Williams, in P performances of from ed young Negro soprano, Columbia network, and two plays, the ican life cannot be denied. Moreover, fragments of future is the past,” we can guess voices m the prophets of the the two singers Joined Theater, 9:00 to 9:30, and Screen Guild have permeated the work of some serious what will undoubt- gram in which Lux Radio jazz in spirit the preVious year’s best broadcasts from Pagliacci Du as another Love Duet of Nedda and Sylvio 10:00 to 10:30. It is our feeling that many composers and have acted like a musical hypodermic “The Bach Reader” may be considered ; Players, fall and winter. A very promising ^ A Spanish Master edly be heard this Let’s Go to the Opera forsaken for Bach, inasmuch as it brings to the ing its past ten weeks, ‘J\- programs of the air are other injection to put new capers into what otherwise would resurrection of evidently ahead. broadcastf t musical radio year is all-Wagner program, an entire conventional. These your reviewer “Notes Hispanic.” By the Staff and Members of The English speaking countries such a vast mass of im- Air should re- sented an be fearfully make Columbia’s American School of the “Der Hispanic Society of America. Subscription per every devoted to highlights from Strauss’ think at times of the beautiful wild flowers which $1.00 portant, interesting, and fresh material that October 1st. For those who sume its schedule around the stars Year. Publisher, The Hispanic Society of America. secure it as a kind Rosenkavalier,” and among bloom on a dunghill. But that is merely a personal lover of Bach must at some time musical broadcasts, Tuesday afternoons are follow its series were Rise Stevens. keystone for his musical library. The book is put programs. Al- heard in this opinion. of the periods for the “Gateway to Music” Emery Eleanor Steber, Richard Tucker, “Esquire’s 1946 Jazz Book” is a good job of book In the above-mentioned volume there is a seventeen together in masterly fashion and is serviced by an designed primarily for children, these broad- though Darcy, Frances Greer, Norman Cordon, author's standpoint and from the page essay upon Granados and his opera, “Goyesca,” excellent index, appendix, and biographical notes. Al- considerable appeal among adults. making, from the casts have found Quartararo and of authentic Olin Mona Paulee, Florence publisher’s standpoint. This year’s edition concerns which is so rich in new and important Spanish data though the work is of course a pasticcio year, in connection with these programs, Last it is so ingeniously arranged Times, said. many others. itself largely with jazz that has come from the lairs about the master who was killed by a German sub- “letters and documents,” Downes, the music critic of the New York the summer months we have types of people marine in World War I that the attention of Etude and put together that it has all the charm of an orig- force for the development of mu- Through of jazz in Chicago. The number and “The greatest single of sameness in programming staggering. It is readers is called to it. The volume, containing other * inal, connected story and none of the spontaneous in America is the radio. By noted a who make fortunes from it are quite sical knowledge and taste continues the com- musical broadcasts which if it a careful, colorful, category of the Jazzateers (some comments upon Spanish art, sells for one dollar and combustion dust of pedantic archives. There is even this means, as by no other, has music become fair to become a monotonous large proportion of may be obtained from The Hispanic Society of America anecdotes. Section Six possession of the people. Young and old, in every bids seventy groups in number), a a section devoted to lighter Bach mon well defeat the pur- City. common experi- formula which may whom are Negroid. There are also lists of their best of New York of the pages) is a translation of the rare walk of life, discover in this art a book (88 broadcasters. An example of .” in which the youthful listener poses of known records as well as an ingenious map of Chicago life of Bach by Johann Nicolaus Forkel (translated ence. . . The manner be found on Sun- appreciation for music, Mr. what we mean can jazz spots which should be priceless for thirsty pilgrims indicating acquires a knowledge and The Re-resurrection of Bach into English in 1808 by Mr. Stephenson) , in the RCA Victor Show, featuring contends, begins with a melody or dance tune days to the Windy City. that long before the Mendelssohn resurrection of Downes Robert “The Bach Reader.” Life of Johann says, “finds the talented young baritone, A Sebastian Bach which catches his fancy. The child, he the “St. Matthew Passion” in Berlin, cultured musical 2:30 P.M. The in Letters and Documents. Edited by Hans T. David that tune is han- Merrill, from 2:00 to later a growing interest in the way folk all their short selections, Tchaikovsky Biography and Arthur Mendel. Pages, 431. Price, $6.00. Pub- in England had a Bach cult of own. Your the composer. With the passing program is divided into dled and developed by reviewer has found much of interest on every page the orchestra, under the direc- Friend.” Drinker and lisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. years this constructive element in the art grows one for “Beloved By Catherine Bowen of the for of this remarkable book. felt of Frank Black, and another Barbara Meek. Pages, 475. Price, $1.98. Pub- upon him. At first its logic and symmetry are tion von Merrill and the orchestra, and so universality cannot rather than explained. Later its architectural and even Mr. lisher, Dover Publications. The of Bach be represented more 2:30 to 3:00 P.M., comes the philosophic implications are consciously understood. on. At This book is a re-issue, at a much lower price, of eloquently than by the fact that new phases are being Harvest of Stars, featuring a Then there are the color elements of music, the chang- program Mrs. Bowen’s highly successful story of the singular continually discovered by musical scholars, just as with Howard Barlow conducting ing tints of harmony and orchestration; also the rela- soloist, “platonic” romance of Tchaikovsky and his remarkable astronomers discover new stars. When Bach died in as poetry.” the orchestra, and Raymond Massey 1750 his life might have been looked upon as a failure, tion of music to literature, drama, patron, Nadejda von Meek. It is rumored that it is narrator. Save for the narration of Mr. EARL WILD destined for the movies, in a production by Hal B. if we measure it by the opinions of his townspeople. Massey, the musical fare of this lat- He was just the regulation cantor of the Church of Composers of Allied Nations Wallis, a la “A Song to Remember” and other cinema ter program follows too close a pat- Thomas; too sober, unsen- much the biographies of great composers. St. perhaps too deep and in life nights, over fare because the programming follows too Many a person who has discovered music later tern to the RCA Victor Show. Sunday sational to merit more than ordinary attention. Bach it better Manhattan Merry- has found a way to understand and appreciate NBC, one runs into the same thing, same pattern. was no showman. He detested display. Possibly this this pa^t Broadcasting Album of Fa- Of all the musical programs on the air through such programs as the Columbia Go-Round, 9:00 to 9:30 P.M., American For Young Violinists was the reason why six years after his death the sales interestingly planned “Gateways to Music” and those entitled “The Story of miliar Music, 9:30 to 10:00, Hour of Charm, 10:00 to summer, we have found none as Music, “Famous Violinists for Young People.” By Gladys of his “Art of the Fugue” amounted to only thirty pf the Air brought as Invitation to Music” which the NBC University 10:30, all run a potpourri of musical selections mostly nor as musically rewarding copies, several Bernard Burch. Pages, 227 (8 in. x 9 in.). Price, $2.00. Pub- and for decades no composition of Bach is the guiding spirit of to us last year on Thursday nights. in the popular genre. As programs go, each of these which dominated by was published separately. A few of his broader con- broadcast of lisher, A. S. Barnes and Company. the completion of last season’s NBC University has its merits, providing one likes a series of short Herrmann, its regular conductor. In the Since puppe A most effective and well illustrated introduction temporaries realized his magnitude, but to the world broadcasts (“The Story of the accent is often more on the perform- July 31, Mr. Herrmann gave Manuel de Falla's of the Air Thursday night numbers, but to virtuosi, which at large he was a Betelgeuse, gigantic in size but too The opera, the history of the violin and its series of programs called Concert of Nations ers than the music, and a great deal of the music opera, “El Retablo,” its radio premiere. Music”) , a far away in the skies to be recognized with the naked de- should be in the hands of every violin student. The be novel and off the artists Quichotte,” was a has been heard. These have turned out to chosen does not always show at their presenting an episode from “Don eye. gave a book is authoritative and well presented, so that it musical offerings, featuring as the broad- best. lightful surprise. .Prior to this Mr. Herrmann interesting will fascinate any young person of high school age. Mozart, however, was too great not to realize the works by composers pastoral, “Acis and cast has done each week a series of On Monday nights, a similar group of programs vie two-weeks presentation of Handel's great power of Bach. Beethoven, when he was eleven, time of writing, the rewarding of different Allied Nations. At the with each other, pursuing the same type of program- Galatea,” one of the most delightful and played most of the “Well-Tempered Clavier.” Grad- Music is presenting music by to . program was a Polish one— ming rather than a variation of style. These begin with radio features in recent years. Invitation Proceedings ually, works were no more and more Bach published, and and Chopin. Frank Black and Hour, definitely it pursues Moniuszko, Wieniawski, the Voice of Firestone featuring Eleanor Steber a program to be remembered; “Music Teachers National Association Volume of in Europe and in England a Bach cult began to grow. officiated in these broadcasts, and the direction set the NBC Orchestra and the orchestra under of Howard Bar- formulae in its broadcasts. 1945.” It was not, however, until Mendelssohn resurrected the the Proceedings for Thirty-ninth Series. Edited various soloists. The Polish program opened with low, 8:30 to 9:00; The Telephone Hour, featuring Maestro the podium of also dif- Toscanini will return to by Thaddeus M. Finney. Pages, 221. Price, $2.50. “St. Matthew Passion” in a telling performance in the almost never heard overture to Moniuszko’s ferent stars with the orchestra directed by NBC 20. He Donald Symphony Orchestra on October Published by the Association. Berlin in 1829 (seventy-nine years after Bach’s death) regarded as a great national work froin “Halka,” an opera Voorhees, 9:00 to 9:30; The Carnation Contented Pro- direct the orchestra in sixteen Sunday concerts that the interest of the musical world in the genius followed with A collection of notable papers and addresses deliv- in Poland. Max Hollander, the violinist, gram, with Harry Sosnik conducting the orchestra and October 20 through December and from February 8, ered always of the master was aroused. familiar Romance from Wieniawski’s second con- popular singers— Clark concerts, at the Convention of the M.T.N.A. and the two Buddy and Patti Clayton, through March 9. Between his two series of Moritz Hauptmann, one of Bach’s successors worthy of the musician’s library. as certo for violin and piano, and Earl Wild, the pianist, 10:00 to 10:30, and finally Highways in preservation in in Melody, with the noted conductor will return to La Scala cantor at St. Thomas’s in Leipzig, together with Robert Chopin’s Andante Spianto and Grande Polo- orchestra and chorus, tenor Among the notable American music workers repre- played Nino Ventura, and several Italy, to direct several operatic performances. Schumann, Otto Jahn, and Carl Ferdinand Becker, s sented Cowell, naise in the seldom heard version with the orchestra. instrumentalists. Again, each of these make are William Strickland, Henry J. Fred- programs in its Toscanini’s invitation, Eugene Szenkar will founded the Bach-Gesellschaft in eric Staton, 1850, which led to The two most important symphony broadcasts of a con Charles Peaker, Maurice Dumesnil, Edward first professional appearance in this country as the magnificent republication of the works of the mas- airways, the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of * N. Waters, Peter W. Dykema, Elaine Lambert Lewis, the ductor, directing the Symphony from January ter in a most comprehensive NBC Ilona A. edition. New York under the direction of Artur Rodzinski and directed Voorm, Augustus D. Zanzig, Christian Ruch- to February 2. Szenkar, a European, has Symphony Orchestra under the direction of ec mick, Edwin J. Stringham, Karl Eschman, George the NBC ‘. mm Palestine Symphony in Tel Aviv. Fritz Reiner, dir Maestro Arturo Toscanini, will be back again this fall. Frederick McKay, Herbert Inch, Gardner Read, Fred- JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH of the will ' ea Pittsburgh “. , RADIO Symphony Orchestra, eric One program begun in the late spring undoubtedly If A. Protheroe, Florence Lamont Hinman, Hugo BOOKS asses* NBC Symphony in the concerts from December From a painting by Haulzmann owned by the City of as a summer feature, Let’s Go to the Opera, heard I Kortschak, Walter H. Hodgson, and William Krevit. January 5. Leipzig. This painting was for years in the Thomaschule. 'FORWARD MARCH WITH OCTOBER, 550 MUSIC” the etude 1946 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 551 . ,
EW EVENTS of the kind have attracted more Music and Study attention in recent years than the simple cere- Music and Study Fmonies on July 15, last, attending the dedication of a handsome monument of Barre granite erected by Valedictory the Lions Clubs of Virginia during the convention of the International Association of Lions Clubs in Phila- the Round Yes, faithful friends of Round Table delphia. Bland’s Carry Me Back to Old Virginny is the sit is the last time I shall Table, this Teacher's official State song of Virginia, and His Excellency, Bland Memorial Dedicated of those The every day down in this place with, you. One a short lesson at the same William M. Tuck, Governor of Virginia, made a special hear about has been requirement which most “little birds” you time, a mothers trip to Philadelphia for this occasion. Mr. Ellis Love- ear that eleven years to meet; (2) treating whispering in my find difficult one’s less, Assistant Business Manager of Norfolk News- preside at your table, Minstrel Who Wrote “Carry Me Back to Did Virginny” are long enough to own child with as much patience, for- papers, Inc., for years had headed a movement to Negro soon be forced. Conducted by and that spontaneity will bearance, and humor as the regular out- bring about this occasion. all, I’m running out of answers! This is almost Worst of side pupils. impossible to Over a decade ago The Etude Music Magazine re- Honored by Governor William M. Tuck and Virginians of the recent questions In fact many achieve; (3) regarding the lessons as ceived continual inquiries, “Who was James A. Bland are too hard to answer. you have asked later serious and inviolate as school lessons; who wrote Carry Me Back to Old Virginny?’’ “Is Bland writing my i So very regretfully I am unsupervised practice for ( 4 ) no many a nom de plume of Stephen Foster?” Dr. James Francis Page. Already the Q Table final Round Mus. Doc. months; (5) frequent music-fun demon- Cooke, Editor of The Etude, made a test and found has plans for a new department Editor strations at home before Dad and the1 that nine out of ten men he met in the streets were bij- -Lilian (l^entbam another story which he will Pianist but that’s Noted rest of the family; (6) repeated and gen- certain that the great musical genius, Stephen Foster, time. tell you in due praise from Mother and Dad written Carry Me Back to Old Virginny. Factually, Educator erous for had is an example of one of those Music Here and accomplishments; (7) no nonsense or Old Virginny was written eleven years after the death impossible to answer: “How questions monkey-business at lesson. of Foster. Dr. Cooke then consulted all available practice? None of my teachers Assembly of Virginia to glorify Bland’s song by having dent of the International Association of Lions Clubs, should one set of standard musical reference books and encyclopedias, prac- Yep! It’s a tough requirements. of the Common- Mr. Ellis Loveless, Mrs. Irene Jurix (James Bland's has ever told me specifically how to it adopted as the official anthem troubled correspondent has but no record of Bland could be found. He then wrote teacher tell If our the this effort, the Lions then pro- sister), Mr. William Edmundson of the “Southern- tice, nor in school did any Fisher wealth. Successful in I sure she will be to Mr. William Arms of Boston, formerly Vice- opinion this is son in such stuff,” am successful long-overdue recognition to this great aires,” and Dr. Cooke. The latter, in his comments, me how to study. In my would I approach my _ ceeded to bring “How with her boy. President of the Oliver Ditson Co. (now owned and so many of us make so regard my giving Negro composer. It was through their efforts that this noted that there could be no color line in music and one reason why way that he would operated autonomously by the Theodore Presser Co.) a to progress. Why are teachers so care- as if he were ceremony was arranged today. called attention to the fact that although Bland was little him lessons as seriously Teaching Tidbits publishers of the song. Mr. Fisher replied that he knew about this important matter? I want outside the home. “To me this occasion serves to refute the malicious forgotten for years and left in a neglected grave, honor less report to someone little of Bland, as the song (copyrighted in 1875) was I put Virginia. respect then the most out of every hour L., West Heavens! In looking over these growl- charge against our fair Commonwealth and agairfst and were being shown him by the State to get M. first issued by another publisher (John F. Perry and I hate that is mutuality to which his simple and beautiful piano practice, for Round Tablers! } ng pages I can plainly see the influence other of the Southern States that there no song had given a into There’s a danger signal, 1878 and later bought the Oliver Ditson is so Co.)' in by Co. moron-robot kind of practice which local teachers could of Harold Ickes, whose articles I have of understanding, no nostalgic sentiment If every one of those (Incidentally, Ditson traces its roots back to 1783.) Mr. please tell me and common. Won’t you Correspondents with this. Deport- respect of this obviously been reading today. So, froip now on, no tolerance, no coop- felt by millions all Letters command the Fisher “thought,” however, that Bland was a colored too, how to practice?” ment are requested to limit house- over the world. many others and competent griping! . . . Away with Harold! . . . eration and no love He to One Hundred and Fifty Words. intelligent, musical, man. Thus began an exciting piece of research, lasting —N. M., Oklahoma. different. Those Minnesota, Mar ha Baker between the said, “When God wife the story would be Prom sends several years, before the story of the life of the com- mem- poser for you! How can any- kind tidbits sees fit to endow a There’s a teachers sound like the dumb-dumb thls: “The following may be of poser of Old Virginny, Climbing Up the Golden Stairs, bers of the White to tackle that one? For nor are man with" greatness. one even begin who can neither play themselves, interest to Round Tablers: When ‘flips’ In the Morning by the Bright Light, O Dem Golden and Negro races be- pages and in my years on these else how to play. stodgy > ay, low the Mason and He does not ask the many would be immensely ie to show anyone ( S ki pS ) are slow and ‘When Slippers, and some six to seven hundred other songs proclaimed so soothing progress ab lessons and classes I have parents are rising all over ou want to go somewhere but don’t want Dixon line. We in color of his skin or speeded up.’ • Dissatisfied y could be traced. Finally this was accomplished, and that teachers have two important func- competence Virginia have cen- his race.” He also Tablers, if you yourselves do the land demanding greater anyone to see you go, how do you get after discovering that Bland had died in poverty in a to want So Round tions: (1) to incite the student Mothers are becom- Presto change! turies-old tradition quoted the state- not know how to practice concentratedly from piano teachers. there? By Magic— and Philadelphia, it was necessary to find his burial place. him to work regu- - to study, to enthuse start right and music teachers Also I compare flips to the of respectful associ- ment of Dr. Thomas and economically you’d better j ng extra-intelligent, you re there!’ This was located in a little Negro cemetery on the larly and avidly, and (2) to teach the survive. E. Jones of Fisk Uni- Let’s not have any more N. must follow suit if they are to quick, flash movements of squirrels. “Main Line” at Merion, Pennsylvania, about one mile ation between the practice. in to learn! pupil, week in and out, how to can busy and races, dating back versity, pioneer in to condemn us. . . You once again, I say, get “I am interested to see that you advo- from Dr. Cooke’s residence. In the cemetery the grave for even M.’s rising up , So No teacher is worth his salt who prac- farther than in Negro education in easily verify the validity of N. M.’s ac- learn to play the piano well. Study, cate teaching parallel minor rather than was ultimately found covered with weeds, trash, and any forgets these two responsibilities. a day back on your own day to improve your first, as that has other locality in the our country: “If the through cusation by looking tice, work every relative minor scales poison ivy. Feeling that a composer whose song had All I can say to N. M. is to go Negro expects re- life and asking, “In my school playing. Know your “stuff” and know been my custom. When the subject of been sung by millions around the world deserved recog- Western Hemi- last many student own the files of The Etude for these sphere. spect, he must do studies and years of piano lessons how how to teach it. Make out a regular daily minor signatures arises I ofler the fol- nition, Dr. Cooke started several movements to bring We intend years; read and think about everything teachers stirred me to want to practice schedule, however slight, and poor thing, has this about. The war interrupted all plans, but the to continue this re- those things which Table and other many lowing: ‘The minor key, you find in The Round and lationship of command respect,” work and taught me how to study stick to it. Find a good teacher or a no signatures of his own, so he borrows Lions Clubs of Virginia (notably the clubs of Norfolk) inter- pages, and you will gather a heaping answer, I fear, will If this is not collected racial harmony and and pointed out that practice?” . . . The repertoire class to attend. from his relatives. His relative major a handsome fund which not only provided for barrel full of practice helps. To be sure often be a zero. If you can recall two or possible, follow the plan of those five three half steps) the monument but left a balance sufficient to permit a we will be success- in music we find need sorting and arranging, lives a minor third (or they will you are indeed ful in our objective the most democrat- three such true teachers, teachers in Aberdeen, South Dakota, who up the street. Since this borrowed signa- limited number of musical scholarships to be given to which also, can be done only by an ex- Negro —unless the seeds ic of all the arts, as a lucky mortal. get together once every week or two and ture doesn't fit him perfectly, he makes students in Virginia. pert. of criticism . . In dedicating discontent, of evidenced by the play to each other for mutual it over fit himself by raising his the monument, Governor Tuck said in But even this is inadequate. If N. M.’s to The Mother as Teacher (These meetings are often made more part: mistrust, of misun- fact that Negro mu- teachers are not giving him a good modus seventh tone.’ cannot an- pleasant by planning “Pot Luck” sup- and “I take great pride in being present today to par- derstanding, and sicians have gained operandi for practice, where else is he Here is another question I “If anyone thinks parallel major ticipate even of hate, sown world - wide fame believe children appreciate pers which the teacher’s families attend; musically, in this ceremony commemorating the life and going to acquire it? A question like N. swer : “Do you minor keys have no relation by perhaps well-in- and achieved great of learning to play the such a group of a dozen or fifteen per- works of an eminent Negro composer who contributed M.’s is the most serious indictment of the seriousness let him study the .Rondo of Beethoven’s moth- sons makes an ideal “try-out” audience.) so much to America’s wealth of folk songs. A prolific tentioned but cer- fortunes when they music teachers and school teachers every- piano well if taught by their own ‘Waldstein’ Sonata’.” spend the rest life composer, James A. Bland turned out some six hun- tainly misguided did those things one but you. Round Tablers, ers? I have a small son whom I wish to Why of your drudg- example where. No Miss Baker is an outstanding dred persons can thoroughly grounded in piano, even ing as a non-playing teacher? You are pieces, including the immortal Carry Me Back to alien to our which entitle them can give a satisfactory answer. You have of the vital, imaginative, know-how-to- wish to only half a musician if you Old Virginny, the official anthem of our fair Com- Virginia and South- to deserve such re- up for N. M. and ten thousand though in later years he should cannot play offers a make study pianist and teacher. She monwealth. ern some other instrument. I have well for your students. Even if you haven’t way of life, wards. other unhappy situations by persistently change to good argument on that parallel major- “Carry Back to Old Virginny is familiar to should take root and story of Bland your own inquiries as to the ability of local played for twenty, thirty or fifty years, it Me ears The and enthusiastically showing made question. minor throughout the length and breadth of our nation, and spread. is a simple one and students how to practice at every lesson teachers and noted the progress of their is not too late. If you revive those glori- all satisfied to ous moments making no Virginian or American hears the beautiful strain of “Virginia Negroes, for purposes of from now on. Notice I did not say “how pupils and am not at as of music for your- Material More Easy this music without feeling a glow around the cockles just as their white chronicle it is pre- to practice but “how.” Show the their methods or the results obtained. I self and your friends, you will be repaid long” “I writes. of his heart for the Commonwealth it glorifies and for friends, love Virgin- Photo by Jules Schick sented here. In trac- pupils that economical, mind-directed have definite proof that there is not a with spiritualL bonds no government can Muriel Fouts (New York) Table Page into the warm-hearted man who composed it. It is a privi- ia, its traditions, and LAST RESTING PLACE OF JAMES A. BLAND ing the life story of practice processes give technical facility, suitable teacher near here by the fact buy or sell, no inflation can destroy. On Just wore the last Round Bravo foi lege indeed for to be present on this occasion, and its way of life. Bland, Dr, Kelly security, quality, speed, satisfaction, pleas- that I am considered a fine pianist when the practical side playing the piano will shreds, strings and tatters! me At the dedication of the Bland Monument, erected by the Lions Clubs says, ‘Use to lend insofar as I can officially do, the appreciation James Bland was of Virginia in the cemetery at Merion, Pennsylvania, those present Miller ure, and, above all, save time by their in- in reality, my shortcomings would be increase your authority and “glamor” Mrs. Hamilton of M>souri who of Howard anyone really possible of Virginians for the work of the man whose memory not a Virginian. He are: (standing) from left to right, Ellis Loveless, Director of the Lions University, of telligent, short-cut approaches. You must glaringly obvious to who and enable you to raise your lesson fees. large amounts of the simplest one increasing we commemorate today. was born in Long International, Governor William M. Tuck of Virginia, Dr. Ramiro prove this by demonstrating exactly how knows music. Above all, the inner satisfactions you material for beginners. With the most gifted and must Collazo, President of the Lions International, and Dr. James Francis exercise, scale, chord, “When I was younger, I took piano las- will receive from difficulty There “The history of people the world over is etched in Island, New York. brilliant writers of you require every practicing regularly scarcely noticeable. Cooke, President of The Presser Foundation and Editor of The Etude. still and parents or the ballads they sing of their nations, and their songs Yet his association his race, phrase, and piece practiced. Limit repeti- sons for a number of years and re- progressing in technical and in- be no anxiety on the part of Foreground, (holding wreath), are John A. K. Donovan and Albert did valu- have a fine terpretative afford a glimpse into the character and mode of life with Virginia Ne- able tions to a small number, and be sure the tain my finger strength and mastery are beyond price. teachers to push for results.’ Large, district governors of the Virginia Lions. research work. repetition touch. But the intervening years between I have with of the singers. James Bland has put into ever-ringing groes so impressed His article on Bland pupil understands why each no adequate answer for the “I wish you’d begin every page Give a then and now have found me with little mother verse and rhyme an expression of the feeling which him with the affec- which appeared in is to be made. Be super-explicit. concerning an effective approach that theme song Poor music reading ^ every day, stating time to practice-often for months at a to her son’s and all Virginians have for their State, where the charm tion that these people held for their homeland that The Etude for July 1939 was entitled “The Negro written outline for lessons, for this will depend the erv from Maine to California, duties as wife and of our way of living has been recognized by all of he was inspired to write this lovely, nostalgic ballad. ‘Stephen exactly what and how to practice. Each time, and now my entirely on the relation she why? children need Foster’” and attracted national attention. has built up Just became the America. assignment is finished the mother have restricted my practice’ to with him since “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny tells in inspiring James A. Bland was born in Flushing, Long Island, day when this babyhood. If mutual sym- more easy material, and loads of it” “fool runmng over simple solo numbers which “I want to pay tribute to the Lions Clubs of Virginia song the innate patriotism and love of native heath October 1854. His parents student is free to practice more, pathetic and loving understanding so long 22, came from a long line exists LikeeMi..Miss Fout.Fonts we’ve harped for require very little effort or ability. Rarely . the role this fine organization of representative of all our people, White and Negro alike. Let us all of free Negroes; is, around” at the piano for fun, or to stop between parent and chilri . mmi! more that Negroes who had been freed * or thls ect f feeding student week goes by when I am not called sub J ° Virginians has played in gaining official recognition hope that peoples of all races continue to sing from slavery. practicing. If more of the lesson period a father often makes an ideslZ n ^ \ JJg may His father, Allen M. Bland, was born in c ei a ‘ ld diversified m.i ’ a place, ,'. more for Carry Me Back to Old Virginny for its pupil how, upon to play some and I am con- . and com- this song and mean the message that it contains.” Charleston, South would be spent in showing the a young son or daughter n™r " ,. nunil Carolina, and his mother in Wil- ^rlously” grade that by now we are sure ever instead of listening to the deadly, dumb- stantly astounded at the praise which my the child would poser. The Lions sponsored a movement in the General Other speakers included Dr. Ramiro Collazo, Presi- mington, Delaware. Bland’s father was graduated from take the less™ h“ “ plw^ g drumming which so many teachers find -«*>> “> iSS f 9SSi ‘SSri’C5? OCTOBER, is>46 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC’ 555 552 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" £ etUDE :
