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bility, rhythmic response and sight reading ability 85 experienced teachers.

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Editorial Ry&mk Piarur PMcationl ilmllL ’TOE CHOPIN FOR THE YOUNG wq(e^ disuw^ Contains a splendid selection of widely used Chopin masterpieces including the famous POLONAISE in Ab, published Monthly arranged by Leopold W. Rovenger. An excellent collec- Philadelphia 1, PA. tion of Chopin’s compositions suitable for both young by Theodore Presser Co., and adult students in the early grades. Annotated throughout. Price 75 cents EDITORIAL and ADVISORY SlAEt TSCHAIKOWSKY FOR THE YOUNG DR. JAMES FRANCIS COOKE, Editor Editors UAlC A select compilation of the best known and most pop- Guy McCoy and Ethel M. McKray, Assistant m ular Tschaikowsky favorites styled in easy to play yet Peery, Editor, Music Section artistically attractive arrangements, by Leopold W. Dr. Rob Roy r Rovenger. Suitable for recital and concert purposes, Dr. Nicholas Douty £arl W. Gehrkens Harold Berkley B ’aXJdp*ge each of these famous melodies will prove equally pop- Ruth Evans Buhman Edna Fort Elizabeth G George. C. Knck Peter HughHush KeedReed ular with performer and audience alike. Price 75 cents Pietro Deiro Dr. Henry S. Fry wrote, “Although the William D. Revelh EETHOVEN, the incomparable, once

LITTLE CLASSICS by Leopold W . Rovenger spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, PRESSER- classics presented in easy attractive arrangements. FOUNDED 1883 BY THEODORE A splendid collection of standard B yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation Contains DANSE MACABRE. St. Saens, LULLABY. Brahms, MINUET, Beethoven, PASTORALE. Scarletti. UNFINISHED SYMPHONY, Schubert, and many others. of art, is mightier than the artist.” No thought ever penned by Unparalleled as a companion book to any standard method for the progressing pianist. Price 50 cents the immortal masters of music is mightier than this. The quality SACRED REFLECTIONS ontenti Wiarcli, 1946 (S for finite innate. It eclipses the by Leopold W. Rovenger of greatness in music is both and A choice compilation of forty-one of the world’s most VOLUME LXIV, No. 3 PRICE 25 CENTS genius that produced it. When a towering musical mind, soaring beloved religious and sacred selections. Carefully edited, fingered and phrased for Piano Solo, these arrange- in the sphere of the imagination in search of an ideal, captures ments are playable by students of limited technical EDITORIAL ability, yet appeal to the more advanced performer The Quality of Great Music 123 undying beauty, a real masterpiece has been brought into being, because of their inherent beauty and worthy character. Price 75 cents MUSIC AND CULTURE it is not a contraption produced by mathematical tricks, but a CLASSICAL MINIATURES Teaching Music Means Teaching Taste Robert Casadesus 125 thing of eternal eminence—a fragment of divinity given to Man. by Leopold W. Rovenger What About That Song You Have Written? Helmy Kresa 126 of the Includes a fine variety of favorite concert and light The Rhythmic Background of the Orchestra David Grupp 127 It has been the privilege of your Editor to know many classical compositions presented in easy to play ar- What of the Shrines of Yesteryear? Norma Hyland Graves 129 rangements for the young piano student. Contains great musical creators of our time. There is one outstanding AMARYLLIS, Ghys, GAVOTTE IN B MINOR, Bach, MUSIC IN THE HOME is their reverence INVITATION TO THE DANCE. Weber, MARCHE characteristic about these composers, and that HEINRICH HEINE SLAVE, Tschaikowsky, SPRING SONG, Mendelssohn, New and Notable Symphonic Records Peter Hugh Reed 130 itself. of the really immortal writers has, at any SONG OF INDIA, Rimsky-Korsakow, and others. The Etude Music Lover’s Bookshelf B. Meredith Cttdman 131 for the art None "The work is greater than the master.'* Price 50 cents MUSIC AND STUDY time, given the least consideration to himself, in discussing his The Teacher’s Round Table Dr. Guy Maier 132 works. There has been no ostentation among these richly endowed of a dog-fight of petty and slick intrigue, we crowned a noble Latin-American Music in the United States Rae Robins 133 738 So. Campbell Ave. artists. Their attitude often has been one of reverent mystery as character who ‘nothing petty did, or mean, upon this memo- Salesmanship in Singing Irene Manning 135 ” CHICAGO 12, ILL. Well, I Do Declare! (Section III) 136 to the source of their inspiration. Heinrich Heine, the German- rable scene.’ Can the Small Organ Be Expressive? Irving D Bartley 137 - French poet, surely sensed this when he wrote, “There is cer- It was likewise true greatness which led such tremendous fig- Singing in the Elementary School Ann Trimingham 138 The Mechanical Approach to Musical Perfection Myron E. Russell 139 tainly something marvelous in music. I may say that it is, in ures as Field Marshal Brooke, Lieutenant-General Browning, The Field of the Viola William Primrose 140 itself, Its position is somewhere between the region of Vice-Admiral Burrough, Air Marshal Coningham, Lieutenant- Violinist a marvel. The Draws a Tone Kathryn Sanders Rieder 141 Questions and Answers General Dempsey, Admiral Cunningham, Air Chief Marshal Dr. Karl W. Gehrkens 142 thought and that of phenomena ; a glimmering medium between A Notable Friend of Music Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge 143 mind and matter, related to both and yet differing from either. Douglas, Field Marshal Montgomery, and Air Chief Marshal This Business of Conducting Reginald Stewart 144 Spiritual -yet requiring rhythm material and yet independ- Tedder in the glorious cause and thus brought to themselves MUSIC and ; of space. The work is greater than the master.” immortal acclaim. But note well and often that none of the mili- Classic and Contemporary Selections ent BLUE Passing Fancies tary figures of our enemy ever failed to consider themselves Francisco Vallejo 145 There exists a kind of sincerity and humility which are almost Adagio, from the Oxford Symphony of the in all fields. Self-abnegation greater than their work, and therein lay the germs of their (from “Analytic Symphony Series No. 39”) the invariable attributes great ..F.J. Haydn-Percy Goetschius 146 BOOKS Jusnita. failure. ideal its attainment is Car! Wilhelm Kern. Op. 726 149 has been one of the distinguishing characteristics of the immortal The great and always greater than In the Spotlight Walter O’Donnell 150 the individual. PROPER TEACHING SEQUENCE e figures of history. The amazing position achieved by General Ralph Federcr 151 In MerryM Englandr 'a The power and beauty which come into being in the y f 153 Dwight D. Eisenhower is due not alone to his extraordinary crucible Saviour, Breathe an Evening Blessing VERY FIRST PIANO BOOK (from “More ability, but to his innate modesty and grateful recognition of the of genius, mark a work as a musical masterpiece to be revived 75 Concert Transcriptions of Favorite Hymns”) Pupil’s musical vocabulary and playing experiences are limited George G. Steb bins—Clarence Kohlmann 154 millions who gave their all, that he might do his part in leading every time the composition is performed. Sir Edward Bulwer- to Middle C—four notes up and four notes down. Giantsrmntc (Pianorpisrv Duet)n James H. Rogers. Op. 50, No. 2 156 local and the world to a new victory of decency over bestiality. With all of its Lytton caught this idea in his statement, “Music, once admitted THE HAPPY HOUR BOOK j.00 Instrumental Compositions Pupil enlarges his musical vocabulary. Molly Flynn (Secular song— ,,,,, to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies. It Plays and reads notes medium voice) „ , , national heroes, America never has had more reason to be proud wanders on the Ei/r^aP Peterson Black 158 entire grand By the Waters of Minnetonka staff, altho playing is confined to five-finger position. (ViohA) r Introspection Thurlow Lieurance 159 than in the case of this unpretending fellow citizen, w hom many the halls and galleries of the memory and is often heard again, FIRST GRADE (Organ) PIANO BOOK 1.00 n Harold K. Marks 161 living, Delightful Pieces for Young in other lands have proclaimed a military genius greater than distinct and as when it first displaced the wavelets of the Pupil learns all the major scales, the tonic, dominant and sub- Players The North Wind dominant chords in each key. or in air.” Sidney Forrest 162 Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon. The London Sphere, com- Squirrel in the Treetop ADVANCED FIRST GRADE Astrid 162 BOOK 1.00 Waltzing Teddy Bears. Ramsey menting upon Eisenhower’s sincere and magnificent reception The quality of greatness is inherent in the master work itself. Bridges the gap usually found between first and second grade Hurricane Bobbs Travis 163 the honors bestowed in London, %vrote Beside it, the creator is dwarfed. The conception books. Ada Richter 164 of upon him of a rich and THE WORLD OF MUSIC this is he. Tlie beautiful art work elevates the creator in SECOND GRADE BOOK “This is the happy warrior ; King, the Gov- the process of its devel- 100 THE 174 THIRD GRADE BOOK JUNIOR ETUDE ernment, the Ci'ty, the Nation have been pleased and proud opment. Only in this way can we account for the fact that ! 00 Elizabeth A. Gest 176 a man MISCELLANEOUS FOURTH GRADE BOOK *00 to do him honour. A great soldier, a great leader, a great such as Richard Wagner, who exhibited many shortcomings in How Opera FIFTH GRADE BOOK Hit G. I. Joe , 00 David L er 124 heart best, a great mind. No pettiness anywhere. We have his daily life is, when suddenly elevated through Want to Be a Band Leader? Me V ; the spiritual All contain carefully Alan A. Brown 124 chosen selections each preceded by Band Questions Answered put our garlands of bays on an outstanding public figure in force of Divine inspiration, transcendently endowed with im- explanatory and analytical text with practice suggestions Voice Questions William D. Revelli 128 Answered ' Organ A ic,lo!as Dout 167 whom is no littleness at all. He fought to make men free. He mortal greatness. When Wagner was producing his wonderful and '-J procedure. and Choir Questions Answered Violin Henr s - Fr 169 Questions Answered... y R achieved his purpose by making them outlaw their pettiness works he was always a man apart from this world, mystically WRITE FOR COPIES "ON EXAMINATION" Harold Berkley 171 and personal ambitions, and pull together as a team. And he oblivious to his material surroundings. Entered as second-class 76 under the Act™ A*rch , 1884 at the P. 0. at Phila.. Pa., fighting that spirit, 9 ' C°pyr, ht promises to go on for team between Musical composition cannot be learned through ’ I946 musical theory, u. S. & ' Theodore A. and Great Britain h Presser Co., for Britain and America, between this official and that, between harmony, and counterpoint. These all-essential studies are merely m A b° New York and London, without which there is no hope of the keys through wffiich the composer gains an Republic^ ta Rica ’ insight to music BOSTON Guat^na Cuba * MUSIC COMPANY L Ha?fi ^lexfco^N.V °g Dominican duras, 1Ca r 3 U3 AT/, Salvador, £ > Panama, Republic Spain and all SISk j^ of Hon- peace for us or our children or for civilization. Indeed, Eisen- itself. 116 a year They enable him to study the technic of all great BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON 16, MASS. V'Jl. |?.75 in Canada and CX«P‘ Guianas. com- Single copy. Price * 3 year in all other 25 cents. countries. hower in the past years strode this narrow world like a Colos- posers, from Bach to the present. Our fine friend, the late master his mind was really and truly big. In sus because the midst teacher of composition, Dr. Percy Goetschius, knew this and in 122 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" THE ETUDE MARCH, 1946 123

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music critics have little regard for com- comments were similar to Experienced Music and Culture the work itself that his have a feeling that the reason their great Music and Culture other composer. posers who those about a work written by some successful is that masterpieces have not been the The great Italian Church composer, Enrico Bossi, have not been exploited. Exploitation and pub- a new work in an office works while writing and rehearsing but unless the woi k itself his classes licity are most valuable, has and In his work made interminable quota- adjacent to that of your Editor, was so absorbed in it is not likely to hold a tions. In greatness in some form it con- communications to your Editor he always that he was wholly unaffected by a procession of as- grasp upon the imagination of a large pub- stressed this point. Once he stated, “Music is not pass through his room. siderable sistants who were obliged to of time. Teaching Music Means Teaching Taste calculus, trigonometry, more than a short period Of course a or geometry. A symphony is The following day he returned for more practice. Start- lic for not a development of tune may capture public favor and, in these a mathematical problem. When ing to play from his notes, which had been copied jingly an architect designs a magnificent super-radio communications, tour the world building he and his overnight by a member of the office staff, he said, days of associates must be masters of technical months, only to crash to earth like an over- detail, but the "Non ho inai scritto guesto!” (“I never wrote that.”) for a few inspiration for the whole never poorly made airplane. One rarely hears it came from a book of When he was assured that he actually had written the worked and mathematics.’’ America now has many magnificent original composition, he exclaimed, "E di vero impossible, ho again. A Conference with Richard Strauss once told us, with his workers who, like MacDowell, Sousa, Car- “/ the first step in instruction great modesty, dimenticato tutti!” (It is impossible. I had forgotten young music T^O MY MIND, music that he was annoyed Grofe, and others, have is, by those who thought that a it completely!”) penter, Hanson, Nevin, had a not the assigning of ‘pieces’, or the cultiva- composer could sit down and contrive training and splendid inspiration, tion of technique, a masterpiece Gustave Mahler told us that he once came across fine technical and A but the inculcation of good merely because he had had fine better known a century hence taste. technical training. He the manuscript of a portion of a movement he had whose works will be than Whatever digital powers the student develops, had a reverence for inspiration they have their and was conscious that written for a symphony and which later was so new they are today. That is because the quality value will be no greater than the value of the (^udacleAud when working he was controlled by a force far their composers never have music to which he applies them. Thus, greater to him that he had no recollection of writing it. There- of great music, and ex- he should be than himself. “Composition,” he said, "is not illusions that they are greater taught to appreciate Distinguished French Pianist and Composer a shoe- after he used part of it for his famous Eighth. hibited any silly than agreeable sounds and worthy maker’s job. One cannot peg out music.” music. There is a tradition that Schubert often was unable their creations. How to accomplish this? A more modest man than Rachmaninoff “I never lived. to identify some of his published pieces as his own. “ Music wakes the soul and lifts it high and wings it have been much interested in a ‘method’ developed Once, when we were discussing part of one in of his con- When audiences went into raptures over his works he with sublime desires and fits to bespeak the Deity." Switzerland, by a Mile. Bourgeois, the results of SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY ROSE HEYLBUT certos with him, he obviously was so absorbed with was embarrassed and surprised. —JOSEPH ADDISON

Robert Casadesus needs no introduction to readers of The Etude. Born in France, of a distinguished musical family, Hr. Casodesus showed his extraordinary gifts at a remarkably early age. At three, he was moved to tears by the music of Mozart, whom he did not "understand," certainly, but for whom Want to be a Band Leader? he felt an instinctive appreciation. After studying at home and with eminent masters, Mr. Casadesus launched upon a notable career in which he has always found time to combine extensive concert'll!nq A MUSICAL QUIZ with teaching. His platform appearances and his broadcasts have made his sensitive art a household word to millions of listeners, and his pedagogic activities include master classes at the Fontainebleau School of Music and at the Berkshire Hills music colony. Making his home in Princeton, New Jersey, L _Man A. Mr. Casadesus is a friend of Professor Albert Einstein, whose violin playing he likes to accompany. With his wife, Mme. Gaby Casadesus, he has presented many concerts of two-piano music. In the OU’LL have a band, after you answer the ques- following conference, Mr. Casadesus discusses the fundamental elements that must underlie sound tions below. Each can be answered with the name instruction. — Editor's Note. Y of a musical instrument. As for the musicians themselves, you’ll agree they'd be an unusual aggrega- portant, she will have a taste for good Here I must permit myself a digression on the tion. How many of the following questions can you tone. teacher-student relationship. I believe heartily in ‘in- answer correctly? “In second place, then, comes the cul- dividuality’ and ‘freedom of opinion’—but in this case, 1. The Barber of Seville, in Rossini’s opera, plays tivation of finger dexterity. The best way those freedoms must be limited to the choice of a what instrument? to achieve that is by aware and intelli- teacher. Once the pupil is in an instructor’s charge, 2. In the popular nursery rhyme, what did the cat gent practice of scales and the estab- his ‘freedom’ stops. He is bound to follow his master’s play while the cow jumped over the moon? lished exercises (Czerny, Hanon, Pischna, instructions respectfully and conscientiously. If he can- 3. In Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Mikado,” Nanki-Poo Stamaty and so forth) . This part of the not, he should go to a different teacher. The student carries what instrument while disguised as a wander- work is enormously important, of course, who refuses to play a work because he does not ‘like’ ing minstrel? since no music can be made without ade- it; who refuses to carry out instructions because he 4. Supiyawlet, the girl in Kipling’s The Road to quate technical facilities for playing it; does not ‘agree’ with them is not harming his ‘free- Mandalay, plays what instrument? still, it must always be kept in its true dom’, but his self-control. So then, even if he doesn’t 5. The blowing of what instrument.-; crumbled the place—the means to the end of making ‘like’ to study Mozart, let him do it anyway. (Here, an walls of Jericho? music. For this reason, I believe it is a interesting experiment may be made. Put a paper cover 6. Arturo Toscanini is a virtuoso on what musical great mistake to separate technical study over the front page of the volume, and paste a bit of instrument? from the study of fine ‘pieces.’ As soon as paper over the title of the work, and let the pupil find 7. What instruments are played by the trio in the the pupil has sufficient command of the his own reactions to the selection without knowing who famous painting, “The ’76?” Spirit of keyboard to encompass easy works, he wrote it! This duplicates what happens on the concert 8. What instrument did Benjamin Franklin invent ? should begin to work at them. platform, when works are presented anonymously, as 9. In Michelangelo’s statue, what does Moses holci ! encores. Very often, works that are not ‘popular’ when 10. In his early years Oliver Goldsmith, author of Introducing Mozart announced, are enthusiastically received simply as Vicar of Wakefield,” wandered over Europe playing initiated into the music. I have done this many times with Army Hctoriol “First, he should be the works of Service Photo by ChoolncL what instrument to eke out food HOW OPERA HIT G. I. JOE money? easy pieces (Little Preludes, Inventions, Chabrier.) 11. What instrument supplies the musical accom- and so on) of Bach. And next he should paniment to the mariner’s ROBERT AND GABY CASADESUS tale in “The Rime of the learn to know Mozart. Now, Mozart pre- Mozart and the Appoggiatura Ancient Mariner?” sents a number of problems! Mozart, “Further, Mozart can be made entirely delightful to How 1 Opera Hit G. I. Joe which seem singularly happy. According to Mile. alas, is not so ‘popular as he deserves to be. Why? the young pupil, if his works are approached correctly. Bourgeois, the first step is to accustom the ear of the That is hard to say! For one thing, he is not too The first hint is to get hold of an edition that is as What musical instrument is depicted in Renais- little pupil to a beautiful, musical, agreeable tone; and much played at concerts, and so the pupil has fewer little ‘edited’ as possible. Mozart, like sanceA paintings Bach and Scar- by Cpi. dbcwicl r£. Wtetyer as played by angels? U to apply such a tone to absolutely everything the child opportunities for cultivating his acquaintance. Also, latti, indicated no nuancing whatever. Much of the lcal tones sounded at „ . ^“ the burial for Poor plays, be it only a five-finger exercise. The emphasis, Mozart can sometimes have the disappointing result ‘feeling’ that has been edited into Mozart, absolutely PENINSULAR Cock Robin. What furnished BASE HEADQUARTERS, ITALY:— the music? you will note, is placed on a desire to produce beautiful of sounding easy without being easy; consequently, spoils him. The more opera was made possible in cities like cleanness, clearness, and truth After they Leghorn for tl mUSiCal illStrument cleared the thousands of mines and did Mother Hubbard's sound. I convinced that this that tons civilian population as well as dogpljy am approach is a sound the pupil feels that he has spent much effort on go into Mozart’s works, the less sentimentalizing of debris, Opera came Allied troops. back to liberated Leghorn one by our own experiences with our three-year-old something that does not ‘show.’ And, finally, there is and ‘effectiveness,’ the better How was the debut of opera greeted in he will sound! Also, it is recently for the first time in four Leghorn? years. The Angeli Insistent soldier daughter. Naturally, she is accustomed to hearing so much misunderstanding in the presentation of a greater stimulation to the pupil’s imagination Company demand (and it is the job of Sp< to of Rome with some members in the group piano playing and watching the ‘motions’ cial Service to see that soldiers get ANSWERS that cause it. Mozart, .that the pupil may not get a correct im- study the music rather than an editor’s apochryphal borrowed from Rome's Royal Opera what they wan- Company sang forced another two-week Equally naturally, she began imitating those motions pression of him. indications. (As a matter of fact, we do not before 20,000 opera season currently shov sinia gi know ac- American troops in a two-week season. and banging on the keys. While she curately ing in Leghorn’s Goldoni Theater. This time was a baby, we “The first problem is, what work of Mozart’s shall what effects Mozart wanted—he did not indi- Bitterly anti-fascist, Baroness Elinor Beniamii II8H 'H Angeli, man- Gigli headed did not disturb her efforts at music-making! But when the pupil begin with? In nine cases out ten, the cate them, and no else the star-studded cast of singers. aim of one has a right to supply some- ager of the company, a Vienna-born Italian ei citizen, Out of the 20,000 tioops she became three, we called her attention to the dif- answer is, the easy Sonata, in C major. And there a thing about which he knows so little!) accused the who heard the first opera dJBH 'ZI Fascist State of having curtailed opera ference between banging and producing more than seventy-five per cent had never uoossng tones that are difficulty arises. The Sonatas seem simple, but in “In working at Mozart, the pupil may be puzzled singing in many of the smaller towns. “Under heard opei by Fas- sung before. In a poll delightful to listen to. Then we showed her how to hold reality require the interpretative powers of a great vir- the extensive use of appoggiatura cism,” said the Baroness, of the many Peninsular Bas amid '01 —small-written notes “the few pets of Mussolini her little hands, Section units how to loosen and rotate her wrists, tuoso ! The young pupil may manage the notes, (not conducted by the Special Service aj^T -6 without grace-notes) which precede the formal notes were given all opportunities and young singers Sec had tion, it was discovered (sasscxS ieatsnui) in order to call forth such a tone. Now, it is amusing actually penetrating the work. And so he leaves his themselves. In general, no chance.” that more than half of tt boiuouubh '8 the secret is to accent this pre- to watch her play with seventy-five per cent of men had ajy b puB sunup the piano. She sits there, en- task unsatisfied. A better plan, I believe, is to begin ceding note—not the note of the proper Italy’s traveling opera companies, once purchased tickel omx 'L rhythmic beat. prevalent in again for the second opera tranced, striking two notes, one with her thumb and with the Variations, the teacher selecting those of the Placing the pre-war days, season. oiiaouojoiA '9 accent on the appoggiatura is the first step have practically ceased in war-torn other with Typical of the first night comments ssadumij ujoq-s.uiBH the her forefinger, relaxing her wrist, and collection which are most within the compass of the in understanding Mozart’s phrasing Italy, due to the difficulty of securing was the opinio S and, of course, transportation, taking great care that her tone shall sound ‘beautiful’! student, both technically 1 don,t know whafc iVs ofueg and musically. And if the gives the music new meaning. food and lodging. It was only through the sponsor- hntTi^ a11 aboi but I like it. When I hit When her studies begin, at four, she will already be pupil doesn’t ‘like’ them? No matter! Let him study ship of Peninsular Base the States I’m going to th JBjino '8 “Again, pupils are often warned against using Section Special Services that Metropolitan prepared in two immensely important the and see if I can tell elements: she them notwithstanding! It will be training that very pedal in Mozart, the difference.” atPPTd Z the reasons being, (1) that Mozart will know how to produce a good tone and, more im- likely will be appreciated later. wrote for the 124 "FORWARD .tBjmo T clavichord (Continued on Page 128) MARCH WITH MUSIC “ MARCH, 1946 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC THE ETUDE 125 — » ,

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The Rhythmic Background of the Orchestra Written? David Grupp, who has styled the greatest percussionist in What About That Song You Have been with the world, began his professional career at the age of eleven, A Conference playing the drum in a theater orchestra in New York City. He earned this engagement because the theater's manager was im- An Interview with pressed with the child's native talent; he accepted it because ^t)auid (jrupp his family needed his extra earnings. At this period of his career, he went to school in long trousers rolled up; rolled them down Chief Percussionist, NBC Symphony Orchestra at three o'clock; and hastened to the theater, where he played ^JdelmuUmj ^/\re&u from three until six and again from seven to eleven. At the Conductor, National Broadcasting Company same time, he began the study of the piano (on which he is a fluent performer), and a year later organized and conducted Music Editor and Chief Arranger, lning Berlin Music Company his own boys' orchestra. He reserved part of his earnings for his musical education, and studied theory, harmony, piano, and SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY GUNNAR ASKLUND all branches of percussion with private teachers. In theory, he SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY ANNABEL COMFORT worked under Ambitzer, the teacher of the late George Gersh- win. Mr. Grupp has worked in all branches of music. He played marking the rhythms. Further, their rhythmic func- ‘special effect’ instruments, largely of Spanish or South piano professionally a few years; did a solo turn in vaudeville, tion varies with the nature of the group in which American origin, such as the gourd, the shakers, the playing the xylophone (under the name of Jack Davis); made records; did motion picture recordings; and played percussion they are used. Let us look at these various uses rattles, and so on. Some percussionists develop into Here is Mr. Kresa's biography in his own words . Editor's Note. at weddings, parades, club functions, in theaters, and in radio separately. specialists on one or two of these instruments, but the since the inception of broadcasting. He has been chief percus- great need to-day, especially in radio with the variety studied "I was educated, and music in Dresden. My parents who were Czech, brought me to this country sionist Symphony Orchestra since organization of the NBC that The Drummer "Gives the Lift" of demands of its varied shows, is for the all-around in 1921. I was then sixteen. settled in I horse We Milwaukee, and worked as a milkman, and drove a was founded and speaks with enthusiasm of his work under man who is able to adapt himself to good work on all and wagon lor three years. evenings spent eleven- the dance band, the percussionist carries a My were playing in a movie. I played from seven until Toscanini. Today his son, Martin Grupp, plays percussion under “In the percussion instruments. In radio, the day’s work fifteen, and I delivered milk from twelve-thirty A. until spare M. ten-o'clock in the morning. With what him. In addition to his orchestral work, Mr. Grupp serves as greater responsibility than might be thought. The most time I had left, I continued my musical studies with Arthur Music. may include performances with a dance band, a radio Shattuck at the Milwaukee Institute of conductor of many of the NBC shows. In the following confer- famous and accomplished solo player (violin, saxo- It was here that Margaret Rice, a concert manager in Milwaukee, became interested in my work and script show, a brass band, a symphony orchestra, and ence, Mr. Grupp draws on his vast and varied experience in phone, and so forth) may be spotlighted when he plays arranged a scholarship for me. a bit of solo work. After putting in such a day of work order to outline for readers of THE ETUDE his views on the a chorus alone—the technical jargon for this is ‘taking "It was while I was studying at this conservatory I that became interested in popular music. I was not rhythmic background of the orchestra. — Editor's Note. (to say nothing of the training that makes the put- off’—but it is the drummer who inspires him by accu- a very good milkman, as I couldn't high pressure people into buying milk. When I went to collect for ting-in possible) one is sometimes startled to hear an fervor, above all, the balance , the milk company, I gave impromptu recitals on the pianos in the best homes on Milwaukee's East Side. racy, insistence, and by eager-eyed youngster say that he means to learn the Other milkmen would tell the housewives of the butter fat content of the milk; but I would give a free of his rhythmic beat. The soloist is what we call ‘given drum because it’s easy and takes little practice! recital instead. This is where I found out .that the majority of housewives liked popular music. They liked a lift’ by the drummer. In the theater orchestra, the the music of Irving Berlin. His songs called Remember, What'll I Do? and All Alone were very popular •ITH the remarkable increase of interest in percussionist helps with the tempo, both for the or- then. the ‘young’ orchestra and the school orches- chestra and for any singing or dancing groups on the A Good Teacher Necessary "I started to arrange for Robert Tams who had society orchestras in Milwaukee. I told him that I wanted tra, it is helpful to gauge the value of the stage. In symphonic work, the percussionist is respon- “How, then, is this eager-eyed youngster to equip to go to New York, and become an arranger. He gave me letters of introduction W! to several large pub- percussion section. Young people may sometimes feel sible not only for rhythmic but also for color effects. himself for the professional percussionist’s average lishers and Irving Berlin was included in these. I decided to try the biggest publisher first. This was De Hi His Studio* that the radio, the percussionist must provide all of these day’s work? First of all, the Irving Berlin Music Company. One of their arrangers was ill, and there was an opening for just one HELMY KRESA drums and the ‘noise-makers’ are easy instru- In he needs a good teacher, one week. I started as a music copyist, and did vocal orchestrations, and routine arranging. After a short time, ments, requiring less study and practice than the services and, in addition, must know how to adapt the who is a fine musician as well as a fine performer and Irving Berlin became interested in my treatment of the themes; and I have been arranging his songs ever others and leading to quick results. Now, balance of his work to the mechanics of broadcasting. preceptor. After he knows his business, he can learn at work and I can offer some suggestions. Lyrics are nothing since, making all of his piano parts, vocal orchestrations, and dance orchestrations. Feeling the need to could be farther from the truth! real state of For example, he must learn how much the microphone a great deal by observing the effects and methods of often written to a melody; but only in a few cases The keep on with my musical studies in New York, I selected Tibor Serly as a teacher. With him I have studied affairs becomes evident when we examine the function will accept. The striking of a cymbal must be done others; but he can’t begin by himself. Instruction in composition, orchestration, and conducting.” has a melody been written to a lyric. This might seem of the percussion group. Certainly, the percussion in- so that it does not sound like a crash; a xylophone percussion is as vital as in any other branch of music. to favor the melodic side; but it actually does not struments are not the melody-carrying of must not sound like wood and hence its player must He can’t ‘pick up’ harmony, and he can’t it with work out that way. The composer has only the notes ones the do orchestra; they invariably serve as accompaniment be very sure of where to place his instrument and percussion. Under the care of a good teacher, then, of the scale to work with while the lyricist has the HE ASPIRING popular song writer must take Singers or background to the various solo instruments. Still, how to select and vary his sticks for volume. Again, the first thing is to master the fundamentals of drum- are the only people using verses today, as the entire gamut of the English language. A band will into consideration a few important points about dance they have the best opportunity of producing since the tympani are of low frequency, they must be ming a knowledge of the instruments a band leaders discarded them years ago. play three choruses of a song: but only one in most and — and com- how a popular song should be written. The title made to sound like bass in- pletely fluent use of the sticks. Here, the ‘trick’ is T cases is the vocal chorus, which means that the tune must be fresh, and have appeal. The lyric and the Music and Lyrics struments of mellow tone balance. As we all know. Nature has given greater must stand on its own feet. melody must fit, and appeal to everyone. If it is a Check the “perfect marriage” quality, and not like a flexibility to one part of the body, as compared with between your lyric If you have written a melody that you and your rhythm song, it must be up to date. WU1 people be and melody. Here is the most thunder-drum. How is the others; in a right-handed person, the right hand is common pitfall of the lyric writer have confidence in, help him along by able to dance to it? WiU the bands play it, and will amateur. Many people can write a good tune, percussionist to learn these stronger and more manageable than the left. The first and then pointing out where you feel the rhymes should be singers sing it? Is the range within reach of the aver- they spoil it by “puttin’ words to it themselves.” things? Chiefly, by experi- task of the drummer is to develop his less flexible They placed. Make him feel conscious of the mood of the age voice, and can both men and women sing it? Will try hard, and buy rhyming dictionaries, ence—even more, through hand so that both are absolutely evenly balanced. and after tune. He should “feel” the melody as you do, and he He the first four measures entice the listener, and is the weeks of labor get lines that fit the music. The writer sound and aware musician- must listen for this as alertly as the singer listens to should “dig”, as we call it, to make his words fit title quickly discernible? The auditor should not have probably enjoyed writing the tune but what a job the ship. his tone quality. Unless both hands are entirely even, your melody. Once you are satisfied with it and the to wait for eight measures to find out what a song lyric turned out to be. The writer always seems “In other words, the per- a falsely accented rhythm occurs. There are to melody is completed, don’t change a note here or a number is about. know that there is something wrong with the lyric, cussionist is responsible for of exercises, of course, for developing evenness and there to fit the tune to his phrase unless it improves Let us look at your song. it the hurdles Can jump and that it should be improved; but he never quite a great deal more than hit- balance, but since no two pairs of hands are quite the melody and the song. This is fault of the just mentioned? so. a common I hope Why handicap your song gets around to fix it, and he never will because he ting a drum. He is first and same, it is necessary for the does the amateur. He will individual teacher to giving limitations. “cheat” on the melody to make by it The average girl singer with not have the knack. The same problem exists foremost, a musician. His prescribe them individually. with the lyric fit, even band vocal though it is a dangerous procedure, a has a range of an octave and two tones. lyricists who “put a melody” to their own song instruments are not ‘easy’ “In second place, my experience poems. and apt to ruin the song. has shown me that If your melody has a range of an octave and five tones The obvious answer to the difficulty is collaboration! and his task is not ‘easy.’ it is absolutely necessary for the good percussionist to For instance, if the melody construction is AABA. she could never sing it. You may say that there have Ninety-eight per cent of all of the These are helpful facts for songs that you meaning that master another instrument—a solo instrument, prefer- been great “hits” with wide ranges, such as Smoke hear were the first eight measures are repeated, written by teams, and by that I mean one the school-band drummer ably the piano. In playing the xylophone then a middle strain of eight measures (or release as and vibra- Gets In Your Eyes. This is true; but a lavish Broadway person wrote the music, and a second to keep in mind. person wrote it is phone, it is indispensable to know chord structure and production, technically called) is written, and the song is “Roberta”,, featured this song, and it be- the words. “The chief need, the completed with-or profes- piano offers the most direct practical means of came so popular that all of the orchestras and rather the first eight measures are good sionally, is for the all- repeated at the learning it. Again, familiarity with melodic instru- singers used it. Even now it takes a good singer to do Writing the Song end. This gives a thirty-two measure around percussionist. Other ments helps develop chorus, and if keenness of ear—an absolute es- this song justice, and one of the reasons is because you count the measures in a popular Look at a large stock of popular sheet music, instrumentalists are sential and you song you will spe- to the tympanist who must tune ahead, in one of its difficult wide range. Since you have no Broadway will not find many songs with find that it will have thirty-two the words, and music cialists on their own in- key, while the orchestra plays in show to use your song after measures. Most of them although another. Absolute day day to create a de- written by the same person, I know run this length, of only three there strument; it is something pitch is, of course, the most desirable for mand for it, you had better are even exceptions first five the tym- watch the vocal range of composers who have the genius for both, to this rule. The and they or six measures to talk about if a pianist, panist, but that cannot be controlled. Relative pitch your popular song, and see that it is not too wide. are Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, of all the AAA's should be identical, and Noel Coward. while for instance, is also fluent can be acquired, by intensive practice Check the verse, and see that the range B should be written in The and study, and is not Look around for someone who is interested a contrasting mood. in get- lyric writer and flexible on strings. But a knowledge of instruments (together with ear-train- greater in the verse than it is in the chorus. The ting a start in popular must work to make his words fit the tune song writing. An advertisement the percussionist must ing) or you will hear be a helps develop it. In general, I think it best for chorus is the important part of a popular song, and in a newspaper will sometimes produce a song that has been changed every wonderful eight master of more than a doz- the young percussionist to wait it would be foolish to have a greater voice range in results. measures (to fit the lyric) will sound a while with ‘spe- A partner should be chosen for his talent and it and out of proportion. en instruments—the snare cialization.’ Let him prepare himself for the verse than in the chorus. The verse should be sincerity. It is much more all-around fun to work together on an drum, the bass drum, cym- short, and well written; qualifications lyricist may you percussion work—and in training for this, let him put which help a equal basis, and the lyric is just as have some good titles, and THE PERCUSSION SECTION WITH MR. GRUPP AT THE MARIMBA important as bals, bells, xylophone, vi- his chief energies into strengthening song when used by singers on the air. If it is long the music. Start to write your melody around them. Many the elements he ,, braphone (or and drawn out, too much precious a ut tune marimba) lacks. air time is wasted, There are no set rules how a song was written because a lyric writer had a writing team One of the battery of a dozen types of instruments which have much to do with castanets, tambourine, tri- and, as a result, it has slight chance of good title. Play “After the all-important fundamental being used. should write a song; but I have seen around with the title, and get the training has many of them marking the rhythm. angle, gong, and many other same feeling that been acquired, he will find that he still you are ( Continued on Page 128) has quite 126 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC’’ MARCH, 1946 'FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC THE ETUDE 127 — ’ —

