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3-1-1948 Volume 66, Number 03 (March 1948) James Francis Cooke

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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 or- oi sented recently known nationally as an adjudicator Nicolas Nabokov’s score for so- chestras. Welsh Eistedfodds. prano and , “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 are essentially soprano was Marina Koshetz, daughter MUSIC RACK. FOOTcoot aids attached tJ a Grand . that California city on January 10. AARON The ADJUSTABLE , former Metropolitan 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 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 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 , 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 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 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— 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 , 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 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, from Bulgaria, is the 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 Government. Flash Beginners of any Age opera. the -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 ’ 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 Symphony 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. abruptly terminated by Orchestra and per- published. In 1943 he became totally blind. And REASON the position of Thus, the student learns through had his contract of The Philadelphia three-part women’s voices; and Mr. Lock- WITH RHYME his eyes instead of the written or spoken word. Orchestral Association, effec- Third Concerto Dr. Karapetoff was an Etude enthusiast the Chicago formed the wood’s work is Song of Moses for flute cards m place back of p.ano keys years. as taught by Hazel Cobb. This text with the close of the season. Dr. Rod- organization. and contributor for many Beginners love their ''Rhythmatic" With SPEED DRILLS it is easy to teach little folks quickly tive at with that and three-part women’s chorus. of the New studies trains the student to see and feel rhythmic patterns effectively, im- and without effort the piano keyboard. zinski was formerly conductor pressively. Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. HENRY FRANCIS, composer, or- A. MONTANI, Price 75c SPEED DRILLS stress visual accuracy, recognition of key- York DR. J. THE BACH FESTIVAL SOCIETY of Phila- NICOLA teacher, has retired after influ- board positions, rapidity of playing the keys, producing ganist, and delphia, with Dr. James Allen Dash con- one of the most 75c ALLIANCE, years as director of fig- THIS WAY TO MUSIC rapid visual, mental and muscular co-ordination. THE PHILADELPHIA ART serving forty-four inaugurated its seventeenth sea- ential and lovable County ducting, correct way to the intelligent reading of notes. the Eurydice Chorus Award, of the Kanawha per- ures in the field of A simplified, With the use of SPEED DRILLS a child learns quickly Sponsors of son on February 16, with a brilliant award will be in West Virginia. Dr. Francis will music, passed the location and position of the keys and while learning, has announced that no schools formance of “The Seasons,” by Haydn. liturgical the judges— duties as a full time member at his his studies become a pleasant game instead of an made this year. According to continue his On March 22 the Society will sing the away January 11 Piano Solo Vauclain, of the Mason College of Philadel- CHARACTERISTIC DANCES for arduous task. Randall Thompson, Constant of the faculty Bach “St. Matthew Passion,” with full residence in Persichetti—none of the Music and Fine Arte at Charlestown, Organist, composer, ^ Speed Drills should be used at the very first lesson, and a pupil and Vincent symphony orchestra and distinguished phia. should submitted came up to the Virginia. journalist, he was by William Scher % have a set at home for daily drill manuscripts West soloists. Also during March the Bach Fes- and % Award Cbmmittee. as the by Price 50c standards set by the tival Society Chorus will join with other most famous dance music of ten countries /A interpretations of the folk KURT ATTERBERG, of the Society m Original musical choral groups and The Philadelphia Or- founder ///a :„«„e_»<»'irHpr.rr>mnoser. AOe Swedish America, for the ad- PEABODY CONSERVATORY of Mu- widely-known chestra with conduct- of St. Gregory of THE music. In its library composer, is the winner vancement of Catholic Church sic in Baltimore has found in ing, in three performances of Beethoven’s prize of his important services, JENKINS to be the manuscript of of the first Symphony. recognition of PIANO is believed Ninth CHORD BOOK what upon him the completed work of Ludwig van $2,500 in a competition Pope Pius XI bestowed It's Easy to play the in the last KING’S Selected Studies chords all keys with this title, Knight Com- STANFORD composition is in the for a new Swedish opera Count’s Cross and the Book. Pictures of the Keys and the Fingers to Play Beethoven. The at the Order of St. Sylvester, one Them of canon and the music is said to to be performed mander of the form a conferred by IN TWO BOOKS handwriting. Apparent- fiftieth anniversary of of the highest distinctions U BEL0W SHOW THE notes on the be in Beethoven’s The Choir Invisible I?Jfcc^STAFF WHICHt?.T?uT!2™rCORRESPOND years in the the opening of the pres- Church for work in art and science. Stanford King brings to the Early Grades with his usual excellent editing, WITH KEYS ON THE KEYBOARD ly it has lain unnoticed for the Opera House born in Utica, New a compact, modern compilation of the best etude Many Library. ent Royal Mr. Montani was fingering and phrasing, teachers all Peabody HERMAN ZILCHER, German composer, Kanzler Burgmuller, Czerny, Duvernoy, Lichner, over the in in Sep- York, and trained in the Baron writings of Streabbog, Muller, Biehl, country are and pianist, who toured as The winning opera is “The conductor, Cecilia in Rome. He Special attention is given the left hand and each study using this with other OPERA Associa- tember 1948. Conservatory of St. Kohler and others. THE METROPOLITAN accompanist for many artists, including material in teaching. -which, according to Mr. Atter- degree of Doctor its characteristic title as if a piano solo, plus an illustration. begins on Tempest,” received the honorary bears own tion’s spring tour, which died recently at Wuerzburg A copy will be mailed based on Shakespeaies Julia ''Culp, Hall, New' Jersey. Students will derive pleasure as well as instruction from these books. will be the longest berg, not only is of Music from Seton for March 15 in Boston United States Occupation Zone. He your inspection. but also follows the text almost in the years was editor of The Catholic Price 75c each book forty-three years. It will include the drama, Bavarian For he If not wanted, re- in was formerly director of the remembered by Colorado; Lincoln, Ne- word for word. Choirmaster. He will be turn and money will cities of Denver, State Conservatory. In the are instructions admirers of all faiths Write for our FREE Elementary Piano Pieces thematic! be refunded. book Richmond, Virginia; Baltimore, many friends and tor playing the keys and braska; retiring from EUGENE LIST, pianist, is for his learning, his splendid character, PRICE other simple instructions. Maryland; Atlanta, Georgia; Chatta- prominent figure 50c POSTPAID for ten months in DR. DAVID E. JONES, Memphis, Tennessee; , active concerting and his fine outlook upon life. N. Y. nooga and his in Welsh music circles and for many MILLS MUSIC, INC. 1619 Broadway, New York 19, to devote time to increasing and Los Angeles, California, where order Scranton Trib- 0Continued on Page 191) JENK INf MUFIC COMPANY ; works to be stud- years music editor of the Los Angeles Calif. KANJ'Ai'ClTY, MO. repertoire. Among the Chicago 4, III. 14, the company will give twelve perform- 133 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” MARCH, 1948 : !

Editorial OME gather round, folks. A letter from a grand- were so helpful C mother has just arrived Etudes. They Part and encouraging. and it is too good to miss. the war, while my of the joy of editing The Etude “During I with the beautifully frank at llorty-pW only son was away is reading the 'Wife Becjini forces, my music did so by HARVEY S. WHISTLER §§(E mmqjmsuma and revealing letters which our armed keep up my morale. Published Monthly readers of all ages all over the much to MODERN HOHMANN-WOHLFAHRT Beginning his Philadelphia i, Pa. al- * family and has lesumed $0.60 Presser Co., pour in upon us. We , n is home again with his Method for Violin, Vol. I. First Position By Theodore world a*d then Now my son helpful manner. N°w interest when _ he if possible, to reply in a He never showed much MODERN HOHMANN-WOHLFAHRT Beginning AND advisory staff ways try, Etude study of the piano! EDITORIAL a good friend of The business man, after seeing 75 Editor- in- Chief letters stump us. For instance, brother, a local Method for Violin, Vol. II. First Position DR. JAMES FRANCIS COOKE, these studied as a child. My Editor the . Guy McCoy, Assistant adult music study, has taken up INTRODUCING THE POSITIONS for Violin, Vol. I. writes my progress in Dr. Rob Roy Peery, Music Editor issue of old to learn. All this from one Third and Fifth Positions 75 K«1W tokens Dr. Guy Meier He, too, thought he was too Harold Berkley Dr. Nicholas Doury approximate cost of a large ^ “Would you please give me the INTRODUCING THE POSITIONS for Violin, Vol. II. the names TH E played on for King Saul? Also adult evening classes. I en- Second, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh and higher positions .75 harp; the kind David ar our high school conducted t e ‘Las™ye that handle them, and also to enroll again. I - addresses of companies appreciation. This fall I expect DEVELOPING DOUBLE-STOPS for Violin. A complete course of study in double note -FOUNDED 1883 BY THEODORE PRESSER and rolled for music instruction book for such an 1.25 beginner’s , for me. and chord development. Covers all phases; first through fifth positions name of a feel a new world has opened manufacturer had been out many ot the We explained that of course the “My piano teacher uses but if he compositions in The Etude Publications for other bowed instruments: (Contents for 1/lfIarch, 1948 of business for some time, beautiful certain present day study. Although I am doing transitional method for those who already possess a were to write to a for me to FROM VIOLIN TO VIOLA. A 30 CENTS VOLUME LXVI, No. 3 PRICE he could a half and fourth grade knowledge of violin playing. Excellent for developing a full string section 1.00 musical instrument dealer, only three and 133 of than two years’ THE WORLD OF MUSIC learn about some musical descendants work, after my less INTRODUCING THE POSITIONS for Cello, Vol. I. The Fourth Position 1.00 please forward to the EDITORIAL David’s harp that probably would study, I am looking 135 INTRODUCING THE POSITIONS for Cello, Vol. II. Second, Second-and-a-Half, Wife Begins at Forty-Plus. play some of the him. time when I can really Third, and Third-and-a-Half Positions 1.50 MUSIC AND CULTURE (from the grand- selections by the great com- lor The following letter beautiful Spare Time Shirley Ker 136 indispensable collection of easy melodic material for SOLOS FOR STRINGS. An The Training of An Artist and Genia Nemenoff 137 mentioned), is so splendid- posers. mother we . ssnn l.!8 class performance with ad lib. Piano. Rachmaninoff As I Knew Him Serge Berta solo playing or unisonal string spirit that we are practice is a happy privilege. Irregular in Chopin Irving D. BartUty 1.19 ly American in its “To me, Violin (First Position), Viola Solo (First Position), Cello Solo (First Posi- The Teacher’s Round Table Maurice Dumesnil 140 studies are not Solo pass it on to our readers. The scales and technical l proud to The Joys of the String Quartet Felix De Cola it tion), and String Solo (First and Second Positions). Each 50 Making a Specialty of Teaching Adults Nat D. Kane 143 work, but a pleasure. Piano Accompaniment 75 I have read in The MUSIC IN THE HOME “Editor of The Etude : “So many times New Music of the Airways Alfred Lindsay Morgan 144 to success I have had the desire . of beginners making a The Etude Music Lover’s Bookshelf B. Meredith Caiman 145 “All my life Etude especially So. I have always had one study of the piano, 738 Campbell Ave. MUSIC AND STUDY play the piano. in their made it Joseph Kingsbury in CHICAGO 12, ILL. Toward a Sounder Philosophy of Musical Education Ericli Leinsiorf 146 in my home, but circumstances the article by Mr. Chancellor 147 Pennsylvania “Dutch” Music at Ephrata (Part Two) Paul G. study. It was my The Pianist's Page Dr. Guy Maier 148 impossible for me to November, 1945. Choral Singing for Children Mallett 149 duet Lloyd love for music that made me take teacher asked me to play a How Joseffy Taught the Piano Elise Lathrop 150 great “My for many recital this Colorful Harp Effects With the Organ Dr. Alexander McCurdy 151 The Etude Music Magazine with her at her annual June Advancing the 'Cello Section (Part Two) L. R. Long 152 self-conscious- Bands in America Today Dr. Ilevelli 153 years. Nervousness and William D. . , year. Opera and the Balakirevs Victor I. Seroff 154 in the October issue ot kept me aw*ay, but again I The Art of Expression (Part “One day ness almost Two) Harold Berkley 155 Questions and Answers ‘Wife Begins at my per- Dr. Karl W. Gehrkens 156 1942 I read an article, was determined to overcome The Romance of Famous Bells Winifred Adkins 157 entranced. The idea of study- I played at that recital Improve your playing Tops at Twenty-Two Elliott Lawrence 158 40.’ I was sonal feelings. entered my ever be afraid MUSIC ing music as an adult never and I don’t believe I will Classic and Contemporary couldn’t I Broadwell Technique Selections head. I asked myself, ‘Why again. by Stars . . over Normandy (Presser *27941) Arthur L. Brown. Op. 127 159 Narcissus (Church forty-five?’ I walked with this 30919) Ethelbert Nevin Op. 13 No. 4 160 learn to play at “I hope I have not bored you Learn how the Broadwell Principles of Mental-Muscular Coordination and Shindig (Ditson) Velma A. 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Makes sight- Danse Hongroise (Presser 24322) logical practice principles. The Broadwell (Piano duet) . noth- .iki i i ii i i ^PaulduTal 170 assured me age had with my music. I hope reading a natural, rapid and accurate process. Vocal and Instrumental Compositions a trial and my later years Spring in Donegal (Presser *27889) (Secular learning to play the of my life. IMMEDIATE RESULTS song—high voice) ing to do with to be able to study the rest GAIN 0 applied to your own playing is appreciated not only in the Ride On! Ride On in Value of the Broadwell Methods Majesty (Twelve Choral ) (Dalon)^ piano. -Sincerely, improved quality of playing, but also the speed with which improvements in technique, accuracy, J ' D fces— aH. thought sightreading and memorizing, etc. become noticed. Improved mastery of skills such as trills, I/ Alexander Matthews 176 family laughed at me— F. H. Claypoole.” Pizzicato berenaaeSerenade (Fresser(PrP «pr 7360) (Violin/w v and “My Mrs. arpeggios, runs, octave passages, chord skips, is unmistakably evident after the first ten days. Piano) f A Franklin US Delightful Pieces for Young Players great joke. Me, a grandmother, ROYAL HIGHNESS, ALEXANDRIA VICTORIA Oriental Procession it was a HER (Presser *27722) .... 17Q Ire- ADOPTED BY FAMOUS TEACHER-PIANISTS ! United Kingdom of Great Britain and I’ll !'.'. '. of the I Think Plant a Garden (Presser '. music lessons Queen dear lady, and many 27897) ! taking Queen Orchids to you, Broadwell Methods are used by famous Concert Pianists, Professional Pianists, reputable Loufse EL ' Ma!rsSiairs 180 (1877-1901). The Drowsy Land (Presser *27402) land (1837-1901) and Empress of India Teachers, Students and Organists the world-over. These methods may be applied by the student K(!ttUTcr 180 determination study of By the Wigwam (Presser went to work with a to have commenced the our thanks for giving us who has had but 6 months of previous piano instruction as well as by advanced students. The *27846) “I Victoria is reputed of them ! Also, William Seller 181 seventy years of age. methods are as valuable to the player of popular music as to the classical pianist. The Broadwell to play. My teacher is very Hindustani when she was over discuss a subject Methods have been successfully used for over twenty years by thousands of pianists. JUNIOR ETUDE to learn an opportunity to Elizabeth A. Gest 200 very thankful. MISCELLANEOUS strict, for which I am up before in The Etude. practice period which we have brought BROADWELL PIANO TECHNIQUE Voice Questions Answered gives me every encouragement to go on. My music when they Dr N ChotOS uty She thousands of individuals take up Organ and Choir Questions Answered...!... „ „P?, Rising at In these days, J , that nothing interferes. Mail Coupon — No obligation for Violin Questions Answered Frederick Phillips 187 comes first each day. I see to it because many of the world’s greatest ’’ ”. Harold Berkley 189 are well past forty. Just Choose Your Words' best to the practice period befoie Marjone Gleyre Lachmund 194 A. M. enables me to give my after they have Band Questions Answered....'. 6.30 musicians have begun their musical careers shortly FREE WMmm ' Revelli apparel shoppe.) BOOK- "TECHNIQUE” An Interesting Letter From a D ”5 husband and I have a ladies’ Home' Group in' Brazil'.'.'. I go to business. (My whose fingers are not P begun to toddle is no reason why anyone hours a day, but much of my leisure time BROADWELL DEPT. Usually I practice two intoxication of studying music. STUDIOS, 68-C Enteied as second-class matter should not have the fun and January 16 1 RRA m on n > „ ossified Covina, California under the Act of al Phlla., P“- piano. March 3, 1879 CobrriihtiaAU^ 0pyr,ght l °J evening is spent at the dodge ’ 1948 the which • b in beginners for U. S. A. and Great Britain 7 Theodore Presser Co., numerous books for adult Gentlemen: year, after the first There are now Send your to give up my music for one me FREE Book “Technique" showing how I may quickly improve my Technique, Accuracy, was forced mature “I kindergarten appeal and are adjusted to the more Memorizing, Sightreading and Playing. I understand there is no obligation. the due to illness, but as soon as the family six months of study, adult music lover. These players do NAME while ie- understanding of the amateur ^orm'niam Republic". Costa Ri “’ C“' I was back at it again. Many days, N ” aSua physician approved, seem to grasp ’ however, Honduras, PaM”J . Republic do, Salvador, Spain and ail Somh A J,. > out to become virtuosi. They ADDRESS C°Untr,es stock of not set *3.25 . e epl rereading my a year in Canada and New1NewI0undlandoundiand the Guian - I spent hours reading and on page 197) - li*4 -00nn a year in ff cuperating, (Continued CITY STATE Single copy, Price 30 cents. all other countri. 135

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Music and Culture issue by speaking of training, let us clarify the ‘method’ to stating at once that we have no Music and Culture J. recommend, no exercises to suggest, no counsels keyboard. Those mat- for individual problems at the to permit of any ters are too individually different the young helpful discussion in a general way. What keyboard must be pianist needs to assist him at the Artist who under- Training of an analyzed, at the keyboard, by a teacher The structure of his stands the structure of his hand, the Further, actual mind, and the capacity of his talent. on musi- keyboard problems have only relative bearing important A Conference with cianship—and musicianship is the most himself. goal that a young artist can set for question. If you “Let us begin, then, by asking a opportunity of examining a metropolitan have the • flemenoff1 lemenoff debuts jCuLosliutz and Qeniaemu newspaper and looking at the advertised piano Pierre yourself how Huo-Pianists (more than a dozen each week), ask Internationally Distinguished last many such debuts have taken place during the of these twenty years. Then ask yourself how many same period o debutants have emerged, within that HEYLBUT dozen at the FOR THE ETUDE BY ROSE twenty years, as recognized artists. A SECURED EXPRESSLY something is wiong most! This means that somewhere, DASH, CONDUCTOR aspirants to honor. In- CHICAGO BUSINESS MEN'S ORCHESTRA, GEORGE in the training of our young find several things deed, upon examination, one can (in private life, Mr. Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff wrong ! . great duo-piano to get Luboshutz), who rank among the is a certain tendency and Mrs. “The first, perhaps, perfection of their ensemble are preschool age quartets in Wisconsin. been commented so teams of history, have built the ahead in a hurry, which has Luboshutz, born in and women, the from widely divergent backgrounds. Mr. For many young men amateur serious musicianship that where often in serious talks on graduated from the Conservatory has been a helpful bridge between school Still, Odessa, was orchestra new in mentioning it again. piano. Miss Neme- there is nothing he absorbed the "Russian school" of the Spare Time Orchestras or solitary playing and the professional symphony. performers school, all of cases of young trained in the French there it is! We know noff, a native of Paris, was These orchestras are a proving ground, providing upon ‘making a launched on their gifted ones—who are so intent at the Paris Conservatoire. Both were experience with all kinds of music, without which many are ready. they met. The im- that they rush into it before they separate careers of solo playing before career’ Having always a talented youngster would not pass a professional great chance, is that they did meet. This means, of course, that they take a portant point, however, of Notable Ability playing Mr. Luboshutz Musical Amateurs audition. Carol Brice, now a topnotch contralto, started not ready. And while life had a great interest in ensemble simply because they are tew art sympathetic Miss Nemenoff to play a with the Amateur Symphony Orchestra, certain element of chance in it, persuaded the itself may have a compatibility resulted in a and every major symphony orchestra in the country the performer is com- works with him. Their entire may not! On the concert stage, the organizing which led to their marriage and to has some of its graduates. One boy, whose father hide nothing. friendship pletely, mercilessly exposed. He can Mr. Luboshutz of their duo team. In the following conference thought it effeminate and foolish a musician, to offer, is to be is in him, whatever he has factors in the training hj Shirley. ^J^eisler Whatever and Miss Nemenoff tell of important was miserable as an accountant. He resumed practice The very fright that comes— -Editor s Note. starkly, honestly revealed. of the young artist. on his bass in this spare orchestra, he is oneself before an time and now always, invariably—with bringing a professional musician young performer and a happy man. audience, is enough to make the control he has when he plays m his Like buttercups in a field at Spring, "spare time orchestras" and "choral groups," many of symphonic lose much of the an art. Amateur Orchestras has a very solid leads directly into the art of listening. For it is teacher’s studio. Indeed, unless he dimensions, are springing up all over America. Their number depends upon the supply of available emergency people can do themselves no better service than For the larger orchestras, there are waiting lists. background of musical surety, as a sort of Young musicians with training adequate to the demands of the ambitions of the director. With thousands groundwork of good listening is Typical of the many letters Judge Prince receives everything! This is exactly to develop it. The reserve, he risks losing per- of unusually competent players, who have been drilled in fine high school orchestras, coming into the ’takes Don’t approach a great work—or the was a recent one from a woman violinist. Discharged to the young performer who reverence. what does happen of combat! field each year, this is not surprising. Vast numbers of people throughout the country are finding a new preparation of a great artist—in a spirit from the WAC, now a librarian, she is eager to return The point, then, is to consider a formance a chance’. dismiss the imperfections thrill in life by playing in an orchestra. It is estimated that in a fifty mile radius around the City substitutes Nothing in life is perfect, so of to work on the radio, but has been unable to con- artistry that rules out chance and for to accept the good. fifty amateur orchestras at the start and prepare your mind Philadelphia, there are at least playing serious and lighter works, under the nect with anything in music. May she be auditioned certainty. listen for faults and to say. ‘I can direction of competent directors. Spare time orchestras are not new, by any means. There have been for his group? It is a mistake to of good listen- it better’. Try it and see! The secret scores of them organized in Europe during the past two centuries. The immense interest in music Occasionally, the outside occupation of a player The Inborn Talent do reverent, mind and interferes with ing is to come with an open, a developed in the United States in recent years has proceeded along democratic lines, and whereas, his performance. A woman detective, that genu- first step, of course, is to make sure find out what the music does to you playing a wind instrument in Civic “The then to relax and in the past, spare time orchestras were often limited to the so-called intelligentsia and aristocrats, the Staten Island inborn, as talent always ine artistic capacity is there— emotionally. For the test of music is its ability to move Symphony, had to eat seven meals a day in a certain the orchestras of today are essentially representative of the whole American people. Editor's Note. easy thing to decide. Natures is never a chain must be. This is no AND GENIA NEMENOFf us. And this mysterious power to move of restaurants. Not only did she suffer gastro- one youngster may PIERRE LUBOSHUTZ develop differently, and where Famous duo-pianists thing that can be determined cerebrally. The artist nomically, but she had to give up playing her oboe so spectacular start, another may develop and you cannot while the make a cannot make up his mind to move you, assignment lasted. what is in it takes years for him to show moved. It has to happen. But for the slowly that they say make up your mind to fie typical amateur, orchestra participa- realize that music is an fortissimo. When such an effect is produced, ABOUT twenty-five years ago, the late George The Judge, a lifelong music addict married to him. At all events, we must happen, the fault may be the performer’s, a tion has been the perfect Certainly, dynamic control If it does not Lytton, counterbalance to his daily that art is, unfortunately, ‘Look at his technique!’ ZA son of the now hundred year old Chicago coloratura soprano and pianist, believed that group art, not a business; and work’s may also be the listeners! Some lis- work. Life has been beautiful for those have extra a pianist’s technical equipment or the —it participation who is, simply, a gift—an and speed are part of to merchant owner of the Hub department store, was the only way to true musical enjoy- not accessible to all. It teners shut out the music itself in their eagerness into interchangeable with the term hutted and puffed away the bogey of Genius. Scoffing ment. So, twenty years ago, born into one person and not —but they are not for small he and his son started to something that is watch for ‘effects.’ Now, it is well enough a - wuica zus music seiiuusiy, can never Indeed, a fine sostenuto legato involves at the popular caricature of musicians as a group play violin duets. Friends is not inborn, training alone technique! take the final joined in the group, and ensemble playing another. If it fortissimo child to ‘see how fast’ a pianist man is work; his pleasure lies in u will be quite value- more technique than the prestissimo apart, lean and unbobbed exhibitionists with special soon people were packing the sidewalks it. But if it is inborn, it much the cultivated outside his complete absorption produce play slow movement of the Chopin Sonata; but necessary for him to master concert stage is not passage. Technique means knowing how to tapering fingers, of unstable constitution and exalted house to listen to the home made music. From then less without training! Thus, the about the speed—he will be lis- piece and the thrill of getting love, hate, be angry listener won’t mind ego, he proved that even a butcher or baker could on the group grew, a measure right. learn to play very fast and very fast, relaxedly, excitedly; how to switching its musical home to a for everyone who can to the music. There is a vast difference between Medical men and women outl of all on the piano. To produce tening play and appreciate symphony music—that the ear school auditorium. Mayor O’Dwyer recently have found this playing fast and loud is not a part serious, kindly, cheerful— commended particularly loud—and the keys, the two kinds of listening. appealing. A tense doctor will in states with the fingers on and heart for music could flower in any occupational the Judge for his concerts, as a civic work of dash musical training! those emotional study, let great rehearsal, join his “To return to our discussion of how to field. colleagues in a spirited renditi< inborn gift, so musical feeling must be there first. For there were no more matter-of-fact men than importance. These free performances bring pleasure “The second step is to develop the the slow. Begin with the simpler of Mendelssohn’s “Fingal’s the start be gradual and those who formed his Chicago Business Men’s to the public, but the Judge Cave” or in a strugg will one day (but not in a insists it is the stenog- with Beethoven, that its happy possessor grow into the more profound works. Don’t and soon have a relaxed, beatific e classics and Orchestra. raphers, house painters, and school teachers able to make beautiful music. There must Good Taste in Music progressive ad- in the pression, having hurry) be rush, jump, or plunge into them. The At a recent press interview, ensemble, forgotten all about Mrs. Brown’s a ten years of age, these players appeared who have the most fun. He himself leaves be an early start; never later than important to combine technical control should, of course, be pendectomy. it is his “Thus it is vancement in actual playing in the habiliments of their daily occupations. young the bench of Municipal very lack of practiced music Except for singers, while A Court on Fridays, and, with S and earlier than that, if possible. acquisition of good taste in music. Now, of theory, , whlcl1 demands that with the paralleled by progressive study man in red plaid jacket busily violin in , every brain cell grapp even as late a tooted his horn be- hand, happily leads his orchestra fv,’ hope to begin his training happily, is not. It can—indeed, through with his musical no artist can talent is inborn, taste, orchestral values, , and so forth. The side a white-coated barber the joyous problem. different, of course, artist’s and an aproned tradesman. abandon of a Strauss Waltz or a Mozart as fifteen or sixteen. (It is quite developed. A large part of the young nine or ten years Medica! people are one it musfi—be great European conservatories required They shared a row with prominent attorneys and Overture. group who have banded t who can train himself to find pleasure acquiring of good g er as a for the amateur training, therefore, must be the study—and intensive testing and grilling— bankers, all vocational entity, years, of intensive of whom were subjugating an accent on Although not especially trained for it, probably because on In the early, formative performances of good the Judge, siders would in music at any age.) taste through hearing good permitted their candidates to approach the individual vested interests, lose patience with before they to the baton and musical like other amateur conductors, knows his the unpredictat artist must begin to make the feeling performance or through business orchestral then, the future works. Either in personal stage. that, of course, was an excellent thing, harmony. Their sixty membership on a given concert And players have so pleased the public musically. And, with patience and enthusiasm, he can night. Despite O second nature. He must be entirely hear all the good music you occupational handicap, of the keyboard his mechanical reproduction, since those intensive years developed musicianship. with high caliber playing, that Lionel Barrymore, him- mold a group of hopefuls, the Doctors Orchestral Socie finding an individual ap- consecrated. And even though it is styles and schools. Compare interpreta- York (including serious, entirely can. Compare self a music hobbyist, was honored in having them proach to each player and each instrument. doctors, dentists, pharmacis as pieces you i au pursues, he must work at its mechanics tions. Study the classics—not merely the Musicianship or * an art he True y cers ’ and introduce his First at their 1946 concert. The Judge, now sixty-five, is the oldest nurses), Ignace Strasfof you can lay your member of n >V6W Yor^ craft—a trade for his hands. This means no less prepare for your lessons, but all re- Yet they started out as humbly as Judge Leopold his orchestra. To him, ^ Phiiharmonic Symphony, conductir a “It cannot be too strongly stressed, or too often music has been the “profoundest n preferably five most important, play . slmiIar grou than three hours of practice a day, hands on. And, aspirant sets himself Prince’s family musicales, which have now blossomed and happiest fact” of his life. Ps in Dayton and Boston, ha to peated, that the goal a young Music is one hobby, «!! which order, perhaps, no better way to learn, to hear, :U1 ni Us Just what he is to practice, and in There is, pianistic effects. into performances by the (New York) City Amateur unlike sports, in which one’s participation and skillfully executed concer hours. playing with must be musicianship, rather than grows in- As-flin t u„ u? ? general, he must familiar with music than in publlc has lie with the teacher to say. In become effects, of course, to Symphony Orchestra, consisting of one hundred and creasingly satisfactory with the years. learned—and benefited, as receip must in a group, You need adequate speed and The deeper aieare usednspri f great deal others. If you have no facilities for playing for medical projects technique—and technique means a life, but to ‘show off such matters ten players. Last year, this orchestra played twelve con- beauties of Beethoven are realized only by the and charities. work at least one friend make music come to mature S ntlStS you should certainly be able to find at either love fleet and fluent fingers! is very much like bragging of the certs to audiences, averaging 20,000 nightly, who have and even more so by the aged, musician. - music—or hate it. Not or more than for their own sakes One can i« tn o with you. re t to handle the piano. to play on Page 191) learned to appreciate “highbrow” music while munch- learn to play at three or at sixty-three. mm“ scientist, Prof. Albert Einste “Technique means knowing how fact that you take a bath! (Continued One Mid- an !Ln ! matter of listening to music to develop taste 6nt VI °linist technique with fast runs. “This ing peanuts on benches and grass. Western group is made up of grandmothers; —there are many nose, thro Many young people confuse there and ni oboe specialists, and 137 (.Continued on Page 14 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE" 136 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” MARCH, 1948 THE ETUDE J