Music and Study interest and part you have you for the great played in this matter. Study of the be able to express my gratitude Music and The Significance “I shall never tireless efforts in bringing to to vou for your and public the unrecognized keening before the genius Bland Memorial Bland, my brother. Indeed it was of James A. you, owe and to whom America owes a deep Wilberforce University, named after William Wilber- to whom I slavery in of the dedi- gratitude for discovering the ivy covered of Yesterday force whose labors led to the abolition of HE simple and sincere ceremonies debt of Great Sopranos Presi- had, in an alto- the remains of James A. Bland lie in England in 1834. (Allen Bland later became cation of the Bland Memorial spot where become import dent of the university, the first Negro to gether unexpected way, international repose. T Association of into your face the other preparatory looked day, a college president.) He attended the The convention of the International “When I 1845 to 1848. time brought you say that music has no color line, I Prima Donnas department of Oberlin College from Lions Clubs, held in Philadelphia at that and heard A Retrospect of Famous Island, New over the world, words of such depth and truism could The family moved to Flushing, Long over ten thousand delegates from all realized that born) and then to Washing- in which many o from a noble mind, and if all Amer- York (where James was , including those from countries come only of Dur Grandparents became an examiner was a very thought as you feel and think, Dear to the Memories ton, D. C„ where the elder Bland citizens were not of white blood. It icans felt and first Negro to be William M. indeed be the ideal place in which in the United States Post Office, the tunate and impressive move for the Hon. America would their home was the of Virginia, to appointed. A short distance from Tuck, Governor of the splendid state to live.” the United States Gov- travel to Phila- Mrs. Jurix made the following Negro university founded by give two days of his time in order to At the dedication, General O. O. Howard, to tne ernment in 1867 and named for delphia to dedicate this monument, showing able address: education. Both Allen under- a strong supporter of Negro world that notable achievement is warmly and "Mr. Chairman, Governor Tuck of the grand old bij £(i6e csCathrop University, the is M. and James A. Bland entered the standingly recognized without regard for coloi. Commonwealth of Virginia, Honorable Ellis Love- James’ habits were convivial. as the Nazis “Carry Back” Memorial father studying law. action that counts in human affairs. Just less, President of Me Asso- voice and the ability to racial reasons, He developed a fine singing murdered millions in cold blood, for ciation, Officers, Members of that grand organiza- him so popular with his one occa- play the banjo, which made and brought indelible disgrace to Germany, tion the Lions Clubs, originators and founders of Part Two that college was neglected, although he was Bland Memorial has Memorial honoring friends sion such as the dedication of the this movement to erect a my LUISA TETRAZZINI University in 1873, in his understanding from Howard racial . graduated done more to promote normal brother, James A. Bland, and friends . . year. He had been a page in the House of of news reports eighteenth through the publication of thousands “I desire to express the thanks of my race to the mm m Representatives, where he joined an organization other countries, than - the highlights in the careers and photographs in this and Dominion State of Virginia, which by legislative In a previous article by the critic and writer, Miss Elise Lathrop, she discussed colored clerks known as the “Manhattan Club.” In calm wisdom, under- of could millions of words. With act made Carry Me Back to Old Virginny its State and Farrar. —Editor's Note of of Patti, Materna, Lilli Lehman, Nordica, Calve, Melba, those days it was the custom to engage groups there could be no standing, and justice on both sides, song, also to Dr. Cooke, who did so much in pub- friends. singers to entertain and to serenade one’s land. color problem in our licizing and bringing to the attention of the Amer- Young Bland organized a Negro glee club which was Irene Bland Jurix, now James A. Bland’s sister, Mrs. ican people the musical compositions and works society. of short at such an early date. much in demand in Washington old, in a letter to the Editor of The Etude, SOPRANOS of great distinction yet highly her career thus cut eighty years of my brother, James A. Bland: and to the South- WO different were introduced to New York by the Luisa used to hear her older sister practicing and writes ernaires who, in 1932, by their untiring and un- Minstrelsy In Its Heyday would imitate the sounds, the trills, and runs until her “Now that your efforts, in aiding and bringing enterprising Oscar Hammerstein. selfish efforts brought to the attention of the T ’ minstrelsy was in its heyday and it was erection of a Monument, and of Scotch birth, was mother would bid her “Stop making that noise! Then to completion the people the name of the true author Mary Garden, American but this very American of story and con- natural that Bland should try his hand in the dedicatory service in honor of my brother’s a wealthy woman of that city whereupon she would retire to an upper Carry Back to Old Virginny, James A Bland, living in Chicago when were attended by Me tinue her efforts. Finally she was allowed to study, popular field. Minstrel performances life and works, in Merion Cemetery, Philadelphia, interested in her and sent her to Paris to falsity of the statement and in- became Bland became asso- and proved the after six of lessons married a man the foremost people of the land. Pa., 15, inst., have borne fruit, I am grateful to which was all repaid at a but only months Carry Back to Old Virginny study, loaning her money Minstrels and also formation that Me theater in her native Florence. ciated with the Billy Kersands distant date. She made her debut in Paris in connected with the was a product of the mind and pen of Stephen not too the Callender Minstrels, the original Georgia minstrels, favorite there, She was always deeply interested in opera and her Virginny the new opera “Louise,” and became a great Southern Slave Troupe.” Foster. Carry Me Back to Old for the husband’s connection with the theater allowed her to advertised as “the but was new to American audiences. Her debut in show was purchased by “Colonel” first time was broadcast by the Southernalres over attend rehearsals and also hear of the inner doings. This minstrel New York in Massenet’s “Thai's” was sensational. Her visited London in 1884. James the NBC network from New York City. To them, Haverly. The company voice, said originally to have been beautiful, was un- the composer and one of the end too much credit cannot be given. Had it not been vent of California A. Bland was both even: she by no means always sang well, in the second Co Garden by Way the group. He met with immense popularity for them, I believe that the public in general would men of act of “Thai's” she invariably did some beautiful sing- At one time the management was looking for a soprano and remained in Great Britain upwards of twenty still be laboring under the false Impression that ing—but she often sacrificed vocal beauty to get the to sing a certain role and had tried a number of sing- years. It is reported that his salary in those days was Stephen Foster wrote this much beloved, famous, effects she wanted. She was a great actress. Her Thai's, ers without being satisfied. She informed the manage- ten thousand dollars a year, not counting the royalties melodious ballad. the widely different and pathetic Juggler, in “Le ment that she could sing it. Both management and her Today this would probably be con- “I salute all of you and thank you for this occa- from his songs. Jongleur de Notre Dame,” Monna Vanna, Cendrilon, husband pooh-poohed the idea but she persisted that sidered equal to twenty-five thousand a year. The sion—one of the happiest moments of my life. For and later Marguerite and Carmen will long be remem- they hear her. Finally they did so, with the result that leading men and women of England heard Bland sing this granite slab will carve in the minds of the bered. After Hammerstein sold out to the Metropolitan she was given the role and made her operatic debut. and King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, paid him present generation, and generations unborn, the she went with others of his company to Chicago and From then on she adopted a stage career. unusual honor. great appreciation of the grand old State of Vir- MARY GARDEN was hailed there as a gifted daughter of the city. One She sang in Russia without ( Continued on Page 586) Just why Bland left the lucrative field of minstrelsy ginia for music—art for art’s sake. new role which she sang in Chicago and Philadelphia in England no one knows, but he returned to Washing- “By this monument, and the provisions for estab- was that of the Indian maid Natoma in Victor Her- ton, D. C., poor and homeless. An old friend took lishing, through the and generosity of Virginia bert’s opera. In this she again showed what a great him into his office and gave him desk space. Evidently Virginians and all who contributed to its success, artist she was. To say that her English diction—the he never recovered. He drifted to Philadelphia, where particularly the provision for musical scholarships opera was sung in English—was admirable might seem he died unknown and forgotten at 1012 Wood Street, for the outstanding Negro youths of Virginia, you self-evident with an American artist, but this is by on May 5, 1911. His funeral was reported to have cost have established a monument eternal for liberal- no means always the case. But she teas the Indian twenty-five dollars, but all that his friends could ism and justice so characteristic of Virginia and girl. Of course her make-up, as always, was perfect, subscribe was five dollars. On behalf of The Presser Virginians throughout its noble history. but she walked like an Indian. Always she entered Foundation Dr. Cooke phoned the undertaker the “In a broadcast by the Southernalres in 1936 I wholly into the role she sang, and her repertoire was morning of the dedication of the monument and of- stated that I hoped the State of Virginia would large and varied. undertaker replied, both fered to clean up the account. The do something to honor the memory of my brother, The other newcomer, Luisa Tetrazzini, came of a “Oh, no. Please don’t think of it. Just forget it. We and you, Mr. Loveless, your organization, the State Eva, wife of proud to have helped so remarkable a man.” musical family. Her sister, the conductor are of Virginia, and officials have made my dream come Cleofonte Campanini, was a promising young dramatic true Many Songs Unidentified —for here is inscribed on this granite tablet soprano, and after her marriage accompanied Italo the name of James A. Bland.” Campini, the tenor and her brother-in-law, with her Most of Bland’s six to seven hundred songs were husband as orchestra conductor to this country for a evidently routine productions composed to fill the ever changing and incessant demands of a minstrel pro- short season in opera, given in New York at the old gram. Sometimes a song was written in the morning Academy of Music, former home of grand opera, but which had not been used for it for some years. One of and tried out the same night. Many of these songs New Keys remain unidentified and unpublished. He rarely at- To Practice the operas in the repertoire was “Otello,” and Mme. tempted to have his works copyrighted. Those that Campanini made a charming Desdemona, her singing are less popular than “Old Virginny” but are still hi} $ufic Illation of the prayer with a pianissimo high A at the end, remembered include In the Morning by the Bright being memorable. But Campanini insisted that she IX. Light, In the Evening by the Moonlight, and O Dem retire from the stage very soon after their marriage, To inspire pieces Golden Slippers (the theme song of the famous Phila- others with your playing, your while her prospects were still brilliant, and although must be kept fresh. if tht she met his wish she never ceased to think regretfully delphia Mummers in their New Year parade) . Time This is not easily possible echnical Magazine, in an article of August 21, 1939, stated: passages of these works have been the onlj mechanical A “Today’s music connoisseurs are beginning to call exercises used to keep up your technic. pianist Bland ‘the Negro Stephen Foster,’ to rate him after can become very weary of any compositior winch has Foster as the second greatest U.S. writer of Southern been the foundation of all technical study >' Bland called Photo ly Jules ou cannot revive songs. During his lifetime, Minstrel Schick a forgotten piece by practicing VOICE or six hours H (Photo by Aime himself, more modestly, ‘the best Ethiopian song writer one day—and then expecting to know • Dupont) Mrs. Irene Bland Jurix, sister of ALICE NIELSEN ” James A. Bland, thankina s we l LINA CAVALIERI in the world.’ as ever. You can it ont Governor William M. Tuck for his Dedicatory revive it by practicing Address! hour a day for six days. OCTOBER, 1946 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 554 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 555 THE ETUDl — . m —
schools. Music and Study ing tuner- technician Opportunities For HERE IS scarcely an organist anywhere who School Music’s Significant Place in Modern Life Frank Wiggins Trade has not been approached dozens of times by Street students, with that 664 West 17th Piano Tuners T young people, mostly piano California like to learn to play the organ; t Angeles 15, typical query: “I would ( Continued from Page 545) Principal John George Miller, different from the piano?” There is a cer- Mr. is it very Technology attached to organ music; a lump comes .Qr-hnni of Pianoforte hj ^oln Coffins Cube tain glamour for to tell city that at that time none of the forty-eight people’s throats when powerful chords and said that it was not him to many officials how much money they should states barred any person whatsoever from runs peal forth from the mighty instrument; Organ Cake, who brilliant Learning to Play the Mr. J. C. conducts expend, nor in what manner, but that he engaging in private music teaching, re- The Har- comparative ease with which the man at the Chicago 5, Illinois School of Pianoforte and the qualifications, educational White mony Tuning most tremendous effects leads could see a great deal of good that might gardless of his Dr. William Braid ^ console produces his Harrisburg, Pa., gives eight reasons come from such an outlay for civic music. or otherwise, so to instruct. Mr. Truman of Music why a student or amateur to believe that the transi- Cincinnati Conservatory piano tuning, as an occupation, many practically state in the Union thought if doctors and lawyers, to say Street ^e . to the other is easy to accom- 9. “In no and Oak tion from one keyboard Highland Avenue sirable. —Editor’s is there any regulation of private teach- nothing of school teachers, should be li- Note the oft repeated question quoted above. Cincinnati 19, Ohio plish Hence music. The 1. You'll earn more money—piano confronted *Uan ing of music, such as does exist in prac- censed, so should teachers of Klusmeyer, Manager tun- organist who finds himself suddenly Mr. George H. ers and technicians can The tically every state in the Union with President declared that he was against afford to give quick, comprehensive, and satis- ^ cannot a Bok Vocational School buy more of the better with it reference public schools. quacks at all times, and would like to see Edward things life transition from piano to organ is to teaching in the fying answer; the Eighth and Mifflin Streets has to offer. In your judgment, should such regula- every possible barrier raised against them. as simple as the majority would have it; and not quite first prize of one hun- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2. You can be the boss easier Cam'll Van Hulse was recently awarded tions be set up by the individual states, The President of the United States of hours object of this article to try to clarify matters Principal it is the dred dollars in the fiftieth Anniversary Contest conducted by of his Dr. William E. Brunton, longer vacations, no one to whereby each person desiring to teach America talked tenderly, lovingly, supervise benefit of those who “would like to learn to Fischer when you work for the the American Guild of Organists and sponsored by J. music would be compelled to satisfy a favorite art. Outside the windows of his New York Trade School you as an indepen- the play the organ.” & Bro. of New York, who also guarantee publication of duly accredited board of his fitness to quiet office a huge chorus of birds sang 304 East 67th Street dent tuner. the organ de- Mr. Van Hulse As a matter of fact, proficiency on winning composition. This is the eighth time teach?” the symphony N. 3. If you prefer to work for a composition. He came an anthem of spring, while New York 21, Y. music mands a much higher type of musicianship than pian- has won a first prize in a contest for accom- McLaughlin, Director house, organization, or factory, twenty-three years ago from his native Belgium, Emphatically Mr. Truman thought this of the fountains’ falling waters Mr. George H. there ability, and also a far greater versatility. For to this country istie Frans' citizen are plenty of big pay jobs studied under his father Gustave Van Hulse, should be done, and he seemed surprised panied them. The Union’s first Pierce School open all most unfortunate custom has prevailed where he The Henry L. many years a and Arthur Edward Verheyden, Lodewijk M ortclmans , when he was informed that his inter- rose, offered his hand, and smiled, and Washington Street the time. pastors of small churches who, through musical Lenaerts, among upon landing in the States, he wrote his viewers had made a survey of each state said that he was glad, when he could, 4. No capital investment required pian- De Greet. Almost Dorchester District to ignorance or a misguided zeal for thrift, invite a and printed first musical article in English, which was accepted in the Union some years ago, to learn to talk about music. get started in business, no overhead, take over their little organ and Boston, Massachusetts ist or piano teacher to followed by a number of other ones slumps, in The Etude. This was no business no salesmanship preside over the musical part of the Van Hulse s and in Canada: choir and to during the ensuing years. In recent years, Mr. needed. left him services. And, unfortunately, those offers are too often activities as composer, conductor, and teacher have Lindsay & Co., Ltd. C. W. 5. Clean work, minimum on other subjects danger of ac- with good intentions, to be sure—with un- little time for writing—although his writings Quebec, Canada accepted Montreal, in the “ Directory of Ameri- cidents, few tools to handle, not pleasant results. Some of these appointees will go to had already gained htb admission Training Re-establishment Institute (Lancaster, 1942). The choir of All Saints Church & confining, not tedious. trained organist for help and advice; but a surpris- can Scholars" a has given first Canada Tucson, Arizona, where he is organist-director , Toronto, Ontario, 6. With natural aptitude, you can learn of them will not. That is why the in ingly large number including a Mass Chi- performances of most of his choral works, Dr. William Braid White, of the the science of piano tuning in a few “improvised organist with piano fingers” remains a organ, and a cantata ("The Beatitudes") for soli, mixed chorus, Wanted— A Million Pianos cago Musical College, mentioned above, short months. standing joke amongst the profession. and piano . Editor’s Note. has done much to raise the standards of 7. Training cost is reasonable. The main difference between piano and organ is not tuning’ an occupation. The 8. As piano registration, nor in han- ( Continued from Page 543) piano as a technician you’ll win new in the pedal keyboard, nor in American Society of Piano Tuner-Tech- respect and recognition among the dling the swell pedals or any contrivances proper to nicians has done a splendid work in this people of your community. the organ; those differences are all too obvious. The essential to the training of a competent organist. effected, and a few minor gadgets have oscillations known as ‘beats,’ produced by field, in educating the public to under- main differences are those which may escape the at- Where the pianist sees dots: been tried out, but the piano (apart from the conflict of vibrations when two notes stand the need for better and more fre- tention of the layman; they are to be found in the some new electronic developments) is are struck simultaneously. The struggle quent piano tuning. player’s fingers and in his background. Ex. I now very much standardized. There is no to bring these ‘beats’ to the fre- proper Learning piano tuning is not a trifling The first of these can be described in a nut shell such thing as a yearly model, such as quency is what breaks tuners’ nerves.”* matter. It requires patient and expert thus: “Whereas the average pianist devotes almost all those which the automobile and type- At the present moment the matter of training and long experience. There are A Band Question his attention to striking the key at the right time with writer manufacturers advertise. The skill tuning calls for the creation of a small many poorly trained piano tuners in the proper touch, and seldom devotes much care to of expert designers and scientists, em- army of well trained new tuners to take America, and the average piano owner key-release, the organist has to consider key release the organist sees lines of various length: ployed by enterprising manufacturers, re- care of the huge coming Answered production of is at a loss to know a good one from a just as important as key stroke, and must give to both sults in refinements in quality which pianos. There are not nearly enough poor one. The only way to find out is the same meticulous care for every note he plays. It Ex. 2 point to higher standards of excellence tuners now for the pianos already in ex- to ascertain what backing the tuner has; Lj Wiffiam 2). fovetfi is easy to give a graphic representation of the legatis- CAMIL VAN HULSE in the modern piano. istence, if they were tuned as regularly that is, whether he is sponsored by a simo: One of the handicaps of the piano is as they should be. If a piano is used reputable piano firm. Be sure to find this Ex. a that it has to be tuned and regulated by excessively, it might be tuned to advan- out, as a poor tuner might do your A Clarinet Teacher Needed an expert. Unlike tuning piano a violin, the ear tage once a day, as is required by the irreparable harm. starts with the eye and mind, and little with Q. I am a student of the clarinet and am If the discipline has to do the skill of the piano touring virtuosi. Broadcasting studios If you were going to buy a new auto- experiencing considerable trouble with tone is unremittingly on the job as a last arbiter, tuner. The process is a mechanical one if the ear make it a practice to have their pianos very mobile, you would not go to your quality. Most of the time my tone is respond and acquire “organ in which the tuner listens for “beats” or butcher the fingers will soon tuned once or twice a month. Some re- reedy and inclined to be rough. However, but this can by no means be taken as a norm in organ or to a dentist for information and ad- touch.” vibrations. This is because the tuning is quire I do frequenUy produce a very good tone much more frequent tuning. The playing; it may, at best, only be used for a special vice, but to an automobile expert. to aspiring organ students has always (It is to be understood that this and all other short tempered after the scale attributed to ordinary piano, When and realize that I am blowing differently My advise in use or not in use, purpose in special occasions. The kind of legato which to a the time comes to buy a new piano, con- during these periods. When again attempt- been to take a two-part passage such as this one: exercises given in this article are condensed Johann Sebastian Bach. It is not scien- should be tuned two or three times ap- a sult your teacher ing to produce this good quality. I cannot is of the greatest moment in organ style becomes minimum, and are to be extended up and down, for tifically accurate, as to the reputation of but is an artistic com- year, to keep it up to the required Uiat has pro- pitch. find the correct approach parent in a passage like the following: left hand.) This shifting exer- promise, the maker. me the right and for the without which musical compo- We are continually asked what the duced this type of tone. Can you advise During a recent forty-five quality cise should be practiced first on the chromatic scab, sition would be quite too involved for prospects are for hundred as to some means for retaining good j.