music) this should arrange their own of the othe expense. UCH of the romance, the drama, and the his- Music and Culture that the significance be your only a number of problems to master. The a question blocked out. It is not only answer advertisements urging torical interest surrounding the lives of the young drummer will find that his chief Teaching Music Means of«m, Don’t acquaintance with all your song to these adver- master composers has naturally centered in to his making you to send M need is no longer confined own time that the of making it at such a people have no intention the cities in which they lived. Monstrous Nazi cruel- around and but tisers. These drums; he also needs to get of each is ap- Teaching Taste individualities—the style— you to get your songs pub- ties, which made World War II the most revolting in learn what other drummers are doing. prac- of helping while the pupil is history, had no relation to the lives and works of preciated. Thus, or into motion pictures as they of the Shrines of Yesteryear? all the varied lished, What He should hear and see learn, say, the ticing Mozart, let him also impressive looking contract great creative writers except that they happened in performances he can—and the word to (.Continued from Page 125) o promise. The of Chopin—certain a theater once blessed with art, culture, and music. Valse in A minor send you by return mail is stress is varied. His heart may be cen- Mazurkas—the that they Chopin’s Preludes and you to pay money In years gone by, untold thousands of Americans tered in the dance band, but if he is to only a “come-on” for of Schumann’s ‘Album made pilgrimages to certain musical shrines, many all-around man, he simplest pieces your songs printed. As these develop as a good which had no pedals, and (2) that Mo- great care must to have of the Great Franz Liszt for the Young” (although legitimate of which have since been pulverized. Not all the rec- Weimar, Home must also keep himself currently posted natu- advertisers are not publish- zart, under such circumstances, since Schumanns ords are lost, however. While the grand ducal city of be exercised here, a third class printing as to the newest effects, methods, tricks, indicated no pedaling. I disagree concert ers, they will do rally really fit for the Weimar has been damaged, still the home of the great well. ‘easy’ pieces are an exorbitant and gadgets in the other fields as Unless one plays on a at job and charge you fee. with that view. a child begins his studies Franz Liszt remains intact. Here many of the greatest virtuoso!) If receive your fee they will harpsichord, one must adapt himself to these pieces After they their Must Be five, he should be ready for pianists of the last seventy-five years went in The New Gadget song away in their files, as they [?ij ^l^jorma Idyicind Cjraued the instrument he does use. And Mozart put the youth fountain of music. Investigated by the time he is eight. doing to drink at a given the advantages of will have no intention of anything may safely be of study will provide Weimar has so long been associated with the names “Such a program also “A good example of the constant devel- the modern piano! However, the pedal, more about it. They may want your for the beginner-pianist— of Goethe and Schiller that its importance as a mu- found in the finger-facility they will put a melody opment of percussion is to be in Mozart, must be used with under- than that. lyrics, to which overlooked. the but it will do a great deal more sical center has sometimes been In comparatively recent use of the tunable standing. Since his music is largely con- fee, mostly prepaid or C. 0. D. It will provide him with the foundations for a middle of the nineteenth century the provincial little tom-toms. The moment such a novelty trapuntal in nature, it must never be al- though blockbuster bomb, dropped during Allied sense of taste, without which the German city of 12,000 inhabitants achieved a fame a responsible percus- of a has appeared, every lowed to blur the pattern. It may be used to raids, exploded but a short distance away. Some of the fleetest fingers will be of small benefit denied its larger rivals. In 1849 it became the home it! Again, sionist must find out all about harmonically—that is, for the duration of Liszt manuscripts and letters, once on display, are still him. The only reason for playing is—to of the most popular musician of the time—Hungarian- in order to keep up with the demands the harmonic development in any given in a safety vault. Other than that, the house make beautiful music.” born Franz Liszt, who was associated, off and on, with protected of the xylophone group, the young per- changes. phrase, and until the harmony Weimar for nearly forty years. remains about the same as in pre-war days. Even the cussionist must deepen and perfect his in the Sonata in F major For instance, Questions In his dual capacity of composer and director of piano is in tune! No. 34, Marien-Strasse is only a few study of harmony. The tympanist must measures be Band (K. 332), the first four may court music for the Grand Duke of Weimar, Liszt squares distant from the heart of the city. It is beauti- perfect his ear. In assigning these ‘musts’ of pedal in lightly pedaled, with a change brought the city undying fame. He constantly en- fully located in one corner of the Stadt Park, through the various percussion players, I do to the fifth measure, where the melodic line Answered couraged new and unrecognized composers by pub- which runs the Ilm River. not wish to give the impression that the next phrase. If the ascends to begin licizing their works. Among his “discoveries” were they are exclusive! Even if the young pedal is either omitted or incorrectly ap- A Liszt Museum What About That Song Wagner, Schumann, Berlioz, Saint-Saens, Grieg, and player never touches xylophone or tym- Mozart’s music becomes dry—and plied, WitLm 2). KeJti others. Weimar soon became the center of the “new” Liszthaus, or the Liszt Museum as it is now officially pani, he should nonetheless extend his enormous pity, since that is, of course, an ^ German school, which included poets, philosophers, known, was presented by the Grand Duke to the Abb6 general musicianship. faulty presentation of Mozart spoils Written? a You Have painters, and novelists as well as musicians. Liszt following his return from Rome in 1869. Although “Perhaps you have sometimes won- Metal or Wood Cabinet one’s taste for him! the gift was in the nature of a peace offering, it never dered exactly what makes one percus- place, great attention must “In third Q. I own a metal clarinet, but my teacher An Undying Fame ceased to afford Liszt the greatest satisfaction and Page 126) sionist better than other. He’ll never put given the left hand, or the ‘accom- ( Continued from advised me that the wood clarinet has a be to has In Liszt experienced his greatest pleasure. It was the first home he had ever owned. this true?—H. K.. Pierce, Weimar triumph, ‘feeling’ into the melodic interpretation paniment’ in Mozart. Many of these ob- better tone. Is "Hofgarinerei" (Court Gardener’s Home), as it was Florida. and here also he met defeat so bitter that for a time of the Mendelssohn Concerto; so, if his bligati are merely the notes of the chord, tune. he abandoned his beloved music to take minor orders then called, was originally the dwelling of the Grand beats come in at the right moment, what into formal accompaniment. trying to convey to him about your A. Yes, your teacher’s advice is correct. formalized a it the into in the Roman Catholic church. His devotion to Wag- Duke’s head gardener. Before was given to mu- difference is there? The answer is that the work That title phrase may throw you a the tone of the metal clarinet is If these are overemphasized, While sician, the house redecorated the ner, whose spectacular music at that time was caus- however, was and re- general musicianship makes all the dif- can be made to sound like a scale. The rhythmic and melodic pattern, and quite satisfactory for the beginner, the tically criticized, along with his untiring efforts to furnished under the personal supervision of the Grand will come to you quite ference! The outstanding percussionist answer is, to play the left hand (in such rest of the melody clarinet is recommended for the ad- wood produce the best in contemporary music, made the Duchess and her daughter. is invariably a sound musician. His ear passages) as lightly as possible, merely naturally. vanced players. A metal clarinet is more broad-minded Liszt a target for scurrilous attacks in The visitor is admitted through the kitchen and the and his rhythm are perfect. And he does indicating the chordal pattern. Also, such Your lyric writer will have given you durable and requires less care; however, which details of his private and personal life were not servant’s room. On the upper floor are the large music impart interpretative value to his work formalized accompaniments should be the start of a song, while you follow be metallic and the the tone is inclined to even spared. room, the Master's bedroom, and a tiny dining room. it he finishes by the quality of his beat. Thus fol- taken very legato, with the hands and through with a melody, and instrument less flexible. Although Weimar’s musical importance ceased soon Many of Liszt’s personal belongings are still lying lows that his ability to supply the ex- fingers close to the keyboard—never with the lyric, or you may have a few meas- after the death of Liszt in 1886, the fame of its im- where he left them, including his swords of honor actly suitable quality at the exactly suit- high rigid hammer strokes! ures of a catchy tune which gives him A Summer Music Camp mortal son lived on. By the time World War XI broke presented to him in much the same manner as keys able moment grows out of his knowledge a line of thought. Finish the chorus first Q.—Karschin, my thirteen-year-old daugh- out, Weimar—now grown in population to over 51,000 of a city are today bestowed on distinguished visitors. of the score he plays. The fine percus- Scale Passages in Mozart verse. and then write the Why write a is much Interested in your articles FRANZ LISZT ter very —had long become accustomed to entertaining great On his desk are his glasses, the gold snuff box, and sionist must have a deeply studied knowl- all lyrical percussionist. ” reads “Also, many passages in Mozart consist verse at you may ask? For rea- of the “modern She In the days of his youthful triumphs with numbers of international visitors. According to reports, gold cigar-holder presented to him by Napoleon III. edge of scores, and a clear emotional, or of scales. These passages should be taken sons you need a verse to introduce or music with ease and hopes to continue piano and percussion instruments after grad- American soldiers stationed in or near Weimar daily In the Music Room, with its colorful Algerian drapes, interpretative, pattern for their perform- evenly, in a musicianly manner, and “set” the chorus. If your lyric thought is uating from high school. In the mean time visited Liszt’s home. is concert is ance. Many of them had become fa- a Bechstein grand near which a metro- everywhere evidenced, in striking contrast to the other never with dynamics or ‘feeling’! In self explanatory in the chorus, a verse she would like to spend her summers in miliar with the composer’s music through his Hun- nome. But it is in the tiny adjoining bedroom that rooms. During his last years, Liszt gave away such music of the full Romantic period, we are is not essential; but try to imagine a study at a school where both piano and per- Three Important Qualifications garian dances and rhapsodies, to say nothing of his the religious nature of the musician is disclosed. Here vast sums of money that, at his accustomed to make a crescendo in as- thirty-two measure chorus spread out in cussion instruments are taught. Would you death, his estate had please tell us of a school that teaches these ever-popular “Liebestraum.” a picture of St. Francis of Assisi hangs above the shrunk to small proportions. "In auditioning young percussionists, I decrescendo print I It does not take the cending scale passages, and a over three pages. am afraid it would be instruments in summer where she The house, it was reported, is practically intact, al- bed; on the table is an ivory prayer look for three points. The first is genuine book. Frugality is visitor long to go through (Continued on Page 168) when playing descending scales. That is would look rather skimpy. eligible to enroll?—Mrs. M. L., Meridian, musical ability. By that, I mean an in- very fine for Romantic music, but not for Mississippi. herent feeling for pitch and rhythm, a ‘trick’ is to scale pass- Notating the Song Mozart! The play A. I would recommend that your daugh- comprehension of musical values, and a ages as simply, as flowingly as possible In writing the melody on manuscript ter attend the National Music Camp at communicative ability to make music and without rhythmic accent (although paper, especially if it and is a rhythmic Interlochen, Michigan, where ever)’ facil- ‘sound.’ Without native musical endow- here an exception must be made in the song, you may need the help of a musi- ity and requirement in the way of teach- ment, a percussionist is as valueless as case of passages where scale work is cian. Most people with a fair musical ers are available for her advancement. a scratchy fiddler! In second place, I forte; here a slight bit of rhythm may be education have no trouble in reading As you probably know, the National for flexible look adaptability to the vari- introduced—but never heavy scale accen- rhythmic notation values correctly; but Music Camp is the largest of its kind in ous types of bands, orchestras, and en- tuation.) they have a difficult time to figure out the country, and complete semble maintains a groups in which the candidate “But the technical and structural as- the time values of their own songs. Be symphony orchestra, band, and all other might be asked to play. His dance pects of Mozart are never so hard to mas- sure that your song is correctly notated, organizations vital to the students prog- rhythms might be perfect—but if he has ter as his perfect interpretation. And here or you may hear an entirely different ress. However, there are other excellent no knowledge of^ymphonic color effects, it is difficult, to offer advice ! Some people tune than what you anticipated if an camps located throughout the various if he is short on his percussion instru- have the innate feeling for Mozart, and arranger starts to work on what you states, and it is possible that you have ments, or if he can’t quite manage solo some have not. For purposes of study, gave him. His version, and the result such a music camp in your area. passages, he is useless in radio. The flexi- however, and for the building of taste, he may be entirely unsatisfactory to you. Below the melody ble all-around man knows symphonic must be approached. And so the best line indicate the Instruments for a important chord changes. scores and can produce any shade of counsel is—to approach him with the When these Small Ensemble appear on color they demand; he can supply the greatest simplicity possible. Never allow the manuscript any good pianist should Q. I am fourteen years of age and have been crisp rhythm and ‘lift’ of the be able to play your song dance- him to become heavy or sentimental! studying the piano for three and a half years. from this “harmony lead sheet,” In band; he can subdue himself to the needs “Often enough, taste is built by allow- but school I am organizing an ensemble. At only good results are present we of the script-show; he can ‘solo’ pupil obtained if you have the following instrumenta- on any ing the to become aware of con- tion: have a piano part of your song. Two violins, one trumpet, one clarinet, percussion instrument in any of these trasts in style. Thus, at the same time If you piano, can arrange and drum. Will you please advise what it yourself it will save other orchestral groups. There is always a de- that the beginner is mastering the Inven- you instruments we should add and in what the expense of having it arranged. order?—E. S. E., mand for such a man—but he has to tions of Bach and the Variations of Mo- I Maryland. would advise you not to arrange offer a great deal it in a A. The more than the mere zart, he should be given some simple complicated following instruments should be manner; but make it a pro- manipulation of drum-sticks! It requires work of Chopin and Schumann. It added as listed: Four violins second is a fessional job, and present for your song in parts, musicianship and art to furnish the great mistake, I believe, to keep a student one or two violas, violoncello, bass its best possible light. If you must pay rhythmic background of the orchestra.” so closely with the works of viol, flute, oboe, bassoon, two French one composer an an anger (most songwriters cannot horns, and tuba. 128 MARCH, " '' FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC 1946 FORWARD MARCH HATH MUSIC THE ETUDE 129 for its nuancing of line is admirable and stress of sentiment. If Making Music Live In The Home Music in the Home avoidance of he Music in the Home obliterate the memory of Beecham’s does not “Music, a Priceless Heritage.” By Dr. Sigmund Spaeth. of this suite, he nonetheless com- rendition Pages, 30. Price, 10<.‘ in war stamps. Publishers, The our respect for his musicianly play, mands Magnavox Company, Fort Wayne 4, Indiana. HE DOMESTIC record companiq^ Those who encounter trouble reproduc- ing. It has been a part of the historic policy of The Etude have not quite attained their normal English-made recordings, where the bass ing Music Magazine to encourage the use of the phono- stride of 1941, but the year 1945 surely will find this set completely T is heavier, to records as an educational adjunct graph with approved showed a surprising increase in the output Notable in matters of reproduction. New and their liking especially the home in which children in the home, still prevailing re- of new sets. There are Respighi’s suite, “The Birds,” is based on The Etude are exceedingly susceptible owing, are “coming up.” Little ones production problems in the industry, music written originally for the harpsi- old to musical surroundings and greatly influenced by we are told, to shortage of man-power and It contains five chord and clavichord. sec- selective oppor- recordings the music they hear. Parents have a materials, so if you find certain Prelude (after Pasquini), in which Records tions: tunity in having records in their home record libraries recently issued are not available at the mo- Symphonic includes interludes the composer drawn they deem advantageous for the ment in your favorite record shop we sug- of just the music the other selections; The Dove (after Music Lover’s Bookshelf from children to hear, uncluttered by musical trash. Dr. gest that you leave your order for them (after The Hen Rameau) ; The de Gallot) ; adroitly suggests that if children of all coun- because it will be a matter only of a short Spaeth Nightingale (after an anonymous English duplicates of such items will tries learn their native tongues “by ear” without time before the and The Cuckoo (after Pas- composer) ; acquainted with the turn up. Space does not permit us to discuss conscious study, why not become has orchestrated this music quini) . Respighi in detail the worthy releases of the past few language of music, with all its romances, its thrills, pointing up the charm and admirably, hu- Later it will fit months, nor—for that matter—all the re- and its dreams in the same way. Any book here it stylistic elegance. There mor and giving taking up the practical study of reading reviewed may cordings that are deserving of some mention. them for secured from scores aiming to be purely descrip- be Bernstein: “Jeremiah” Symphony; The are few music with enthusiasm and understanding its struc- THE ETUDE MUSIC tive music that delight as much as this one MAGAZINE at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, conducted ture. Nitika Balieff, the inimitably droll master of Defauw, who recorded this work over price given plus by Leonard Bernstein, with Nan Merriman does. ceremonies of the famous Russian vaudeville, “Chauve- postage. plays the a decade ago in Europe, music his after this manner: (mezzo-soprano) . Victor set 1026. Souris,” used to introduce show of style that is all to the In the few years that he has been before with a crispness “Rooshin langwidge ver’ seemple langwidge, seemplist the reproduction is unusual in its the public, Leonard Bernstein has proved good, and langwidge in the world. Anyone can speek Rooshin tonal naturalness. himself a versatile musical personality. As clarity and langwidge. In Rooshia leetle bitta baby only four Isle of the Dead is based a composer, his style shows individuality Rachmaninoff’s years old speak Rooshin!” There are now thousands painting which was greatly with a good feeling for melody. Although on Boecklin’s of children who are getting their symphonies and last two decades of the nine- harmonically, Bernstein follows in the wake admired in the opera in the juvenile period. The child of other days Some regard this as the by ()3. ^Ibiereclith (3acbman of Stravinsky, Milhaud, and other moderns, teenth century. often had to wait until maturity to hear them. It is work of the composer, this symphony nonetheless is romantic in finest symphonic yet generally acknowledged by teachers that the children character has precluded feeling. Despite its Hebraic connotations, it its lugubrious the who have had fine musical surroundings in their Lawrence Gil- makes very little use of Hebrew material. widest admiration. The late homes, progress very rapidly in later study. Charles the work had “no aspira- The three movements convey a mood in re- man has said that Marie Gounod, composer of “Faust,” in his autobiog- since there was none in lation to Jeremiah. The last movement tion, no elevation” raphy pays tribute to the lullabies he heard at his In this jazzatomic, comic strip age, when a premium yet Rachmaninoff “ex- Childhood Fancies which is particularly moving makes good the picture, and mother’s breast and in his early childhood for inspir- has been placed upon distortion, as well as upon half- with beauty and feeling upon the use of the human voice. Miss Merriman patiated ing him to want to become a musician. “Sing Mother Goose.” Music by Opal Wheeler. Illus- baked work of amateurs, it is really a thrill to find chose.” Koussevitzky gives sings her part splendidly, and the com- theme, which he Dr. Spaeth’s excellent book emphasizes that listen- trated by Marjorie Torrey. Pages, 104. Price, $3.00. a book with such sane but imaginative illustrations, poser proves a vital spokesman his music an eloquent performance which for own this ing comes first. He says: Publishers, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. done by someone who has taken the trouble to learn music. No one interested in music of our will undeniably please those who admire the are settings of the same old “This part of a child’s musical education is the These new Mother Goose to draw exquisitely. An adult not inoculated with the time should miss hearing this work; it has music. responsibilty of his parents, just as definitely as the immortal doggeral verses done in excellent taste by virus of the insanity of this mad age of confusion may something to say and it says it in a persua- There is a sense of musical fitness to Tos- Opal Added to this is large of the first steps in speech. With the phonograph and radio Wheeler. a number have a real home picnic in taking a kiddie through sive manner. performances of Rossini's overtures loveliest color illustrations seen in canini’s cooperating, there should be no difficulty in selecting we have many a this fascinating dreamland. It is one of the finest Haydn: Symphony No. 98 in B-flat; The first choice when placed that makes them music for infant listening, whose permanent effect year, making the collection one of the most charming books for tots we have yet seen. Marjorie Torrey’s NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by on records. His earlier version of “The Bar- and delightful books for little children your reviewer JENNIE TOUREL AS CARMEN can hardly be measured. It is greatly preferable, how- drawings are rare masterpieces of child life. Arturo Toscanini. Victor set 1025. replaced here by a more ber” is happily ever, that parents should make this introduction has known. Every page is a joy for young and old. Toscanini offers us a rare musical experi- dynamically compelling recording, in which themselves if possible. ‘But I am not musical myself,’ ence in this, one of Haydn’s finest sym- the conductor restores a note at the Fun in Music noted says the average parent, ‘and know very little about phonies—a work of the composer’s richest opening of the Allegro that he omitted in music. What can I do?’ The answer is quite simple. “The Victor Book of Musical Fun.” By Ted Cott. maturity. A previous recording, by Howard his earlier version. This is the second plastic Why not use the child as an excuse for a bit of musical Pages, 169. Price, $1.50. Publishers, Simon and Barlow and the Columbia Symphony, was set released Victor and it reveals fine by self-education? Anybody at all can learn to sing the Schuster. lacking in the insight to the finer points of clarity and balance throughout, with an un- nursery rhymes and folk-tunes of the world, and this Ted Cott, well-known radio personality, has told in the music. Pew conductors have the discern- usually lifelike projection of percussion. is the material that is obviously best for young chil- a few words in the title, ing the whole purpose of this perceptions in Haydn that the noted Some may experience difficulty in reproduc- dren. What difference does it make if the performance book, which he has been working upon for years. These Italian has. is Maestro This borne out in the ing the drums without distortion; if this is not very good? The baby is too young to check are “A brand-new collection of musical quiz games, playing here of the deeply moving slow movement, a don Philharmonic Orchestra, direction of Sir Thomas proves true we recommend that said listeners have up on musical standards, and by the time he has anecdotes, and cartoons.” The work is fresh, original, movement that Tovey has said might be called a Re- Beecham. Victor set 1014. their pickups are looked over. Most users of crystals grown old enough to be aware of pitch and time and and quiem Mozart; here, ingenious, and should provide plenty of amuse- for Toscanini plays from the Schubert’s Sixth Symphony seems too near to Haydn ignorant of the fact that the crystal cartridge should quality, perhaps the parents themselves will not be so ment and be a source of a great deal of heart. The seriousness of Haydn’s intentions is for its it curious in- noted own good. Indubitably, has charm, but it be changed every eighteen months for best results. bad. Many an adult might find a stimulus to musical formation for any music lover. in the tragic implication of the introduction the also has an operatic flare which is to not appropriate to Although this set provides a rare musical treat we performance, instrumental as well as vocal, in the Mr. Cott has included a number first movement. Even the allegro that follows does not its form. Sir Thomas’ performance is one of “gracious of humorous mu- cannot but protest its release in an automatic se- opportunity to play and sing with an enthusiastic sical stories. The book, however, is concern itself with the usual Haydnesque high spirits distinction;” his affectionate handling of its melodies no frivolous, hur- quence; for few will wish to listen to four overtures child, enjoying a parallel development of taste and riedly gotten of but instead is full of dramatic fervor. is is most persuasive in ensuing up batch stale material. It represents The minuet our admiration for a and a ballet excerpt, content, so similar in style and ability. no means all gaiety, for there is if a surprising amount of musical research of a serious ty a pensiveness in work which played less well might not hold our at- in succession. “The music of infancy is necessarily simple and the Trio. The recording of this set is well contrived tentions. nature. There never was a book like this and many Prokofieff: Alexander Nevsky—Cantata, Op. 78: direct. It should have a strongly marked rhythm teachers will find it considering it emanated from the studio from which Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1; The Cincinnati a very practical aid to “needle'' Sym- The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene conducted by and a melody that is easily remembered. Words of the the interest of dormant pupils. the orchestra broadcasts. The final side of the set con- phony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Goossens. Vic- Ormandy, with Jennie Tourel (mezzo-soprano) and type have long proved their tains a truly magical rendition of the Scherzo from tor set SP 10. Mother Goose popularity, the Westminster Choir. Columbia set 580. Mendelssohn’s Octet. Respighi: The Birds Suite; The Chicago and there is no limit to such material.” — Sym- Operatic Arias; Vic- Directing Vocal Groups James Melton (tenor), with Later he stresses that music is fun, Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6; and Kabalevsky: phony Orchestra, conducted by Desire Defauw. Victor noting that: tor Orchestra, conducted by Paul Breisach. Victor set Colas Breugnon Overture; The Pittsburgh set 14. “Even when regular lessons are started, which may “The Chorus Master.” By Leslie Woodgate. — Symphony SP 1013. Pages, 41. any age from three or four up, the Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner. Columbia set 585. Rachmaninoff: Isle of the Dead, Op. 29; and Vo- be at recreational Price, $2.50. Publishers, Ascherberg, Hopwood & There is an earnestness of purpose and a deeply This symphony does not measure up to the com- calise, Op. 34, No. 14; The Boston spirit should continue to be emphasized. There is no Crew, Ltd. Symphony Orches- moving sympathy with its subject that makes Pro- sense whatever in turning music into drudgery at poser’s First and Fifth. The opening Largo is almost tra, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky. Victor set 1024. any The English have a way of saying much in a few kofieff’s “Alexander Nevsky” one of the greatest mod- too long for its own good, and the other two move- Rossini: Overtures to The Barber of time. If a child has to be forced to practice, by threats telling words. Mr. Woodgate’s book has Seville, La ern Russian works been brewed of our time. The music depicts the or bribes, the chances are that he should not ments own a brashness suggestive of a street gamin. Gazza Ladra, La Cenerentola, II Signor Buschino, and be over the fires of experience. American readers will story of the Russian defense of Novgorod against the There are some who think the Largo one of the com- Passo a Sei from William Tell; The NBC Symphony playing at all. A good teacher can turn the early profit by perusing the thoughts of the British Teutonic Knights of con- poser’s most impressive symphony he has Orchestra, conducted by in 1242. In 1939 a Russian film lessons into a series of games, consistently making movements Arturo Toscanini. Victor set the ductor, of whom the noted English master of the same name was produced for which Prokofieff written to date, and its accompanying movements en- DV2. pleasant music, and letting the scales and exercises baton, Adrian C. Boult, says “His wrote the music. name is a household joyable musical fun. Mr. Reiner proves himself a Goossens’ performance Deeply moved by the story the com- wait until a real enthusiasm has developed. Parents of the “Peer Gynt” music poser word for the greatest possible beauty of performance expanded his music for the film a year later persuasive spokesman for this music; his direction is can also do their share of making the practice period and a formidable technical equipment. into this ' admirable from every score. Mr. Ormandy and his orchestra are a real pleasure.” standpoint. He points up the Your reviewer was particularly impressed by the splendid, Miss Tourel brings her humor and impishness of the latter movements more genuine sincerity to The book concludes with a list of two hundred eom- part. chapters on “Stick Technique” and “Ensemble.” At tellingly than Stokowski did. The overture on the last postitions suitable to be played for children in this the end of the is Mr. Melton’s book a phonetic pronunciation and side of the set is best performances II mio tesoro a sprighty, joyous little work. RECORDS are in important formative period. Included are the names translation of the Mass into English from “Don Giovanni” which should be Schubert: Symphony No. 6 in C major; The Lon- and O Image Angel-like and of one hundred and twenty-three Fair records. valuable to many conductors. from “The Magic Flute.” 7.30 " FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” MARCH. 1946 THE ETUDE "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC 131 —