Music and Culture popularity of the movie, UE to the immense deals with “A Song to Remember” which exaggerations Music and Culture Chopin’s life (with many historical D great music students are showing a and inaccuracies) , the Polish composer, and interest in studying works by unable to supply the music publishing companies are Whereas most tremendous demand for his works. Chopin - are distinctly for a Rhythms in of the compositions by Chopin Irregular of a ot vanced music students, the execution hand plays I Knew Him rhythms” (that is, when each Rachmaninoff As “irregular greatly facilitated for the a different rhythm) can be less advanced student. instrument -t The piano always will be a difficult ruing 2). EurtLeg of rhythm found in bg play because of the complexities pianist decides tha literature, but the sooner the bg Serge SertenASon its the irregular rhythms is always better to play the he will conquer these tricky apart regular rhythms it C’s on the piano, an octave that of success. Conquering these is to use any two louder than the accompaniment so greater will be his measure the left considerably right hand playing three notes and part may great deal for one’s sense of we with the any possible deficiencies in the subordinated of Sergei rhythms can do a aloud for every note Mr. Bertensson, in prefacing his article, states: "On the approach of the fifth anniversary few notes to the beat. Count melody is correct violinist has comparatively hand two covered up. Make sure that the appropriate to bring together being! The vocalist or having be Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff's death (March 28, 1943), I have considered it the procedure by his part that is played. Then reverse times. critics and cross rhythms occur between in rhythm at all some impressions and human minutiae of his life—details not of the great artist about whom instances when hand three notes they do occur, the right hand play two and the left seventh measure of the Fantasie-lmpromptu biographers will write for generations, but warm moments from the life of a simple man who was accompaniment, and, even when In the and the aloud. time pro- modesty that attaches to accurate “two to the beat, still counting grace notes can come in almost at any charming, kind, generous, lacking in artifice or pose, and full of the noble seldom does the soloist execute an two the gloomy, how step in the mastering of the in. These notes should be the truly great. For some reason Rachmaninoff maintained a reputation of being haughty, required! The second logical vided they are not rammed — against three” when it is scale of C, with must not inapproachable, reserved 'buttoned up.' This reputation may have stemmed from his custom of ap- three rhythm is to play the with a lighter touch also. The bass perhaps more than many other composers against played pearing on the concert platform with a serious, concentrated face, without the stereotyped smile usu- Chopin, the right and two flow smoothly to be correct fingering, three notes in affected in any way and should and indulged in various rhythms the be ally adopted by the musician before audience or camera. In any case, this reputation was born, of his time, freely start an octave apart, these rhy- in the left hand. The hands will without any tinge of irregularity. was persistently sustained by some of the newspapermen. Rachmaninoff dreaded interviews, and never simultaneously. In their final state played distant by the time the third the group of notes marked this: 'Who attention to but will be twp octaves In the eighteenth measure smiled in talking with reporters. This is no wonder, when he could expect questions such as never sound jerky nor call thms should descend. Similarly let us as- played quite freely. The first orchestrates your compositions, Mr. Rachmaninoff?' With his most serious expression, Sergei Vasilyevich such rhythms octave is reached. Then with a seven are often Upon hearing an artist play indi- here can themselves. two notes to the beat considerably faster than answered this one. 'You see, here in America people are so rich, and therefore composers himself: “Just how sume that the right hand has six notes can be played so smoothly, one feels like asking ten found in Chopin s engage other musicians to orchestrate for them. But in Europe we are so poor and have to orches- hand three. In this case it will be neces- cated and a short rest (as is so of passage?” Unobtrusiveness is a quality and the left trate our own works.' The legend of Rachmaninoff's austerity means nothing to those who, like myself, did he play that proceed, still the end of this phrase before P^y* sary to start two octaves apart and works) inserted at knew his kindly sweetness, his love of a good joke, his delicate sense of humor, and his captivating has developed highly. the left hand that the artist ing the high A-flat. The rhythm in laughter." —Editor's Note. most common irregular rhythms m rubato of the One of the should be more or less intact during the composers’ works is known Chopin as well as in other be almost next to impossible to particularly right hand. It would ACHMANINOFF’S genius as a composer and tears of joy with the back of his hand. Moskvin was against three.” Although it is not a in this case. as “two give any explicit directions on how to count pianist always his heart. Such also an expert in the Russian folk song, singing dozens be alert to count was warmed by difficult rhythm to execute, one must sixteenth notes (A-natural We are indebted to Mrs. Natalie Rachmani- In the next measure tbe . warmth was naturally ever present in his per- in a very pleasant medium voice to the accompaniment “and” half-way between the 2 and notes and R 1, 2 and 3, with the short as grace noff for this portrait, which she has selected and E-flat) must not be as sonal life. I was so fortunate as to know Rachmaninoff of Fyodor Ramsh on the accordion. On occasions we illustrated rhythmically thus: lor The Etude in connection with this article. the 3. It could be should have some degree of pressure applied. intimately—within the surroundings of his home and became an improvised chorus, with our host at the will Ex. 1 the first page of the Fantasie-lmpromptu in his hours of rest and recreation among his friends piano. On examples of “four against three” (four family. I display No less this the film director, and to Akim Tamiroff and his wife, j j be found many and What love saw him for people, than fun and music did Rachmaninoff n hand and three notes Tamara Shayne, and all enjoyed several friendly notes to the beat in the right what kindness and consideration for his intimates, enjoy the serious conversations that were inevitable we sign is used to denote the (In all illustrations the plus that the groupmg of the . It should be said and what an abundance of good feeling towards those in the presence of Stanislavsky, whose thoughts were gatherings on each of Rachmaninoff’s western tours. the and repre- in the left) “and”.) The hands start together on 1, fourth measures, as Sergei Vasilyevich rarely saw a motion picture. notes as found in the third and who inspired his affection and confidence! always turned towards art and the perfecting process in case there are three notes in true senting the left hand in the succeeding measures, are not His sense of humor and power of observation were of the artist. Stanislavsky firmly Nevertheless, he was extremely interested in film well as those was convinced that notes in the left hand, thus triplets, as making, the right and two sextolets (or septuplets), but are double fine, without any drop of acid, and he loved to tell through art, the minds and souls of all people grow and was eager to know everything that hap- Ex. 2 introduces the pened in studios, will seen when the composition stories. he more susceptible all the and how the actors and directors 1 2 be When told of people he had encountered to that is good and truly human. 3 accent Therefore it will be impossible to and impressions gained from his colorful life, he always With Rachmaninoff’s entire creative life dedicated worked in these unusual conditions. Professional talks melody part. to the fifth measure with Ratoff m first, third, and fifth notes from kept his own figure modestly in the background, bring- such spiritual problems, he found allies and Tamiroff, both launched on successful the and sympathies such a treat- film careers, L since the melody in no wise permits ing the others into the bright foreground. At the same among us. pleased Rachmaninoff. i + on, metronome tick time he was a good “listener,” making a wonderful Rachmaninoff grew quite fond of California, and Check your counting by having the ment. found in measure after meas- audience for talented talkers and story-tellers. A Notable Experience when he came to Los Angeles told The first step in learning this rhythm Four against three is on his 1941 tour, he thirds of beats. counting me that ure and should be taken very slowly at first, When the Moscow Art Theatre played in Philadel- he would like to spend the following summer +4. Note that the first and is con- Memorable Evenings phia, Rachmaninoff personally arranged vacation with his family somewhere near Hollywood. thus: 1 2 + 3 with Leopold also that the In April closer to the 2 than the 3; My first meeting with Rachmaninoff took place in Stokowski to seat our entire company in the 1942 he renewed his request by mail, asking siderably wings 3. To dem- January, for a second and is closer to the 4 than to the 1923, when I visited New York with the Mos- during a concert «by The , con- comfortable but isolated house on a hill with a fold a piece of paper cow Art Theatre, headed by Constantin Stanislavsky. ducted by Stokowski, view, and a garden. onstrate this point, if one will with as soloist. My search met success in the and marking the creases 1, 2, 3 and 4, The senior members of the company, -along with Stan- Afterwards, it was exciting to watch Rachmaninoff, form of a Beverly Hills estate with a large house, a first in fourths, islavsky, big piece of paper in thirds, marking had known Rachmaninoff in the years before Hofmann, and Stokowski, together with Stanislavsky music room able to accommodate two grand pianos, then fold this same the Revolution and his departure from Russia. Sergei a swimming ands, this will be the result and the and his troupe, meet in conversation and ideas. We pool, and the all-important garden. It the creases with Vasilyevich had always been a devoted worshipper all afforded corroborated. of had been very much impressed by the concert, and not one, but several views, including one of position of the ands is then the Art Theatre and his attitude towards Stanislavsky Stanislavsky the ocean. spoke of his envy of musicians, arid of It was a sunny, delightful place, and its Ex. 3 was based on extraordinary admiration I even nearest — may music’s advantage over the theater in reaching the neighbors were at a distance, at the bottom say tenderness. Therefore, it is easily understood how audience’s hearts. Rachmaninoff of its hill. I have appeared overjoyed negotiated with its owner, the motion pic- counting 1, 2 and 3, until the hands happy Rachmaninoff must have been when his beloved in having been allowed ture actress, four against three is more dif- to -be the instrument in bring- Eleanor Boardman, and the renting of reached the second octave in the right hand. Since the rhythm of Muscovites arrived in New York City. After several ing together such the estate are of the irregular position of the an unusual gathering of great arts was settled. By the middle of May the Examples of two against three ficult to count because years of separation from Russia, it was like a meeting and artists. Rachmaninoffs of advisable to have the metronome had moved in, pleased with everything. found in the Moderato cantabile section ands, it will be most with Moscow herself. He and his family came to see In 1924 having the right hand the Moscow Art Theatre made a second the Fantasie-lmpromptu Op. 66, by Chopin. tick fourths of beats. Again each play of our repertory several exercises times, visiting us American tour, and in the winter of 1925-26 the United This composition has been chosen as a model take one C and the left the C below, the back-stage, which is where he and I first met. Soon, States saw and heard the lyric branch of our theater— because of the many irregular rhythms should be taken repeatedly, first I was being invited mu uvea wn with other members of our com- the Musical Studio under the direction embellishments that Ex. 4 of Vladimir is wife and and the typical Chopin pany to visit the Rachmaninoffs at their hospitable daughter. Sergei Vasilyevich was for Nemirovich-Danchenko. One of the operas in its Since a number of explana- rep- o he entire family, are present. home on Riverside Drive. We came on nights after the ertory was Rachmaninoff’s “,” and I heard him repeatedly e: para- based on Pushkin’s press his tions will be made in the next few performance, and what memorable nights these admiration for the talent were! poem Gypsies, and composed at the age of the fa mo first eighteen of eighteen piamst. Horowitz graphs, it is suggested that the There were lively theatrical and musical recollections, on his graduation from frequently visited Rachmaninoff, ai the measures be numbered, beginning with the then occasionally varying the procedure yp aye due *’ and discussions of the day’s events, stories told s f°r their own £ by our where it won a gold medal. During the New York „ ,? pleasure, without cantabile. per- ’ measure marked moderato Ex. 5 host, his cousin , the choreographer formances 1 was once invited to of our theater my old friendship with attend one of the measure the two against three Michael Fokine, lve concerts an In the first Stanislavsky, Knipper-Chekhova, Alexander Siloti continued, > d other than the members and I saw a great deal of hntu figure should first be practiced without the Kachalov, and Moskvin. It I WaS the m was an experience to watch Rachmaninoff. sole auditor. The program ii . mordent. Later, as the rhythm becomes more Rachmaninoff listening °Zart" sona to the sharp and lively stories The years passed. I left the Moscow ta and piano concert Art Theatre, and t? \ clear, it can be inserted as indicated. taken of Moskvin about the back-stage life of our theatrical Moscow, achmamnoff’s Second After this section of the composition has been and Russia, and became a resident i"^ Suite for two pianos. It D.-flat is almost family, of Holly- In the third measure the sepa- told in the “juicy” flavor of typical Moscow wood. My meetings with 6Xpress my impression ever with every note counted, the practicing of hands Rachmaninoff were fitted into “PowpA A, of this struck with F in the left hand, speech. Catching every and ]oy ” as if it were “feeling” of the rhythm word and watching every move- the brief intervals between his are the two words fir rately for fluency and the concerts in Los Angeles to mind that come could conceivably be played that way. ment of Moskvin’s expressive features, eXPreS iVe and it as sort of testing process, the Rachmaninoff’s and nearby towns, power ’ and tl be done. Then, a when he and his wife, who always niavo f j°y experienced by sure that the sixteenth note may face, usually so twn At least be Since the right pensive and concentrated would be traveled with him, stayed in Hollywood. f ”lly aware of the ai hands may again be taken together. Chaliapin’s other’s talent like, a grace note or a note transformed: it perfection er does not sound skips, became almost childlike, even his son Fyodor, also now a the ast is more difficult because of its awkward resident of Hollywood, note . no one spoke—tin hand whom , slighted. After all, it is the deeply graven wrinkles seemed tn v, that has been definite would vanish, and he sur- the PPed ’ practice before a Rachmaninoffs had known since T ’ for one *>rgot I MAKING A CHOPIN BUST it will take considerable childhood and ’ that w melody note and should be lingered on a rendered himself to the happiest Sn iHr 1 and most carefree loved like a son, spent all ’ Where the “ ” the bust ( Continued on Page 196) his leisure time with ™ word art has a hal Jo. C. Marzin, lamous sculptor, making ir- sense of security is felt on them rushed. In playing of ’ trifle and not sound laughter, throwing back his head, and brushing slL^fr0m one Buffalo. away He introduced them to our good friends Gregory s memory. When I came hon of Chopin now erected in a park in Ratoff that niPhf T , g I wrote down the ( Continued on Page 19: 139 138 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE" "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE" MARCH, 1948 THE ETUDE . .

Music and Culture lives of many professional Music and Culture HE greatest joy in the musicians is to come together regularly with a T few congenial colleagues to spend an enchanted The Monthly Rates evening with the great chamber music creations of the masters. While the beauty and almost indefinable An interesting letter conies from L. P., appeal of an intimate group of strings gives chamber California, and I will publish it here as music its greatest charm, there is another important this subject is of capital Quartet importance to brotherly the String factor. A warm camaraderie, almost akin to The Joys of all those engaged in the teaching profes- Hound Table affection, exists among chamber music enthusiasts sion: Teacher's The who represent a charmed circle of musicians who not “Miss M. M. of New Mexico seems to only enjoy playing together, but are bound by an inti- be worried about charging monthly rates. the best in music. That has been by mate understanding of my system for several Conducted Clinic in Toledo, Ohio: Piano It is never a formal “musical evening”, and while years, and it works out very well. There L JeL jbe Cota called “C is the 'Mother Scale.’ Count nonparticipants (we call them “passengers") are wel- is a monthly tuition which includes books ° Entertainer five tones (to the dominant) Pianist, Composer, up and you come to attend and listen, they are tolerated only and sheet music. I do not refund for ^tbumeSnii Ifflaurice find the next scale or G, which has one conditions that they remain unobtrusive, missed lessons unless I declare the holi- under the sharp; this sharp is located directly in refrain from chattering, and do not treat the evening day. Since the parents do not have to French-American Eminent back of this G (one half tone below= of all, a quartet group likes to buy the music, they save on carfare as a social event. Best F-sharp) that there is not the slightest feeling gather at my house and time. Another good feature is Lecturer play alone, so ambassador night club, professional musicians that Pianist, Conductor, distinguished gentleman was the Russian “Now count five tones up from G, and of restraint regarding what is played, or how frequently early morning. Through the years I’m sure of the monthly income. Every of Beethoven’s cham- and we play until find D. Keep the F-sharp without the inevitable to Austria, in whose palace many year, I clean out and Teacher you in mind a single phrase may be repeated I have collected a vast library of chamber music and my department as the their first performance. and add the new one by taking be getting bored. Call ber works received is saying goes, which means that I expel the tone impression that listeners may there is hardly a work of any importance which directly in back of (C-sharp). your censure by re- the students that are not a credit to me. D Con- it selfish if you will but temper not on my shelves. I probably possess more chamber their Chamber Music When a new tinue in the same way for each new membering that professional musicians earn the local public libraries, confirmed by student comes to me, I give eight music than public, which, con- piece of music for two and up to the youngster and his parents a “pep scale, always keeping the old sharps in living catering to the whims of a While any the fact that I have to keep a special file with which masterpieces like the ode could rightly be called “chamber music,” talk” and so there is no misunderstanding mind and adding the new ones to them. sidering its predilection for or nine players keep track of music borrowed by musical friends a piece to Exactly. Only, still more vibration called discriminating. it is correctly construed, means right from the beginning. Act a little A— “For scales with flats: after the sharps to a cement mixer, can hardly be the term, as and sometimes even complete strangers. play instru- music, in several movements in sonata independent and you will get fine results.” will be “brushed off.” have been thoroughly learned, start with The essence of chamber music is to an of instrumental Apart from two doctors who are the only amateurs, case of expressed this for strings with .the possible addi- That is exactly what I have already Q.—Can this be used in the the scale of one flat which is F major. ment yourself. A famous quartet leader form, and composed chamber music friends are professional musi- horn. all my long, sustained damper pedals? play with a bad flute, clarinet, bassoon, or French emphasized several times, and I like the The one accidental, or B-flat, Is the neto succinctly by stating. “I would rather tion of a cians who find in chamber music relaxation from their be used. for which the great composers directness, the professional tones of the A.—Indeed it can, and must scale itself. Tell the pupil to spell and But the combination work in radio, recording, and symphony and to exacting In this pianist can model the most prolifically and which seemed above. Fellow Round Tablers, please take way a memorize the word ’Bead,' B—E—A—D. have written motion picture studio orchestras. Many times one of effects scope, is the string quartet con- notice: we are no longer in depression elusive in Debussy by “drowning” So, F having one flat is give them greatest eight until two or three in the which B-flat, , them has spent from in second violin, viola, and 'cello. times, and actual conditions fully warrant Correspondents with this Depart- the tone, much the same way as an B-flat will have two flats (the new one sisting of first and morning, playing quartets at my house after a long ment are requested to limit letters figures prominently in a change of tactics and policies. All will artist uses the stump here and there in being E-flat) At the same time the piano truly a busman’s holiday. to One Hundred and Fifty Words. ; E-flat will have three flats gruelling day’s recording— charcoal, or pastel drawing. of chamber music because it is essentially be benefited by a strict observance of (the new one being A-flat) and forth. the literature happens frequently and demonstrates in a re- , so This Note: instrument, and all the great composers have principles which, if presented from the When G-flat major is reached, the a home markable way the fascination which chamber music scale increasing first Of course the terms “half,” or for the piano with one violin, convincingly and intelligently, are “quar- is already familiar through the enhar- left works playing holds for the professional and presumably ter”-pedaling are only in of instruments up to string quartet with bound to create better relationship and two a limitless monic F-sharp major scale, in number music-sated musician. previously masterpieces is number of in-between possibilities. One While many of these works rate as cooperation between all concerned. Such “sentimentality” as I see it; learned. In this way, the scales are con- piano. The tremendous volume of music which has been must also bear in mind that violin duos and trios by Beethoven, Brahms, a good thing to keep away from, if one the vibrat- quered easily, and in order.” (piano and composed for string quartet covers every possible wishes to ing power increases as one goes piano quartets and quintets by Schumann remain faithful to the great down Here again, I’ll say: Mozart, and style. There is even a passage in the last “good." But beware, consider mood What Is “Sentimentality”? masters’ thoughts, and obedient toward larger strings, implying more dis- Brahms) chamber music enthusiasts to the my young friends, and don’t run away and movement of one of Haydn’s eighty-three quartets mandates of discrimination cretion in damper pedal use, and decreas- piano a somewhat undesirable interloper. Robert and good with the idea the (Op. 74, No. 1) in which ragtime or jazz is anticipated. I am supposed to be a good pianist. that all this can take the taste. es as one moves toward the shorter Haven Schauffler in his delightful book “Fiddler’s There is one question, however, on which place of a genuine, comprehensive study strings of the treble. Folly,” has some trenchant observations to make about I and many others would like your of tonalities For through musical theory. music. The Ex.l opinion: just what do you think senti- more details on this subject, I the piano or rather, pianists and chamber mentality Bach While these systems show a decided in- in interpretation is? Fan might refer you to my short book, “How piano, unless played with great restraint by a par- J. L. P., Maine ventive ability on the part of the au- As the sounds of a Bach Chorale to Play and Teach Debussy,” sensitive musician, is apt to overpower the which con- thors, ticularly “Sentimentality” in interpretation they represent only a substitute, is emerged from a neighborhood window, tains special exercises, and a complete strings and drown them. Then there is. the tone of the an exaggeration, a temporary expedient which permits stu- a distortion of what the the buxom lady sank into an attitude of explanation of the problem. has such an individual and tone dents piano which proper expression ought to be. In this re- ecstatic delight. to gain time but should never ex- strings. quartet friends color that it does not merge or blend with This quartet is now known among my spect I might refer you to my article in empt serious students from learning the “My dear ... I just ‘drool’ (here, a de- In the piano concerto, it is this very difference of the as the “Ragtime” Quartet and I will be satisfied in this The Etude of July 1947 concerning the “real thing.” scriptive gesture, as the hand cascaded filahing Key Signatures Easier piano from the sound of the orchestra which makes way to join the anonymous group which has penned Conservatoire National de Paris. Prom the mere technical The down from the lips) when I hear Bach.” standpoint of effective. titles on their favorite compositions. We were so As everyone knows, young beginners the piano concerto so apt paragraph dealing with “style” answers A pause. progress, however, they will facilitate a in question often find it exceedingly so the piano is not a particularly welcome intrigued that we played the movement difficult to fig- quick And some points of your question. But let us “Oh ... if I could acquaintanceship with the com- only play the Bach ure out what’s what guest at a gathering of chamber, music enthusiasts. several times that night and came to the conclusion in the number of plete elaborate further: and Rachmaninoff ‘Pree-lood,’ array of major and minor scales, host of heard some spiritual I’d sharps and flats connected with This may seem like gross libel to the great that “Papa” Haydn must have In a Beethoven Adagio, .” key sig- and help or a Chopin I’d . . youngsters to depart from the natures; it is undeniable and is meant in no ancestor of Benny Goodman or Joe Venuti play some- so I think our Round Tablers piano lovers but for instance, what type of ex- “You’d be happy?” sempiternal keys of C, G, and F, to which will be much interested detract from the value of the piano as the home thing like that with a wandering gypsy band or per- pression by the following way to should be used? In Beethoven: “Why, I think I’d just die!” they seem forever limited. With this par- stirrings systems which seem very orchestra or its beauty as a musical instrument. I can haps he even felt within himself the early noble, dignified, profound. In ingenious and ticular Chopin: So much for the Bach fans of today. angle in mind, and with the re- that, although Goodman is a ought to prove helpful in many make the case no clearer than to admit of swing music. Incidentally Benny romantic, poetic, and patrician. Are such cases. striction mentioned they Here is an idea above. I feel professional pianist, my real musical love is great chamber music lover and has recorded Mozart’s pages, however, always that came to me and can I am a performed with it be valuable, and I glad to recom- possibly isn’t a new am FELIX DE COLA ’cello. I took up the “doghouse” (as the ’cello is Clarinet Quintet with the Budapest Quartet. Haydn the reverence and the respect Dehussy Pedaling one,” writes R the due to W mend them as far as early tuition is con- VH„ New York. “I tried affectionately called) some ten years ago after having deserves special mention here as he was not only the them? Indeed not! Too often they are Will you please explain to me the mean- it on an eleven- cerned. year-old various but also set the pattern for ing of the following: 10. One half—20. pupil, and in five played the piano part in chamber music with father of the symphony disfigured, and Beethoven and Chopin minutes he listen to good one!” Even the great One quarter—and 30. quartet, than a level of per- Long sustained knew the keys in six sharps combinations of strings since childhood. But I gradu- the string quartet which he raised to a have to stand the treatment that some damper pedals, and six and erudite understanding as used in playing Debussy. flats: Puzzling music critic with his deep great mass of won- been equalled by only a few of the bombastic tenore Thank Values ally realized that there existed a fection which has robusto would give to you. (Miss) M. S., New Jersey cannot fully enjoy and appreciate chamber music Sharps naturally Chiir de Lune Page in which any active participation would greatest composers. The whimsical nicknames by which the “Pagliacci" Aria, go forward,, so . by Debussy on derful music some moon-struck I might deal with this subject in the we three, Measures unless he participates actively. start on the note D, next E, 18, 19, 21, and 23 are not denied me unless I could handle one of the many of Haydn’s quartets are known also attest to crooner to a revival of the Prisoner’s next F-sharp d which be forever question-and-answer way. It being given G, A, .° not have nine eights in them), The term “chamber music” is applied to music and B. To these letters un, / strings. So I took up the ’cello, not only because I the affection which musicians feel for these works, Song, or a lovelorn night club pianist that and in or- what does it mean? Please explain such in a room, when the damper pedal is depressed der, we assign is specifically designed to be performed to the the numbers 2 places in music. loved its deep tone but also for the more practical an affection which I do not think exists in any other maudlin strains of the “Warsaw” all the 4 6 1 3 s Some of Chopin’s pieces first used to distin- way down the dampers are lifted meaning are like a chamber, or a small hall. It was the number of that. too. Serious pupils notice it ’cellists were harder to find, being con- branch of music. “Bagpipe”, “Frog”, “Witch”, “Lark”, Concerto. off sharps in ’each reason that the strings, and the strings vibrate: at once. I shall music belonging to the household of a prince successive key. Example: be very grateful for these guish scarcer than fiddlers. “Sunrise”, “Bird”, and “Razor” Quartet are the fanci- What happens, then? Style is de- Q- D-2=two explanations. siderably —What happens if the foot goes up sharps. (Miss) E. N., Tennessee from the music of church or theatre. The names of stroyed; vulgarity E-4-four sharps and ful titles by which some of his best beloved string replaces distinction; and the pedal is so forth So have been released? Note: going here's our friend, the Clair de Lune, many great princes and rich land owners music is vilified. up for the Fascination, of Chamber Music quartets are affectionately known. The “Razor” Quartet A.— sharps there is The dampers come back onto the only again. Well, you’re to immortalized by dedications of the great composers, Generally one black key tonic, not the only one gets its name from the story that Haydn, suffering the earmarks of sentimen- strings, and the vibration F sharp-6. would I shall never forget the thrill when, after three is choked. W for the whom this passage has but and most of these once prominent gentlemen tality are as follows: flats: their natural given trouble, the ’cello part from being hacked by a blunt razor, in desperation an excessive rubato; If • , motion months’ gruelling practice,. I played Q— instead of releasing the pedal T° e apparent be most chagrined if they could know that so we roc puzzle is easy to solve: no doubt promised to dedicate a quartet to his barber on condi- an exaggeration of shadings and con- all the P eed with B-flat of Mozart’s early string quartets. (K.155) (I way up, it is done only half way A-flat,a CCCo’ When in a illustrious names are remembered today solely in one trasts; an G-flat, F, E-flat, measure of 9/8 you find two their tion that this worthy supply him with a really sharp over-effusive, over-dramatic and quickly (then and D-flat to call them the ‘pre-natal’ quartets on account of Mo- down again), what 1 botes plebeian composer named Haydn, Mozart manner of delivering the on a beat, they are marked because a razor. are grateful to the anonymous barber, and phrasing which happens? fiSures 2. zart’s extreme youth when he composed them) . Since We 6 l 4, and are an imperishable masterpiece ’ 3 TIT— duplets in the way as or Beethoven dedicated ’ same is like a caricature and wholly ridiculous, A.— A two flats. A-flat-4= day I have studied the ’cello as much who, by his prowess with the humble hone, helped the The dampers touch the strings, but four flats, three eighth that memorable often and so on). notes, in a 4/4 measure, are to them. Then there are the peculiar names accompanied by attitudes ranging lightly; Note: this life as a pianist would allow and I must cause of music. more thus not enough to com- there time * tTl >let devotee if he knows the as my busy is only one white " ’ marked “3.” of Ask any chamber music from a wiggling over the piano bench, key tonic J The time value ’cello than which musicians give certain quartets when they at- to pletely choke the vibration; as a F he tell you admit that I not only practice the more result, Thanks and beats is unaltered, the Rasumofsky Quartets, and he is bound to raising the head with inspired airs congratulations to which causes infinitely enthusiasm. On my tempt to sing the principal themes. Now instrumental- and the sounds continue to some extent. R W duplets Nos. 1, the piano but with more H ' for t is to be played that these are three String Quartets, Op. 59, looking toward the stars (or rather, the Y simple and clever slightly slower. When not holding down one ists are notoriously bad singers and so it is not sur- Q—Will the process be similar in And y device the entire Beethoven and .dedicated to weekly night off when I am now here’s another measure is in it 2 and 3, composed by ceiling) with wide-open and staring eyes. quarter-pedaling? good one duple value, piano team featured at a Hollywood prising that their vocal efforts imitate the pattern of nutted sub can be also tell you that this half of the duo recently by a marked “6”; it means sextolet, to Prince Razumovsky. He might member of Sy ( Continued 140 on Page 195) EXALTS LIFE” 141 ".MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” "MUSIC STUDY MARCH . 1948 THE ETUDE i

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try the later Mozart oven’s six quartets, Op. 18. Next, Spare Time Orchestra Music and Culture your friends w quartets, and by this time you and a journey int° find yourselves launched upon (iContinued from Page 136) has eve rather than the musical content. As ex- enchanted land that the genius of man amples I give the “Tahiti” quartet and the “Tataya- charted amateur dermatologist-’cellists. Physicists have to be capable tataya” quartet which are among the most frequently Walter Willson Cobbett, the distinguished of enthusiasm passionate discipline, so, when they gather for evenings played. quartet player, through whose boundless Teaching Adults was 'a good job. Ex. 2 Beethoven, No. chamber music of music, they do Specialty Op. 18, 4, First Movement of £ the great Cobbett Encyclopedia Making a worlds mos the advent of home phonographs and compiled and at whose home many of the Up to radios, has wn - Americans made their own music around distinguished musicians -have played quartets, many the not be en- piano. But with the ubiquitous mechanical .ten these matchless words: “Who would family pur- during Mozart,. Quartet in B-flat,l“ happiness which veyors, we entered an era which the making Hunting" Quartet) thusiastic, if he felt as I do that the A Conference with source in my was considered the prerogative of I have enjoyed for. so many years, has its of music trained body? listened, with an occasional addiction to this particular activity of mind and professionals. We appre- sedentary past decade Yes, body, for the chamber music life is not ciative murmur. But the has seen a re-