—j“rn the piano technician. Ex.b pw r— mile some later diatonic scales; major is the most grasp. motor trip in the South and in the and would you please recommend and on the C human No musical knowledge is necessary for West, book that emphasizes clarinet tone pro- jrj-- difficult. Pianists use this technique very little, but we A writer in “Time” magazine for July we were impressed by the great the piano timer, although such knowl- duction? —L. B. H., Indiana. number of colleges and etc. like to mention one famous instance in piano litera- 10, 1944, skillfully described the perplex- edge is, music schools of course, an asset. We have often rec- planning to double the size of their The very fact that you so readily ture : Chopin’s Study in A minor, Op. 10, No. 2. ities of tuning thus: “Piano tuning is music *• to practice it in the following manner: wondered why more women did not take of U-H fa. and buildings. At ognize the difference between a tone The glide is another useful expedient for the organ- difficult mainly because the piano is an the same time we were im- part with R. H. and listen attentively; up this work. Generally speaking, the Lo. 1. Play top pressed by the incessant good quality as compared to that of in- ist, and one which the pianist does not frequently use, imperfect musical instrument. It does not work does not call demands, “Where 2. Play low part with L. H. and listen attentively; for heavy lifting. It It can I get a new piano ferior quality is all to your advantage. because the second note of the glide is almost beyond possess enough keys to play all the notes does call for some manual and when can I T 3. Play both parts together with both hands and strength, play get it?” The is quite people - his control as far as touch is concerned. This exer- in music. (One key, for example, demand is so amazing how many 'J must which all pianists have, and more much greater i-° = listen attentively; im- than unaware acquire facility gliding: do for both F-sharp and G-flat.) The the supply, that again we upon the clarinet yet are totally in the R. H. and listen carefully cise may help in portant still is the need for a sensitive advise all 4. Play both parts of our readers who want of the unmusical sounds that they ac- compromise by which piano strings are hand 'to make accurate a new instru- which, if tried by the average pianist, produces any- to make sure that the effect obtained is identical Ex. f adjustments. indeed ment not to delay in seeing tually produce. you are tuned to represent musical tones that are What does it their dealers. Hence thing but the desired effect, and will frequently be to 3; pay? We have known to close in pitch, but not identical, involves fortunate that your ears have come heard follows: some tuners who have averaged from distorted somewhat as 5. Repeat practice 4 with the L. H. theory recognize discriminate between good a mathematical of Einsteinian three to five thousand and There is a number of “tricks of the trade” which an dollars yearly; improve- complexity. Practically, the problem is and poor tone quality. As for to some claim even more. A great organist’s fingers are forced to perform almost con- deal de- perform- put the piano systematically and artis- ment and consistency in your not in the usual run of things pends upon the personality of the indi- stantly, and which are ance immediately con- tically out of tune, by equalizing the tonal vidual, his location, and I suggest that you for the pianist. These must be assiduously practiced his business He wu distances between the black and white methods. Did You tact a good clarinet instructor. until thoroughly assimilated. The main ones of these keys. In getting each note of the piano Know? guide you properly the problems con- in : gliding substituting. There are several schools in various are shifting— — just enough out of tune, the piano tuner cerned He wu The glide of the thumb should be the object of special parts of our country which are Before with tone production. The shift, or passing over and under, can be acquired working the seventeenth fo care and practice, not only from black key to white, cannot trust to any such simple meas- centurv also recommend the best clarinet text means of exercises like the following: overtime to supply the demand for new was literally without by uring device as his own sense of pitch. expression to y°ur but also from white to black and from white to white. tuners. The Manpower Training of any you. This is absolutely essential Com- kind. In 1640, D. ® In some cases, like Ex. F in playing legato octaves, the Once he has tuned up Middle C with Mazzoccl future progress. The development of mittee of the National Piano Manufac- lished a book of the aid of a tuning fork, he hammers madrigals usi achieve In ord’r to acquire discipline necessary to execute glide of the thumb is the deciding factor in obtaining turers Association nS beautiful clarinet tone cannot be the recognizes the ’ CT ' follow- As this devel this first train his a good legato. away at fourths and fifths. He listens not nf Tf’ v °Ped ii by contro passage properly, the student must the Italian language correspondence or remote to pitch but to the frequency of minute became tl advice eye and his think polyphonically. This ORGAN By far the most useful of the finger devices for organ • Courtesy of TIME. the mind to see and Copyright Time Inc., 1944. guage of music. You should have at first hand is probably easier said than done—but it is absolutely technique is substitution. It is ( Continued on Page 588) of a competent clarinet teacher. 556 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” " MARCH WITH MUSIC” THE ETUDE OCTOBER, 1946 FORWARD 557 truly a complex art, one which, Music and Study Music and Study ONDUCTING is due to its intangible qualities and innumerable C responsibilities, presents seemingly unsurmount- is ever challenging even our most hie barriers and musicians. famous conductors and or qualifications of the con- To analyze the qualities most difficult task. In observing the ductor is indeed a Musically of our “top” conductors we note that no Percussionists Can Play nerformances Can Conducting Be Taught? methods of baton technics, neither two employ similar means for securing expression, nuance, do they use like and other elements of interpretation. We door. dynamics, knob when opening a Although the wrist is k that' their tempi disagree and discover that not not be rigid nor Pt find straight it must show signs of possessing extraordinary control of tensi always do those left stick pivots at the point The where it is the best results. On the other hand, >. held?' the baton, achieve 2 &Jli The action of the stick the thumb. is the same find that not always do those possessing y as th t we likewise right, regardless of the of the difference in • of score, accomplish the » the most exhaustive knowledge the motion of the wrist and the and forearm; both performances. If such observations are of any design means for their de- Robert W. Buggert decided on o career as o percussionist Drum Solo stick the best detrimental to the student’s progress. heed to their training and after having won the National High School pivot four and one-half inches from Contest in 1934. the butt attempt to arrive at some basic qualifica- this question rests with the Upon his graduation from high school, Mr. Buggert attended the Vandercook School of Music, ? value in our There are those who insist that conducting cannot velopment? The answer to Chicago, where he was graduated and with the left, as with the right, the tip conductor, they tend to prove that baton are producing in 1938. While a student of that school he became a member of its faculty goes?’ tions of the be taught, that it is a God given gift and no amount schools of music of this country. We ' P and attracted much attention through the unusual as the butt goes down and vice versa. as important as musicianship, and success of his students. Mr. Buggert is at present a member When plavin technic is not of training or study can produce a conductor. With some of the world’s greatest singers, instrumentalists of the faculty of the University stick will S of Michigan, after having served in the Army with the 383rd Army Service fast the left merely touch the ring nor the combination of the two is suffi- some of the f[Le neither one such viewpoints I take violent exception, for I am and orchestras; we can also produce rorces Band. He is one of America's most successful teachers of the percussion instruments. Without a doubt our between strokes. It must not be in contact the complete equipment of the successful school with thT cient for firmly convinced that while the student of conducting world’s greatest conductors. percussionists are among the most inadequately trained musicians The of our school bands and orchestras. finger at the instant it strikes the head of also discover that only a few possess intangible following article should be the drum conductor. We must rely more perhaps on his own power of learn- Conducting, without doubt, is the most of great interest and help to every high school percussionist. — Editor's Note. The stroke when applied to bass drumming qualities of personality which in turn bring forth of its is ex the ing, observation, and capacities than does the stu- field of musical performance and perhaps many ecuted very poorly in the majority of cases. of true individual leadership. Is it these The tone the power dent in any other branch of music, he can also be elements are indefinable. Yet by the same token many of a bass drum must have life; a dull qualities that serve to distinguish the few perform- tone lackine inherent taught many aspects of the art, and will, with proper of the inferior, unbalanced, and unmusical resonance is frequently the result of an inferior truly great conductors from the mass, or is it their ances as presented by many of our bands, orchestras, and VERYONE in the field of Music man instruction, develop his conducting capacities to their Education hears ibility which is essential for playing with good tone. ner of making the the composer’s score, or their stroke. When playing the complete mastery of fullest extent. choruses are a many excellent concerts and witnesses perform- For concert bass snare drumming, the stick in the right drum, strike the head of the drum between power of leadership—the ability to “play” upon a group direct result of ances by school bands and orchestras the center If the crit- E which hand should be held with the thumb first finger; and and the rim and use a glancing blow. Better of one hundred musicians as if they were but one large the inadequate have outstanding percussion sections. The drummers the palm tone will ics who insist of the hand should be down, and the back result from an upward blow in instrument? It is the answer to these intangibles that in these organizations which both the action that conduct- con ducting play musically. In direct con- of the hand horizontal. The butt end of the stick must of the wrist and the arm are coordinated. makes conducting one of the most complex, yet fas- technics and trast to this excellent school music, we hear the bom- be kept Begin the ing cannot be under the hand allowing the forearm and stroke with the of all music. bastic type beater at the approximate center cinating forms equipment of of percussion and are thankful for the stick to form of taught wish to a straight line. Although the other three the drum and four inches excellent textbooks on the subject of conduct- measures of rest which offer away from the drum head; Many use the great the conductors relief from the sounds fingers of the right hand have no part in the actual as the arm moves up, a quick flexing ing have served to provide valuable information on the of these organ- rendered by those enthusiastic boys and girls of the wrist will conductors as behind holding of the stick, it is advisable to curve them, cause the beater to strike aspects of the art, particularly in regard to the physical izations. It the drums and cymbals. Unfortunately, there are the drum head. Practicing the criteria is 1. very thereby preventing tension which obviously will be this style of bass drumming will problems such as baton technic. Unfortunately, how- with this par- few musical percussion sections in the school bands help the player of the thgn I will agree present when they are allowed to remain straight 2. or instrument produce a tone far ever, the mastery of baton technic while of extreme ticular group of and orchestras of the nation. To obtain better musical rigid. superior to that brought that no amount about by an unorganized, importance, nevertheless represents but a very small conductors performances,3. student, teacher, and conductor unmusical manner of playing. of training or that must The left hand, using a different grip 4. than the right, The poor part of the conductor’s complete qualifications and stress the following three “T”s: tone; technic; tone quality of many school percussion study can pro- we are most in- 5. taste. must hold the stick in the crotch formed by the thumb sections equipment. is due to inferior equipment or improper a Tosca- terested and to and first finger. With the palm of care duce Tone the hand facing up, If one were capable of defining the powers of in- and adjustment of good equipment. Every effort nini, whom we must the ring finger and little finger should unless the curved, have the stick be dividual personality and thence was able to apply or The tone quality produced made to purchase percussion instruments of natural innate give more at- by a percussion instru- rest on the second joint of the ring the best finger. The first quality transfer the same to the equipment of all conductors, ment is one phase of drumming seldom and the proper size. The students talent is pres- tention and mentioned in and second fingers must be curved but using this high not allowed to drum equipment the conducting field would be flooded with Toscaninis, training. school and grade school instrumental interfere should be trained to keep it ex- ent. However, I They classes; with the action of the stick. Although in this the cellent condition. Koussevitzkys, and Stokowskis. Yet, as the talents of a be neglect is responsible for much of the unmusical light and left One would need to im ped the equip- will ask these must pro- sticks are not held in a similar manner drumming done by ment of only a Heifetz or a Caruso are extremely rare, so are the vided with defi- the young percussionist. Lack of it is important that each few school bands and orchestras to critics if every grip be the same distance indescribable powers of a Toscanini. tone quality is most prevalent among students from notice the sheer neglect Hence, we must nite conducting playing the butt end of the stick; on which is evident. Shells be- student of the those instruments a 2B model this come acknowledge that, while textbooks and classes in con- which have no definite pitch. distance is warped, broken heads violin can be- technics — de- A fine approximately four and one-half are not replaced imme- tone is necessary inches diately, ducting are valuable, we must also recognize that no veloped to create the correct blend which snares are uneven, rims are out of shape and come a Milstein step by will make the percussion sometimes course of study nor treatise upon the subject can de- step in a con- a desirable part of the entire The Bass Drum Beater cracked, tightening rods are stripped, and or if every stu- velop ensemble. instruments are those qualities which are a part of every con- structive sys- he h ding °f the not kept in cases or covers. A small dent of the bass drum beater is ductor Tone, - a modifica- and no amount of reading or teaching can although a separate study, is dependent par- tionHn^ f ftl amount of daily attention piano can tematic man- of the grip used on the right along with periodic cleaning be- tially upon snare drum stick- develop a competent conductor out of an inferior mu- correct technic and good taste. It will be two and oiling where Horo- ner. changes are necessary. The back necessary will keep drums in good come a improved by careful study and of the hand must condition, sician, any more than leadership can be developed application of the fol- V t Cal and as most witz. I will also Perhaps the rather than horizontal and of the above factors affect tone from lowing : |!f u the beater quality, a weak character or personality. s ould be held with they must be given persistent ask if all stu- greatest teach- The model the middle finger and thumb attention. of snare drum sticks and bass drum fingers must All Proper adjustment dents of the erof conducting be curved, with the first of heads and snares is a requisite beaters which are used. finger remaining if against the handle an instrument is A Need for Leadership violin or piano is “experience of the beater to give to sound well. Adjustment must The manner in which these sticks and beaters are support e made so that the heads are in correct proportion As in other fields of music, a teacher’s success with should refrain providing this held. each other and each head itself receives the correct the student of conducting is dependent to a marked from the study experience is The style used when making a stroke. tension at every tightening rod. extent upon the innate talent, character, perseverance, of these instru- gained after Equipment. As rr s we discuss the factors qual- and attitude of the student, and in addition to these ments knowing one has ac- Mental conception stss’fzx. which affect the tone of the type of tone to be desired. 1 usuafiy the result of an y of the percussion qualities the student of conducting must possess or that they can A FUTURE TOSCANINI? quired a thor- Good results improper stroke section, one more is necessary— cannot be obtained with sticks or The namely: stroke made with the mental conception. student, acquire, the quality of leadership as a basic requisite never match ough musical beaters right hand to • The teacher, the Maestro Kelley Rea, two of calls of improper size and weight or ones which wbpn P years age, do a snare drum must be and the conductor to a career as a conductor. the achieve- background. not balance. For snare a very flexible but? , must know what they would like for a fff from his "Sand Box Symphony." drum I prefer a 2B model action of to hear. the wrist. The poinWhem In their minds hear a Another and most difficult problem with which the ments of these Unfortunately, stick; this size stick is heavy enough the stickThS they must be able to to produce the becomes a pivot and h®ld good bass student great artists. too often the required volume as the tip of the stick Zf drum tone and the type of snare drum tone of conducting must cope is that of securing a for concert work, and it is sufficiently butt end goes down and vice versa. which is most desirable. teacher. Even though he should possess unusual talent I will ask, “What about the thousands of musicians reverse is true and the student is conducting before light for all pianissimo passages. Although The height it is some- the stick is raised * and conducting our high school, college, university, he has gained the necessary training.- This situa- times believed that depends upon the the desire to conduct, just where and with whom who are an extremely light stick is desirable amoUnf of desired. Arm motion, necessary Technic can he study? However, should he be an instrumentalist and municipal music groups throughout this nation?” tion is most common in the field of music educa- for very soft playing, this is for parade rin,m not true. A stick which is is not advisable for concert 8’ To the or a student of voice, composition, or theory there is These are the groups that are representative of ap- tion where we find many music educators prepared as « too light produces a tone purposes or requirements necessary tone pro- which lacks firmness, body ticing. A playing wh?“ for correct and character. height of auction add no such problem. proximately eighty-five per cent of the musical life of teachers but not sufficiently trained as musicians. In Some school organizations are te™ twelvlt careful, persistent practice: then technic ham- most conducive to the 15 Many America. many instances these conductors find their limited pered for improvement lmpr0Ve ' of the world’s greatest artists have made their the present, and must use field of the stroke *>ercusston sections must learn to play drums for r^r,-^ organizations musicianship serious handicap the indoor concerts; Plages - services available to talented students of their respec- I will ask, “What should these and a to development here the 2B stick is also satisfactory. Left Hand P lightly, correctly and with ease; like Action tive fields; likewise their conductors do?” Should they abandon their mu- of their musical groups as well as to their own per- Heavier sticks . P aying large many great composers have, ac- make fast, light playing difficult The must not sound forced when a left hand, holding cepted experiences simply because they can sonal advancement. If such musicians whereas a lighter stick the stick 0 degree of volume students. Except in rare instances, such as the sical desires and could see the fails to produce any snare tone must use another wa is required. style to make a b y. °'° Berkshire Music true of never match the performances of the Philadelphia importance of thorough musical training as a part of whatsoever. Str°ke btain the of Center, this has not been action used ' technic desired thorough study is not a flexing 0 th a our will their equipment, For the bass Xe wrtJt fi ™6 great conductors. Hence, the student of conducting Orchestra or Mr. Ormandy? I ask, “What are we the music education program would drum, beaters of the double end con- of the forearm 15 necessar and these rudiments should very much like be y has the status training of these undoubtedly realize its greatest strides cert type are a necessity. that applied n? lced?in had little opportunity for study at first hand with doing to improve and since its in- These are made of a good to Hoor the following different styles: l , the great conductors?” ception in the public schools. glade of glr* men of the baton. While other fields have lamb’s wool and with correct technic, ’ slowly re- a fine . —accelerate to and a maximum provided continue to ignore the possibility Following are the divisions bass drum tone will be obtained. tard to the students with the opportunity of working Are we going to of or categories into which A hard felt beater is original speed. with shall conducting most undesirable. I would sing famous musicians and means for a carefully improving their conducting or we give proper might well be divided: use one when performing sand, a metronome, practice the rudiments in indoors, only when required orchestra tempo planned program of study, the student of conducting 1. Musicianship to do so for a certain de- at various speeds. has found 2. sired special effect. tlce it necessary to learn his art by observation, Leadership °nd them at a11 dynamic ieveis from ppp 10 and whatever 3. Score Reading The manner of holding the sticks _ , . CHORUS contacts as are possible, plus the ex- or beaters is of Edited T prime importance by W«lli 4 perience he can gain by working with musical organiza- 4. Baton Technic as it has a direct effect upon flex- am D- them an ReVe|j 10 many different time figures. As tions. BAND and ORCHESTRA , While this type of, knowledge is very important 5. Interpretation ’ tbe practiced W Edited by William * D . Revelli F!am Accent may be and essential, Conducting, 558 tho it is frequently undesirable and just as performance, ( Cont . following 592) also on Page 592) "FORWARD ways: ( Continued, on Page MARCH WITH MUSIC” OCTOBER, 1946 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC 559 THE ETUDE —
Music and Study Music and Study To Develop Finger Strength interested ... I have been very in your sug- gestion for practicing trill exercises; I mean the finger alternately instead Fiorillo idea of lifting each of work on the thirtieth study of down. It holding the lower one has worked in the same way. This is the best study I with my trill, and with my pupils, wonders know for the Whole Bow Martele; the it occurred to me that this • But bas Playing too. . The Violinist’s Form greater a little many high notes require a much The Absorbing Art of Violin method might be improved ... by holding down the finger behind the trilling sensitivity of touch than is needed in the
• holding down the second finger fingers . . by lower positions. while the third and fourth are trilling. What do Conducted daily you think of this? And would you advise prac- If you will practice this bowing ticing other exercises in this way, or, should it for a month or two, I feel certain that trill exercises only? be confined to you will notice a pronounced improve- —Miss C. W., Massachusetts. ^JJcu'ofcl (l^erlzleey ment in your entire right-arm technique. Many thanks for your friendly and But don’t stop practicing it when you Distinguished Hungarian Violinist complimentary letter, of which I can feel that things are going better. Spend quote only a small part. I hardly need to a few minutes with it every day—there say that it is very gratifying to hear from Prominent Teacher is no finer exercise for the bow arm. people who have found my suggestions helpful in their own work. and Conductor Concerning Sevcik Exercises a notable book upon violin playing, "V/ith Strings Attached," tl is on abridged chapter from Your idea regarding the trill exercises is S I book is a keen and , ngratiating I am a violinist, sixteen years old, and shortly by Alfred A Knopf. The insight Siigetf which is being published and constructive. Holding a lower \yY Mr. sound wonder if I could ask you to help me. . . . My • masters. — . # ii f lU* fnrnmnsi contemporary Editor s Note finger on the string while trilling with teacher has gone away for about six months and I won’t get any lessons in at least that the two fingers next above it is an excel- time. ... At my last lesson my teacher gave way to develop the strength and lent Before taking the Down bow, you should me Part III of Sevcik’s School of Violin Tech- have to be able to convey the style of independence of the fingers. But it is nics, Op. 1, and told to learn it while he von Vecsey, then aged ten or eleven. Vecsey made his playing of the pause in order to prepare for the accent, me only virtuosos I had heard during more tiring. This is the reason I was gone, but he did not tell me how to prac- January 10, 1905, after having my conservatory much and also to see is Carnegie Hall debut on that your arm in the tice it. The exercises look as if they must go Berlin days: Burmester, Kubelik, Marteau, have never mentioned it in these col- given in 1904 a dozen concerts in three weeks in Hugo Heermann correct position for the stroke. Your fore- fast, but should they? Will you tell me how is obviously impossible to do this. I hesitate to recommend an exer- and repeated the same feat in St. Petersburg. It may It These first im- umns. arm, wrist, and hand should be in a to go about learning this book? pressions were too amorphous, too lacking cise that is very taxing on the hand, lest —Miss H. M. K., Wisconsin. also have been the unavowed wish to meet the chal- in critical straight line, approximately parallel to biased enthusiastic student overdo his lenge-still pedagogically speaking—of the flow of perception, too by schoolroom prejudices. In some the floor. With the arm in this position, This is one of the most valuable books of it and develop a strained miracle-products coming from Leopold Auer’s camp. Berlin I was on my own, and I was bowled over by practice the grip of the bow on the string should Sevcik wrote, and it will do a very great Ysaye, Kreisler, muscle. Some things can be suggested The fact remains that when I set out to make my and Elman. again be felt before the stroke is made; deal for your technique if you practice studio that it would be unwise to Berlin debut, in 1905, my repertoire consisted of only in the then the bow is drawn rapidly for a few the exercises carefully. But put out of An Arbitrary Distinction the Wieniawski, Ernst, Mendelssohn, and Viotti con- recommend in print. inches, and again slowed up so that the your mind all thought that they mint Actually, lifting each finger in a trill certi, the Bach Chaconne and the solitary Prelude I lump them together because that was how, in my straight line of the arm may be main- be played fast. There is no tempo in this quite tiring for a player who has movement of the E Major Partita, Paganini’s Witches’ childish unpreparedness, I felt their individual revela- study is tained. Try to feel that the first half of book. The speed at which you shoula it—unless, of course, he has No question will be answered in Dance, Tartini’s “Devil’s Trill” Sonata, sundry Spanish tions merge into one collective Impact on me. This never done THE ETUDE the Down bow is made the practice each exercise is the speed at was unless accompanied by the full name from shoulder Capriccioso, already a irong and supple hand—and dances by Sarasate, Saint-Saens’ Rondo not so childish as it would seem on the face of it. I and address of the inquirer. Only initials joint, the stroke being prolonged from which you can play it accurately. No mat- I never it a student complicate things by or pseudonym given, will be published. salon pieces by Hubay, and last (and definitely least) sensed a dividing line between the violin-playing I had the elbow after the middle of the bow is ter whether it is written in eighths or in Fantasias on Carmen and Faust and on Russian and heard during holdi. j down an extra finger until the thirty-seconds, it must be practiced slow- JOSEPH SZIGETI my Budapest days and what I was hear- passed. And remember that the . fingers independence of his fingers has been Hungarian airs, strung together by Wieniawski and ing now. One I associated with the past, the other should remain bent until you are ready to ly. If you play one of the exercises four pretty well developed. However, as his Hubay respectively in the prevailing potpourri style with the future. It was not until some years later that It is best practiced on a study in which change to the Up bow. At the end of the times out of tune and four times in tune, HAT A PARADOX that we start a career in gains strength and flexibility, your of the ’eighties. I was to hear Thibaud, Enesco, Huberman, and Casals nand the bow must skip a string after almost Down stroke the whole arm drops, from you cannot be in the least sure that you
