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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 3-1-1948 Volume 66, Number 03 (March 1948) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, and the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 66, Number 03 (March 1948)." , (1948). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/175 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. - Ii | 'SSSRSik Brk© S® €©mt (B muj Pottsville, Penn- une, died January 16 at Jones, who sylvania, aged eighty-one. Dr. SEVERAL NEW WORKS have been pre- music, was was an authority on Welsh by leading symphony or- oi sented recently known nationally as an adjudicator Nicolas Nabokov’s score for so- chestras. Welsh Eistedfodds. prano and orchestra, “The Return of PUBLISHED! Pushkin,” was given its first performance JUST OLDS, for nineteen years the Boston Symphony DR. W. E. in New York by department at the Koussevitzky. The head of the music below are the two Orchestra, under Serge Angeles, Illustrated of University of Redlands at Los Pianos are essentially soprano was Marina Koshetz, daughter MUSIC RACK. FOOTcoot aids attached tJ a Grand Piano. that California city on January 10. AARON The ADJUSTABLE Nina Koshetz, former Metropolitan Opera died In MICHAEL rebuild been CONTROL had REST AND PEDAL They can be attached to any Symphony Orches- His age was seventy-three. He Both the Music star. The Pittsburgh Los the piano for tiny tots. piano. Spinet, Grand or January, supervisor of choral directors for the can be ad|usted style tra under Fritz Reiner gave, in Rack and Foot Rest Bureau of Music. Grand. Upright Upright. in this country of Angeles City to any type of piano— the first performance Any Style of Piano in , | Adjustable to Early TECHNIC and Spinet in an instant. — Alfred Casella’s “Paganiniana.” to Desired Height PIANO I To Raise or Lower MUSIC 2— and his American RICHARD TAUBER, noted tenor, known 3 Device on Back of Rack for February Dean Dixon RACK 1 —A operetta ADJUSTABLE PIANO MUSIC Adjusting to Any Angle the American internationally as an opera and BOOK JENKINS L Youth Orchestra gave to any desired January 8, RACK can be adjusted premiere of Miaskovsky’s Twenty-fourth artist of the first rank, died forward, so that height and brought in London, at the age of fifty-five. A a level with Symphony. a child's eyes will be on singer, he was problems of technic. distance, remarkably versatile covering the various vital early grade his music and at the correct 25 etudes past equally successful in a Mozart opera, or and are designed to eye strain. STANLEY CHAPPLE, who for the Most of the studies are of a melodic character eliminating He was also a has been dean of the Berk- a Franz Lehar operetta. control of tone and touch as well as aid in two summers guest help the student attain child’s comfort at the conductor, and had appeared as these To further aid the shire Music Center, has accepted espe- finger, arm and wrist. The inclusion of all ied are two double concertos written leading orches- the development of piano, we have of the music depart- the return trip east the cities conductor of some of the as the position as head ances. On talented wife, Car- development of the student musically as well Minneapolis, cially for him and his Europe. factors insures the ment of the University of Washington in to be visited are St. Louis, works tras of (KAUFFMAN'S) FOOT REST roll Glenn, violinist. One of these JENKINS the late Carl Paige and Rochester. technically. p rice 75c Seattle, succeeding Cleveland, by them from Paul AND PEDAL CONTROL his was commissioned IAN IIAMBOURG, violinist, the young- Wood. Mr. Chappie is also severing Nordoif, American composer; the other music where he has ORCHESTRA pro- est of three brothers active in the Can be used successfully on any type connections in St. Louis, THE PHILADELPHIA Manuel Rosen- Philhar- a was written for them by died recently in Spain. His age been conductor of the St. Louis grams of January 30 and 31 featured world, MICHAEL AARON thal, French conductor-composer. His two brothers, Mark monic, the Civic Chorus, and the Grand Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra by was sixty-five. the Canadian With this Foot Rest, a child sits at Opera Guild Workshop. The work was written and Boris, have been active in INSTRUCTION on a Anis Fuleihan. ANNUAL International The NEW NOTE in MODERN PIANO piano at ease, with his feet resting Rockmore, the solo- THE THIRD musical circles. especially for Clara this platform six inches from the floor, elimi- Prague Music Festival will be held Sequence — Natural Progression /I —Six Inches High Here occasion. Perfect Uninterrupted his legs. What | AMERICAN OP- ist on this 6. addi- nating the dangling of Five Inches High Here THE from May 15 to June In FOOT I 2— spring VLADIMIR KARAPETOFF, emeritus Pro- 60 could be more uncomfortable for a child REST 3—Attach to Piano Pedal ERA COMPANY of Phila- Orches- PRIMER ) tion to the Czech Philharmonic MICHAEL AARON PIANO Pedal about Engineering at Cor- than having no support for his feet and legs. ^4—For Operating the delphia added to its INTERESTING and revealing facts under fessor of Electrical 1 00 tra, the Leningrad Philharmonic suc- Michael Aaron Piano Course GRADE ONE with making are given in figures nell University, and looked upon as Very important, to up-to-date piano teachers, is having the child learn the laurels in January family music Eugen Mravinsky, and the Halle Orches- 1 00 pedal which a Psychological Ba- cessor to C. P. Steinmetz, one of the Michael Aaron Piano Course GRADE TWO use of the pedal. Our FOOT REST is an attachment to the a very successful pres- recently released by Barbirolli have been in- tra under John engineers of the past extends to the top of the platform. By pressing his foot on the pedal attach- of a double Survey originated by Dr. Henry greatest electrical Course GRADE THREE 1 -00 entation rometer vited. Rafael Kubelik and Vaclav Talich Michael Aaron Piano can operate the pedal without having to stretch his legs. Corporation. died of heart disease in New ment, a child bill consisting of Puc- C. Fink of the Psychological Philharmonic. century, 1 -00 will conduct the Czech Piano Course GRADE FOUR report the percentage City on January 11. He was seventy- Michael Aaron REST, a child at the piano is cini’s “II Tabarro” (“The According to this York With the MUSIC RACK AND FOOT Russia, he 1.00 Menotti’s families in which musical instru- two. Born in St. Petersburg, AARON ADULT COURSE is inclined to practice longer Cloak”) and of total MELCHIOR, famous tenor, MICHAEL comfortable, and when comfortable, he Vernon peo- LAURITZ and became an “The Old Maid and the ments are played is 42.4,. Of all the and came to America in 1902 Send for free Michael Aaron thematic brochure rapidly. Hammond sang in January his one hundred and progresses more instrument, 70 per citizen in 1909. He was the re- Thief.” Both operas were ple playing a musical the role of American seventy-fifth performance of foremost Vernon Hammond, and the the piano. cipient of many honors from ADJUSTABLE MUSIC RACK—$6.00 FOOT REST AND PEDAL CONTROL—$6.00 conducted by cent play Siegmund in “Die Walkiire,” when the included Brenda Lewis, institutions. He ran for State Engineer HAZEL COBB well-chosen casts Metropolitan Opera Association gave that Four BOOKS by Bernhauer in on the Socialist Party Robert Gay, and Robert SIGI WEISSENBERG, eighteen-year-old York City. of New York Wagnerian masterpiece in New party Sight and Beverly Bowser, winnei of ticket, but later resigned from the WITH THE KEYBOARD A System for Teaching the Puccini work, pianist from Bulgaria, is the GETTING ACQUAINTED and An- that it was wrong SPEED DRILLS Edith Evans, Adelaide Bishop, eighth annual Edgar M. Leventritt Lock- because he believed Playing to Little Tots. or the MIRIAM GIDEON and Norman Menotti’s highly amusing appearance with persons of foreign origin to strive to 75c drew Gainey in Award, consisting of an have won the awards in the fourth for Book One—PRACTICE PATTERNS Cards wood United States Government. Flash Beginners of any Age opera. the New York Philharmonic-Symphony composition contest. change the annual Ernest Bloch stud- SCALE PATTERNS 75c The young pianist, at present He was a gifted musician and had Book Two— By WALLACE and WINNING Orchestra. The prize is a cash award of $150 and technical of at Tiflis Conservatory in Russia. patterns . Drill in a single RODZ1NSK1, conductor Samaroff-Stokowski ied at the These books accomplish ease in reading DR. ARTUR a pupil of Olga publication by Carl Fischer, Inc. Miss ’cello and wrote in hearing scale and chord sequences . Both Speed Drills—Consists of 32 Cards to be placed back of the Piano Keys Orchestra since of Music, was the He invented a five string principle . Ear-training the Chicago Symphony Juilliard School Goodly Are the Gideon’s composition, How was and students will welcome these studies. of the current season, has of the Youth Contest many compositions, none of which teachers On these cards are notes corresponding to the key on the keyboard, showing the beginning winner last year Thy Habitations, O Lord, is a chorus for each note.