4- - or llhn 4-l-» r-. nf 4-U\ 1-vvtipt lttVlA rlvoomc hpffirft JllS esse! bellion against this passive role, with a phenomenal It would not be an exaggeration to say that all our broods motionless over in amateur orchestras. Many who ). y\ane great violinists play chamber music when relaxing that of the man of letters who development had flat 2 _ desk. The instruments have returned from their strenuous concert engagements. As a gen- the problems of existence before his writing abandoned their to play- imperceptible, but stimulation and of Adult Amateurs eral rule a great virtuoso is too much of an individu- movements of brush and pen are ing, through the encouragement of Well-Known Teacher in every alist to make a good quartet player; notable exceptions to play a violin means constant vibration the group. vibration known to me are Heifetz, Szigeti, Menuhin, and Prim- nerve and fibre of the body, and it is this In small communities, groups have formed working therapeutic rose, with whom several of my quartet friends have which gives to chamber music practice the units from strings alone, inspired by great masterpieces BY DOROX K. AXTRIM friends are EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE played. I treasure a delightful incident in this con- value of which I may add, my medical of Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Tchaikovsky, originally SECURED but nection which occurred some time ago. We had settled convinced. ... I am not exceptionally robust, scored for strings. Many who played only piano have only down to a good night’s playing, and were in the second three hours’ strenuous playing of quartets not taken up flute and drum, violinists switched to viola, Universities, studied piano with the buoy- • Columbia movement of a Haydn Quartet, when there was a leaves me unfatigued, but with a greater sense of and ’cellists to contra-bass. Boy Scouts with bugling J psychologyc-Unlnrw at+ New YorkT and D. Kane mapred in Musical Art where he became first Nat ana at Institute of is heard than when the with Jablonrt , knock on the door. We continued playing while my ancy when-.the last note experience came in handy in rounding out a workable composer-pianist, Scharwenka, and children, deciding own tudic> in j P wife admitted a young man who apologized for the note was sounded.” when they learned cornet as an alternate the faculty. (Opening h« en- ensemble, a member of yeJ he has been successfully in .odult intrusion but explained that he had heard the music instrument. later to specialize entirely and include business men, bankers, His pupils range mjge while passing and could not resist coming in. After we gaged in this octivity ^ was a ploneer in teaching adult surgeons, si 9I P finished Growth of Neighborhood Orchestras lawyers, doctors, I as a psycho-therapy. In had the Haydn Quartet, he introduced him- . mus ; c instruction psycho and in using in applying wide teaching self and it was only when he took up a violin in the the number of neighborhood orchestras beginners, g qivesgives some ofor the results of his Now, is he tells how he tenchesteaches, and the accompanying article, —Editor’s Note. “Sunrise” that we realized what the name “Stern” greater than ever. There’s hardly a city from Port- evnprience. meant; he had actually spoken so diffidently. He was IMPORTANT NOTICE land, Maine to Portland, , where the musical none other than Isaac Stern, the brilliant young violin- amateur could not find a group already established. also had ist who in Hollywood we hear so much about. I’ve was in connection with his highly successful Seventy-First Man is essentially a social animal, and his soul craves to adults justed moderns T THE first began teaching piano rheumatism. recordings for the Warner __ HEN I crippled with arthritis and Bros, picture “Humoresque”. Annual Convention of the Music Teach- the satisfaction and excitement of art. Music is one just wasnt students A particularly to beginners, it play so they can In case Mr. Heifetz, Szigeti, Menuhin or Elman should \A / Others tell me they want to learn to ers National Association held in Boston of the few arts in which he can participate, yet share. to the prevailing idea, being done. According This is usually a ever be in Hollywood, my address is in the phone V V entertain themselves and friends. on December 30-31, 1947 and January 1-2, In the ensemble, it is not “his" painting or “his” poem, was it. If a was a time of life, and youth escape to get book, and on any Monday night they will be piano study they invariably want is most 1948, the Executive Committee of the Asso- but “our" symphony. his musical effort becomes lessons, he just blind. What And reached twenty-one without true of mid- welcome for a quartet session. And if Mr. Piatigorsky ciation arranged with The Etude Music person from themselves. This is especially only a part of a necessary whole, yet made more beauti- was not for him. Begin- away missed the train. The piano without children, those Harold Stein, New Yorls ever shows up, I shall gladly relinquish my beloved Magazine for a strengthening of the historic teen dle aged, married people, those Photo by ful by the other voices, playing in unison. He can books were aimed at tots and emotional ’cello for the evening and turn pages ties between the Association The Etude. ning instruction difficulties, divorcees. They need for him. My and detect and minds. Few u with marital NAT D. KANE correct his musical faults in relation to certainly not geared to mature eased, and these viola player would, I am certain, do the same if Mr. In December 1876, when Mr. Theodore agers, release, their mind and body tensions the other players. specialized in the field. because Primrose honored us with a visit. Presser was head of the Music Department any teachers needs can be met admirably with piano study Players from all parts of rural Vermont have enjoyed different today. According to re- It of Ohio Wesleyan University “The situation is emotions, a happy a long and happens sometimes that members of -the quartet at Delaware, chil- it involves mind, muscles, and time a half note and two quarters become the fellowship and musical experience of the ensemble are studying music now as bring colleagues with them. Ohio, he sent a call to the music teachers of port, as many adults factors. One of America’s most dis- thus swiftly learned and A few months ago I found their classes balance of these two shorts. Note values are so much that, in 1934, under a young musician and all teachers include them m in that we had two complete quartets, that is, four violins, America with the idea of forming a Na- dren Nearly psychologists, Dr. Joseph Jastro, says ingrained in the consciousness. We it much tinguished rhythm becomes college professor, Alan Carter, they formed the Ver- specialize. As for myself, I find two violas and two ’. So I hauled out chairs tional Association for Music Teachers. The and a number do something with your hands.’ them in various rhythmical more mont than children, his book, ‘Learn to then take chords and play foremost teachers of the country responded State Symphony. Over winter-choked roads, satisfactory teaching grown-ups “ claims, and and we played the Mendelssohn Octet, a magnificent more begins at 40,’ as Walter Pitkin’s book This is endless and fascinating farmers and more to them. Of begin- ‘Life combinations. in magnificent fashion and organized the small town shopkeepers and housewives chiefly because music means growing on reaching that teach from the work composed when he was but a boy of sixteen yet before if a person does not stop encourages improvisation which I group which has become the parent travel to rehearsals. This orchestra, in com- ninety-six per cent drop out a thoroughly mature work in every respect. also organi- playing ning young people, Incidentally Pitkin used one of my pupils We four per cent carry milestone. beginning. zation of all the vast music club movement munity halls, churches, and farmers’ granges, was get past the third grade. Only took up one did the Spohr Double Quartet that night. This is they as a leading example in his book. At forty he few lessons, a student burst in on me started integral part of their “After a really in America. Mr. Presser several times en- on a small scale, and has snowballed into pro- sufficiently to make music an came to me she said, a “virtuoso” quartet in which the second quartet on painting as a hobby. At forty-seven he day all aglow. ‘Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony’, deavored to persuade the leaders to start a fessional proportions. Adults do better than that. and made letter plays merely an accompaniment and I recommend it lives. for piano lessons. He started from scratch movement is built entirely on the Morse musical magazine for the organization in the methods of teach- ‘the first particularly to the distinguished to “There are wide differences beautifully. And that she tapped artists mentioned amazing progress, playing Chopin . three shorts and a long’. And promote its higli ideals children, and by y (. . —) t and disseminate and in those of teaching they’re above. ing adults brings up another ‘pro’ argument for children; out on the telegraph key. (This became the musical information. This was not forth- Catherine Drinker only those who take up piano them Sometimes, however, the opposite happens and one Bowen, a pioneer musical amateur, the former I include have more time and patience. And yet out rhythmic victory slogan in World War coming. Seven years later, when he was has Grown-ups take their supposed to famous musical convinced many others that, if play- not as a profession. or or two players cannot come. Then string .trios or even they gave up as a hobby, of a crowded schedule, my pupils slip in an hour teaching at Hollins Institute in Virginia, he ing, have to be urged they would be only partially filled concert listeners. more seriously. They do not real string duets are the order of thfe night. The string music so a day. At the end of a year this adds up to thrilled with this discovery, and indeed it decided to undertake the project himself. For people study because they desire She was trio is even difficult who genuinely love music must play it to or coerced to practice. They rather miss make an more combination for which The result was The Etude Music achievement. I’ve had students who would was a discovery which students do not ordinarily Magazine. be truly told to, and they pay for then- to effectively satisfied. I particularly relish her attack on it, not because they’re then compose than four strings, and conse- This commenced the long development a meal than miss practice. unless they feel and understand rhythm. We of perfectionists and quently few good works exist for it. Noteworthy are mutual interests her campaign for “music, not by own instruction. respect, adults are different. They this rhythm. which has been of such respects. Piano “In one other proceeded to improvise on the ticketful, the purseful, be “They have the advantage in several count. a few trios by Beethoven, a beautiful one by Schubert, notable advantage to the promotion but music as it should want to see results quickly; every minute must not introduce notes on the staff until a student of high had, music muscles, and emotions. Adults “I do and a magnificent at home, a part’ of life, thing involves mind, work by Mozart which has been ex- standards of musical education in America. the daily a study Time is at a premium. thoroughly familiar with the keyboard as necessary, and emotions. They grasp has become cellently recorded by Heifetz, Primrose and the late as satisfying, as the midday meal.” These have the advantage of mind slow stages. For some time there has been a growing they through harmony and rhythm, and then by spare time groups more readily than a child, understand what Emmanuel Peuermann. feeling that if the Association had a repre- have found the answer. To their things the keys he plays look as notes of course, that the He is first shown how members, music is intimate doing and why, assuming sentation in several issues of The Etude each and joyous. are Harmony and Rhythm on paper. Gradually he becomes familiar with the A Hobby for Amateurs Mrs. Bowen’s presents the subject logically and clearly. Pro- year, the purposes and projects mentioned brother, Dr. Henry S. Drinker (of teacher Merion, of , “Recognizing these differences, the teacher adapts printed notes. And here are some could be presented in its Pennsylvania), fessor Edward L. Thorndike pointers on how you personally columns, and be is one of Philadelphia’s dis- advantage of “From then on instruction is adapted to the pupil’s tinguished adults can learn a language three his instruction accordingly. He takes may join the exclusive circle of quartettists. If you strengthened to the advantage of the Asso- lawyers. For years he has conducted in his demonstrated that rheumatic students are often the feeling range student’s superior mind. My first lesson to a begin- needs. Arthritis and play the violin (or have the energy ciation and the greater music public own home in one of times as fast as children. Moreover, the to take it up now reached Philadelphia’s loveliest suburbs in their hands and need special treatment. a child, and after ner is one of harmony which I explain mathematically. crippled and work at it) I can suggest no more soul satisfying through The Etude. Dr. Theodore M; Finney, a chorus of one hundred of an adult is developed more than voices. Most of these mem- will w-ork long hours at the keyboard coaxing Historian of the emotions. Children, Placing his thumb on middle C, he counts up five keys They hobby than playing regularly with a string quartet. and Editor of the Association, beis are finely trained all music is a language and professionals. It is accompanied there he response into stiffened fingers. The least improvement head of the Music Department y a small are naturally adept in muscular both black and white, and holds the E. From Your local music shop should be able to help you of the Uni- chamber orchestra, an on’ the other hand, instruction is two pianos, and their then plays the C-E-G encourages them tremendously. Piano locate another versity of Pittsburgh, will edit this organ. Dr. They’re more relaxed, pliable, and counts up four more to G. He violinist and a ’cellist. The viola can new de- Drinker provides’ two or three major choral coordination. for arthritis which, according partment. While not appearing adult handicap, however, major chord, the formula being 5+4. Now he can one of the best therapies easily be played by a violinist; it is simply a matter regularly works every four weeks. reflexes are quicker. This every The chorus can read prac- note on the keyboard. to one doctor, results from some deep, hidden resent- of learning month, it will serve from time to time tically to a large extent. build major chords from any the viola clef and adjusting to the slightly everything at sight and together on can be overcome to keep Etude readers comes is kindles his interest and he gets ment. larger instrument. The and the general musi- faunday afternoons teacher’s approach to the older student Finding these chords technical demands rrfade upon for the sheer joy of singing. The “The give exercises away cal public acquainted with the major this difference the entire keyboard. “To get the fingers loosened up, I the violist are not achieve- by-product is entirely different. I might call acquainted with so great as 'those which have to be a huge library of Dr. therefore flexors and ex- ments and findings of this materials, which no chords in the same way with the from the piano; those that develop met by the violinist, so that even, distinguished rin er printed psychological. Adults, although they may “We build minor a comparatively in- for the University of Pennsylvania largely shaking exercises. The counter pressure group of teachers in our country. to meet an emotional formula: followed by diminished, 4+4 and aug- tensors, wrist experienced player will be adequate fill Choral Society, realize it, are taking lessons 4+5, to the viola In the April The Philadelphia Bach Society, and Swedish type are good. Thus odd issue Dr. Finney will present come to me on doctor’s mented 5+5. In this way he quickly learns what the exercises of the chair. gr0UPS The Iibrar need. A number of students the first page in- this y kePt expanding until it as- the day can be utilized. new department. *nmL ; harassed, unhappy, malad- chords are and how formed. moments of The best quartets for an inexperienced * arge prescription. They’re the group to Proportions and was given to the preferences are borne in mind. I have James Francis Cooke “Rhythm is taught with a regular telegraph sender, “Student’s start with are the early Mozart ones previously men- Westminster Choir College Editor of the at Princeton. Dr. Drinker code. Note found that a man or woman works twice as hard on tioned as the “pre-natal” Etude the same that is used for sending Morse quartets. From there go on Vlde translations of into Page 190) many of the works ol this proportion The Etude has no first. instance, in four -four a favorite tune, whether it ( Continued on Fn (rniv!° ^ » This is Mr. Kane’s estimate values are tapped out For to the early Haydn quartets and follow with Beeth- ren<*enn a -Editor oi the Etude. 8 valuable service to musical art statistics on the subject. min Lrour i’- times. 143 142 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE’’ "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE’’ MARCH, 1948 THE ETUDE ; —

Music in the Ho.rtc A Notable Musical Education Achievement Music in the Home Over Two “MUSIC EDUCATION SOURCE BOOK.” By Morgan. Thousand Authors, Edited by Hazel Nohavec Lover’s Bookshelf Music Educators Etude Music $3.50. Publisher, The Pages, 255. Price, National Conference. least two thousand au- Here is a book in which at nius c Airways is, thirty-three New Music of the thors have participated. That prepared preliminary reports curriculum committees Any book here by an immense in 1944. These resulted in a compilation reviewed may and friends of the be secured from body of two thousand members ETUDE MUSIC edited THE Music Educators National Conference. It is MAGAZINE at the was price given on * orc^an Hazel Nohavec Morgan but unquestionably it m by receipt of of Clifford V. fired by the indomitable enthusiasm cash or check. Secretary and Buttelman, for many years Executive Of consider- group of music MONG THE relatively recent additions to the air- winter season of the symphony will end. mainstay of this, the largest organized the appearance ways is the Eileen Farrell—Earl Wrightson new able interest to musical listeners was in the world. teache/s _ of Ernest Ansermet, the distinguished Swiss conductor, in the book is so wide that A. half-hour musicale (heard Sundays from 4:30 The" variety of subjects in four concerts with the Symphony Orchestra in this review. The main to 5:00 P.M., EST—Columbia net work) . The popularity NBC it is difficult to list them is founder 1. The Music Edu- of this soprano has featured her in many shows on prior to Toscanini’s return. Mr. Ansermet sections, however, have to do with: TFjeredltli (3acLman from Pre- by $3. the air for a number of years. In her new program, of the famous Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. He is cation Curriculum. (Levels of Instruction Activi- music and directed many of 2. Music Classes and she shares honors with Mr. Wrightson, an old col- a strong champion of new School through College) ; Honegger, Vocal Music.. Related league of hers in the realm of song and more especially the world premieres of scores by Stravinsky, ties. (Instrumental Music. Techniques and in selections from operetta and musical comedy. These and De Falla. On his arrival in this country, Mr. Anser- Courses and Activities) 3. General of topics two attractive singers bring a spontaneity and fresh- met paid tribute to American composers, stating that Administration; 4. Related Areas. The range just a few, well as parents were Count! ness to their performance of familiar and widely ad- we now have “many composers of international inter- under these headings is vast. Here are value, as aunts and uncles as Count! Count! Vocal Music in the all for chucking culture. mired light . They are ably assisted est, who rank high with the great contemporary ones taken at random from thousands: wont to insist, then I was TECHNIQUES.” By Frederick Franz. Athenian “METRONOME by and his Orchestra. Sometimes, a of the world”. Among those he cited Samuel Barber, High School; Using Girl Altos to Supplement Perhaps the cold, snobbish, modern-ancient the author. Small Pages, 52. Price, $1.00. Published by Credits for Private the 1880’s and 90’s provided guest soloist is introduced, and lends added interest Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, William Schumann, the Tenor Part; High School atmosphere of Boston of presentation of the One everything that A very clear and understandable to a program already rich in variety. Roger Sessions, and . The high excel- Music Study; Personality Development;" The a background and perspective in which importance of the metronome, by an authority. lence of the Symphony concerts is due to the long of the Phonograph; Organ- culture seemed artificial, overrighteous and use and Another fairly recent broadcast series is the Or- NBC Teacher School; The Use savored of manufacturer of the Orchestra; Basic Music neighborhood abhorred Mr. Franz is the inventor and chestras of the Nations (heard Saturdays from 3:00 rehearsal periods allowed all conductors. For each izing and a School puritanical. All the boys in my history of dancing improved electric metronome. He gives a to 4:00 P.M., EST National Broadcasting network). broadcast there are three two and one-half hour re- Through Piano Classes; Voice Drill for poetry, painting, sermons and lectures, — Instruction music, the opinions of notable Present; Folk other things that we were all types of metronomes and This is the fourth year that NBC has sponsored this hearsals held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday Choirs; Make History Include the lessons and the long list of Then ’ metronome. and refinement. musicians upon the value of the round-up of our symphony orchestras and exploited of each week. Among those who paid tribute to Mr. Music in the United States. told were essential to goodness The Etudi are many quotations from past issues of them in programs of new and familiar compositions. Ansermet’s status as a musician was Maestro Toscanini the volume will be widely used as a text book, Father Finn’s remarks about the secrets of music E. POWER BIGGS While examples showing how- for all and excellent instructions and Honoring our neighbor, Canada, the series began on himself, who attended a number of the Swiss con- is also a very valuable source of reference are striking: it metronome in complicated musical pas- 13 with the Sym- ductor’s rehearsals. in musical progress in America. to apply the December a program by the wide interest in Mr. Biggs' programs, one feels who are interested be in every sages. As a book of reference it should phony, conducted by . Mr. Singer’s pro- Mid-December brought back The Philadelphia Or- certain that few would refute the organist's contention teacher’s library. gram was a well chosen, modern one—with an orches- chestra in its fifth season of Saturday afternoon broad- that “the great organ literature, from Bach to the tral suite William Symphony of casts over the Columbia network (5:00 by Walton, the Fifth to 6:00 P.M., moderns, forms ideal radio listening—ideal, because Father Finn s Story Vaughan Williams, and Hindemith’s Cupid and Psyche. EST) . Eugene Ormandy will conduct the majority of it is music of structure and strength, rather than emo- the FLATS IN FIVE DECADES.” By Father Of considerable interest was the program of December programs, but guest conductors will also partici- tion, which does not depend on conditions of actual “SHARPS AND Publishers, Harper 30, in which the associate conductor of the Pittsburgh pate. Most of these have already appeared. In Finn. Pages, 342. Price, $3.75. the con- concert performance for its effect.” Mr. Biggs’ musical Lights on Catholic Music Symphony, Vladimir Bakalienikoff, gave the radio cert of March Rudolf Brothers. New 13, Serkin will be heard as offering is a fitting one for a Sabbath morning. & THE CHURCH.” By Marie Pierik. Pages premiere performance of Gretchaninoff’s Fifth Sym- soloist. Harl McDonald, manager of the orchestra, The genial and able Dr. William J. Finn, founder of “THE SONG OF The president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Green and Co phony. On January 24, Maurice Abravanel, conducting offers his customary commentary a significant influence 274. Price, $3.00. Publisher, Longmans, on music and musi- Frank Stanton, recently said that “listening to broad- the Faulist Choristers, has had the Utah Symphony Orchestra, introduced some con- cians, the scripts of which are written Church in America. able Gregorian scholar which by David Ran- casts designed to educate as well as entertain has upon choral music in the Catholic Here is a book by an temporary music of interest, including excerpts from dolph. contacts with national subject but at the same time now become a fixed and important part of our cultural More than this, through his delves into a scholarly Crawford Gates’ “Promised Valley”, a work composed The organist, E. Power Biggs, is celebrating to the musical becoming overly technical or dull. It his fifth pattern. Columbia helped to set this pattern eighteen musical organizations, he has shown does so without in honor of Utah’s contennial celebration last year. year on the radio. The revival of interest in of the work that he development of the spirit of the music the organ years ago by launching the CBS American School of world at large the fine character treats of the • The orchestras to be heard during March and April as a concert instrument is accredited to Mr. Biggs, promoted. While this book is is- Catholic Church as only one with her the Air. “Gateways to Music,” the music programs of has conducted and of the Roman are as follows: the St. Louis Symphony, Vladimir Gol- who—in the five years of his broadcasting—has autobiography, Father Finn is clearly far could accomplish. A pupil of Vincent this series (heard Thursdays from 5:00 to 5:30 P.M., sued as an background schmann, conductor (March 6) the Toronto Sym- presented the works concert ; of one hundred twenty-six com- EST) more concerned with his ideals and objectives than he d’lndy, with years of study, teaching, and , needs no introduction to our readers. It offers phony, Sir Ernest Macmillan, conductor (March 13) posers. In his regular Sunday morning recital, heard himself. Europe and in America, Miss Pierik has fascinating programs of varying programs is with work, both in the Springfield () Alexander from 9:15 to interest, pre- Symphony, 9:45, EST—Columbia network, the organ- September 7, 1881, he was educated reputation as a Gregorian scholar. Her which are appealing to old alike and often Born in Boston, a wide Leslie, conductor Philhar- ist has performed and young (March 20) ; the Rochester for the most part on the College, St. Thomas’ Spirit of Gregorian Chant," was Baroque are pleasurably recalled novelty for the priesthood at St. Charles vious work, “The organ in the long afterwards. The monic Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf, conductor (March Germanic Museum of Harvard University. Catholic University of America; he was selected list of the National Association of hearing in December a concerto written by College, and at placed on the 27 ) ; the Montreal Symphony, Desire auw, conductor Frequently Def he has presented works for organ and an priest by the Paulist Community in 1906. Schools and in the Standard Catalogue for Haydn for hurdy-gurdy in Feb- ordained as a of Music (April 3) the Pittsburgh Symphony, Fritz Reiner, ensemble of instruments. and orchestra and ; Thus, there have been Sin- the New England Conservatory, to High Schools. ruary the short opera. Gian- He then entered Catholic conductor (April 10) the Oklahoma Symphony, Victor fonias by Bach, concertos “The Telephone," by ; by Handel, Mozart, Scar- education. Later, he studied music Carlo Menotti, are April, extend his musical Allesandro, conductor (April the Southern latti, Corelli, Piston, cases in point. For March and 17) ; Sym- Sowerby, Hindemith of and a the programs in London, Paris, and Rome. He has been organist phony Orchestra, Carl Bamberger, conductor (April dozen and a half of “Gateways” are as follows: “North other composers, ranging from the prominent Catholic churches in America. He to Canada,” featuring English, French- many 24) . last orchestral concert Columbia, classicists to the Indian, and The comes from moderns. In his broadcasts of chamber Choristers in 1906, in Chicago. Canadian folk songs (March Bohemia’s organized the Paulist South Carolina, and is a part of the three-day Annual compositions, so ideally suited to radio, 4) ; “From Did he has pre- Fields and The Choristers received a special prize from the Vati- What One Woman Columbia Festival. sented Meadows” music of the Czechs (March 11) 1 Music works of forty-eight composers from the title of Bach to “These can in 1912. At the same time he received LIFE.” By Adela Prentiss Hughes. Pages, Another new program, which began in mid-January, Sowerby. In his solo United States” (March 18) “ Time” “MUSIC IS MY work, Mr. Biggs has presented ; has lectured widely on choral (March 25) Magester Musica. He $4.00. Publisher, The World Publishing Co. is the Burl Ives broadcast (heard 8:00 to 8:15 P.M., among other things, the ; “The Holy Land”—music of ancient 319. Price, complete organ literature of technique. Palestine out of which history of mankind the need EST—Mutual network) . Burl Ives, folk singer, wander- Bach. It has been aptly said that Mr. stem both the Hebrew and At every period in the Biggs “has in Christian Father Finn’s autobiography is an altogether engag- ing troubadour, and historian of musical no small religions (April modern has been the foremost problem of so- Americans way, created a musical renaissance 1) ; “The USSR” for leadership of that music ing account of his activities, written in lively style, as needs no introduction, hope, this great of Russia (April Latin of a real leader with initiative, per- we to readers of instrumentr-the organ,” and 8) ; “Viva America”— ciety. The value his performance at the opening paragraph of the first chapter indicates: magazine. His new broadcast series will be the old American music (April Lan- background, energy, experience, and the heard from Cathedral keyboard has inspired 15) ; “Music—A Common sonality, composers “When I was about sixteen years of age, I started varying points guage” (April is immense. Adella Pren- across country and will introduce stars of today to write special works for 22) ; and for the final program, genius for inspiring others him—all of which out on the trip to Parnassus. I was not an ordinary of screen, stage, a selection, Cleveland, Ohio, her field and the and radio, plus specialists in folk- have been played in his programs. We are made by interested listeners, of en- tiss Hughes made told that cores chap. By no means! The whole family, including music as featured guests, beside Mr. Ives himself. the organist’s aim has been from the year’s presentations. wish to standards of music in the great Ohio city seem to bring the “Cathedral If you York, had tagged DR. WILLIAM I. FINN high Ma e requests cousins at Albany and Rondout, New enterprise Following the traditions of the wandering troubadours to the listener’s living room,” for “while for this final program, send same to in many ways to have revolved around the the music of me subordinary. I was as highly esteemed in the blood- of old, Mr. Ives began in January a nation-wide, per- Bach heard in a Cathedral Gateway to Music,” CBS remarkable lady, who, through her social may be a greater musical School of the Air, 485 Madi- bee in a Democratic strangest of the arts. It has many of this son avenue, relative circle as a Republican “Music is the moneyed sonal appearance tour covering the key cities of the experience than hearing the same music New York 22, N. Y. graces, her tact, and cleverness induced the in a concert hive. secrets. It keeps its secrets well hidden below the country for 3 of a three months’ period. In many of his hall, it is also true that the musical center larity of the First Quartet has below of Cleveland to support the musical interests of gravity T'ur ?°l ’i Piano slight- can’t use a mechanical drill to get men p ami ' “Before my sixteenth birthday, I had had no surface. You programs on tour, the singer expects to introduce has shifted, and e f0r lt; a of the public, en- music lovers no longer frequent new and better spot the airways oil. the city, aroused the enthusiasm Ca- H, o f l on I would be interested in music. During this surface, like drilling into the ground for You some unusual and colorful personalities thedrals as n Thursday est hint that colleges, clubs, whom he has they once did centuries ago.” - n.30 to cooperation of the schools, Considering . r? midnight, EST program, first of the need a mental probe, a psychological auger, an aesthet- listed the in his travels; 1Ch the ensuing winter, however, the notes met real people of the soil who taught We Spoke revi°usly. can interests, and most of all, handled the K u P This unusual group have sounded clearly enough to ic perforator to break into the surface-texture of the and musical him many of the folk songs he has made famous eard Ground Bass must musical on on Saturdays from P.M., need difficult negotiations with great artists and F

Music and Study municatlon with the printed text, and then building interpretation. Even if it is his own tonal defective Music and Study better than copying records. it will still be the “And who is to establish defectiveness of an no longer original interpretation? We make traditional music—as Virgil Thomson said, tradition is established performance. You hear two by the last good masterly at Ephrala performances of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony; both Pennsylvania “Dutch” Music you—which one is right? For you, a Sounder Philosophy of them move tra- Toward itself around the one you enjoy dition will build more. For someone else, tradition will build itself around A Musical Anomaly both will be right—if they are the other one. And mu- in the fabu- ODAY Ephrata is a country town in the heart lously fertile Lancaster Valley and Education country. On its Df Musical T of the Pennsylvania Dutch see people who streets and on surrounding farms you extraordinary strike the uninformed as bancello Conference with would men bij paul (j. C' A anomalies in the modern world: black-suited gray-dressed with shovel hats and patriarchal beards; daintily bonneted girls and gr,ay-bonneted women; purple. Part Two ankle-length dresses of bright green or with German These are Mennonites, Dunkers, and Amish early part of the religious sectarians who, in the Philharmonic Orchestra in the Conductor of the Rochester eighteenth century, fled from persecution and Switzerland, to wor- cloistered group of Palatinate, Wiirttemburg, churches in mostly married people, and a nearly all of the Protestant unique way in Penn’s hospitable common- Through sisters, who adopted a robe and EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY MYLES FELLOWES ship in their wave of mysticism, a celibate brothers and SECURED to find in America Germany of that day there ran a their wealth. And it would be hard rule not unlike that of Capuchins. They built the hermit and the cloister, and groups whose lives, both personal longing for the life of Bethania their prayer today any other simplicity. It own houses— Kedar, Saron, by re- desire for a life of primitive Christian social, have been so completely molded a mills, a bakery which fed the and most brilliant of the country's symphonic conductors, was born and that the halls, very productive Erich Leinsdorf, one of the youngest religion de- such a group of convinced visionaries piano and beliefs. Two hundred years ago was by for widows. Vienna. His marked musical gifts asserted themselves at an early age, and he studied ligious founded. Yet poor, an academy, and a home in folkways, and (contra Ephrata community and Cloister were later turning to conducting. When he was ready to begin creed their dress, shaped their date of his death, Conrad composition at the Vienna Staats Akademie, American prelude in another From 1725 to 1768, the solved his problem by So tenacious have Ephrata itself had its his career, he found normal outlet-opportunities closed to him by Nazism. He Marx) determined their economy. the leader of the monastic com- experiment, which must be men- Beissel was not only Festival began giving Mozart operas in Italian, Leinsdorf turned that they have changed and earlier monastic mastering Italian! When the Salzburg they been of these beliefs of the Ephrata brothers and sisters; he was produc- interesting associations with munity out to be the only available conductor both musically and linguistically qualified to assist in the They have, indeed, been tioned also because of its but little in two centuries. the outstanding musician of the Order of the Solitary, Salzburg, coming under the guidance of and later of Toscanini. tions. He was engaged for “our contemporary ancestors.” music. to called as they were caljed. In fact, he was so much As the result of his work at Salzburg, Leinsdorf was called to the Metropolitan Opera as associate left to become conductor of the Cloister music, and the music Artur Bodanzky and then as his successor. In 1943, Leinsdorf the opera A Monastic Society a part of the Cleveland Orchestra. A few months later, he joined the United States Army as a private. Upon receiving itself so utterly a part of him that it could see the Cloister, an institu- his honorable discharge in 1944, he at once resumed his career, conducting the Havana Philharmonic, In Ephrata you will also not survive long after his death. It cannot, Opera, and symphony orchestras in Los Angeles, Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, and Cleve- last, but some of whose buildings the Metropolitan tion which did not indeed, be reproduced today. Yet the singing land. Mr. Leinsdorf spent the summer of 1947 conducting in Europe, returning to accept the appointment one of the strangest experiments remain as a relic of at Ephrata in Beissel’s day was the wonder of permanent conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic. In the following conference, Mr. Leinsdorf outlines the monastic life that American in the mystic and critics in both the New and Old Worlds. for readers of The Etude his philosophy of sound musical education. — Editor's Note. and of history can show. And at the Cloister was written never before performed music, the like of which was First Treatise on HdrmonY since known. A monastery and convent in the wil- or A knowledge of Beissel’s remarkable—anc « EVALUATION of music study properly begins business of playing to other aims—enjoyment, relaxa- derness of Pennsylvania! Another Pennsylvania Dutch A N is the key half remarkably strange—personality by considering the reasons why it should exist tion, self-completion, self-expression. And the very ERICH LEINSDORF anomaly, but there it flourished, for more than /\ to the Ephrata music. Like Kelpius, he was at all. In general, musical education is con- core of these aims is destroyed when music study is of Ben Franklin’s century. a scholar, philosopher, and theologian. He wyed to two categories of persons: embryo profes- made a thing of drudgery! For these reasons, I strongly in medievalism, Rosacrucianism, there is advocate improvement in the was deep sionals and embryo amateurs. In both cases form of pre-music of style. Cabbalistic lore. He had an exotically room for improvement; in both cases improvement classes, where small children may be taught the per- and “Style and tradition are very different things. Tra- pietist manent values fervid mysticism; he was an intense can grow from an understanding of why one studies. of music—where they play, not an dition with (which becomes more and more evanescent ascetic. individualist in his child is taught instrument, but music itself! and a rigorous An In the world of today, the average the passing a work of time) has to do with the way also the commanding per- because his parents decide that music is a good thinking, he had music is performed. Style (which constant) has to Purpose of remains bent followers to obedience. His thing to learn. And so he is dragged to the piano and Studying Music sonality that do with the elements inherent in the work itself—the were least conception of what “In time, of course, unique and decided ideas about music made to practice without the these children will begin serious spirit of of the age that produced it, the intention shaped by Ludwig Blum, a mu- music is, what it means, what it can do to him and study. And in more time, some of them will be ready reportedly the composer, the indications of the composer, the ex- Ephrata. mind, this seems a false start for professional training. again sician, composer, and later arrival at for him. To my — Here improvements are isting state work of musical conditions at the time the to his attention start we never dream of pursuing in other branches in order. Perhaps the most widespread defect in our Blum is said to have brought was written. These elements can and must be learned. THE SAAL OR CHAPEL AT EPHRATA makes of education. In teaching literacy, for instance, we present methods of training is the desire for “English harmony,” a phrase which short- It is quite played a unimportant that Signor . . . our youngsters to ‘practice’ the cuts. are obsessed X sense. The German phrase, “Englische don’t start by asking We with the easy way—learning the certain years after the founding of Phila- little or no work in a certain way. What is vitally im- In 1694, eleven “English Har- phrases in Shakespeare! Rather, we accustom them, minimum of theory, skipping through score reading, the saintly, Harmonie” can indeed be translated portant is that the strings in Mozart and Haydn can- delphia, there arrived from Germany from earliest infancy, to grasp and use language in learning new works through recordings. also means “Angelic Harmony,” and Now, the fact not possibly Magister Johannes Kelpius and a small mony,” but it use the same type of vibrato as in Debussy scholarly It a pleasurable way. They are familiar with language is there exists no short cut, no easy way. Let the Society that translation supplies the key to Beissel’s aims. ad- or Tchaikovsky; that doesn’t group of pietists, who formed the monastic they ever approach Shakespeare! I an andante in Mozart to do nothing values before vanced student ask himself exactly why he is study- taber- seems entirely clear that he was trying necessarily mean the andante in of the Woman of the Wilderness and built their should presented in the same fashion, ing. same tempo as ah the angels at think music be To pass an examination? To do fleet things with Wissahickon. Choral less than to reproduce the singing of Brahms. It is clear, then, that the youngster who nacle in the woods along the and I have put my theory to the test in the training his fingers? Or—to learn music? If he wishes to Pennsylvania. Visitors testified to that effect learn nourishes himself - actually became a daily routine for these brothers. Ephrata, of five-year-old son. He does not practice, he does music, the on ‘traditional recordings singing soon instruc- my problem is simple. He has only to study it! of the music, and the idea is inherent in his impedes his own progress. wrote hymns. More remarkable, they possessed not play but he is learning music and he loves it. The studying, They Treatise — though, is not so simple, for it then kettle- tions about singing as we find them in his own * think we tend of virginals, viols, oboes, trumpets, and with a other youngsters, he is a mem- to make something mysterious and played Together dozen becomes his duty to make himself master ( the first harmony of every ‘style.’ built organ. on Harmony. (That, incidentally, was We incline to the belief that strange thing drums. They imported—or perhaps —an ber of a well-conducted ‘pre-music’ class in which the least thing that can be learned about music. this grows in their music and were bor- treatise written in America.) children learn the elements the language of music: us haphazard, like the roots of our native They were soon famed for — “As far as, this concerns the young conductor, sing like an angel under Beissel’s exact- the soil; we say that - by on one occasion, by the Swedes at Learning to melody, harmony, rhythm. They sing, they have major part of his training German ‘style is best expressed rowed,” at least can hardly take place in a kettle- ing instructions was truly a heroic business. Each German, French ‘style’ by and so Gloria Dei, whither they traveled—viols, oboes, rhythm bands, they understand the difference between a classroom. Once he has assured himself a Frenchman, to a strict that he pos- forth. That their organs. And this aspirant to this celestial state had to submit ‘tune’ and accompaniment. All this is learned joy- sesses the is nonsense! Every sound musician must drums and all—possibly with musical communicativeness necessary fact, that one can readily imagine to be capable of expressing 1700-1720. diet, so rigorous, in ously, in play, and the children come to appreciate direction, his chief and all styles. He can do so because was, remember, around most absorbing work. must be celestial whiff of a brother or sister would s yle is a matter of be of this group reached Germany. In par- that only a music as an avenue into pleasure, into self-expression. carried on between himself and his factual knowledge and can The fame scores. I cannot mastered. left after a month of it. Definitely taboo were- meat, By way of it can reached Johann Conrad Beissel, a young be And that, perhaps, is the soundest approach they can too strongly advocate that young conductors illustrating just how well ticular it stay away be mastered, strange milk, butter, eggs, cheese, honey, and beans. The only have—in the world of today. from records! Don’t let me point to the splendid work of baker of Eberbach inspired with mystic belief, learn music through the ear; made of wheat, buck- Robert Shaw whose for a life like that of Kelpius recommended dishes were those “Years ago, of course, it was different. People learned . through the interpretations of others, recording of Bach’s B-minor Mass doctrine, and a longing no matter how is, concerns drink,” said to my mind, the left for America and reached wheat, potatoes, and beets. “As to play as the only means of having music about them eminent those others may be. finest in existence. Here is a young and his brothers. Beissel The ear is much more American been settled, that nothing is better unless they themselves, who got his start he to find that Kelpius had died and Beissel, “it has long made music they had no music. deceptive than the eye; it is startling to under Fred Waring; Philadelphia, only note the dif- has worked than clear water.” There were even special diets The advent of the radio and records has robbed us of ferent impression and studied and com- brotherhood had disbanded. His disappointment pure, one receives of a score in reading made himself so the P etety master of finally for sopranos, for contraltos, for tenors, for basses. that primary incentive to study, and while mechanical it and in hearing it. Bach’s style himself his ideal remained. It carried him Further, in hearing a recorded that even Bach was great, but ust.be satisfied! Dieting was only the preliminary exaction that music has great advantages, it also has the disadvan- score, there is no But even this finest records beautiful wilderness along the Cocalico Creek, way of establishing which effects of Bach to the blocking 1 1 be of small help became Beissel required of his singing angels, for he was a tage of off personal participation. We en- are purely musical and which may to the young musician if he does some fifty miles from Philadelphia, where he result from tiny 0W demands included constant ’ f0 r severe taskmaster. His courage auditors, but not amateurs in the best sense adjustments (in tempi or sonorities) ^stance, that, in Bach’s time, one BROTHER JABEZ (REV. PETER MILLER) and Vorsteher of the Ephrata Community. to purely engi- .°L„, , founder pe equalled Jabez trans- singing, apparently to give the music a of the word. Hence, the music education of today must neering demands. The young conductor one oboe and one violin, in contrast Successor to Conrad Beissel. Brother The whole story of Ephrata cannot be told here. It falsetto does best by r ! re®ent Declaration ol Independence into seven “spiritual” and floating (Continued on Page 186) base itself on needs that subordinate the practical learning his scores through . ? massing of tone trumpet lated the it formed of lay members, the closest °Y , whereby one must suffice to say that was possible com- equals thirty Ephrata, Pennsylvania. violins. (Continued on Page 196) different languages at 147 146 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” THE ETUDE MARCH, 1948 for the first time. In fact, you hearing it had the Music and Study else was playing it. Music and Study illusion that someone You received thrill which you a satisfaction and rarely experi. This Vas an example of temporary enced. . . . objective subconscious control through your mind. You achieved distance from the piece, your fingers worked imper- you didn’t " sonally and automatically; consciously con- trol the result. so delighted, so. By then you were intoxicated that The Pianist’s Page you immediately played it again, this time for someone alas, what a terrible else, perhaps. But, let-down! You forgot, you fumbled, you made a mess of the piece. You were nervous, self-conscious; you began to think your mind’s “grooves” of the piece . . . Since had by this time become blurred and insecure, you could not command your conscious control to come to the iy guyut£ / v jaier rescue 2), m failure resulted. The first time through and you de- pended entirely on your subconscious, but when later Noted Pianist and you called on your conscious mind it failed you. Moral; conscious so thoroughly Music Educator train your mind that it will stand by in all cases of emergency.