boyhood to the tune of . . miracle . . . young idea increasingly valuable to him. —greatest of all string players, as Kreisler calls him; can be every note, such as the eleventh of Mazas, the shoulder, to the higher string. will play it well the ninth time; but if musical god . . . who draws his bow across the Parents and Prodigies This modern method of developing W and Heifetz, of course, had not yet been revealed to in G major, or the seventh of Kreutzer, As each stroke is completed, the bow you play it in tune the first four times heartstrings all of humanity . as a phenomenal, finger-strength not be confined to I don’t remember ever hearing in class a Bach con- the world. need in D major. Let us use the latter as an should be resting lightly you go over it, you can be fairly sure that clairvoyant on the string. interpreter, and after decades of profound certo or the Brahms Concerto or Cesar exercises that are specifically for the Franck’s Sonata In thus instinctively drawing a dividing line, I was example. Many players, when they first practice all will be well the fifth time. Try to have study and achievements at last reach the stage when or Chausson’s Poeme or a Handel or Mozart or Bee- making a no more arbitrary trill. Almost any “finger-exercise” study this exercise, the intonation exact the very first time. we become the distinction than grown- W.B. W.B. have a tendency to “grab” “always dependable X, who gave the thoven sonata. I did play the Beethoven can and should be practiced in this way. Concerto, but ups do when they refer to styles of art in terms of the string at the end of the stroke. This This kind of technique-building is usual creditable account of himself in the Y concerto.” without awareness of its place in the microcosm For example, the thirteenth and nine- that centuries without taking into account the finer shad- is caused by a stiffening of the arm, and mechanical, and is uninspiring at best, A similar grotesquerie, of an Alice in Wonderland Beethoven’s scores represent for us. The quartets, piano teenth of Mazas—of which more next ings caused by overlappings. even I see it now the tendency can be eliminated when it so don’t spend too much time on the topsy-turviness, is the paradox But as that while the curly- concerti, the piano sonatas, and even the month the thirtieth of Kayser, and the symphonies my instinct in roughly grouping listening experi- — Your goal should be to is realized that at each end of the book—forty-five minutes daily would be headed little genius, at the beginning of his my take the whole bow concertiz- (except for the Seventh, which the school orchestra ninth of Kreutzer all lend themselves ad- ences into two camps was justified. remember re- length of the bow rapidly, with strong the arm must be completely relaxed. Keep quite enough if you practice it every day. ing, is teamed up with “decrepit old” conductors, I a had played) remained terra. incognita for me. mirably to it. But keep this point always hearing Willy Burmester in Berlin in 1905. In the accent on each note. Try to do this, and very clear in your mind the fact that However, try to make every moment you concertmasters, and orchestral players—who are, in In our classroom in Budapest there prevailed in mind : the raising of the finger is every an previous Budapest years rest of see what happens. If there is any lack of pressure is applied only before the spend with it constructive and valuable. fact, young or middle-aged—he ends his career at sixty I had, along with the bow atmosphere of such puerile technical rivalry, bit as important as the dropping of it, we were the city, applauded him coordination in your hand or arm, the moves, and that it must be released To get the best results in the shortest or so as a vigorous, forward-looking virtuoso, full with childish enthusiasm. My at of so completely absorbed by the externals a:ir. demands as attention. of our craft, still vivid much will not travel in straight line; the exact instant the time, you should take three to five exer- youthful magnetism, surrounded by conductors, con- disappointment at his Berlin performance, bow a in bow begins to move; that I have difficulty in conveying this satisfactorily! the certmasters, and orchestral let-down I felt, clearly showed me that I had fact, it may even slip around on the string if it is released too soon there will be no cises from each of three different sections players of twenty-five to still more in explaining it. Hubay was not only a great passed practice forty or so, whom he now of course a turning point in my esthetic awareness w'hen The Whole Bow Martele in a very disconcerting fashion. Should accent, and if too late there will be a and them for a week. Then, the considers his con- virtuoso but also an excellent musician who had come I abandoned it is scratch. calls next week, take three or four more in the temporaries! myself wholeheartedly to the impact of I have been reading your Violinist’s Forum anything of this sort happen, a sign This for perfect timing and under Joachim’s spell, and under that impulsion had Ysaye, for is sections. At one time Kreisler, and Elman. nearly a year . . . and I notice that you have that you must temporarily modify your not acquired without very attentive same And so on, until you have or another we all are faced with this formed a quartet which became famous and with I referred to the Whole Bow Martele several finished sections situation, and the real test is how successfully we meet know now, with critical hindsight, how different ambition. You must be content for a while practice. the you started with. which Brahms and other great musicians often times as being a very good exercise for the bow it. The failure ap- they were; their Rus- to take only the first four or five inches Don’t be in a hurry to increase the Then take three more sections and work to face facts often keeps us from ac- peared. He was by no nationalities (Belgian, Austrian, arm. But you always referred your readers to means the shallow fin-de-siecle sian), cepting the musical responsibilities of our maturity. I their roots in three distinct schools, their ages the copies of The Etude that were published in of the bow rapidly, slowing up the re- tempo at which you are playing the study. through them in the same way. virtuoso that one might suspect him of being remember Artur Schnabel telling from alone, were enough they December, 1943, and January, 1944. I did not mainder of the stroke so that you may Make a decided pause after each stroke so It is more or less a matter of personal me, after an admir- these remarks of to make them so. But together mine. I am afraid they do not read The Etude at that time and I have not been able performance quite formed in door. your hand and arm are that your arm is poised for choice what sections should be grouped by his friend Carl Flesch of the reflect my mind an entity the opening of a able observe what and ready the the enchantment that distance is said to see those copies, so I don't quite know Ernst F-sharp minor to lend to doing. next. Even when the bowing together, but I would suggest the follow- Concerto (a superannuated work most things. how this bowing should be practiced or what can be A I in New should . . the virtuoso style of the mid-nineteenth Quality in Violin Playing look out for. . Would it be possible Before the first note of this Kreutzer played with ease, the notes should be ing plan: Numbers 3, 5, and 9; 4, 6, and century, une snouia, m justice to Hubay, ascribe this for you to describe it soon? ... I bristling with “wunderkind” unfor- The fact our again know is played, the bow must grip the spaced at least one second apart. and 12, and 14. Sections difficulties) : study 10; 7, 8, 11; 13, “To think tunate state of affairs in that players of the first decade of something the classroom not to him but is wrong with my bowing and I hope that Flesch, great master that he is, at his age, century, like Berber, string firmly at the point by means of the As you gain control, take more and 1 and 2 you can ignore. The fingering': with primarily to us so-called prodigies Marteau, Juan Manen, Felix this exercise will help me. ... I am working on and, above all to his paunch, should be sweating over a piece like this!" esar Thomson, Arrigo others, the Concerto in D major by Mozart at present. Rotary Motion of the forearm; that is, more of the bow rapidly, giving always given are old-fashioned and impractical our parents who generated such an unhealthy Serato, and no doubt Almost fifteen years after impa could —K. N., Ontario. Schnabel made this remark tience. Naturally not take roots in the States, could not your forearm should roll towards you in more bite to the accent. Finally, you will —you would do better to practice your this impatience led to shortened United to me I find it restated in his book Music and the pe- build up a to elbow joint, so that the first finger use the entire length of the bow in scales from another book, such as the Line riods of study and to a more following that would have enabled them Your letter came at a psychological the one and more sketchy cur of Most Resistance: “Old actors play the resume off, the stick. The initial quick motion, and the accent will Schradieck Scale Studies. parts of old Ticulum from which after World War I where they had left moment, it presses down on bow have a everything but the “useful” war — for I had been thinking that persons. Sportsmen at a certain age stop their attempts bears out, I of accent is produced by relaxing this pres- fiery, electrifying vitality. I can’t recommend the fingering given horses was eliminated. It was think, my observation that a new ideal was a long time since I had written in to break quickened by the coin records . . . one could easily define beauty in the leaps Violinists should bear for the diminished and what kind cidental meteor-like ascent violin-playing was being formulated around any detail about Martele sure at the exact moment bow in mind one im- dominant seventh of of Vecsey, the sensational the Whole Bow musical performance is not quite appropriate for that time and develop towards the frog. The feeling in this portant thought regarding accents: that arpeggios (the arpeggios in sixteenths) success—as a violinistic technical that those whose style did not and how it should be practiced. So im- people in full maturity .” * wonder—of Sevcik’s (for instance, mere bravura) toward this new maintaining should be as if the bow were picking up they are compounded of two ingredients in Section 7. In each of these the four disciple Kubelik, and the rumors about a trend had little chance of portant an exercise deserves more re- To come violinist from • back to this retrospective stock-taking, I am Auer’s their hold. the string. —the pressure of the bow, and the speed highest notes are better taken with the school—more glamorous and emotionally spectful treatment! amazed at the lack of solid musical foundation excit In and mg than either of these— the spring of 1945 the London As you pass the middle of the bow your with which it moves. The faster the bow first, second, third, and fourth fingers. If outlook Mischa Elman. Ferruccio Bonavia, The great value of the Whole Bow in those all-important and very brief years of critic whose elbow should begin to rise, so that at the moves, the greater the pressure that can you look up the Violinist’s When I came to Berlin in 1905 background (he was a pupil of Joachim' Forum page my studies. It thus inadeauatelv Martele lies in the fact that it makes use may have been the latent desire to dupli- gives his He end of the stroke it is at the same level be used at the start of the stroke. for last equipped, I heard for the first words added weight, referred to this cycle. Con- December you will find the cate (and duplicate quickly) time not of all six of the Basic Motions of bowing a sensational pedagogical Pointed out of a as the frog. The crossing to the lower versely, more pressure calls for a more fingering I use for these phenomenal young violinist but also the apparent novelty of the style arpeggios. It success: Hubay had just presented Kreisler r (see The Etude for 1945) to the world Franz Ysaye. To young player a!' November ; string is made by flexing the fingers (par- rapid stroke if a scratch is to be avoided. would be a good experience for make clear the impact of their that “vindicated theories to which you to playing o2 e thus it develops flexibility, agility and, * Music and me-a playing of a fire, great players Joachim, ticularly the fourth) and rolling the fore- After you have thoroughly practiced work out this principle of fingering and the Line of Most Resistance, Princeton University an elegance, a rhythmic of the last generation— Press, 1942, p. 75. jn Sarasate, most important, coordination, more quick- cisiveness which I had never even Ysaye-would He credits arm slightly towards you. There should the Kreutzer and Mazas studies, and have apply it to all the chords of the seventh imagined-l have subscribed.” ly shoffid her than any other one bowing exercise. be no need to raise the elbow further. acquired a good control of this bowing. in section. sensational success to a (.Continued on Page 590) this 560 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC OCTOBER, THE ETUDE 1946 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" 561 yy ny una Music and Study now
Q. 1. Why should two notes, on» 3„ ter and the other a half, IUar' be print i side on the same si( by pitch and fnr tu k r the hand? . same Polyrhythms 2. What is the explanation of ditt„ in the left-hand clef directlv J, marks y De,0 Q. Will you kindly tell me what books right hand? W the I may obtain on how to solve Answers problems and 3. Will you please recommend Questions , in polyrhythm? I have “Playing the Piano a bn how to form chords, to transpose on for Pleasure,” by Charles Cooke in which “° to explain to pupils what is w Appendix B explains to some extent Kath- *—>- n r. « tonic and= Jmportan ! nnouncemen t forth.?—E. A. W. so erine Ruth Heyman’s method, but it A didn’t seem quite clear enough, except on two or Conducted by A. 1. This notation is three examples. I would like a book or used to correspondence course that will explain that two melodies or voices W meet at tb this problem in detail with scientific ac- point, and that one melody curacy, I shall be very grateful for any should for the duration of a information you can give me on this sub- quarter-note nf E. GUY MAIER, eminent pianist and teach- The Teacher’s Round Table, upon which our ject. Mrs. E. R. 3)°c- and the other for the — J(arl VU. Cjehrkend, Wm- duration of a S'- er, after eleven years of brilliant, able and readers have depended for over half a century, note. alt A. First I D loyal service as editor the originally would recommend “Rhythm of Teacher’s was written by Mr. Theodore Presser 2. These ditto marks do not in Music” by George Wedge. The last mean that Round Table page in The Etude, now finds that himself. Mr. Presser was both a genius and a the left hand is tp play the same three pages of this book give a simple note the pressure of other professional matters makes master in this field. His answers were clear, Emeritus as the right hand directly above but very clear explanation Professor it b, t of two against it impossible for him to continue in this arduous sound, direct, adequate, but never verbose. Oc- rather that the left hand is to three and three against four. Next study repeat th Oberlin College work. The Etude, however, takes pleasure in an- casionally the late famous teacher and critic, figure (or entire measure) that James “Rhythmical Problems” by Germer. This it nasw just played. nouncing that Dr. Maier will retain his associa- G. Huneker, when Editor of The Etude, wrote volume contains not only a precise ex- Music Editor, Webster's New planation 3. For chord structure I tion with our magazine in a new and distinctive the Teacher’s Round Table. For many years, the of many polyrhythmic prob- would reconi lems, but also many exercises for International Dictionary mend either “First Theory feature page beginning in the January 1947 issue. sensible and practical Dr. Newton J. Corey of perfect- Book” bv ing your performance of them. If Angela Diller (for Dr. Maier’s cordial spirit of cooperation Detroit was Editor of The Teacher’s Round you grade-school chil and Table. feel in need of any more material, try dren); or “Harmony for Ear, his friendly inspiration Eye and have been among the most He was followed by the wise and lovablq Clarence “Master School of Modern Keyboard” by A. E. Piano Playing Hoacox (for students valued aids in The Etude in the experience of G. Hamilton of Wellesley College. On various oc- and Virtuosity” by Alberto Jonas, Book in high school or college). For trans your Editor. As a virtuoso, a thinker, a teacher of casions during the interims, the department was procured through the publisher of The position, try “Keyboard Harmony and virtuosi, and as a lecturer, Dr. Maier repeatedly written by the present Editor of The Etude. Its V, pages 216 to 226. These books may be tinue all your activities, including Transposition” with (“Preliminary Studies” Etude. has gone far out of his way to extol the ideals and objective always has been to provide in the most the organization of the music club. I sug- and Volumes One and Two) by Anna H the practical accomplishments of The Etude, and interesting, authoritative and clear manner, gest that you follow the suggestions that Hamilton. All of these books may be ob- we cannot praise his splendid attitude too enthu- advice and suggestions upon the latest I made to the young man to whom you tained through the ideas and When Should a Boy Begin publishers of The refer in your second question, and I hope Etude. siastically. Our readers we know join with us in methods in piano study. In this way it has had Vocal Lessons? congratulating that you may also have time to play If little Dr. Maier upon his notable achieve- a formative and inspirational effect upon piano you know or othing about har- tennis, go in swimming, and perhaps play mony yourself, ments. They may now look eagerly forward to study in America which has been widely rec- Q. I will be fourteen in October, and will you wl 1 find it very dif- be a freshman in high school. My voice a bit of baseball—using a soft ball of flcult, not to his new department in the coming January issue. ognized and praised in this and other countries. say da gerous, to try to has not changed yet and I sing first so- course for the sake of your fingers. teach this sort of thin to your prano in a choir. I can vocalize to the E- students, As to running the music club, I think Before trying flat above high C and can sing high C eas- to pass t on to others, I ily. I the experience would be good have talked with a voice teacher from for you would advise you eithe: to study harmony a nearby college and she says I ought to and it would also be a fine musical he Etude has the pleasure of announcing directly in contact with hundreds of American and with as fine a theory •acher as you can wait until my voice changes to start les- sician social during the time your voice is experience for the entire group. find, that the Teacher’s Round Table will now be teachers and thus he has become intimately ac- sons. But another voice teacher told me or else to take a piano normal course changing and maturing. Such a club that if I wanted a tenor voice I So I advise you must of course have a leader at T conducted the distinguished French- quainted with the problems and should some college or conservatory. by Amer- needs and mate- start lessons to study piano, who will now. Will you tell me what to sing in your school see to it that a room is provided ican virtuoso pianist, conductor, lecturer, author rials of American elementary instruction to do?—P. H. and the glee club, to take a course in music and that each meeting is ap- carefully pre- and teacher musical, educational development peculiar to our preciation if your school offers one, and pared for. You are pretty young for //anyiv Questions A. My advice is that you postpone sing- such country. to listen a to as much fine music as pos- job and you will have to be especially ing lessons until your voice is entirely At the sible so Q. 1. Please answer these Maurice Dumesnil present time he is artist teacher at Mich- as to acquire what is called careful not to assume a bossy or know- questions con- “changed" and settled. The natural cerning Chopin's Polonaise igan ‘taste.’ Then you will it-all attitude. in A-flat, Op. State College. Mr. Dumesnil is a fluent lin- change be ready, when But if you consider that 53: that takes place in a boy’s voice who has been known as a welcome and brilliant guist, speaking French, your voice settles down to tenor or ^you are just uucone of a. German, Spanish and during bass, ui theme crowd who has At what tempo should it be played? adolescence is likely to begin at contributor to The Etude for many years. Mr. to go forward very much more rapidly happened to be chosen as leader b. Should the middle section be played English. He has written two notable hooks in any time now, although it sometimes does because in the direction in which he has had more more slowly, and if so. at what tempo? Dumesnil was born in Normandy, France, and English including not take place until you evidently music than the others “Claude Debussy—Master of the age of fifteen or want c. In the last measure of Page 10 (Presser to travel.” But if you begin to study Fou wil l probably be accepted educated at the Paris Conservatoire, where he Dreams” in which his English sixteen. When the change comes you will more read- edition), should the D-sharp, F-sharp. D- style has been singing before your voice is hy than an older Philipp other find that you cannot sing reasonably person would be. sharp chord be struck once or twice? I no- studied with Maltre Isidor and praised by no less than the late Dr. William Lyons as high as you mature, and especially if your teacher is Why not adopt a tice similar cases In the piece. noted teachers. graduated with the Grand do now, and your voice may get little three-fold program He was Phelps of Yale. All of Mr. Dumesnil’s articles for a one 2. On the last page of the Chopin Scherzo, who does not understand young for each meeting, the husky. Lower tones will begin to appear, first part to eon- Op. 31 Prize (Grand Prix) and started immediately upon The Etude have been written voices, you run (Church edition), near the passage originally in Eng- and the risk of never having sist of the singing of the low tones that you can now sing one or two mrt marked " Stretto e cresc. I notice that the his career, touring France, Holland, Belgium, lish. His Debussy book is also a fine vocal organ—and of never songs published in Span- will grow fuller. becom- under a student conductor lower G is natural while the higher G is When these changes 1 ul cjiuseilchosen England, Germany, Spain, Portugal and all of inp n reel miidiwoT,) 1,,, +1— . ish and has a large ing a real musician! by the flatted. Is that correct? sale in Spanish speaking begin it is a good thing to group—perhaps a different sing alto for one 3. the South American republics and Mexico. His each time; What grades are the following: (1) countries. Mr. Dumesnil has known intimately awhile, and, a little later, the second to be the alto-tenor. Sing perform- Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin (2) Clair last tour as pianist and conductor took place in many of the great lightly, ance by one or more Rose composers, pianists and con- however, and do not force your A High. School Music Club of the members of de Lune by Debussy (3) To a Wild some ’ 1940. He has appeared as soloist with the Colonne ductors voice even if musical composition by MacDowell (4) Capriccio, Op. 2. No. of the world. For eleven years he was you are urged to sing more that he is Q. 1. One of the first things studying, the by Dohnanyi (5) D’un cahier d’Esquisses and the Lamoureux Ochestras of Paris as well closely associated loudly. Your vocal cords are growing I do when I performance to be with Claude Debussy, all of receive my Etude is to followed by Debussy.—R. A_. D. longer, your read your “Ques- by a frank discussion as the great symphony orchestras, the Berlin whose compositions larynx is enlarging (watch tions and Answers” page, and of both the music Mr. Dumesnil plays from I have gained and the your Adam’s apple grow!), all a great deal of knowledge performance; Philharmonic, the Cologne (Gurzenich) Orches- memory. has conducted the parts from your an- the third part to A. 1. a. You realize, of course, that the He many of the world’s swers. Now I wonder be a discussion are increasing in size. But they are like if you could help of a chapter the tra, the Frankfort Museum Orchestra, the Con- famous orchestras, me. I in some choice of tempi often varies with including the famous orches- “green am eighteen years old and have taken book a chapter wood” in the spring—they have five years that has been various certgebouw, the Madrid Philharmonic and the tra of the of piano. I have played in high previously taste and technical capacity of Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire little strength and are school r aS easily harmed; orchestras and ead ’ so have given several by 311 ‘ he mem - performers. The most I can do, therefore Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. at the Trocadero in Paris. On his last tour he recitals. I berfbers ThisTMs ? ap- now you must give them time to also play with a violinist and bookilk mightl be ripen, a some history of is make a general suggestion to you In 1926 he brought Chopin’s his£oric piano to peared as piano soloist cellist at social gatherings. I read music-Theodore and conductor with the to mature, before putting your voice to books Finney’s, about music and have a for example believe that you vwil the United States for a six month’s trans-con- good collection of or it for this composition National Orchestra of Peru in Lima, the Munic- hard use. This may take several classical might be one of years, records. I attend many concerts the many find temp on volumes that J = 72 is a satisfactory tinental tour, sponsored by the Government of ipal Orchestra in and although there is and other musical the appreciation Santiago, Chile, the Colon no objection to events, and some day I of music now availl b. This slight hope I may be a music critic. section may be played France. Since then he has come many times to Orchestra in Buenos Aires, singing during the period of change, yet the four and the SODRE Or- My problem is that “ volumes more it the singing I have been asked to of slowly if you prefer. However, our country for concerts, lectures and Master chestra in ought to be light, never organize and AdAArr^US1C Under Montevideo, Uruguay. conduct a music club among ikhPd standing” pub- often played tempo as tl forced, lest a group of lishedAsome at the same Classes, until he made the United States his per- you harm your voice perma- young people who are all years ago The well known American composer, Dr. Evan- inter- by Oliver nil rest f&ste nently. ested in good music. We would Company for of the piece, or even r, shade home, becoming an American citizen. discuss the National Federatton manent geline Lehman, many of whose articles and com- composers and music and Tf c. Press' By this time you are would perhaps Music Clubs. The I do not have at hand the large Master probably impatient sing some at each meeting. first volum* His number of Classes in the positions have appeared in is I don’t feel that senes, mumee in ^ithis edition I belie' The Etude, Mrs. with me and are muttering X very by the wnv of this composition, but “But doesn’t am well qualified for that ‘' United States has brought him directly and in- job and 7 0W1 - choi Maurice Dumesnil. Editor The Etude the I should like mentals of Punda I know the mean. The of man understand that I want to be a your advice as to how to pro- Musto’’’ place you ceed. • should as wri singer? Then why does he tell me to post- be played twice, exactly /’Could you please give the pone lessons for me the address grouP ten. Observe, however, that the mido several years?” To which of the chap who asked the question, “How music n ' I reply to become are trying and who note of sharp, with a chuckle, “Yes, my boy, I a music critic” in the March to undeA ?. the chord is F-double issue? His •* better and understand; but initials are M.E.M. R. p. therefore are F-sharp. a singer must also be willing§ to Putnut study. m s°me time a musician, and there is in 2. Your no reason why A. 1. It seems to copy is correct. me that you are on to you should not work at becoming a S 3. The are as a mu- the right track and I ” °5ytha‘ I approximate grades advise you to con- „ cannot give 3 the,eLaddress you lows: 4; < of the young (1), grade 6; (2), grade 562 man or grade 2; (4), grade grade 4 FORWARD MARCH 5; (5), OCTOBER, 1^46 WITH MUSIC” 563 THE ETUD — — 0 '
Music and Study AUTUMN MOODS the success of many a composition. Put words The reiteration of a simple five-note rhythmic motif, over and over again, has been responsible for measure), and the student will catch the vocal lilt of this theme, ra e . Memorizing such as “1 love you dearly” to this motif (as it first appears in the third The Piano Students Problem of Andante con moto J=60-72 GRANT CONNELL
the American pianist and teacher, Edwin Hughes, studied in with S. M. Fabian and Rafael Joseffy, this country and i„ Leschetuky, becoming one of Vienna with Theodore the letter's soloist with the assistants. He has been New York Philharmonic subscription series in Carnegie Hall on its regular and with symphony orchestras, has given many other major New Ya rk numerous tours of America, recitals, and has made in solo programs with recitals and in two-piano Jewel Bethany Hughes were invited to present Mr. and Mrs. Hughes the first two- ever given at the White House. piano program During his in Europe, Mr. Hughes seven years' residence appeared in centers in recital and as many important music soloist with orchestras. During the past war Mr. Hughes A A A famous was ap- I A A I I A to the pointed Expert Consultant on Music Secretary 0 1 War, and took an active part in promoting the national use of music during that period. He was the first president of the National Music Council and was for two years president of the Music Teachers National Association. He has been president since 1941 of The Bohemians, famous New York musicians' club. The following very practical article is from an address by Mr.