Music and Study

Music and Study

A Young People's Forum “Sorry, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Music regular Round Table, we are having a Latin-American young people’s forum this month; but if you promise not to be shocked, not to talk back, not even to suggest, you may Table . . Round sit on the sidelines and audit. . But The Teacher’s In the United States one peep from you, and out you go!’’ Immediately up go a couple of adult hands. “What’s this, eh, someone object- A Wise Mother ing?” Whereupon Mrs. Alice Thornburg All this time I have been noticing an Smith, a teacher from out our way (Cali- Conducted by old (I mean, young) and very attractive fornia) and a frequent contributor to friend, Lois E. (California) chuckling to The Etude, stands up to say that she has “high-signing” me . . herself, and . so something she wants to get off her chest. at the first chance I call out, “Yes, Lois, "Okay, but make it snappy, and it better take the floor!” Lois, still chuckling, rises be interesting!” . . . But listen to her— Water to say: intended, through long and short wave broadcasting, eight hundred persons,” he said. it’s more than that—it’s positively fas- “I could hardly restrain myself when for a much larger audience than can be assembled, not “There are four main concerts during the year,” he cinating. She’s taking up the cudgels for Mus. Doc. you were talking about the mothers, be- only for people of the United States, but as a defnon- revealed. “One of these is given on Pan American Day, your dads. . . . Says Mrs. Smith: only today I found this scrap stration the people of the Latin-American countries. April 14. That’s when the Secretary of State, the Chair- “I am sure the young people present Noted Pianist cause of to paper written to me (years ago) These concerts have served to arouse in the people of man of the Governing Board, attends personally and will agree with me that fathers have when by mother greater interest and understand- delivers an address. On four different occasions the been too much neglected in our discus- and Music Educator I was eleven, one time when the United States a left house before I development of Latin America, as President of the United States has addressed the Gov- sions of piano lessons. When we speak of she the came home ing in the cultural erning Board on the occasion of the celebration of our music we always think of mother from school. ... It says: ‘Re practicing; expressed in its music. you will please try very start, Army, Navy, and Marine Pan American Day.” first—she starts us out taking lessons, this week practicing From the the the sensible way, that is work only DR. LEO S. ROWE Corps Bands have cooperated most enthusiastically Pan American Day is observed annually on April 14, supervises our practice, ‘eggs’ us on, maladjusted, heartbroken pianists (and on the parts of each composition that Director-General of ihe Pan American Union, with the Pan American Union in bringing the music the date on which the resolution creating the Pan watches the clock for us, gripes at us for their parents too) because successful ca- are D. holding you back. From now Washington, C. of Latin America to the people of the United States. American Union was adopted at the First International our laziness, praises us for our efforts, reers were denied after years of grueling on you will only for that kind of purpose has been to make Latin-American Conference of American States (1889). Pan American gets us off to lessons and recitals looking work and sacrifice. Isn’t it wiser to say, be timed practicing. The main sit the United States, and demonstrate to Day has been proclaimed by the President of the our best. Yes, praise the mothers! But “Yes, I’d like very much to make trium- If you down and romp through a N A PERSONAL interview with Dr. Leo S. Rowe, music known to there is a real desire in the twenty-one American Republics and has been set aside how about the fathers? Some fathers are phant, thrilling appearances in recitals piece, the clock will stand still: but while Director-General of the Pan American Union, he the Latin-Americans that better acquainted with the as a commemorative symbol of the sovereignty of the worth a dozen mothers. When a father and with symphony orchestras, but that you are actually working out the smelly I disclosed how greatly the musical interest of'North United States to become is interested really in. Correspondents with this Depart- parts, getting cultural contribution of the countries south of the Rio American Nations and as a voluntary union of all in he digs is not highest goal. My tiptop am- them as good as the rest America, and particularly of the United States has ment are requested to limit Letters my of in the West Indies. one continental community. The day is widely observed “One my students says that if she to One Hundred and Fifty Words. bition is to learn as much as I can about of the piece, the clock will step right been aroused in the music of Central and South Grande and concert. Dr. in schools, civic associations, women’s clubs, commer- pauses to turn a page in her early morn- music, to play as beautifully as possible, along with you. Try it, and surprise America and how great a factor the Pan American “How many attended your most recent ing practice, Father yells out, gleaming eyes and quick re- cial organizations, and other groups in all of the mem- ‘Don’t stall. and to teach others the secrets of technic yourself—likewise your teacher—please Union has been in contributing to that interest. Rowe?” we asked. With ” Get going!’ Another father, when his .” signed ‘Mother.’ inaugurated in 1924, are sponse, he replied: ber countries. and interpretation that I’ve learned. . . The Pan American Concerts, daughter got stage-fright at a recital, the concerts are given in the With real pride, Dr. Rowe further continued: “We To set a goal like this is a long step to- Well, laugh all you want; Lois’ mother entering their twenty-second year. While the concerts “Close to 1500, but when said, ‘Go out there and show ’em you doesn’t mince words, but she does are presented at the Pan American Union, they are Hall of the Americas, we can only accomodate about have had outstanding artists from nearly all of our “I’d like to tell you,” continues Mrs. ward insuring a happy, normal, well- know know the dinged piece,’ and she did! . . . life . how to get excellent results. You Polley, “about my own son, fifteen years adjusted in music. . . ought More than one father sits patiently, to hear Lois play! (she’s old: After giving a recital last spring his eighteen now). counting and drilling, counting and drill- teacher presented him with a copy of Those Lost Years ing! Chopin’s Waltzes; immediately he fell Just here a young lady arises and Two Mozartists “Two young sisters I once taught were the spell Chopin, . . under of read much speaks shyly. . “Louder, please!” (that’s Two young Nashvillians (Tennessee) a always prepared to play their old pieces. , about his life, his yelling) practicing, teaching me .... Ah, now she’s audible. . . . girl and a lad, are signalling to simul- This was inexplicable until I learned that me methods, and so forth. Since then we “I’d rather not tell you my name, but taneously; I gallantly offer floor Dad enjoyed a Sunday evening recital. the to have noticed a decided change in his I just want to say that you’ve already Miss B. P. He always requested old favorites. M. who surprises us with this: playing; instead of brilliance he is culti- answered one of the questions I came to “I’ll "When a youngster says, ‘Daddy loves wager that many readers of The vating a soft, singing method. Asked why ask. I, too, am fifteen years old and have Etude this piece,’ I know there will be no need were very glad to see your article he has changed, replied he that he was a very fine teacher. I play such pieces on Mozart in the June issue, and would for a pep talk. . . . And do fathers’ eyes concentrating on producing the finest as Mendelssohn’s Rondo Capriccioso, shine and chests bulge at recitals! like to see more pages on Mozart. I would tone he could, listening to his own play- Mozart’s Sonata (K. “Finally, who writes the checks? 300), Schubert’s appreciate it if you would name a few of ing, not playing mechanically or sloppily. Impromptu “Hail! the fathers!” Op. 90, No. 2, Beethoven’s Mozart’s concertos for piano and orches- He added that it is much more difficult Sonata Pathetique, and so Cheers for Mrs. Smith and the dads! forth, and I tra which should be heard by concert to concentrate in this way, but that he also work hard at technic and We’re certainly unanimous on that point; theory. audiences. Also what numbers would you gets more much enjoyment out of the During the first three years of study, I suggest a and can only add. . . . “Here’s to our pianist to have on an all Mozart piano than ever before, and expects re- had such poor teaching that the whole program?” good old Dads. . . . Bless ’em!” sults if we will be patient. time was completely lost. Has this bad Another Mozart article appeared in “The of source his inspiration is de- training hindered my playing, compared The Etude Fifteen Years Old for July. . . . Did you see it? rived from Chopin’s teaching his pupils with what others of my age are doing? I As to the concertos, Another adult good heavens! there member is frantically to concentrate on their playing so in- realize that only the truly gifted have are twenty-eight in all, most of them wig-wagging us.'. . . It turns out to tently as to be eliminate long hours of me- much hope for the concert field today, Mrs. masterpieces. Artists ought to play every H. M. Polley, who hails from the chanical practice. . . . Chopin himself but I would like to aim to become a really one of them for our audiences. It’s an opposite corner of our land, Connecti- only worked three hours a day at the fine concert artist. . . . You have shown everlasting stigma on the American pub- cut. . . . “What’s on your mind, Mrs. piano. me that it will do no harm to aim so lishers that they have printed no more Polley?” “My son has a wonderful teacher, long and as I hold on to other, higher goals. “If than a half dozen of these glorious works. you will permit me, I’d like to say, we have ambitions for his becoming a But what I’d like to know is—is it too These ‘Hail to our are of course “musts” for serious young people’ . . . for, after concert artist. So far he has surpassed late after all those wasted early years?” students and all, they are the ones pianists . . . the Concertos who take the les- our expectations.” 1 should say not! Think of it . . . in sons, practice D minor K. 466, C major K. 467, C regularly, and try hard Wouldn’t any young person be happy you are now fifteen, already able to study minor K. year after year to improve technically to receive such respect and admiration 491, D major ("Coronation”) some of the great masterpieces of piano and musically. I K. 537, A major K. 488, E-flat major want you all to know from his mother—and for the finest of music; you are intelligent (anybody can K. 482; that the mothers appreciate your efforts, all accomplishments, concentration. and now an earlier but mag- But see that!) you have a good teacher, you nificent concerto 271 and how! . . . Some of the happiest mo- I feel like warning Mrs. in E-flat major K. Polley not to set have the opportunity to study. . . . The is at last ments in a mother’s life come when son her sights too much on determining that whole available. universe is before you. Hitch your or daughter plays a piece sensitively Like all single 'composer it is or her son shall become a concert artist. wagon to that star, programs, and hang on desirable beautifully . . . and to build with when son says, ‘Gee, That is a dangerous fixation for all con- anything can happen! an all-Mozart list . . . And happy Mom, I’m so glad you contrasting long and bucked me up and cerned. Better just be happy that he is traveling to you along and short, serious encouraged the way! gay, dancing me to keep up my music dur- learning so much about music, making (Note: The and singing numbers, not a above youthful Round Tabler ing those strenuous high school years, be- solid, fine difficult task with so- progress, and above all devel- is not a figment of my so many superb imagination natas, cause it means so much to me now’ .... oping the habit of intense concentration. rondos, fantasias, and so on from She lives near New S. is shown the direction Well, York City but which The U. Marine Band under of its leader. Captain William F. Santelmann mother just glows all over with During the long course of experi- to choose. With at least two so- my doesn’t want me to disclose pride and happiness. even her natas or ence I have met so many disillusioned, initials.) preferably three, as the back- MARCH, 1946 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" (Continued on Page 165) 133 132 "FORWARD MARCH W'lTH MUSIC’’ THF. ETUDE a l man. He also he was a “dollar- -yea toured the old musical ia l ion lore to search out the Lakes Naval Training 1 I Music and Study began country with the Great Station Y VOICE is just as good as hers ! ought to Music and Study Latin Americans m cel which had survived among and drew millions of dollars into the Govern- be singing in that spot. I can sing better Scientific socie les Band tain regions of the United States. drives. I ment’s treasury on Liberty Loan A year after than that, I know can.” Latin-American Folklore Society, the Texas M countries appear at these concerts.” among them the American he received the rank of Lieutenant How often have we singers, students, amateurs, and Folklore Society, his discharge Com- The Pan American Union is the international organi- Folklore the Southeastern Society, mander. Honors and decorations were showered upon professionals, had this thought as we listened to some zation of Hispanic studies at the Uni the twenty-one American Republics. The and the departments of the Royal Victorian Order well-known artist. We have heard strained high notes, and Caliior- him. He received of Great Union, established in 1890, has as its purpose the pro- versities of North Carolina, New Mexico, Britain, the Golden Palms and Rosette of the French tremolos and other flaws in the artist’s technic and motion of peace, commerce, and friendship between encourage these investigations and to nia—began to the Cross of Artistic Merit of the have felt satisfied we could do a better job. Often said, it is Academy, and Acad- the Republics of the American Continent by fostering studies. Today, it may be publish folklore Sciences and Literature of there is some truth in this thought, but rarely Singing Latin-American emy of Arts, Belgium. enough Salesmanship in economic, judicial, social and cultural relations, and possible to map the distribution of Sousa composed more than one hundred the whole truth. Singers with regular engagements cooperation. marches folklore in the United States. through merit, even though some of and all of them are marked with an individuality un- secure them us own. One of his most famous may find this difficult to understand at times. What is Music Education in the Americas Concerts of Latin American Music in the mistakably his marches is it,” ask ourselves, or she was the Stars and Stripes Forever, (composed in 1897) it, then? “What we “he has In a personal recent interview held United States with Charles operas. I don’t have?” L Jrene cinnuicj He also wrote ten comic His works include that Seeger, Chief of the Music Division of the Amer- systematic attempt to promote an f M Pan In 1924, the first more than fifty songs, six marches, two overtures; The answer to this, I believe, lies in a careful analy- ican Union, the following highlights were revealed: interest in Latin-American music in the United States Star of Motion Pictures, Stage, and Concert twelve suites and a number of miscellaneous compo- sis of the purpose and meaning of singing, which is “Of all the forms in which music may be employed was made by Mr. Franklin Adams, Counselor of the sitions. His vast library of music was bequeathed the same whether one sings opera or popular tunes. in the building of friendly relations used the method of ar- to among the Amer- Pan American Union, w'ho begin with, it is well to realize that very few singers the University of Illinois. Sousa's genial, gracious, To icas none seems to have been granted a cleaner pass- ranging compositions for band presentation degree lobust wit, and personal presence always enhanced have everything to a high —beautiful quality, port than music education, though the exchange of The New York World’s Fair and the Golden Gate the dramatic performance of his band. Extravagant wide range, volume, muscianship, dramatic ability. concert artists and conductors, broadcasting of name Exposition dedicated several programs to the music do are artists who will live forever in the thought to niceties. reply life. public applause followed in his wake around the world. Those who such My to this is that the In the second phrase of what might be called the bands and visits of prominent composers have at- and art of Latin America in 1939. Among these was During over a quarter of a century as Leader history of music. There remains, obviously, plenty of popular singer, however lacking in formal music edu- chorus are the words, “—ro-ses are flow-’ring in tracted more immediate attention and more Philharmonic Orchestra, of the made the concert of the New York singers have these essential qualities in cation, Marine Band, William H. Santelmann led it in room for who has to give thought to the phrasing of his words Picardy-.” He momentarily hovers on the first syllable headlines. Music education, while rarely headline stuff, given at the Hall of Music of the New York World’s many singer have lovely for it is important engagements of national and international a lesser degree. One may a tone but his stock in trade. Usually having a small voice of “flow’ring” so that you practically see the roses has tended to gradual and steady progress, since it Fair with Burle Marx conducting. Latin-American importance. Mr. Santelmann, who was a have a small voice with a limited range. He or she may with limited range, all he can rely on is his ability to bursting into bloom right before your eyes. Again, the constitutes the basis for all music activity beyond the artists are coming to the United States in ever greater composer of notable ability, organized an orchestra within still pursue a successful career while striving to develop get the message over in a manner that will set his lis- phrase, “—look in her deep blue eyes.” He accentuates level of oral tradition. It is more an affair of the numbers the appreciation of Latin-American music the band, and singer and in its indoor concerts he frequently the shortcomings. Another may have a the vowel sound of “deep” so that you feel he is average man—having to do not with what music is is growing. performed as the mediocre quality but will excel in interpretative indeed looking into deep blue eyes. the phrase, made for him, but rather with what he makes for a violin soloist to accompaniment of the orchestra. Or ability. These outstanding qualities are the rea- himself. Historical Data on the United States Marine Band The band, under his direction, played for Presidents “--And the years go on forever—” Here he sons for their being where they are. So when you “Music education has its professional side, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, and shortens the word “forever” thereby heightening as the The Marine is ancient of American Cool- Band the most hear a singer with a particular lack, you may be school band, orchestra, and chorus imply, idge; and also furnished music on many occasions its meaning and giving a touch of sadness to the and as the military bands and it was the only band of a public conservatory and university when visiting royalties and other high justified in the thought you can do better, but phrase. There are other examples of this sort of prove, is the case; but nature in Washington up to some time later than 1830. dignitaries were respect. the core of the activity present and at ceremonies of great only in that particular thing throughout the song which make it in his is expressed in the slogan After holding informal concerts at their barracks and historic importance. ‘music for every child; every child for music.’ Through- Following Mr. Santelmann’s death, Taylor Branson hands a charming love song where another, with playing dance music for balls of the Washington As- The Story of the Song out the Americas the growing child or youth became leader, and it was about that equal vocal gifts but less dramatic or poetic feel- has had sembly—the first of which was held in 1800—the Band time that interest at best, up to and including the present in Latin-American To my mind the most important consideration ing, would only make it sound hackneyed time, a dual is said to have made its official debut when President music began in the United States. and musical life: on the one in surging is the story, the message or poem the trite. Here again is hand the songs and dances Adams received at the White House on New Year’s Both the Marine Band and the Army Band contributed an answer to our earlier of his family his song has to tell. I don’t mean by this that the and age group outside of school, and Day, 1801. to the development of that interest. After Branson’s statement: “My voice is just as good as his.” on the other, the formal training received retirement, training of the voice itself is unnecessary. I Vocally, perhaps yes, but at institu- This was the first of a long line of New Year’s Days, Capt. Santelmann’s son, who was a member can you equal his in- tions of learning. In some regions the think that the two are tied together and later terpretative former—mainly extending down to the present time, on which occa- of the band, was promoted to leader. The second Capt. ability? oral tradition—has constituted the only we will explain our views on how the story of music life of sions the band has played at White House receptions. William Santelmann, Jr. is carrying forward with the child, in others, the latter—the traditions of glowing the song helps develop technic. Words and Technic music Since Jefferson’s Day it has played at every inaugura- colors the high traditions of the United States literacy. tion when that ceremony called for the presence of Marine Band with great pride. Too often there is a tendency to make a sharp And now, regarding my views as to how "tell- * The new movement which we can see now purely vocal what ing emerging a band. During its history every President has called division between matters and the story” can help vocal technic. This can proposes not only an increase of music activity in both upon it to play for functions at the White House, and the song is trying to tell. This leads to a conflict be developed by reading plays, poetry, the lyrics categories, but above ail an integration of the two. all in between sound and diction. Many a singer’s voice of songs, aloud. Shakespeare is especially have praised its efforts, but of its many friends the Field of Music ( helpful Steps in this direction are to be seen especially in the “sounds” good, but he or she is singing about there is the “Lady of the White House’’ always has been its We are what for music in his poetry; in the different thought now being pleased to quote a human interest story of given to the specific organization remains a mystery. The Italian bel canto method rhythms of warmest admirer and most helpful patron. From 1798 the Librarian of Congress, Hon. his verse, in his wonderful selection of music education as a field in itself.” Archibald MacLeish, to 1940 there have been eighteen leaders of the Marine who upon of singing, a much abused and overworked of words for their vowel and consonant sounds delivering an address in Washington, last Band. phrase, has been mistakenly interpreted by some as well as for their meaning. The soliloquies from Historical Music Memoirs year, before a special group at the Pan American On July 4, 1801, President Jefferson reviewed the Union, revealed to mean florid vocalizing at the expense of the “Hamlet,” for example, should not merely be Miscellaneous the following, in which he said: news items indicate that Latin Amer- consequently, the of is Marines, led by their historic Band, on the White “Music is words and meaning what read quietly aloud if they are to be helpful. icans for a great international language.” had a long time been hearing some North being sung. True, in an aria from an Italian House Grounds. This was the first time that a body “In Chile, last year, They should be played, declaimed as dramat- American music and were familiar I went out for the weekend with some of its of regular troops was ever reviewed by a President with opera one must sing all kinds of display passages ically as possible! Those who do this characteristics at a family related to one of the may be as early as the second decade of the land-owning fami- his residence in Washington. lies in Chile. on a single vowel but this is an exception to the accused of being “hams” by any who happen nineteenth century. We spent the week end at the hacienda. The national hymns and patriotic Jefferson, Thomas the “God-Father” of the Marine he days were rule. The famous voice teacher, Blanche Mar- to hear, but the reward will be worth it. Take the songs of the United States were full of enormous cheeses, huge oxen, the best known forms. Band, called for its presence chesi, probably this thought in mind when soliloquy frequently during his two magnificent stallions, had which begins, “Oh, what a rogue and For example, in March pretty good Chilean wine in 1813, shortly before the Battle administrations. It — “ ruined .” played for James Madison when fact, very good Chilean she cautioned —more voices are through peasant slave am I— As recorded by Maurice of Punta Gruesa between the United States and Eng- he wine—willow trees, the Andes, became President, and when Thomas Jefferson and everything too much singing and too little study.” Evans that line has a pitch variation of about land, the crew of the battleship Essex that makes that country as beautiful used to sing entered, the Marine Band played Jefferson’s In singing an octave. Yankee Doodle March. as it is. We came back Sunday in motion pictures and light opera in the port of Valparaiso. In those The Marine afternoon, drove up to Band has never toured abroad, but the that narrow tongue I have learned that good diction is a primary The value of speaking on different pitch levels days it was customary for ships stationed of land toward Santiago and came, in the Pacific World has come to America to hear to it play. Every towards dusk, to the requisite without which one cannot go very far. as an aid to developing full and free singing give retretas (military concerts) and house these people lived in, in dances on President of the United States, except first tones board ship George Wash- .own. t was an old It is the consideration in telling the story of has been recognized by most concert for the entertainment of the city’s inhabit- house under enormous trees with ington, has heard the music of the Marine Band and Ug the song. Popular singers are supreme in this re- IRENE MANNING singers, especially those ants. On these occasions ga n When we came devoted primarily to the navy bands in ' the sate was opened played patri- all of them have encouraged its improvement. ^, ^t. . Star of the Broadway Success "The Day Before Spring" otic airs and closedl behind spect. They know that their success depends opera. To sustain the meaning and musical values and dance tunes. The navy musicians were us; it was dark under the trees; On September 30, 1880, John Philip Sou=a mostly on their ability “sell” song, getting of other passages in much sought after by assumed the house was also dark. to a the same soliloquy requires the organizers of the first the directorship Then, as we drove up the of the United States Marine Band, ariveway in all the meaning possible out of a phrase or even and will develop good diaphragmatic Chilean national bands, and were encouraged front of the house, my hostess and , support. to desert, which he held for twelve years. called teners’ as for example, He organired the band there suddenly a word. Obviously they cannot even begin to do this hearts to fluttering. This is not an undesirable This same practice will be transferred to a phrase of a in the case of the frigate Falmouth appeared in the door three children, in with vigor and vision, and breathed the breath accomplishment, I 1832. of life a girl about sixteen, a boy unless the listener can understand every word of the might add. song to good effect. Only it will be easier in most cases into a somnolent group. about twelve and a younger Sousa carried on the develop- song. An example of a singer who is great artist since singing phrases are generally The California Gold 1 came a and not as long as some Rush of the mid-century in- ment of the wind band By down the steps, she suddenly by devising an instrumentation who accomplishes just this, is the of the spoken creased commercial relations between vopped them with a gesture German tenor, Rich- phrases in Shakespeare’s plays. By act- the Pacific Coast which allowed effects as soft of her hand and without A Singer's Art Analyzed of as those of a symphony a word ard Tauber. I earnestly recommend all singers, students ing out a “Hamlet” soliloquy South America and the United States. to me or a word to one develops the ability to orchestra. His leadership of the Marine them or any instruction The subject Cuba, organization hat I could matter of popular songs is almost ex- and professionals alike, to listen to his records. Whether tell the story. Concentration is on the because of its geographical proximity, was one see, she and they together sing meaning of what brought fame to the band as well as to himself began to clusively love romance. cloy- he sings of the first Latin American on a Bach choral she and The words are often Schubert leider or a popular ballad, this artist is said and not on how the voice sounds. This very con- republics to have cultural tours through the nation. had arranged for these children. (During these twelve years, ing perhaps, but it is nonetheless sings with impeccable musicianship relations with the United States. As Ure y 11 was one helpful to analyze and taste, at the centration on telling the story leaves the mind free early as 1847, the Sousa was active also as of the most moving things I a composer and wrote a °u the way a successful crooner will deliver them. To be- same time recognizing that liberties from celebrated Havana Opera Troupe, under the er heard. It was allowed in the worry over matters of voice production which direction variety , also very of works, including the famous Washington lann ” . good music. That singing of Francisco Martinez Torrens, ntally gin with, he or she will sing, or croon, the words as of a ballad may be inexcusable in a classic. tends to develop both relaxation of the throat and a y made several tours Post March and Semper Fidelis one afternoon in a city in Chile; in the (1888), which became thatthnTt h “ though they An example of his ability to "sell” song is natural United States and became popular kmd of thing happens were meant for their own loved one and a in his re- way of singing. in New the official march of the United States Marine in Latin America.” York and Chicago. Corps e concerts not for millions of radio listeners. Singing cording of Roses of Picardy, a ballad for which I have Like any other physical activity calling Hands Across the Sea at the Pan American Union, and the softly into for sustained and the Liberty Bell were also never hitherto particularly Late in the nineteenth century, popular concerts of a microphone considerably aids cared. He treats words in effort, singing requires strength. The many Puerto Rican well known wherever band music was the Service Bands present the this feeling of intimacy newsman on the musicians came played.) an onomatopoeic sense, which is to say he delivers corner to the United States, where they be- mUS1C °f Latin America but I believe the orthodox or classical singer can develops a strong voice by yelling his wares day Sousa was one of the few - operatic, salon and came outstanding men to have the distinc- fnik-^ them in a manner that makes their music teachers and helped to make gS Wel1 as the convey the same impression using meaning come to in and day out. The public speaker likewise develops tion of serving in three ' hf=hter dance the the full voice. The branches of military service- vh^ho !? music of Latin-American folk songs known. The political con a crooner, for example, will a strong voice by repeated use. The singer, ex- as musical director of the Sixth Army S variety, which some people erro- play with the word “love,” who must pansion of the United States Corps during neouslv hnu be capable of in the nineteenth century the 6 6 constitute the giving it various nuances of inflection producing sustained tones of good quality, Spanish-American War; as conductor of the '] whole of South American according to the absorbed a large Latin-American population with United music ^nri' can develop a strong voice not only deep States Marine Band, and as lieutenant an announcement by a singer that musical phrase. Some may think this gives too much by singing but by cultural traditions of in charge of its own. Soon students of folk- 6 ES relllta credit to speaking words that have both meaningful Navy Bands during World War I. In as an encore, brings round the popular singer, that he generally lacks and musi- the last , a capacity of aDDlansp f applause before she sufficient cal content. By all the foregoing I do (Continued on Page 166) musical background and training to give not mean to 134 imply that I do not "FORWARD MARCH WITH believe in (Continued on Page 166) MUSIC” MARCH, THE ETUDE 1946 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 133 : . ' ”

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Can the Small Organ Be Expressive?

HERE IS a type of small organ, quite standard in design, which is encountered in all parts of hj ^rvincj 2b. Hartley T this country and is commonly termed the “stock” organ. This organ was manufactured many years be- fore “units” became popular and was produced by organ companies to care for the needs of the church Irving D. Bartley, F.A.G.O., was born August 30, 1902 in Salem, having a limited budget. The specifications were as New Hampshire, the son of a minister. His mother was a church follows organist. For five years he studied piano and organ with Alfred Great Dulciana (soft string) T. Mason of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and substituted for him Melodia (flute) frequently at the First Congregational Church of that city. Open Diapason (rich, full organ tone) Later he studied at the New England Conservatory and was Swell Salicional (string) graduated in 1928 with diplomas in piano and organ. Mr. Stopped Diapason or Gedeckt (flute) Bartley holds also Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Flute 4' (major piano) degrees from Syracuse University. What under the sun is (tabia) and by an Indian this—a musical fire plug? These musicians are The Indian singer is accompanied by a pair of drums Pedal Bourdon 16' at Baker leading a procession of lion sounds modern! From 1929-1943 he was professor of piano and organ dancers in Peking. form of violin. My. but this This type of organ has its swell stops under expres- University, Baldwin, Kansas, and directed the Baldwin Com- sion, but the great pipes are out in the open and there- munity Choir. From 1940-1942 Mr. Bartley was connected with fore incapable of varying degrees of loudness. There the music department of New Mexico Highlands University, are two reasons why the “open great” (unenclosed) Las Vegas, New Mexico. At present he is head of the piano was found in organs that were manufactured some department at the University of New Hampshire and Minister decades ago. Traditionally the term “great” implied of Music at the Durham Community Church. that the stops belonging to that manual were heavily Mr. Bartley is a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists voiced and it was felt that they would cut through and served as Dean of the Kansas chapter of the Guild in 1937 Well, the ensemble to better advantage if they were not I Do Declare! and as Dean of the North Carolina chapter during 1944. placed in a box controlled by shutters. As time went — Editor's Note. on the advisability of having all stops enclosed be- came apparent; still the organ companies doubtless effects on the small “straight" organ presents a real Musical Instruments felt that they could sell their product more cheaply problem. Some of the difficulties to be overcome are if an extra set of shutters for the great were not in- a Pedal Bourdon 16' which may be too heavy for the cluded. softer manual combinations and the lack of a dis- Throughout the World Let us assume that the organ in question is either tinctly soft (such as Aeoline) in case stop , which of the tracker or tubular-pneumatic type, the sig- Salicional or Dulciana must needs suffice. As for the nificance of which is that no stops are “borrowed” preponderant Bourdon, it can be dispensed with at or “extended,” as they can so easily be done on the times and the pedals played for short portions with Section III organ with an electric action. Although the electric only the coupler the pedals. is manual to This set-up IRVING D. BARTLEY action is admittedly the most perfect yet devised, it particularly useful in a pianissimo passage towards the can be said that in the case of the older type of organ end of a composition. Although the organist is never This is the third of a series appearing in The Etude and the organist does not have to puzzle his brains over to blame for the inadequacies of his instrument, he Then too, it is almost always proper to close the swell continuing the possibility of the same stop being found on more should always strive to be on the lookout to com- tightly at the last note of a phrase. If the progression for six months. Editor’s Note. than one manual and perhaps even bearing a different pensate for those deficiencies if possible. A pianist 1|-V is used in moderate tempo, the opening of the name on each stop tablet. Very often the approximate would reserve his energy if he were confronted with a swell for the first chord and closing immediately on number of speaking stops on a unit organ can be ob- piano that too loose a touch or too metallic a the second will doubtless sound musical. Similarly Photos—From Three Lions had tained roughly by dividing the number of stop tablets tone! when a suspension resolves at the end of a phrase the by five! Because of the mechanical nature of securing ex- same tactics should be used. In regard to nonharmonic pression from the organ, it has often been unjustly tones, suspensions, retardations, and appoggiatures are Here s Regarding Couplers a new one. It's a portable marimba and it assumed that the church organ is incapable of any due for a slight accent or opening of the swell so that Two Frank comes from Chichicastenango, Guatemala. Sinatras in Japan, as Sir William Gilbert The customary manual couplers are Svcell to Great great degree of expression; that it may be good for a sort of climax is terminated on them; passing tones, imagined them in "The Mikado." (8' unless marked to the contrary). Swell to Great 16' Bach, Handel, and Mendelssohn but rather imprac- embellishments, and anticipations, on the contrary, and Swell to Great 4'. (The last two will not be found tical for what may be called the more romantic type should sound with no more volume than the notes on on the tracker action organ.) Swell to Great is a of music. It must be admitted that the swell pedal is either side of them. device by which any stops that are drawn on the swell more or less of a barrier to expression until the or- Pumping the swell pedal back and forth without re- manual will sound when one plays on the great. Swell ganist has been thoroughly accustomed to its tech- gard to the music that is being sounded is useless and to Great 16' would signify that the swell combination nique, and there is little denial of the fact that, when should never be done. Its effect is exceedingly annoy- would sound an octave lower if one is playing on the it comes to eliciting expression from his instrument, ing, is utterly indefensible musically, and worse than great manual, whereas Swell to Great 4' means that the organist’s lot is not as easy a one as that of the not using the swell pedal at all. the swell stops will sound an octave higher when play- violinist or pianist. As the range of expression is necessarily limited on ing on the great. In regard to all 4' couplers, it would a small organ because of the swell box being compara- ' be well to realize that all notes above c' (next to the Hints on the Swell Pedal tively small, the organist should be economical in the highest will C) drop out and therefore such a com- Now it is true that, if any degree of legato touch is application of the swell pedal. The normal position of bination should not be used if any notes are played maintained in the pedal part, the opening of the swell the swell pedal is the closed position (with the ex- above that register on the keyboard. In general Swell pedal presents real difficulties. The organist should, ception of during full organ passages) and the organist to Great at 4' 16' pitches the and do not lend them- of course, be able to use either foot in manipulating should see that the heel is planted firmly on it. From 8' selves to usable combinations unless Swell to Great the expression pedal. There will be times, however, that point gradations should be made, being careful is also drawn. when the crescendo and decrescendo signs ( not to open the pedal too much at a time. The last Swell to Pedal and Great to Pedal couplers serve to ) will have to be adjusted somewhat in view fraction of an inch should be reserved for the high- clarify the pedal and make it considerably easier to of what is being played by the pedals. Sometimes the est point in the phrase. Similarly as the phrase de- detect the 16'. pitch of the low notes of the Bourdon organist will have to use the swell pedal when he can creases in volume it is well to close the box gradually As the names imply, Swell to Pedal connects to the and not just where he would like to do so! by perhaps letting a few seconds elapse between mo- pedal whatever stops are drawn on the swell, and In general, as a melody ascends it is in order to in- tions, depending upon the length of the phrase. Great to Pedal connects those of the great manual. crease the volume, and the converse of this is true. For the softer effects the swell manual is the best Other 4’ couplers generally found are Swell to Swell to use. When both hands are playing on the same and Swell to Swell 16' (they add an octave higher and manual the following combinations will prove useful; an octave lower, respectively, when playing on the Salicional (preferably with tremolo); Stopped Diapa- Swell) and Great to Great 4' (which adds the octave son alone; Stopped Diapason with Flute 4'; Dulciana above when playing on the Great) (if softly ORGAN voiced) ; Salicional with Swell to Swell 4'. Undeniably the matter of securing a variety of soft For soft solo effects ( Continued on Page 168) FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” MARCH, 1946 "FORWARD MARCH THE ETUDE WITH MUSIC 137 ”