Pure Subconscious Control

An example of pure subconscious control is Actors and Objective Control that of the player-by-ear. Since he is endowed with instinc- Stage artists have often observed that the successful tive pitch and tone consciousness, his relaxed physical per- is actor is master of his role; never must the role be mechanism simply a reflection of hi . unself-con- mitted to master the actor. The artist is always him- scious state. He plays automatically, often without self, cool-headedly directing every word, inflection, and even a glance at the keys. Ear performer.', give pleasure emotion of his stage part. He is constantly on guard because there is no tenseness of mind or body, no self- never to be so moved by the role he plays that he loses consciousness, no struggle to remember notes. Such this objective or “remote” control. If he drops his players can give their total attention to listening to THE PAUL REVERE SCHOOL. BLUE ISLAND. ILLINOIS guards he rants, he “hams,” his characterization weak- the music, to weaving beautiful natural rhythmic and A CHILDREN'S CHOIR AT ens, his portrayal loses effect. When he himself is tonal patterns into the fabric of their playing. most moved by one of his scenes, the audience is left The subconscious holds the reins completely, with the cold, untouched. When, coolly and impersonally he di- result that lovely, unforced music is produced. has been said and written both for and rects his lines however impassioned O MUCH — —with sure tech- “training” of children s nical against the so-called control he invariably moves his hearers. are in a for Children Unsound Subconscious voices that many interested parents Choral Singing Objective Control If actors face such a formidable set of complica- Playing S “authorities on quandary as to who is right. Self-styled tions, lines, vocal , inflections, rhythms, pro- final We know only too well a familiar illustration of un- quoted in lengthy dissertations HEN the composer has written down the jections, bodily singing” are so often carriage and posture, gesture, style, sound subconscious that we must draft of a composition his urge is satisfied, tempo and reliance—of the majority of pian- on the dangers of early vocal training so on, how much greater are the complexi- ists his work ended. it stands for better or who learn their pieces through endless mechanical advice on the subject. There — ties of piano surely be in need of sensible W playing! Thousands of notes in bewilder- and deadly ex- permanent of his repetition. After long, carefully proven .by worse—a musical shorthand record ing patterns, a agonizing period Let me set forth the ideas so alie values, spacings, rhythms—to be played they manage church Ly JtoyJ creative travail. During its composition his labors have to play a composition well, sometimes the painstaking work of many M with instantaneous perience and by aims and accuracies—with infinite even been intellectual, his torments spiritual. He requires “perfectly." But when they are put to the test music directors the world over. dynamics, quantities and qualities of choir masters and touches, large and of public playing, cultivation of no playing competence, no split-second technical small with all its occompanying hazards, the bogus warnings against the muscular coordinations, intricate inflections and To in skills realize his for it they suffer the tortures is most natural there are always a few to music, he hears ideally within articulations, of the doomed and play with children’s voices we may say that it in an adult As has been said before, full arm, forearm, hand, finger, torso director who sings to the children himself. To the world, however, his shorthand record painful tenseness, or fail or four, the aver- The developed as to sing naturally not to miserably. At the first diffi- little ones to sing. Even at three choir of adult each group so physically mention the subtleties of the feet on the pedals. for will unfortunately develop a is merely a cold skeleton awaiting the miracle of cult spot they fumble; tunes. The real style should be treated the Add thereunto their false tactile memory fails; tot hums and “makes up” little attention in a more mature style. They the problems of balance, voice leading, age imitators, a lamentable situation. Individual physical re-creation. they call on their atrophied begins early with kinder- youngsters and can be aided greatly symmetry, and dozens of minds for help. The brain development of any voice even a few min- same as the other others required by the music' is the only solution in any event, as The performer, or re-creator, is faced with the answers sleepily, “j little time is devoted to an understanding o all performed in split don’t know what you're crying garten and elementary song-singing. A consultation with each by individual attention second perfection and all pro- utes each week spent in private formidable task of bringing the mute symbols to life, about, because period in all schools, of the true importance of ceeding from you’ve never let me in on it. Good- regularly to a music development. their gifts. Early realization an appallingly complex mental and tac- devoted chorister will assure proper voice night!” . time, in con- a process which exacts not only intense mental and . . Blackout, learn a little about any chance of strain tile memory—well, it’s of course, follows. where the interested ones voice care will forestall a wonder, isn’t it, that any -of emotional drain but also requires highly complicated has In other words, how “rote” singing. Later, the elementary us the courage to face playing the piano on earth can an unschooled, rhythm, and Child Entertainers Exploited stant use. physical skills. Before he can resurrect the dead score at all! touched child voice we Isn’t it unconcentrated mind come to of sight singing from notes are defense of early training for the fortunate that young pianists stride the rescue in such situa- fundamentals picture we have the child In the pianist must clear away the limitations of the blithely tions? school glee club On the dark side of the singer will al- ahead in blissful ignorance on, and still later on, the junior high must realize that the untrained young of the Gibraltars to be exploited by parents and teachers because of flesh. His life is spent struggling with the physical work, which is usually expanded who is a harsh chest quality into his stormed? (The tragedy is that so many commences two-part he usually most invariably force impermanence of his art. stumble and high his ability to imitate adult entertainers; With each evocation of the stagger blindly four-part choral singing in the strives for any volume, whereas the along without competent guidance Conscious into three and forced, off-color little singing if he music his technical competence must be renewed. and Control or not, the comes to a sorry end with a flexibility as a consequence live unhappy, school. Whether with a competent teacher supervised voice is encouraged to cultivate Physically and mentally he frustrated lives.) This You can a deep rooted disappointment. Amateur labors incessantly to pro- quality see now that objective first formed, used, developed, and voice and work. Herewith, the element of indomitableness is a precious control depends child voice is being featuring through light, head scale ject the composer’s creation through perfect coordina- adjunct to the cnnscious can be hours, talent shows, and radio programs musician; it is only mind which has been so well trained sad part of it is that little time non-existent. To quote an old saying another name for vitality, tn f matured; the founda- of force is almost tion of body, arms, hands, fingers and feet. To pene- which tnat it will respond herein child entertainers do their bit to build shaky all musicians must possess in to any demands. When hands are on the individual needs of each child and ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”! trate the inner massive quantities. cold spent “let-down” when the cute youngster —“An core of the score, he and the piano and shaky, “tummies” voices are ruined in “mass” tions for a future workshop for tight, bodies unyielding, lies the danger. Many sweet We have only to sit in a voice teacher’s must merge; together they melt into a single instru- ncentration suddenly becomes a gangly adolescent and finds him- dispersed, the disciplined mind comes classes at the hands of unprepared teachers the many frustrated teen-agers, whose ment with the Acquiring singing this child has wasted a day to hear music flowing back and forth without Objective Control speedily to the rescue. singers. If the self no longer in demand. While It stands ready to assist the who encourage strain in immature vocal troubles could all have been prevented had they obstruction. being the admired center of attention But be of good cheer! every contingency. pleasantly, no possible force precious years habits. In my own It is possible for . . . Then, having voice is used lightly and not been allowed to form these bad The artist-performer masters any pianist ° the really ambitious youngster his technics so com- to obtain a good e e mind and on the other hand, if in his little crowd, I have measure of objective , body through intense con- creep in to spoil its purity; teacher, director, and coach, pletely that achieves control if a defi- H ^! can piano and choir experience as he not only this physical con- nite lan t mis- has been preparing himself, through P of study is drawn up and °?’ Pian*st is able to relegate the control class is urged to sing loudly (many teachers of young singers whose vocal ailments trol but ultimately intelligently and tv, the which there heard hundreds also impersonality and objectivity persistently C0nscious modulated training, for future adult musicianship in followed. . ' which than well of years . . rather period More of this later ’ utilizing the physical and takenly call for volume were started early and developed over a in his re-creations. His ideal is first to attain conscious mprl!, , fulfillment. In remedying this situation, the Note that full objective control °®ers the final the certain .percentage of the children are is every parents’ lack of knowledge. control requires both freer! spiritual release to quality) a through their own and of his medium (technic), then to place this conscious 'the average parent and school teacher needs to be re- and the subconscious, and mind ' °nly then will the music pour to develop husky, harsh, or shrill tones, or a control at the service of the intellectual and emotional that the con forth with bound “talent.” That which so scious mind trains the without hindrance spoil any future educated on the subject of subconscious in the or impediment pushed “chest” quality which can The Handicaps to be Overcome requirements of the music, and finally to train his shall way Tt talent goes unrecognized, and the shallow, act. vocalism. often is true subconscious mind to take over the hopes of useful Many are the pushed chest registers, uneven scales, controls. All of which flashy mimicry already described is ofttimes heralded sounds very high falutin’! In the average junior choir or children’s chorus there to faulty breath To play the piano well is indeed a herculean Here's or, Conscious-Control determination to and other unpleasant weaknesses due task. example of the workings Aids training course offered from the house tops! The will and of the subconscious is a more carefully arranged ignorance. These are only a few The re-creator must school his mind to the most in- which as the best gift and the control and general every performer has experienced: 6 a r individual work is most learn should be recognized tense concentration eIaxed body and posture and a all applicants, but here, too, teacher must face and win out over. while his body remains relaxed smooth^weu , . such musical children of the troubles a C00 group as a whole learns to foresight and understanding of and cool. His playing mechanism' mated Paying mechanism at all important. First of all, the habits once formed will stubbornly stick, and the must be capable of Umes rent are really remarkably adult; the truly talented child But y COntro1 s ts ’for “in tune” with a soft, even quality suitable to the for the utmost tension without The P° - the left foot sing will remain weak and strained many a trace of tenseness. His Subconscious n® t the task of learning forced register rr the most inexperienced di- is he who willingly undertakes SWinff ’ the for church atmosphere; even forestall what we spirit soars in the blue while his feet remain solidly arm baton i° floating elbow tip improvement as his months. Why, then, should we not You have worked long and hard quiet, harmonious right from wrong with only self on the ground. on a piece ,Teedom fln er for rector recognizes this need for “pre-training” The music itself may be torn by pas- prized mem contact-control ’ the e tip situation. know is bound to come out of improper it . . . studied it reward, a really gratifying . . . analyzed it of individual voices and strives to mellow sion or permeated with a divine serenity. No matter! . Xed' blending use of the voice? it many ' times . 61 . perhaps The you were not too a note, phrase, shrill “school-room style” of singing. If possible, until player’s conscious and subconscious controls hold about happy knowing or chord without first that My answer to the person who advocates waiting your playing of it. Then W all you laid it aside UJ y°U Want t0 example of sweet, soft treble work should be picture forces under calm, interior restraint. The ancient One play it; and llow you want it some maturity for vocal training always includes a ay r“on *'lls ater after to sound > not having director or camel j ’j touched it vnn kept constantly before the students. The child’s voice; the putting himself through the needle’s eye is decided of the “normal,” everyday use of a a to play it through. To illus- your astonishment 26 0 pieces an older chorister can repeatedly create “sound the mere piker compared with the vou ’ measure the play, the squalling and shrieking, pianist, who performs played it marvelously-gave momenTvhi! for measure, VOICE screeching at it practically a ^41^ StUdy trations” for the group, remembering that mimicry perfect ' ( on Page 184) infinitely more impressive miracles every time he plays. performance. fooling them Don ’t tempt Fate by colds, sore throats, whooping Continued While you played it you arounri* th° of advancement in music. seemed to th the comP°sition or with notes is one of a child’s best means be for a week nr T* your or two, or OU 149 148 y ( Continued on Page 183) "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE" MARCH, 1948 THE ETUDE .

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played more than once again tions be when one would “Finish that by yourself,’’ or “Bring be told: it to a Organ on,” only that “later" so seldom came, the later indeed Harp Effects With prepare Colorful Piano one had quite enough to the next lesson, How Joseffy Taught the and as a consequence few of us ever had anything a t a sufficient state of finish to be able or willing to play Joseffy’s it for anyone, and since was the most ad- discussed the pos- vanced piano class, excuses to friends were apt N RECENT MONTHS we have to b» other instruments. with surprise. Yet during the sibilities of using the organ with C^fide cjCatlirop received entire school ly to write a number of articles on year of thirty-three weeks there was little time I It is our purpose Editoi, Organ Department to tell us that lessons. Quite frequently subject as organists all over the world work on past Joseffy would this One of His Pupils that they want more sug- various ones how much time they gave this is helpful to them and ask daily to time. practice. Five hours was about the least amount gestions from time to that instrument to use studying. received by him without unfavorable Perhaps the most satisfactory by Faun is difficult but well worth was comment ways to use the. instrument, and were, so to speak, harp. It can be used in the most detail on all of the, other combinations of in- 'HEN Mrs. Jeanette Thurber founded the Na- ing for Joseffy himself, since we seven or eight were much more satisfactory; with the organ is the collabora- The use of the harp with and the considerable suggestions, any organist, in almost all of us were de- the organ and there is following his is practically inex- tional Conservatory of Music, back in the all in the same boat, and fact that all of us had harmony or elegant ways with get the mos struments, solo voice, and chorus, work In his assisting harpist, can really cidedly nervous, although I think Joseffy had not the adaptable to the two instruments. tion with for the Cesar Franck 1880’s, she engaged for the teaching staff the to do, in addition to the solfige classes, offered music that is instruments. haustible. The accompaniment not the much fine of the combination of the two least intention of making us so. go beautifully together. There is out harp, and ’cello. The bestWmusicians available. Romualdo Sapio headed the least excuse for shorter hours of piano practice. fact, they use of the harp as “Mass in A” is written for organ, recitals, of the best compositions for large front room of the western of the two that we use in our regular services and One Angelicas and this opera department. (He was the husband of Clementine In the Choice of selections was often left to the music, the Introduction most famous number is the Panis student, and organ, and chorus, a solo instrument with the organ, is as solo houses on East 17th Street which were occupied by the which may be used with harp ’cello. The Gloria from De Vere, noted concert singer who received and one profited by experience in making such Ravel. It is a wonderful piece, can be done with or without the two concert choice! other combinations. and Allegro, by Maurice soprano in Dr. Paxton’s church what was said to be Conservatory, Joseffy sat at one of the and various and gets the most effective numbers in this Bach was always safe; Chopin, or Liszt, or Beethoven of the harp understands the instrument perfectly this Mass is one of grand pianos, the student at the other. Organists must know a few of the uses Ravel at the time the highest salary ever paid a church less but once, when Joseffy was one of the reasons I know. The Agnus Dei is luscious, so, making a rare used with the out of it. Without doubt, kind of music that When he was in the mood Joseffy was a marvelous order- to make it effective. When the most singer in New York, reputedly $3500. This church has concert tour, Conrad Ansorge in supreme is. the fact liquid quality to the whole short substituted for him harp, I fear, as a that Ravel’s orchestrations are and the harp gives a lovely disappeared, replaced business buildings) organ most of us think of the long ago by in the class. He welcomed Beethoven numbers for which he is writing. should be made of the Faure and was “plink” there, a chord here and a that he knows the instruments ensemble. Mention Frank Van Der Stucken directed the chorus and “plink” here and a harpists play, these days. a fine teacher of the great master, bringing out many effective as these are In Introduction and Allegro, all of the “Requiem,” which is being done so much orchestra; Leopold Lichtenberg headed the violin chord there, rolled or otherwise. As details of phrasing. Modern compositions work on the part of the heavenly, to say the least. would usually instrument, and if and it provides some real The harp parts in this are department. , then leading ’cellist of the harp is a much more important subject the student to more less sarcastic course, for strings, flute, and are one or or comments we can have a great time of it. organist. It was written, of In tuning the harp to the organ, there the Philharmonic Ochestra and Bruno Oscar Klein, we use it correctly, the work, and with for some time. The choice of a Moszkowskl composition, course are beautiful. Chords clarinet. There are recordings of observed. The best method is to tune to organist of St. Francis Xavier’s (who taught theory Arpeggios on the harp of two hints to be for instance, caused the oYie brought can make a really effective who it to be should be used. Harmonics and single some study, an organist Principal or a string stop. Do not use more and counterpoint) were also members of the faculty, are good and numerous opportunities for a Geigen called, when next one of the rare visitors came to the right spo , There are note from effects are also helpful in just the accompaniment. stop! Tune each harp string to a while Anton Dvorak came to this country under a note small organ, it is, than one class, “our Moszkowski specialist.” color and an -almost striking registration. Good on a Page 186) three years’ contract at what must have seemed to but again, there is a wealth of most Middle-C up, then from C (Continued on knows about the course, better on a larger instrument. the modest Bohemian composer a fabulous salary, to endless supply of effects, when one of Profound is the term used Debussy Danses, Sacre et lend his name to the new conservatory and teach A Knowledge use of the or flux, which The remember that the harp is Profane, also are beautiful. composition. When the three years were up he refused Perhaps the reader begins to wonder why Joseffy by harpists. It is well to In making arrangements, There is a fine recording by to renew his contract and returned to his native land. has been called a wonderful teacher. None the less an enharmonic instrument. and may be used freely. Phillips and The Phila- Although the Conservatory did not have a long life he was. When in the mood he could and did give the flux is a decided advantage Edna like this, for under Leo- it, have a glissando delphia Orchestra, nevertheless, had some pupils who later became invaluable points for study, although if not in the Consider that one may practically anything: C D#, pold Stokowski. It is worthy of renowned. Among Dvorak’s- pupils may be mentioned mood the lesson might proceed with hardly a com- example, which goes with singing In dulci iubilo to this our consideration for organ and Harry Burleigh, Rubin Goldmark, and Harvey Worth- ment. One sure way to kindle his interest was to ask -p, G, A#, B#. Try Scored for strings, it can ington Loomis. advice how to practice with the glissando as below: harp. difficult passages in the selection or- The piano department several excellent be played beautifully on the had teachers, being played by the student. It was then that he gan. The harp is really used in but heading it was Rafael Joseffy, renowned concert showed what a great Changed teacher he could be. and an excel- virtuoso and teacher of the famed virtuoso, Moriz rhythms, these two pieces, the slow staccato practicing of passages the Rosenthal. At the time that he agreed to take classes lent opportunity is given to which eventually were to be extremely legato, these he could very organ. Everything sounds and seldom be prevailed on to accept the were some of his counsels and often he would illustrate in- many offers for concerts which he constantly received, it is possible to make one them at length while around joice with heart the pupils would gather Chris tian men re - joice re for he had established his reputation as pianist years Good strument blend prefectly with the piano absorbed. Then too he was always ready to before. It was commonly reported that the reason for harp to control all the others. show different and better methods of fingering, and There are seven pedals on the his refusals was because he suffered from excessive G’s, and there are Charles Marie Widor wrote a this with great patience. Perhaps after doing this of the A’s, B’s, C’s, D’s, E’s, F’s, nervousness, having almost wrecked his nerves by top notch for t fine piece for harp known as he would suddenly begin to play, continuing for some three notches for each pedal. The keeping late hours at cards fortified by quantities of middle notch is the Chorale and Variations. This minutes while of for example, is A-flat; the very we all sat entranced. His playing was A pedal, strong coffee. That he was in any case a highly notch is for A-sharp. is also a number which is worth such perfection; cameo-like, nevgr a wrong note, and for A-natural; and the bottom nervous man, anyone in his class could have testified. of chords possible playing. technically flawless, his rip- There are so many combinations while his exquisite touch, them. the Mozart pling swim to attempt to list Then we have runs, and the pure legato were a rare delight that it makes one’s head Group Lessons almost as fast as Concerto for Flute and Harp, for the listeners. the Harpists can change their pedals We could but marvel too at per- organ may take extent combinations on the organ, with which the These lessons were given once a week supposedly of his knowledge of piano literature. But alas organists can change the orchestral parts. in classes of three, with twenty minutes assigned to if anyone were rash enough to suggest that he play haps faster. obtain an amaz- In addition, the wealth of each member. Theoretically then for us! Occasionally find immediately that we can three pupils would a new pupil would say coaxingly: We arrangements avail- this. There are certain keys material in come to the class room each hour, it “Won’t you play which ing variety of effects with but did not something, Mr. Joseffy?” at instruments is we not work, of course, but we should able for the two work out that way, nor was Joseffy’s arrangement of longer experience would shudder. That request with which this will the necessary trans- seemingly endless. Every harpist ever questioned by the Conservatory direction. soon meant utter silence for be able in such cases to make We at that other piano perhaps Debussy Clair de lune, found the illustrated in such a simple number plays the it best to arrive in a body at 2 P.M., the stated RAFAEL JOSEFFY entire rest of the afternoon, with either not a position. This is that we want to have a and with careful arranging, the hour for the first lesson, and remain until the last word or a muttered refusal. as Silent Night. Supposing in the organ fits into it like a hand in one was given, If for the first chord of Silent Night unless some very pressing engagement these remarks have given the impression of an glissando glissando would be like this: a glove. This is true of such called one away earlier, and it was not well to let this 1 ';erpP ered man, when key of B-flat, the harp teacher. He never heard purely technical it is incorrect. His remarks the Submerged work—pre- not A#. In this, one would have to use compositions as happen often, or the unlucky student would be treated sumably the directed at us smile BL, C, D, E#, F, G, original intention was to limit were amusing and he would so forth. to a sarcastic the class with sixth, but if it is in the Key of Cathedral, and remark—and how sarcastic Joseffy could to such pupils us. He was clever, often the second and the as were already, if not artists well read, witty, and he organ may be the be! at the next at least could be eliminated: B, Cb, D#, Efc,, Then, the — lesson, and even with later allusions well on the way surprised one by comments entirely B. the second toward that state; but this on some subject F#, solo instrument, with the harp in the same vein. was by ou side Then the second chord could be: Gb, no means the case. Joseffy the field of music, or done F#, Gb, Ab- would recommend perhaps something is the as an adjunct. The Prelude to We came at two o’clock and various by one Ek|. It will be noted that this remained until Joseffy exercises, especially those in of his pupils. But he hated of them A#’, Bb, C #, Db, the published collection to have any just not possible in the “Prodigal Son,” for instance, himself terminated the lessons by rising to leave. P ay in dominant seventh chord. This is He by his own teacher Tausig, and if public, and took no hearing any in the mood would interest in nothing that can be is most beautiful when used paid little attention to the clock. If only nine or ten num er the key of B-flat because there is sometimes illustrate them. He often which such an one proposed to play. Some- or- gave Etudes and E#, P, Ah, B #, C, this way. One can get the pupils were in attendance that meant no shortening a times he done with G and it would be like this: typical lesson assignment would be one would murmur; “Why do you play piano? part from the of the time, nor were of the studies that spoils the chord, while above, chestral harp lessons limited to the allotted from the “Gradus ad e ce^°’” D#. It will be clear G Parnassum”, or a Chopin • ^\ Just why he was so uninterested hint is publishers, and the same is true twenty minutes, provided one had well Etude e in the Key of B. Therefore, this little prepared a according to the grade of proficiency m public performance pupils in it works of the pupil or of even the best to remember of such things as the Liebestod lesson that required more time. Of course he class the most important single thing the fact a Bach Prelude and with I think none of perhaps perhaps a Liszt us understood, careful ( Death ) from “Tristan,” that all of us were present for Tran- arrangements for the harp. The Love the entire teaching scription, Chopin Polonaise, W S ab°Ut this in making a composition by Schubert time that J°seffy began insisting, a whole recital or and so forth, and so on. There period was of great benefit, since the wh en £le of this one effect can make criticisms given Schumann, and various consent to appearance, usage concertos. In the case of make a concert are certain functions which the to all the students benefited each one, aside from an P aymg service. in- Etude and short number, or one movement a Brahms concerto instead of the two harp performs that we never dividual criticism. This of a con Every organist should own Carlos Salzedo’s “Method arrangement also helped one certo, both were bPtn and the Liszt once supposed to be brought , ones which anyone who n.V,; nV< Vin T linilo T.Qwrpnpp to overcome nervousness, to the next other than that felt in play- lesson, preferably r m SALZEDO memorized. Nor could 5^, * oonM never forget. Those small, dim- CARLOS these selec- pled handst, had hardly the 183) 1.50 (.Continued on Page 151 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE’’ LIFE’’ MARCH, 1948 THE ETUDE Music and Study Music and Study HE STATUS of the wind band in America today perplexing one. It is is a most confusing and time healthy in some ways, and at the same T .very it is exceedingly strong, yet very ill in others; some direc- weak, and while making great progress in Today others, degenerated to a point of in America tions’ it has also in Bands Advancing the ’Cello Section near nonexistence. The High School Band The Second of Three Discussions evaluation of the present If we were to confine our without Part Two day wind band to that of the secondary school, prove conclusively that m a doubt, our findings would be found no nation on the face of the globe is there to band movement a band program comparable to the Withnun as conducted in the schools of America. on to present a complete and honest X ie. X However, if we are 9 functions in 4 survey of the status of the band as it findings to that such a decline has occurred during America today, we must not restrict our professional, in America. we consider group either amateur or the tremendous school band program, but give fair consid- personnel, the identical period which witnessed the high The college band, through its leadership, bands, whether they be high school, favorable posi- growth of school and college bands. eration to all equipment, and facilities, is in a most professional. It would seem that the growth of the band move college, community, or of the future. At the present, tion to foster the bands naturally have school band program, as it now functions colorful ment in our schools and colleges would The high millions of people being thrilled by cultural and we find motivation and activity of schools, is an essential part of the intricate maneuvers, resulted in a comparable in our formations, precision marching, of young America. We are per- the professional band field. However, just the opposite educational development playing during the weekly gridiron guarded carefully as spacings become closer. and excellent for the present decadent be cognizant of the contribution these bands have -bands has occurred, and the reasons position itself, involves the fully as presented by our college The fourth conformation, the thumb use of the thumb the land; formances professional bands are’’ most difficult to made to schools and communities throughout of music and band fans status of a guide across two strings at the same time. All Today, thousands of patrons as a “nut” finger and as of the the results which they have ascertain. we are appreciative of of our college bands. The rep- brought into use, but in the use of the fourth finger a slight are attending concerts fingers are again grateful for the privilege of having- to Part of the solution might well be found in answer achieved, and are of performance is doing much NUMBER 1 NUMBER 2 the other finger is required. While the eighth position is ertory and quality bending forward of the participate in the development to the following questions. The open or extended position, the had the opportunity to concert band is a serious medium it i the college the use of the thumb position, , prove that The normal or closed hand position. normal location for commencing applicable in program. However, this development (a) Does the professional hand encompassing a major third. of such a great expression. Then, many positions above and below, on the neck. It is used extensively in playing without some of musical band belong to an- of school bands was not accomplished thirds, sixths, and tenths. hundreds of thousands octaves, The first Joint of general band program, insofar too, other era? adverse effects upon the priv- the thumb is laid across the A and D strings of radio listeners are at the at the time. (b) Has the professional as it was functioning hear our college location of the half string ( Continued on Page 192) the establish- ileged to band outlived its use- HE ADMONITION that the and right In the years immediately preceding bow arm bands in excellent pro- school band programs in our schools, com- fulness? should be the object of chief concentration is ment of the which are broadcast were supporting and promoting grams (c) Do our school and Twell taken, though they do bear somewhat the munities everywhere campus studios from municipal bands. Many states legislated daily college bands provide same relationship as the embouchure and breath con- their civic of nation. raised suf- throughout the trol on the wind instrument. This analogy ceases to band tax laws which, through taxation, an adequate outlet The college band, through hold, however, present outdoor concerts during the for band music? when we consider that in dynamics and ficient funds to clinics, become its sponsorship of accent, the bow is responsible for almost every in- months. The weekly band concert had (d) Have the radio, re- summer and festivals city, town, conferences, juke flection, and is able to produce tone on the open strings a national institution and in almost every cordings, and is providing great impetus without the use left stand and the Saturday evening boxes supplanted the of the hand. The vibrating finger and hamlet, the band program, period. to the school band merely adds quality and color to the sound, which is concert were a great American tradition of that professional band? as well as proving to be a dependent upon the bow for smooth production and The inauguration of the school band program rapidly (e) Ts the cost prohib- guiding force in the devel- equality. Illustrations of various positions of the bow, scene. School bands, with their new uni- itive? changed this literature larger opment of band which are appropriate in conjunction with the various forms, more adequate instrumentation, and In the' answer to these, and through its presenta- positions of the left hand, are contained in the ac- membership gradually began to supplant their elders as well as other questions, tion of numerous out-of- companying pictures. and eventually took over the park concerts and parades. rests the fate of the pro- town concerts, is doing The town bandsmen, finally realizing the futility of fessional band. In the much to keep alive the tra- Four Left Hand Conformations reluctantly, but in some instances gra- meantime, the fact remains the situation, by profes- activities. dition founded ciously, abandoned their musical that in a country which Perfection of left hand technic is based upon four NUMBER 3 bands in the past. sional greatest school Violinistic position used in upper possesses the fundamental conformations or shapes which the hand positions of the neck. The College Band The college band pro- Photograph was taken with fingers in the sixth and college band program assumes, with several slight modifications, and the position. vides the only outlet where- these unfortunate circumstances, we of any nation of the uni- means for going from one to another, as exigencies As a result of entering or by a student today find that in rare exceptions the community verse, that same nation has require. Included in the latter are the methods of going, can find an oppor- except that the first finger is straightened and memory. The high school band college witnessed a passing of the shifting and the use of the system of extensions em- civic band is but a fond the side of its tip applied to the tunity to continue his band string. This change over, and what was in former days the professional band from the ployed in ’cello playing. has taken col- allows the hand to encompass a major third experience. Since most by bring- cornet band” is now the high school “symphonic days of Gilmore, Sousa, These conformations, which are illustrated, may be ing "silver perform litera- an additional half step between the first stand- lege bands described and band.” That this transition resulted in higher Pryor, Innis, Smith, Con- as follows: (1) the natural or closed position second fingers. the proficien- Two methods are used in attaining well as band literature, ture beyond Kryl, and of the hand; (2) the ards of band performance, as way, Bachman, extended or open position; (3) extended position: high school bands, (1) by merely lowering the first presented by our cies of to the violinistic conformation, is evinced by the- excellent concerts others who did so much used in upper portions finger, and (2) enables the by pivoting on the first finger and regrettable feature of this experience of the neck; (4) the school bands; however, the one contribute to the happiness thumb position. The fifth illus- at the same time straightening extend his mu- it as the other fingers that thousands of adult student to people, as well as tration shows a modification of the thumb position, NUMBER 4 the transition lies in the fact of many are raised a half step. It is important sical background far be- an that the thumb The thumb participated in community bands are to stimulate and foster uni- extension comparable to that used in the lower be relaxed position. bandsmen who in high and permitted to slide on the under side an yond that acquired positions. no longer engaged in the participation of music as versal interest in the bands of the neck beneath the second additional ex- WILLIAM D. REVELLI finger. Otherwise, it that a program school. This DR. The natural or closed position is very similar that avocation. It is indeed unfortunate of America. to becomes an obstacle to a full reach. perience should also serve Conductor. University of Michigan Bands assumed by the right enjoyment and culture to young Amer- The municipal, civic, or hand in holding the bow. The In the violinistic which brought bands- conformation, the little (fourth) as an incentive for thumb is placed on the under side of the should be responsible for depriving adult America community band, like the neck im- finger is not used. The body ica their par- of the instrument becomes so thor- men to continue mediately beneath the second finger. The fingers are the happiness and fellowship which they is rapidly fading from our musical an impediment to advancing of bands following their graduation from professional band, the hand in the upper in the ol ticipation in rounded, the fleshy tips being applied to the string oughly enjoyed through their associations scene. Here again, we find the parallel, so far as the positions of the neck, and the thumb remains college. opposite the curve in the in the the program is concerned; nail, taking for granted curve where the neck town band.” high school band’s effect on is joined to the ’cello. By using band that the nails are short, as they should be. The left Following the establishment of the high school again it is just as difficult to comprehend. three fingers in a violinistic conformation, The Professional Band and elbow is slightly with the Although their growth raised, forming a natural curve of hand slightly program came the college bands. raised and the fingers held’ our observation and appraisal of bands in Amer- wrist and arm away from the body. The stretch more ob- nor as spectacular as that of high In The Municipal Band be- liquely, fifth, sixth, and was not so rapid progress seventh positions are added ica today, and in presenting this review of the tween the second and third fingers must be increased school bands, they made consistent progress and today deduction, the advent of the school to the ’cellist’s range. This third conformation by high school and college bands, we must By every logical above the natural reach, in order to make the proper of the rapidly assuming leadership of bands in achieved hand enables the player to we find them decline, in fact, b^nd should have meant only one thing—more and pass smoothly from the conductor be not fail to discuss the regrettable interval. It is important that this stretch be improved upper America. No longer need the college band bands. However, just the opposite neck positions into the thumb of the professional concert band. better municipal by attention and exercise, as position Exten- as was true some almost total abolition good intonation is de- sions here are envious of his high school colleague, why? What becomes of the thousands relatively easy, but intonation The gradual decline in the number of professional was true—and pendent upon its development. Only the tip of the must ago, when the performances of so many high years public today is of school and college bandsmen who are graduated college bands appearing before the American thumb, which is slightly curved as in the case of the school bands were superior to those of most universities? comprehend, and especially so, when annually from our high schools and Why bow hand, should be placed in contact with the indeed difficult to under- bands. do they not continue their participation in- civic bands? side of the neck. Its position with relation to the sec- band has kept pace with Although not every college Have we failed in our teachings? Are the objectives ond finger remains constant, and with the first finger and many remain in dire band, orchestra this march of progress incorrect? Have we been too absorbed in teaching the it provides one of the most important guides to in- cooperation and support, yet need of administrative mechanics of performance, without giving sufficient tonation. college bands are making and CHORUS throughout the nation, BAND and ORCHESTRA attention to the making of music itself? Have we failed The second conformation, the so-called extended or - NUMBER 5 contributing more to the develop- William D. Revelli 1 greater progress and Edited by on Page 193) Edited by William D. ™ ication of the thumb to provide our bandsmen ( Continued open position of the hand, is the same as the fore- Revelli position, the fingers r band music than any other an< na,u ment of bands and * f ral at the top of the treble In tl,i„ ex , ension, 153 the thumb remains statioi LIFE” 2.52 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS " ' 1948 MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” MARCH , THE ETUDE exposed the theme through While he the orchid had only fragments of Music and Study the actors recitative which Music and Study , of a great separately, had neither intrinsic " is it that makes the portrayals taken value nor HAT a compelling and moving? Skill in make- precise meaning. The Balakirevs thought this actor was character, the actors in an opera hold up, conception and delineation of wrong, for the stage !! a W all important factors; but, there to complement the of gesture, are are not orchestra. It V command 0 the one quality that distinguishes them that the action exists. The public watches above everything, the* from the near-great, the quality that and listens to them. They therefore should the great actor be of prH the use school our attention and stirs our emotions, is cipal interest. The Russian felt that it holds Expression was dT' tones Art of of his voice. Through the changing The Opera and the Balakirevs to Wagner’s maltreatment that the orchestra he makes gain*! can express sadness and joy, fear, con- the upper hand. The vocal parts in Wagner’s of his voice he opera! with all tentment, hatred and love, and express them battle with the orchestra, only to be killed by n it of conviction and subtlety. Provided that he * would almost seem that Wagner did his best shades Part Two to denv intelligence to direct this ability all musical expression. has the instinct and his characters The Balakirevs’ ends, the actor who can thus control his on the contrary, felt that, except for rare to artistic occasions’ stage manner may Tone Coloring voice is an artist, even though his Production and the composer should reserve for the characters Tone the fluency possessed by many a lesser man. best musical material and the most lack the important 1 to phrases The role of the concert violinist is very similar of the score. The Balakirevs believed that opera should actor. It is his privilege to convey to his vocal, while that of the T WAS Gluck who tried to restore opera to its be essentially Wagner’s was symphonic emotions listeners the infinite number of moods and original place as dramatic composition, but com- They thought that his musical ideas were submerged which are to be found in the many different styles of 1.I posers like Rossini made it again just music for by heavy waves which roll one over the other, sur- composition, from the classics to the ultramoderns. charged with exaggerated bridge the concert hall, adorned with scenery and costumes. and sonorities tone that he is able bow perceptibly nearer the And it is very largely through his increased bow pres- to Ex. A he can The reaction of Meyerbeer, Weber, Glinka, and Dar- and of a boredom and monotony which (3) In forte passages calling for his tone, and are not re- to the violinist what voice injecting added intensity into to do this, for his tone is the bridge. If it is drawn without gomijsky was felt in the further development of opera, lieved by the few beautiful pages which, as sure, the bow must be near to Ex. B witn- Cui said violinist who can thus vary his nearer to the bridge in passages similar is to the actor. The board, the result will be a throaty but the measures were only half effective. Then sud- were “as rare as an oasis in the Sahara.” the near the finger whistle. It will require con- tonal timbre according to the changing moods of among young out causing the tone to denly a new reform took place with Wagner. The “Wagner,” they declared, “tags a quality of tone. This is a fault common done. leitmotif to every if cannot play quite practice, but it can be music is an artist, no matter he “big ’ tone. stant and intelligent Balakirev group joined this, fundamentally was players who are obsessed by the notion of a in but character which he must wear like a coat better is important in the playing wherever rapidly as other men who are, probably, little The point of contact school so In the playing of a piano passage with opposed to Wagner’s new idea. The new Russian he goes, and all his entrances are announced by (4) students try to play them it. known than he is. musu of harmonics. Too many of thought laid down the following principles of their pressure and frequent changes of bow, the bow pressure. He even tags a leitmotif to such abstract ideas 'as ven- eloquence and with a light bow But what is the means by which this subtle near the bridge, near the finger board reform originated by Balakirev: geance, even object be near the fingerboard. If it is drawn results can be or to some —a sword. It is sufficient expression? Imagination comes first, but are sure to be disappointed. Good may be given disheartened quality of tone will result. They just to mention the object for the motif to the a weak and drawn near the bridge pop up, as the technical means is really nothing more than that obtained only if the bow is New Principles But in this connection it should be mentioned pressure, though pressed by a spring. This childish device does between the bow and the firm, steady pressure. The bow varying point of contact can produce a beautifully intense and with a not honor Wagner’s heroes. Why are they a skillful violinist approximately that which would Dramatic music should have an intrinsic value as condemned string. the in fact, should be soft tone, of almost an oboe timbre, by drawing absolute music. to one perpetual leitmotif without the slightest de- it was stated that “tone a round, mezzo-forte tone. Last January, on this page, and with little naturally produce velopment and almost always bow close to the bridge very slowly an increase o The Balakirevs thought that composers who occu- without the slightest shading (dynamic variations) and tone coloring (vari- The majority of crescendi require pressure. this is only alteration, and which therefore constitutes a new ele- almost entirely volume grows; when pied themselves with pure melody and vocal ations in the timbre of the tone) are fourth position intensity as the tonal (5) When the left hand is in the The virtuosity the means of infallible success wrote the ment of monotony?” Variety of form was one of the degrees and pro- move towards the bridge. — — the result of combining, in various anywhere between the bridge the case, the bow must basic principles or lower the bow may be Air from the most astonishing banalities. Everything that in sym- of the Russian school. Tire Balakirevs portions, the following elements: (1) the pressure of following examples, from (Ex.C) the finger board, according to the previous rules. phonic music would have been put into “Index were not satisfied with giving their the bow; and the (Ex.D) the Vieuxtemps D the heroes only one the bow on the strings; (2) the speed of upwards from the fourth Goldmark Concerto and 2. musical (6) As the left hand moves Librorium Prohibitorium” with the, most justified dis- idea. They insisted that the themes should and the point of contact between bow and string.” nearer minor Concerto, will illustrate the point. (3) position, the bow must move correspondingly dain, found its place in opera. The Italians were un- be multiplied and developed as the action demanded, length, but the The first two were analyzed at some wifi weak, to the bridge. If it does not, the tone be surpassed in their superiority in this. Aspiring only with different rhythm, harmony, color, in a word— third was mentioned only in passing. Yet the choice with a tendency to break. to easy success, their operas were a potpourri of that the characters be is, the point painted with all the means at of an appropriate point of contact—that the reverse 3. These six fundamental principles, and ornamentation, bad taste, and the excessive use of the composer’s disposal. Generally speaking, and giving the bridge and the finger board, on the string, between should be tested on all four strings, B-flat and High-C’s. Finding themselves in complete all of each of them, due credit to Wagner’s talent and strong individual- at which the bow shall be drawn—is of the utmost so that the student may become aware of the different communion with the poor taste of the public, they ity, the Balakirevs considered his doctrine false, that in expressive playing. For it is the freedom importance for each string. not only wrote banal but exposed all bow-touch necessary themes them in he had written more annoying music than good, and choice which we have between these narrow limits of However, these principles cannot be applied in- their nakedness, without trying to improve them by that the madness of the Wagnerian cult was more one-quarter inches—that is respon- —about two and true though they are, for the colorful harmony. The best among these musicians fanatic vibrato and flexibly, fundamentally than sincere. sible, when combined with an expressive any violin music very soon call for the either repeated one another or repeated themselves bow, for the demands of the varying pressure and speed of the mutually con- in application of two or more which are their style, harmony, and themes. In this way they The Idea of tone-color of which the Essential innumerable gradations therefore, have to be made, succeeded in making their operas a series of degen- tradictory. Compromises, bowing may be, the violin is capable. In long crescendi, whatever the "* mr. jerorr 5 Torincoming Doo The Balakirevs also rejected the very basis of dra- imagining and the applying of these erate twins of despairing resemblance. The Balakirevs "TL ii. i and it is in the towards the Ihe Mighty Five,' which will shortly is unfortunate that the question of varying bow- same rule applies: the bow must move be published by Alla, matic plot—the progressive development of a conflict— It artistry is developed. As an argued that it was sufficient to look at some thirty Towne and compromises that true towards Heath, tells of the remarkable influence receives little attention. Too often the bridge. For diminuendi, the bow must move an as it was known on the western stage. They contact usually opening measures from the operas by Rossini and seventy of Donizetti to prove philosophy of European example, let us take the 4. a most amazing man, Mily Alexeievite half way between the bridge and board. believed that the the pupil is told to bow Quartet in F major, the finger this. Both of these composers wrote only two or three Balakirev. Balakirev himself essential lies in the idea of slow movement of Beethoven’s was entirely self-taught in musi his education in tone shading should be made to imitate the presented in the finger board, and Although no attempt He was born in 1837 and work. Whether this idea was expressed 1. original operas, while the rest are pale reproductions. made his debut as a pianist in that Op. 18, No. violin can 185 a and coloring is left at that. Small wonder, then, tone colors of any other instrument, the In 1862 he founded the Free Music series of pictures, dramatic or not in themselves, was Even a non-Italian composer like Meyerbeer, one of School and also becarr players striv- Ex. A may, for pur- widely known not one frequently hears obviously talented produce three primary tone colors which as a conductor. He formed a coterie important, as long as the presentation as a whole the greatest dramatic composers, would have gained of young, knowing in flute color, the musicians, inc uding Borodin, ing to express a musical feeling without poses of comparison only, be called the prestige Mussorgsky, Cui, and Rimsk' was vital and vivid. in had he left out all the virtuosity effect rather fast, firm, Korsakoff, and by reason of his fiery the least how to go about it. clarinet color, and the oboe color. If from the score. leadership establishe They felt the same way about symphony for a sym- the group known as "The Mighty is determined almost entirely near the finger board, the Five," which founded tk phonic This point of contact but light bows are drawn Nothing should stand in the way of the true and the work (a sonata form) is based again on the new National Schoo of Russian , the volume and resembles that of the Music. Mr. Seroff indicat. same by the speed of the bow stroke, by very slow bow should resulting tone color somewhat beautiful. what Balakirev and idea of conflict. Stasov said once to Balakirev: “I Here it would seem that the his powerful group did to combat desired, and by the length of string drawn at the half-way point with Wa< don t timbre of tone but the pianissimo mark- flute; slower bows Everything seductive in musical art must belong to ner and integrate new bases for operatic know who is going to do this you or someone else be drawn near the bridge; reform in Russii — (governed by the point at which it is pressure produce a clarinet-like quality; (it would be being used character of the music would slightly more opera—the charm of harmony, the science of counter- Editor's a pity if it didn’t come from the new Rus- ing and the tranquil — Not finger). Obviously the point of con- bridge with a slow bow and intense sian school!) stopped by the be near the finger board. It playing near the point, the richness of , the color of the —but symphony must stop being construc- seem indicate that the bow very tact must be constantly changing, and it might the not heavy) pressure produces a timbre orchestra all ted in four a slightly nearer the bridge than (though — must rim abreast. parts as Hadyn and Mozart conceived it these necessary should be drawn instru- an impossibly difficult task to make like that of the oboe. Better than any other Vocal music should be in perfect accord with the hundred years ago. parts? point. Why should there be four long composition. But half-way hands, to pass Why readjustments throughout a from the slow move- ment, the violin is able, in skilled meaning of the words. should this never alter? The time has come for Or take the following passage a, imagination and a good bow another and to mix and , . place to violinist who has timbre to , cnoi this, as the Concerto. smoothly from one The text must not serve exclusively to facilitate the and am, but felt that nothing well as the symmetric and parallel construction ment of the Goldmark must be allowed technique will find that he makes them instinctively so that a wide palette of tone colors is emission of the voice. For within each blend them if it had been destined for stand in the way of the action. movement, to pass into oblivion. We have principles involved. hall- Everything dener as soon as he understands the basic to the artist. It is, indeed, one of the that, it would suffice to place it haphazardly on one away odes, available to any the development of the subject; with all the scholastic forms of experimenting, com- to the music sho, However, he must be continually of the true artist that he has the ability music that might come along. For each phrase of the nevei take speeches, statements, expres- marks a road of its own. Choruses should and arias in dramatic pressures with various points musical idea represt sion. bining various speeds and choose the appropriate coloring for each text there should be a sound that corresponds to it a mass of Now the time first people, and not simply be has come to forget about the drudgery; on the contrary, clearly there to fill of contact. This will not be that the meaning of the music is brought in a correct musical declamation. It is from the and second ‘ ’ in so mean- when the soloists need time to rest. themes, the exposition, the mittelsatz of study. he will find it the most fascinating branch listener. ing of the text that the musical ideas arise, the sounds symphonic music.” to the be considered fundamental; fairly high position and the fortissimo mark- result of an The following rules may Here the This ability is to a large degree the being meant to complete the effect of the words. The A And finally, the value the bridge; Common Goal Balakirevs placed very little should be experimented with and thoroughly ing would seem to require bowing near appreciation of the inner word on one side gives the music a on the they inner urge awakened by an determined sig- All these principles erotic, and even less psychoanalytic as tried: finger board. The were very akin to the on the understood before more complicated ideas are yet the long, fast bows indicate the such, it cannot actually be nificance and defines in a way all its Wagneri a source content of the music. As aspirations. This reform in opera, but the of musical inspiration—the vehicles used or piano, approximately the half-way means of achieving two (1) Slow sustained bows, whether forte bow should be drawn at stimulated and developed, and conviction establishes the union of the text with the the g< to so much taught. But it can be differentiated the two schools. advantage by European composers, and bridge. To begin be drawn close to the point. . every effort to arouse in the music, and the Russian school did with of must . the teacher should bend not treat the words Balakirevs thought course by Wagner. to acquire sucn that the forte or piano , must will endeavor subjects of Waene (2) Fast, long bows, whether The ambitious student a delight in truly expressive playing. In this, lightly. They looked for art in the text itself, and operas All this Borodin similar student had in them nothing human— heard at their meetings, and two fingerboard. his right hand that in passages matures, tried to create they were n. be drawn near the sensitivity in course, Time is the greatest teacher. As he then a new composition in two senses— sonified years later (from the of abstract ideas which, like 1864 on), Cesar Cui told it to will show that the tone inevitably imagination poetic and dramatic. manikins wi A few experiments as his experience of life widens and his incapable of inspiring Russian public in musical the least interest. the form of articles and is drawn near the finger board, will find that more The music as well as the The Balakir. cri breaks if a slow bow becomes more sensitive, the student libretto, the structure of were concerned with nusms in the St. then human passions which Petersburg “Gazette,” and fast bow taken close to the bridge will are evident in his play- themes in composing an opera, should char m Golos” and that a and more color and expression depend com- stir confuse, agitate, and (“Voice”) and rules, trouble the , “Nedelya” (“Weekly”) , scratching. From these two VIOLIN of pletely on the individual situation lives of m. cause whistling and ing. In the meantime, it should be the business the of the actors as Wagner concentrated 6 Musicale -” all his interest in The new Russian school was in- be deduced: The slower the Berkley well as on the general trend of the the orch. dphJ'i then, a general rule may Edited by Harold teacher to provide him wit)} ( Continued on Page 188) piece. tra, while the vocal parts e to Cui not so purely had only a secondary much for his composing of the nearer the bridge. rc a lonal bow, L music as for his ( Continued on Page 194) 154 "MUSIC STUDY "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE’ 155 EXALTS LIFE" MARCH, 1948 THE ETUDE — ,