Hughes delivered in Detroit lost February, at the meeting of Association, and is the Music Teachers National reprinted by
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simultaneously. . . . And and Celeste and practicing as well as the piano, guitar, having fun! accordion, and voice. Able to sing in ls he mentions California. May I seven languages, she is eight- Baldwin? Fouts now doing of a Miss musicians and teach- een broadcasts rvently plead with a week. go to live in the “Sunshine" “She sang and played Ouvre Tes Yeux ers not to time? To prove that there Blues, Kitten on the Keys, Clavelitos, State at this a cave in California for any- Beal Street Bounce, Cactus Polka, Play s not even ' just now, I quote here Fiddle Play; Amor, Amor, One Kiss, t0 crawl into home-for-sale advertisement from to- Tabu, and Pictures from Life’s Other “For sale, house suit- Side, which was on the zither.” day’s newspaper: quarters for couple, six Now there’s a program to tax anyone’s able for living feet, constructed talents. . . . Makes us Round Tablers and one-half by eight materials; must be moved. ashamed of ourselves or does it? Quick, with best of — specifications refer back to our piano practice! have such « i wonder, do the We of the sumptuous shack or the a heck of a time learning to play even to the size the piano? one instrument tolerably well poor, hard couple? Where would you put — worked critters that we are. And where could you move the “house” price I sure after you bought it? The am The Pianist's Ideal would stagger you. So there’s the situa- houses, tion in a drygoods box! No no Many teachers have asked for a copy studios, no pianos, no nuthin’ in Cali- of a paragraph on pianistic and musical fornia for prospective residents. Won’t aims which I read to my summer classes. you please stay away for a little longer? Here it is: “What is our highest ideal in Our state is sometimes called by vulgar piano playing? ... To aspire toward such wise-crackers “The Land of the Screw- physical and intellectual control of our .” is plenty of justification shall be able to re-create ball. . . There medium that we for this quip, I must admit! Here’s an the masterpieces of the great composers example again, this one from today s and the lesser works of these and other newspaper: creators, so that each composition shall become alive in the image of its com- "From Concert to Corn" poser, that every piece shall bear the stamp of style and authority as well in That's the title of a solo program pre- lhe soul of a piano which, as The local as breathe the beauty of craftsmanship sented last night in our town. become an integral part of the sound- and emotional content designed for it by beings, is made manifest by “critic” reports that the performer pre- human Troubadour Wanderings its creator. ... No performing musician of the natural sented “Tales of in the sound- board and, by reason higher this.” the voice, is embodied with song and piano, guitar, and ac- can aspire than to travel He adds fur- Goodbye for now. . . . I’m sure we’ll tendency of sound waves cordion accompaniment.” board. The string is a purely mechan- has mastered the see each other soon again in the columns ther that, “This artist wood, the com- old, faithful friend, Etude. vibra- along the grain of the Hammond organ, Solo Vox, Novachord, of our The ical device designed to set up plete effect of the string vibration is tions of a predetermined frequency transmitted simultaneously to all in the soundboard. By expert design- The Piano Student’s parts of the board. Each of the ribs is ing as to weight and length, and by designed for its particular Problem of Memorizing proper tuning, precise and accurate specially from Page 564) place on the board, thereby maintain- ( Continued percussion, the string can be made nearer to the properties over if not pos- come from nerve centers ing uniform acoustic The average piano student, to produce whatever type vibration good ear, usually fingers than the brain. sessed naturally of a specially It is this function of the nerves which has been the entire surface. The memorizes by the look of the patterns is desired. But once the key keyboard, coupled with enables us, when completely uninhibited, of notes on the selected Northern Spruce from which parts of pieces, or even whole the vibrations thus actu- kinaesthetic, or muscular feeling for the to play struck, and compositions, without consciously think- next chord or bunch of notes. Some sup- through the soundboard is made is seasoned performance. But beware ated have been transmitted plement this form of visual memory with ing about the of this habit! It may do you a scurvy years before use. Thus a memory of how the notes look on the acoustic bridge to the sound- and dried for platform. the printed page, although these printed note trick on the concert then, may be memorized it is assured that it will retain its memorizers are rare. Piano music, board, the quality of the resulting visual memory, musical form, of the pat- in three ways : by ear, by Knowledge of initial resonance indefinitely—ready either of the notes on the keyboard or is a matter of the soul. terns of musical composition, is always tone take the the notes on the printed page, and by a valuable asset, but it cannot soul of the Baldwin and eager at all times to pick up, or reflex action. A com- Therefore the place of the actual remembering of the- finger memory bination of these three methods of mem- send forth the inspired notes to be played. Just so, the knowledge fashioned with meticulous care. interpret and the most successful re- is of harmonic structure and progression is orizing produces sults. Good memorizers use all of them. are inlaid messages of great artists to the listen- an aid, but it can never tell us which Hardwood acoustic discs never feel quite comfortable notes of a chord the composer has se- You will performance of contrapuntal soundboard and dowelled ing world. lected for a certain passage, nor their in the public in the which music, such as Bach’s, until you can play exact sequence, nor the octave in bridge and the Truly the soundboard is the voice separately and fluently from directly to both the they are located. However, writing out each hand memory. To cultivate this ability, begin the chord progressions under the notes is each point cf intersection. In of any piano. It is also the heart two-part counterpoint, ribs at usually helpful. with pieces in Little Preludes or the Two- soul of the Baldwin. Finger memory, that functioning of re- such as the this way both the bridge and the ribs and Inventions of Bach. You can then flex action which, after many, many Voice pieces in three, four, or even repetitions, guides our fingers to the right proceed to voices. You will also feel ten times keys, cannot be left out of the picture. five of a Chopin Valse, or of any In fast passage playing it is probably as sure the romantic style, if you impossible for any mind, no matter how composition in play the hands separately from gifted and agile, to follow and direct the can JJalftwtn playing of every note. The general form memory. can play a piece from mem- of the figurations, and the hand positions After you there THE BALDWIN PIANO COMPANY in such mental ory by yourself, try to imagine that playing may be under CINCINNATI 2, OHIO the room, and say control, impulses which are other listeners in but the actual ot BALDWIN. ACROSONIC, HAMILTON am) HOWARD Pianos (Continued on Page 600) Makars direct the fingers in rapid performance
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ei/E«Yfc d* uses Great Sopranos of Yesterday l Cz *tUy ssla Voice Outstions
EASYMASTf^T ( Continued pom Page 555) JnSwcreJ Ly DR. NICHOLAS DOUTY — in
questions tvill be answered in THE ETUDE unless accompanied by the full name I great fJo Says a success. Her voice was considered turning to her native Italy for a time recent letter, "Century is to people inquirer. Only initials, or pseudonym given, ivill be published. Many think the three B's are address of the small. It was while making a tour in she but did not live long and be congratulated for reminding every gave lessons, also the three best. It is the logical Mexico that Mr. Leahy of San Francisco, to do so. teacher that there is great music avail- thing to select your favorites a great lover of opera, heard and engaged Young singers of the present day are in Cen- able in the early grades." We think that her for the opera season which each year fortunate in that they can now hear tury Edition. They are complete, au- an examination of these numbers at your he was giving in a theater owned by him records of some of these artists and profit thentic and beautifully printed and, dealer will Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the bring enthusiastic agreement in the California city. Here her success by them, even though they can no longer of course, priced at 15^ a copy. Th has a remarkably fine chorus of Linsborg, Kansas, to from ™av<^a thirteen year old son, who you. was instant, and she n Jjr really was engaged for hear the beautiful voices in person. which is considered by the make clear to you what we mean. If you . vovrano voice, the season at London’s Covent BACH good quality. He has been have the fine tenor voice, “The little touch of Garden, A number of other sopranos of these hiin to be of very VU three years old. God’s finger,” and the burning desire to get 3607 March, Anna Magdalena, D-2.... Bach and again was a success. it public since he was But remained days come to mind, but space forbids 3378 Air for the G-String, C-4 vla in have, 370? Minuet #1, Anna Magdalena, beginning to change. He can- somewhere as a singer that you say you G-2... Bach for Oscar Hammerstein to 3417 Arioso in G, -3 voice is just 3710 Minuet #2, Anna Magdalena, hear her and more than brief mention. Hmf only a short why do you not organize some sort of a society G-2... Bach 3488 Fugue No. 5, D-6 high notes, which engage her r,t reach the 3606 Musette, Anna Magdalena, D-2 for the Manhattan. Her debut Pauline Donalda, also he for the advancement of music in your own Bach a Canadian, was one 2400 Gavotte in B Minor, -3 were very easy Jor him, and 3711 Ecossaise, Eb-2 Beethoven was made in time ago town? "Great oaks from little acorns grew,” ‘‘La Traviata,” and when, of the young popular prima donnas of 3257 Prelude in C, -3 the high notes when he sings them. 4 3 Sonatina #29, G-2 Beethoven cure of astonished at the results holding a high 3558 Toccata and Fugue in D Minor -6 his vocal study should be and you might be S n ° in F -2 note in the big aria of the Manhattan, you tell me if ? ,?«°. Beethoven and her performances of 3418 Two Part Could could attain. At any rate you will be T r! Invention No. 8, F-* or is it best to con- that you 3235 Thu Doll s Lament, G-2 the first act she during this period, Franck suddenly stooped and Nedda especially stand out, although she stopped making an attempt that is always better than 1971 Gavotte, C-2 voice lessons? F. R. O. 7 Gossec picked up her train, all the tinue his around idly grousing. 2264 Song of the Fatherland, time holding sang in many other operas. Her career BEETHOVEN sitting Bb-2 Grieg a beautiful 2257 Watchman's Song, £-3 tone the house rose to her. was brief thirteen Grieg and it is not easy to under- 1313 Bagatelle in D, Op. 33, No. -4 . certainly sounds as if your 628 Gypsy Rondo, 6, it Young Lady With an Exceptional Voice G-3 '.Haydn Assuredly it was a trick, 3328 Bagatelle in Eb, that unfortunate A and not artistic, stand why, for she sang well. Beautiful Op. 33, No. I, -3 old son has reached 3712 Oxen Minuet, C-2 ar Q.—I am sixteen and have studied for over Haydn but it captivated 1186 Moonlight Sonata, C#m, -6 his voice is changing. Usu- 1177 Venetian Boat the public. However, Lina Cavalieri, neriod of life when high Song, with a good but not great 375 Rondo, thirteen a year. Everyone agrees that I am a she Op. 51, No. I, C-J occurs between the ages of 6 Gm-3 Mendelssohn needed no tricks to win. voice, ally this soprano, but different teachers disagree on my Her rich was a delight to the eye, and also 3345 Rondo, Op. 51, No. 2, G-3 rare cases it does 3713 Menuetto & Air, F-Bb-2... fifteen, although in some Moiart voice with its exquisite 3494 Six Variations, and type of voice. My range is from A-flat below 7 '* Tarantella, unforced high loved by the "Nel Cor . . G-3 is very sad time for Dm-2 Prokotieff other members of the com- happen at all. This a lower tones I tones 398 Sonata, Op. 49, No. I, not Middle-C, to F above High-C. My 3639 Tambourin, Em-3 would have insured that, although pany Gm-3 and his parents too. Because Rameau for her sweet disposition. She mar- 400 Sonata, Op. "he musical boy high tones are very 3715 Little Waltzes from she 49, No. 2. G-3 should be all are exceptionally good, my Op. ?A, 2-3 . .Schubert did have well you the disadvantage of being ried the 1341 Sonata Pathetique, vour boy sang unusually I have no break 37 r,t LosI Em - 2 tenor Muratore and soon left the Cm-S s clear and well placed, and 'f ' Schumann too stout. careful so that his mature man , ^l, u a She was great enough to profit stage. the more between the two registers. It .,P PP'' Farmer, F-2 Schumann should not be imperiled. by when it appears to have a 7 Sic. lenne, Am-2 Schumann criticism. The voice BRAHMS voice discontinue 2.—Is it possible for a soprano ill was lovely in Minnie Saltzman Stevens, an Illinois remedy is for the boy to March 2 The usual ? One teachers says that one ' G Schumann coloratura, falsetto of my but when singing 2447 Hungarian Dance No. I, Gm-S-6 is settled, or in other d F|a rsernan Am- in the girl, stepped from Jean de Reszke’s singing until his voice can hum. I can hum , Schumann studio 2395 can sing higher than one c medium register, Hungarian Dance No. 3, F-4-S a young man. We 2451 Toy Soldiers' March, D-2 especially in recitative, to words until he has become C. Will higher Tschaikowsky the stage of Covent Garden, making 2203 Hungarian Dance No. both nearly an octave above High my 37 18 Sweet Dreams, C-2 had 5, F#m-S you to have him examined Tschaikowskv a strangely white quality 3249 should advise tones develop naturally as I grow older or which dis- her debut as Isolde Hungarian Dance No. 6, Db-6 physi- 896 Waltz, Op. 39, No. with the great Rich- by a competent 8, £5-3. . . Tschaikowsky physically and vocally appeared entirely in 3336 Hungarian Dance No. F-4 should 1 attempt vocalizing higher? florid passages This ter conducting. Neither 7, experienced singing teacher. These her voice nor 3491 Intermezzo, cian and an 3. teachers say I am a lyric, some was commented Op. 119, No. 3, C-5 hear —Some on and she set herself to that of on the spot and can both see and 2. Ask your dealer for Century the Tristan was large, 2448 Waltzes, I, 2, 8, 15. Op. -5 men are I am a coloratura. I sing such songs as her Magnavox music. If he cannot correct but she 39, can only say him Star Irene Dunne shown enjoying it. we, from a distance, : Paul Hesse supply you, send your sang beautifully him, while Je suis Titania, Solvejg's Song and One Fine Photography order direct to us. Our and not once did the best thing for htm She prided Ask your dealer theorise about what is the for me and well within complete catalog listing over herself on never if possible conductor for Century music. If ho can- Day. These are all easy 3700 numbers is allow the orchestra to drown FREE disappointing not supply you, send to do. my range. Is my range long enough for op- on request. an audience and once sang the voices. your order direct to us. It was a memorable perform- eratic roles and concert work?—J. H. a matinee performance Our complete catalog listing over 3700 num- of "Lucia” while ance and the soprano The Veteran Who Finds it Difficult to made one appear- bers is suffering with FREE on request. Music World good inspiration CENTURY MUSIC an abscessed tooth, yet ance in the Obtain a Place in the A.—If you really have the range of vox ... for never-ending PUBLISHING CO. Metropolitan, but the critics years old, and Magna unless one were —j am a tenor twenty -four specify in your letter, and if the 254 West 40th Street New very familiar with her pronounced q. tones you York 18, N. Y. her voice “too small.” It CENTURY MUSIC that 1 have “ The little touch of good” while voice one. would was PUBLISHING CO. I am confident lower notes are “Exceptionally hardly have realized considered Lauritz Melchior says Brothers picture, “Life large enough for Covent Gar- 254 West 40th Street God’s finger” that Mr. the higher ones are “Clear and well placed” Still in costume for her latest Warner that she was not at New York 18, N. Y. The her best. She had a den. in his article in the April 1946 edition of and there are no breaks in the scale, you are remarkable to the success of long relax and enjoy memory and once a role Etude, is absolutely necessary certainly unusually gifted. This range is Irene Dunne finds a quiet corner in which to was Another singer who made pro- With Father,” LEARN AT mastered, a debut, this I have sung in some concerts sing the majority of operatic roles HOME it needed but a couple of the singer. enough to re- time £t the Metropolitan, results were encouraging, and Italian songs source hearsals after without any fessionally, and the and all the French, German, You, too, will find that music is a never-ending she might not have sung previous not knowing program. her Magnavox. stage appearance was Marie PIANO but I have found such obstacles, as usually included in a song recital it for years, to insure TRICKS! and the NEW a note perfect per- Rapp the right people, incompetent teachers, your musical knowledge as extensive as In this WAY old. Conried engaged her after Every issue of our bi-monthly Break Is inspiration and pleasure when you listen to Magnavox. formance. try- Studies get started. It seems to me range? Are you sufficiently ac- of ing various brings you clever arrangements for lack of sources to your vocal TEACHES YOU sopranos here and building listen to a poten- for you to Her fleshiness was abroad ex choruses of 8 popular songs that Americans are willing to quainted with foreign languages great music lives again with the not due to over- for the role . , on the cur- superb radio-phonograph, the world’s of the Sulamith hit parade." Enables unwilling to do very much. I to sing the words of French, German, indulgence in in Gold- you to fill in new tial artist but be able food or drink. Her heartiest mark’s modern-style breaks, and they are mention the ones in “Queen of Sheba,” which novel figures, boogie- sang in Italy while in the navy and Italian songs (not to performance. Listening HOW to SING meal would was to woogie effects and tricky not clear trueness and tonal clarity of a concert hall usually consist of a chop, or be embellishments. enthusiastic but helpless at present. I am the vernacular) with a just accent, a same .77 Freemante ^ given with Edith 77^ 1 . amous operatic concert singer, Walker in the title I their ce teacher some chicken, a green condition, because whether enunciation, and an understanding of ™ for 40 years, has discovered a new vegetable, salad, iole, because INVALUABLE TO PIANISTS, bemoaning my in musical enjoyment. your voice— your she had the requisite the degree of artistry questions immediately a new and wonderful experience m own home ! If you can nor high ever gain recognition and meaning? These two becomes talkSi! , did sweets figure jou can now learn to sing. on the menu. She tones. She TEACHERS AND sheer joy you can answer PHONOGRAPH remained with the company STUDENTS! I desire or not, 1 will sing for the occur to us and we hope that RECORDS OF FREEMANTEL'S VOICE had such small feet c pies very Freemantel s that much walking for 25 cents, stamps or coin. By I saved money for a affirmative. If so, you are Letter-Lessons, and actual voice nn several seasons. Her f.!5?Ii ? derived from such a gift. them in the records, voice was lovely C tl l: to 10 until guide you every step of the way was impossible, which consecutive issues. Send hoping to get a if not you must study breath Voice culture may have partially but she now forfS the?n F year and visited New York well equipped; control, diction, timbre-ta^ht was no actress. latest issue. Mention, if teacher. fine furniture strated aid demon- explained her reasons; I knew no are, if you hope to succeed. performance ... truly so you cannot fail, if you do weight. This contract. I failed for twd you Superb ybur part. bothered her Three other A X L < R ISTENSEN used in Eng- Americans should be STUDIOS one too little money to interest an —The word falsetto, as it is not at all, and since she men- 75275? Kimballm u M Hallu ?,1,Bldg.J and I had WRITE FOR FREE DETAILS could not look tioned. Chicago 4, III. these of the adult male Alice Nielsen, who sang agent. I believe it would be a fine thing if lish means a production Even If You the consumptive Violetta several breath is and FREE Can't Sing a Note in "La Travi- times and showed beginners could be heard and the best weeded voice in which the pressure of Combining the wonders of radio science, F. M. ad ' what study W t F e t e 1 s ata" she can do for cords less n ” ethwi has done for always coughed out into company that would slightly decreased and the vocal mhers pro ve th J?’vn r , most realis- a naturally and organized a d? b lovely voice. normal, nat- craftsmanship, g tically. But the critics travel an annual circuit, presenting a program, firmly approximated than in the record changing with the best in furniture Kg MgS vo^^a/L" y oT& ?of kept automatic fui‘ detaiis-itlmmse «^ urging her to return 22 program of is sometimes quite effective espe- availableiinder,'jG.i.^Bil]uaf Rights/* to the field COMPLETE BREAK and earning expenses for such a ural tone. It She never forgot that it in SHEETS was "Papa ^’b^kshe had in music as in the higher tenor, but it is somewhat grace the finest homes. You’ll st been so highly successful establishing American leadership cially Magnavox is designed to Leahy” who gave her her neces- in quality and it is very first big chance that of well as other ways. Such a* project would thin and effeminate w . 57th light opera. But she 6 V M . y. and loved grand S10 °- At your favorite music musical the natural tone. one year, to the delight of pminWn/A t sitate the support the entire nation’s difficult to swell Into in price from $225, San Fran- opera d 60 ' Write for com lete catalog. State of find a wide choice of models, ranging had always aspired if P be in hum- ciscans to sing teacher with a leader 3. What. advantage could there and much subsequent boasting in it organizations but it could be done of had had much success there are not tones one octave higher than High-C? in it in ROBERT and cooperation. I wonder if ming . hear and compare Magnavox climate, she sang on Europe WHITFORD PUBLICATIONS for a in America’s leading stores. See, Christmas Eve for and Publishers such a of music written this high also m this country, of Exclusive Piano Material'' other young people who would support We know no a huge and refused it? crowd in the open air in 18 North Perry tone, so how could you use that city. some high priced Square, Dept. 5E, Erie, Penna. program?—R. V. R. hummed Once you hear it you Her offers to return to the hard for us to determine with other radio-phonographs. last appearances in this country 4. it would be other variety. a lyric soprano or a colora- were in the Paramount A.—There are indeed many thousands of whether you are Theatres, singing Bessie hearing you personally. Je suis won’t be satisfied until you own one. Look for Abbott, of the Abbott young people good voices spread over the tura without five times a day, which sisters with coloratura. Solvejg s amused her who were well FREE Sa States, who like Titania is designed for a known in vaudeville, mple Record entire territory of the United dra- greatly. She remarked: also for a lyric and Un be l Di is quite name of your Magnavox dealer in SHORT “When I was achieved the yourself, lack the financial backing and the Song the ROTE SOLOS Metropolitan revealing haw style though a lyric very often young I sang twice stage and you can be taught singing social a name for them- dramatic in a week in opera, now showed opportunities to make easily and that she too end speaking too it. If you sing them all three telephone directory. I am sixty I sing had studied well by famous teachers through selves. They find the fees of the managers sings the classified by five times a day!” Her an you say you must be quite versatile. mtelligently. Her Mimi Educational Records. expensive and they must discover some other well as numbers were selected « in “La doubt as to the correctness so as not to de- Boheme” before the pub- If you have any Co., Fort Wayne 4, Ind. was charming. Her Write for means of bringing themselves to The Magnavox KATHRYNE mand the very career was record Sent absolutely free classification of your voice write OWENS high notes formerly lic, Many organi- of the taken cut short by illness. or fall back into obscurity. famous singing so easily, great deal of two or three of the most and the voice remained pure zations have been founded and a in the great- T Present time, • and operatic conductors A Set of Seven and -0-TBHES SO S. Oil • purpose that teachers Piano Pieces and true. especially since HULL AYEIUE PASADENA 5 - CJU.IF. money annually spent for the very Unfortunately her appearances „ r ^ nearest to you, and ask for an audi- For Pre-School World War II prevented foreign you have indicated, namely the finding of very est city and Early First Grade were but few. After three singers and advice. It will cost you some time highly success- from visiting this talented young people and helping them to a tion ful country, has seen but it should ease your mind. days in Boston she more career. Juilliard Foun- and some money came to New young American I need only mention The young and perhaps Cfyw/vfof£ddua/fry in Price — .35 York, singers of both Institute 5—You are still very but caught a bad cold, sexes dation in New York City, The Curtis It is and al- appearing in voice has not reached piaturity. — yj/ nre /.9/-5 our one great and The Arts in Philadelphia, vour though she sang twice opera house Academy of Vocal still develop as you J. FISCHER on the opening than ever various quite likely that it will & BRO. before m its history, although there are many others in and do day the cold developed into and some Results grow older, if you are well taught, 119 West 40th Street pneumonia of these have kSrjfiy GUARANTEED! parts of the country. Then there are many your navox New York 18 already that you sing and for won notable the vocaI organs— not strain it. Be careful a time her life suc- !} not of the was in danger. y S 9,n9 lessons sound, sci- choruses devoted to the production attention RADIO PHONOGRAPH cesses, and have entifloaii.» !^ —but by vocalises and songs with due worked hard VMW* TTect silent and vocal exercises. magnificent scales, She did recover but sang to win111 and ah mlT. F°,ey very greatest music, which have a sing out no more. Re- further "1th results w?i.i/ «9uarantee complete satisfaction voice placement, that you never distinction. ope Voice Book. to no effect but also upon to under 17 7 ™? FREE. Sent not only upon the musical strain your throat by singing PERFECT ,ened b* Parent. support of tune, never VOICEwiut diUDfOS,STUDIOS ?iStudio the social life communities that 586 5587, Kimball Hall 01. of the time. Bldg., Chicago 4, too loud nor too long at a "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC them. We need only mention the wonderful THE ETUDE "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC 58- OCTOBER, 1946 . — — l 8