of the class. 5. The yet relaxed posture articulation of speaking and singing Music and Study the words. 6. The voice of the HEN IN CONVERSATION with a musician Music and Study teacher. who devotes his time to the teaching of bands depends mainly on the selection I often prompted to ask, Tone quality 0 f and orchestras, am the W teacher music and the ability of to recognize “What do you consider to be your greatest handicap must be vocally specific vocal needs. Songs possible as in obtaining the results you would like to get with structure, and text. orchestra?” to range, musical Different age your young band or The answers run some- types of songs. physical plant levels need very different For example, thing like this: poor (rehearsal room), Singing in the because the range of the primary child is usually from lack of finances, lack of community interest, lack of is best sung in poor native ability. However, E-flat to F-sharp, America the key of pupil interest, and by far Banner is vocally answers fall into these two brackets; G, and the Star Spangled difficult. the majority of The Mechanical Approach poor In sixth grade where children have ranges which are low quality instruments and mechanical con- quite different and sometimes extend from B-flat below dition. in the foregoing Elementary School middle-C to A above the treble staff, America sounds The last two answers paragraph quality instruments well in the key of F and the National Anthem is per- cannot be divorced. Low are low formed with perfect ease. quality because they are made of cheap material, bad- To Musical Perfection poorly adjusted. There is an abundance of new material now avail- ly assembled, and cheap or poor able for school children. The songs are charming, When we combine construction with ignorance in the care of an instrument then we really hij ^y(lnn ^~Jrim in tj l can largely of folk character, and the material is arranged instrument in poor playing for each grade level so that growth is natural and un- do have an condition. problem of the instructor. project forced. Teachers’ manuals provide helpful suggestions This is the Our here help eliminate as many factors as possible which for improved tone quality. is to Associate Professor of Music contribute to this universal handicap. INGING, that joyous, infectious form of self-ex- curately. Second, to sing with beautiful, expressive tone The ability of the teacher to analyze tone and dis- might say that the problem of the low quality in- State Teachers College pression, when well taught, is considered an en- quality. cover causes for faulty voice production depends on her We Iowa She will check strument is frequently due to lack of finances, or S riching factor in the curriculum of the modern Matching a melody often is a difficult problem for experience and guidance. articulation, the part of the purchaser, as well as lack elementary school. It aids the general plan of the edu- young children. There are so many exciting, distract- phrasing, forcing, tension, intonation, and other things ignorance on in just what to expect from a low quality cational program. By relating vocal or instrumental ing things happening in the first school experience that are common causes for bad singing. The experi- of knowledge instrument. music to other school activities, the life of the child that listening readiness is acquired slowly. It must enced teacher does not lose much time in getting at Most of us have learned through sad experience, 2" 4" glass 05 17. Finish may be made more interesting and meaningful at come before music can really be heard and reproduced the root of the problem and production is soon im- 25. x plate that one cannot get superior or even average results (24 26) 10 18. Water keys school and at home. reasonably well. New experiences, confused thinking, proved. The device may be very simple: a change of 26. Small brass wire to with inferior instruments. Have we really learned our 50 19. Main slide The resourceful teacher can high light the school day tension, poor coordination are some of the things which key or tempo; checking diction in specific spots; 27. Brass polish I afraid that there are too many of us First slide by making the music period a rewarding experience. affect learning to listen. These same problems have a changing breath marks. lesson? am who 28. Small piece of street tar 00 20. valve are content to approve the purchase of a clarinet just (small steel crochet 21. Second valve slide She knows that as children sing together, they enjoy bearing on readiness for all of the other school ac- An explanation of the vocal mechanism is not good 29. Spring hook so long as it has a case, seventeen keys, six rings, a 22. Third valve slide comradeship, overcome tension through emotional re- tivities and when the miracle of orientation to school below the Junior High School level and even there, needle) 25

mouthpiece, and a reed. . 23. First valve lease, become conscious of beauty, develop self-control, has been accomplished, singing begins to sound Rea- unless very carefully presented, may cause self-con- 30. (You will find many items to add to and feel the creative It is true that you cannot always control the pur- for 24. Second valve urge. She will use all of her in- sonably good. sciousness and tension. The classroom teacher usually this collection as the need them genuity to keep the quality learning chase of an instrument, but do you leave any stone 25. Third valve of on a positive, Young children may have some difficulty in learning has not had this training herself, and so will not be- arises.) constructive plane, so will unturned that might help your purchaser see the 26. tubing that each child make his best to find their singing voices. They will use the conver- come involved in something that she does not under- “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” Main are falling contribution to the performance of the class, thereby sational tone because real singing has no meaning to stand. light? If you do, then you down on the job translated into band language, means a drop of oil 27. Mounthpiece receiving a maximum of benefit. them. as a guide as well as a teacher. every three on all moving metal to metal con- Now, with your check sheet made up, take each mem- Often they are too timid to try to do more than Voice testing for part singing is generally not nec- months In the majority of the elementary schools singing speak the words of a song. In my own band I am appalled at the poor quality tacts and you save time, temper, and a factory repair ber of the band or orchestra and go over his instru- The discovery of the singing essary until sixth grade. In some schools there will be is taught by the classroom teacher. It is part of the voice by these children is and condition of most of the instruments brought in job. ment carefully (about five to ten minutes each) point- unpredictable and may come only first and second sopranos while in others there day’s work, and the degree of her success or failure at the most by students entering college. I ask a flute player, “How are few suggestions about the organization ing out all necessary repair jobs, filling in two sheets, unexpected time. will also be a good alto section among the boys. This Here a depends on her background, natural ability, training, In the intermediate long has it been since you have oiled your flute?” A mechanical is so one for your records and one for him to take home to grades, children can, in most will depend largely on nationality traits and chrono- or application of the checkup which and skill. Often her home and community background cases, sing a tune typical answer is, “I’ve had it for years and it has universally lacking. out form or blank, for you his parents or to the local repair shop. accurately. They have learned logical ages. Some boys mature much earlier than Make a has been excellent and her education from the ele- through many aural and visual never been oiled.” Most of the students have an ex- and the student to fill in, on which you will record or Record the condition of the finish, tone holes, pads, experiences to follow others and for them an alto or alto-tenor part must mentary school through the training college has been the melodic line. Some, however, cuse or alibi something like this, “My instructor never check the following: keys, corks, springs, slides, cleanliness of base, and so may still have poor be provided. The careful assignment to parts has a adequate. Possessing these qualifications, a love of tonal sense told to oil it.” I accept that not as an alibi, but as and must be given individual help even definite bearing on tone me 1. Name forth. As these points are corrected you will O.K. music quality and no voice should and teaching aptitude, she usually makes a suc- when the problem seems hopeless. a reason. Where does the blame fall? Right on my 2. Date them on your check sheet. be put in the wrong section to balance part singing. cess of teaching vocal music. In school systems which The second goal in tone production is to sing with shoulders as a person in the business of training teach- 3. Instrument It is an excellent plan to make the first rehearsal of have a carefully planned program of guidance and in- beautiful expressive tone quality. Since teachers’ stand- Out-of-Tune Singers ers and on your shoulders as a teacher. 4. Make each calendar month inspection or checkup day. The service training a by music expert, classroom teachers ards vary, there will be many gradations Possibly you think the care, minor adjustments, and 5. Finish first time you will need the full rehearsal time; how- of "quality One of the most challenging problems in elementary have developed into excellent music teachers. from tone is that rather poor to tone that is very elementary repair too much for you without having 6. System ever, after the first or second checkup day the job can music education is the “out-of-tune” singer, the child Vocal training under these conditions is beautiful. being dis- Children must be led to recognize beauty had special training. No, you need only a few simple 7. Serial Number be done in about thirty minutes. I am sure it will be and who seems unable to carry a tune. The real cussed here rather than vocal training real music edu- by trained mu- worth in music and through careful teaching tools, a little material or supplies, and an average 8. Date Purchased a pleasant surprise to discover just few repair in cator plunges into this problem how sicians. the daily with the zest of a music period, an appreciation of good tone amount of good common sense to improve the musical 9. New jobs you will have once you get the main problems cor- prospector looking for gold, for some of these children The teaching of singing in kindergarten and the quality will be one of the learnings. The singing of attainments of your organizations through mechanical 10. Used rected and have this monthly checkup in action. (Just primary learn to sing well, become the promoters of school grades is quite different from any other level children must be vital, improvement clear flexible, and light with that music, and thereby to your conscience in 11. Condition of case imagine, no frozen slides, no gummed pinions for lack of vocal training. Thirty children and should be, whether they learn to sing or enter kindergarten bright, fresh quality peculiar to youth. this matter. oil, Singing pro- not, our fast Woodwind Instrument (Describe repairs needed or of fewer cracks in wooden instruments, and so on.) or first grade with thirty ideas of friends. what singing means. vides a perfect medium through which the We start with a representative list of tools and check O.K.) You will only examine meaning of Early in the school the instrument and point out Some have never sung or have never heard singing music year, the classroom teacher may be expressed freely and joyously. materials, with an approximate cost, that you should 12. Bell joint problems; will all checks or tests the students do the oiling, greasing, except on the radio. Some have sung in a way peculiar all of the voices in her class for tonal acquire if you are to be fair to your students and the Cracks cleaning, and so forth. They love it. to themselves. Techniques accuracy. Each child usually sings a phrase Some have good tonal sense and have in Teaching Singing song or a school board. of the following as (Many items you may Pads Monthly checkup or service chart. learned to sing quite well soon as he is willing or ready. If the pupil load is at home. In the elementary school the principal acquire at no immediate outlay of money by simply media for small, low singers can Keys Woodwind The first days of “singing” by a group are often vocal training are songs. be helped quite casually because Vocal exercises are not gen- using cast-off material, such as razor blades.) Corks 1. Condition of the case. very amusing. The children are the teacher has enough time to study each voice and so pleased with them- erally used, because they have little 1. meaning to chil- has Fishing tackle box $1.00 up 13. Lower joint 2. Condition of the reed. selves, so unaware of many opportunities to check progress. If pupil the strange conglomeration of dren and they can be injurious the 2. when used by teachers load Small screw drivers 25 Cracks 3. Cleanliness of the mouthpiece. sounds that they are making and ready who is large, voices are tested at stated intervals, and so to try any have no specialized vocal training. Songs 3. Small pliers 25 serve the a seating plan Pads 4. Dust under the keys with a small brush. song presented to them. The following incident illus- purpose admirably. They is devised for the music class so that stimulate interest and pro- 4. Small hammer 35 Keys 5. Bent, broken or keys out of adjustment. trates: Betsy was singing a song vide out-of-tune singers are near enough to the teacher to she had learned at specific reasons for singing with 5. Small file beautiful tone, get her much 10 Corks 6. Oil the mechanism at each moving metal to metal Sunday School. Her aunt offered to play the tune for something that the child needed help. Generally, there are three can understand. There is 6. Scissors 15 14. Upper joint no major classifications contact with a fine grade of oil. Apply it with a her on the piano, since her singing was quite out of difficulty in leading children of vocal response: children who to sing more tenderly and 7. Razor blades 10 Cracks fine wire, needle or toothpick. tune. She didn’t sing well in tuije, care for the idea and said, “I know it, sweetly in a cradle song others who can sing part of a tune, or a song about a kitten, 8. Small paint brush (1" wide) 15 Pads 7. Clean all I a and those cork joints with cold cream and cloth. don’t have to have the tune.” Children can sing quite chicken, or a tiny whose singing is definitely of tune. flower. Songs about out 9. Emery boards 05 happily without snowflakes Voices of the Keys 8. Rub tallow on all cork joints. the tune and therein lies the chief clouds, birds, or airplanes, suggest third classification in most cases sing a floating liquid 10. Assorted sandpaper 10 Corks 9. Rub oil moistened pipe cleaner on all steel problem of singing in the primary grades. tone. The below the melody and are not out springs possibilities in this sort of analogy only low but badly 11. Pipe cleaners are end- of tune. .05 15. Top joint (barrel or crook) to prevent their rusting. less for each song becomes If they do not respond to the usual training a living thing to the class 12. Clean cloth 00 Cracks 10. Goals in Tone Production given to the Oil the bore of wooden instruments (except bas- There are several other factors entire class, they must receive special which affect tone 13. Alcohol lamp 75 Pads soon) with a bore oiler (Selmer In the intermediate grades, the teaching quality: study and help. Some bore oiler) or with of singing 1. The range of the song. 2. of the causes may be extreme The phrasing. 3. 14. Bore oiler 1.50 Keys a slightly is very different. All learning nervousness, poor swab moistened with olive oil. moves at greater speed The rhythmic elasticity of the singing. coordination, diseased tonsils, ade- 4 . The alert 15. Oil (any light grade of oil) 25 Corks 11. Clean and with much more energy. n S r ears the dirt from all open tone holes with a There is an eagerness, an ,° ’ and immaturity. °^? ’ The list is a long one. 16. Cold assurance There cream 25 16. Mouthpiece sliver of reed and then a folded pipe cleaner. and a • are desire to do, . that F ,, ,, . many makes the teaching -r , ,,,, _ _ ways of helping them. Teachers’ 17. Tallow (beef of music exciting manuals or mutton) 25 Brass Instruments (Describe repairs needed or check 12. Look for bad pads, cracks, broken springs, to the good teacher. It is here that have helpful suggestions and every teacher gummed public has 18. Shellac (orange or white) 25 OK.) keys, bad cork joints, and so forth. performance by children is most feasible because band, her own bag of tricks orchestra that often work. Infinite 19. Pad wax 10 at this age they are pa lence, 13. See that the case is equipped with a reed case. good showmen and the child voice sympathy, and skill give will in most cases 20. Assorted pads (100) 2.00 has reached its maximum of ese c ildren 14. Check the condition of the cleaning cloth or swab. beauty and power. and CHORUS the use of their singing voice. There are two In 21. Cork (sheet and bottle) 50 (For clarinets use a linen cloth major goals in tone production in the Edited conclusion, let me say about six inches by William D. Revelli that the substance of this 22. Darning cotton 05 by elementary grades. First, to sing article is familiar twelve inches fastened at one comer to a piece a given melody ac- S'. v - to all music educators to many BAND and ORCHESTRA | and 23 Silk thread 05 of fish class room teachers. line and that in turn to a lead fish line It is ( 173) Edited by William D. Revelli Continued on Page 24. Cork cement 25 sinker.) 138 ( Continued on Page 173) "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC’’ THE ETUDE MARCH, 1946 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC 139 — —

ACH YEAR many enthusiastic young people Music and Study Music and Study begin the study of the violin, but many others E who have started as eagerly, give it up. We are experiencing a lack of enough violinists for our high school orchestras, a lack which is as widespread as it is lamentable. In many cases the failure comes from lack of the ability to draw a good violin tone. While tone production is the lifelong study of the violinist many changing conditions, The Field of the Viola and is influenced by it is The Violinist Draws a Tone also one of the most fertile sources for motivating the study of the young violinist. Many beginning violinists are frankly puzzled that A Conference with the beautiful tone is not a part of the violin. They had the violin, draw expected to pick up the bow over the clcrS Idleder strings and have a wonderful, transparent, crystal by ryn ddcin 'lAJitham primrode tone sound quite naturally. The only problem they ex- pected was that of placing the fingers at the proper Famous Viola Virtuuso intervals to produce the desired pitch. To too many uninterrupted flow this remains the central problem. instrument until the child learns. They plan to buy er to get a correct conception of of the bow Soon the young people notice their lack of progress him a better one when he proves himself. Many times of tone, of learning to change the direction without its being heard in the tone produced. Too ETUDE BY HAROLD BERKLEY and wonder if their choice of instrument was wrong. this only results in handicapping the child so greatly SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE his mind on the fingers They had been attracted by the warmth of tone to that he is defeated before he starts. Artists take great often the young player has produce the which they could listen indefinitely without tiring of care to have the best, though their skill could com- and finding the next position needed to listening to open tones al- it; to the comparative physical ease with which it pensate for much, yet the child with no skill is given correct pitch. Playing and could be played; to the variety of effects possible: the the additional burden of a poor sounding instrument lows him to concentrate not only on the tone produced feeling present in his hands William Primrose, one ol the foremost present-day exponents of the viola as a solo instrument, was born legato, the detache, the martele, the tremolo, vibrato, with pegs that will not turn and bridges that warp but on the accompanying Symphony and the London violin un- in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1904. His father was a viola player in the Scottish staccato, pizzicato, the double-stopping, the harmonics, and snap. A good instrument is an investment, and may and arms, the correct feeling of having the violin, with Eugene Ysaye, who advised him to take up a part of Symphony orchestras. His first studies were on the muted tones, and even the back of. the bow being used always be resold for its worth if that becomes necessary. der complete control so that it seems almost the viola. Following this, Mr. Primrose accepted the position as viola player in the London String Quartet, in bizarre, col legno effects. The violin must be adapted to the size and individual him instead of some foreign, clumsy addition which with which group he toured for five years. He has appeared as viola soloist in many cities of Europe and characteristics of the player. Too many children go on he supports awkwardly and with effort. America. In 1938 Mr. Primrose became first viola player of the NBC Symphony Orchestra . Editor's Note. First Concern Is Good Tone playing on half-sized instruments when they have out- The Habit of Listening But after some struggling many of them have felt grown them and far too many play on instruments in the class with King George III. Professor Leopold that are too large for them. A close relationship in Tone is affected by the firmness and sureness with Auer, in his “Violin Playing as I Teach It,” tells how proportions should exist. Length of the violin and which the fingers are set upon the strings. Many young WILLIAM PRIMROSE size players wear their nails too long for them ever to play and as I grew older the tone meant more and more to ing are complicated enough, in all conscience, and King George went to his teacher, the violinist Solo- length of the pupils arm must be considered. The with the finger tips. Unless nails are trimmed short to me. Later I studied with Ysaye, and he told me that there is no place for excess motion. In viola playing, mons, to ask how he was getting along. and type of the pupil’s hand makes further demands. “ the strength in correct finger in his opinion style or tennis ballet dancing, ‘Well,’ said Solomons to his illustrious pupil, ‘all Upon the length of the pupil’s neck depends the type allow playing on tips, the HE VIOLA is not just an overgrown fiddle,” my and temperament were better as in golf or economy of mo- type of shoulder pad. position is lost, and the firm flesh pads never form on said Mr. Primrose emphatically. suited to the viola. He advised me to change. I took tion is the goal at which to aim. The violinist who violin players may be divided into three classes. The of chin rest and the necessary practicing, find tiny his advice and have never first class includes all those who cannot play at all; this is important, for as nearly as possible, the finger tips. Many, when first “I hope every reader of The Etude sees those regretted it, for always prides himself—or, more often, herself—on the grace- All of when I am playing the viola I the second class those who play very badly; and the violin the player should be as one. Efficiency callouses forming on the finger tips. This gives way to words, because the idea is far too widely held that the feel a sense of oneness fully undulating, swan-neck motions of his (or her) the and with the third class those who play well. al- other things is dependent the firm finger tips that snap into place surely, like viola is merely an out-size violin, played like instrument that I never felt when I was bow-arm had better not take up the viola, for Your Majesty has in violin playing as in many a violin he ” playing the violin. I ready managed to advance to the second class.’ the equipment used. Some violins tiny hammers. by men who have failed to make a success with the have heard a number of violinists would find his antiquated bow technique a far more on the adequacy of who seemed to me more suited to viola, The problem of beautiful tone should be the first better for age but it does not follow that all The habit of listening first affects tone. The mental smaller instrument. On each count the idea is wholly the and it has noticeable handicap than it is on the violin. The rea- are the been interesting to discover concern of the young violinist, for the question ones. Most of them are not; the conception of tone and pitch should precede playing. inaccurate. For one thing, the histories of the two in- that several of them did son for this is that the heavier strings of the viola by old violins are good later make the change. which any player may be judged is: he old violins which are not even Many young players do not listen until after they have struments are not by any means the same; in fact, the need a closer contact of bow with string, a more in- “Can draw a country is flooded with violin “In general the viola technique good tone?” Too many young violinists go stumbling an expert’s opinion on the violin has played. They need to cultivate keenness of hearing, might be considered a comparatively new arrival is very similar to tense pressure, than the lighter strings of the violin. handmade. Only that of the violin, but there on, insisting on adding problems of fingering technic, handles judges many violins to listen to fine tone and then try to reproduce it on on the musical stage. For a long time, particularly in are subtly important dif- The straight-line position of the arm allows the player value; a person who and ferences, differences more easily bowing, and positions to their difficulties the advise the best instrument to be their own instruments. It is the same with pitch. They France and England, people much preferred the viola. demonstrated than to maintain this intensity almost without conscious with professionally can Furthermore, its role described. Most of them, I think, pertain to the result that they become swamped and discouraged. had in the desired price range. Only the expert teacher need to practice hearing before playing. A good ear in the instrumental scheme of right effort; whereas a wrist that bobs up and down like a is the violinist’s friend and can be done to im- things is distinct from that of arm. But this must be qualified at once. Put it this Then, if they are fortunate, some good teacher takes can see that the violin fits the particular student, much the violin, as distinct as cork on water cannot help weakening it. This, of that of the oboe way, rather: The average violinist, them back to fundamentals, shows them how to master these two experts may sometimes be one. prove the keenness and discrimination with which it or the French horn. The tone quality whose bowing has course, is not news to the violinist who has been though is been trained along problems of tone production hears. Many people do not hear well because they do quite different and its gamut of expression is differ- conventional lines, usually finds it trained according and the pupil begins to to modern ideas; most of the great Position ent in many respects. rather difficult to adapt himself to the viola; see his way out of the morass of failure. Importance of Correct not give their full attention. It is not so much their There are hundreds of melodies but the violinists of the present day play with a straight arm. in the chamber music and violinist who has been schooled according to the best One college teacher, noted for the interested, capable Young players interested in improving their violin ear which is at fault as it is the mind which is per- symphonic repertoires that It is a pity, though, that the method is not more widely belong essentially modern principles of bowing rarely class he had year in and year out, this their position carefully. Un- mitted to w’ander. If good violin tone is to result we to the viola. For example, who can has any difficulty taught in the early grades. found procedure tone will do well to check imagine the principal theme of the when he changes to the larger instrument. I have necessary. Pupils came to him from many high schools less the violin is held securely by the jaw, with the must change minds that slide over details into minds Smetana Quartet “This emphasis on the straight arm must not lead heard often that think and discriminate between good and bad. being given its first statement by any other instru- many top-rank violinists play the viola, and anyone to eager and complacent about their attainments. left hand touching the neck lightly and ready for think that the ( Continued on Page 172) ment? The violin picks up the theme later, the best were Ysaye and Kreis- He would listen without comment. So often he found instant, unhampered movement, no competence can yes, and The Vibrato and Good Tone does a splendid job with it, but in the listener’s ear ler. The reason for this, I am he must say, “First I shall teach you to draw a tone.” be gained. Unless the violin is supported without as- sure, tone can not be considered without reference there is, there must be, always a remembrance of the was that each man was The pupil would be humiliated. “But I learned that my sistance from the hand the tone will be affected by Good viola tone and the viola’s peculiar individuality of ex- able to transfer his right-arm first lesson,” they would protest. The teacher would the slight jarring and shifting as the different tones to vibrato which does so much to improve it. Pupils pression. technic from one instrument pick up his violin and bow an open string. “Like this, and positions are called for. Unless the bow arm is are eager to learn this special effect and it is a study to “As for the notion that viola playing is the province to the other without alteration. perhaps?” The pupil, if sensitive at all, would have to relaxed, ready for free, full bow sweeps, that seem to be encouraged. Mr. Harold Berkley, Violin Editor of unsuccessful admit, “No, of The Etude, in an article in the issue for July 1944, violinists . . . well, it is a complete not like that.” (If he did not, he promptly come from between the shoulder blades, as readily as Economy of Motion fallacy. It's ridiculous. I’ll grant that some violinists had his violin tone dissected.) “Can you teach me to the easy stroke from the elbow or wrist, unless fingers explains problems presented by vibrato in considerable detail specific, who are having hard sledding do turn to what is mis- “The one point of technic play with tone like that?” they would usually ask. and wrist are relaxed and supple, yet controlled, the and gives helpful instruction for de- takenly thought to be the “easier” instrument, but* most essential to a good tone “Why not?” He would lead them to a mirror and set tone wall reflect the tightening. veloping a good vibrato. that does not explain why so many people prefer to production on the viola is the about the important instruction slowly, methodically, It is a good practice to check the path of the bow by Once the pupil has learned the concept of good tone, play the viola. straight-line position of the and almost laboriously. In time that pupil played with observing it in the mirror. Is the line of the bow once he has produced good tone, he has a new feeling “In Art, there is a certain type of temperament that right arm. This is one of those infinitely better tone. Not one pupil, but all his pupils, straight with the bridge? Any wavering from side to of enthusiasm for all violin playing. He takes more pushes a man into becoming an etcher, or a water- things which is much more regardless of their other limitations, played with good side spoils good tone. In general the bow should travel interest in playing the studies, which sound alto- colorist, or a sculptor, or a worker in oils. In his chosen easy to demonstrate than to violin tone quality. It came first, and nothing else midway between bridge and fingerboard. However, after gether different with the pleasing tone he has learned. medium he is at home and can give fullest expression describe. Let me see if I can proceeded until the pupil was playing with the best the pupil has advanced somewhat he should be told He has the feeling of success as he plays efficiently to his artistic impulses; in any other, he would be un- make clear what I mean. At tone quality possible at his stage of development. that to produce a tone both vibrant and intense, he and capably on even simple open string tone. comfortable and probably not very successful. So it is the nut, beginning a Down should bow near the bridge, while to produce a soft Whether he ever attains brilliant technic, whether with instrumentalists. A Good Violin Necessary One kind of temperament is bow, there should be no break tone, he may bow nearer the fingerboard. or not he has the wonderful natural equipment to make best suited to the piano, another to the clarinet, a at the wrist joint: the fore- The tone one gets is affected by the nature and Is there enough rosin on the bow? Most young play- a professional, he can know the pleasure of the culti- third is at home quality only with the violin, a fourth finds arm, the wrist, and the knuck- of the violin and bow. One maker referred to ers use too little rosin. Is the tone even in loudness vated musical amateur. He can play simple, beauti- best expression only on the viola, and so on. les should form a straight line. many violins brought to him for repair as “cheese as loud at the tip of the bow as at the frog? Slight ful solos, play a reliable part in his school orchestra boxes, This position of the arm not worth over twenty-five dollars at Christmas wrist pressure at the tip balances this. or string quartet, and he will be started on the right The Viola Personality time.” should be kept until after the Yet the owners often thought them valuable. Much practice on open tones enables the young play- path of becoming all he has it in him to be as a “The question whether there is a type of individual- middle of the bow is passed, He shook his head over the prices paid for them to competent violinist. ity and talent better suited to the viola than to the when, of course, the forearm some private individual. The bows were often as un- * * * * violin is one that is frequently put to me, and I am straightens out in the elbow promising, with all the shape and resiliency gone from “I am not concerned about the educational, sociolog- quite sure I am right in saying the stick that there certainly is. joint. The elbow should not at and most of the bow hairs missing. ical, or material value to those who study music; that My own case, if I may cite it, is The violin a case in point. Even any time sag below the level must be reasonably good, and the bow VIOLIN it is one of the finest media for generating joy in the when I was studying the violin, and doing too, if beautiful pretty well of the bow. WILLIAL1 violin tone is the object. Too often Edited by Harold Berkley human individual is enough for me.” with it, I took PRIMROSE WITH BRIG. every opportunity I could to play viola, “The elements of GEN. EARL H. DE people are misled by the fallacy of buying a cheap good bow- COMMANDING FORD. —Hendrik Willem van Loon. GENERAL. SIXTH AIR FORCE 140 MARCH, 1946 FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC "FORWARD MARCH VAITH MUSIC” 141 THE e: — ” —