Music and Study Music and Study ROM ancient times to the age of the atom, bells have been a part of man’s culture and history. the music, perhaps working church ing at dummv In olden days, bells were cast right in the possibly F keyboards, making comprised the molten mass. Keyboard Harmony appropriate yard. All kinds of metals rhythmic movements to the where the music beins priests marched around the furnace Q. I am studying harmony by myself As the played. They will note your parishioners, anxious to have and have been using the book by Heacox comments on bell was to be cast, the that you recently recommended. the playing, and sometimes you would throw gold and silver On page will ask a part in the service, 11 we are told to change Ex. 5, a, b, and c, pupils to comment on other the playing coins into the pot. Bells to G and D major and I do not understand Answers Famous and pupil at the piano. alloy of pure copper and of Questions the is an of You will bell metal Romance just what this means. I should like you to The ideal The music part of the time, strength of casting are tell me also just what harmonic ear train- duet so that two tin; clearness of tone and ing means in this book.—S. E. may play simultaneously; or twenty-two parts of block tin to seventy- perhaps you derived from A. will sometimes have one pupil of new copper. The author intends you to do two read at eight parts in the Christian era things: (1) Play parts b and c of the Conducted * by sight the upper part of a composition What has come to be known Early exercise with the same chords (I, another plays the the evolution of years of experiment. IV, V, while lower part as a bell is (jij %Vinifree! s4dklnA I) but with a different off frequently. bells in China, for instance, were four- tone on top. Thus, changing Sometimes the ornamental bells in Europe were part a begins with E as the top note, group will sing a song, and the one cornered in shape. The earliest at metal, bent into the chord being C-E-G; but in part b the piano will play the accompaniment- not cast, but were made of plates of you have C as the top note, with the same Wus. Sboc. most advanced and riveted at the edges. Very small bells are twenty- ^Kcu t 1AJ. QehrLenA, and in the group those shape, scale) while a carillon has a minimum of the ; chord C-E-G underneath. (2) Now he from exceedingly hot metal, but in playing cast . must who are not will analyze the usually three bells (tuned to the chromatic scale) They wants you to do this same thing in two extremely large bells, the maker tries to cast for harmony and the form of the music being case of be as carefully matched for tonality as are pearls other keys, G major and major. Since Professor Emeritus at as low a temperature as possible. D played. Each pupil will have a music his metal necklace. also con- a the chord on I in G major is G-B-D, and is tuned so that its dominant note been Oberlin College writing book at hand, and sometimes you A bell Throughout the ages, bells and chimes have since part a has the third of the chord harmonics. This is the first tone you will ask them to listen to the melody tains several the history of peoples and nations. of harmonics, interlinked with on top, this means that you will play the Editor, Webster's New The sounds which follow, composed of the use of Music the piece being played, writing at least hear. Moses, Isaiah, and Zachariah all mention chordl on I in G major (G-B-D) with B notes. played. a part of it on the staff, and perhaps are called hum David had a set of five bells which he International Dictionary in bell bells. King as the top note. Of course the bass note America, from its beginning, has been rich worship later on transposing it to some other key. In the Orient, bells were used in religious will be G, the tenor will probably be the Poe’s “,” is probably the best eulogy, Occasionally you will ask a pupil to history. years before Christ, and the ancient play other poets two thousand G an octave higher, the alto will be D, Longfellow, Emerson, Whittier, and bells. little piece as it is written, the but their triumphal cars with some next was so im- Greeks festooned and the soprano B—as I directed above. fore takes a much better teacher and a have written tributes to them. Longfellow one playing it in a different key, and so the With this much help you will be able to good deal more thought and lesson prep- pressed by the lovely, sweet-sounding chimes in —unti\. each pupil has transposed on it it famous figure out the rest of the exercise your- aration today than formerly. Therefore I Bell Tower at Bruges, Belgium, that he made into another key. All this ought to be Belfry self. When you understand it thoroughly suggest that you ask yourselves this ques- in verse by his “Carillon” and the The planned out in advance for each class movies, such and can do it easily in the key of G, play tion: “Are my pupils bored because they of Bruges.” Our present-day books and the meeting by you, the teacher. the Bell same chords in D major, the first just don’t care for music, or are they as “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” “For Whom Tire above suggestions are based on the of the Bells,” one being D-P-sharp-A, the first chord bored because I do not take enough time Tolls,” “A Bell for Adano,” “The Miracle in the exercise idea that in addition to studying piano of bells. having the F-sharp (the to search out really fine material, because are an indication of the wide appeal third of the chord) top. playing your pupils arc also to acquire three or four bells; a on I do not plan their lessons with enough A peal is a combination of As the term musicianship. If you do not wish to divide to the diatonic to “harmonic ear training” care, and because I am not myself grow- chime has eight or more bells (tuned the class into as many as three groups, WINIFRED ADKINS it is used to indicate a type of dictation ing and developing as a musician?” in which chords are played to the pupil then I suggest having at least two classes so that he may listen, analyse, and write —according to ability, of course. Each bells warned How to Teach an Europe and the United States, church down. In group would then have an hour by them- the old days “ear training” dealt of blackouts and possible air raids. only Adult selves, final half hour could be times with the dictation of melodies, but Piano Class and the The most famous of European bells of olden it is history, and so (Belgium). now recognized that the musician Q. I am a teacher of piano and violin but devoted to biography, was the one dedicated to Roland of Ghent must learn to work with chords as well as I also give piano class instruction in the forth, as you are now doing. In this case “When I toll it tices each day is a help too, and I con- “I am Roland,” ran the inscription, adult evening schools of my city. I meet with melodies, and that is why Professor the final half hour might well be used is victory.” It is located in sider it entirely justifiable for the teacher the group once a week for two hours and is fire; when I thunder it Heacox used the words ear and keyboard by those Salvator to ask the parents to reward the child a half, the average attendance being about for a short recital once a month the Ghent carillon of fifty-four bells, of which in the title of his book. fifteen. I have both men and women, are best outsiders being Charles V unhung in some way at the end of each week and who prepared, is the largest and heaviest bell. of all ages from twenty to seventy, and recitals. Since you war- during which he has practiced his full invited to attend these destroyed the Roland Bell when he subdued from beginning students to concert artists. and also teach violin, it would be fine to have of its bells has always 7 he Problem of Missed Lessons time and had a good lesson. An extra- I have been reading your page in The like Ghent. To deprive a town large reward Etude, and in the current issue you an occasional violin solo by one of your An example of this was Q. I am to speak on the subject of at the end of each good men- been a sign of degradation. tion the fact that class piano teaching is being and or- “missed lessons" at the next meeting of month is stimulating also. By the way, private pupils, the accompaniment when Cromwell appeared in Cork (Ireland) one of your hobbies, so I am writing our music teachers’ association. Can you to class. You converted into have you ever considered grading each you for ideas. played by a member of your dered all bells to be taken down and give me any constructive ideas? B. K. — I these sug- Dublin, Ireland, pupil at the end of every lesson? In have only one piano, so I have been may not be able to put all artillery. The Bell of St. Patrick, in taking each A. Every teacher has this problem to school, children are accustomed to having pupil individually at the piano gestions into effect, but at least they will in the Sixth Century of rudely hammered and devoting was made contend with, but in about twenty minutes each gold, and jewels, some cases it seems their teachers express their opinion both time give you some ideas. iron. Enshrined in a case of bronze, to theory, with biographies, and a pro- to be worse than in others. In general, of their daily work and of their gram by veneration of visitors to that city. progress students once a month. Our goal it still receives the the remedy is to make lesson is to have each carillons each so in- over a period of a month or a term by one memorize one com- About Iiecominfi an Organist .Belgium is the home of the most celebrated position teresting that the pupil will enjoy each month, and I also give There is it so means of a letter grade—A for excellent, them I organ lessons and Holland is a close second. work each Q. have had a few pipe in the world much that he will — one according to his pres- look forward to com- B for good, C for fair, D for poor, and ability. but had to give them up because at Middleburg, Holland, which is considered I shall appreciate any suggestions a carillon in ing back for the next one. ent I do not have any keyboard instru- But this pre- E or F for failure. It might stimulate your you may have for me.—G. L. one of the best in existence. ment to practice on not even a piano. scription is often hard to put into effect. pupils to have similar grades in music. of bells.” All over this A. Your conditions are Could you suggest some musical subjects Russia is called the “land However, I urge you and all other music There somewhat dif- are of course all sorts of extra- ferent from that I might study without a keyboard their thunderous voices are heard both any that I have encountered BELL vast domain teachers to devote more thought to each neous devices until I can arrangements for con- A NEW VIEW OF THE LIBERTY cast is such as gold stars and other but I nevertheless make morning and evening. The largest bell ever venture to suggest tinuing Will you child as an individual person, different rewards of one sort or a my pipe organ lessons? differ as to the another, given by plan that seems of this unusual angle in photographing the Great Bell of Moscow. Authorities feasible to me: Divide tell me also how to become a member Charles Ogle caught from anyone else in thfe world, and there- the teacher. These with that it may have a certain your class into the American Organists, how one the Liberty Bell. The bell was cast three times, and exact weight of this giant bell, but all agree fore three groups according Guild of not to be treated just as anyone else value in the case of very small to what the from Leviticus XXV, 10, “Pro- heavy children, proficiency, with becomes a dean of a chapter, and the last casting a quotation is approximately two hundred tons. It was too is. the understanding Try to find out what his viewpoints but they are after all that duties of the dean are? throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants walls of childish in their any pupil may be . claim liberty to hang, so a base was built for it near the are, get moved to a higher I should like tell me also in the acquainted with his likes and intent, and as soon as the pupil to have you thereof,” was moulded upon it. It was then hung part is gets a group if he shows ele- the Kremlin, where it now stands. The upper dislikes, find that he can go faster whether one can study ear training, and Sixth Streets, out how he gets along in little older he is no longer tower of Independence Hall, Chestnut the fooled by or to a lower group mentary theory, and history of music away ornamented by figures representing Our Lord, school, ascertain what his if he shows that he Philadelphia, and remained there for almost twenty-four home condi- them—and children get “a little older” from a keyboard; and whether such sub- the top of the cannot keep up. first tidings of Virgin, and the Holy Evangelists; on tions are—and (The groups need pri- years, until July 4, 1776, when it rang the then plan each lesson much earlier than they used to! not jects are better studied in class or Another be exactly the the most important messages in bell rests a Greek Cross of gilded bronze. period with all of these in mind. same size.) Take each vately.—M. R. the signing of one of By plan- The most important thing is in to have group by itself the Declaration of Independence. bell is in the cathedral in Moscow. It hangs ning I thinking for forty-five history— great mean about each pupil the teacher select material minutes of A. It is possible with music to that is suit- erl d the to work Tower of Ivan and is rung but three times a before ’ °ther tW0 groups the Bell his lesson, putting down some able for the particular child pend- only a very a key- and that is ingfn^ththe timef° limited extent without special occasions, at which time all other notes in your plan book about m practice, in working Italian bishop, was the first year, on items to worth working at, to teach it musically, at board, and I advise you to resume your Paulinus of Nola, an are scales key signatures, bells’ are silenced. Hanging in the same tower remember, things that are to be done at and to see and other elemen- pos- use bells in Christian worship. Shortly after he to it that the pupil feels that tary theory; lessons in piano or organ as soon as to as Bells of the Kremlin. the lesson, searching or in studying raised in thirty or forty bells known out just the right he is having a wonderful harmony, his- sible. Could arrangements died, about 400 A.D., church towers were experience, tory of musm, you not make still stands. Each story is a material so far as pupil’s music appreciation, years after This great Ivan Tower the interest is that he is making progress, and so with some a piano various countries of Europe. Two hundred and that all forth if possible neighbor for the use of story, hanging in solitary grandeur, concerned—and you must have interest in separate rooms a part of Christian belfry. In the first his practice is therefore worth while. Ap- for at least Paulinus, bells had become so much If point a leader for an hour a day? bell given by Czar Boris Goudenov. or you are bound to fail. each grouper PROPOSED PEACE BELL TOWER bull” was issued (by the Pope) is a huge he feels this way, and if the parents the have Since you have evidently had no theory worship that a “papal class elect one—the Washington. There were no bell foundries in Russia until the I suggest also that you discuss each cooperate group leader get imposing design for a bell tower near that every church in Christendom should moderately well, your pupils be to of music whatever, I suggest that you This specifying responsible for seeing significance. The Century. Before that time, bells were brought pupil with his parents, urging them to will to it that the has started a movement of much Sixteenth come to their lessons at least fairly a copy of each of following books and D. C., have a bell. membm or hi, the Elmore, Ohio. His , but after the bell founding art started, it cooperate with you by providing a quiet regularly—in idea originated with Neal C. Miller of great bells of St. Mark’s (Venice), and others from spite of the competition of study by yourself: “Music Notation and The Sixteenth Cen- room in which their child a”lne ““h proposed lower provides for a star-shaped have also spread rapidly. Before the end of the may practice, a multiplicity of other interests. ““»* Wrtod.” Terminology/* design for the in Italian campaniles and Spanish turrets But you Al‘thf-1the lesson by Gehrkens; “Harmony foot hill five thousand and not interrupting Period” you cross section, 550 feet high, to be erected on a 100 similar tury there were said to be more than by him during , will fire or other his music teachers need to remember that that see to it for Ear, Heacox, been used as alarms in case of each member Eye, and Keyboard/' by the grave of the Unknown its ( Continued on Page 198) practice. Having the pupil keep a of that group in Arlington, Virginia, near II, small towns in bells in Moscow and written life is far more complex today for chil- has a and Ad- disasters. During World War in chance to play “History of Music,” by Finney. carillon of fifty-four bells is made. record of the number of minutes he prac- during each period Soldier. Provision for a dren as well as for adults, and it there- the mission Organ- others standing around to the American Guild of 157 the piano, follow! "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” in ( Continued on Page 197) MARCH-, 1948 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” THE ETUDE V —' II

Award” is the fact that our popular music i classic elements of tonal color Music and Study on and qualitv^n'^'1 my own years of intensive study I f 18 ound myself f in love with special orchestral colorings 0f Beethoven, Debussy, Delius. Mozart I wondered wh . effects shouldn’t add balance, richness, SUcl1 and i . . 1ality NORMANDY , to dance music, too. At all events, I OVER ne determined! STARS Twenty-Two t0 Tops at and see! First of all, I organized ^ my band so include instruments common to the symphony ^ 40 tra and entirely uncommon to dance bands— 8 ' An Interview with obn^6 soon, French horn, English horn, ’ two flutes t clarinets, , and full woodwinds Th were added to the conventional dance band i t (Elliott cjCawrence ments. The experiment was fortunate. Our band rt veloped a more musical tone, and became Band Lsader, Arranger and Composer capabl Popular duplicating colors, feelings, background moods a°rt ’ an® effects of the noblest classical literature. Debussy, for instance, often builds a wonderful ASKLUISD fe SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY GUNNAR ing by combining flute and English horn. And clarinet and bassoon duets are extremely lovely in Mozart and Beethoven. Such combinations were next to unknown For 1947 the coveted Band of the Year Award, bestowed complete surprise to his father. Less than a year ago young in dance band scorings and from by the very first tim Look Magazine upon the band best equipped to do the Mr. Lawrence left radio to organize his own band which, we tried them our patrons were delighted. most for And whv popular music, went to twenty-two year old Elliott through both popular and critical acclaim, has leaped to the should they not be? A beautiful tone gives pleasure Lawrence and his less-than-a-year-old organization. Never forefront of dance organizations. Mr. Lawrence continues to any musical medium! It seems a top-prize before in the history of popular music has so important a composing in a more serious vein. A number of his works have bit of illogic to try to separate the Integral national rating gone to so youthful a maestro. Yet Mr. been performed by leading symphonic organizations; his whole of musk Lawrence ranks Into divergent camps. as a veteran in his chosen field. He has di- recent "Suite for Animals" is on the current program list of his rected own band and appeared on the radio it the Philadelphia Which brings me back to with since Orchestra. In the following interview, Elliott my Insistence that popular he was eleven. Born in Philadelphia, Elliott Lawrence's musical Lawrence, who is "tops" at twenty-two, tells of the requisite music is music! It may be “nothing but fun" to the gifts were marked enough to warrant serious qualities training at the for a career in popular music. — Editor's Note. patrons, but backstage. It’s hard work! That is why age of four. He began piano study with Louise Christine a youngster today makes the worst possible Rebe and read the music in The Etude by way of recreation. mistake in trying to break into Jazz Study values were enhanced by a thoroughly musical home without a thorough, better- atmosphere. Mr. than-average classical Lawrence's mother is a singer and his father education In music. Whatever is a radio director, serving as his instrument, Program Director of WCAU the candidate for dance band honors until he assumed management of his son's band. Elliott needs took OPULAR music is zestful first to know how to handle it legitimately. the degree a and rewarding field. I of Bachelor of Music, with top honors, at the Everybody loves to dance, audition about a dozen lads a week for the University of Pennsylvania, and and those who provide band and continued his studies under find Erno Balogh Pthe music often find themselves the that the most general weakness of the applicants (piano), Harl McDonald (theory and composi- recipients of tion) and an enthusiasm that is as is their inability to play with the Leon Barzin (conducting), financing his education bewildering as it is delight- same degree of mas- by playing dance ful. And tery, variety, music and making arrangements. A special youngsters all over the country witness the and polish that a symphonlst would have arrangement of college airs in dance successful careers to demonstrate. rhythm, made for a built by dance music—which is only Band boys must know how to produce University of Pennsylvania football game, came fun, after good, to the atten- all! and absorb the virus of a particularly musical tone; how to handle any instrumental tion of WCAU officials with the result that, at nineteen, Elliott harmful state emergency; of mind. They see what happens how to read anything at sight; how to was appointed Musical Director. The to some appointment came as a smart lad who simply give evidence has fun with dance music, and of general musicianship. No amount of enthusiasm can make up for a lack of such knowledge. mat serious study that i not fun and Players seldom leads t< and Arrangements Are Important anything approaching glam- Most of the boys in my band are graduates of recog- orous returns. By that time nized conservatories who are eager they have a bad case to devote the same of mu- caie to dance music that they would to classical sical untruth. works— which, incidentally, they play in their free time. (Again incidentally, The Basis of several of our players have gone straight Popular Music to first desk positions with leading sym- phony orchestras!) The cure lies in realizing A'he important that elements of a good dance band are dance music is “nothing e players themselves, and the arrange- hut fun" from the quality of the custom- ments they play. er’s viewpoint That means that important fields only. The lad are constantly who “likes" open for fine players and competent dance music and arrangers. limits his The fine player is one who has the same equipment to prac- musmiardy ticing training as the symphonist plus a partic- baton technique with ular feeling for popular his favorite records music. Just what that feeling going, is, is pretty hasn’t a hard to describe! Any player at all can chance in the keenly sound competitive a dotted quarter note the world of profes- and an eighth—but ance band player sional popular music. In needs to sound it with a special that e mg for world, you rhythmic crispness find else- don’t make tricks that you don't e e ' with g0°d way to to a baton, . check up on this feeling is and you don’t J _ cut capers. from the top You work as a recordings of any of the musician dance with other mu- sicians, in a highly 0 comDmes solid training with popular special- fpBiir,,/ u , ized S 0U field of music. find no insuPerable obstacles in making The word himsJff ll J h a to stress is music. d ' He should h average Actually mastpri ! l ave better than popular 0 hlS instrum dance band work ent, of course. It is wise for re- wnnrtwinrf , quires ayers more training, p t° ' earn all woodwind instruments both torinv’c rf theoretical and emands often call for clarinet, practical, flntp o doubling in than 10116 symphonic work be- ' °n the °ther hand braSS playerS cause are specfahsteT* ’ the band boys need to know everything the sym- phonist does plus the ele- , mcieiure interesting. modpm . ments that make d 1S bUilt by popular ments ewn the character of its arran; music popular. 1 01 The candi- than by its Players. test of arranepmPHf ^ -? The date for honors ls lts in the style—and style calls for musicia pop- shin . ular field must it S gni Cant be a ’ 1 think lea mu- ’ ^at most of our sician with hS arLlTS ? a sound ’ today training ’ are young composers who i determinpH i m music as well ° make as in his their way in the classical fii and turn . -1 special instrument. tn arrangin ELLIOT S as a means of livelihood, I comnetent o believe that the a gement brings chief seventv-fivp 'T .B a minimum return reason for the most grati a grea 1 deal more lf the arrang fying “Band ment catches^n^T i K of the Year a Wt) thus by tur“ out two a week : ’ 158 ’ a youngvm T-T lad ( Continued on Page 19 British Copyright secured "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS Theodore Presser Co. LIFE Copyright 1947 by 159 THE ETUDE MARCH 1948 NARCISSUS written. 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Continued, from. Page 148) STUDY? FROM EUROPE ( SHALL 1 GO TO WHERE eradicate the faulty, the formal and emotional meanings of will never be able to set the piece, be fully aware how each frag- hazy memory habits you up. eases LaP,iano memorize each hand sepa- ment helps to fit together the finished Private Teachers [New York City) le,c cRei 4. Always Private Teachers (Western) l you can play mosaic. rately, so that if necessary single-handed by 8. Practice without the damper pedal HAROLD HURLBUT EDWIN HUGHES the entire composition PIANISTS PREPARED FOR PUBLIC PERFORMANCE memory. Better still, go away from the to keep the melody “clear in your ear.” Paris New York Hollywood UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE AND CON- AND FOR exact . . Even after you know the piece and piano and be able to “see” the . Singers who studied with him include: NADINE CON- SERVATORY TEACHING POSITIONS TO JUNE Nocturne in Db Minor separately first, then play it well, return every few days to NER— Distinguished Metropolitan Soprano; HENRY WINTER TEACHING SEASON: SEPTEMBER fingers (each hand Operas: LOIS IN WASHINGTON, D. C. CORDY— N. Y. City Center & Havana MONTHLY CLASSES' hands together) as you “play” the piece the very slow, without-looking, one- LEE—Now singing on Broadway. And others of Opera, For full information address: York 24, N. Y. MILHAUD slowly on the arm of a handed practice. Stage and Radio. 338 West 89th Street New DARIUS silently and very Tel. SChuyler 4-0261 What are the supreme moments of the 2150 N. Beachwood Dr. Hollywood 28, Calif. Fratellini Tango sofa or chair.