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combined handling of hands Remember this name nnd emblem. as indispensable on the organ as it is Rather, the It i 8 S. the be- your assurance of superior piano tuning -Answered Lj HENRY FRY, Mus. Doc. and feet will be a difficulty to exceptional on the piano, and it is a duty and repair service, backed by an inter- find it necessaiy to organization of of every student to practice it until it has ginner, and he will national professional his pieces. 1, craftsmen. become second nature. patiently learn to play Consult your phone book for members left hand and feet; '3, right in When examining the standard finger- feet alone; 2, your community, or write to both hands and feet. for plain double-note scale on the hand and feet; 4, ings a suggestions as to the various organ. Is it ever permissible to play such would like to say a word n Please give piano, we make the following observa- At this point I Tower chimes — appropriate things as Handel’s and Bach’s Bourees, Baga- evi- nf Church about expression on the organ. It is the type music to be used telles, Gavottes and so forth and Sarabandes tions: to play them, dent that the means of expression will hymn tunes and any other help and Toccatos?—A. L. P. 1022 W. Garfield Ave., Milwaukee 5, Wis, other than Ex.g book I might different on piano and organ. give. Is there any be widely y0 might For valuablo pamphlets on “, uses, or is there any special A. Much depends on the ruling of the local instance, where the pianist makes a send an their For piano care 3c stamp. be obtained? Is « correct authorities, the preferences of the local Zusic that might frequent use of dynamic accents, the or- combmatwn? organist and so forth. If any numbers are the organ and chimes m I % use preferred . nation-wide ganist uses by preference (and by neces- omitted we suggest the Bagatelles, Gavottes and so forth, although there is no question by Teachers and Conservatories sity) the agogic accent. Without, how- not state whether the church of the musical qualities of the compositions ever, into more details for which A You do going or whether they you specify. Superior tone and expert crafts- Chimes are tubular or not, we have no space, I would like to mention key board or SWING “ controlled from a separate manship have for over fifty years ’ in has perhaps not been system teaches Beginners one of the manuals of the Q. I have just been appointed organist one item which World’s easiest or Advanced to nlavable from Artists! in which in- given Gulbransen Company their play like Radio-Record Leam runs, breaks, blues depends on the authorities of the a Congregational church, was sufficiently emphasized. This is the organ negro effects, chime.*, Boogie nrean Much tricks, basses, Woogie, intros* use of the chimes, stalled a Hammond organ, with which I am futuristic, weird styles, off-color, 'church as to the famed leadership in the manufac- staccato. The organ staccato is as a rule ends, modernistic, riding- local jam-hot-blue choruses, etc. leave that to the familiar, but would appreciate any suggestions Fingering a can be used as profitably on melody, HUNDREDS of effects. them eh of course they can ture of pianos. The new Gulbran- much more effective than the piano stac- suggest that you can make as to what numbers are most the piano, with equally Send for Free Booklet No. 7 and low prices. discretion of the organist. We the organ as on appropriate Preludes, Postludes and Offer- spinet pianos are more beauti- cato. In piano playing everything is based TEACHERS— Use new loose-leaf t'/stem. Write be played as a Prelude when for sen results; they might good SLONE SCHOOL, 2001 Forbes St., Pittsburgh 19, Pa. appropriate, and special num- tories.—F. J. T. smartly designed and on a percussion touch, even the smooth- hymns would be ful than ever, Fingering b produces only a dubious the use of organ bers of the type requiring est legato. But the organ being such an given in The in tone . . . superb in- if such numbers A. In addition to numbers improved legato on the organ; and chimes in combination, ideal legato suggest Etude, including registration for Hammond investment highly unsatis- instrument, it stands to rea- available as to arrangements. We struments. A worthy Fingerings c and d are CLASSIFIED ADS are the following collections: son that when we use staccato touch on such as In Moonlight, Kinder, which Organ, we suggest factory in legato style. numbers arranged by Felton; At The in musical beauty. part that can be played on chimes Chancel Echoes, it, the contrast will be more marked and contains a following fingering, although un- USED CLASSKS (Vocal, book by Console, arranged by Felton; “Master Selec- The SLIGHTLY in- alone. We mentioned at one time a Write for FREE BOOKLET show the effect more convincing. The second strumental) Back Popular Sonj?s, Etudes. of Compositions for Organ,” Diggle; familiar to many pianists, is an excellent William Gorham Rice, but that book is now tions ing “America’s Smartest Piano Teaching Material. Lints 10c. -lassies ex- pub- "Standard Compositions for Organ,” Diggle. instru- main point of difference between pianistic of print, we believe, although the one for perfect legato on both changed for old popular songs. Fore’s out • Fashions.” Etude have one by Mr. Rice, Also for Organ and Piano, including regis- training and organ training is the back- E-3151 High, Denver 5, Colorado. lishers of The ments: Holland tration for Hammond Organ: “Album of ground. we believe, treating of the bells in This is a most comprehensive ARE YOU A TEACH l ilt f We have just Organ and Piano," Kohlmann. Belgium. Duetts for GULBRANSEN COMPANY Ex. h subject, and one about which even more compiled a list of 2T>0 most successful and graded piano teaching • by Thomp- Dept. E, 816 N. Kedzie, Chicago 51, III. two Q. Will you tell me whether there is an musicians are in the dark than about the son, Williams, Diller, others. Valuable Q. We have a reed organ in our church, upper organ in the Metropolitan Opera House, and technical differences between both instru- Teaching Guide. Cost 25 nts. Refund- manuals and pedals, with blower. The chimes on it? I would also like able with purchases. BROOKLYN MUSIC manual has the following stops: if there are ments. It would swell the size of this 773 Nostrand Avenue, the specifications and the number of HOUSE, Brooklyn Swell Voix Celeste, S’. Swell to Great. to know article beyond proportions 16, New York. Serving Teachers Every- it played at all operas? Is there if we were to Swell Salicional, 8’. Tremolo- manuals. Is where. at Madison Square Garden, New But what are we to do in case a tenuto go into any details. To mention 8'. Octave Coupler. an organ nnouncing. . . . only a Swell Oboe, name the FOR SALE: Melodoon, sni II reed organ, York? I would like to know the of note is added to the double notes, as is few items: an organist must Swell Flute, 4’. be steeped Hughes & Hale, Philadelphia, antique, the specifications, and whether it is The lower manual has the following: builders, frequently the case in organ literature? in the polyphonic style; perfect condition, off< with make, also the Readiness he must know make reply. Pedal. concert, theater or church Music Program 122 Open Diapason, 8'. Swell to Substitution is the only answer: harmony thoroughly, East Woodbine, Kirkwood 22, Mo. number manuals.—K. E. W. including the work- Clarinet, 16'. Great to Pedal. of by Sister M. Xcveria, O.S.F., Mus.M. 10,000 RECORDS—600 G mdman, 600 ing out on sight of a “ground bass”; he Dulciana, 8‘. Pedal Dulciana 16'. Alverno College of Music, Milwaukee, Wis. Crosby, Greatest classic singers, Every- are Indebted to Mr. T. Scott Buhr- 8'. Pedal Bourdon 16'. A. We must be conversant with counterpoint; thing 1900/42. Josephine Meyer, Santa Trumpet, “The American Organist” for wealth musicalexpression MUSIC PICTURE BOOK* please suggest general church mann. Editor of greater of • MY he needs Barbara, Calif. Will you to your q/A to know musical form, so that be in the following information in answer • MY MUSIC COLOR BOOK music for such an instrument? It may has i /./•
...... Following the two concerts, the party ship, and as the steamer Stripes boarded slowly “The Stars and left the pier, the Government Band Violin Questions struck up Mr. Sousa’s The Stars and Forever, with majestic Forever” Around The Stripes dynamic effects. Following this it broke into the Hawaiian national air, Aloha Oe (Fare- World well to Thee) with the solo sung by a .Answered Lj HAROLD BERKLEY soprano with a sweet and 549) native power- (iContinued, from Page ful voice. Sousa and his men were deeply the immense affected. of gas heaters placed in audience ° & auditorium to keep an warm. The least eight thousand people New Zealand Concerning Violin Concertos followed much the same model arid the wood temperature in August in they used is plain, The Absorbing Art of but the workmanship is in the Middle Iowa. There is a sharp difference good and their is about that of January A G. S., violins are known for their regarding the authenticity of the excellent quality States! of opinion of tone. Martin was one of Atlantic indications in the slow movements the entrained for Violin Playing con sordino better makers of the family, and his violins August 12 the party and Fourth Concertos by Mozart. are On of the Second worth today between one hundred and boarded a steamer for the musicologists to settle sixty Littleton, where they ( Continued from Page 560) It is a question and three hundred and fifty dollars, ac- Strait, can! Most violinists are agreed, how- cording to workmanship and condition. for a night’s sail across Cook if they the reversion to a former style, to “the clas- that the quality of the music is not en- which separates the South from ever, sical styles of older schools which did hanced by the use of the mute. (2) Of the destination, Welling- not North Island; their concertos of Viotti, Rode, Kreutzer, and De Material for Violin Beginners Twelve know the graces and elegances of a later ton, the capital of New Zealand* Beriot, only the Twenty-second Concerto of F. B., Illinois.— Your letter made gratifying age,” and goes on to say that “it is a in concert by established were given here, at the Town Viotti is still used reading, for I was glad to know you found concerts piece of music. Brahms Gov- lamentable but undeniable fact that the artists. It is a noble my books so interesting. I hope you will find Hall, under the patronage of the of the average technical himself thought so highly of it that he mod- the columns of this magazine equally helpful. of the raising standard ernor General, who attended most eled his great concerto upon it. However, the The “Very First Violin Book” by Peery, the has been accompanied by a curious re- composers have a place concerts. This “Empire City” is situated concertos of the other “Primer Method” by Applebaum, and the values.” the duction of other in a series of historical recitals such as you “Folk and Master Melodies” by Sontag may at the head of Port Nelson, one of “Tone especially,” he continues, “in have in mind. I would suggest the Seventh of be out of print for the moment—there is still in the Islands. most commodious harbors and the Seventh of De Beriot; they are an acute paper shortage—but there is such other days so true an Index of character, Rode a series of concerts in sev- both good music, and they would be very demand for them that I am sure they will be After a brief both has lost power and variety since it in such a recital. available very soon. Although it uses too many eral towns, the party reached Auckland, effective came to be an accepted rule that vibrato * words, “The Art of Violin Playing” by Carl Zealand, where the largest city in New Viola Studies and Solos Flesch has the best analyses of left-hand tech- is more important than bowing in the they were booked for eight days, playing A. H., Washington.—You should buy the 41 nique that I know of. If you have the patience production of a warm, pleasing sound. No Campagnoli, edited by thirteen concerts here to crowded houses. Studies for Viola by to wade through it you will, I am sure, find doubt the new systems led to easy suc- Samuel Lifschey. They are excellent technical many ideas that you can use. I would also Auckland is built at the base of extinct cesses, but now Mile. Neveu has won practice. And you should certainly work on suggest that you refer to the issues of The volcanoes, of which Mount Eden is the Six Partitas for unaccompanied ’cello by Etude April April greater success by ignoring them.” the for December 1943, 1944, See these original designs highest. By climbing to the top and look- Bach, arranged for viola by Lifschey they 1945, and February 1946. As regards the hy Alfons Bach, noted stylist. Although most of the great or near would develop your tone, style, and general vibrato, look up the issue for July 1944. You ing around, one may see fifty dead vol- improvements great at the turn of the century are no technique. As for solos with piano accompani- can certainly find these back numbers at the Hear the tonal radius of five miles. The canoes within a ment. I should advise you to write to the Public Library in your home town. by Dr. William Braid White, more than names to us, it is nonetheless JesseFRENCH& Sons party left Auckland on September 1 for publishers of The Etude and ask to have cata- eminent piano authority. Ask possible to piece together from evidence You would find available a Victoria, Canada, a three weeks’ sail logs sent to you. your dealer or write for Free" gathered here and there a composite pic- large number of interesting solos in all grades An Obscure Maker ianos across the Pacific Ocean. Sousa’s Band Booklet No. 12-A. ture of players like Henri Petri, Adolf cf difficulty. G. J. V., Wisconsin.—In the books at my 5ELMER, SALES OFFICE-ELKHART, INDIANA • PLANT-NEW CASTLE, INDIANA was at last “homeward bound.” is no mention of a maker named DIVISION OF Brodsky, Arnold Rose, Cesar Thomson, disposal there Early in the morning of the fifth day A Question for the Record Collector Alois Adler. There was a family by that name Hugo Heermann, and Franz Ondricek, in F.*S., British Columbia.—I am not sufficiently that worked in Markneukirchen at the begin- out, the first island in the Fiji group was which the sensuous beauty, coloristic versed in the mysteries of record collecting to ning of the last century; Alois may be a de- sighted. About 3 P.M. the ship sailed be able to tell you whether you have anything scendant. The violins of such an obscure maker finesse, and dramatic contrasts, the vi- ANTONIO STRADIVARI’S HISTORY into the beautiful harbor of Suva, the of value in your collection. Even the names of would have to be valued individually on the brant and scintillating quality and stream- some of the artists are unknown to me. Your workmanship and tone quality. Second Edition. S3. SO capital, situated on the island of Viti basis of lined smoothness that we have come to best plan, I think, would be to write to The ins Levu. The log aboard ship registered one Gramophone Shop, 18 East 48th Street, New expect from modern violin-playing would Old & New thousand, one hundred and thirty-nine York, N. Y., and describe in detail the label Kief or Rief be conspicuously lacking. I haa sensed on each record. The patent numbers would R. A. S., Iowa. I think you have misread $200 to $20,000 miles from Auckland. About 5 P.M. the — that a new quality had been added to not be necessary, but be sure to give the serial the label in your violin. There is no record ashore to look at the town. find that you possess to sell choice instniments party went violin-playing ever since that first visit number. I hope you will of a Tyrolean maker named Kief, but there We endeavor our collection at prices considerably of “boys” were one or two choice items. was a very good maker named Anton Rief from Some the band induced to Berlin in 1905. This feeling was in- value. Send for new The only complete book on sale. who worked in Vils in the Tyrol during the below regular market by the natives to hire carriages for a Will catalogue. Illustrated. Prospectus Free. tensified when during this same winter Try To Answer Later first half of the eighteenth century. His violins V. C. SQUIER, Author and Publisher drive into the backwoods, but they were I. S., Delaware.—The name of Alexander sell today for two hundred and fifty to I heard Joachim's disciple, Carl Halir, would Battle Creek, Michigan Dolphino is not given in the reference books and fifty dollars. There is no terribly frightened, after riding a mile the second violinist in his quartet, give a three hundred Francis SbraL Rattanl I have at my disposal here in the country. evidence to support the idea that early violin or so, by a lot of black people singularly of who came heavy-handed performance When I return to New York I will make fur- makers were forced by wars or other disturb- Collector-Dealer ther in out of the brush and rushed towards the Mendelssohn Concerto at one of the inquiries, and will print the results ances to take refuge in the mountains of the 50 CHIPPEWA ROAD, MARKERT £ CO. a later issue of The Etude. There are a good Tyrol. The reverse, rather, is true: JOHN them in a seemingly unfriendly manner. Nikisch concerts. This coming right upon Northern TUCKAHOE, NEW YORK 135 W. 45TH ST.. NEW YORK 19, N. Y. many Italian makers whose fame is strictly many Tyrolean makers went down into Italy VIOLINS OLD & NEW There scurrying the revelation brought by my first hear- local: was a of horses and car- in this country their violins would be and settled there. Expert Repairing. Send for Catalog riages headed for town, the bandsmen ing of Eugene Ysaye, Mischa Elman, and, valued individually on their workmanship and tone quality. remembering soon after, of Fritz Kreisler (in Viotti’s A Zion, a warning not to go beyond FIDDLERY, minor Concerto under Nikisch) must also PATMOR (Tonepost) III. the town limits, as these islands still con- A Well-Made Instrument Offers 150 Violins at wholesale prices (many certified old H. W. the Today’s tained have had its share in our not deciding S., Wisconsin. Homsteiner was masters). All fitted with PATMOR TONEPOST cannibals. sensation; now successfully ap- lOiiliam- name of a large family of violin makers who world’s greatest musical GLORIOUS VIOLINS c£eivis- anSSon on the obvious course of studying under all bowed, blowed and plucked musical instru- About 7 plied to are the hand-made Frasers. Singing tone of A.M. on September 12 the worked in during the refund. Call or write . “new Mittenwald, Germany, ments. Guaranteed great carrying power. Winning fame every- 207 South Wabash Ave Chicago 4, III. Joachim. Many years later this eighteenth all ship sailed into the lovely harbor of and nineteenth centuries. They where. Moderate in price. Free folder. SPECIALISTS IN VIOLINS, BOWS. REPAIRS, etc. quality" in violin-playing was brought Faulty tone of other violins corrected. Ex- CATALOGS and LITERATURE on. REQUEST Honolulu, where the band was booked home to me with particular force by re- pert repairing, refinishing. PUBLISHERS OF "VIOLINS and VIOLINISTS" for two concerts. All the members of the CHELSEA FRASER M.V.M. America's only journal devoted to the violin ports of fiddlistic doings in fabulous STARK. SAGINAW. MICH. Specimen Copy 25# 12 issues for $2.50 party went sight-seeing. The theater 2025 — had America, centering around the stellar a covering at the top, but the sides were figure of Jascha Heifetz, reports brought open, creating perfect ventilation, and to me sometime around 1919 by a Swiss the cool breezes kept the audience quite pianist who was making annual tours in comfortable. The mileage from Suva to the United States. I was then teaching , NOTATOR- Honolulu was two thousand, in be- Etude is seven hun- Geneva and, as the interchange The content of text and music in this issue of The dred and thirty-six miles. concert tween European • and American how- the Note Educator in no way reduced. Owing to the acute paper situation, The native Government Band,. in Hon- halls was not yet well under way after much lighter because, for the Note learning at a glance. olulu, in 1911 had a full instrumentation the First World War, I was naturally ever, the paper in 'The Etude is Manipulate the note to any position on the staff of fifty or more players curious to hear as much as possible about Our mills promise under the direc- time being, adequate paper is unobtainable. by a turn of the knob. tion, then, these When I of Bandmaster prodigious new players. expansions of notation thru multiple sense appeal. Berger, who us paper of former Etude weight to accommodate The study had been pressed my pianist friend for some con- a resident of Honolulu for vague of (after a period of a few months). Price — $1 .00 forty-one years and who had crete descriptions instead of his our publishing plans built up Inquire at your local music dealer. For further his organization generalizations, all he could do was to forced this condition upon us to a point of high ex- The national paper shortage has information write to repeat stutter: cellence. Now called over and over again and appreciate “The Royal Ha- for which Etude is in no way responsible. We “I can’t it’s different. The waiian Band,” describe it . . . but PERI POLE PRODUCTS it plays every day in the indulgence of our readers. . . . c’est and C’est toute autre . . c’est the understanding, patience, year for tourists from chose . 3620 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn N.Y. every country in he 10, • . . best the world. sdntillant!” That was the could do.