Inventions. In some the of the move- Music and Study ments of the Partitas the structure ERE IT NOT for Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Music and Study of music is more monophonic, chamber music in the United States might the and her sonority. classified with powdered wigs, harpsi- the pedal adds It is therefore still be W century drawing rooms. entirely correct to use the and eighteenth Almost pedal even chords, though there are no pedal singlehanded, this philanthropic widow has made in- When Shall Ann Begin markings. But train yourself to listen to the strumental music a prominent part of the nation’s Piano Lessons? musical ef Answers feet, and remember that blurring musical scene. Like a mother who gently but per- Questions and is Q. Ann is five and one-half years old, ways bad—at least in playing sistently forces her children to eat vegetables, Mrs. the classics" A Notable Friend of Music and I am wondering whether she should Coolidge has doggedly spent her life inviting the public have formal music lessons now. I have al- to listen to chamber music. She knew they would like ways heard that it is unwise to start a to Advice a High School Student often enough. child on an instrument (unless he is very Conducted by it if they heard it A veritable fairy talented) From a Conference with before seven or eight; and that I sixteen years to musicians, she has encouraged hundreds Q. am old and have stud- godmother is what puzzles me in her particular case. ied piano for four years but unfortunately composers in and out of the United States, paid She is not talented, but she shows such of have little time to practice. Recently interest. j their rent, printed their works, arranged their con- have learned (though not memorized)- Ann could hum a nursery rhyme any given them fat prizes, usually at times when — 3)oc. Polonaise in A Chopin, Sevenata M. certs, and Elizabeth C^oolulae before she was two. Now she can recog- _ CjebrhenS, Wins. Moszl fit Karl W. kowski, Consolation Mendelssohn, they most needed them. nize all simple melodies—Grieg, themes Chanson (Donkey Serenade) Rudolph Friml, I was on in 1914 when Mrs. Coolidge from Peter and the Wolf, minuets, and so Wed- World War ding Day at Troldhaugen Grieg, Noted Philanthropist forth—and sing them. For the last few Estrellita first adopted the role of music patron. She has never Ponce, Fugue, No. 5 J. S. Bach. weeks I have been teaching her to play a Emeritus out of character. It was then she in- Professor I am a sophomore and with since stepped few very simple songs by rote. She seems two and one half years of study before the famous Berkshire Music Festivals at to memorize them as quickly as I do; that graduating augurated Oberlin College from high school: do SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY KATHERINE SULLIVAN is, by the time I have repeated the notes you think. Doctor her summer home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. From Gehrkens. that I could become a by letters enough to know the piece, she teacher year to year they grew in popularity, becoming the of piano? I believe that financially also knows it on the piano. There is no Music Editor, Webster's New I will be able to go to college but most important chamber music event in America. question of forcing Ann—she forces me to wonder if I could qualify. I teach her! She is trying to pick out melo- International Dictionary am studying in John From Europe came eminent musicians to produce pure Thompson's fifth grade dies, but except for three-note combina- book. I have strains of music against the picturesque wooded back- Once nature tried to interfere with the fortunes of Many of Mrs. Coolidge's philanthropies will never tions, so far without success. learned part of the solos but some are ground of South Mountain. The nation’s most tal- chamber music by blasting South Mountain with a be known, since she has the same feeling for pub- Ann has heard music all her life—re- too "deep.” Could you give me the name around tremendous wind and rain storm during Festival time. licity which she has for yellow fever. cordings every day. Also, she has heard me of a book to bridge the gap? Also a book ented young artists rehearsed the calendar for Her modesty play the piano every day, though badly. on harmony and theory for beginners’’ Festival time. They worked hard to create new cham- The lights in Music Temple flickered and went dead. matches her generosity. When she was thanked for I wonder whether her interest Could you also give me the may there- names of sev- ber music works, for although she loved Mozart and Mrs. Coolidge was not to be circumvented; she sent donating the Coolidge Auditorium to the nation she fore just be from hearing and not from eral concertos, the solo being about fifth her son out scurrying aptitude? grade?—L. W. Brahms, it was the modern compositions that set Mrs. said that she was the It would be difficult for me to teach Ann Coolidge’s eyes sparkling behind her pince-nez. for an auto battery. one to be grateful A. It because I am a very pianist. seems to me that you are doing poor I’m the Sixths Get Their Since all her proteges at one time or another wrote Then while the audi- “for being allowed to afraid I’ll do more harm than good. But no Where Did just the right things. You should prob- honor and since she commissioned ence listened in the do it.” teacher nearby is a work in her With reporters interested in teaching ably add some Haydn, Mozart, and more her at such a young age. Do you think she Names? dozens of pieces annually, Mrs. Coolidge amassed an dark, some of the she is kind but firm. should Bach to what you are studying, have piano lessons now—I could and if number of manuscripts. She decided to world’s best known She prefers to talk a impressive take her to a nearby city or do Q. Will you please refer me to book the Thompson fifth book is — you think too hard it Library in musicians played mer- I should wait that gives the origin of why and how donate them to the of Congress Washing- about the talent of until she is older?—H. M. F. would be sensible to go back to the French, German, and Italian sixths got fourth ton. It was then she had a real inspiration. Why leave rily away in the dim her musical proteges. A. Your letter interests their names? The harmony books I have one, or even the third. It is far better me greatly. to music to be filed away on shelves when she could also light rigged up from And so does Ann—I’d like to state only that they are called by these learn to play easier things well than Varied meet her! to donate a place where it could be performed? the battery. In names but I would like to know why. general I feel that it is good to have blunder through more difficult music. I Philanthropies —B. H. S. The Elizabeth Coolidge Auditorium, a handsome Occasionally Mrs. small children who have musical interest also suggest that you memorize an occa- $60,000 structure adjoining the Library of Congress, Coolidge herself played Once during an in- and ability begin to study early. But the A. I have looked in half a dozen books, sional piece, but I would postpone con- was dedicated in 1924. Along with it went the Elizabeth the piano during a ternational music tom-, fly in the ointment is the difficulty of including the new “Harvard Dictionary certos for a while. Coolidge Foundation, a $400,000 trust fund to help Festival. Although she was riding in a finding of Music,” for this information, but they the right teacher. Most piano As to supplementary study, I suggest achieve its purpose. Mrs. Coolidge was making history. great artists have Venetian gondola. teachers don’t know how to handle a all ignore the origin of the names. The that you get a copy of my book “Music The Auditorium was the first such building donated complimented her on Suddenly it was sur- child who has not yet learned to read “Harvard Dictionary” states unequivo- Notation and Terminology,” by physical movement. and one of government by a private citizen her efficiency at the language, Order a copy of cally that the names significance to the United States rounded on all sides and rather than put Ann into have no “Harmony for Eye, Ear, and Keyboard.” “My First Song Book” by Damrosch- whatsoever, and it inaugurated a new era for America’s national keyboard, she dislikes by gondolas filled with the hands of the average teacher I would so I guess we shall just have Both of these may be obtained Gartlan-Gehrkens (procurable through from the library. It engaged the government directly and defi- playing before audi- admirers of la nobile have her mother continue to provide her to forget the whole origin business—at publishers the publishers of of The Etude. I think it would The Etude), and sing least nitely in the affairs of music and musicology. ences. She has com- Americana who had with musical experience, just as she is so far as the altered sixths are con- be fine also the songs to her, playing the melody to read some volume on the at present doing. on cerned. posed many children’s bestowed a generous the piano some of the time and showing history of music. Perhaps your library The Projects Begin Ann is songs and some cham- award on their native probably not a musical prodigy, owns one or more her how the notes in the book go up and such histories, but if Elizabeth Coolidge was born in Chicago Oc- ber music works. but just a very nice, extremely on One son, Francisco Mali- bright not then you might send to down, represent longer or shorter tones, Shall I Use the Pedal in Playing the publish- tober 1864, the daughter of the socially prominent of her compositions little girl with above-average inborn in- 30, piero. It was probably and so forth. will ers of The Etude for a copy of Dr. James telligence She of course sing these Albert Arnold Spragues. The family fortune was made was performed in the only time that and sensitivity. If she had lived Bach? Francis Cooke’s songs, and soon she will be playing them, “Young Folks History in the wholesale grocery business but both her parents in 1941 in a home where there was great inter- Washington Mrs. Coolidge found too. of Music.” est in pictures or poetry, or in science Q. I used to study piano, but of late were far more interested in music than in groceries. but the critics were herself unable to es- All this will be excellent musical ex- years I have not or mathematics, she would probably have been able to carry on Elizabeth plainly inherited their great love for music. lukewarm. cape adulation. perience for Ann, and it will be fun for because of other duties. Now, however, developed considerable How to Play She was barely able to reach the keyboard when she Mrs. Coolidge’s gift- knowledge or skill I am able to practice again, but no teacher a Grace Note her mother. In fact it will be an ab- started Her Influence in one of these other fields. But being is available and I need advice frequently. piano lessons. She attended private schools but giving has had the un- sorbing experience that may well Q. I am enclosing the last few bars of World lucky enough come I am working at Bach Inventions arid never went to college. Wide to have a mother who loves Nachtstuck by Schumann. ending character of a to be one of the most important things Partitas, and I am confused because How is the low music and is musical, there Elizabeth was twenty-seven when she married Dr. Mrs. Coolidge would Ann has developed “F" grace note executed? I feel it should rondelay. In memory in your life. are no pedal markings. Does that signify along that line. be played with the count Frederick Shurtleff Coolidge, a distinguished Boston never permit more And I think it is terribly that these pieces are to be played without of four in uni- of her father, a Yale son with the right hand important (for the sake of Ann’s own pedal?—C. C. and let the up- surgeon who specialized in the care of crippled chil- than five performances graduate, she and her per octave “F" in the left hand follow MRS. ELIZABETH future happiness) to keep her going How Do You Count It? dren. One son was born to them. Early in their mar- to be given at her SPRAGUE COOLIDGE mother built A. The answer to your question is two- immediately. Is this right? I am enclosing a Me- along the a riage, Dr. Coolidge fell ill their search for three Festivals; same simple, natural lines as fold: In the self-addressed envelope which I hope and a day morial Hall which Q. In Boccherini’s Minuet, please, how first place, there was no such at present. I you will return soon. for healthful 1901. felt that So suggest that for at least do you count this thing as a Thank ng you climate brought them to Pittsfield, in she audiences houses that Univer- measure? damper pedal when Bach your helpful another year you yourself column in The Etude, I am. The doctor died there years later Mrs. Cool- might tire of more. assume the wrote his music—in fact, some and But not Mrs. Coolidge. A big, portly sity’s entire music department. In memory of both there was no —J. R. guidance of your daughter’s musical life. idge dedicated their estate in his memory as a home woman, she was never content unless she was stirring. her piano in the modern sense; and, in the parents she gave a $200,000 Memorial Fund to the Continue to play records for her, choos- for crippled children. She also built and endowed a When the Festivals ended, she sent her second place, most of Bach’s composi- chamber music Chicago Civic Orchestra, to provide pensions for its ing the compositions very carefully: some Frederick Shurtleff Coolidge Memorial Home for In- groups out on tour. She sponsored concerts every tions are in polyphonic style, and in such sea- members. Her parents’ home in Chicago she turned short piano pieces, a few compositions music cipient Consumptives and a Settlement School in Pitts- son in at least half-a-dozen cities throughout the into a absolute clarity is necessary if the home for Presbyterian Nurses. Her own Chi- for violin, certain songs for high soprano field. country. It did different voices are to retain their beauty not matter that she could not attend cago residence which her father had built for her was voice, an occasional string quartet or and individuality. Therefore a good A friend suggested that Mrs. Coolidge engage a house them all. She wanted everyone to have the opportunity dedicated as a home for Catholic Nurses. symphony movement. rule Work for variety: is, quartet to help her during the days over which sick- of hearing chamber music well “When playing Bach, use little or no performed. One season Although many Americans are unaware of her na- some lively, “dancey” music during which Of course I see that the pedal.” It ness, her husband’s death, grief, loneliness had she arranged fourteen concerts two eighth notes is of course true that artists and in England, Russia, tional role as a music patron, Mrs. Coolidge has re- Ann will probably make movements of get a half count each, and that the two cast shadows. use the pedal somewhat, even in playing It was out of this house quartet that the Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, and Italy. She ceived high honors both at home and abroad. her body to correspond quarter notes get one count each, making Yale with the music Bach fugues, but Berkshire Festivals grew. Mrs. Coolidge could not resist imported musicians from abroad and sent the three counts, but do you strike the an artist has a discrim- Americans University and the University of California, Smith, (this is good!); but some quiet, A. Grace notes are interpreted so var- melodic eighth note in the inating ear— can having others hear her quartet perform. It was not to the continent. The roll call of treble first and have he hear the slightest iously musicians whose Mount Holyoke, Mills, and Pomona Coileges have given music during which she will just that I always hesitate to tell any- listen— the pupil call it “and” then strike the blurring, and long before she had built the Temple of Music on works have been first heard he uses the pedal so skill- one in .Coolidge concerts is her honorary degrees. In France she was decorated or possibly sing. quarter in the bass, or does the quarter positively that his way is wrong. fully that each melody in the total South Mountain. The first audiences were made up enormous. There are names from this country, from with the Legion of Honor in Continue to play the in the bass come first? It is in one of the tex- However, in this strongly and Belgium she received piano for her, ture remains case I feel so of close friends. John Thompson books and the way it is clear. An amateur, Before the Festivals moved to Wash- England, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, the Order of Leopold if however, that the your and the Order of the Crown. In and you are not satisfied with your written has me puzzled.— musical effect produced by F. M. B. and especially one who is studying ington in 1924, music lovers were traveling from Cali- Czechoslovakia, Russia—names like Stravinsky, Pro- London she playing, by method is was presented with the Cobbett Medal begin to take lessons and to himself, inartistic that I must tell you is not so likely to be sensitive fornia, Oregon, and all parts of the country to hear kofiev, Milhaud, Ravel, Casella, Malipiero, Hindemith, for her service practice an hour or in that I believe pianists to chamber music. She holds one dis- two a day if you A. Strike the high A in the right hand this respect, practically all them. and since the musical effect Schoenberg, Fitelberg, Martinu, Frank Bridge, Ben- tinction of dubious value can manage it. Play hymn tunes and folk would sound the instant today—when in Germany with the low A in the left hand, then is better with low F just an no pedal at all than with A good-natured autocrat, Mrs. Coolidge always liked jamin Britten, and Eugene Goossens, Aaron Copland, she was made an honorary songs for her, but play folk dances too, count before playing all chord. citizen of Frankfort. Two and for each succeeding note in too much pedal, I the rest of the to manage advise you to use the I things by herself, avoiding hair-tangling Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, Walter Piston, Quincy musical groups of wide prominence and encourage her to express the latter the right hand. have tried it your way, but it just bear her name pedal very little or not at all committees. Her ability to line up people would make Porter, and Randall Thompson in playing doesn’t sound are a few of the Amer- the Coolidge Quartet and the Elshuco Trio, the right to me at all. a union latter organizer swoon with envy. icans who have benefited by her encouragement. adapted from the first 142 ''FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” letters ( Continued on Page 166’ ETUDE THE MARCH, 1946 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC 143 :

symphony, new themes are added, developed, and ex- work is produced. Music and Study tended until a master played by a symphony If the work is to be orchestra, determine which the composer must next instruments PASSING FANCIES

various themes and harmonies - measures are all play- are to play the and An interesting musical sketch to be played con rubato and with great freedom. Note that the thirds in the first and second the notes for each he must write out all instrument. the first and third fingers, lig-htly and staccato. The composition requires deft pedaling". Grade full score ed with 4. He prepares what is called a on which the FRANCISCA VALLEJO

instrument are written on a - notes for each separate — •> Moderato — ~ „ ' engaged to copy out ‘ 2 line. Copyists are then each in- /Ov conrubatoz 3 — == ^ putting in not only the - 1 1 Conducting strumentalist’s part, notes but This Business of dynamics, 2=2 rests, expression marks, and so forth. It might be said that the score is nothing more nor less than a schedule of instructions, specifications, and an architect detailed drawings, such as might give to p p * which, if followed espresstvo by l^eg-inaid Stewart a building contractor and explicitly, should produce in actual form what has hitherto r\ Conductor, BaltimorB Symphony Orchestra existed only in the imagination of the architect. To carry the simile of construction a little farther, the £ £ m (conductor) then hands out m to m general contractor each tradesmen or workers (the orchestra) instruc- £ 5 WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE of his tion sheets copying his particular part of the work A_ while reserving for himself the blue print and speci-

fications of the whole (the score) , by means of which success in each Stewart, famous as pianist and as conductor, pursues a dual career with equal Reginald he is able to supervise and correct the work of the of a professional musician. Talented from childhood, field. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son while bringing into one harmonic whole the family migrated to the individual the Stewart sang in cathedral choirs and studied with his father until 1914, when London and Paris. varying activities of the bricklayers, plasterers, car- new world. From then on, his musical education progressed, first to Toronto, later to also worked at penters, and electricians. Abroad he studied piano with Isidor Philipp, Arthur Friedheim, and Mark Hambourg. He harmony, counterpoint, and orchestration with Nadia Boulanger. mi * Reginald Stewart has Since his American debut as pianist in New York's Town Hall on March 6, 1937, His 1941-42 tour appeared with consistent and growing success in piano recitals throughout the country. The conductor stands between the composer and the Philharmonic-Symphony as one of fhe picked piano was highlighted by an engagement with the New York performer as an interpreter of the composer's message. appeared also with the Chicago and Detroit orchestras. soloists of its gala Centennial season. He has interpretation of that message depends he accepted On his the Mr. Stewart was appointed Director of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in 1941. In 1942, and increased virility and significance of the performance. By far the conductorship of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra which he completely reorganized give over seventy the greater proportion of the music now being played to ninety-five players. This, the fourth season under his direction, the orchestra will Canada. orchestras concerts, twenty-eight of them on long concert tours that will take the orchestra from Florida to by symphony was composed by men who this season. Mr. Stewart will also appear as guest conductor with a number of symphony orchestras have long since passed from this earthly scene. They Editor's Note. — are not able to express themselves as to whether their music is being correctly interpreted. We might be shocked if we were to hear how they would conduct

HILE the conductor of a symphony orchestra very practical, vitally important role played music is a much publicized individual, the general by the conductor in relaying great W public knows relatively little about his duties to an audience. and functions. His favorite breakfast food and fond- An Increased Interest in Conducting ness for collecting vases of the early Ming period may be common knowledge to many of his admirers but to Today, conducting is no longer an esoteric a deplorable number of them his geometric actions art. Conservatories of music throughout are as incomprehensible as the wigwagging messages this country—the Juilliard School of Mu- sent by a sailor on one battleship to another. To these sic, the Eastman School of Music, the New fascinated but baffled watchers, he is no more than a England Conservatory of Music and num- strange, lone figure who writhes before the orchestra erous others—are teaching it just as they in alternate moods of agony and pleasure, these con- do piano, voice, violin, and other major vulsions taking place atop an eminence known as a subjects. Here at Peabody, for instance, podium and in full view of the audience. Some learn we have had a large class in conducting to ignore or, at least, to tolerate him while others (and for a number of years. As a matter of fact, these are greatly in the majority) find it impossible all students at Peabody, no matter what to keep from watching the way in which he coaxes a their subject, are taught the basic rudi- “concord of sweet sounds” from the obedient mu- ments of conducting. sicians spread out before him. Laurence McKinney Because of this increasing, broad general has aptly, if a bit acidly, individualized him as follows interest in conducting, I hope I may be forgiven for referring to it as a “business.” This Backward Man, this View Obstructor As a matter of fact, there is an astonishing Is known to us as the Conductor. analogy between conducting and business. beats the time with grace and vim He To begin with, the businessman And sometimes they keep up with him. usually But though they’re eloquent and snappy has to deal with three elements: his ma- Conductors always seem unhappy. terial, the means of promoting that mate- strange the podium Their grimaces on rial and the market which he is endeavor- Suggest bicarbonate of sodium ing to reach. These same three elements May be, perhaps, the proper diet To keep their inner fires quiet. also confront the conductor. His material A A —A A.—A A A A A A_J? A A A They have to think up countless capers is the music the composer has written, his keep daily To them in the papers means are the orchestral musicians under Which help them in financial strictures his direction, his Or fit them for the motion pictures. and market is the audi- Conductors worry all the while ence gathered either in the concert hall That’s why they bow, but never smile.* or before the radio loud speaker. A conductor’s function is to select the Conducting, as we know it today, is about a century most suitable material, perfect its pro- old and stems back to Mendelssohn who founded the duction by the best available “elegant school” of conductors during his tenureship means and project it to the largest possible of the Gewandhaus concerts. Following this came the market. First, let us look at the material REGINALD STEWART more modern school of conducting, headed by Richard with which the conductor must work. Wagner and with such men as Hans von BUlow and There comes into a man’s head, somewhere, Hans Richter as high priests. This was succeeded by sometime, a their own works. Perhaps it is well just as it is. succession of notes, a melody. It may be to a Stephen the present “virtuoso school,” so called, the pioneers of Sometime ago, Stravinsky Foster as he dreamed of his “Jeanie with conducted a performance which were Felix Mottl, Arthur Nikisch and Felix the Light- of one of his Brown Hair” or compositions with the New York Phil- Weingartner. Legends grew to a Brahms as he works on a new up about these men and harmonic-Symphony. The Olin symphony. Now, the simple little tune, next morning, Mr. their fabulous feats which did much to obscure the Jeanie with Downes of the New York Times, while praising the the Light-Brown Hair, would not be very attractive concert, criticized the if it had no harmonic accompaniment, conductor-composer on the * “People of Note,” by Lawrence so the tune From McKinney, published ground that many times during by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. is clothed with agreeable harmony. In the the work he completely case of a ignored his own markings ( Continued, on Page 180) 144 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" THE ETUDE 1

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Copyright MCMXLY hy Oliver Ditson Company International Copyright secured MARCH 1946 163 dinary letter from a young man in Iowa. The Teacher’s Round Sorry I cannot disclose either his identity or the name of the town; indeed, I can Table quote only a small portion of the letter which is one of the most remarkable I Grade 2 %. HURRICANE Page 132) ADA RICHTER ( Continued, from have ever received. Here’s what he writes: Allegro M. M. J= loo “Although I read the Round Table reg- ularly I am not a teacher, in fact I am add one of the sets of Va- bone, you can not even a full-time music student. I Ah, Vous-Dirais-je Maman, riations—the am sixteen years old, just one of the Monsieur Duport, of the or the Minuet of millions of music-loving Americans who Poebel,” one of the Fantasias “Dumme are enjoying the privilege of hearing or the Adagio in B minor, the in C minor great music every day. Although I have Rondo, the gay Gigne in G, little D major taken music lessons for several years I minuets written at various four or five haven’t had the opportunity of studying with the first ones in ages—beginning under a competent teacher. Nevertheless and ending with the tragic G and P, I have the radio, the phonograph and (K. 355) and—well, there Minuet in D The Etude to enhance my love for music. more delightful Mozart com- are dozens “I am not a prodigy and do not have

. . I to choose from! . But warn positions visions of ever becoming a piano virtuoso. a Mozart program is the most ex- you, However, there is one thing concerning task anyone can undertake; it is acting my future about which I am certain. All of the highest goals you can set for one tnrough life I shall have music, an over- yourself. flowing abundance of it; for without it “Yes, Jaspar William Patton, Jr„ you’ve my life would be quite empty. ... It is patient while we’ve devoted our- been so such writing as yours which deepens my to your Nashville colleague—now selves appreciation and understanding of mu- what’s on your mind?” “I just want to sic.” . . . that your articles on Mozart in those say There, Ladies and Gentlemen, you see and July issues certainly helped me. June our obligation—the Iowa lad has ex- Until X read your study of Mozart I al- pressed it perfectly, “to deepen the ap- thought he was to be played by ways preciation and understanding of music.” children, but I know better now. At pres- That must be every music teacher’s tip- ent I am studying the Sonata in B-flat top ideal. ... It is a serious responsi- taking for five (K. 315) • I’ve been music bility. . , . years (am now seventeen) and in all that Time to adjourn! . . . Let’s have an- time never played anything by Mozart, other Young People’s Forum soon. but now that I have learned how to play piano from you and my teacher, I The choice of his music Mozart will go on the list of my think Prodigies and Artists favorite composers along with Chopin I am practicing this and Beethoven. ... I have been waiting for an answer on Iturbi Table to Jose to perfect it. the Round page a famous virtuoso virtuoso sonata very hard in order who in a recent article in The Etude ad- As you said, I want to play Mozart and vocated that children who are potential ar- not NOTEzart." tists should be drilled on technic, but given I am looking forward eagerly to hear- no "pieces,” such things being reserved for Iturbi and Baldwin are inseparable. will the hoi-polloi who won’t amount to much The names ing Jaspar play that sonata. . . . He musically anyway. discover that to study a Mozart sonata It is virtually impossible to think of one The emphasis on the technician first has a life-time friendship. is like making been far too prevalent and is responsible without the other. For his unique adaptability Each year the friendship deepens, new for the virtuoso complex from which our qualities emerge, earlier beauties ripen. country has suffered. Many of our child to the entire range of idioms from Mozart to prodigies have fizzled in adulthood, due Mozart there is no such thing as With undoubtedly to too much training and too de Falla, the Baldwin has proved his ideal coming to an end. To the true Mozartist little nourishment. in his own words; there is only everprogressing growth The teacher's mission is to “influence expressive medium ... and enrich the life of the child through the merging into richer understanding. "the supreme piano responsiveness.” experience of beauty" . . . Should this not apply to future artists too, so that they the baton, his demand for extreme The Kochel Catalog will develop into sincere, self-effacing ar- At tists whose guiding purpose will be not to I to both of you give technical exactness, precise instrumental am glad see that astonish with their brilliance, but to be its Kochel number. your Mozart sonata leaders into the realm of beauty?—B. A., balance and coordination, is but the wider That is the only way specifically to iden- California. piano capable tify any Mozart composition. It isn’t ex- evidence of his insistence on a is to B. A.’s 8” There not much to add act enough to say “Sonata No. 3, or No. challenge to the vicious custom of the last of the soundest artistic values. The Baldw in, because publishers print them in different generations of producing virtuosi rather Iturbi states, "is incomparably superior in orders; or to designate “Sonata in B-flat than artists except to say that one of major,” for there are three in that key. the most serious goals in training gifted tone, touch and scale.” Because of the absence of opus numbers, young students is to achieve the ideal Baldwin-built are in- a scholarly nineteenth century musician, Baldwin and Pianos balance of technical drill, training, rou- Ludwig Kochel (also a botanist and min- creasingly available to teachers and pupils as tine (call it what you will) with the per- eralogist!) undertook the herculean task ception and re-creation of the beauty the perfect medium for encouragement and of compiling a chronological, descriptive miracle of the music of the great catalog of Mozart’s entire output. Kochel and success. Your Baldwin dealer has set one performed an invaluable service for music composers. We all know how difficult it aside so you can hear and play it any time by tracking down the location of hun- is to hold these in proper solution, espe- dreds of manuscripts scattered through- cially in the case of young children. The you like. Let him tell you when and how you out Europe, culling from this mass Europeans have leaned too heavily on and can own a Baldwin. of material and printed editions—much the technic-first-and-iast side to the im- of it spurious or doubtful—the original pairment of musical penetration, while works of Wolfgang, the Great. His find- we in America, stressing musical aware- ings are published in a formidable, thou- ness have often neglected technical dis- sand paged tome. at it sometime. Look cipline. If we approach the problem in- Both of you who gave Kochel labels telligently we ought to be able to find a used the new chronological numbering balanced, middle course, the only one suggested by Einstein in his revision of which can reasonably assure the ultimate the catalog. Since this creates confusion, emergence of the true artist from the iial&toin I advise adhering to Kbchel’s original gifted youth. numbering which, curiously enough, Ein- chrysalis of answer to that virtuoso's stein himself uses in his recent superb As for our THE BALDWIN PIANO COMPANY to CINCINNATI biography of Mozart. dictum—we’ll just stop long enough 2, OHIO