| ' often, without performer’s life? . . . The thrill that LAGOURGUE STUDIOS 5. practice everything CHARLES Spring Book I , ISABEL HUTCHESON 9r, PRODUCTION—SINGING keyboard. Don’t close your comes at those all too few, breath-taking VOICE * looking at the for Piano Teachers Spring Book II Teacher COMPLETE MUSICAL EDUCATION times senses such absolute con- Secret" Daily but look freely, all over the room. when he Modern Piano Technic: Group work for Teachers: Mr. Lagourgue is the author of ‘‘The eyes "Piano Treatise on Transposition , pieces must trol of his forces that he is able to realize Coaching concert pianists: Conducting Vocal Exercises—Complete SATIE Of course, fast or “skippy” Teachers Forum." etc. Classes held annually at ERIK even fully the composer’s message. For the of CANNES, France played very slowly. Don’t peek, BROOKS MAYS MUSIC STUDIOS The College International en tous sens be New York Address: 35 West 57th Street Chapitres tournes spots. moment he himself becomes the creator 10051/2 Elm Street, Dallas 2, Texas Phone C-6214 in the most dangerous Fourth Nocturne often in impulses or pat- of the masterpiece. ... He knows then EVANGELINE LEHMAN: MUS.DOC. EDITH SYRENE LISTER 6. Practice very how Aladdin felt when the genii ap- short . . . alternately Vocal Studio AUTHENTIC YOICE PRODUCTION terns, long and

York City TANSMAN . pianist is infinitely 405 Carnegie Hall, New deadly peared. . . But the Individual, creative training and refresher course for ALEXANDRE slowly and very fast. Avoid the Collaborator and Associate Teacher with W. Warren teachers...... & method for increasing speed. more blessed, for he is able to command Endorsed by Floyd S. Muckey M. D. Suite ! “gradual” 167 Elmhurst Ave. Detroit 3. Mich. Shaw A. M. Petite C. M. Demonstration of correct action of vocal are “saying” ... be such a fabulous fortune of rhythms, col- No. 3 7. Know what you chords shown at Columbia Univ., Cornell Medical Sonatina LEONA NEBLETT ’ melody alone, be aware ors, and sound that even Aladdin would Clinic, Univ. of Vermont, Music Teachers Assoc., East- en miniature able to play the Violinist, Teacher, Coach Le tour du monde Concert Physicians . limited to ern Speech Conference, Hunter College— sequence, know every harmonic be envious. . . And he is not Beginning to Concert Performance of every From & Artists Louis Persinger and able to discuss three “wishes.” Trained and Endorsed by Wednesday: Troups Music Studios, Lancaster, Pa. or modulatory move, be (Teachers of ) JOAQUIN TURINA Georges Enesco Thursday: 309 Presser Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. 801 S. Dunsmuir Ave. Res. de Seville Los Angeles 36, Cal. WYoming 8354 (FRANK) (ERNESTO) Coins ^ STUDIOS Sevilla Suite EDNA GUNNAR PETERSON LA FORGE-BERUMEN Voice— Piano How Joseffy Taught the Piano Concert Pianist—Artist Teacher Among those who have studied with Mr. La Forge are: For the Finest in Music, Ask for What does your Marian Anderson, Lawrence Tibbett, Richard Crooks, Angeles, Calif. Page 150) 229 So. Harvard Blvd. Lot and Mme. Matzenauer. (Continued from FE. 2597 MOO Park Ave., Corner 89th St., New York Your AMP Catalog 9-7470 HAVE THAT Tel. Atwater little comment. PIANO THE SAMOILOFF big grasp of the keyboard which Brahms with Grandmother played BEL CANTO STUDIOS & OPERA ACADEMY RICHARD McCLANAHAN ASSOCIATED MUSIC PUBLISHERS. INC. demanded, although he played with the In his “Steeplejack,”* James Hxxneker a piano similar to The only place where you can learn the original this old Jesse French. Representative TOBIAS MATTHAY finish which were thus comments on Joseffy: GRANDMA’S DIDN’T? Samoiloff Bel Canto Method which developed such Subsidiary—Broadcast Music, Inc.) clarity and technical class lessons in Fundamentals (Wholly Owned as EDDY, BIANCA Private lessons, “Of Rafael Joseffy I can only say this outstanding voices NELSON Southwest Harbor, Me. always characteristic of him. Nor>did he SAROYA, DIMITRI ONOFRI and many others. Now Summer-class, 19 Steinway Bldg. New York City 25 West 45th Street—New York which, I loved the man as well as the artist. He under the direction of Zepha Samoiloff. 601 display the extreme nervousness Write for Catalog, 3150 West Sixth St., Los Angeles 5 him. was that rara avis, a fair-minded mu- Monochords, E. TREUMANN according to rumor, so tormented After centuries of evolution through Phone FE 8294 No charge for Audition EDWARD He was by no means indifferent to mis- sician. He never abused a rival but for Concert Pianist—Artist-Teacher Clavichords, and SIMPSON pupil. presumptuous mediocrity he had a special Dulcimers, Virginals, Harpsichords, ELIZABETH Recommended by Emil Von Sauer, fortunes which might overtake a in ironic acid. . . . Author of "Basic Pianoforte Technique” and Joseph Hofmann. Once, when one of us developed a felon set of needles steeped keyboard applications, the piano finally Ave. other string and Teacher of Teachers. Coach of Young Artists. Studio Carnegie Hall, Suite 837, 57th St. at 7th His touch, his manner of attack on the York City on a finger of the right hand, making Pupils Prepared for Concert Work. Class Courses Tel. Columbus 5-4357 New 15 August 15. keyboard spiritualized its wiry timbre; arrived some two hundred years ago. in Technique, Pianistic Interpretation, Normal Summer Master Class—June to practice with that hand impossible, he Methods for Piano Teachers. for the harsh, inelastic, unmalleable tone, in- (HULL) suggested a nxxmber of compositions But piano development didn’t stop there. The instru- Room 1, ; GIOVANNA VIOLA 79 McAllister St., MME. mentioning those separable from the music made by con- 2833 Webster St., Berkeley, Cal. Dramatic Soprano the left hand alone, — pianists, became under his superior. You’ve got a lot Teacher of Singing "Bel Canto" played by a celebrated one-armed pi- ventional ment you play today is far DR. ERANCIS L. YORK Experienced European trained Artist floating, transparent, evan- anist, Count Geza Zichy, and heard these magic fingers Piano Interpretation and the Theory work Coaching Opera, Concert and Radio FOR your grandmother didn’t have in her piano. Advance escent. His plastic passage-work—so dif- required for the degrees of Mus. Bach., and Mu$. Correct voice production, defective singing corrected xxntil the finger was usable once more. interpretation. Beginners accepted figura- Mas. Special Chopin Once, once only, did the class see ferent from Liszt’s wrought-iron Just compare the appearance of the piano above with DETROIT CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Phone: Trafalgar 7-8230 Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs. and CLASS OR sonorous golden blasts of Detroit, Mich. 608 West End Ave. New York City Joseffy absolutely taken aback, at least tion, or the atmospheric pedalling that of the new Jesse French below. Which would you CRYSTAL WATERS momentarily. At the time we were all Rubinstein—his Private Teachers (New York city) INDIVIDUAL Goldmark and and gossamer arabesques—you ask in In beauty of tone, playing Concert Singer — Teacher girls save two, Rubin rather have in your home? if Joseffy played the piano. HELEN ANDERSON Building, Breathing, Albert Mildenberg, whom Joseffy always desperation Voice of tuning, you also Diction, Expression, Style. INSTRUCTION instrument then did his contem- ease, variety of effects and simplicity Concert Pianist called our “brothers.” A new student had What In preparation for harmony poraries play? With a few exceptions he Interesting course—piano, Radio, Screen, Stage, been admitted to the class through a have a far finer instrument. obvious. Many Successful Pupils Concert, Opera. BEGINNING AT THE PIANO mistake. She was not nearly sufficiently made the others seem a trifle 4-8385 405 E. 54 St. New York City 156 W. 72nd St., N. Y. C. Tel. Sc Pachmann, Godowsky, Paderewski Tel. Vo-5—1362 advanced, immediately apparent, De .60 as was Preparatory Book of thirty-two pieces to play and sing. were his favorite artists. To him alone Styled by New York’s Alfons Bach, SETH BINGHAM LEOPOLD WOLFSOHN but because of some illness had been al- . . . Ah, the beauty Organist—Composer—Teacher lowed to waive the xxsual preliminary of may they be compared. whose designs in fine furniture you Ave. Presbyterian Church Pianist and teacher Director of Music, Madison playing faculty, and had of Joseffy’s hands, with their beautiful of General Studies, for some of the have admired before. ..with musical Head of Theory Dept., School AT THE PIANO - BOOKS I, II, III, IV curved birdlike Columbia University Teacher of Aron Copland, Elie Siegmeisfer paid for the term of lessons. She was weaving motions, those COMPOSERS improvements developed through PRIVATE INSTRUCTION FOR CHURCH and many artists and teachers. evidently flights symbolic of the music.” New York City Succeeding books to follow “Beginning At The Piano”. Children pretty, very young, guileless and 921 Madison Ave. Joseffy’s playing the collaboration of distinguished 2-3426 Hotel Ansonia, B'way at 73rd St., New York City did Mozart How impeccable was Tel.: Monument superior her best, but even a simple or older beginners will find this course captivating and quotation consultants and French Sonata was beyond her. Joseffy was un- can be judged from another independent to any system of piano instruction. Technic through music is in Hall, usually patient with her, but always the from Huneker: “It was Steinway technicians. ..the new Jesse French students, thus Sell Etude Subscriptions to your helping them great- 1.00 a Thomas concert, I heard Joseffy maintained. Carefully chosen pieces in all books Each student whose lesson followed bore the at is a piano you can recommend with work and increasing your income. Write for details. MUSIC TEACHERS! ly in their would strike a false note for the first and only brunt of his nervous irritation, and confidence. It will attract pupils be object of sar- time in my life, and of all concertos the doubly criticized or the ownership. TWO PLAYERS AT THE PIANO minor one (Chopin) was the one he and give parents pride of Notable First Year Course of Violin Instruction casm. We soon came to know this and E A arpeggios after the hope that our lessons would come before played the best. The Leading Violinist and Violin Pedagog A preparatory Duet book. Teachers will find “first duets” pre- By a chords, he rolled to the top, but that of the girl. On the one occasion as opening sented in a new and attractive manner. The musical and pianistic the E. I remember Theodore METHOD FOR THE VIOLIN the girl seated herself at the piano she didn’t strike A PRIMER at the back of the little by Samuel Applebaum importance of the pieces chosen increases the pupil’s aural sensi- said guilelessly: Thomas staring if he thought him insane. If 2 Price, cents bility, rhythmic response and sight “I hope I have a good lesson today, virtuoso as Volume X — Price, 60 cents Volume — 60 reading ability .83 glances could have slain, Joseffy supervisors after careful examination, Mr. Joseffy. in at church on burning Recommended by world-famed artists, teachers and music including I stopped Francescatti, Toscha Seidel, Sascha Jacobson, and Heads of died on the stage that after- , Albert Spalding, Zino my way here and prayed that I would.” would have Departments of many leading universities. COPIES SENT FOR disturb him.” None Instrumental YOUR EXAMINATION The class sat paralyzed. What would noon. But it didn’t Violin Editor of the Etude Music Magazine writes: "I shall have a conscientious pleasure w i ml d Berkley less, what he probably thought of the opportunity occurs It is a systematic and thorough work. Each he say? silent for moment, evi- the in recommending the Method whenever He was a in its simplest form and developed gradually—a quality not to be would have been un- new technical problem is introduced dently for once at a loss what to say. himself doubtless found in many beginner's books.” Published by Then, twisting his little moustache he printable. murmured ELKHART, INDIANA CO. DIVISION or H. Sc A. SELMER, INC., OLIVER DITSON BOSTON MUSIC ’Copyright, Charles Scribner’s Sons. Used COMPANY “Well, that’s all right, don’t forget THEODORE PRESSER CO., Distributors but 116 to given by permission. THIS IS THE SIXTH OF A SERIES OK THE EVOLUTION OF THE PIANO Philadelphia 1, Pa. 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we start the song. 8and breath before h ; on and singing tunes Humming the Choral Singing help to establish svllable “loo” will and will pave the Voice Questions melody in little minds ^rstjmd- for Children way toward a more finished the first reading hig of each song. With 149) can be placedIon ( Continued from Page of the words, emphasis formed with round those which can be “you,’ do, tiue t>g HR. NICHOLAS D0UTY lips. Words such as .Angered cough, mumps, throat ailments, and ear “go,” and so “so,” “no,” “though,” “factors” "blue,” troubles which are only a few first. Eventua y, forth, can be considered that add their wear and tear over the fail, sounds—‘ all, the more open Our pleasure in presenting these will only junior and .senior be early years. Then, in “may,’ say equalled by your pleasure in using “father,” “I,” “sky,” “they,’’ them because high school begin six long years of “pep- Slowly they are outstanding teaching material. forth, can be considered. every and so sessions” and ball games, where a useful founda- but surely, we can build SUITE in the most 1 PETITE shred of energy is exerted through explaining Pleasant, but Weak writers such as Douglas Stanley or Dr. Carl tion for future work, by ALEXANDRE GRETCHANINOFF The Tenor Singer With a harmful use of all. The regular hoarse- of preparing ; Seashore. each phase • 1 and discussing 3778 Etude, Eb-2 Voice You seem to be an excellent musician and ness brought on by frenzied yelling and the F-2 voice which though pleas- i 3779 Romance, tenor study ; a the song for rehearsal. In true a l have a fine executant upon both the piano and or- off as unimpor- ' 3780 Polka, Bb-2 is weak, and tires easily screaming cannot be put each point in his ant and flexible, gan. Keep on working at your choral con- understands » Wistful (Maz. pupil 3781 Melancolique) ! or teach. Would you give me tant, when we know the delicate muscles, When 1 sing ducting. You might study some of the less intelligently on Fm- mine, can talk ! 2 J value, in cases like course and vour opinion of the complicated choral and orchestral master- throat are • Dance (Kamarinskaya), • tissues, and membranes of the self-expres- 3782 Russian F-2 building which uses silent music, with no fumbling for of a system of voice pieces and try conducting them from the full being so sorely punished. i- - — — _i apparatus (what kind 1 do not Only through such concentrated exercises and score. Haydn’s “Creation,” Handel’s “Mes- in sion. SONATA MOVEMENT SERIES strengthen and improve the voice? Many fine ideas can be assimilated substantial results. know) to siah” (Mozart orchestration), and the “Re- effort can we expect — M. B. a choral group of twelve to twenty 3789 Sonatina in G, -4 C. P. E. Bach Thank you. J. quiem” of Mozart should be quite within the 3790 Allegretto (Sonata In D), -4 J. C. F. Bach differences. — scope of your present development, provided youngsters, regardless of age Allegro (Sonata in Bb), -4 very difficult for us to know Constant Testing Necessary 3791 ..Mozart A It would be you can read music in the tenor and alto Children from eight to fourteen will work 3792 Rondo (Viennese Sonatina No. I), C-3 the silent exercises and ap- whether or not clefs. At first it may seem very difficult, but should Mozart power of your beautifully together if the group is lim- Two-part work for children paratus would improve the reading (Sonata in *4 with perseverance you will master 3793 Finale D ) . Haydn thoroughly understanding their interested before unison singing voice without from the full score and it not only will im- ited to those who are sincerely never be attempted 3794 Allegretto (Op. 14, No. I), Em-4 Beethoven usually prac- nature. Breathing exercises are refuse and .even then, so- 3795 Andante (Op. 79), Gm-4 Beethoven prove your musicianship, but will give you and willing to learn. Those who is well established inaudibly and in some cases they are 3796 Andante (Op. 120), D-4 Schubert ticed increased pleasure. These books may be ob- cooperate tactfully replaced, second soprano harmony must Silent exercises which tend to to can be prano and 3797 Allegro (Op. 118, No. I), G-3 Schumann very valuable. tained through the Publishers of The Etude. tongue, jaw, throat, and and the business of training for good be carefully undertaken. The first “must” 3798 Andante (Op. I), Cm- 5 Brahms free the action of the neck muscles may be indicated when singing will get off to a fine start, of study is to avoid the true even the Wants Advice on a Singing Career unison in this stage are stiff. A base- 3783 over Lost Penny, G-4 Beethoven corresponding muscles family quality. Constant Rage the Q. I am seventeen years of age, am inter- horizons of music are enjoyed by every member of your with interesting “tuning-up” exercises adult “alto” range and Verdi-Block racket, a set of boxing New 3784 Travlata, Prelude. E-4 ball bat, a tennis career and so I write all ested in singing as a , simple songs or study pieces. Quickly the medium and head tones is 3799 Sorcerer's Apprentice, Fm-4 Dukas-James even some bathing trunks are favorite and use of gloves, or you for advice. I would like to know what •when you own a Magnavox! For Magnavox recreates your apparatus and are helpful to those and with little effort, a light, sustained equally important, and must be pain- first class school I could attend, to study and work my bodies are undeveloped. You should with a perfection of tone you never before quality can be encouraged, and ideas in encouraged, so as to stamp out BOOGIE WOOGIE SETTINGS whose way through as my parents are not in a po- programs and recordings stakingly of a physician before you have the opinion sition to help me. I am ambitious and willing correct tone placement can be worked ugly chest forcing. Those selected to sing by STANLEY them. beauty in Magnavox cabinetry, too. undertake to employ in respect. Should I have known. You’ll find new -2 to work hard every (2) pitch is being de- 3768 Old Gray Mare & Little Brown Jug, flexible tenor voice may be out, while a sound a second part should be chosen carefully 2 A pleasant, concert and radio or opera? I do not Syne & Good Night Ladies, -3 reasons; study for (authentic traditional to tasteful 3769 Auld Long and tire easily for several Fourteen models of flawless design veloped in the chorus. (In most cases, children who are also piano stu- -3 weak know which would be best. Please give me from 3770 Dark Eyes & Cornin’ Through the Rye. of understanding 1. Poor breatiling. 2. Lack children whom we call “monotones” are dents, they can be depended 3771 Hand Mg Down My Walkin' Cane & the some advice. (3) Here is an outline of my furniture of heirloom quality lend themselves to every in order that the proper use of the resonance of modern) in She'll Be Cornin' Round the Mountain, -3 of personal self. I am seventeen, height five feet, only the victims of unfortunate handling upon to learn their own assignments and bones and cavities of the chest, mouth, nose, 3772 Old MacDonald Had a Farm, G-3 five inches, weight one hundred and thirty- decorative plan. The Berkeley (shown above), $350; with FMi, $415 j head, which resonance increases the pow- in early singing experiences and can be to do their outside practice. They need 3773 Jingle Bells, C-3 and seven pounds, and I have the health and body improves its quality and pitch in the er of the voice and graduate, gently corrected.) Loss of never feel that they are “playing second the muscles necessary. I am a high school stud- color. 3. The vocal cords and loss of confidence, Ask your dealer for Century music. If he cannot ied French for two years, took part in many average case is due to fiddle,” but can be made to understand control them may be unusually slender. supply you, send your order direct to us. Our which plays, and so overcame stage fright. I am now and ultimately, to loss of a certain equally important. guess (if we must guess) is, that if that the two parts are complete catalog listing over 3800 numbers at Our own a secretary in a large manufacturing plant, a correctly diagnose the true cause of your mental-physical balance. The subcon- Indeed, these children are usually the 20< a copy is FREE on request. you member of our church choir for four years weakness and weariness of voice, and find, scious mind is not something with which first to show signs of sight-singing ability and president of the Young Peoples Christian CENTURY MUSIC PUBLISHING CO. with or without a good teacher, the proper the Endeavor. I have sung many times before we can tamper, and when once mys- —a great compensation in itself. Street, York 23. N. Y. audible and inaudible, and if 47 West 63rd New exercises both large groups without stage fright. There may terious gossamer thread of control is them faithfully and well, the The choral director who really has the you practice be some nervousness before beginning, but I quality, color, power, and the ease of emission severed, a most serious condition exists welfare of his choristers constantly in am told that even the greatest singers have of your voice will improve. You will scarcely in the physical makeup. “Pitch” is a won- that. I have been studying singing very seri- mind will continue testing and retesting need additional apparatus than the ones I ously for two years, as first contralto, but now derful faculty, when we consider that the little voices on every possible occa- have mentioned above, except a good piano, I am a dramatic soprano with a range from /SPANISH! well in tune. some have it and some don’t. In many which you should keep sion. When the children have lost their G below C to B below high C. I play the piano cases a reasonably dependable artificial reticence, they will sing effortlessly a little and am still studying. I sincerely hope be- PORTUGUESE offers a lasting invest- Intelligent Questions all information you may be those demand the finest, Magnavox sense of tuning can be developed over a fore one another, with neither embarrass- # A Number of that with this For who choral conducting, to help in some way.—A. M. B. it takes in- Q. I am interested in able me period of long months, but ment nor jealousy involved. few min- FRENCH • RUSSIAN in years of gracious living. Efficient manufacture and low-cost A voice training, harmony and history of music. ment finite patience and everlasting care on speak utes spent with each individual singer In your own home learn to books from which I can A. In every great city in America there are Please suggest text it value beyond compare with any other radio-phono- part of the singer. the world- distribution give the will insure correct tone placement and any of 29 languages by obtain good information which will be useful schools, conservatories, colleges, and private famous Linguaphone Conversa- mentioned studies. I would teachers looking for exceptionally talented (shown below), $295; with FM, $360. Other sensible use of the voice. Exercises and to me in the above graph. The Contemporary tional Method. .. quickly, easily, appreciate one or two suggestions for each and personable young women with voices The First "Song" scales should be the regular material for Company, Fort Wayne 4, Ind. correctly. Made by noted language subject. Is the study of theory of music the and good stage presence. By means of com- models from $219.50. The Magnavox opening each Only when the voices are sufficiently session of practice, and teachers; endorsed by educators: same as the study of harmony? The text books petitive auditions from time to time, free “Harmony,” scholarships are offered to those most likely Prices subject to change without notice well trained to sing in a free, easy, and each child should be heard alone at least used in colleges and by thousands that I now use are Stainer’s “Choral Technique and Interpretation,” by to succeed. The greatest trouble experienced CLEAR TONE harmonious manner, with no "reaching” once a week, in both exercises and songs, of home-study students. Send for Coward, “Choral Conducting,” by Davison. I is that the competitors are, all too often, ill for the best results. Dividing FREE book. Call for FREE for the tones, should any songs be at- the chorus play piano and organ well, having mastered prepared. In order to avoid this mistake, you BRILLIANT into smaller demonstration. teacher until tempted. Little study pieces—comparable groups will aid the director several of the larger works of Liszt, Chopin, should study hard with your he in . of Bights both in- is assured that you are ready to enter one of REPRODUCTION to the beginner’s piano pieces—with one two-part work. When blending voices Available under C.l Bill and so forth, besides much Bach for struments. The Sonatas of Guilmant and some these contests. You must learn from memory, and two syllable words and simple melo- I sometimes form groups of ten or twelve No. 1 in popularity with two gener- LINGUAPHONE INSTITUTE organ pieces Cesar Franck are in my organ in the original language and in the original couples for two-part of ations of phonograph needle users, dies are best. Then finally—a song! Much chord work, later 39 RCA Bldg., New York 20, CI-7-0830 repertoire. For ten years I have conducted keys, a varied program of at least fifteen adding a third Then write to one or two of these Brilliantone is the standard steel depends on the choice of unison material, voice to each couple for choirs and at present I conduct four choirs, songs. teachers, triads and other mixed, male, girls, and junior choirs. I sin- schools, conservatories, and private needle of the world. It is famous when we realize that we are dealing with three-part chord work. cerely hope you can give suggestions of books asking for a hearing and for details of the for its consistently fine performance children of all degrees of musical ad- The children enjoy chord practice, and PIANO TUNING PAYS that wilt help me.—M. F. next audition. and perfect tone reproduction. Like nothing vancement and appreciation. Naturally, seems quite so successful 2. You may have noticed that many of the in re- Learn this independent Profession every Bagshaw Needle, the Brillian- laxing tension as of great singers are equally at home in we trust the director will not choose a colorful blending of A. Harmony is the study of the structure very • tone is precision-made to insure less other. opera, concert, or even over the air. So it adult choral selections but material suit- voices in a well sustained humming chords and their relationship to each wear, fuller tone, and mini- of that you, if you make a success, will record three and even Theory of music is a much more comprehen- may be able for his group, which will encourage four-part chords. in all three, as time goes by. mum surface noise. It is available sive term, which includes everything that ap- be able to appear Some of a teacher’s a fine dramatic so- at music and record stores, at de- music appreciation in each child. Songs most worthwhile pertains to the mechanical side of music 3. If you really have effort prano voice, with the range you specify in partment and variety stores through- such as My Task by Ashford, Prayer Per- can center around the children’s Counterpoint, Fugue, Musical Form, Orches- is your letter and you are able to say your Speaks, Christmas Song Niels chorus. Aside from the tration, and so forth. Stainer’s “Harmony” out the world! fect by by financial aid (and expressively, and effortlessly good enough for a beginning but it should be words clearly, W. Gade, To a Wild Rose by MacDowell,' no teacher should hesitate congratu- to charge an followed by a more modem work, such as upon all these tones, you are to be Product of adequate tuition dramatic soprano voices are A ^ and Legend by Tschaikovsky are particu- fee for this work!) there the harmony book of Percy Goetschius or of lated. First rate are always Our with BEAT very rare. larly tuneful and will be popular with the older choristers who patented TONOMETER Rene Le Normand. You will find that they GAUGE is a scientific teachinK-tunmK 4. You paint yourself in your letter as a nor- parents. clamor for private will open some new harmonic vistas to you. both children and In reading lessons. And learning girl, both phys- what a instrument that simplifies Dr. Davison’s and Mr. Coward’s books on mal, healthy, strong, capable them over we should emphasize how and satisfaction it is to assures accuracy with or without knowl- mixer, well edu- begin actual voice “Choral are also excellent. We ically and mentally, a good edge Model and tools Conducting” Famous for Fine Needles Since 1892 where to phrase, marking the music with work with well of music. Action would followed by cated and well bred. Each of these attributes modulated voices and furnished. Diploma granted. Great again suggest that they be with a will be of great value to you in your search pencil and realizing that most troubles such a wonderful theoretical shortage of tuners makes this a PRyf* more modem work. foun- career. To them should be added a good dation as ITABLE and UNCROWDED held. Some books upon the use of the voice are: for a H. W. ACTON CO., INC. can be laid to poor breath-control and the chorus training an attractive person- gives' PIONEER SCHOOL—50th YEAR. G.I. Shakespeare’s “Plain Words About Singing” voice, fair nju&icianship, phrasing. can eliminate Think of the hours booklet. languages, some luck, 370 Seventh Avenue, New York I, N. Y. poor We any saved in an already APPROVED. Write for free and Fillebrown’s “Resonance in Singing and ality. a knowledge of * infinite patience and perseverance.' We future troubles by planning each phrase ( Continued on NILES BRYANT SCHOOL Speaking.” You might follow them with one and Page 199) in the world. 0 Bryant Bldg., Washington 16, D- C* or two of the more modem and scientific wish you every success "MUSIC STUDY 184 EXALTS LIFE" LIFE" THE etude MARCH, 1948 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS ” !