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experience in score reading. Another valu- increasing Can Conducting able means of one’s ability to read score is that of using recordings Distinctive Piano Compositions by while following the score; this is also an Be Taught? excellent means of studying instrumenta- OUTSTANDING tion. ERNESTO LECUONA (Continued iron Page 559) Latin-America's Foremost Composer Baton Technic MALAGUENA (Simplified) AHI VIENE EL CHINO $ .50 LUCUMI artist’s musician- DANZA HABLES MAS is a reflection of the ALHAMBRA NO Baton technic is the primary means by 50 DANZA J PUEDO CONTIGO ship. Just how one whose basic musician- ANDALUCIA (Original) * NO conductor 50 EN TRES POR CUATRO TE VAS to a which the may relay to his POR QUE ship is inadequate can hope be ANDALUCIA (Simplified). . 50 GITANERIAS his concept of RAPSODIA NEGRA to under- musicians the score. It is ANTE EL ESCORIAL 1.00 GRANADA successful conductor is not easy “ SAN FRANCISCO EL GRANDE school by this means that he expresses the many ARAGON 60 GUADALQUIVIR MINIATURAS just as we find many •> TRES stand. Yet ARAGONESA 75 LA COMPARSA “notes phases of the score that result in the a Y LA NEGRA BAILABA bands and orchestras playing CORDOBA 50 LA CONGA DE MEDIA NOCHE desired performance. The baton “ ZAMBRA GUANA making “music” of them, so do is to the DANZA DE LOS NANIGOS 50 LOLA ESTA DE FIESTA without 3 conductor what the painter’s brush is MALAGUENA (Original) we find the conductors of these groups to the painter. Baton technic is “grinding” out the time; the results of essential in PIANO ALBUMS clearing the way for musical expression. DANZAS CUBANAS which are due to the lack of musician- ANDALUCIA SUITE DANZAS AFRO-CUBANAS 19th CENTURY CUBAN DANCES Meaningless circular and unnecessary ship. On the other hand, anyone who has gestures only tend to confuse Price $1.25 Each Suite heard the superb performances of our the players but the competent conductor outstanding school and civic bands and will possess precise, simple orchestras will readily agree that the a clear, baton technique. virtuoso type of musicianship of the conductor of such The conductor is not to the be taken as a model, as in most instances groups was largely responsible for RCA Building Radio City New York 20, N. Y is concerned fine results obtained by those groups. he much more with himself "The than with the music, and his cheap baton Leadership exhibitionisms are to be condemned rather than encouraged. The true the sol-mi-do se- with artist in mind. Always, there are four short Symphony ends with Many conductors adequate mu- ercise judgment and play with better had conductor is constantly seeking to achieve quence which forms the call signature sicianship have failed because of their Parade drumming is responsible chords at the end of his works, which — JOHN the desired effect with the utmost taste. Broadcasting Company. What is the purpose of the of the National inability to inspire and weld their mu- much of the poor taste evident in clearly give the rhythm of Rach-ma-ni- of simplicity. The study of baton technique lor enough, NBC was the one net- sicians into fine ensembles. This is per- this type of work re- noff. He seemed a bit startled—but he Modestly SHEFTE Rapid Course in percussion sections; call! I * is one of the most challenging and fas- work which did not use its own haps the most intangible element of con- power, volume, and an open style never did say whether it was a purpose- cinating of the conductor’s problems quires what Mutual was doing? Modem Piano Playing? THOMPSON is the one which cannot be and ful signature, or merely an accident. wonder ducting and playing; whereas, concert perform- can be mastered by any person possessing of plenty of fun and humor in taught. It is the conductor’s personality, Once you know how to look for it, though, “There’s ances demand greater pianissimos, deli- songs the necessary persistence. plain as music, quite apart from the funny The purpose of the SHEFTE course Modern Course for the Piano' his character, that part of his equipment more flexibility, and his name is on his works, as cate rolls, flams, designed to make peo- to can say things; ac- and airs that are is to encourage a great number of which causes his players to respond control. Power and volume are can be. Yes, music Interpretation better trick is to watch out for end of ple laugh. The lovers to play the piano . . . LITTLE FINGERS PLAY" his every action. Even his musicians know but the percussion department tually say them, I mean. At the music "TEACHING TO necessary, Aside from the fun you’ll have in they react so to his commands The interpreter must possess a style of Debussy’s L’Apres-Midi d’un Faune, just It! to satisfy their longing to play the A book in which the beginner is given an opportunity to "Play a Tune" at the not why never overbalance the ensemble. must doing so, you’ll give yourself a wide and VERY FIRST LESSON 60c —but they do. The barrier between con- his own. He must not imitate but rather by listening before the oboe solo comes in, the horns music they love — the simpler, more Taste will be Improved painless education in music! create. The musicians become his sharply aimed little notes, happily "THE FIRST GRADE BOOK" ductor and musician seems to disappear instru- fine professional bands, and laugh; in four melodious popular music. 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When the violinist or pianist band drummers could learn much regard- they strings are so overjoyed to find them performs a sonata or concerto upon his ing this matter of playing with taste if Correction again, that they give a complete swoon. A Back instrument he can actually reproduce they would compare their band parts with Ooooooh! they cry, rushing down the scale WM. S. HAYNES COMPANY T>Te'w7 Supplementary Books the sounds as designated by the musical the original parts of the orchestra. To The Etude: Percussionists Ban Play with the exact tones of a breathless score from which he is reading. Such is Percussionists!—become tone conscious, The item from the World of Music Flutes of Distinction only music- FIRST Ravel was very fond of making SPELLE^.The GRADE ETUDES. Lays a foundation not so with the conductor; he must de- and use taste; swoon! entitled to strive for good technic, in an page of The Etude of June, 1946, SILVER — GOLD — PLATINUM book designed in technique for the FIRST GRADE Piano just plain scales do things for him STERLING writing pend upon his inner ear to reproduce the Musically play musically and listen carefully to Festival,” errs when it re- exactly tne Student ’cello part of his String “Luther-Bach nroaress in 60c tones for him, play. amusing way. The Catalog on request lessons and even though he might your own band or orchestra as you to the “Catechism for Organ” by order as the includes the pure scale of F fers Re THE FIFTY reproduce the contents of the score Quartet Avenue, Boston 15, Mass. keyboard SECOND GRADE STUDIES. upon (Continued from Page 558) octave, Bach as “the Lutheran liturgy set to 108 Massachusetts at the major, running up for about an .Designed to develop the various points tha piano keyboard for his own personal Bach does here offer cho- PIANO stopping on E on the way music.” True, Themes from of pianism encountered in the second reference, he still must be able and then Miniature to “hear rale preludes to the metrical versions of CONCERTOS. grade 75 e with his eyes” when down! well-known rehearsing the work the Kyrie and the Gloria in Excelsis, but Music Printing settings of never failed to ‘catch’ musical THIRD with his organization. Unfortunately, the “I have for Organ” Low Cost arr°"ged GRADE VELOCITY STUDIES. Fifty Humor in Music three spright- beyond that the “Catechism Small Quantity — concertos, . t' people by playing for them John etudes from the works of well-known student of conducting cannot have an the Small and SONGWRITERS • LYRICISTS Piano Solo by com- could easily be pop- is a musical version of posers orchestra, band, or chorus ly catohy tunes that MUSIC TEACHERS * 75 c “on tap,” so ( Continued Page 547) of Luther for organ Thompson from asking where they come Large Catechisms that he may hear or try over ular hits, and write to TO a doubtful in the opinion of some Bach commenta- INTRODUCTION FOURTH GRADE ETUDES. Twenty-four pro- his Naturally, I play the tunes out of AN of bar when he so desires; and though he his modernity—and may I say, for all from. in his biography B. & L. MUSIC PRINT a collection gressive studies in all major and minor friends say, pos- tors. Thus, Terry says BACH, us ‘re- context! Well, my Bldg. Prov., R. I. th® might have a piano score available for weirdness?—is another who gives their 74 Arcade fr0 ke s - (page 247) short examples ™, y 75c or dance airs—or some- of Bach Sebas study purposes, and thus peat’ the big themes of sibly they’re jigs, of Johann gain an idea of themes. One of “Bach’s purpose in it (The Third Part works FIFTH silly. Then I tell them compiled ar- GRADE TECHNIQUE. Exercises in its effect on the piano in “black and the last movement of his First Symphony thing light And ‘Catechism’ tian Bach tunes comes from of the Clavieruebung or the I this book meet a definite technical of the ‘silly’ and edited y need. 75c white,” the concept of the music as is a skeleton version of Bing Crosby’s that one AYI ranged it is preludes) was, to illustrate the Luth- ! KIVE YOU RPI- NG be- Violin Sonata; the second HP E John Thompson^---- — will sound in its intended dress has to be theme song. I say a skeleton version, the Bach the melodies and viola parts of eran Catechism by treating Purely imaginary. are miss- lifted from the violin Unlike the painter who cause certain in-between notes Luther’s familiar hymns on the Com- ‘Lark’ Quartet; and the third, of can see his creation ing. the Blue Haydn’s . reading and playing mru meniai develop under his The Crosby time is When Creed, Prayer, Baptism, r Piano Quartet in A mandments, muscular co-ordination. Quick results. Practice effort hands, or the sculptor the Day; from the Brahms SEND FOR THIS BOOK who. can model of the Night Meets the Gold of Penitence, and Holy Communion, prefac- minimized. Used by famous pianists, teachers and and remodel his clay, the the has left out major! students. No obligation. Please send me complimentary and without obligation, conductor has notes that Shostakovich his exposition of Lutheran dogma THE musical joke of all took ing Broad well Studios, Dept. 66-K Covina, California no such tangible evidence of are those the second “But the best JOHN 1 the score Bass drum for 'When the’ and of the Trinity, THOMPSON MANUALS No. and No. 2. technic is dependent upon Christmas present made, with a triple invocation before him; on the other ‘the’. Symphony, ‘Blue the form of a hand he must practice, and in our school organizations Hence, I call his a characteristic gesture of reverence. unwittingly, to the National Broad- Name conceive the contents of the score the Night Meets Gold Day.’ And it’s an exact quite MUSICIANS and proportion’ of bass drummers who do the good of- Less relevantly, he added a Prelude in hear it within Company,, through himself just as the com- any practicing in duplication! casting pleno, four Duetti for BEAUTIFUL Street except when playing Strauss. In the Christ- E flat pro organo poser intended it. To acquire such fices of Richard skill, the band and orchestra is extremely orches- cembalo, and, to conclude, the Fugue in of Signature of 1945, two important AUTOMOBILE NAME PLATE City Zone ; State course, necessitates a Rachmaninoff's Musical mas season knowledge of small. Technic used for playing bass flat known as ‘St. Anne’s’.” took place on successive E If you are a musician and want to make your car theory, harmony, ear training, whether tral broadcasts thrill every instru- drum must be studied and emphasized as “For years, I used to wonder ‘Domes- For a further discussion of the “Cate- look professional and if you want a T 846 mentation, the Saturday, Strauss’ time you drive your car and at the same time get transposition, and much Rachmaninoff his name days. On then ex- a bass drummer who plays with good purposely signed performed by the chism” preludes of Bach see The Diapason the most economical and finest advertising, perience. The study of tic’ Symphony was equip your car with these beautiful chromium the scores of string technic is at the end of his Concert! (and in many a valuable asset to the school Orchestra, over the of July, 1946 (page 18) and the excellent plated eighth notes, connected with a tie and your quartets, small wind Boston Symphony on bar between them. ensembles, quintets, music group. other of his works, as well). So one day, “The Chorale Preludes of Bach,” name swung a The day after, that book, price *7<4e WILLIS sextets, octets, or small i American Network. Send your name and address for photos and MUSIC chamber or- plucked asked him. CO. In addition up courage and Uni- to playing with good tone my by the New York by Stainton De B. Taylor (Oxford chestra is an excellent path with same work was played CURTIS M. GILLUM STUDIOS 124 EAST to follow if and fast, clean high ‘What do you mean?’ he replied, versity Press. 1942-1944) pages 58-72. FOURTH STREET, CINCINNATI 2, OHIO technic, grade and over the Columbia Sys- , one is interested in acquiring complete Sign Philharmonic, 37 South 13 Street Richmond, Indiana practical school drummers to ex- amazement in his voice. —Herbert D. Bruening should be trained Now comes the joke! The ‘Domestic’ Ms name? So I played the passages I tem. 592 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” THE ETUDE "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 593 OCTOBER, m6 Music and a long list of vatory of s ment of opportunities for organists.” ®j presenting the complete work METHOD a oists in oir UNIQUE MUSICAL THEORY THE NORTH AMERICAN GUILD OF paid-admission OL CL J„ visible A series of recitals will be master. CARILLONNEURS, comprising more than of the Students—Developed given on the Methuen organ, which BEN STAD, noted vio- for New or Advanced churches was fifty bell-musicians representing built in Germany, linist originally nearly a and founder of the Musical Educator and educational institutions in the East FEDERATION of Music by an Illustrious century ago, for the old Boston Music THE NATIONAL American Society of An- and Middle West, held their first post- being announced that its Biennial Hall. It is now improved according clubs has cient Instruments, died More than 250,000 courses sold! war congress at Princeton, New Jersey, Auditions, be held in to specifications drawn up by G. Donald Young Artists to at his summer home in on August 28, 29, and 30. The program are open to “over- Harrison, in consultation with Mr. Howes March and April, 1947, Gloucester, Massachu- featured concerts on the Class of 1892 able to meet all Carl Weinrich, and Ernest White. men who were setts, on the ’ 19th WORKS service of Tower of the se THEORETICAL Carillon in Cleveland at the time of prior audi- requirements August. Mr. Stad was English translations! Princeton Graduate College as well as M. de S. M. Morcouiller (new DAVIS, young ” also to “musicians discharged by S. ELLABELLE American tions and born in Holland in 1885 visits to various churches in Philadelphia who passed the age Negro soprano, who in August made a military service and became a protege of Valley from . . . 15 and to the Carillon Tower at wearing the uni- Ben Stad “Musical Theory” # sensational appearance in Verdi’s “Aida” while they were the Queen of Holland. piagrams Forge. limit 644 Questions and Answers—Scores of the Opera Nacional in quiz method. Leads xne with Mexico. City, form.” He studied at Rotterdam and at Brussels, An pxhaustive explicit, concise essentials. Wide margins for notes. followed this success with an equally and became concert master of the Leipzig student deftly through all FLUSHING, LONG ISLAND, the New Fully indexed. sensational opera and concert tour Philharmonic. In 1911 he came to Amer- York City suburb in which the 1939 of THE CHAUTAUQUA SYMPHONY OR- Central and South America. During the ica and in 1920 settled in Philadelphia. on the Musical Theory” 50<< World’s Fair was held, is planning an Franco Autori, conductor, pre- “Exercises based CHESTRA, of week of September 8, she made three ap- The recordings of the performances of exercise book for the practical application 800,000 square feet $50,000,000, super- first performances of five works Stimulating pearances in “Alda” in Santiago, sented study progress. Center for Chile, which closed August the American Society of Ancient In- modern Oo! la! la! Dream during the season as a- highlight of the Chilean govern- struments sale and business and amusement which will be were Elegy by Tibor Serly; “Ap- have had a very large Exercises” ... $1.50 opera season 23 These "Key to the postponement, and only four concerts work with the United Nations Educa- ment’s gala at the Teatro Mr. Stad attained great prominence daily exercises. tops in this form of civic development. palachian Sketches” by Isadore Freed; Indispensable aid for the teacher in correcting were postponed the second half, tional, Scientific and Cultural Organiza- Municipal, the director of which is through his valuable services in this field. student’s assignments. There will be sliding sidewalks, parking during Valley by Florence Anderson; Au- Keyed to the Renato Salvati. Lost cars, three ten story build- Dimitri Mitropoulos, regular conductor of tion, UNESCO, Sonatine space for 5,000 bade by Michal Spisak; and in passages in all, kind the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, is ings, underground — a Dimitri Kabalevsky, transcribed by ARNOLD ROSE, violinist and leader of Musical Leaders Say: SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York, C by What of expanded Radio City, the center of musical director of Robin Hood Dell. THE CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA, was a the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Walter Eiger. thoroughness and lucid manner in “. . Impressed by James Melton and Eleanor Steber were of Amsterdam, is to embark on a novel center of contemporary music during . sure these which will be a huge concert hall and fifty-seven years, died in London on which you have set forth the material. I am the great an acceptance in English as 4,000. project among the outstanding soloists of the venture. A second symphony orchestra September, when Saratoga Spa Mu- volumes will have as movie theater seating The August 25, at the age of eighty-three. (Signed) FRANK J. BLACK conductor of the they have had in French . . . season. is to be formed in Amsterdam, the new sic Festival presented a series of pro- EUGENE ORMANDY, will be financed by the Metropolitan Life the important •‘Work of the first rank. It embraces all to confine its activities to Holland, grams from September 3 to September Philadelphia Orchestra, has returned will be a Insurance Co. group MRS. HARVEY D. INGALSBE, pianist, subiects of music. It is clear and precise and will a 15. string orchestra of most successful tour of guest ap- help to students.” (Signed) WILFRID PELLETIER THE SILVER JUBILEE SEASON of the while the original orchestra go on A twenty-four from a composer, teacher, poet, and for more great In the hands of DELL in Cincinnati Summer Opera Association wide tour abroad. Eduard van Beinum is members of the New York Philharmonic- pearances in Argentina and Chile. His “ concise and orderly presentation. ROBIN HOOD than fifty years a piano teacher in north- must he excellent instruction ten concerts was competent teachers they the closed on August 10 with a performance the conductor of the original Concert- Symphony Orchestra, directed by F. original schedule of .” (Signed) EGON PETRI Philadelphia had ern New York, died on August 15 at books for students . . of “Madame Butterfly,” which drew a gebouw, Karel Mengelberg is said to Charles Adler, cooperated in to twenty and the tour was think most successful season and presenting doubled Glens Falls, New York. •‘Congratulations ... I have seen your books and RAPEE of its seventeen years’ record-breaking crowd. The total at- be the conductor of the new orchestra, no less than forty-three premieres. A lengthened by several weeks. they are grand.” (Signed) ERNO tendance for the six-week season was number of the works were written history. A closing night espe- JUST AS we are going to press news is audience on August 11 of 80,506. AN ORGAN INSTITUTE has been formed cially for the occasion. of Moriz Rosenthal, supply, send check or THE RACHMANINOFF FUND, Inc., which received of the death If your dealer cannot by the Trustees of the Memorial eleven thousand brought Methuen discover youth- the greatest pianists of history. He to is conducting a contest to one of money order the season’s total to over THE NATIONAL MUSIC COUNCIL has Music Hall, at Andover, Massachusetts, THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY of third of Septem- ful piano talent throughout the country, died in New York on the been designated as one of the fifty asso- organist instructor of Brahms’ will 206,000. The previous Arthur Howes, and death have a significant ill for some has received a total of seventy-five appli- ber. He had been in health E. J. MARCOUILLER, Publisher high mark was 195,000 ciations appointed by the Department of music at Phillips Academy, Andover, is celebration in the City of Baltimore this auditions from the regional years. Rosenthal was born December 18, James Melton cations for E. 42nd St.. New York 17 in 1943. Perfect weather State to membership in the National director of the new organization, whose season. The Baltimore Symphony Or- Poland. He 17 centers which have been established In 1862, in Lemberg (now Lwow) , half Commission of Educational, conditions permitted the entire first Scientific primary object will be the “promotion of chestra, conducted by Reginald Stewart, pupil, Mikuli, with various cities. This is especially noteworthy studied with Chopin’s of the season to go on without a single and Cultural Cooperation, which will interest in organ music and the develop- will join forces with the Peabody Con- when one considers the extremely high the eminent Rafael Joseffy, and with standards of requirements. Twenty-two Franz Liszt. He was an indefatigable per- made so states and the District of Columbia are former and few pianists have in different represented in the list. Auditions will be many public appearances feats astounded held throughout the fall of 1946 and the countries. His technical Rosenthal was a early part of 1947. Regional winners will the world for years. mentality and compete in the national finals, which will man with extraordinary with knowl- be held in New ’York City in the spring of wit, and was richly endowed on many subjects. Etude readers Beautiful Gems 1947. Vladimir Horowitz is president and edge An Album of him as the contributor of Dr. Serge Koussevitsky is chairman of will remember numerous articles and master lessons to = the artists’ advisory committee of the regret that time limi- =« Piano Renditions Rachmaninoff Fund, Inc. the magazine. We For tations and paper restrictions make it impossible for us to give the deserved at- BENJAMIN BRITTEN’S SONGS tention which the passing of so great an TWELVE FAMOUS discussed opera, much artist deserves. The Etude has lost a which “Peter Grimes,” valued friend, who for years supported its ARRANGED FOR PIANO London’s Sad- reopened policies with unlimited enthusiasm. Price, One Dollar ler’s Wells Theatre fol- lowing the war, had its BASIL GAUNTLETT, head of the WHAT PROGRESS ARE YOU MAKING? EQUIP YOURSELF FOR A DR. BETTER POSITION This is Your Opportunity— ! premiere on College, harmonizations Mail the Coupon Today American music department at Stephens Some of the world’s most beautiful melodies and the Berkshire on presents fine piano tran- Your musical knowledge your position and in- proof August 6, at Columbia, Missouri, died suddenly came into being as songs. This album — A of quality is important for one inter- UN »VERS ,ty EXTENSION CONSERVATORY, Dept. A-545 Lenox, of MacFadyen s 765 Oakwood Blvd., Music Center, 31. scriptions, within moderate technical demands, come today—are the result of the training you ested in further musical training. Our courses offer Chicago 15, Illinois. August it beautiful Please Massachusetts, where Cradle Song, Carl Hahn's transcendency have given your natural ability. Additional training you the same high quality of preparation which send me catalog, sample lessons and full information exquisite has regarding stu- course I have marked with an X below. was given by the A. HOFFMAN, director and Green Cathedral, Westendorf's folk-like 111 Take You Home will open up new fields, new opportunities, greater developed and trained many successful musicians DR. JOHN The of / Love Life!, dents’ orchestra, chorus, and soloists faculty of the Cincinnati Again, Kathleen. Mana-Zucca's bright and challenging income higher and teachers in the past. Piano, dean of the and standing in the musical world. Teacher’s Normal Course Voice loved The the center, conducted by Leonard Bern- Conservatory of Music, died at his home Speak's charming In Haytime. Sullivan's universally NATIONAL HOME STUDY COUNCIL Piano, Student’s Course Choral Conducting This valuable training, attended by was a past Mighty Lak' A Rose, Steinel's lovely through our Extension Public School stein. 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Members are admitted only after History of Music Mandolin was a well known con- sparkling whimsy Will O' The Wisp. narily go to waste. rigid O was the Grace Hamlin — The progressive musician, as examination of the training courses offered. Harmony BREVARD, North Carolina, Saxophone of the Chicago Opera Company, scene the First tralto in busy as he may be, realizes the value of such study We are the only school giving instruction Cornet on August 9, 10, 11 of favorites in the repertoires of great singers in —Trumpet Reed Organ York City on August 1. These stalwart music Annual Festival. The pro- died in New selections for and finds the time for it. Well paid positions are by the Home-Study .Method, which includes Advanced Cornet Banjo Brevard Music these well-handled transcriptions, furnish excellent in its grams days included a them superb for available to those who are ready for them. curriculum all the courses necessary to obtain for ithe three FRITTS, the average pianist to enjoy. Teachers will find ^ame Mendelssohn MRS. GERTRUDE ELIZABETH the Degree of Bachelor of Music. Adult or Juvenile. Young People’s concert; a to Grade 4'/2 range. In the hands of an leading women organists of pupils in the Grade 3'/2 violin solo- one of the YOU can do if too! It's up to YOU! Street program, with Carroll Glenn, accomplished performer they would prove ideal as light recital A Diploma Is Your Key to Success! No in the early part of the century, ist; which the America an operatic program, in Fellow numbers or encore offerings. the first woman to become a CitV ‘ soloists soprano, and and State were Selma Kaye, died the American Guild of Organists, Mario Berini, tenor; and a program by of Are you teaching now? have New Jersey, on July 23. If so, how many pupils contemporary American composers, at Bergenfield,
onSeruat I f > £ ° you ’ Played Little Symphony you hold by the Festival Published by THE JOHN CHURCH CO. a Teacher’s Certificate? KALTENBORN, violinist and or- J Orchestra, James Christian FRANZ Have you studied conducted by orchestra THEODORE PRESSER CO.. Distributors, 1712 Chestnut St., Phila. 1, Pa. Harmony? Would you like to earn chestra conductor, who directed Pfohl, who was also musical director of the Degree (Continued on Page 600) of Bachelor of Music? the festival. 595 'FORWARD ” "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” MARCH WITH MUSIC OCTOBER, THE ETUDE 1 1946 : .