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v > V x and a luscious quality, of SW y V „ J to high notes ¥ more that same A Notable Friend course. But more and 5 I Questions 7i/Aed is Voice Most know what a song Two audience wants to TEACHERS The - about. Selling a song means bringing its of Music music, meaning and spirit, as well as its ^PERENNIAL readily in music to an audience in a direct and ( Continued from Page 143) dfroufSooks, understandable manner. This, it seems of the FAVORITES of her name. to me, fulfills the highest purpose CIRCLES TODAY Now nearly deaf, Mrs. Coolidge lives art of singing. 1*1 -JnstuerJ It, DR. NICHOLAS DOUTY nr Vll of the classi- quietly in Washington. Her health is Since the great majority cal literature for voice is in a foreign none too good, but she is still the brisk Here are the pieces you use year after 01 For longer than many of you can remem- of oDes?""eal champion of chamber music, still alert language, the controversial question Food. year. This list will give you some idea of ber our easy pieces have been teachers' or sing- • thfiu to contemporary trends in composition. making an English translation, r/i.’, material pets. up. the variety of you can find in No child gets bored when gay, Her son, Albert Sprague Coolidge is a ing in the original language comes of the Century Edition. On every count: sprightly pieces like these are your selec- member of the faculty at Harvard. A Some feel that much of the beauty fidelity keen student of labor songs of Brahms, Schubert, Wolf, Franz, appearance price your choice Singing, Vowel Formation of Voice” usually occurs between the ages of tion—in CENTURY EDITION—at I5tf a problems, he has — — — ought After Belching thirteen and seventeen. In your case it seems also made music an integral his Debussy and other masters is lost if they February 1942 issue of The Etude copy. part of to be CENTURY EDITION—at I5<* n In the to have been delayed, for still sing with a in the voice stu- you life. His original tongue. most interested favorite instrument is the viola are not sung In their 7 was problem your “Boy’s Voice" which “Sounds exactly copy. with initials R. A. B„ whose which he sometimes plays in doubt there Is room for argument on dent like a woman’s.” We are inclined to agree that his mother’s No gas or air after singing 1 do 3587 Advice to Dolly, G-1 Arnold was belching it is not falsetto, your reasoning in the matter Festivals. both sides. But singing, unlike chamber Teachers do not seem able to 3647 Basket Dance, Am-2 746 Avalanche, Am-3 Heller same thing. Crosby the indigestion being quite correct. Marchesi’s Op. I exercises When the Tenth instrumental I have absolutely no 3687 Brownie's Courtship, C-2 Heaps Annual Festival of music, symphonies and 3189 Barberini’s Minuet, C-2 Hesse answer why- could do you no as long as remain practicing. I have harm you 3588 Bushy only belch after Tail, C-? Arnold Chamber Music was held recently at the music, is not “pure” music. Its distinctive 2306 Bluette Waltz, G-2 Durernoy and I what you are, a boy and not a young man. neuritis very bad, especially in neck 3690 Dancing School, C-2 Rolfe Library of Comp of the Gypsies, multiple However, -we are not as sure as your teacher Congress, the customary award quality, which is at the same time its 238 Am-2 Behr you think the anxiety in trying AW.-* 3450 Elephant's Trunk, The, C-2 Richter and head. Do Voice” will of 768 Chopsticks, Waltz, C-2 might seems to be, that the “Change of the Elizabeth Coolidge Medal for emi- great advantage, lies in the inseparable De Lull best with this nerve handicap to do my never take place. At the first sign of it, if it nent service 3123 Country Gardens, English Morris trouble? to chamber music was not marriage of poetry to music. One is not produce this does seem to be coming, have a careful and going up the scale do kS ° made. Instead, Dance, F-3 arr. Grooms e in singing vowels good eier Librarian Archibald Mac- complete without the other. Because of in the thorough examination of your throat by a mi"heOr°° Doll, each vowel more forward Leigh stepped 1697 Dancing D-4 Poldlhi vou sing doctor so that you may avoid singing in the 3675 Firefly, The, Am-1 forward during intermis- this, I think that a foreign language preceding it? Hopkins of the Shepherdess, mouth than the one cer- 1673 Dream . . register. are likely to be quite G-4. . You sion Labitzky Middle-C to A two wrong 3676 Going Swimming, Bb-1 Hopkins and read a declaration signed by the song should either be translated to the A below “. 3 I sing from will • effectively tell 368 Edelweiss, Pure As Snow, Eb-3. .... contralto? tain yourself, for the high tones become the desirabil- 3590 Grandma's Rocking Chair, C-l Arnold President of the United Lange above. Am 1 soprano or States. language of the audience, or, its story octaves more and more difficult and an unpleasant ity and advantages of playing a 3684 Here We Go, C-l 1006 Fairy Barque, The, Eb-4 Smallwood Porter “Elizabeth band Sprague Coolidge has done briefly told to the audience before it is “Break” may show itself in both your speaking instrument." 3692 Lots of Fun, G-2 Rolfe 791 Fountain, G-3 answer to your question in our what none Bohm A The and your singing voices. 3681 Marie Antoinette’s Music before her had found the sung. physician rather than Box, C-l .Giovanni 225 Fuer Elise, Am-3 Beethoven opinion lies with the and 2.—Hoarseness in the mornings might come educational 3678 Military Band, The, means to do,’’ he read, In spite of the tact that definite Bb-1 Hopkins “She has given The value of this proved to 2200 Giissondo Mazurka, singing teacher. 0f was me on F-3 Bohm the from several things, but in your case a slight youth. 3695 Party Clothes, G-2 Schwab the sure that you have no indigestion value to music on the shelves of the Library a recent Europe. I told 627 Gypsy Dance, Dm-3 vou are catarrh seems to be indicated, the excess constructive USO tour in was Lichner there was a u wency nasal 3534 Polly and Peggy, G-2 Proehl your letter sounds as if — cords a living voice and let the people hear 2693 Home Guard, The, F-3 mucous dropping down onto your vocal 3595 Proud Mrs. Hen, that servicemen might walk out on me if Creenwald acid in the secretion of the F-2 Arnold in hydrochloric night. This has to be dislodged it. . 2308 during sleep at 3696 Puppet Show, The, . . No one has contributed more to I sang classical Norwegian Cradle Song, F-3 More/ the slight excess of gas G-2 Steiner more than one song in a stomach. Therefore vocalizing before you can sing clearly in 2641 Polish Festival is ex- by the stuoy 3679 Summer Days, F-l Hopkins the understanding of music in America Day, Ab-3 Holt in the process of digestion promote foreign language. I made up my mind to produced the morning. It would be dangerous for you 3697 1030 Fay, action of the breathing Topsy Turvy, F-2 Steiner and no one given Rose Mazurka, F-3 pelled by the strong at music." greater encouragement risk this embarrassing possibility and in- Heins to take medicines, or to spray or gargle your 3686 Which Is the Way to London Town, 2252 Solfeggietto, Cm-3 muscles during singing. to writers and performers of K. P. f, Boch throat without knowing what these nostrums C- music in cluded on this test program songs of the scale be careful not Porter 440 Tarantella, Ab-4 2. As you ascend advice upon the subject America than Mrs. Coolidge.” Heller pro- contain. Physician’s Debussy, Saint-Saens, and Ravel. I interfere with the easy, comfortable told 3355 Valse Chromotique, Ab-3 to would be more reasonable. Octogenarian Coolidge Letchelizky the vowel sounds by stiffening acknowledged the story of each song in duction of Ask your dealer for Century music. If he cannot an informal throat, jaw, the tribute with any of the enunciating muscles, supply you, characteristic modesty. send your order direct to us. Our manner and at the end of the program Ask your dealer lor Century music. If he cannot and so forth. If you do so even Handel’s Song Where’er You Walk “It comes as a tongue, uvula complete catalog listing over superb climax in my long I supply you, send your order higher tones will 3700 numbers_is was happy, and a bit relieved, to find direct to us. Our in the slightest degree, the Q. Please advise whether or not Where’er life,” she replied. FREE on request. “It crowns my lifework complete catalog listing over 3700 difficult because their natural my audience still present. While the boys numbers Is become more Walk is appropriate for a lady to sing. prevented. You with pride and with humility. I FREE on request. resonances will be partially We Mrs. N. S. M. thank generally preferred to have me sing fa- — you all with have pointed this out many times in this reciprocal love and very deep miliar CENTURY MUSIC PUBLISHING CO. songs from the operettas of Ru- of The Etude. gratitude.” CENTURY MUSIC column Where’er You Walk from the opera Ot PUBLISHING CO, or a soprano A. 254 West 40th Street New York dolph Friml and Victor Herbert, their 3. Whether you are a contralto male 18, N. Y. 254 West 40th “Semele” was designed to be sung by a The real tribute to Mrs. Coolidge can- Street New York 18, N. Y. depends upon the quality of your tone almost enthusiastic response to the classics voice, especially a tenor. Occasionally a bari- not be confined on paper. as much as it does upon your range. An audi- It will go on tone or a bass undertakes it, but its delicate showed me they will enjoy such songs if trained singing teacher for generations. It will come tion with any well and charming expressiveness suit the from the they understand point for you. beauty the story. should determine this important have often heard grateful hearts of composers who receive tenor voice best. However, we I do not believe that one is Develop soprano or a con- commissions lowering the it sung by a woman either a from the Coolidge Founda- Should a Boy of Seventeen Sing With a LEARN AT HOME the standards of classical music by pre- tralto. It is all a question of taste. tion, from musicians who are privileged Influential Voice Resembling a Woman’s? senting art songs in as Quality to perform in understandable the Coolidge Auditorium Q. I am a boy of seventeen, a natural colora- Throat a manner as possible. On the contrary, in Loss of Voice After an Infected NEW WAY and from numberless your tura soprano with a range frsvi Middle-C to F audiences all but I am in by bringing this fine music than Q. 1 wrote you once before to an au- above High-C. I never feel more at ease years TEACHES YOU through the country who will thrill to despair so I am writing again. It is two dience on a level equal 1 Bell Song. Sempre Libera or with their appre- VOICE when sing The after an infected throat musical programs made possible by the Aria since I lost my voice ciation the Caro Nome. I have worked on the Waltz doctor purpose of singing is fulfilled Feuchtinger Voice Method and it has not returned. I consulted a unselfish foresight of a true lover of from “Romeo and Juliette,” and I am going HOW to SING and the artist will be assured me that I would sing again after and theyhe rewarded in direct GUARANTEED who music. to undertake the Shadow Song from “Dinorah” Frederic Freemantel, famous operatic concert singer his treatment was finished but I cannot do so. proportion to his ability to 7oar success, your charm, voice for about a year and voice teacher for 40 years, has discovered a accomplish your poise ... in fact your soon. I have studied sides but way new I cannot turn my neck freely on all to tram your voice—in your own home! If you can this. entlro personality is re- and have been confined strictly to the colora- talk you can now learn to sing. vealed in your voice. De- toward the right, nor can 1 hold it up velop voice only PHONOGRAPH a resonant, full- tura roles. My teacher feels that my RECORDS OF FREEMANTEL’S VOICE toned. flexible quality in straight. My neck feels crooked and my past the changing very Freemantel's Letter-Lessons, and i your voice so that your will not change since 1 am actual voice on mother says it should be adjusted. I know records, guide you every step of the way. Voice friends, your public may Canto culture, know the The period. I have been taught by the Bel breath control, diction, timbre— true YOU. that voice is still there because it comes taught and demon- Feochtingcr Method tells you exercises. my strated so you cannot fail, method employing the “Marchesi” if you do your part. -ow . . . makes it possble for you while. I want a complete . horse- back once in a to train your voice yourself ... at In the mornings I experience a slight cheated WRITE FOR FREE DETAILS Salesmanship in home. Write for the Feuchtinger Voice musical education and I would feel Singing Book, sent FREE. either from strain Mailed to no one under ness which does not come again. little voice mailed on request Even If You Can’t Sing Latin-American Music 17 years of uge unless signed by parent- if I could never sing The of these two books have already been FREE a Note or overuse the voice. It takes about an • Thousands of sounds strained and out of place, just Read what Freemantel’s new method has < Continued 1 have done for from Page 135) PERFECT VOICE INSTITUTE hour of vocalizing to bring me up to my usual educators and teachers, and the others. Prove that YOU can develop a beautiful singing a remnant of the original voice which people to youth, to parents, and to music and speaking Studio 5583. Kimball standard. I appreciate your telling voice. Pay as you learn. Write NOW for Hall Bldg.. Chicago 4. III. high would a coloratura soprano full detans. in the said was beautiful. 1 was praise the value of standard forms of vocalizing. This has United States me what I could take before going to sleep or response has been amazing! Without exception they FREEMANTEL VOICE with a range from F below Middle-C to B-flat INSTITUTE after getting in order to relieve this hoarse- Studio always been axiomatic for singers. But I up brilliant in tone quality. 1 was training 3E—Steinway Hall your opinion above high-C, their educational appeal and their contribution to the music 113 ( 50% ness. Also I would like to have W. 57th St.. New York 19, N. Y. do believe that more emphasis on Continued from Page 134) DISCOUNT being trained for opera. You have helped the about my voice changing. My voice has got- books are espe- thought, Piano Teachers— others, will you please try to help me? I program as a whole. For teachers and students, these poetry, or whatever you might we can offer you a 50% discount ten higher, lighter and more fleodble since I begins that little , and nasal solu- number. on your teaching have tried all sorts of head the wish to call it, of a song will pay double material. No strings attached. started taking lessons. It sounds exactly like a they stimulate interest and broaden the outlook on We can well stress with tions without success.—E. H. cially helpful as pride in Amer- You must state that you are a woman’s and I am sure it is not falsetto be- dividends in the development of vocal and teacher. training provides. Mail the ica that music is a means of cause I tried singing lower and I found not advantages and opportunities which music selling technic. communica- PIANO TEACHERS. DEPT. SE actually hurt me give way to despair. There must tion, as well as an object of enjoyment. only that I couldn’t, but it A. Do not copies. These books are available, A 14 Pershing Ave. H. K. physicians in the great city of Wash- coupon today for your free sample New Idea It can often bring North East. Penna. and was a severe strain. — be many together what lan- one of them was not able to ington. Because obligation, to all music teachers and students who send for them. for MUSICAL TALENT and APPRECIATION guage holds apart and does not without What Is the Story in the Song? can sometimes A. We quote from a book upon physiology by completely diagnose and cure you Members will bring is Perhaps you receive tbeir B keynotes for musical about a greater understanding of Professor Kuss, Dr. Duval, and Dr. Amory: prove that your case hopeless. I have repeatedly used the word “sell” being him sufficient time to effect a pleasure and opportunity. NEW REtfUHSS • SHEET the Peace of the Americas than any “A child’s voice is very high, the glottis did not give DIVISION, in this article. other PIANO in that you are a little CONN BAND INSTRUMENT • acknowledge MUSIC WRITERS • • Had I just been graduated TRICKS! smaller than that of the adult. The change cure. You ROYALTIES RECORDING means. Indiana issue our of puberty,’ better and that some times you have “a rem- C. G. Conn Ltd., 313 Conn Building, Elkhart, " • from the Eastman bi-monthly Break Studies the voice takes place at the ‘Age ARTISTS CAREERS ALBUMS • PHONOGRAPHS. 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Developed by Ralph TEACHERS not a sudden one, and the increase in the size part and the Scott while Chief of AND STUDENTS! objective and dynamic attitude It would be very dangerous for you to im- Auditions of 25 cents, and strength of the larynx, the vocal cords, despair. Columbia Broadcasting •* stamps or coin. By Address_ plied in System. Write subsc ri nti nrf ear and all sorts of nasal and head solutions with- the thought of selling instead of {°.r ?° consecutive issues. Send the laryngeal muscles is a gradual pro- try for record with 2 lesions. Sent now torfnr thethi' fC laftltiale ASCAP publisher-meml absolutely free latest issue. Mention, if teacher. cess also. At this period there is usually an out expert advice. They might prove to be merely interpreting a song is the Zone -State. .STREET, most medications for you to use. Chy. _79 WALL Dept. E, NEW YORK, H, INSTRUCT-O-TDNES • R increase in the growth of hair upon the face exactly the wrong t SO S. OIK • STENSEN STUDIOS conducive to success. HULL AVENUE PASADENA 5 • CALIF. 752 I a Teacher, Student An audience thrills KimballKlmh^.u*?,Hall mBldg.J and the body. called ‘‘Change The best of good luck to you. am Chicago 4 , III. The phenomenon 166 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC’’ MARCH, 1946 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" 167 THE ETUDE :

the tubular pneumatic organ the com- Can the Small Organ Be binations will probably have been set up at the factory and therefore the organist Expressive? will have to content himself with what- disposal ever is at his in the way of The from Page 137) fixed combinations. tracker organ is Choir ( Continued Uhi;\n mi Questimvs less likely to have aids of this kind, but following it may be that several toe studs will be the writer would suggest the found near the pedal keyboard. combinations organ can Diapa- The small be expressive—to 1. Dulciana as solo and Stopped him who will! son as accompaniment, with Swell to Great 8' drawn. (The advantage of hav- certain ^Answered ly HENRY S. FRY, Mus. Ddc. ing the coupler drawn is that a degree of expression can thus be ef- What of the Shrines of fected.) 8 2. Stopped Diapason, Swell to Great Yesteryear? and 4' drawn. The melody is played on (Continued from Page the great manual and the accompani- 129) ment on the swell. Since both the solo expres- and accompaniment are under the Museum. Invariably he returns to well as the with its purchasing Amendment or something to compel sacred sion, this combination (as the Music Room four large win- q. We have the opportunity of organ for our church. It solos to be published with organ parts, whether described) is the most ex- dows overlooking the park; where a tine four manual next three im- condition Our but in excellent they have piano parts or not . What do you obtained in the the Master are is not new pressive one that can be pressions of most vivid. the stops on enclosed think? Could not crusade be started ? W. L. vresent organ contains a — FOR "straight” organ. On Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday in reeds having only an Oboe list It is weak A. While we agree with you that the accom- PIANO strings. The choir organ is as above with afternoons, he gave his lessons, in CLASS OR PRIVATE 3. The same combination accepting and very weak paniments to sacred solos should be written duplication of the Great and little INSTRUCTION Swell to Great 16' also drawn. no fee whatsoever for them; sometimes merely a for the organ, any “crusade" would have to available. The church building is substituted for Stopped were given singly but for variety is include the publishers, who would probably 4. Salicional they the most about fifteen hundred people lofty seating object to the expense involved and would prob- Diapason and used as directed in 2 and 3. part they were presented in ensemble is to convince the Pastor DOROTHY GAYNOR PAULINE and ’my problem ably prefer leaving the adaptation of the ac- instrument is deficient in 5. Salicional and Stopped Diapason fashion. Seated at the piano, his flowing that our present companiment to the experienced organist, BLAKE the needs of congregational sing- HEIDELBERGER used as in 2 or 3. white hair accentuated by the wine- tone to meet rather than entrust the matter to the com- I point out to him that mechan- MELODY 4' ing. When poser who is probably more familiar with piano BOOK. A First Book. 6. Stopped Diapason and Flute as colored drapes of the room, Liszt easily he brings up the ically the instrument is poor Little pieces planned HAPPY DAYS. Book I. For class idiom, and consequently would not write a to teach the solo accompanied by Great Dulciana. dominated the scene. Around him were buy a new console would this or individual Question. “If we good organ accompaniment. letter-names of the staves, a tone at instruction. A book been advised that 7. Stopped Diapason and Salicional grouped his pupils—all ages and na- not be remedied*’? I have time, that gives the earliest beginner a in both directions simultane- a the organ was installed one set of shut- accompanied by Dulciana if the latter is tionalities. Sometimes he played a whole when learning qualifica- ously, so as to assure equal knowl- foundation in piano through actual to operate. Because the addi- Q. 1 am interested in the ters was made Guild participation in properly balanced. composition; other times a page or the tions for membership in The American edge of both bass and treble clefs rhythm, sight-read- two, tional expense involved was not available will appreciate it you can ing, harmony stops accompanied all swell shutters oper- of Organists, and if as well as ^Professional c^Musicians Price, 75 cents and transposition 8. All three swell a phrase. Then he changed places with expenditure to make the £FoY £Beginne>is possible to have one tell me what person or organization to ad------Price, 50 cents by Dulciana. If Dulciana is too soft, his pupils. Constantly encouraging with ate was not possible. Is it current. MELODY BOOK. A Second dress, in order to obtain the information. The only instrument operated by the pulse beat of household electric Melodia may be used. a kindly word here for some improve- G. W. H. classic Book. The twelve pieces that make — Never varies; never tires. No springs to wind or get out of order. Simple As for substitutes for various stops not ment, a criticism there for lack of up this book are designed to come HAPPY DAYS. Book II. This ap- in The in. Operates only on 1 10 volt 60 cycle A.C. if A. The qualifications for membership design, black finish. Case, x 4 x p/s Salicional A. As you can readily appreciate, we were 5 after the pupil has learned the notes book continues exactly found in the smaller organs, plication—Liszt in this period truly rep- American Guild of Organists, is as follows: for Tempo can be where give an opinion as to the merits of your pres- Ready to plug in and operate from 40 to 208 beats per minute. on the Happy 4’ tremolo) will suffice to (necessary for election prior to two staves and has played Days” Book I ends.. The and Flute (with resented the ideal teacher. Colleagueship two ent instrument in comparison with the proposed changed while running. Improves your practice, perfects your performance. some simple compositions books together constitute in taking examination for Associateship) spon- Grade I for Oboe; this combination will produce When the post of musical would not be making a decision director at one, we organi- from requirements. Etude, especially sored by two active members of the Order from your dealer or Price, 65 cents Simple duets are in- the nasal tone that can be secured in no Weimar was oifered keeping with the policy of The him in 1848, Liszt zation. Associateship—by examination taken cluded for their value in developing since you do not give us the specification of HAVEN, CONN. KEYBOARD SECRETS. One of better way on an organ of this size. An- gladly accepted, as it meant release from subsequent to election to Colleagueship. Fel- ELECTRONOME CORPORATION, 55 WALLACE STREET, NEW a sense of proposed instrument. In a church with the THE the most rhythm. Both parts of the the examination taken subsequent to useful of current popular other possibility for approximating the arduous coneertizing. At that time he of your building we suggest as lowship—by duets are of equal difficulty seating capacity books, intended to develop enabling having passed the Associateship examination. key- each Oboe is Dulciana provided it has a “bite.” had reached the height of his power as large an instrument as you can finance to sup- board pupil to participate in either We suggest that you communicate with the freedom, accuracy, strength Melodia can serve as a substitute for port the singing of the congregation and while P af t Price, 50 cents a concert artist. His concerts evoked the Secretary of the nearest Guild Chapter to your and control Price, $1.00 we do not seriously object to a small amount of Clarinet or French Horn and had prob- wildest enthusiasm wherever they or church, or if you do not have that were unification among the smaller stops where the home • CHORD PLAYING AT THE ably better be accompanied by Salicional information, that you secure it, by communi- -PIPE ORGANS- Used given: Hungary, Austria, Turkey, Po- unification is resorted to because of finances, New PIANO. book cating with the Guild Headquarters at 1708 A of melodious pieces LEE (with tremolo) as a flute accompanied a “straight” instrument for a church Builders of pipe organs for church and studio. Ef- , land, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Eng- we prefer of the which International Building, Rockefeller Center, 630 What is the purpose ficient, up-to-date used instruments on hand at all by the pupil is taught to male the size you mention. by a string, or vice versa, generally pro- land, Russia. of City. times, priced very reasonably. We also rebuild and C0RBMAN Fifth Avenue, New York of rapid progress on the piano. Planned A new console only would make your present Rapid Course in modernize tracker and tubular organs, additions duces an interesting tonal contrast. The Archduke SHEFTE stops, couplers and chimes installed. Yearly care to teach chord-playing and the and his wife were de- organ effective in all its possibilities and would first of organs. We solicit inquiries. - . ..FINGER FABLES. The great Open Diapason can be used lighted with the tone beyond that Q. The organist in our church insists that the steps in harmony Price, $1.00 This a young musician. Shortly not increase the amount of Modern Piano Playing? child s organist are to attend first technique book and at times as a solo stop and makes an after his arrival, available from the instrument, and the omis- duties of the assistant Delosh Brothers' -Organ Experts they sent an official be- should instru- every service that she plays for, in case of Corona, L. I., N. Y. City be started with the first admirable sion of the specification of the proposed 3508-1 05th Street MATHILDE les- substitute for a heavy reed confirmation of Iris position. Liszt was churches? son. a decision difficult. The pres- ing required. Is this usual in small the SHEFTE course Everything in this book should ment makes more The purpose of such as Trumpet or Cornopean. As for an thumbing through litter occasions when veteran soldiers attend a BILBRO be taught by a of letters and ent swell pedal was probably designed to op- On rote Price, 60 cents should not the choir is to encourage a great number of accompaniment, all three swell stops will manuscripts on his desk when the ducal erate on all swell shutters, at one time, and as church service in a body, HAPPY HALF-HOURS be seated in their places early, and rise as the music lovers to play the piano . . . IN need to be used to give the proper sup- courier arrived. Eagerly we do not know about the swells on proposed S. HAYNES COMPANY breaking open enter? Our leader thinks the choir WM. MELODY LAND. Particularly de- FINGER FREEDOM. port. Swell to Swell 4' coupler instrument, we cannot say what the advantages soldiers to satisfy their longing to play the A technic The could the seal, his eye hurriedly in its veterans do. signed for the took would be. It would be possible to have the en- should watch and enter as the beginner. Treble and book for old beginners Flutes of Distinction designed to also be used if necessary. such occasions is it music they love — the simpler, more contents. Then Which way is usual? On Bass used at once. New notes he reached for a familiar tire organ enclosed with separate swell boxes are overcome in the simplest and most (on the In all combinations involving a solo if the necessary expense can be met. correct for the organist to stand also of STERLING SILVER — GOLD — PLATINUM presented gradually ' object never far distant an exquisite melodious popular music. Music and to insure direct manner most of the — the congregation rises to technical and accompaniment it should be foot pedals) when equality of the hands, exercises for borne miniature of the dark-eyed Princess the light populartype is taught in this difficulties that an adult piano stu- listen to “ The Last Post” or for “three minutes Catalog on request the left hand alone in mind that the pedal coupler, if used, Carolyne Q. I would like to know whether it is pos- are frequently dent will encounter in von Sayn-Wittgenstein. She silence” at an Armistice service? At our local accurately artistically. his or her first method and Boston Mass. introduced should be that of the accompaniment sible to take up organ study without previous the pianist sat at the piano 108 Massachusetts Avenue, 15, Price, 90 cents four years of study.... Price, 75 cents had followed him to Weimar where she Armistice service, manual. piano preparation .—J. P. L. the service without rising. Was this established herself and her small daugh- throughout ? J. G. 'Write TODAY for the descriptive In regard A. It is possible take correct — to printed registration, it ter at Villa Altenburg, a short distance to up organ study with- WALLIS-WEBER out piano the Course. need not be followed slavishly. Since preparation but we advise a fluent A. We are not familiar with the customs of folder on Shefte Rapid MUSI T or- from the town. LEARN "SWING” MUSIC H V RLD L° VES - Rft piano technic as excellent preparation for or- *- three P°P ul - "><*lodies ar . gans vary widely your country at services of the character you Quick course to players of all instrument-5—make your ? pil^ r° so in specifications and of breaks, choruses, obbligatos, ranged as PIANO SOLOS™c for easy sight-reading and “Chopin went to Paris to work.” he gan study. mention, and suggest that they as well as the own arrangements “hot” amusement in the home. in the voicing embellishments, figurations, blue notes, whole tones, etc. b °ok and tonal quality of the subject Publisher, Inc. ""I P rove af> Invaluable collection for all murmured as he showered impassioned services of the assistant organist, are Forster Music MODERN DANCE ARRANGING . who have acquired a ensembles special choruses limited technique pipes, it would be well if every organist There is a that think the church authorities, who might consult Duets, trios, quartettes and — kisses upon Q crying need , I some to Avenue, Chicago III. Price, 75 cents the likeness, “but I shall 216 South Wabash 4, modulating to other keys—suspensions—anticipations would try authoritative person the leaders of the veterans in arranging — to bring out the high spots in work here in like yourself ought to with —organ points—color effects—swingy backgrounds— , Weimar with you. The — bring to attention. I refer to the accompani- the details of such services. Write t0dai his organ, - using the printed registration ELMER B. FUCHS name that Goethe and Schiller gave to ments to sacred songs. Such songs are almost only 335 East 19th St. Brooklyn 26. N. Y. more or less as a guide. The organist Weimar invariably for literature, I shall give to used in Church, rather than at home Q. I am having great difficulty in under- should at all times keep or in concert uppermost in music.” He held the picture closer for an halls; yet the composers persist standing the ‘‘portamento touch in piano play- -Ike WILLIS his mind the matter of balancing the in writing piano accompaniments for them. I Will you please explain this touch, and MUSIC CO. instant before seizing rush ing.” his coat to do not need to tell you, that most these have manuals with regard to solo and accom- of the way to acquire it? For the past five years PLAY BY SIGHT 124 EAST from the room. As he strode impetuously to be very much modified before they can be with- FOURTH STREET, CINCINNATI 2. OHIO I have been organist of a small church and PIANISTS. If you cannot play a composition paniment. Roughly, the strength of the you need special instruction down Weimar’s quiet streets the home effectively played on the organ, and not a people, including musicians out constant practice, to while numerous this handicap. The best Pianists and Please send books indicated above. solo should be the ratio of three to few of them cannot be played on the organ at to eliminate one of the Princess, he seemed destined to have told me of my good organ touch I have Accompanists are Sight Readers. The secret of all, without being or at least two to one—to the accompani- completely transmogrified. never really understood the organ or what Sight Reading is revealed in ‘‘THE ART OF NAME carry out his avowed aims for he pos- Consequently SIGHT READING”. the unlucky organist is forced so forth. Where can I secure ONA'Sf ° ment. stops to use and Improve your playing and advance more rapidly. sessed an intense nature not easily de- ( sometimes right off his presence of mind), ?Us 60 such information pertaining to stops and so 0 Lessons complete with Music $3.00 ADDRESS. If an organ has combination pistons to make organ arrangements piano music, 5 nied. Throughout his life he was con- of forth, (reed organ) or from whom can I se- directly beneath each manual, it amounting frequently to a complete rewriting DANF0RD HAIL, 1358-AC Gresnleaf, Chicago 26, in. would stantly struggling between spiritual cure the book ? —A. E. H. CITY STATE lofty of the part—only that he does not even have DUET FORM be a good idea not to become too de- f°° 0

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urging the operas of his friend Wagner public even at upon the — the expense of popularity. his own On August 28, 1850, he directed the first performance Violin Questions of . One of his violin BOB JONES COLLEGE “Lohengrin.” greatest for tri- studies umphs occurred on that February night when he arranged a gala performance of “Tannhauser,” honoring the b birthday of ^Answered by HARDLD BERKLEY y IN ITS OPERA PRODUCTIONS, RADIO the Grand Duchess. Liszt chose this op- era despite the fact that it had failed so PROGRAMS, PLAYS, AND OTHER DRAMATIC No questions will be answered in The Etude unless accompanied by the full name miserably upon its first presentation OPPORTUNI- that and address of the inquirer. Only initials, or pseudonym given, will be published. VIOLIN EDITOR PRODUCTIONS AFFORDS STUDENTS it had since become the subject of end- ETUDE’S TIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TALENT, PERSON- less jokes throughout Germany. On this memorable evening as the - ALITY AND SELF CONFIDENCE. Worth-While Instrument Perhaps It’s Genuine musicians carefully tuned their instru- An Apparently avoid fdevhlee F. E. M-, Prince Edward Island.—The label J. A. B., New York.—Johann Baptist Schweit- ments, they were aware of ripples of y your violin is an accurate transcription of zer (1790—1865) was a pupil of Geissenhof suppressed excitement in the fashionably in one frequently used by Niccolo Amati. But, as and worked in Buda-Pesth. He was an excel- • The modern technique of violin bowing 1.00 dressed audience. Then suddenly a tall, you realize, that is no assurance the instrument lent maker and his instruments have sold for many very inferior Amati as much as six hundred dollars. But, like .75 slender figure appeared, and was greeted is genuine. There are copies that have the same label. However, the many other good makers, he was the victim with scattered bursts of applause. Even as violinist you mention would not have been so of unscrupulous copyists. His story is told in his Liszt bowed acknowledgment, his ears interested in it had it not possessed some un- the January 1946 issue of The Etude. Without were still ringing from calumnies heaped usual quality. So it might pay you to send it to examining your violin, no one could say music in schirmer's library dealer for appraisal. I should whether it is a genuine Schweitzer or one of violin upon him by these same people for dar- a -well-known suggest that you send it to Shropshire & Frey, the hundreds of inferior copies that are float- BERKLEY ing to present the despised opera. , EDITED by HAROLD Calmly 119 West 57th Street, or to The Rudolph Wur- ing around the violin market. he moved to the conductor’s stand, his litzer Co., 120 West 42nd Street, both in New BERIOT flushed cheeks the only visible sign of his York City. Before you ship it, you should write For Left Hand Technic The first 30 concert studies for the violin. Op. 123 and ask what the appraisal fee would be, and Miss G. G., Quebec. cordial thanks for intense emotion. A minute later the audi- —My (Lib. No. 1658) 1-25 also ask for advice as to the best way of pack- the kind things you say about my department arose as ence the Grand Duke and the you send it, insure it for at ing it. And when in The Etude. It is nice to be appreciated! PAGANINI Duchess entered the royal box. Then least $500. The violin may not be worth that The book that I think would be of most use to 24 Caprices. Op. 1 (Lib. No. 1663) 1-00 Liszt raised his baton. much, but there is no use taking chances. you is Carl Flesch’s monumental work in two volumes. “The Art of Violin Playing.” Person- Something of the fiery determination RODE Concerning the Maker Potschcr ally, I do not agree with all his ideas, but I that filled their conductor’s Minor Keys (Lib. No. 231) 1.25 heart must Mrs. H. B., Louisiana.—The answer to your think it is a work that should be in the posses- 24 Caprices. In the 24 Major and have been transmitted to the cast and first letter appeared in The Etude for October, sion of every serious violinist. There is no some mischance your initials were analyzes ORDER TODAY FROM YOUR LOCAL DEALER OR the orchestra, for they gave an inspired 1945, but by other book that I know of which given as H. C. instead of H. B. Carl Gottlob left-hand technique so minutely. performance. final The curtain recorded Potscher was a Bohemian who made most of personal 1830. a triumph—not for the com- his violins between 1800 and He was a An Instrument by Storioni (?) poser, but for the conductor whose de- fairly good maker, and his instruments are Mrs. G. H. W., Texas.—If your violin is a worth up to one hundred and fifty dollars. An genuine Storioni, you have a very fine instru- GSCfllRNWfo fiance of public opinion had been vindi- specimen of his work might are exceptionally good ment, worth as much as $3,000. But there new yorlc 17 Cleveland 14 los angeles 55 cated. Wagner freely admitted his ’ great be worth somewhat more. s plenty of fake Storionis to be seen. He was one 3 east 43rd street 43 the arcade 700 west 7th street debt to Liszt. "I praise God,” he sub- of the last great Cremonese makers, and his sequently wrote, “for having created such “Make Haste Slowly” work does not reach the standard set by some S. D., Pennsylvania.—I am afraid, young of his predecessors; but a genuine specimen in a man as Liszt. He has redeemed me man, that you are in a bit too much of a hurry. good condition is a violin to be treasured. I slavery. I from Now believe in myself The study you refer to in the Op. 37 of Dont is suggest that you send it to the Rudolph Wur- Special Henning Violin York of more than I do in God.” not at all easy, and it should be practiced quite litzer Co., 120 West 42nd Street, New jHeasureb bp ®ime Credit deep - Mellow - soulful can increase they will appraise it, During all these years that Liszt slowly for some weeks. Then you City. For a small fee, On For a limited time you can pur- was with the tempo gradually, as you feel you are gain- and if you wish to sell it, will advise you how honorable £§>erbue chase this high-grade violin, engrossed in the the qualities of the finest, at a price musical life of the city, so. ing more and more control. That is the right best to go about doing far lower than ever asked for such an A scene from Verdi’s Ervmni presented at Bob Jones College he had not neglected its social side. For way to practice any sort of staccato study. You instrument; made possible by our on December 18 and 19, 1945, with Doris ITVS- Son many years of experience in violin Doree of the Metropolitan Opera as Elvira and with other distinguished some time the Princess seem to be well advanced for your age, but you Young Daughter lOilluim- 1 and guest artists. All phases of the production von Sayn-Witt- Teaching a m.;, making. Satisfaction guaranteed. including the design and execution sets and costumes were should try to cultivate a little more patience Mrs. H. Ardrey, Manitoba.—I see no reason 207 South 'Wabash Ave.—Chicago 4, III. of by the college staff and students. genstein had been living in Weimar. Liszt jot GUSTAV V. HENNING it is almost as important as talent. So don’t be at all why you should not teach your young Have the proud distinction of over seventy years Information Box 405 Belfalr, Washington was so madly in love with her that even- in a hurry to play anything fast until you can daughter very successfully, at least for a few in the musical instrument business tually he gave up his hotel apartment play it well slowly, then fairly slowly, and then schooling, years. Apparently you had good SPECIALISTS IN VIOLINS, BOWS, REPAIRS, etc. what did °K and moved to the Wittgenstein castle. At at a moderately rapid tempo. and your child seems keen and musically pre- CATALOGS and LITERATURE on REQUEST CHOPIN REALLY t?KE ? cocious for her age. It is certainly quite un- a Classic And BEETHOVEN, BACH, BRAHMS, GRIEG, first the Grand Duke and the Duchess Recently Published—Already etc.? DID FOSTER RESEMBLE LINCOLN? Maybe It’s a Genuine Tononi usual for a five-year- old to take a delight in An Ideal Gift to a musical Friend JUST OFF THE PRESS! A NEW edition VOICE, PIANO, SPEECH, PIPE ORGAN, VIOLIN, disregarded the innuendoes directed to- of "Immortal Men of Music Miniatures’ ' AND ART WITHOUT Mrs. J. O. M., New Mexico.—Translated, the the Double Concerto of Bach and the Bruch G W 22 brilliant (4"X5 ) studies of the world’s ward the Princess, but later they became label in your violin reads “Carlo Tononi, of minor Concerto. As for material to use in greatest composers by eminent artist R. ADDITIONAL “itoto iRanp is>trab£?” A. Loederer. Ideal for framing. Paste them COST ABOVE REGULAR ACADEMIC TUITION. Bologna, it in in the year 1730.” suggest the first book of so widespread that they could no longer made Venice teaching her, I would ,f on your music sheets! Complete with bio- tfje iHaster” graphical exerting You realize that I cannot tell you whether the “Violin Course” together with the 0ut heritage from sketches and the "Mu- Maia Bang’s sical Scrapbook Game.” ignore them. Koch. Si uuHfl violin is genuine or a fake. The wording of “Fiddle Finger Forms” by Howard Lee By Ernest N. Doring OrtLIML.RPFfilfll • We include for a ONLY I Bob Jones College, ii miteci time only I which stands without apology Religion courses leading the Weimar openly demonstrated its dis- the label is accurate. is the most I can Violin Rob Roy to Master of Arts and the That The “Very First Book” by A handsome book of 380 pages recording superb study of G. Gershwin. POSTPAID approval of the say. A genuine Carlo Tononi, in good condi- also an excellent beginner’s book. As for the "old-time religion" and the absolute authority cigar-smoking Princess. Peery is existing instruments with their stories and his- MASTER PRINTS C0.,DepLE new yorkTw: Doctor of Philosophy degrees, and in the Graduate tion, would be worth between $1500 and $3000. daughter’s interest is fully At the same time Liszt was antagonizing soon as your torical background/ containing over 100 illus- of the Bible, has If you wish to have it appraised, send it to any aroused, you should give her the first book of doubled its enrollment in the last School of Fine Arts courses leading to the the more trations of genuine specimens of Stradivari's Make THE ETUDE Your Marketing Place Master of conservative element by con- one of the dealers advertise in The Etude. Nicholas Laoureux, and who the Violin Method by work. Etude Advertisers Open the Doors to Real four years. Bob Jones College offers tinuing to publicize Wagnerian operas For a small fee, you would get a full account the Wohlfart studies op. a wide variety Arts and the Master of Fine Arts degrees in music later the first book of PRICE PER COPY $20 Opportunities of its origin and a dependable opinion on its “Folk and Master Melo- of courses leading and to encourage “modern” music. The 45. For little solos the PUBLISHERS OF "VIOLINS and VIOLINISTS" to Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor and speech. The Bob Jones College value. the “Tune-a-Day” Academy af- opportunity to even scores soon came. dies” by Wesley Sontag, America's only journal devoted to the violin of Science degrees, series by Paul Herfurth, and the “Learn with Specimen Copy 25#— 12 issues for $2.50 and in the Graduate School of fords splendid opportunities for high school In spite of remonstrances of his Appraisal Suggestions training. by some Tunes” books by Carl Grissen are all valuable. rorr music catalog F. L. friends, Liszt in 1858 presented the “Bar- E. M., Indiana.—Pfretzschner violins Why do you not write to the publishers of The over pieces usually bring between and $150, sometimes r KILL 1300 - $109 ask if they can supply you with the ber of Bagdad,” by Peter Cornelius ( 1824 Etude and A LARGE NUMBER OF EX-SERVICE MEN, BOTH MARRIED AND SINGLE. a little more. As you plan to go to Chicago, I ARE ENROLLED AT BOB issues of the magazine for November, 1943, and Standard, Classical and Teaching Pieces for piano, violin 1874) . The opening performance was should advise you to take your violin to Wm. February, 1945? In each of these issues I had an MARKERT & CO. and voice in World Famous McKinley Sheet Music and Book JONES COLLEGE UNDER THE PROVISIONS *JOHN standard for years. Splen- OF THE G. I. BILL OF RIGHTS, hissed. Lewis & Son, 207 South Wabash Avenue. For a teaching material at some 135 W. 45TH ST., NEW YORK 19. N. Y. Editions—the teacher’s nearly 50 article discussing did arrangements. Every music lover should have copy. Write small fee, they will gladly give you an appraisal. musical, VIOLINS OLD & NEW Bitter and disillusioned, Liszt realized length. Your child is evidently very Expert Repairing. Send for Catalog today enclosing 5 cent stamp for return postage. Dept. 1813 that and the time and trouble you take with her PUBLISHERS, INC. For detailed information write: this time it was not the composer Commercial Makers I will, I feel, be very well spent. McKinley 425 S. Wabash, Chicago 5 but the conductor who was the object G. W. S., South Dakota. Heinrich Heberlein of the hostile demonstration. His spirit was probably the best of a large number of vio- Protects DR. BOB BOB lin makers of that name who worked in Mark- JONES JR. JONES COLLEGE was completely crushed. After years music from neukirchen, Germany. They were all commer- Keep EVERY Sheet of Music spent in dirt or building up an ideal, he saw cial makers; Cleveland, that is, they made violins of dif- damage. at Your Finger-Tips Tennessee it collapse in as many hours. Discour- ferent grades, according to the demand. Most • aged, he turned to his friends—only to of their instruments are worth between $75 fl.w Boot,! Richly styled. TONKabinet drawer-trays J • Beautifully permit meet, and $250, though some of their most careful easy filing keep sheet in many instances, stinging criti- crafted. music neat, orderly, copies have sold as high as $350. The company "THE APPRECIATION safe, cism. Finally • findable. Every sheet is al- he submitted his resigna- probably still exists, for it was operating at emerged—conductor of royal opera, com- of approbation. By makers of ways at your finger-tips. At He encouraged the de- tion to the the the outbreak OF RARE VIOLINS" What of the Shrines of Grand Duke. As soon as of the war. Nationally your dealer’s, or put it on poser of the famed rhapsodies and sym- buts of Rubinstein, Joachim By Francis Drake Ballard and Franck, musician could wind up his affairs, he Known Tonk your postwar shopping list. phonic poems, teacher of many masters, and aided Furniture. Tonk Mfg. Co. Schumann, Chopin, von followed the Many Fine Illustrations. Over 100 Pages Yesteryear? and ardent Princess to Rome. When the Robert Whitford Break Sheets for Piano Inspiration. Limited propagandist for the new in Billow, Berlioz, Saint-Saens, of Information and and Mac- Pope refused to sanction their marriage, DeLuxe Edition, Artistically Clothbound. music. Liszt’s dream of Revealing the greatest jazz patterns yet. Sizes ( Continued from Page 168) making Weimar Dowell. $3.00 Post Paid. Order direct from: and he resolved to enter the Church. At fifty- Send 25f for sample copy. the center of contemporary music made As styles for court conductor, Liszt was un- four he withdrew PIANISTS him the unfailing from the world of mu- FRANCIS DRAKE BALLARD Homes, Kahi friend of Send for nets the strug- your free copy TON swervingly loyal to his friends, at of our catalog of ultra-mod- poser underwent a musical transforma- no sic to take minor orders, ern piano publications. Collector and Dealer gling young musician. Smetana later becoming State if you are a teacher. Schools, tion. appealed time showing any traces of jealousy Liszt, virtuoso of the piano, or an Abbe. ROBERT WHITFORD PUBLICATIONS TROY, PENNSYLVANIA Bands, etc. dis- to him for aid in starting his conserva- ill will. During the thirteen years N «rt h p erry Square Dept. 5E Erie, Penna., U.S.A. appeared; in his place “Liszt that In spite of the J? . Send for List of Available Rare Violins. of Weimar" tory in Prague; Grieg great spiritual consola- Publishers of Exclusive Modern Piano Material” for Sheet JMusic came for words he was Music Director, he never ceased ( Continued on Page 172) 170 "forward MARCH WITH MARCH, 1946 MARCH MUSIC” THE ETUDE "FORWARD WUTH MUSIC” 171 , o : .