this strange singing of All the Soli- and Choir Questions with taries on the Cocalico is now a lost Organ Colorful Harp Effects art but the music itself is preserved in some Hours Than a Day most remarkable In Less of the books in the the Organ history of American bookmaking— the NOW yours in a small, grateful console. You Actually printed works from the Ephrata press Page 151) new Everett — only piano with Balanced Tension. (Continued from and the beautiful illuminated manu- FREDERICK PHILLIPS It’s the nSwerJ l The Contemporary, illustrated, and other furniture- Play script books done by the Sisters _A Can “even up” after- 0f 9 down. The harpist will consoles now on display in principal cities. Saron. Their first three hymnals were styled wards. published by Franklin, and their said about the °*~ famous HITS is little to be LATEST SONG There collection of 1739, the understanding must be “Zionitischer the first four measures for the Organ” by Carl. For an registration, except that care Please indicate how gan Hiigel” O 1945 of the stops, their uses and combinations, we that are as Weyrauchs (translatable with Ycletide March, in the December taken to use combinations the rule suggest “Primer of Organ Registration” by difficulty as “Zion’s Hill of Incense”) should be played, observing The organist may use all was Siude immediately m Nevin. These may be obtained from the pub- clear as possible. Christopher Saur. when a note is repeated taste he printed by Beissel and that separately; lishers of The Etude. variety consistent with good part, each note is played PLAY while the of the brothers contributed the same YOU makes everything some their are in a different part, they are tied. may desire, as the harp when they get a chart own hymns to these collections, for from Q. Please tell me if I could YOU LEARN! more colorful. showing the names of the keys of a pipe or earliest days of the Cloister, the hymn electric organ. I have access to a pipe organ, is more of a guid- done. But when they The rule you mention ac- writing was finally A. taken too but have been unable to take lessons on principle, than something to be set up their own press, they decided ing the count of health. What stops should be used TEACHERS to In the passage you mention, in Your Own Home . . . WITHOUT EXPENSIVE literally. for Nearer, My God, to Thee, Rock of Ages, tye*. publish a book of hymns entirely of their does not confine itself to the composition and so forth. I have studied piano about a composition, both words of parts (or voices) m each suc- HOW “Dutch” own and music. same number year, and have had a little practice on an or- The CAVANAUGHS SHOW YOU Pennsylvania » therefore, such notes should ceeding chord; gan. I have finished Thompson, Grade 1, and as make for clarity without chop- MUSICIANS Collections be repeated Gaynor-Blake, “Second Melody Lessons.” How An Amazing New Book for BEGINNERS ...THOSE WHO PLAY.. . ADVANCED Hymn those notes should be tied which at Ephrata piness, and does this compare with Thompson, Grade 2? of America’s foremost teachers of Popular Music, pre- Music appearance, in without blurring. VIRG and JOYCE CAVANAUGH, two This led to the 1747, of add smoothness What grade is Let Us Have Music by Eck- INSTRUCTION BOOK for your musical enjoyment. This sent their NEW 160 PAGE PIANO great wrong in using the organ be- . stein? I do nothing at all to be desired. The Cavanaugh Book is big ..Complete the first of the three Ephrata music using Did sensational new book leaves 147) you give me instructions for richly endowed with a galaxy of refinements. In it you 11 find tne (Continued from Page O Can fore going farther with the piano?—H. J. . . . Distinctively designed and “Turtel-Taube,” or has their famous books: the to give an — organ which novel and practical Professional Piano Secrets that the Cavanaughs employ in the' stops on Musicians, the baclc. jaioaa is recognized and universally endorsed by Performers, in English its full and fervidly romantic serial number m Schools of Popular Music. It quality. Undoubtedly he also required the following A. There is no chart such as you describe, ... IT S FUN. X 570 . . . IT’S EXCITING SU Teachers and the Trade. IT’S EASY title, Song of the Solitary and De- regular method for obtained special effects which cannot “The but what you need is a and' T X excellent THIS MAGIC BOOK CONTAINS: to serted Turtle-Dove—namely, the Chris- the pipe organ. We suggest the very SECRETS be reproduced today. Yet he seems C X • FUNDAMENTALS • FILLERS • EAR TRAINING • PROFESSIONAL one by Stainer. This will give you information in orthodox mu- tian Church.” Of the two hundred and LO X 732 • THEORY • BREAKS • ACCOMPANYING • ORCHESTRATION have been scrupulous regarding the different stops of the organ, and . hymns in this collection, I X • CHORDS OF MUSIC • HARMONIZING • ARRANGING INTROS-ENDINGS sical matters. He stressed correctness of forty-seven also a well planned series of studies leading RELATED SUBJECTS in large letters on one side. • BASSES •TRANSPOSING • KEYBOARD HARMONY 1001 Beissel wrote one hundred and fifty-one; A-39 is stamped step by step to fair competence in organ play- pitch and the utmost precision in part manufacturers and they sent fully and thoroughly explained so that YOU understand it. I wrote to the better, however, if you could Each section is the remaining ninety-six were by sixteen instructions for ing. It would be singing. And of course the remarkable a leaflet but did not have studies — Syncopation -lump- Boogie Woogie Styles me , develop a little farther in your piano YOU LEARN Jazz Piano -Swing brothers and twenty-three sisters. The this serial number. Some of This booklet takes the placeof thing about the Ephrata music is that an organ with before taking up the organ seriously, as you Included is a "BOOKLET OF HOME STUDY DIRECTIONS.” markings and others are assignments which are used in the Cavanaugh in last and greatest of the Ephrata printed the stops have no acquire a better technic for a teacher. In it are the complete lesson to lesson it was not unison singing, but music as will in this way though the CAVAJNAUOHb are read, so I am listing them as well Piano Schools. In fact, these instructions will make you feel as har- books were the two editions of the hard to the organ work when you come to it. As far These assignments are for the Total Beginner Medium two to five parts—even seven-part out. Bass 8th Sub-bass Flute 4 right there with you at your piano. I can make as stops are concerned, since no two organs Advanced Student. study of the Cloister hymns “Paradisisches Wunder-Spiel,” or "Won- Piano Dulciana 8' Harp Aeolienne ( ) to mony. A ( ) are exactly alike, it would be impossible Forte Dulciana 8' ) The Cavanaugh Book is the Only Book of its Kind in the World shows that many were in a very free der Music of Paradise." These are really Vox Humana ()( suggest certain stops, as your particular organ 8' Choral 8 ' Treb. Coup.—G. F. M. NOT an Ear or Correspondence Course meter, the harmony most rudimentary; two different books using the same title; Flute may not even have the stops we might sug- PIANO COMPANY satisfied and thrilled, that we gest. Besides, a hymn could be played in vari- MICH. Guarantee: We are so absolutely sure that you will be completely the effect must have been of the first, a collection of anthems and write SOUTH HAVEN, the so that serial number would be merely a all of them For name of nearest dealer, offer you a money back guarantee. After 4 days if you are not completely satisfied, return A. A ous ways by using different stops, archaic. motets, with full notation of the tunes identification, and would have book and get your money back. something quite manufacturer’s .effective. The better plan would be to follow with the proper use There were five choirs, each consisting and harmonic parts; the second, which little or nothing to do the general ideas which you will find out- consider- . . . $12.50 the several stops. The names vary after you have at- ONE PRICE COMPLETE men, which is the largest collection of Ephrata of lined in the method, and the World. of three women and two although the stop CAVANAUGH BOOKS are packed special, postpaid and insured anywhere in ably with different organs, tained a fair understanding of the effects of sang together or antiphonally, also with hymns, a book of words only. Seven general character- ORDER YOUR COPY NOW! TODAY! “Make Your Dreams Come True." names do indicate certain the different stops, then get such a book as HELP all writ- well in mind the pitch How to order: Mail Check, Postal Money Order or Draft for $12.60— Nothing more to pay. interspersed solos. Rehearsing was con- hundred and seventeen hymns, istics. First of all keep “Primer of Organ Registration” by Nevin, for marked 8 ft. is stant. Singing went on through the day, ten at the Cloister, were included, of of the different stops. One complete suggestions as to the best stops to pitch as the corresponding note on and the general CAVANAUGH PIANO SCHOOLS evening the white-robed four fourteen were the same use for various conditions, while in the which hundred and higher, and 16 ft. a piano; 4 ft. is an octave principles of combining stops. The “Second CHILDREN 475 FIFTH AVE. DEPT. E. NEW YORK 17, N. Y. brethren and snowy-clad sisters left by Beissel. the left side an octave lower. The stops on Melody Lessons” is slightly easier than lower register their houses to walk, singing, in pro- usually affect the notes in the Thompson, Grade 2, and the Eckstein book, the upper cession to the chapel for their Other Important Books of the organ, and those on the right, “Let Us Have Music” is in about Grade 3. Agapae, divid- register, generally using middle C as the ENJOY are or love feasts. Important as these books are, they always. Try each stop ing point, though not Q. Some time ago I recall seeing a question surpassed in charm by the little choral the tone quality and out by itself, ascertain in your department concerning pedal boards together and books used by the choirs. These are all range and volume; then try two you please advise if these are Impressions of 3 for pianos. Will the effect. Then try two others, and organ playing, manuscript books the pen and brush watch of much value in practicing for MUSIC — really learned by ex- Visiting Dignitaries so on until you have what the cost is, and where obtainable? I am work of the sisters, who labored tire- best with other periment which stops combine playing our organ part time and find half a Quotations from eighteenth century lessly ex- a softening with love, and certainly with stops. “Piano” is probably merely day consumed in walking to and from the sub-bass prob- sources may give a clearer sense of the quisite skill, to create them. They must effect, and "Forte” louder. The church, with a three hour practice period. If TRANSPOSE MUSIC YOURSELF ably couples a bass note to the octave below, home, using a pedal board, this Capitol Record album effect of the Ephrata music on those who be seen to appreciate their charming I could practice at with Slide Music! ! ! would couple a treble A Rule for and the Treble-Coupler I believe it would help matters.—D. R. A. heard it. The visiting Swedish cleric, medieval lettering with delicately elabo- The Vox Humana in Save Hours of Labor with the note to its octave above. Acrelius, gives this account of a chapel rated nota- mechanical device for making of "talking” instruments WIZARD TRANSPOSER capitals, their quaint music most organs is a the writer has never seen a stops are used in A. Personally, service: “When they were all assembled, tion, and their colored illuminations a tremolo effect. Whatever connected with a piano, Quickly and Accurately Transposes Single matched by a pedal board in use they sat for some the lower register should be successful Notes and Chords to Any Key. moments perfectly featuring the lily, dove, and but he understands they have been the tulip, the stop of the same pitch and volume in the right Send $1.66 (cash or postal note please) to, still point. About the only thing --PIPE -Used . . . [then] Father Friedsam (Beissel) of special up to a certain in Orchestraville awakens new WALTERS, 4170 Blenheim Street, New ORGANS many other symbols and patterns hand, or upper register. Sometimes Rusty LLOYD available, however, would be a regular set of Vancouver, B. C., Canada Builders of pipe organs for church and studio. Ef- finally sang in a low using a soft stop and fine tone. Pennsylvania Dutch tradition. These effects may be obtained by your interest in music appreciation through ficient. up-to-date used instruments on hand at all solo organ pedals attached to the piano by Thereupon the sisters in in the lower part, and a louder one for a times, priced very reasonably. We also rebuild and the gallery books were to be the last of such medieval piano service man, and we suggest that you dramatic appeal to modernize tracker and tubular organs, additions of in the right hand, or vice versa. Such effects a charming, couplers began to sing, the Cloister brothers the tuner his opinion of the matter. The stops, and chimes installed. Yearly care works done in the New World. out by experimentation. ask of organs. We solicit inquiries. may easily be worked obtained from a firm a youngster's imagination. Rusty is a joined in with them, and all pedals could probably be Original compositions for the Piano by those who In fact, concept of Following this plan, it is not even necessary the early-century parts, and we are sending were of the supplying organ little boy who rebels against piano Delosh Brothers — Organ Experts together in the high choir united the Ephrata doomed to to know definitely the correct names 0-1 community was you a couple of addresses. 391 08th Street Corona, L. I., N. Y. City in a delightful stops whose markings have been obliterated—* practice ... until he begins this dream- LEOPOLD WOLFSOHN hymn.” From the con- fade out. death At the time of Beissel’s knowing the general tone quality and pitch linger. temporary (capacity 100, average Orchestraville, where New intriguing melodies and harmonies that : s Fahnestock Manuscript Q. Our small church world tour of we the idea had probably, according to his will suffice. Ideal for studio and concert. Used by progressive 2nd EDITION COMPLETE - — TREATISE ON learn that “the tones issuing attendance 40) has purchased a Hammond in- natural teachers artists. from the pattern, cer- the instruments talk in their and reached perfection. He had play it, and I TRANSPOSITION choir the strument. It will be my duty to Elementary, Intermediate. Advanced and Difficult. imitate very soft instrumental Q. I am interested in learning to play of covering ALL problems of transposition tainly made its music what he wanted need material to further my study. The voices through the use Thematic circular upon request. music, pipe organ in our church, and would like to shall Send for folder to the author carrying a softness and simple, but I shall not devotion it to be, with rigorously trained choirs follow, and music will be very Sonovox. A refreshingly new LEOPOLD WOLFSOHN EDITIONS Charles Lagourgue, 35 W. 57th St., New York 19 know what procedure I should almost superhuman to the much time to practice. Any suggestions auditor and a Beissel use. I am an adult, play have Hotel Ansonia, B’way at 73 Street, New York City. mass of original music. what books 1 should suitable music, regis- teaching aid.and wonderful All the parts, save student, you can offer regarding the bass, which is himself hymns; piano Grade III to IV, and violin wrote over a thousand tration, and so forth will be appreciated. entertainment. At your Capitol set in two parts, are led and sung playing Grades V and VI. Our organist is a ex- the other brothers and sisters together me, —J. W. G. clusively by the fine musician and has volunteered to help Record dealer — now females, the men being Beissel INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION probably wrote as many. When but I should like to know what books to study, jPT confined to the will need is a method upper and lower A. The first thing you bass- died in 1768, he had a most competent including a good pedal book.—E. M. Capitol Album BC-35 The INTERNATIONAL PIANO TEACHERS ASSOCIATION the latter resembling designed especially for the Hammond instru- the deep tones of successor In Peter Miller, a distinguished for this we recommend “The Ham- L $2.55 plus tax will hold its 1948 Convention at Erie, Penna., July 30, 31. Eminent the organ, and study suggest using ment, and the former, in combina- A. For your basic we This will scholar and an able, practical man. But gives mond Organ,” by Stainer-Hallett. teachers will present lectures, master lessons, demonstrations, con- tion with one the “Organ Method” by Stainer. This of the female parts, all the information needed for a the like Brook Farm, the Shaker communi- preliminary information as to the construction give you certs, etc. Program will include the following interesting topics: touch, contrast produces an excellent proper understanding of the instrument, and imitation ties, and other Utopian groups. Ephrata and stop action of the organ. After some of the oboe. The for music we suggest the following collec- technique, pedaling, sight reading, memorizing, key-board harmony, whole is sung in the did music studies for the hands, the pedal is taken up not—could not—last, and the tions: “Organ Melodies,” Landon; “The Chapel falsetto voice, and the with very fine studies, leading to the playing transposing, improvising, modern chords, color tone principle, accom- melody, which died the Peery; “At the Console,” Felton; with it. It was last heard in together. For early pedal Organist,” seems to be more than of hands and feet REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. etc. For further information write the I.P.T.A. offices. human, appears “Organ Vistas.” All of these may be had from panying, how to teach popular music, Mission Nunnery at Snow Hill, Franklin work we recommend the “Pedal Scale Studies” to be descending from above publishers of this magazine; in fact they 18 North Perry Square, Erie, Penna. and hover- County, with by Sheppard, supplementing the Stainer book. the RECORDS ing where it vanished forever secured for examination, if desired. over the heads of the assembly ” After finishing Stainer, try the “Master Studies may be the death of the last celibates. "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE 187 MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” MARCH, 1948 186 THE ETUDE — a . — —

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Continued, from Page 155) ( Violin Uuestidms THIS of the vibrato. TO INTRODUCE quality some mention It is, how- necessary for this the technique ever, so closely integrated with the per- of expression. , of each player that no aid sonality general L, HAMM BERKLEY will nMMrJ exercises The following laid down for it. J prac- rules can be But tnis Germany, and surrounding technique if they are ^Cramp** Markneukirchen. acquiring this be said: T i>ft Arm ... . quality much at least can No violinist On the Violinists towns. The first known member of the family AID attention to the o O’S. British Columbia. PHENOMENAL NEW TEACHING keen making vio- ticed with who aspires to possess an expressive tone the February issue of The was Johann Christian, who was imaginative appie- tp Jim riaee of immediate of the tone and with discussion of left-arm lins about 1700. The books at my can be content with any one type of Etude^ you^will find a various tone colors pro- your question com- disposal do not record a Johann Christian as ciation of the is to say, vibrato which answers vibrato; that a which “cramp” your working about 1796, but there may well have FOR that matter, however, every Teach yourself to relax and JUST RELEASED duced. For constant in speed and uletely- violins bear a family resem- exercise remains width. He disappear. I certainly think a been. All Ficker played on the violin is an trouble will well made. Their value note able to control it, to help you, unless you have blance and are quite is am- must be make it shoulder pad would production if the student today varies between one hundred and three in tone slower or faster, wider or narrower, very short neck. at a hundred dollars. PIANO bitious enough to wish it so. VIOLIN and will and in accordance with the demands tones, from four to (1) Long sustained Vi H the of the music. Michigan. Prior to about 1800 most Probably a Fictitious Maker in duration, close to j £ r information is eight seconds shorter Mrs. E. E. A., California. My Some suggestions, however, can violinsc were made with necks be guided be Italian" Caghanus is almost bridge, forte. The bow should used nowadays. Consequently, that the name Janurius made, suggestions that are not to be ac- than those possibly, by a than pressed in, almost ail these certainly fictitious, invented, towards the bridge rather loneer necks have been put dogma, and that are susceptible had violins, made for him in a Distinguished Teacher says cepted as But the German makers used the jobber who down on the string. Violins. which he imported to “/ sincerely recommend Monitor modification according to the individ- most of the 18th century. European factory an# Monitor Records you'll get faster from eight to to longer neck during both teachers and pu- NA^ith the new (2) Long sustained bows, this country. At any rate, none of the experts Records to If one sees so many old German possi- and the uality of the player. Cl) the music calls That is why the name. pils. After examining their astonishing results with beginning in duration, close to original neck. Contrary I have queried have ever heard progress, thirty seconds with the carefully, I think they are for a soft, fluty tone, the vibrato should instruments label you quote is in im- bilities yourself exasperat- to pianissimo. notion, altering a violin in And the rest of the advantageous teaching intermediate students. You’ll save bridge, from mezzo-forte to a wide-spread help the most rather than faster, and its tone possible Latin, which in itself does not about half-way be slower rather does not materially affect help brought out to date." pupil's bad habits acquired (3) Sustained bows, this way in Mr. Caghanus’s existence. ing hours of correcting in extent. (2) If the tone is to be one to believe FREDERICK BRISTOL fingerboard, from narrow quality. you'll gain prestige bridge and alone. And . . . between Studios: Philadelphia & New York in practicing with the soft but intense, the vibrato can be faster one to four seconds in duration, Spiccato Appraisal Is Advised students as the word spreads of your in- Concerning the , . should and new the though still narrow. (3) For an intense, spiccato cannot be Mrs. F. P. H., New Hampshire. You widest possible dynamic range within K. F- K., Michigan. The which makes will certainly have your violin appraised, for if it terest-holding Monitor Method . . . forte passage, the vibrato can be fast and at the frog because there the bow limits of good tone quality. played Tecchler, and in good condition, itself. Neither can the often is a genuine practicing a pleasure! of narrow or fast and fairly wide, accord- not spring of suggest that Fast, light bows at the end the ef- it could be worth up to $5000. I (4) necessary speed be attained. But a very Mezzojorte to pianis- ing to the mood of the music. (4) In the tempo, can you send or bring it either to The Rudolph for standard fingerboard, from fective martellato, at a moderato Monitor records provide piano accompaniment vibrato can Wurlitzer Co., 120 West 42nd Street, or to ranging in speed lower positions the be wider produced at the frog. In fact, that is the for piano simo, in quarter notes be Street, both pieces, and secondary piano parts PERFECTED firm hold on the Shropshire & Frey, 119 West 57th violin teaching than in the higher positions. (5) A slow, place for it. .It requires a from = 60 to = 120. For a small fee, either Each elementary J J supple fingers and wrist. It is de- in New York City. student not duo piano or duet arrangements. wide vibrato is rarely appropriate, al- bow, hut dependable appraisal — Sustained bows of from two to “Springing" firm would give you a then in (5) cidedly a “Hammered" and not a tempi—first, slowly for practice: fast and narrow vibrato can be advise you regarding the best piece is played in two seconds duration, rather nearer the though a label in your violin indicates and would Special Machines, designed by Armour' and four bowing. (2) The instrument. and pace the student, effective, particularly on the apprentices of Hein- means of disposing of the standard tempo. Monitor Records guide bridge than the halfway point, the stu- extremely that it was made by the made exclusively for Armour, now split the workshop (plain Eng- the dullness of practicing alone. closer the A and E strings, and more particularly rich Heberlein in his but more important, they end dent trying always to play to Ger- In Appreciation fine quality lamb gut far more accurately than lish for “Atelier”!) in Markneukirchen, perfect even- in the higher positions on these strings. B., Illinois. My cordial thanks for your bridge while maintaining a many. Such violins are purely commercial in- F. E. ever. This splitting operation assures exact Adagios Andantes of the appreciative letter. I am very glad to know ness of tone. (6) In the and struments. In a catalog issued by the Heber- Priced within Reach of Students answers to your questions have separation of the types of gut required for classic period Bach, Handel, Mozart shortly before the last war. they that my first, no vibrato should be used in — — lein firm letter I have now available for Elementary At dollars. helped you. I may say that each Four sets of Monitor Records are — each Armour String— guarantees a better be. of plAce. were priced at fifty and seventy-five these exercises, as it tends to cover up wide vibrato would be quite out has been a pleasure to answer, contains full had from you and Intermediate Violin and Piano. Each album that is valuable ginning in turning finest gut into perfect unsteadiness of bowing. Later it -should Rather it should be fairly narrow and not for each brought up a point Violins by Ficker . recordings of six standard teaching . playing. Write as often as you like instructions, sheet music and Armour Strings through rigid quality control. too fast. In such passages as the main The name Ficker is that of in violin be used in varying degrees of speed and W. E. D., Ohio. at a time! Cradle in but not more than two questions as Minuet by Bach, For Elise by Beethoven, themes of the slow movements in the a very large family of makers who worked pieces—such The perfection of Armour Strings is the amplitude. technique of shading “Symphonie Espagnole” of Lalo or the Song by Brahms. result of six important steps: (1) Getting For acquiring the Concerto of Bruch, it can be avail- and coloring the tone, the following types TREASURE this revolutionary system of practicing finest raw materials; (2) Protecting quality EVERY TALENTED STUDENT WILL In order to make of exercise cannot be too highly recom- noticeably wider and should vary in speed has been set as low by constant refrigeration; (3) Controlling able to as many pupils as possible, the cost according to the emotional content of the mended. All three methods of influencing Most sets include six pieces, quality by laboratory tests; (4) Precision as possible—only $7.50 per set. the tone changing the speed of the bow, passage. — for the sheet music alone totals splitting of gut; (5) An exclusive Armour and since the standard price increasing or decreasing the pressure, and Were it not for the limitations of space violin WILKANOWSKI Monitor Record albums is obvious. Polishing a the value of these Tanning process; (6) to exact di- changing the point of contact should be imposed on us, many more suggestions $1.50, mension desired. When you specify Armour employed in various degrees and propor- could be made regarding the aesthetic Strings, you know you are getting the best tions. The exercises should be practiced use of the vibrato and its relation to CELEBRATED VIOLIN MAKER Introductory Arrangement because no other manufacturer duplicates on all four strings and in different posi- various tone timbres. But perhaps enough practice system to music teach- More Musicians use Armour Music A SUPERB VIOLIN Of TRUE ARTIST-CALIBRE These classic violins are the master To introduce this important new tions, with and vibrato, the inquir- first order of the Armour process of perfecting strings. without and at has been said to awaken in . Wilkanow- will be allowed on the Strings than any other brand The Wilkanowski Conservatory craftsmanship of Mr . W ers, a discount of $1.50 various speeds between = 60 and = 60. ing student a desire to experiment in this greatest living have discovered a ; J Model is reminiscent of the Amati ski, one of America’s Monitor Records. If you do not" feel that you field for himself. It will be for him and result of Mr. Wil- within ten both in dimensions and modeling. luthiers. 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The Training of an Artist Classical teachers ev- GU^BRA^EN TEACH erywhere are finding at TwEnty-two the prob- Tops the answer to ( Continued from Page 137) MODERN PIANO lems of teaching popu- Page 158) —BBSs ( Continued from lar music, in our mod- . . • the by note ern, up^to-the-minute v rangements deliberately based on You do, of course, but you let people ing is very much like conversation—you and still ‘have colors, method. Based on sound can keep going very well with anyone at all, moods, effects out of Wagner, Ravel’ CHRISTENSEN principles of music, it take it for granted. Your technique must can exchange words to continue seri- enough time of his own help, not hinder conversing only Debus, Shostakovich. Thus public taste will also be clean—but that is no reason for but you find delight in That is exactly whatsis classical studies. Fran- ous composition. WAY boasting! That, too, for with a kindred spirit. This kinship of GULBRANSEN grows—and the popular arranger must will give may be taken today. The bridge between ^ ^ chise contract being done our in spirit, fortunately, characterized our own (I keep pace with it. right to teach and advertise granted and expressed only the ex- form of band scorings y°vouu exclusive the structural community, if not represented. start. have never It all comes back to the supremely f melrnothod in your pression of music. work from the very We '.‘" of tunes or im- I detail, En- a" am not speaking now year. Write for complete feeling, fact that popular music is SuOui 43 rd “Finally, as to a word about two -piano had really to build our ensemble orchestration is portant music complete, 91 page instructio^book^ rhythms) and classical clo

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demon- tional requirements. For the upper and improved facility will one advances up the fingerboard, the sized, positions, Grutzmacher and Fitzenhagen advantages. Cello hand gradually closes to compensate for strate its thumb position exercises are excellent. Advancing the work should be changes in spacings. The muscular re- Advancing 'Cello Technic Position prepared by re- method and flexes which enable us to adopt the section de emphasis upon the study of Improvement of the ’cello Section quired spacing in any given position are brief excerpts from any standard work development of assurance SERIES pends upon the the positions CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS the source of consistency in intonation. techniques If dealing with which need applying these various 1 v (< from Page 152) which is in Range should Continued A slight rolling of the finger, strengthening. be con- \ . for piano adequat , preliminary training has been accomplished so quickly that the fault stantly extended through the study of emphasis in the high school all that is required the principal arpeggios in three harmonics, the base of the thumb nail escapes the listener, is be, upon scales and and four where it should . \ BOWLES Carreterra de Espana $ discrepancies. can be placed Practice in the upper ' ^ being midway between the two strings. to correct minor However, techm- octaves. register fingers to musical interpretation. is here closely identical However, the tensing of the is particularly beneficial to the player, 1.25 While fingering should be continued along 1.25 \ SCHNABEL Piece in Seven Movements tends to stiffen the cal training with that used in playing the violin, the secure proper spacing to sec- since it usually leads to improvement in the following lines. In addition ••'* 1.25 impair facility. Fingers must lower • heavier strings require exertion of greater hand and compositions, an intonation in the register. The SESSIONS From my Diary tional drill of orchestral relaxed instantly the shift in the nut is 75 \ pressure of both fingers and bow. Prox- be program would in- pitch of treble notes more sharply de- the instant adequate instruction ^a SIEGMEISTER Sunday in Brooklyn.... 1.50 of the bow to the bridge should be finger is made, and tensed fined than in the bass, and the benefits arC \ — imity in unison, of scales and M becoming a nut finger is clude practice noted in the illustration. the change to and cement of attention devoted to improving in- trans- exercises suited to clarify SMIT—Five Pieces for Young People means for covering the ex- made. Weight of hand and arm are in the upper register seem While the technic in the minds tonation to finger to another in these accessories of tensive range of the ’cello have been ferred from one Lee, be transferred readily to the lower players. Studies of Dotzauer, the use of the much the same way as the weight of the of the described in the foregoing, before group strings. other and others, although written EDWARD B. MARKS MUSIC RCA Building Radio City New York measuring instrument requires body is shifted from one hip to the CORPORATION . hand as a commonplace, are melo- While there is a period of some dis- will acquire this instruction was explanation. Since the distance be- in walking. Students callous is some to class or sec- comfort before a formed on it is empha- dic and easily adapted tween intervals is gradually lessened as feeling of shift in weight if the thumb and the position feels awk- I am firmly convinced that the status dured by his beloved native country, one ward to the player at first, young players of the band is in the hands of its lead- could easily observe how strongly he suf- should be encouraged particularly in the ers, and it is upon this leadership that fered himself. The mere thought of the people use of the thumb. Since sonority is de- its destiny depends. The instrument is hundreds of thousands of Russian creased in proportion to the shortening here, awaiting someone to make use of meeting their death, and the barbarous its full potentialities, ancient Russian of the length of the vibrating string, less and to that end destruction of priceless I care is required in the use of every conductor of bands should dedicate monuments, made him shudder. absolute the bow. Quality of tone is developed himself. Whenever he heard on the radio per- through firm fingering and a finely ad- Next month we shall discuss “The Fu- formances or recordings of such mas- justed vibrato. There are also advantages ture of the Band in America.” terpieces as Russian Easter Overture which accrue from the use of the thumb by Rimsky-Korsakoff. Stravinsky’s “The position in the lower reaches of the neck Fire-Bird,” excerpts from Mussorgsky’s and on the lower strings, which are a Rachmaninoff “Boris Godunov” in Chaliapin’s incom- necessity in preparation for passages in parable interpretation, or any composi- ’cello literature, and in particularly ob- As 1 Knew Him tions with the flavor of Russia, he would FRANZ MFG. CO., INC., NEW HAVEN, CONN. stinate passages in orchestra literature become visibly excited. I shall never for- ( Continued from Page 138) which, yield to no other solution. get how, when we were listening together A ’cello section which has covered the date of this extraordinary evening June to the solemn but joyous finale of “The DON’T TAKE CHANCES! subscription expires this ground suggested here should be pre- 15, 1942, so that it, too, would never slip Fire-Bird,” Rachmaninoff’s eyes filled If your Etude month be sure to renew promptly and avoid to symphonic music. from my memory. with tears, and he exclaimed, “Lord, how Conservatory pared for access running the risk of missing a copy. University Extension The aim of most directors in advancing I was so fortunate as to hear another much more than genius this is—it is real each section of the strings to the point of these exquisite concerts at the Rach- Russia!” - 1948 1903 - THE WORLD'S LARGEST HOME STUDY CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC where they are capable of essaying sym- maninoff home. The two Mozart works On one occasion and GIVE YOUR CHILD phonies of Haydn, Mozart, and even were repeated, but Rachmaninoff’s Sec- his wife dined at the Rachmaninoffs and MEMBER OF basis I, too, present. Among a host of other Beethoven, is not unattainable. The ond Suite was replaced by his transcrip- was THIS CHANCE NOW for this development with the ’cello player tion for two pianos of his recent -com- matters, Stravinsky mentioned that he Extension Courses by noted teachers, leading No entrance requirements except for Degree should be as Casals has suggested, position, “Symphonic Dances.” The bril- was very fond of honey. Within a few Courses. Credits “. secondly, Sergei Vasilyevich had found a to Diplomas, and Degree of Bachelor of Music. earned by using your spare . . first of all musical, and liance of this performance was such that days technical in the most musical manner.” for the first time I guessed what an ex- great jar of the very -best honey and de- time for advancement. Stravinsky. I You can prepare yourself for a better position perience it must have been to hear Lizst livered it personally to and Chopin playing together, or Anton mention this trifle because it is so typ- Catalog and illustrated by studying at your convenience by the Ex- lessons sent without and Nikolai Rubinstein. ical of Rachmaninoff’s cordial attentions tension Method. obligation to you. Check coupon below. Bands in America Today That summer I saw the Rachmaninoff to his friends. family quite often. I became a regular In this summer of 1942 Rachmaninoff weekly guest, and our conversations I decided to become a resident of Los An- ( Continued, from Page 153) shall treasure forever. Sergei Vasilyevich geles, and sealed his intention with the A DISTINGUISHED FACULTY OF ARTIST TEACHERS — HIGHEST STANDARDS OF MUSIC INSTRUCTION with a sufficient musical background? Do was fond of histories and biographies and purchase of a pleasant house on Elm EQUIP YOURSELF FOR A BETTER POSITION bandsmen the necessary appre- almost anyone’s memoirs, and this was Drive, in Beverly Hills. His plan was WHAT PROGRESS ARE YOU MAKING? This is Your Opportunity—Mail the Coupon Today! possess ciation they perform, in my favorite reading, too. We exchanged to make a farewell tour in the season of A proof of quality is important for one inter- of the music dis- 1942-43, ending in Los Angeles, retiring Your musical knowledge your position and in- order to receive a musical “lift” from opinions on our lifetime reading, and — ested in further musical training. Our courses offer UNIVERSITY EXTENSION CONSERVATORY. Dept. A-616 theater, music, and composers. as a pianist, and remaining in his new come today are the result of the training you 28 their experience? Does the high school cussed the — you the same high quality of preparation which East Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois program objectives? Is It was with unusual delight that I lis- home, which would be dedicated to com- have given your natural ability. Additional train- Please send emphasize proper has developed and trained many successful musi- me catalog, sample lessons and full information of our band leadership adequate? Is our lit- tened to Rachmaninoff speak of Tchai- position. He was so fond this future regarding course I have ing will open up new fields, new opportunities, cians and teachers in the past. marked with an X below. childlike joy in erature for the lack of con- kovsky. He spoke of him with emotion, home that he took a Piano, Teacher's responsible $89.00 greater income and higher standing in the musi- Normal Course Voice attitude Mrs. Tamiroff, saying that the SPINET JR. “G” NATIONAL HOME STUDY COUNCIL tinued interest? Is the American pace of telling of the kind, touching teasing Piano, Student's MOTHER . . . Start your child’s cal world. Course Conducting living questions showed by the internationally famous facade of the “Rachmaninoff mansion” The Council is an Association of which we are a Choral too fast? Within these bigger of the musical education NOW this easy 0 Public School Mus.—Beginner's are to be found the answers to the band’s composer toward the first creative steps was better and than that member. It includes the outstanding correspond- Clarinet inexpensive way. Teach your child and This valuable training, through our Extension Public of his young colleague, of his sincere hap- Tamiroffs, on the same winding avenue, [_ ] School Mus. position in our musical life of tomorrow. easy ence schools in the United States with headquar- —Supervisor'! Dance Band Arranging learn to play yourself with the Courses, may be taken at home with no’ interfer- piness in Rachmaninoff’s first successes, and that his garden would be prettier, Advanced Composition Certainly, one can not defend a pro- modern course of lessons furnished ters at Washington, D. C. Members are admitted Violin Nikolai Remisoff, also just devoting to of the influence he exerted to have too. who ’had ence with your regular work by Ear gram which has attracted, in its begin- with SPINET Jr. only after rigid examination of the training courses Q Training & Sight Singing Imperial Opera to Hollywood, designed a working I | Guitar “Aleko” produced at the moved self-study the many minutes each day that ordi- ning stages, hundreds of thousands of SPINET Jr. has four octaves of full offered. History and Analysis for Sergei Vasilyevich, to be con- of Music Mandolin participants, in Moscow. Of Rimsky-Korsakoff, Rach- studio size keys with soft celeste-like narily go to waste. The progressive musician, as only to lose them just as piano Harmony matured, his structed in the following summer over We are the only school giving instruction Saxophone they have achieved the skills and pro- maninoff said, that as he tone derived from tempered aluminum busy as he may be, realizes the value of such in understanding and appreciation of that the nearby garage. bars that will not go out of tune. The music by the Home-Study Method, which includes [J Cornet—Trumpet [~~ Double Counterpoint ficiencies to properly express themselves. study and finds the time for it. Well paid positions of attractive instrument is In view of the tremendous pro- particular genius grew stronger and While still occupying "the Boardman height this in its curriculum all the courses necessary to ob- Professional Cornet—Trumpet Banjo band are available to those who are ready for them. QJ score over suitable for children or adults. Fin- gram so well established in our schools, stronger. “Just to read a by house, Rachmaninoff would come to tain the Degree of Bachelor of Music. Name ished in brown leatherette. Height Age is it not Rimsky-Korsakoff puts me in a better his future home to work with spade and logical to expect an elaborate 2714", length 29", width 1314". restless or sad,” rake in its garden, and plan the planting YOU can do it too! It's up to YOU! A Diploma Is Your Key to Success! Street No and active adult band program? If Amer- mood, whenever I feel If your dealer cannot supply you send ica can maintain sport pro- were Rachmaninoff’s words. of additional trees. We, his close friends, City extensive check or money order. No C.O.D.’s State grams watched the pleasure this gave him, and such as amateur softball, base- Express Collect. Are you Plans for Retirement derived pleasure from this, as well. Who teaching now? If so, how many pupils have ball, football, golf, and other sports, University Extension Conservatory a deep and depressing could think that 'some six months later Do you hold a Teacher's Certificate? promoted and sponsored by the municipal The war made WHITE-GERLAT CO. (DEPT. A-616) Have you government, impression on Rachmaninoff. Every time Sergei Vasilyevich would depart from us AVE. RACINE, WIS. 28 EAST JACKSON BLVD. CHICAGO 15. ILL. studied Harmony? Would you like to earn then should not music take 1600 JUNCTION the its rightful the conversation turned to the East Euro- forever—and that none of these dreams Manufacturers of educational instruments for Degree of Bachelor of Music? place in this program of en- would be realized. schools and music studios. avocational and recreational activities? pean front and the sufferings being 192 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” THE ETUDE march, 1948 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE 193 — : . —