Times Music in Biblical Junior Etude Contest
junior Etude will award three a't- you enter on upper left corner H. SinJe of your [ja 'lllcutlia prizes each month for the neatest paper, and put your address on upper tra ctive or essays and for answers right corner of your , best stories paper. contest is open to all boys and Write on one side of paper only. Do T IS INTERESTING to think that would be dashing triumphal parades ^puzzles, eighteen years of age. not use typewriters and do not have any- our melodious violins and ’cellos with minstrels and singers; for fu- drls under 8 fifteen to eighteen years of one copy your work for you. the twang- neral processions and for mourners Class A, omui came down to us from Essay I twelve to fifteen; Class C, must contain not over one hun- there would be sorrowful - Class B, ing of the bow of an ancient hunter; chants age dred and fifty years. words and must be re- or under twelve or that the mellow trombone ceived at the Junior Etude Office, 1712 of prize winners will appear on golden trumpet came from an ani- Names Chestnut Street, Philadelphia (1) , Pa., by page in a future issue of The Etude. mal’s horn picked up in the meadow this the 22nd of October. Results of contest next best contributors will re- by an early shepherd; or that clari- The thirty will appear in January. No essay contest honorable mention, this month. nets came from reeds growing by the ceive See previous page for special (OLLEte your name, age and class in which contest. river bank. put ELIZABETH A.GEST Early in the history of the Hebrew QUIZ No. t Results MUSIC people we read about musical in- 4 of Original Puzzle CONSERVATORY OF the Bible tells us, struments. Jubal, What minor scale has four flats Contest 1 . “was the father all such as handle of ‘ King David playing on Rebec in its signature? Prize winner, Class B, Ruth (age school in an attractive Soldier in His Tent the harp and the organ.” David was Hart A professional music can you express the value of 13), Wyoming. Prize winner, Class B, a skillful harpist. Moses commanded 2. How college town. (Member of the National Hymns of thanksgiving were used in Marjorie notes plus two Scott (age 14) , North Dakota. four thirty-second Music.) the harvest festival. The Feast of Prize winner, C, Alison Association of Schools of hj (jlachjs u tchinion sixteenth notes in only one note? Class A. May (age Tabernacles was full of songs of re- 11), Ohio. what century was music print- Thorough instruction for carefully selected joicing. Again we read in Psalm 3. In N.B. The most popular type puzzle re- invented? students in all branches of music under artist teachers* When playing scales, let’s pretend the scale, but not on the way up. eighty-one, “Sing aloud unto God ing ceived was composer squares. No entries direction. our hand is a tent and our thumb Don’t you think it is more our strength”; and in wrote the opera “Parsifal?” were received in Class A, so two prizes Special training in band and choir fun to ninety-six, 4 . Who were awarded in Class B. is a soldier. play “soldier in his tent” than to “Sing unto the Lord, all the earth.” does piu mosso mean? 5 . What Write for catalogue describing Oberlin’s conservatory In the scale of D,’ we start with remember that you the must get your Music was very important to the the subdominant triad thumb; 6 What is courses and its superior equipment (200 practice then, as we play E with our thumb under the palm of your ancient ‘ hand Hebrews. The temple was a in the key of F-sharp major second finger, the soldier promptly? Jams 23 modern organs, etc.). Degrees: Bachelor of goes in his And you will be more apt great school of music whose walls enharmonic rooms, 7. What is meant by* tent (which, of course, means thumb to do it correctly, too; and soon you resounded to the singing Smith Bachelor of School Music; Master of of splendid change? Music, under the palm of the King David playing on Harp (Age 11) hand imme- choirs. King David selected four Music, Master of Music Education. diately, 8. What term means as soft as pos- so it will be ready when it thousand musicians, men and women D. C. (R.) is silver trumpets to be made for fes- sible? needed on G) . Then, when we play of the Levites, for the great choir, H. Shaw, Director, Box 5106, Oberlin, Ohio. A, using our second finger again, tival use. Of course these ancient composer, vio- Frank just and from these he picked nearly 9. Was Verdi a pianist, think “soldier in his tent” instruments were not just like ours, again, so three hundred for special leadership linist or conductor? the thumb ducks and it has been hard for historians under to be ready training. There were twenty-four for the next D. to trace some of the old names; but choirs of over one hundred singers You must be ready they had three types of instruments, to Quiz to get the “sol- each. The leaders played on cymbals, Answers dier in his tent” in the right hand strings, wind, and percussion, just as keeping time for the note; 3, songs and 1, F minor; 2. by one quarter Mary as you go up the scale, but it is not we do today. The kinnor was a harp chants. The music master fifteenth century; 4, Wagner; 5, King David playing Asaph, end of Jane necessary to think about it coming on Psaltery or lyre; the nebal, a psaltery; the whose name means assembler, start- more motion; 6, B. D-sharp, F-sharp; 7, Riddle asor, rf (QuBir down. But with the left hand it is an instrument with ten strings; (Age 11) will produce nice, smooth scales with ed a group of musicians and poets Changing the letter name of a tone but just the keren Ohio (L.) the opposite you must think no twisting was a cornet; sophar, a D-flat; 8, — of the wrist nor jerking not its pitch, as C-sharp, of Music Degree, Artist Diploma “soldier in ram’s-horn Bachelor of Music Degree, Master his tent” on the way down when thumb “goes under.” trumpet; chalil, a flute. pianissimo; composer. 9, 3411 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, O. There were also bells, tambourines, BERYL RUBINSTEIN, Mus. D., Director Dear Junior Etude: Schools of Music cymbals, triangles, lessons Charter Member of the National Association of and drums of I have been taking piano years and love to play duets withi my various kinds. Letter Box eral each month. older sister. We enjoy your duets several recitals and will In the titles of some of the Psalms (Send answers to letters in care of I have played in • five in A Real Youth Orchestra In another one soon. There are are sentences Junior Etude) play like this: “To the chief our family who play the piano. CONSERVATORY From your friend. AMERICAN musician on Gittith (or on Negi- Solomon (Age 13), OW would you like to organize with a special soloist; Dear Junior Etude: Carolyn Schubert’s noth).” These Etude Tennessee CHICAGO and conduct a real words are thought to I have just begun to read the Junior OF MUSIC— symphony “Unfinished” Symphony; Espaha music music and dramatic art mean instruments. Other and I find it helps me a lot in my Offers courses in all branches of H orchestra when you are still words in Rhapsody, by Chabrier, lessons, it ambitious to begin Etude: . 135 artist teachers and other and made me Dear Junior . , , Faculty of found, mean directions for grade in school and Schools of Music school? singing. King David playing on Organistrum my piano lessons again, which I had dropped I am in the eighth Member of National Association of numbers of equal importance and music lessons for seven Chicago The Psalm (one Thirteenth century for and flute lessons have been taking Hattstaedt. President. 582 Kimball Building, The Gavlan hundred and fifty), medallions in Munich a while. I take piano studying harmony for Send for a free catalog—Address : John R. Symphony Orchestra, difficulty, placing the orchestra mother years and have been close tells us and will begin vocal lessons soon. My the pipe organ for church of Tulare, California, to “Praise the Lord with two years. I play was not organ- to our best symphony known is a piano teacher and I take lessons from also play the flute. At present I orchestras in sound of trumpet: as the Sons of Asaph. He was services and ized by civic-minded praise Him with her. Please let how I can become studying Mozart's Sonatas. men and wom- program repertoire. The printed also a me know am pro- psaltery and harp.” composer and wrote several a Junior Etude Club member. My name is From your friend, BALDWIN-WALLACE en, not by the Chamber of Com- grams included Rose Marie Murphy (Age 13), OSMOPOUTAN well written of the Psalms. often confusing I am a boy program The ancient Hebrews as to whether Maryland CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC merce, not by some well-known had music or a girl girl. SCHOOL pa- notes, giving information about the Yes, the early sing- and I wish to say I am a OF MUSIC for just about everything: Hebrews were a BEREA, OHIO (suburb of Cleveland) tron of music, but by^two for their From your friend, COLE, Dean boys them- composers and compositions. ing Etude: ROSSETTER Arts College. people, leaving us their beautiful Whiteson, Dear Junior , . , Affiliated with a first class Liberal daily work and for public Bijou M. courses selves, use. There The Etude for three 43rd year. Accredited. Offers five year courses leading to degrees. Faculty Kenneth Lange (Age 16) and This is I have been getting Four and certainly a splendid record hymn book, Pennsylvania in all branches of Music. Certificates, catalogue or informa- were reaping the Psalms, in which we I play the piano, of Artist Teachers. Send for Aristotle and gleaning N. and like it very much. diplomas and degrees. Desirable board- Gavras (Age . songs, B. There is membership in the years 1100 17) They used no official t0: . - of achievement for young read clarmet, and the Located in down- „ rt American (ninety six) . “Oh, sing to the piano-accordion, the ing accommodations. Berea, Ohio working songs, romantic songs, Junior Etude. Any one may enter the monthly the ALBERT RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Dean, a combination of their last music younger I took tap- town musical center. names musicians, and a good example Lord contests, oboe. And when I was for for bridal a new song.” And in Chronicles write to the Letter Box, or send Box E, 306 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, III. for processions through I like my music very much the name of the orchestra, of other the kodak pictures the dancing lessons. young musicians to follow. we are told all whenever they wish and some other streets; music for that “when they Junior would like to hear from which they are the conductors, banquets and fes- Etude is always glad to have all of its and as ( Names of players on next sounded lovers. page) tivals. together . . . and lifted up Junior Junior music well as the When a victory was won there readers do these things. organizers. their From your friend, Brook Mays and Company and Whittle Music Company voices on high, the sound was Beptolene (Age 14), Two requirements for membership Kathleen heard afar off.” Wisconsin were established by the boys: at least Gavlan Symphony Orchestra, resent five years of musical training, and Original Drawing Contest 1 ulare, California Mention for Original recommendation by their teachers. Honorable BERNICE FROST Soon there were forty members, all Last year The Junior original Puzzles Etude (See previous page) in a grammar and high drawing contest school students. brought some very good Koch, Helen Mae Koder, Donald Rogers, Margery Mayne Miller, Ann The boys selected pictures, so this month there is another. Charltne Mullins, Martin, Hilda Tred- Class :: DECEMBER 2nd-3rd-4th-1946 the music, started uangdon, Carole Schrenk, Janice Lecture Series and Piano Lewis Hunter, Margot Whiteside, Harding, Alice rehearsals, then announced Your pictures may be any size, done niehard way Carol Miller, Eudora what was Guerin, Esther Furst, Aristotle Gav- Lucile Phillips, in soft pencil, Barbara Jacobs, Bennie Trentman, going on ! Six charcoal, pen-and-ink, iT' May Allen. Charlotte Whiteside, TEXAS public concerts was the E. Linden, Laura Hick- DALLAS, crayon orothy Gavras, Dorothy Marianna Lester, John successful or water-color, but the subject Vaughan Shahinian, Martha Thompson Dolores result the first year. Wini- man, Janet Elmore, must, of Mari'yn Gist, Mary Gavras, Scovil, Billie course, relate in some way to Lewis, Edina Wilson, Ethelind Aubrey Everett—6206 Richmond Street Their programs included Mozart’s Pearson, Vernon Henrich, Patricia Heis- Betty music. k.u Margaret O'Daniel, Wilma Rogers, Hlecfistrars Lena Nicholson—-1003 Elm Street Follow regular rules which appear u ' Hubert Kenneth Cahill, Concerto for Erwin. Wendell Kilgore, Carter, Mar- Horn and Orchestra, T* e Doris McLay, Mathilde Dallas. above. Closing date is EIean°r Heiskell, Olson, Phyllis Peterson. Texas October 22nd and ,', Dale Francis M. Heiner, Gavlan Symphony Orchestra, Cs ° ian Scudder, George Walker, Tulare. California. results 7? u , John Peterson, Carol Girdner. Doris will appear in the January issue. Doppio, Willis Buck. 596 ‘-'amron, Martha Bruce Bottom, Jesley Actis. Angela THE ETUDE 591 October, 1946 — — — ——— — — — — —
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The distinguished organist of included interesting arrange- ber included is not only alld has valuable from a House taken through the upper portion Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio, melodies to attract technical Trinity is nts of well-known point of view, but is of interest Teachers (New York city) fi Teachers (Western) Private and over the top of a harp of the U. S. his extreme for instance, Private well known for thoroughness, pupil- Part One, con- musically as well. The Tambourine Dance cere- PUBLISHER’S NOTES th Navy Band which played at the discretion as editor. care and an This Stephen Foster’s Some Folks Do contains legato and staccato passages. the tains HAROLD FREDERICK DAVIS HELEN ANDERSON mony. This musical framing of White of Mendelssohn’s Organ a The Lovers edition Works Old Folks at Home; number of Tiny Rubber Ball is an excellent Concert Pianist occasion of Fred Monthly Bulletin of Interest to all Music nd VOICE House occurred on the A the organist with one of as Pop! etude will provide the American folk tunes such Goes in repeated notes. Fairy Bells offers Association of Interesting course—piano, harmony Vinson being sworn in as the 13th Member National M. most careful editions in regard to finger- It Ain’t Gonna Rain No cross hand exercise, Many Successful Pupils fhe weasel, and The Witch Teachers of Singing Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 4-6385 1 pedaling, and registration. Bread, Skip to My Rides Her Salt Lake City 1. Utah St., N. Y. C. Tel. 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EDITH SYRENE LISTER supple- KING MIDAS— for port that the majority of those who had Ella Ketterer's Book of Piano Pieces Delivery will be made immediately after teachers constantly seeking good There is no doubt that this new col- AUTHENTIC VOICE PRODUCTION — For Celia Thaxter, Music by Coaching Piano Solo 35 Voices, Lyrics by Mastercourse in Vocal to go off into the services of our country publication. mentary materials for their students. The lection will bring Miss Ketterer many 405 Carnegie Hall, New York City A. Strong; Teachers of public school Artists, Advanced pupils, and Teachers Teacher with the late W. 1 during the war are now back in their Fantasy in F-Sharp Minor For Two Pianos, contents, some with words, range from May — for Collaborator and Associate new admirers. A single copy may be re- and Light Opera, Radio and Concert Dr. Floyd S. Muckey 1 Four Hands ....• Ralph Federer .35 music, especially in the upper elementary Grand Warren Shaw and Endorsed by places on the Presser staff, making it simple first melodies, divided between the Studio: 167 Elmhurst Ave., Detroit (3), Mich. Music Studio, Lancaster, Pa. King Midas Cantata for Two-Part—Treble served now for delivery when published Wednesday: Troup grades and junior high school, are con- Telephone: To. 5-8413 Thursday: 309 Presser Bldg., Philadelphia. Pa. 1 possible to handle orders and inquiries Voices Thaxter-Stronq .35 THE MUSIC FUN BOOK, A Work Book for hands, to pieces in grade one-and-one- the special Advance of Publication an attractive can- at possible Let's Play—A Piano B.ook for Young used, stantly searching for more promptly than was under Young Piano Beginners, by Virginia Mont- half. Only easy major keys are and Cash Price of 35 cents, postpaid. (FRANK) (ERNESTO) Beginners Ella Ketterer .25 tata. This cantata will surely answer the LUCIA O'BRIEN LIVERETTE the handicaps of war-time shortages in gomery—When used in piano classes or the book will be published in the oblong LA FORGE-BERUMEN STUDIOS The Light O'er Bethlehem A Christmas requires no solo Several years assistant to help and material. today. above description, for It Cantata for Mixed Voices with private students, this work book format so widely used in teaching SAMOILOFF Voice—Piano Louise E. Stairs .40 the music is not difficult and is LAZAR with La Forge are: 1 The paper situation, however, is still will supplement regular instruction ma- In advance of its release from the voices, THE LIGHT O’ER BETHLEHEM, A Christ- Among those who have studied Mr. Tibbett, Richard Crooks, 1 Mendelssohn's Organ Works Kraft .75 in singable, easy range. Diver- Now Teaching in His Academy Marian Anderson, Lawrence very serious and it is not possible to have terials for young beginning pianists. 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In order — Miss Byerly relates CERTOS, for Piano practical, melodious Concert Singer — Teacher this offer should place their order for the lyrical melodies of Chopin to younger struction books and Author of "Basic Pianoforte Technique" about third grade ability should be of her clever and imaginative story with so Solo by Henry Levine—-To the tens of thou- Voice Building, Breathing, this successful teacher- Teacher of Teachers. Coach of Young Artists. the single copy available. musicians at a time when their interest compositions of Diction, Expression, Style. interest to those who have limited time much interest that we anticipate its ap- sands of piano players who are acquainted Pupils Prepared for Concert Work. Class Courses has Making an invariable practice In preparation for already been The Childhood composer. in Technique, Pianistic Interpretation, Normal for piano study and practice. 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Thirds and Shifting Hand Posi- Thus one can readily see the vast pos- There are sixty-nine delightful drawings Of course, ‘these are about of the same appropriate pictures assist the flow of each little variety of keys and rhythmic patterns. acquainted Wilmot—Technical problems of the piano tion, Repeated Notes, Phrasing, and sibilities this book has as recreational in color to illustrate the story. moderate grade of teacher Teachers wishing to become difficulty as those in Discerning the in a correlation of music, art, teachers interested in Ketterer’s works student from the advanced second grade Scale Passages. and sight reading material, as well as Prior to publication, a single copy of the first book. A single copy of the and literature. with this latest of Miss new better class of instruction materials will three and a half are the single copy rhythmic variety. this now at the spe- through grade A may be ordered now at One copy may be or- refreshing story may be reserved at collection may be ordered now at the spe- want may order a single copy to reserve single copies at the spe- concern of Mr. Wilmot in this new addi- the special Advance of Publication dered now at the special Advance of Pub- the special Advance of Publication Cash cial Advance of of Publication Cash Price, Cash Publication Cash Price, cial cial Advance Advance of Publication Cash Price tions to the Music Mastery Series. The Price, 30 cents, postpaid. lication Cash Price, 40 cents, postpaid. Price of 50 cents, postpaid. 40 cents, postpaid. cents, postpaid. of 25 cents, postpaid. 25
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of Memorizing The Piano Student’s Problem s” KOCIi Page 585) - RAYMUND (Continued from “(jrown-Up Faculty Member of the Artist continuity, all very exacting. through it broken to yourself that you must go of the Voice Department Re- The problem of -memorizing piano mu- with perfect continuity the first time. sic and performing it successfully is by member that in public playing there is CAN LEARN TO PLAY American exacting mnemonic task One of the most widely known of call far the most in only time the first. Better still, one — entire field of music. 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