The violist, if he is to play with ease and facility, must of course be What of the Shrines of The Field of the Viola completely at home in the second and fourth positions Page 140) “Personally, I have Yesteryear? (Continued from a predilection for the frequent use of natural harmonics SONG ALBUMS OF ALL NATIONS (Continued from Page 170) especially in rapid passages, as they tend wrist is no longer important in good to clarify what can so often become on Interesting, Illustrated Albums with Original Texts and English Adaptations bowing. It most certainly is. Without a tion of his religion, he could never wholly both viola and ’cello a mere scrubbing violist and no flexible and agile wrist no — noise. The following quotation LATIN-AMERICAN still the music in his heart. To one less from the RUSSIAN FRENCH MEXICAN violinist or ’cellist, for that matter—can LATIN-AMERICA 5th Caprice of Paganini, transcribed FRANCAISES .75 MEMORIES MEXICO 1.00 MEMORIES OF emotional the struggle would not have for album russe 1-00 CHANSONS OF become a really accomplished player. The ALBUM 1.00 LA HORA DEL CANTO been so intense. One evening as he viola, will illustrate what I mean; MEMORIES L00 FRENCH FOLK SONGS AND MEXICAN FIESTA sat as GYPSY wrist, however, should be thought of 1.00 NURSERY RHYMES .60 in his room in an ancient Roman clois- SONGS OF NEW RUSSIA HUNGARIAN a center of relaxation and control rather Ex. 2 SOUVENIRS DE PARIS 1.00 ter, the old desire surged : over him. Im- HUNGARIA ALBUM , than as a source of needless movements. SWEDISH pulsively he went to the piano, and soon SPANISH SWEDEN 1.00 "A were speaking of CZECHOSLOVAKIAN MEMORIES OF the moment ago we 1.00 HEBREW cloistered walls re-echoed to his lilt- MEMORIES OF SPAIN MEMORIES OF bow pressure. This brings up a little point PIONEER SONGS OF PALESTINE ing Mephisto Waltz. Then on and on— CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1.00 of technic which a deal of in- his fingers glided has good GERMAN into the rhythms of “Technical clarity on the viola is very IRISH fluence upon the quality of the tone, and .75 ITALIAN the rhapsodies. Like the flood POLISH GERMANIA ALBUM gates of a much aided if careful thought is given NEAPOLITAN MEMORIES mighty that is the direction of the pressure. At 50 MEMORIES OF POLAND 1.00 266 GERMAN FOLK SONGS... 1.25 river flung wide open from the also to the movements of the left thumb. OF IRELAND first it seem that the SONGS force of whirling thought might waters within, so was Most violinists find that they can play CfSPi Liszt caught under the pressure must be applied vertically. It Available at Music Dealer or direct spell of his emo- technical passage-work much more easily your from & Muyb/d/y answer that I never let myself get or box nail) can nearly always be . both the Up and the Down bow one out of needing minor the death of Franz Liszt (July 31, 1886). must Clean the section of tubing nearest porary repairs. When some practice. But there are one or two 3. found, that is close to the size of the Minebt c While his feel that the hand is going ahead of the ex- it is not always necessary to be COURSE foibles and eccentricities were the mouthpiece. A fine wire is used to repair, ercises I like to play for the sake lost pinion. Cut it off the correct many, still, bow, not merely pushing it from behind. of re- instrument until IN BOOK FORM in his unselfish devotion to one to three folded pipe clean- without the use of the taining coordination, for to draw length hold it in the post by a the cause This is another element of bowing tech- my mind co- take it to that repair and Complete Course of music, the world owes much strip of cloth, through the tube. you find the time to A ordination is the basis of ers, or small strip of Scotch tape over the to “Liszt of Weimar.” nique that should be taught much earlier technique in shop forty miles away. on How to Play viola playing, 4. Check water key cork. than it usually is. as it is in fencing or tennis head of the nail. CLASSIFIED ADS finish. 1. A broken or lost reed clamp. Do as Popular Songs for Only or 5. Polish or clean the 510— “It is any other sport which calls for mus- 9. Cork bumper lost. These may be re- my experience that most teachers with warm water the early clarinet players did. Use cular activity. 6. Wash the valves pressed 1 Ol It X MVAXTED MI'SIC do not give enough attention The first of these exercises placed by pieces of bottle cork, exchanged to the right carefully. a piece of cord (chalk line) and bind piece for piece, 5c each; quality is the and soap, rinse REVEALS PROFESSIONAL SECRETS matched hand. drawing of pianissimo, cork (from an auto supply store) , and Burpee’s Specialty The reason may be that by con- sustained where the reed in true ligature style. (A Shoppe, Deiton, Mich- “ 7. Replace cork and felt bumpers on Easy-to-Follow Instructions igan. The centrating on the left tones—the son file." There is no exer- in many cases string may be wrapped hand it is easy to few artists still use this method of cise needed on the valve stem. How Many Times have yon tried to play a FOR SALE: get more spectacular so valuable for gaining and keeping around the key and be made to serve [ STEINWAY CONCERT results—and more securing the reed.) popular song, exactly as written, only to find I GRAND as 8. Oil valves or slide (if you are accus- new, nine feet long', fully guar- an absolute control silencer and also to keep the key Fill-In the demonstrator em- anteed, pupils! It is a pity, because ninety per of the bow. It lias as a it lacked the good discount. Joseph Holstad, 337 them) Cork joint tom loose. Wrap the joint your I CHILDREN’S been aptly tomed to using oil on 2. ployed? He filled in—You didn’tl Not Oak Grove, M i nneapolis, Minn.. cent of a string player’s termed “the study of the from rising too high. ability to express mas- cotton or thread de- fault at all—you were never taught to fill in 9. Clean all tuning slides with cold with darning J LE A II _\ PIANO TUIVING himself ters,” but in my opinion it 10. Water key cork. This can easily be improvise. This Book is to instruct you, step I AT 110)1 1 :. depends upon his control of the should be part needed. or Course by Apply a little more pending on the thickness Improvising. I Dr. Wm. Braid White. Write Karl of the daily cream and cloth. piece of small bottle by step, the art of Filling in and Bartenbach, 1001 bow. practice of every student— replaced by a Wells St., Lafayette. I nd. TECHNIC as it swells, slicks cold cream before replacing the slide. (Don’t use paper, TEACHERS—“NeverBefore I it would help cork. works well if care is ACCLAIMED BY SAVING PIANO “Regarding left-hand technique, them to become masters Leather " I IDEAS: Monthly Bulle- I do of Grease the threads, with cold cream, and may cause a crack.) a BookRnnk SnSo Complete."Comnlete You receive all thethework-work- tms, Breaks, Boogie Basses, intros their instrument all 10. in it to the hole. If the impressive, orig- . end- not feel that there is any really essential the sooner! The goal used fitting ing material to build up an ing's, etc. for popular lower valve instrument. (Bvery song hits. Subscrip- should of both the upper and 3. Crack in a wooden inal style of your own. Over 100 Pages tion $2.00. BOOK FOR PIANO difference between the viola be the ability to hold entire key is lost cover the hole with 200 Hass Sample Bulletin 20r. Ivenmore and the vio- a note crammed with novel, sparkling new ideas— should be closed by a band just Intro- Music Go., steadily caps. crack St.yle3 400 Sizzling Breaks, 105 Professional Eighth Floor, 581 Borlston St, lin. Some well-known for thirty seconds, Scotch tape and drain out the water , violists have evolved join it im- and Endings. Boston Hi, Mas s. By Would it not be a fine idea to go over as soon as it can be sent to a com- ductions a system of fingering that includes perceptibly to the next note, hold that by pulling the slide. Compiled by f anions Cav- POPULAR SONGS! 1 0,000 1 1 eeorilM 600 char- crack — Goodman, 600 CroIT all the points in the general daily care petent repair shop.) A small anaugh’s authorities on AND by. Greatest classic acteristics of both one another thirty seconds, 11. Felt silencers on valve stems. Make piano playing. RADIO singers. Everything the violin and the and so on flowing modern 190^12. Josephine Mayer, Guy MAIER Mus. Doc. for of the instruments each inspection day? that leaks may be stuffed by NOTAN EARORCOR- ORCHESTRA Santa Barbara, ’cello fingerings, but I do five minutes. The violinist these from the brim of an old felt Cal if. not think it is or violist RESPONDENCE TRAINING! It is a very good plan and takes only a a little wax from a candle on it, by COURSE, but a com- Theory, Chord Con- necessary for a perfect command who can do this will never be troubled hat. AA ANTED to buy a 4 octaves pratice and of the beeswax, or by melted plete, concise, exciting struction, Accom- by a few minutes. a little melted business Transpos- keyboard piano fingerboard. shaky bow Note : If observe carefully the sug- revelation in panying, without any music \ For that matter, more than arm when he appears in you regular device so you can Here are a few general suggestions as street tar. The street tar is very good piano playing. ing, Creative im- make the action one great violinist public. gestions on care and inspection, you will rovising, Harmon- light and heavier. Rosalie Smith has developed a scheme EASY for BEGINNERS Write to Art P Stein- a beginning; add to this list as they come a permanent repair. E;ing, Ear Training born. 2H61 N. of fingering The next exercise and is almost find little need for these temporary re- —Our instruction starts 27th St., Milwaukee 10, that causes his colleagues calls for very quick and \\ isconsin. to mind or the need arises. means of you from scratch 1001 NEW IDEAS to lift coordination as Work it into the crack by fact, repairs of any kind. by step LIGGETT their eyebrows! It is, I think, between the right and left pairs or in progresses step Chords, Basses, Fill- more entire SALE; Fine old Stainer Violin. Suggestions for the Daily Care: knife blade. throughout the ers.Breaks, Modula- i M.A. a question of personal idiosyncrasy hands. I think that both violists a hot, thin Avenue, Melrose Park, Illinois than and vio- book. tions, Introductions, linists 1. Always replace the instrument in the is of technical necessity. will find it interesting. 4. A pad is missing. If the pad cup A TREASURE HOUSE Arranging, Endings FOR SALE: Conn Chromatic Stroboscope This hook makes the It is quite FOR THOSE THAT portable model, gaining of technic a little case when not in use. soft paper may slightly used. W. Edwin pleas- "However, because of the greater width teaser! On the violin it should be small a “spit ball” of PLAY — Included is Frank, 2402 Oak St., urable to the the Santa Monica, Calif. child along of the played in 2. Do not stand the instrument on the cup and will work in intervals, the viola playex* C major. be pressed into yiU A l{ the first and early sec- will Binging in the Elementary _ KA S S ED BY PIANO bell. to help you i —r book and , iiCfe. Stop on «l grades of piano study. tend to make more use of well at the time. The paper play now. . J making enemies of your small shifts fairly ing little time, no matter how well you friends. Use Mayo’s A fascinating story about 3. Do not lay the instrument on the Piano Practice Si- than is usual on the violin. as soon as it dries. These lessons given in the Cava- I lencer. wo small Take, for must be replaced THINK OF IT! For further information write JjlL i * children, Con- music rack. School naugh Schools would cost you over S100, vet you can example, a shift J Richard Mayo, Piano Tuner Technician. nie and Pete, ties the from the first position If that particular key is little used, get similar instruction IN YOUR OWN HOME,and 1120 Latona study 4. Do not let others play your instru- with surprising skill ... at amazing I Stre et. Philadelphia 26. Pa. w9BSE|||£|^wf material to aclivi- to the fourth or fifth. On a large small learn to play viola remove the key and press a low cost! FOR SALE: Harp, Lyon and Healy copy k bes they enjoy, transfer- the ment. (Continued from Page 138) hand must move a considerable hole. GUARANTEE—On receipt of book, Very good condition. $100.00. to the dis- piece of Scotch tape over the MONEY BACK Mrs Dean 5. Avoid rapid changes of temperature. you will be the judge. If you're not delighted with Weikart, Leetonia, in comparative fashions, tance, and most violists Both Oh i will try to get fingerings should be used. The value be removed and the hole the wonderful instruction this book brings after w thus developing 6. When in the home, keep it out of the The key may SLIGHTLY tonal ef- into the second of days’ trial, return it and get your money neck. USED CLASSICS—Sehirmer position before they make the exercise is enhanced if written for friends of music and profes- etc. c,s an,i ,ec hnical abil- it is played an ordinary bottle cork. was created (Vocal, Instrumental) 15^ a copy’ Dr. Guy Maier f' reach of young children. plugged with ORDER TODAY! This NEW EDITION ities. The the shift. It is not always leaching Material. Lists little personal possible to do Ex. -I well, a sional musicians, who are not acquainted for those that desire the finest. Price $10 complete. 10d. Fore's noies to the pupils 7. Store the instrument in a room with If the key cup fits the key now! TODAY! Postpaid and in- K-3151 High, Denver and the delightful illustra- this, but it is possible Order your copy 5, Colorado. tions are added more often than with the development of vocal training sured anywhere in the world. interest-winners. in groups of three, an even temperature. small circle of inner tube will serve FOR SALE: Rare old not. The ; f'- violin, full size A-l principle, in its simplest form, in the elementary school. The excellent condition, over 200 years old ’ 8. Wipe after playing period. temporary pad. Will sell PRICE, $1.00 is illustrated in this fingering dry each very well as a CAVANAUGH PIANO SCHOOLS at a sacrifice price. Write for full details of the C results in school systems all over the 9. Wipe perspiration from the instru- 475 Fifth Ave., Dept. E,,NewYork 17.N.Y. Evelyn Cash, 471? St. Elmo major scale key cup is broken off. In most cases Avenue' and in groups of 5. A United States speak for themselves. High Chattanoo ga, Tenn, five, ment after playing. Scotch the hole may be covered with music would not be as W ANTED to buy a music school and college business or 10. Do not carry an instrument in a bi- plugged with a small bottle partnership, preferably in city of 25,000 Oliver Ditson Co. Ex. 5 tape or good as it is if the classroom teacher in OPPORTUNITY to 100.000 population. If any public cycle basket without its being strapped spirited 1 heorlore Presser Co. cork. the elementary school had failed to make FOR PIANO TUNERS AND VOICERS citizen sees the. need of an up-to-date in. Distributors band music store in his or her community and f J~T] 6. Broken spring. A pre-war rubber an excellent contribution. Thousands of Greatly increased production permits us to make •GET! 11. Use assembling will advise me I will extend 1712 extreme care when an interesting proposition to several more first same $25 00 Chestnut Street can almost always be made to serve boys and girls have learned to love music credit in the event I locate there. Am also Philadelphia the instrument. class men. Write for details today. 1, Pa . In each case, interested in buying building. Choir use both bowings. it spring. A girl’s bobby pin can and have been enriched by it because of When 12. Do not use abrasive polishes on wood- as a Director, Box 07 4, Winter Park, Florida is JESSE FRENCH DIVISION practiced in triplets, it energize a key, until the inspirational, selfless teaching done must be played wind keys or near the valves of brass often be bent to (Continued H. & A. Selmer, Inc. New Castle, Indiana on Page 175 ) taken to the repair shop. by some obscure devoted teachers. 172 instruments. it can be "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” MUSIC” THE ETUDE MARCH, 1946 "FORWARD MARCH WITH 173 ” 1

credit, one of the greatest being his his Field of the Viola GUY MAIER creation in this country of the title role The announces “Boris Godunoff.” This of Moussorgsky’s with Arturo occurred on March 19, 1913, ( Continued from Page 172) THE TEACHERS' WORKSHOP The World of Music Toscanini conducting. A Two-weeks summer course in Pianogogy AMERICAN three times before the bowing comes out pioneer popular • MINNEAPOLIS JULY 1-12 harry VON TILZER, at its original starting place; in quin- MacPhail College created such “hit” tunes of Music song writer, who tuplets, it has to be played five times. CHICAGO JULY 15-26 Everywhere” Shines, Nellie, and “Music News from as Wait Till the Sun “How advanced should a violinist be Sherwood Music School CONSERVATORY Cage, died suddenly A Bird in a Gilded before he begins to play the viola? That NEW YORK JULY 29-AUGUST 9 10. was in New York City on January He is another question which often comes Juilliard .School of Music and a special FESTIVAL to be one of the last links COURSE at considered up. To my mind, the size of the hand is the New York of the era when mu- MARYVILLE COLLEGE AUGUST 12-23 ARTURO TOSCANINI of Directors from 1919 to 1929, and with the determining factor, not technical ad- ^MUSIC was wrote countless Maryville, Tennessee sic halls flourished. He vancement. viola is obviously too large celebrated the fiftieth National President from 1919 to 1921. she A Gateway to the Great the music hall and vaudeville Smokies ... 16 miles south of anniversary of his con- was a charter member of the Tuesday songs for an instrument for a young child, but as CHICAGO 60th YEAR Knoxville . . . beautiful 320 acre published works were said to campus . . . reason- Musical of stage; his soon as a student is able to handle a ducting of the world Club Akron and was active in able room, board and practise facilities Mr. Tilzer of . Von at college . . thousand. branches Puccini’s many other organizations. be around two full-sized violin comfortably he can usu- Accredited courses in piano, vocal, violin, organ and all other festival of premiere of piano concerts . . . important courses by was born in Goshen, Indiana, in 1873. He ally play on a small viola. The technical Music and Dramatic Art leading to pedagogical authorities “La Boheme” with a . . . excursions. a member of the publishing firm, brilliant radio perform- THE STONEWALL BRIGADE became advancement is a secondary matter, for For detailed information address: BAND, Bernstein & von Tilzer, and in DEGREE-BACHELOR OF MUSIC ance of the opera on the “Stonewall Shapiro, there is plenty of excellent study mate- Guy Maier Master Classes, 503 Alta Ave., Santo Monica, California. Jackson’s Own Band,” recent- 1902 formed his own publishing company. rial available for viola players DECREE-MASTER OF MUSIC General Motors Sym- ly celebrated its one hundredth nowadays Francesco anniver- Air. The and technique can be developed as quick- phony of the Valentino sary. It is one of the four oldest amateur Under Authority State of Illinois •Announcing the Tenth Season- first two acts were per- VLADIMIR DUKELSKY’S new concerto ly and as completely on that instrument bands in existence in this country. It was third and was given its New York as it can on the violin. If a student wishes STEPHEN COLLINS formed on February 3, and the originally organized as the “Mountain for violoncello Unsurpassed faculty of 130 artist instructors, many of national and FOSTER MUSIC CAMP fourth acts on February 10. The cast in- premiere in January, when it was played to be a violist rather than a violinist, international reputation. EASTERN Sax-Horn Band,” but at the beginning of KENTUCKY STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE. RICHMOND, KY the earlier he makes the change, cluded Licia Albanese, Jan Peerce, Fran- the War Between the States by Gregor Piatigorsky and the Boston then 5 it was mus- teaching posi- WEEKS — JUNE 16 TO JULY 20 cesco Valentino, Nicola Moscona, George Orchestra under the direction the better, for the “feel” of the instru- Thorough preparation for concert, radio, opera and tered into service as the Fifth Virginia Symphony Band • Orchestra • particular idiom will the tions. Weekly recitals, lectures, school of opera, training in students’ Ensembles • Instrument Classes Cehanovsky, and Salvatore Baccaloni, all Regimental Band. of Dr. Koussevitzky. ment and its symphony orchestra, bureau for securing positions. $ of the Metropolitan Opera, and a new more quickly become second nature to Only 60.00 comer, Anne McKnight, who made her him. LOUIS BACHNER, author, teacher, For Instruction, Board, dqbut on this occasion. Miss McKnight, and “I have always thought that the viola Room, and Recreation coach of many noted singers, died De- for the adult be- SCHOOL a student at the Juilliard School of Mu- is the ideal instrument SUMMER MASTER COMPETENT - : — STAFF : EXCELLENT FACILITIES cember 26, in New York City. Mr. competitions sic, was selected by Maestro Toscanini Bach- ginner. If his ambitions are relatively COMPLETE EQUIPMENT ner was born in New York, 22, after he had auditioned many “name” and began modest, he can usually get a great deal Three Summer Sessions — May 13 to June Private Lessons at his career as a pianist. August 5 to September 14 75c to $1.00 Each Extra singers. At twenty-one of satisfaction himself, and pass it on to June 24 to August 3 and he was soloist with THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BAND For Details write James E. the Boston Sym- others, much sooner than if he started Van Peursem, Director first prize of one hundred dollars in Public School Music, School of Acting, phony Orchestra. offers a Special Summer Courses After several years as the violin. For example, in the field Piano Course In the ARTUR RODZINSKI has been reengaged to the winning composer of an original on Children’s Musical Training (Robyn System), Oxford Beautiful Blue Grass Region of Kentucky piano instructor at the Peabody as conductor of the New York Philhar- con- composition for full symphonic band. The of chamber music, which is generally the servatory in Baltimore, Mr. Music monic-Symphony Orchestra for the 1946- Bachner contest closes November 1, 1946; and full ambition of an adult beginner, the tech- Member of the National Association of Schools of gave up the piano and 47 season. Four guest conductors are also devoted himself details may be secured by writing to Har- nical demands on a violist in a Haydn or entirely to teaching Journalism Building, Address John R. Hattstaedt , President OSMOPOL1TAN announced—Charles Muench, Bruno Wal- voice. For twenty- wood Simmons, 601 Mozart quartet are much lighter than Send for free catalog. Schools—Colleges six years he taught singing in Columbia University, New York 27, New ter, Leopold Stokowski, and George Szell. Germany. they are on the first violinist. And he SCHOOL OF York. MUSIC He numbered among his pupils Mar- field himself; he is SHIRLEY has his particular to OF MUSIC GANDELL, M.A., Oxford SCHOOL jorie Lawrence AMERICAN CONSERVATORY University, England. President. OF and Lily Djanel. with another player CONVERSE THE NINTH SYMPHONY of Shostako- not in competition 42nd year. Accredited. Offers courses COLLEGE MUSIC THE FOURTH ANNUAL Young Com- in all branches of Edwin Gerschefski, of the same instrument, as he would be 111. Music. Certificates, Dean, Spartansburg, S. C. vich received its first performance out- 572 Kimball Hall, Chicago, diplomas and degrees. Desirable board- posers Contests of the National Federa- ing side CATHERINE SMILEY if he were playing second violin. There is accommodations. Located in down- Department of Music of Russia when it was played on De- Clubs has been announced. town musical KNOX tion of Music center. Galesburg, Illinois CHEATHAM, great appeal in this! Box E, cember 13 and 14 by the Prague diseuse and is for a 306 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, III. Thomas W. Williams, Chairman Phil- A total of $300 in awards offered COLLEGE Catalogue sent upon request. harmonic Orchestra, with Rafael Kube- interpreter of songs of composers in three classes. Class One, for CONSERVATORY lik conducting. childhood, known on the which the prizes are fifty and twenty- Interest in the Viola OF MUSIC A New stage as five dollar^, is for a choral work with or GREENSBORO SHENANDOAH WatltE. Miller, Pres. Kitty Cheat- COLLEGE “It is most encouraging to know that a COLLEGE Courses without accompaniment. Class Two, with MUSICAL _ ,, leading to ham, died on CHICAGO ^ CHARLOTTE RY'AN, former January 5 SCHOOL OF MUSIC the B. Mu8., and B. Mus. Ed. degrees. Metropoli- new and alive interest in the viola is ris- GANZ, President Rates similar awards, is for a string quartet, or Founded 1867 by Dr. F. Ziegield RUDOLPH reasonable. In the heart tan Opera in Greenwich, Connecti- Greensboro, N. C. of the Shenandoah soprano, died in New York ing throughout the country. The field is ED. Valley, Dayton, Virginia. a chamber instrumental combination CONFERS DEGREES OF B.MUS., B.MUS.ED., M.MUS., M. MUS. (Member National Association of cut, at the age of eighty- Schools of Music) City on January 16. She had been a is a bigger demand for North Central Association and National Association of Schools of Music “Conservatory advantages without piano. Class Three, with a first wide open. There Member of with small college member of the one. She was widely atmosphere” Metropolitan from 1922 to prize of one hundred dollars and a second good viola players now than ever before, AIL BRANCHES OF MUSIC. SPECIAL INSTRUCTION FOR CHILDREN AND NON-PROFESSIONALS Courses leading to B.M. known both in and A.B. degree with 1930. Bom in Pittsburgh, Miss Ryan Europe prize of fifty dollars, is for a composition exceeds the sup- Registrar, 60 E. Van Buren St., Chicago 5, Illinois major in music. Faculty and the demand greatly Address of artist teachers. In- studied and in America formation upon request. Mark Hoffman, Dean. INCREASE YOUR with Wallace Goodrich at the and was for small orchestra. Composers between ply. In whatever field he may choose, the New said to have a the of sixteen and twenty-five are INCOME! England Conservatory and with repertoire of over a thou- ages trained violist has a big future. And sand songs in eligible. The closing date is April 1, 1946, Eastly —Substantia lly —Pleasantly Frank La Forge in New York. For two nine languages. She was of music for him to SOTH there is plenty good — Take reported to and full details may be secured from A II E It Subscriptions for — years have N YEAR before joining the been the first artist to PHILIP W Metropolitan play. Aside from the symphonic, operatic, OF introduce Marion Bauer, Chairman, 115 West 73rd flKtfene TKeatre THE ETUDE MUSIC MAGAZINE Opera she had been the soprano of the genuine old Negro songs to there is Member the Artist Faculty ^• ar n k ing Student8 seeking professional eng; the and chamber music repertoires, of ®i J ? v K engagements Street, New York 23, N. Y. — Write for particulars — La Forge Quartet, European audiences. Miss Cheatham was a wealth of fine solo music awaiting him. composer whose works pub,*'- 1712 CHESTNUT ST. PHILADELPHIA, Distinguished American PA. a pioneer artist of the children’s concerts successful tran- dol- In addition to the many Stokoivski of the New A CASH AWARD of one thousand have been performed by Leopold AN EXTENSIVE REORGANIZATION of York Philharmonic Orches- scriptions of violin solos, there are hun- lars is the prize announced by the E. (Chicago the Juilliard tra, The Philadelphia ( NBC Symphony), Henry Weber School of Music has been Orchestra, and Robert Schmitz School of Piano, San dreds of original viola solos of genuine other symphonic Philharmonic), Izler Solomon ( Illinois Sym- announced by William Schuman. Ameri- organizations. Francisco, in connection with the creation musical worth. It is a pity that more pianist WCFL. Tour accom- can composer, recently appointed presi- oi The Debussy Prize for Pianists, do- people do not realize the extent of the phony) . Staff of W dent of the 0 V/ school. An important THE nated by Mrs. William Pflugfelder of all of it is great panist famous singers. ^ 0 admin- METROPOLITAN OPERA GUILD viola repertoire. Not of istrative change is the Garden City, Long Island, New York. ^ amalgamation of will conduct a poll among members of music, of course, but most of it is well DISTINCTIVE PIANO the Juilliard Graduate School the The award will be made in September, Instruction from eminent Artist Teachers SELECTIONS MAIL THIS COUPON and the radio audience of the Saturday after- worth hearing. BY Institute of Musical 1946, to the contestant showing the high- Art into a single noon broadcasts of the Metropolitan Just a word to viola students; Hold AMERICA’S OUTSTANDING est musical attainments in the presenta- is available to talented students at Sher- COMPOSERS McKinley publishers, unit—the Juilliard School of Music. Opera to of let it inc. determine what operas to tion of a required program of piano your viola up! Too many you 425 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago III. broadcast ARTHUR OLAF ANDERSEN 5, during the season of 1946-47. compositions by Claude Debussy. All de- droop in a very ugly fashion, with detri- wood, from the beginning of their studies. MRS. CHARLES GERTRUDE PEN- Two lists of tails may secured by addressing The effect on the tone. All good vio- WAKEFIELD CADMAN Send at once the FREE Thematic catalog twenty-three operas each be mental Degree courses in Piano, Voice, Violin, Organ, containing excerpts from FIELD SEIBERLING, dis- will Pianists, Certificate, Diploma, ROSSETTER COLE each of the 26 be submitted to listeners, will Secretary, The Debussy Prize for linists hold their instruments well up, selections in your library. who tinguished patron of mu- be 3508 Clay Street, San Francisco 18, Cali- HENRY COWELL asked to check three operas on each and there is no reason why violists should Cello, Wind Instruments, Public School Music, Conducting, Theory, sic, for many years active list. fornia. HENRY PURMORT EAMES The six operas receiving the greatest not. Granted that a viola weighs a few RUDOLPH in the National Federa- number difference Composition. Dormitory accommodations at moderate cost. Courses GANZ Name_ of votes will constitute the ounces more than a violin, the HARVEY GAUL tion of Music Clubs, broadcast THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC of De Paul excuse a bad posture. program for next season. is not enough to for veterans under G.I. Bill of Rights. Summer Session MAXWELL died early University, Inter- opens POWERS in January in Chicago, announces an Hold the viola up—you will look better Akron, Ohio. The wife of American Chopin Contest, the finals of Medium and advanced grade Address- adamo and sound better! June 12. For free catalog, write Arthur Wildman, Musical piano ma- DIDLR, formerly a leading which will be held in Chicago in May, terial for teachers, F. A. Seiberling, founder professionals and stu- basso with the 1946. The the out- of the Metropolitan Opera Com- contest is to select Director, 412 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago 5, Illinois. dents. Ideal for technical development, Goodyear Tire & Mhs. Frank A. pany Seiberling for many years, died on January 7 standing Chopin pianist of the hemisphere THE INSTITUTE OF VOCAL ART concert, recital and recreation. Retail price Rubber Co., she was na- City. -State- in Katowice, and entries are invited from the United OF SAN FRANCISCO from 30 to per copy. tionally Poland. His age was seven- 60

Lesson Dora’s Harmony Junior Etude Cuntest JJ. Co, L, The Junior Etude will award three at- you enter on upper left corner of your tractive prizes each month for the neatest paper, and put your address on upper brought her hands down “Right,” said Cousin Lucy. ORA “And and best stories or essays and for answers right corner of your paper. keyboard with a crash now see if you can build, very quickly open to all boys and on the to puzzles. Contest is Write on one side of paper only. Do stool the dominant seventh chord of D and spun around on the in b' girls -under eighteen years age. not use typewriters and do not have any- as she remarked, “We have to write major.” ° Class A, fifteen to eighteen years of one copy your work for you. OIIGItLR Class dominant seventh chords in all major Dora placed her finger on F-sharp. age; Class B, twelve to fifteen; C, Essay must contain not over one hun- years. dred fifty keys and And them on the keyboard “Now I put my finger on every other under twelve and words and must be re- prize winners will appear on ceived at the Junior for our exam tomorrow and I think tone of the B major scale, beginning Names of Etude Office, 1712 page in a future issue of The Etude. Chestnut Street, Philadelphia (1) Pa., by they are hard.” on F-sharp until I have four tones. this , The thirty next best contributors Will re- the 22nd of March. Results of contest Cousin Lucy glanced up from her Why, of course. It comes out to F- ceive honorable mention. will appear in July. Subject for essay knitting. “Now Dora, don’t talk like sharp, A-sharp, C-sharp, E.” Put your name, age and class in which contest this month, “Practicing.” COLLEGE that. You know the dominant seventh “Of course it does,” answered Cousin chord is built on the dominant triad, Lucy. “You will be all right at your and you know that is built on the examination tomorrow, I am sure.” Fable The Chorus CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC fifth scale. It is very “Yes, I feel lots A degree of the better about it (Prize Winner for easy if you know your scales and now,” said Dora. ( Continued) December Essay) Junior Club Outline Singing in a chorus is certainly lots of fun, triads.” “Next to the tonic chord,” con- one of his friends either scoffed or but it involves many hours of practice and re- A professional music school in an attractive No. “Oh, I know them, all right,” an- tinued Cousin Lucy, hearsal. Two years ago, when I was in the sixth 44, MacDowell “the dominant advised, but finally he was tired of grade I sang in my music teacher’s chorus and college town. (Member of the National swered Dora with certainty. seventh chord is probably the most playing safe and crawled out to en- we gave a cantata. There were about thirty of X. Edward Alexander MacDowell, one of PROGRAM Association of Schools of Music.} “Then you know that in a major frequently used chord in music. us in the chorus. I was the youngest, and the the best known American composers, was You joy the sunshine. The dew sparkled A program of oldest was over forty years of age. We pre- MacDowell’s music should scale the major triads are built on must learn to recognize it quickly lilacs scented born in New York, in 1861 and died in on a rose bush and the sented our cantata in our high school auditor- Thorough instruction for carefully selected not be difficult to arrange, as he wrote the first degree, called the tonic tri- whenever 1908. Look up his biography in your musi- you hear it or see it.” the air. Slowly he unfolded his new ium and there were more than three hundred some simple and lovely students in all branches of music under artist teachers. things, such as ad, on the fourth degree, called the people present. It was a great success and we cal history and tell a few things about “I am,” said Dora. wings, golden, gossamer wings, and To a Wild Rose. If you ever see any earned over two hundred dollars which we Special training in band and choir direction. him. subdominant triad, and on the fifth “You are what?” asked the air. large compositions published under the name Cousin spread them in How gave to the Child Welfare Society. A cantata 2. In what University in America did he degree, called the dominant triad. Lucy, curiously. is a sort of singing story and there are different of Edgar Thorn, these were also written they seemed! He suddenly discov- Write for catalogue describing Oberlin’s conservatory teach? And you know that in root position, parts to it. Last Christmas we sang a Christmas “Learning to recognize it,” said ered he was not a worm at all, but 3. cantata in our church and we practiced almost courses and its superior equipment (200 practice Name the compositions of his you can these are formed by playing every Dora, as she went on with her prac- a beautiful Tiger Swallowtail Butter- two months for it, but it was lots of fun. play or have heard. of c) other tone in the scale. C-E-G, for ticing. Yes, chorus work is lots of fun, and I hope I rooms, 23 modern organs, etc.). Degrees: Bachelor J JJ did JJ fly, created to give pleasure to all TERMS will be able to sing in another cantata chorus 1 instance, is the tonic triad in the Music, Bachelor of School Music; Master of 4. Define harmony. who saw him. He realized now that in the future. scale of C major, or every other tone, 5. heeded advice of Ann M. Martin (Age 13), Music, Master of Music Education. Define melody. by MacDowell. Besides the records if he had the others of his beginning C. Game of sical Pennsylvania 6. What is meant on F-A-C is the sub- Mu Spell inside, by syncopation? small piano pieces, try to hear the re- and stayed he would never Prize Winner for December essays in Class A: dominant triad, or every other cording of tone have been able to fly from flower to Freda Goldblatt (Age 15), his concerto for piano and by Ruby D. Austin Frank H. Shaw, Director, Box 536, Oberlin, Ohio. KEYBOARD HARMONY beginning on F; and is Maine orchestra. This concerto was introduced G-B-D the flower, would never have been able 7. Play a phrase in the rhythm given to American dominant triad, or every other tone audiences by his former At your grocery store purchase to swing on a piece of tall grass herewith, using the tonic, subdominant of the Honorable Mention for teacher, Teresa Carreno, one of the C scale beginning on G. So, some alphabet would never have been a butterfly at and dominant macaroni. Pour it into seventh chords. world’s great pianists. if you add a fourth tone to your domi- December Essays a dish or box. Each player takes a all.” nant triad, also in the every other handful Norma Jean Preble; Barbara Crompton; Rita and from these letters he is After a moment’s silence Eva said tone pattern, Keating; Mary Sullivan; June Claffley; Betty you will have a domi- to spell as many words relating to quietly, “I see what you mean. I’ll Maier; Ora Prentiss; Janice Williams; Joan nant seventh chord, and that’s all Morrisy; George Werner; Flor- A Fable music as he can. The player with the play tonight, Miss Harris. And what’s Draper; Ethel there is to it.” ’’ ence Menard; Grace Babcock; Ethelwyn Stein- longest list more, I’ll play well. of words when “time is bach; Georgia McMurtrie; Jeanne Deshaies; )uBtr Dora swung back to ^)b? belartiiJhalttirtv nf ' her keyboard dCline (fCcirhwai up” is the winner. Geraldine Heal; Marvin White; Lucile Lester; 0 t and put her fingers over G-B-D -F. Betty Chapin; Bertha Orinsky; Anne Doleson; Bachelor of Music Degree, Master of Music Degree, Artist Diploma Lewis; Doris Barnes; Mary Molway; The day of the “Well, there it is,” she remarked joy- Eldo)*a recital arrived and side, brother; the world is full of Esther Mitchell; Laura Whiteside; Jerry BERYL RUBINSTEIN, Mus. D., Director 3411 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, O. ously; all details were arranged. Miss Har- traps “and I suppose it is called Thomas; Marian Bamdt. and poison powders. Take my Eyes Straight Ahead Letter Box Charter Member of the National Association of Schools of Music ris seventh because the last tone is a was arranging the flowers when advice and play safe.’ Every time Dear Junior Etude: a tall, angular girl entered. seventh higher than the root; I think by Send answers care Junior Etude Ever since I started piano lessons I like “Miss the little worm tried to come out, Gladys Hutchinson I music more and more.. Here are two good Harris,” she “I remember Miss Elmer explaining Dear Junior Etude: MILL1KIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC said, know I should (Continued reasons for being interested in music: one is on next page) When I have just been playing some of the pieces BALDWIN-WALLACE have told you before, that to us.” you are walking on the side- for my personal pleasure, and one is for DECATUR, ILLINOIS but I just can in The Etude and I enjoy doing this very walk you everybody else who enjoys music. I am the CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC not play tonight.” hold your head up and keep much. Although I play the piano, I am hoping Offers thoro training in music. Courses leading to BEREA, OHIO (suburb of Cleveland) to make singing my career. I sing in the choir only one in my family studying music but Bachelor of Music Degree. Diploma and Certifi- eyes straight ahead. A quick glance “What is the matter?” asked Miss at Edison High School and like it immensely I have an uncle in the South Pacific who Affiliated with a first class Liberal Arts College. cate in piano. Voice, Violin, Organ, Public School Katy-Did Four and five year courses leading to degrees. Faculty Harris. with the eyes is all that is necessary and I often sing solos from The Etude. This is plays the trumpet and he says he will be glad Music Methods and Music Kindergarten Methods of Artist Teachers. Send for catalogue or informa- the first time I have ever written to The Junior to back and play the trumpet and I now and come tion to: Bulletin sent free upon request “Well, then to prevent stumbling Etude and I would like to hear from some you know I have had les- -J, will accompany him on the piano. Dean, Berea, If ffrJj. DooL, other readers. ALBERT RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Ohio W. ST. CLARE, MINTURN, Director at a curb. (And a From your friend, sons for only six months and I play glance with the From your friend, eyes does not Elaine Sabin (Age Amelia Barnes (Age 11), like a small child, even if I four- mean dropping the 15) am I found a clever katy-did, Minnesota District of Columbia teen. I’m afraid the head) audience will A-playing on his fiddle-string; think When you are driving INDOORS WESLEYAN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC— A DIVISION OF WESLEYAN COLLEGE I’m dumb. If I were younger, it As by the pasture a car you gate he hid; and would be all right.” hold your head up and keep your Institutional member of National Association of Schools of Music And when I asked who made eyes on the roadway OUTDOORS “Eva,” began Miss Harris, “you are the thing, ahead. A quick Degrees: B. M. and A. B. with major in music bright and glance with the eyes at you have made good He said, “Katy-did! Katy-did!” passing traf- fic or side For Catalogue and Information address: progress. Besides it isn’t what others roads is all that is neces- sary now The Dean Wesleyan Conservatory think of us that molds our lives; it and then to be a safe driver Macon, Ga. He is what we ourselves know we are kept right on and played some (And a glance with the eyes does not mean that counts. Let me tell you a fable. more. turning the head) “Once upon a time, the story goes, I asked the merry katy-did, Just as in driving a car or walking Please, on the a fat little worm rested all winter in will you tell who wrote sidewalk, when you are read- Vfl&UinGtAGf Orchestra Camp ing his downy bed of thistle down, but the score?” music hold your head up and Sprenger "LO. THE MASTER COMETH now, feeling the warm sunshine of And I am glad to say, he did. keep eyes straight ahead. A quick Piano Private lessonson all instruments PLUS participation in Symphony spring, he cracked a doorway He said, “Katy-did! Katy-did!” glance with the eyes Orchestra rehearsals and in his at the key- Camp programs. Ages: 14 to 20; Enrollment tiny chrysalis, board now for two or four week period. Reasonable rates. Strict supervision. when a fuzzy cater- and then is all that is Register now. necessary, West pillar crept by. ‘Hi, brother,’ it and this does not mean I asked who taught him how July 15 to August 10 called, 'better stay inside. Nothing to dropping the head. If you drop your Falmouth, Play. A notable 10th Anniversary feature of this Christian Conference head famous for its out here but rough bark and stones. you will surely have a stumble Mass. School of Music. Rare vacation advantages— Lake I might have Shore camp site, comfortable buildings, good all Wish I’d known it! Katy or an food, sports, known when I was well off.’ accident with a note, or a free accident and health insurance. Parents invited to adjoining did. Bible Conference. So the little worm drew back. Then rhythm, or a fingering, or hand posi- He disappeared the selfsame EARLY REGISTRATION he started out again when day. tion or something. Mr. and Mrs. Sprenger with campers and Sara Jean Goodman; Irene Green; Bill Nelson; RECOMMENDED a big Write todayforfull particulars I guess he found a mate, counselors: Quigley; Joyce Sloan; Susan Sprenger; and Enrollment Blank bumble bee went by. ‘Better stay in- he did. So remember, (in alphabetical order): Charles eyes straight ahead Sylvia Babb; Sigrid Topken; Elsa Weil; Nor- K ER Or Katy-did! Mimi Beerman; David Carnwath; Bill Strutton; - MUSKE w cl< - on Mfna'ger ^' the staff-roadway or sidewalk. Bob Cornell; Jeanne Epstein; John Gilespie; man Weil; Phyllis Wheeler. MARANATHA ORCHESTRA CAMP Df° 176 MARCH, " MARCH WITH MUSIC” THE ETUDE 1946 FORWARD 1 77 C — —

ORGAN VISTAS—The final THE COVER FOR THIS MONTH—The wa- selection of compositions for this new collection PRELUDES FOR THE ORGAN by CLASSIC AND FOLK MELODIES, In the ter color sketch serving as the cover sub- of CHORAL Compiled, Revised First Position Cello and Piano, medium grade organ music is Johann Sebastian Bach, for Selected, ject for this issue of The Etude was a completed and the many organists who Edited by Edwin Arthur Kraft—The Arranged and Edited by Charles Krane— runner-up in this magazine’s cover con- have or- and dered this book in advance of advance orders for this fine This book should be an inspiration to the test, in which only students of the Phila- publication numerous confidence in the beginning OF MUSIC public’s cello student, since the editor SCHOOL be receiving their attest the EASTMAN delphia will soon copies. book Museum School of Industrial Art Kraft. The pieces in this book have scholarly work of Edwin Arthur has selected and arranged melodies that participated. It is the work of Miss Dor- never used in other of our many years organist at Ti inity will develop a love of good music. Each othy Sinn. PUBLISHER’S NOTES been organ collec- For of all are suitable Cleveland, Mr. Kraft is the arrangement also offers ample opportu- The violin maker’s shop depicted is tions, and for church Cathedral, service playing. There are close of inspiration to many younger nity for a foundation in correct fingering, typical of those to be found today in the Monthly Bulletin of Interest to all Music Lovers to thirty source authority on Bach and a fine bowing, phrasing and technical facility. of Rochester majority of our leading cities, tucked compositions, with a few selections suit- artists. An The University his great music, he is known The melodies are from Bach, Mozart and away on secondary shopping streets or able for Easter, Christmas, and Vesper editor of the country for his recitals, Brahms as well as folk tunes of French, Howard Hanson, Director smaller streets adjacent thereto. Just how services. The majority of the pieces are throughout distinguished Bohemian, original copyrighted works by which have always been Dutch and Russian origin. many professional violin makers there contem- Wilson, Assistant Director Consequently it is with just Prior to publication, a single copy may Raymond are in America is not known, but the list porary composers such as Arthur G. Col- occasions. the publishers look forward to be ordered now at the special Advance doubtless would run several hundred or MOTHER NATURE WINS, An Operetta in born, Chester Nordman, Ralph Kinder, pride that Undergraduate and Graduate Departments release of this book from the press. of Publication Cash Price of 60 cents, more. Many of these artist-craftsmen l^yjarclij 1946 Children Libretto by Mae Roland Diggle, Giuseppe Stabile, and the Two Acts for , There is still opportunity to reserve a postpaid. produce remarkably fine instruments Gleaton Shokunbi, Music by Annabel S. Wal- Cyrus S. Mallard. There are also a few special Advance of which are so highly esteemed by out- choice transcriptions from single copy at the lace—This unison and two part operetta Johann Se- SESSION ADVANCE OF PUBLICATION Publication Cash Price, 50 cents, post- PETER RABBIT, A Story with Music, by Ada SUMMER standing soloists and violinists, violists, requires a cast of juvenile performers bastian Bach, John Field, Adolf Jensen, Liszt. paid. Richter—Mrs. Richter’s latest contribu- and cellists in the topranking orchestras from five to thirteen years of age. Five and Franz Registration is provided tion to the A Story with Music series is June 24—August 2, 1946 that big they can command prices for OFFERS solo voices are needed, and a dancing for the Hammond and standard organs. them. STUDIES for based on the favorite childhood tale, Perhaps a few hundred years group of any size can be utilized. The Organists may yet reserve an advance SELECTED FIRST GRADE hence of these instruments will All of the boohs in this list are in Lawton Teach- Peter Rabbit. Like its predecessors, its some be unique stage setting calls for the use of copy of this useful book at the Introduc- Piano, Compiled by David — prized as the greatest preparation for publication. The story is interspersed with original piano FALL SESSION among examples chorus of twelve, take their places tory Cash Price of 90 cents, postpaid. ers searching for early grade supplemen- low Advance Offer Cash Prices a who of the instrument maker’s art of all ap- selection numbers for young students to play. time. as trees of the forest. But one scene is tary studies will make a happy ply only to orders placed NOW. pieces can assigned separately The old music master depicted leaving RALPH FEDERER’S PIANO of compositions by such The be September 17, 1946—June 7, 1947 directions are in- SOLO this new book Delivery (postpaid will be made required, and stage ALBUM— in the shop and the appellation tonsorial ) Mathilde Bilbro, or the entire book can be studied con- when the books are published. cluded in the copy. In response to demands for an album of successful composers as parlor on the barber shop in the Parlow, Louis secutively by the pupil. When used for base- Paragraphs describing each pub- The story tells of King Winter’s am- Mr. Federer’s piano work, we are pub- L. H. Bugbee, Edmund effec- ment suggests the time before the lication class instruction, it can be given turn appear on these pages. bitions for supremacy and harsh rule over lishing this collectigon which is highly Kohler, Louis Streabbog, and Cornelius For further information address of the century. The old master likewise beyond tively as a playlet by the entire group, the earth, and his complete change of representative of this composer’s gift for Gurlitt. The material does not go suggests the many who will trust Album of Easy Piano Solos directions for which are included. The not Stairs .40 heart when Mother Nature devises his melodic writing and harmonic originality. grade one-and-a-half. The music is in ARTHUR H. LARSON, Secretary-Registrar their beloved instruments to other The Child Chopin Childhood of tinting of the line drawing illustrations than — Days transformation into the Prince of Spring. The contents range in difficulty from the easy keys of C, G, F Major, G and A Famous Composers—Lottie Ellsworth Coit student competent craftsmen when repairs or ad- only are ilsed: offers an engaging reward to the Eastman School of Music and Ruth Bampton .20 A single copy of Mother Nature Wins grades three-and-one-half to five with a minor. Simple rhythms for careful study of the music. justments are needed. Choral Preludes for exercises employ single the Organ. .Bach-Kraft .50 may be ordered now at the special Ad- wealth of variety in tempi and rhythms. Many of the York How many violin makers, not repair- Classic While Peter Rabbit is being made Rochester, New and Folic Melodies in the First vance of Publication Cash Price of 30 For teaching and recreational purposes, notes in each hand, and there is practice men, but those who actually live Position for Cello and Piano Krone .50 ready for publication, orders for single by mak- cents, postpaid. teachers will find an abundance in playing legato and staccato phrasing, Concertino on Familiar Tunes of suit- ing violins do you know in your home three-tone chords, copies, to be delivered when published, For Two Pianos, Four Hands Avery .35 able material for pupils of modern in- easy arpeggios and town or city? Miss Sinn, no doubt, had EIGHTEEN HYMN TRANSCRIPTIONS, For “thumb may be placed at the special Advance of Eighteen Hymn Transcriptions— For Piano clinations and conservative tastes as left hand melodies, and a few A Revealing New Book in Two Parts well. Price, 35 cents, post- a good time in locating this old violin Kohlmann .45 Piano solo , Arranged by Clarence Kobl- Publication Cash Consequently, the collection will become under” passages. PARAGON OF RHYTHMIC COUNTING PARAGON OF HARMONIZING shop and making a sketch of it. Mother Nature Wins—Operetta in Two mann—The demand for new' arrange- paid. The a favorite in studios everywhere. A single copy may be reserved now at Presented by Trinity Principle Pedagogy name the Acts for Children Shokunbi-Wallace .30 on window, of course, is not ments of familiar hymns has led several Publication Cash Price Part One: Clarifies all rhythms including difficult composite rhythms, syncopation, Organ Vistas ?0 Single copies of this book may be or- the Advance of intended to have talented devote PUBLICATION OFFERS the fermata and cadenza, how to use conductor's beats and rhythmic writing for any similarity to any composers to a great deal sale is limited ADVANCE OF Peter Rabbit—A Story with Music for Piano dered now at the Advance of Publication of 25 cents, postpaid. The rhythmic dictation. known violin maker living or dead. of time to such work. Among these Clar- WITHDRAWN—Two of the new books Richter .35 Cash Price of 60 cents, postpaid. to the United States and its possessions. Part Two: Clarifies diatonic, chromatic, pentatonic, and modal harmonizations. Ralph Federer's Piano Solo Album .50 ence Kohlmann has been outstandingly described for some months past in these Send 51.00 for Rhythmic Drills, Rhythm Lesson One Booklet, and Explanatory Booklet. MAKING THIS SUMMER PROFITABLE— Selected First Grade Studies— For Piano successful because of his remarkable tal- Publisher’s Notes now are ready, and by THE WORLD’S East 86th St. I Park Lawton .25 GREAT WALTZES—Ar- ALBUM OF EASY PIANO SOLOS by Louise EFFA ELLIS PERFIELD 103 Ave.) New York City Although some sections of our country ent for melody and his musicianly ar- the time this note is read by subscribers Six Melodious Octave Studies—For Piano ranged for Piano by Stanford King col- rangements. Third in series, this —A E. Stairs—Teachers seeking new and The Etude copies probably will be in may have snow and other reminders of Lindquist .25 a book to lection of fifteen of the most famous prefer music winter yet Themes from the Orchestral Repertoire was preceded by the tremendously popu- worthwhile teaching pieces the hands of those who ordered them in around, it is not too early for melodies For Piano Levine .40 of the waltz kings of yesteryear, interest- the progressive music lar Concert Transcriptions of Favorite with distinctive melodic values, advance of publication. This note, there- Philadelphia Conservatory teacher to plan The World's including Great Waltzes King .40 Strauss’ Emperor; the Beauti- ing material from the pupils’ point of special summer music classes. Technic Hymns and More Concert Transcriptions fore, will serve as a notice that the spe- Has Your Child , ful Blue of Music Danube; and Tales of the Vi- well as numbers which develop study with and repertoire classes, of course, can be of Favorite Hymns. The new collection view, as cial introductory price has been with- the advantage of piano enna Woods; as well as Arditi’s The Kiss; believe a member of the 216 South 20th Street carried on for regular THE CHILD is ideal for the church pianist in accom- the young student technically. We drawn and that copies now are obtain- students, and for CHOPIN— hildhood Days of Over the Waves Maria Ezerman Drake panying group or solo by Rosas; Ivanovici’s that these requirements have been ful- the these students as well as for new stu- Famous Composers—By Lottie Ellsworth Coit singing. The Ad- able at your music dealer or from NATIONAL GUILD Managing Director Danube Waves; Lehar’s Gold and Silver album. This gifted composer Faculty headed dents, special classes may readily be and Ruth Bampton vance of Publication Cash Price is 45 filled in this publishers. Copies cheerfully will be sent by con- —The present wide- Waltz; Waldteufel’s of PIANO TEACHERS cents, postpaid. stimulating Estudi- of children’s music has established a Olca Samaroff, Mas. D. ducted covering different branches of spread interest in Chopin, his music, and for examination. Inc. antina, and the ever lilting Skaters reputation for creating this type of Courses leading to Degrees music such as Harmony, Counterpoint, his times was first aroused The Child Beethoven, by Lottie Ellsworth A goal of achievement for every student suitable by the motion THEMES FROM THE ORCHESTRAL Waltz. They REP- are arranged most effec- teaching material. The contents of this to his age and advancement. History of Music, Music Appreciation, etc. picture A Song to Remember. That Coit and Ruth Bampton, is the newest in- ERTOIRE, For Piano, Compiled and Ar- tively for the average (NOT A CONTEST) With such books pianist, yet they volume are suitable for pupils of grades the Childhood Days of Famous Com- as Standard History of terest has recently been given added im- in Better Members ranged by Henry Levine—This excellent retain all the verve and the for The Teachers Are Music by Dr. James charm of one and two, and will prove useful posers series, in which intriguing stories UNIVERSITY Francis Cooke, Har- petus by the current romantic opera compilation Chapters in every large music center BOSTON will follow the general plan original scores. assignments and recreational ma- mony Book for Beginners by Dr. Preston Polonaise, the score of which has been lesson of the great composers are told in a FOR INFORMATION WRITE of Mr. Levine’s popular albums for piano Single copies may be Cofflerpe c/W/udic Ware Orem, Outlines of Musical History largely adapted ordered now at terial as well. manner easily understood by children, from the compositions of solo, Themes from the IRL ALLISON, M. 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This new collection Faculty Symphony. Bache- others it will be easy to conduct such the sixth offering The Child Chopin. place their orders now. in the playing capabilities of first and lors and Masters Degrees in all musical subjects. Dorms. of well edited, pianistic adaptations, how- SIX MELODIOUS BHnnmnaHHnnomHaMHm Catalog. COLLEGE OF MUSIC, 73 Blagden St., Boston. classes. This OCTAVE STUDIES by second grade students of the piano. Many book follows the same plan as its ever, will contain slightly Special more difficult Orville A. Lindquist—In these entertaining summer work for juveniles predecessors. Its varied aspects TUNES, for teachers use these as pupils’ recital units, make it arrangements than its companion CONCERTINO ON FAMILIAR - should not be vol- studies we offer an important forthcom- with ==JUILLIARD SCHOOL OF MUS1C= forgotten. The younger ele- useful in work with children between the umes, with Two Piano—Four Hands, by Stanley R. Avery some presentations being in costume much of its content lying in ing addition to ment can be enthused to a lively the famous Music Mas- staging as suggested in the book. interest ages of five and twelve. The essential grades five —This novelty number, which is the hap- simple WILLIAM SCHUMAN, President and six. The twelve numbers tery Series of studies in music when the teacher wisely chooses elements of the for the piano. The Others find them invaluable in class original compositions to make up this album include: py result of increasing interest in two- any Debussy’s familiar types of octave work to be found such books as Young Folks’ Picture have been retained in the following piano younger pupils piano teaching, or in synchronizing the easy- Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; between music, will delight History of Music by Dr. J. F. its covers will reveal the varied with music. 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The important fea- Easter Cantata Musicians A Minor, Prelude in A, Theme from Bal- ness in combining light subject matter The Resurrection Song , an Midsummer Night’s Dream,’’ by Mendels- ture of series by Thomas Tapper, or “ Xylophone Player, for instance, Voices (S.A.B.) or any of the lade in A-Flat, and the Butterfly” Etude. sohn; Themes with the condensed Sonata form makes for Three-Part Mixed from “Danse Macabre,” is the playing of July 1 to August 1946 books in the Childhood Days of Great Directions for repeated octaves in six- Two-Part Treble Voices (S.A.) by Louise 9, making a miniature stage by Saint-Saens; Song the it especially suitable for recital use. Its Composers series of Moldau, by teenth notes. Chromatic for by Mrs. Coit and Mi.« and setting, suggestions for octave work three Allegro Moderato, E. 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\ Proper balance of sound is one of the This Business of conductor's chief concerns. At times, im- portant themes may easily become ob- WHERE I ENSEMBLE MUSIC-1946 SHALL GO TO STUDY? scured by a mass of harmonic or Pian© Conducting con- Twc Music detail. Certain trapuntal parts must be JUST PUBLISHED group of novel compositions designed for unusual ( Continued from Page 144) (FOUR HANDS) —A kept to the fore, sometimes so gently combinations . . . ideal Ensemble Music of the highest educational • as barely to project above the rest of the (Western! of expression in the score. FOR ALL PLAYERS standard. Private ieachers Private Teachers (New York city) music.. Speaking of the tempo of the com- Finally, it goes almost without poser’s work reminds me of an experience saying From the Students H. FREDERICK DAVIS HELEN ANDERSON that the orchestra must be in I enjoyed on a recent piano recital tour. tune. It is Teacher of Many Successful Singers Concert Piarrist generally the concertmaster’s Just Beginning to I played a piece, also by Ravel: his duty to di- All Branches of Singing Taught. Beginners Acceptec Interesting course piano, harmony — Before playing it, I rect the tuning-up of the orchestra. This Performing Artists (Brass Sextette) Studio: 606 Templeton Bldg Salt Lake City, Utah Many Successful Pupils famous Jeux d’eau. Phone 3-0316 (or 4-5746) for appointment that this was is usually done before the entry of 166 W. 72nd St., N. Y. C. Tel. Sc 4-8385 explained to the audience the Write for Free Circular (Woodwind Sextette) THE KING'S PRAYER music in which the composer described conductor. The late Sir Henry Wood of Grade Price Grade Price AND FINALE MAURY DEUTSCH B. A. in London was for a time so obsessed the voices of nature, the wind rustling with ALBENIZ, I. KOHLMANN. 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