per se. Like the hated virtuosity Italian nics necessary to the proper foundation singer whom he berated for holding high New Music of the of a brass player. he himself held notes interminably, on In your specific case, I suggest that you arguments so long that he suc- to his Airways seek the advice and instruction of a fine to a certain point. ceeded at least If brass teacher. Next, I would not be con- opera did not cease to be the cerned with “high YOU MAY HAVE Italian Page 144) tones” until I was cer- ( Continued from NOW UNIVERSITY least it ceased QjC BOB JONES of style, at to be tain that my foundation of tone produc- the the temple of art. On other hand, tion was correct and thoroughly estab- Your Own Library are beyond our control and the only sug- to his constant criticism, the reper- lished. Many young musicians due gestion we can make to readers under have toire of Russian operas became more ruined their embouchures and perform- Radio’s Best-Loved Music such circumstances is for them to write of serious and began to gain in prestige. ance through the practice of high tones. their local stations of their interest in (The perfect Gift—to last a life time) In his propaganda for the music which Properly applied, the high register should any program which is nationally available admired, Cesar Cui was very demand- be no more difficult than EXTREMELY HIGH ACADEMIC STANDARDS he not carried locally. The more letters that of the mid- in but ^ ing. He was an aristocrat what con- dle or low. This, however, takes correct of this kind a radio station receives, faculty. cerned art, and he considered it right understanding of all the problems in- Scribner Christian chance of hearing a desired The A scholarly, well-trained the better the “One cannot tolerate any- volved and usually requires to be choosy. broadcast will become. Some programs, years of study made in a symphony.” with a competent thing badly scheduled at a given hour at the source teacher. In the mean- Essentially Cui was a man of his time. time, play softly, pronounce the syllable of performance, are heard at a different RadioMusicLibrary liked the work of his “too” and avoid the high register MAGNIFICENT NEW BUILDINGS He passionately time in other sections of the country. as much + although he gave just as possible; relax tongue and breathe contemporaries, We suggest that readers check their lo- FOR CHILDREN •TEACHERS lat- is one of the most due to the masters of the past. The freely and deeply from the diaphragm. • The new university plant just completed cal newspaper’s radio schedule carefully regarded as necessary in the AMATEURS • PROFESSION- ter he or write to their local stations for further in America. modern of the chain of art, fur- ALS . . . this Scribner Radio amalgamation information. The time element is often National Music Camp ingenious and interesting, al- thermore at a less desirable hour, and several young Music Library will provide he felt that real music Last summer I spent a part though cold. But readers have written us that worthwhile of my vaca- an endless fund of piano of the century tion at the Trapp Family Music Camp in started at the beginning programs, like the NBC Symphony, are STUDENT BODY Vermont. While there, I heard of a music and vocal music for all A COSMOPOLITAN Beethoven. However, he looked only with heard at such a late period in their lo- camp in Michigan. I should like to know for needs and occasions. for the content of the work, and not more about this camp and its address. Can from almost every state in the Union and a cality that they cannot participate as 2500 young people signature. you help me?—I. R. F., New York. the listeners. Since this is a local problem, Yes, yours to play and to own as a beau- countries are enrolled in Bob Jones University was read a great deal, trusted and score of foreign Cui its solution can be worked out only by The camp to which you refer is the Na- tiful permanent Library—the music you and he made more enemies col- admired, the radio management and the listeners tional Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich- love best ! Contains most complete this semester. fought alone against than friends, but he of that community. igan. Should you desire further informa- lection of best-loved music of the air the cause which he adopted. waves—classic, romantic, modern, op- the rest for tion regarding the music program, staff, articles with three little eratic, and sacred. He signed his and so forth, write to Dr. Joseph B. form of a triangle—the in- Nine lovely volumes contain 718 se- ATMOSPHERE OF CULTURE stars in the Maddy, President, National Music Camp, AN his epaulets lections full size sheet music. You may + signia which he wore on Arbor, Ann Michigan. have them at your fingertips. THEY Lieutenant of the Russian Army. ]ones University offers instruction in music, speech, and art with- as a LIE PERFECTLY FLAT when opened Bob Petersburg "Gazette" invari- Band Questions Answered The St. to any page—you know what an advan- additional cost above the regular academic tuition. Cui’s articles with the Importance of Academic Study out ably accompanied tage that is. No hunting for "that piece" editorial: following statement in their —you are rid, once and for all, of torn William 2. U.Jti With Music FULL SHEET MUSIC-2300 PAGES “In publishing the articles of Mr. *+* pages, missing sheets, sheets in the our does one go about preparing for a 718 COMPOSITIONS—402 for PIANO- we consider it necessary to remind How wrong sequence. career as a band instructor and conductor? readers once again that we are willing Clarinet an Uncommon 316 for VOICE C I am a sophomore in high school and a give this space to any pertinent op- or- to Instrument member of our high school band and LOOK AT THIS PARTIAL TABLE posing opinion, since the editorial staff chestra. Can you tell me what phases of too ex- music study- 1 should emphasize in order OF CONTENTS -Bid itself often considers the articles I have been reading The Etude for sev- Wait important to be best prepared to enter college as a But of violent.” eral months and find it to be highly inter- too 1 Romantic compositions treme, and sometimes music major in the public school music Volume : 75 Classic and esting and educational. I wish to purchase PAGES by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Haydn, Liszt, Men- program?—D. H., Massachusetts. I NO TORN a C clarinet, Boehm, standard pitch. Can delssohn, Mozart, Rubinstein, Schubert, Schumann, : NO FRAYED etc. TEACHES THE DIVINE INSPIRATION you advise me as to where I could pur- BELIEVES AND secure the services of the best CORNERS Volume II: 61 Modern works by Brahms, Debussy, chase First, such an instrument, either new or 1 Dvorak, Grieg, Paderewski, Rachmaninoff, Strauss, Choose Your Words teacher of your major instru- NO EXASPERA- AND AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE AND, WITH used? I now have a wooden clarinet which available TION HUNT- Tschaikowsky, many others. is very satisfactory except that it is quite ment. Second, begin the serious study of ING FOR Volume III: 67 light works by Chaminade, Drigo, EVANGELISTIC FERVOR, PROCLAIMS THE GOSPEL' oCuchmuncl flat in pitch. I have been told that there Gounod, Massenet, Poldini, Thome, others. l arjorie Cjfeijre piano. Third, study theory and harmony. ! MISSING UNIVERSITY' m Volume IV: 47 grand opera selections by Verdi, are repair shops which can tune instru- r SHEETS Fourth, prepare all of your high school Wagner, Rossini, Saint-Saens, Rimsky-Korsakow, OF THE GRACE OF GOD AS THE ONLY HOPE ments. Would you consider this advisable EVER HERE are many ways of saying NO SHEET others. and if so, will you tell me where it could work in such a manner that your grades 1 IN WRONG WORLD. thing and not all of Volume V: 44 popular excerpts from light operas: OF OUR MODERN the same — be done?—F. S., Indiana. in the academic program are at least as . SEQUENCE Delibes, Offenbach, Gilbert & Sullivan, others. them pleasant! Volume VI: Dance Music: old standbys as well T good as your music grades. Many stu- recent piano contest told I would suggest that you contact your as modern. Waltzes, tangos, etc. A judge in a are inclined to be less in- grand local dents of music Volume VII: Vocal selections: 26 from have recog- music dealer. If he does not have a opera. 15 sacred songs, 15 Negro spirituals, 69 one pupil that she would not in their academic program than C clarinet terested hymns. nized piece the pupil played if she in stock, I am sure he can rec- BARGAIN the their musical activities; as a result they A TREMENDOUS Volume VIII: 148 favorite songs of every charac- her. It might ommend some instrument manufacturers ter: concert, folk songs, light operas, college songs, hadn’t had the notes before frequently find that deficiencies in the In sheet music the music contained in or music stores ballads, etc. less cutting, more politic, and that might have such an have been academic studies prevent their accep- this Library would cost over $396.80. Volume IX: 73 supplementary compositions— in- said instrument. The C clarinet is an uncom- of the and certainly more encouraging to have students. Even then you would have a cabinet cluding some best most representative tance as university or college examples of contemporary popular dance music. because mon instrument; hence, it might prove to hard-to-get-at music. Con- she “didn’t recognize it at once,” You should also check with the registrar filled with be difficult find. stores 9" 121 " all was wrong was the to Some music venient full size x /2 sheet music apparently that of your high school to be certain that you sentence, and the which deal in second hand musical in- at a cost of less than 10 cents each. phrasing of the first have elected a college entrance program. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS E struments Ybu get this famous music for nearly accents. Another pupil was told that it frequently stock such instru- DEPT. N.D., 597 Fifth Avenue nents. one-sixth normal cost in a gorgeous life- N. was very evident she did not care about New York 17, Y. time Library. Handsomely bound in universi what she was playing, therefore she, the Please send me. FREE your illustrated 40-page Scribner Artcraft, stamped in gold. brochure giving complete details about the famous information s. c. and 9-volume Scribner Radio Music Library. This For further GREENVILLE, judge, did not care about listening black clear white paper Table Printed in jet on request places me under no obligation whatsoever. please write to. High Tones on the Trumpet The Teacher’s Round would not do so if she did not have for easy reading. FREE book-rack. Each Dr. Bob Jones, Jr., President constructive it would biographical, historical How much more Q. I am a trumpet player and have diffi- (Continued from Page 140) volume contains If under 21, have been to say, “To make anyone en- culty sustaining high notes. My throat gets data on the composers and their music. Name age, please.... very tight joy listening to your piece, you must and my lips tire rapidly. Can be played in the time of nine (see Meas- Complete Index in Volume IX. you help me? enjoy playing it,” and continue with some ure 5, second page) —M. B., Little Rock, Arkansas SEND THIS COUPON FOR FREE helpful suggestions as to how to enjoy Composers often refrain from using ILLUSTRATED A. It is since after a 40-PAGE BROCHURE Zone No. playing it. Such as: first, get it under most difficult to answer your marks throughout a work, City (if any). . .State. which were delightful in drawing of passion, the element of realism second, you question by “remote control” since such first instance, other similar cases become whims which control technically, so that Please give name and address of your music teacher Opera and the rooms became, in his articles, bitter sar- expresses itself in tendencies toward can think about the expression without problems require personal attention. obvious, and economy of notation is ad- if you are taking lessons There casm which he at times abused. By na- recitative declamation and the new ele- having to worry about striking the correct are many factors to be considered visable. in Balakirevs ture straight and determined, never ment of humor. notes, and—third, get into the mood of the case, some of which are as follows The above applies to Chopin, too. And PIANO frank In his articles fa.) The exercise away afraid of a fight, he was brutally he lashed out against the piece; play it with correct spirit and physical qualifications of the now, for a good preparatory SWING MADE EASY LEARN "SWING" MUSIC Page 154) ( Continued from Quick course to players all Italian performer. at World's easiest system teaches Beginners or Advanced to of Instruments—make your and minced no words in his writing. mediocrities—the works as well rhythm whether it is sad, or gay or ma- (Many do not have the physi- from the piano: set your metronome own arrangements of “hot” breaks, choruses, obbligatos, play like Radio-Record Artists! Learn runs, breaks, blues, embellishments, figurations, indefatigable campaign as the performers— cal requisites have your students blue notes, whole tones, etc. literary work. He opened an against the hack- jestic, and so forth. for playing high tones.) the proper pace, and tricks, basses, negro effects, chimes. Boogie Woogie, intros, MODERN DANCE ARRANGING Italian neyed “Lucia,” is (b.) three, six and ends, modernistic, futuristic, weird styles, off-color, riding- Duets, trios, quartettes and ensembles special choruses indisputable literary talent against the old German and “La Sonnambula,” and “La teacher is whose mission Type of mouthpiece and instrument, beat alternately two and — Cui had an A a mentor melody, jam-hot-blue choruses, etc. HUNDREDS of effect*. —modulating to other keys—suspensions—anticipations emergence of Favorita, ’ and (e.) this is mastered, organ points color effects of his own. His language was schools and welcomed the against the vogue of sing- not only to correct but to inspire and en- Playing experience, nine, on the table. Once Send for Free Booklet No. 18 and low prices. — — —swingy backgrounds and a style Write today. school, attributing to it ers with the “big I,” id.) doing clear and laconic; it had color and a new Russian endless High-C’s, courage. Don’t offer dry as dust criticism, Method of securing tone production, they will have no difficulty in the TEACHERS—Use new loose-leaf system. Writel ELMER B. FUCHS 335 East 19th St. Brooklyn qualities of feeling, force and their staccato, bullet-like (e.) SLONE SCHOOL. 2001 Forbes St.. 26. N. Y. piquancy. His mocking spirit and lively such as depth runs. He but words of stimulating encouragement. Articulation and many other tech- same thing while performing. Pittsburgh 19. Pa. ''MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” 194 THE ETUDE march, 1948 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” 195 Toward a Sounder Philosophy U1U3L 11UL be mailed to Mr. Merrill at 48 West 48th Education Street, New York City. of Musical John Williams Page 146) C.P.E. BACH (iContinued from

goal, not the starting is quite evident that Chopin did not of present-day be the point. It “There is another phase Questions and Answers Let the fledgling performer begin in want one to split hairs in cases of this that is rather disturb- his musical education 1Continued Renowned educa- a best'seller? own community—in a club room or a sort, nor to be unduly worried over such from Page 156) in the number ing. I refer to the decline con- private home, if no hall is available. Let passages. students in our major ists is based on a very difficult Bf tor and author, who has of string cases when the only to examina- marked in- him go on to surrounding communities, There are way servatories, together with the tion in organ playing as well as in various ’ and then to the nearest city. Let discover whether the rhythm is correct written what has been rec- It seems almost incredible -lliat a collection of old and brasses. In other- him phases of crease in woodwinds each advanced music theory. The instruments strengthen his wings gradually, so that or not is to think of measure as piano pieces hy such 18th and 19th-century masters as words, exclusively orchestral dean of a chapter is elected by his col- |1« m ognized as the most wide- beat, as in rapid low, his New York debut will be simply a being one moving com- (strings, bassoons) are at a new leagues and he has duties similar to those C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach, W. F. Bach, Beethoven, - debut in New York and not an all-time positions, such as the Scherzo in B-flat ly used series of instruction exclusively band instruments (clai of the president of any society. while 31. In the following measure Schubert, Schumann and Tchaikovsky new high. I debut. In this way he will gain confidence, minor, Op. Borodin, Grieg, inets, trumpets) are at a As to class lessons, I am in favor of —2U books for students of piano, naturally, five notes in it simplify themselves bands have been he will develop he will have the them, as well as many lesser-known composers— should he think it indicates that amazing not only because, of lower costs but like time in which to learn not merely a re- in the most manner if that including a Graded Sight Reading Course made so popular that young people because the pupils in a class stimulate this status is exactly what is thought of as one long classed as a best-seller! Yet same time, see cital program, but music. (By way of an measure beat, them better and, at the each other, they enjoy coming together in four books, Scales Books, a “Boy’s original aside, let me say that no young pianist, along with the immediately preceding ALFRED MIROVITCH'S delightful collection of wider commercial outlet in them. I think as a group, and they learn much from for instance, should play one sonata of and succeeding measures. 8' and band pieces has attained. It is called INTRODUCTION TO it also indicates that bands each other’s mistakes. Book of Pieces”,, “First Book for the until has mastered - instruments have been very successfully Beethoven’s he all Ex. 12 s short time, it has l PIANO CLASSICS. And, in a very thirty-two, nor should he present one of Adult Beginner” and Editor of the . publicized. Would it help matters, I won- become a favorite with teachers, students, and amateur excepting the forty-eight Preludes and of der, if violin makers (always Educational Series of selected /y gentle- Bach until he has studied all.) pianists all over the country. The pieces range in dif- the spirits of the old Cremona “Whether one’s ultimate destiny lies on nxn^s. graded teaching pieces. men!) were to organize a rousing cam- Wife Begins at Forty-Plus j/f/yy ficulty from about the second grade to the fourth, and paign of ‘plugging’ strings? the audience side or the footlights side ( Continued from Page demand little technical or interpretative skill. of the stage, one should endeavor to reg- 135) Where Should a Career Begin? ulate music study according to a purpose. Many students are unduly concerned “Finally, I believe vast improvement The youngster with the necessary en- instinctively the fact that the study of over the measure illustrated below, which could be made in training young profes- dowment will wish to become a musician. music is one of the “grandest” games of is an excerpt from Nocturne E-flat, VERY FIRST PIANO BOOK.., 75 why. ask for “ Introduction the in ®J/ you want to sec sionals for the start of their careers. Un- Then his task is to study music—in all solitaire. They are presently astonished ” Op. 9, No. 2. FIRST GRADE PIANO BOOK 1 .00 to Piano Classics by Alfred Mirovilcli. It s il.50 der existing conditions, that start seem- its endless and complex phases. The by the fact that when they hear good HAPPY HOUR BOOK...... 1.00 ingly must be made in New York City. youngster with no especially marked gift Ex. 13 music they get a new atid strange kind York is the will find no ‘use’ in music beyond the of enjoyment from it. than this SECOND GRADE PIANO BOOK c . . 1.00 The feeling is that New —- More ; rrfrrffr ~t~ v ‘showcase’ where debutants display their joy it can give him. Then he is best served m^== they cease to be musically suppressed. THIRD GRADE PIANO BOOK 1 .00 musical wares in return for New York by preparing him with a pre-study back- The doors of musical understanding are BURGMULLER, Op 100 .75 New York 17 Brooklyn 17 then, determine, ground that will unfold to him what thrown open to them. 3 East 43rd Street 275 Livingston Street criticisms. These reviews, bt i SECOND PIANO PART TO FIRST GRADE BOOK 75 worse, future of the music really is. Whatever your status, let It is reported that Queen Victoria Cleveland 14 for better or the 43 The Arcade young performer. It seems to me that your music study be based upon a sound (1819-1901) commenced the study of Him this is entirely wrong! New York should philosophy of knowing why.” dustani when she was over seventy. (She THE BOSTON MUSIC COMPANY These notes are nothing but a slow trill, died when she was eighty-two.) 116 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON 16, MASS. and, if one should accidentally insert an The wise men of the ages have known extra group, Chopin would not rise from that the secret of youth is to avoid rust It HANDS you the Music yon want Protecli music from his grave! Keep both hands light, main- by. keeping interested in new things dirt or tain TONKabinet has drawer-frays damage. Irregular Rhythms in Chopin a musical tone, and if one tries to Somewhere Shakespeare wrote, “My easily keep that file sheet music ; • play the left hand part about where it youth may wear and waste, but it shall THE MOST PRACTICAL SCIENTIFIC findablc. & neat, clean, orderly, Richly styled. it ( Continued from Page 139) appears No searching; it almost hands Beautifully on the printed page, the effect never rust in my profession.” Keeping the music you want. Write you crafted. cannot be too far from that intended by is of keeping interested; dealer’s name and • young a matter PIANO COURSE EVER PUBLISHED for nearest the part of the performer. In playing the composer. pictures of styles available. By makers of or as La Rochefaucould observes, “La Mfg. Co., 1912 N. Mag- Nationally hands together, strong accents placed Took on Never stop in the course of playing an une ivresse continuelle; e’est Chicago 14. Known Tonk jeunesse est nolia Ave., every third note in the left hand and irregular The Felix De Cola self-teaching piano course Furniture. rhythm such as two against la fievre de la raison.” (“Youth is a con- every fourth note in the right hand, will three. Keep going. The difficult passages tinual intoxication; it is the fever of rea- tend to steady the rhythm. Later accents Popular piano and improvising Sizes and should of course be concentrated on by son.”) Music is one of the most in- styles for on the first and third beats (assuming themselves until the performer has played triguing of all of the arts and it is no I TONKabinets Homes, that the quarter note receives - one beat) Keep the left hand light and nine them correctly many times. wonder that we can point to a surprising A How to chord your pieces Schools, will contribute to good rhythm. will For the student wishes chances out of ten the rendition who supple- number of music workers who, upon the A" How to fill up empty spaces Bands, etc. Another example of four against three mentary for Sheet Music sound smooth. Perhaps the metronome practice on rhythms of two word of the calendar, are no longer in the experts it is found in Valse, Op. 64, No. 1. In this A How do could tick against three, the writer recommends teens, who, through an enliven- be set for J. = 40 and could their but case the following procedure may be used How to play in different keys once for each measure, first hands sepa- Chopin’s No. 2 Etude in his “Trois ing interest in music have found a far A" to simplify this particular passage: First Etudes”; rately, then hands together. also Mendelssohn’s Song With- finer fountain of youth than that which A How to harmonize by note and ear play the right hand out CLASSIFIED ADS In Chopin’s Nocturne, Op. 32, No. 1, Words entitled Fleecy Clouds. Ponce de Leon sought in Florida. A" How to improvise Ex. 6 the passage below (at a) defies counting. A few' irregular rhythms, thoroughly YOUR UNWANTED MUSIC exchanged PIANO PRACTICING ANNOYING and accurately learned, cannot but be a A" How to play ballads, tangos, waltzes, piece for piece, 5^ each; quality matched, OTHERS? 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Vocal, Instru- J J1J mental Classics Exchanged for Old Popu- $695 cash. 27 Perkins St., New Haven, Music. Fore’s, E-3151 Conn. for the same number of trials, FELIX DE PIANO lar High, Denver 5, and finally COLA COURSES Colorado. HARP FOR SALE—Lyon and Healy Con- cert Grand in excellent condition. For par- Ex. 8 LEARN PIANO TUNING—Simplified, au- If each hand is done repeatedly, when The World of Music 736 North Martel Avenue, Los Angeles 46, Calif. thentic instruction $4.00 —Literature free. ticulars write Mrs. Thomas W. Simpson, 326 South Harden Street, Columbia, South j they are finally put together the result Prof. Ross, 456 Beecher St., Elmira, N. Y. j n ( Continued Page Carolina. from 191) LEARN PIANO TUNING AT HOME. should be at least approximately correct. COMPOSERS, SONGWRITERS, MAKE for a while. Then try as written. Guarantee Course by Dr. Wm. Braid White. Pay as you If this Practicing hands alone is the only solu- in MONEY by promoting your music. sup- length, suitable for Ascension Day. The The FELIX DE COLA PIANO COURSES have been especially designed for self-instruction and are com- learn. Write Karl Bartenbach, 1001A Wells We Is not sufficient practice to cost clinch the tion in so it is self-explanatory. At the teachers find these courses excellent for teaching St., Lafayette, Ind. ply low copies for your music manu- a case of this sort. And work will be sung at a special Ascension Day pletely same time many scripts, songs. Musicopy Service, rhythm, count 1 2+ 3 purposes. Both FELIX DE have been given numerous and exhaustive tests Box 181, + 4 . Then, if with Be service, COLA PIANO COURSES FOR SALE: Violin by owner. Beautiful. many other irregular rhythms. May 6, 1948; and it will be published Cincinnati 1, Ohio. you are still uncertain with absolute beginners of all ages and players of all grades from elementary through professional Joannes Baptista Guadagnini 1770 known as to the rhythm, sure right hand by the H. ZION’S the time is correct in the W. Gray Company. All details and teaching levels. With reasonable application your success is unconditionally guaranteed. as (Millant). No cracks or soundpost FROM HONORED MAYOR—VIO- the left hand should be played may patch. Yellow orange varnish. A superb LINIST, RICHARD F. HIRE: “Having many in the above illustration. be secured by writing to the Secretary, times alone, instrument for an artist. Will trade. played a number of violins fitted with the right hand likewise, is Church of the and In the Prelude, Op. 28, No. 15, there Ascension, Fifth Avenue at Please send me by return mail: Write Theodore Marchetti, 472 E. 5th PATMOR TONEPOST (which it definitely then the tenth two hands together. will Street, New York N. Y. Course of Piano (for beginners) $3.00 Ave., Columbus, Ohio. improved), I recommend it in all violins.” an example of seven against two, as 11, Name Write PATMOR FIDDLERY, Zion, 111. In Chopin’s Valse, Op. 64, No. Course of popular Plano and W —From party in or close to Los 2, we find be seen below. It is immaterial just when ANTED (Offering 150 “Old/New” master violins). the improvising $4.00 Angeles, Clavier, Virgil preferred, but not note groupings eight against three A PRIZE the second left sounded as of $1,000.00 is offered by Robert ... Street essential. Write F. Preston, 246 So. Benton THEORY, HARMONY, lessons private or hand note is Both Piano Courses (save $2.00) .$5.00 The writer would suggest these err,*M for "Way, Los Angeles, Calif., or phone DR-8423 correspondence. George C. Webb, 14 Morn- methods long as it is played approximately as rr Ibe best new one-act opera in (Cash, Money Order, or Check) C.O.D. of practicing this English lo play the piano evenings. ingside Avenue, New York 26, N. Y. measure: aligned. in which the wins the girl. ’How would you like 20% Cash Discount to Teachers City & Zone State Ihe only rules governing the contest are that as I do in three weeks' time?" 196 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE" THE ETUDE march, 1948 197 ,

England. merchant their and carried them to A pride. One of the enormous bells went to London, in the Montreal of Charleston, who Cathedral weighs fifteen STUDEHT PinniST bought them and had them sent home. thousand pounds. The first carillon hung REIREHTIOnS When they were rehung in the belfry, in the United States was at Gloucester, great rejoicing that the city Massachusetts, in 1922. MAIER there was GUY have piano compositions which achieved again. But the bells’ ad- Some bells this series, we offer had its voice have unusual couplets in- moments In starting w.th s.nular Chappell, believing that the student pianist requires enlarge it in the future works had only begun. In 1823, two scribed. A bell at Coventry, SUMMER WORKSHOP COURSES FOR TEACHERS, continental success and will ventures England, in study, is offering this catalogues. were cracked. After local work- dated 1675, bore this of relaxation the course of piano our foreign and domestic of them inscription: from they made ADVANCED PIANISTS and JUNIOR PIANISTS new series, CHAPPELL’S RECREATIONS FOR THE STUDENT men were unable to fix them, “I ring at six to let men know. we feel that to be the function of second journey to England, and When to and from their work they go.” PIANIST, which incorporates both pedagogical and recrea- We have not graded these pieces since their were recast in their original molds. In Bells also were used for trade marks tional qualities. the piano teacher. 1839 they were again hung in the bell and curfews. Gray’s “Elegy in a Country The FESTIVAL COURSE SING AND PLAY and chimed until the time of the Churchyard” begins with: “The curfew THE THREE MARINERS — Borbaro Kirkby-Mason TWENTY TUNES TO tower VIRGINIA INTERMONT COLLEGE, Bristol, Virginia The chimes were then taken tolls the knell of a parting LAST LOVE BY THE SEASHORE — Barbara Kirkby-Mason Joan Last Civil War. day.” to Columbia, South Car- Shakespeare refers Two weeks, Aug. 2-13. E. Markham Lee down and moved to the Pancake Eric Coates DANCING LIGHTLY — supplementary material for the beginning piano Splendid injury. This proved to be Bell, which Tuition: Teachers and Advanced Pianists Two weeks, $60.00 GREEN GLADES — M. E. Marshall olina, to escape is rung on Shrove Tuesday at — The attractive text helps with the rhythmic A flowing and romantic piano composition student. during the occupation 8 THE WAGTAIL — M. E. Marshall a great mistake, for P. M., when everyone is to refrain from One week, 40.00 approach ‘ by this famous English composer bells were burned 400 EACH of Sherman’s army the eating pancakes during Lent. Here are a Junior Pianists (up to 17)— Two weeks, 15.00 so loved in the fire of 1865. They were few couplets: One week, 10.00 by the people that the precious frag- “Pancakes and fritters, say the bells of IMPORTANT NOTICE—The INTERMONT courses will be limited to 200 teachers and • guarded and when the war St. Peters.” • NEW YORK 20, N. Y. ments were CHAPPELL CO., INC. • R.K.O. BUILDING ROCKEFELLER CENTER pianists (adult), and 50 junior pianists. Registrations accepted in order of receipt. & was over they were again sent to London “Hark, I hear the Pancake Bell; fritters Immediate registration is urged, accompanying application with check or money order to be recast. In February 1867 the eight make a gallant smell.” for full tuition. . . . Reasonable rooms and meals may be engaged at the college. bells returned home to the steeple of The Pudding Bell was rung immediate- For further details and registration, address Sec'y, Guy Maier Courses, vices man has sought out for obtaining St. Michael’s, having crossed the Atlantic ly after service as a reminder to hurry Just Published Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, Virginia. The Romance of Famous Bells distinction, by making a noise in the five times. On March 27, 1867, they rang home and prepare dinner. it is the harmless.’* joyously the old tune, “Home again, All chimes ring out at Yuletide with The Road to (Continued from Page 157) world, most out foreign land.” Since The famous Liberty Bell in Inde- home again, from a Christmas songs that glorify the air. Per- Successful well, through SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA suburbs. It is regarded as a deed of dis- slanting position served, his purpose pendence Hall, Philadelphia, was cast then, they have passed unharmed haps the one most often heard is Adeste the ground from earthquakes, and fires. At the Fideles. Singing tinction for a citizen to give a bell to a A plumb line, lowered to three times. To commemorate the fiftieth cyclones, Intensive Teachers' Course—July 12-16 church; the larger belfry story) reaches the ground of the Eighteenth Century the A movement launched by Mr. Neil C. bell, the greater the the (top , By H. MAURICE-JACQUET anniversary of the chartering of Penn- close Advanced and Junior Pianists' Repertoire Classes—July 6-27 of the destruction merit. about thirteen feet from the base sylvania, church narrowly escaped by Miller, geologist of Elmore, Ohio, is well Robert Charles, then in London, Private lessons—June 2 I -July 24 courageous young erecting Next to Russia, the largest bells are building. was commissioned by order of the As- fire. It was saved by a under way for a Peace Bell Tow- For Santa Monica details and registration, address Sec'y, Courses, (The author has said to be in world are there to be climbed to the top of er the Memorial to the Guy Maier China. It is not an uncom- Nowhere in the sembly for the State House, Province of Negro sailor who near Unknown spent years in mon sight to see tall beautiful bell towers than in tore off the blazing shin- Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, 503 Alta Ave., Santa Monica, California. towers, broken down found more Pennsylvania, to procure a bell of the tower and teaching, coach- two by the weight of the hells. The most Italy, the home of the first church bells. gles. As a reward for his bravery the Virgina. This Tower will house, in ad- ing and accom- thousand pounds, to cost one hundred celebrated bell in China is the one at St. Mark’s Campanile in Venice, another received his liberty, a sum of money, dition to the great Peace Bell, a double panying artists pounds sterling. The bell arrived in Au- slave MAIER FEATURES. . . . Group training . . . Pekin; its weight is sixty tons and its beautiful tower, is three hundred and fishing boat equipped with nets. carillon, with a bell representing each of SOME WORKSHOP piano latest teaching who, thanks to gust 1752. Engraved on it is “Proclaim and a and technical trends . . . analysis of new teaching materials . . . repertoire diameter twelve feet. twenty-five feet high. glance at bells and bell the fifty-four United Nations, together classes for him, have be- liberty throughout all the land, unto all In our hurried advanced pianists . . . laboratory for junior pianists . . . Artist concerts . . . "Miniature come popular fa- The bell of Monserrat, near -Barcelona, not forget radio equipment for transmitting the inhabitants thereof.” (Lev. XXV, 10.) towers of America we must with Masterpiece" lessons . . . courses, lectures and private lessons by outstanding associate vorites. He acted Some Bell Towers of The British Isles Spain, is of beautiful ornamented bronze. the fact that the first ones of note were the tones of the bells around the world. The second casting was made in Phila- teachers. as coach and ac- It bears a double inscription—the upper Spanish monks who This tower will be surmounted at night Big Ben is one of the largest bells in delphia, after been added to built by the devout companist for the copper had England. one being dedicated to the honor of God, had charge of the missions in California by a great pinnacle of light. late Grace Moore Located in the Clock Tower of reduce its brittleness. Dissatisfied with the Virgin Mary, and all saints, and the and the Southwest. The missions, seventy A bill H.R.1769 to authorize the ap- on her first tour.) the Houses of Parliament, it weighs thir- the ring. State officials again ordered it lower inscription dedicated to Saints Syl- all, their bells and bell tow- pointment of a commission for this me- teen tons and the tone can be heard all to be remade in April, 1753, and rehung in have own vester and Cajatan, by Salvador and ers. all different in design; morial has been introduced in Congress by over London. In the spring of 1925 Big in of it the They were This book is rich in new ideas and inspira- June that year, where rang Ben Francis Anthony of Monserrat. Italian and in their sheltered walks, flowers, and Homer A. Ramey. What a fine bill for tion for the singer who desires to be an in- was heard in New York (via radio) good tidings of the Declaration of In- belaudJnslltutp of(Dusir telligent interpreter of the vocal art. It is an campaniles and Spanish turrets are also for the first time. chimes. No wonder theybecame such an musicians to back! invaluable aid to a fuller understanding of dependence in 1776. used for alarms. to be what voice training should include, and of What some claim oasis to the Indians, birds, and early William Graham Rice, conceded Bachelor of Music Degree, Master of Music Degree, to be the best bell Harvard University had a bell turret Artist Diploma the requirements necessary to, become an ac- bell towers in England, Great Paul, hangs in St. settlers! the greatest authority on complished singer. as early as 1643 and the antique chapel BERYL RUBINSTEIN, Mus. D., Director 3411 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, will O. The chapters on the physical aspects of Paul’s Cathedral, London, and weighs One of our most beautiful carillons is says, “In two more years America America's Great Singing Towers bell at Yale University was described as Charter Member of the National Association of Schools of Music singling are particularly instructive and con- more than sixteen tons. the Bok Singing Tower and Bird Sanc- have outstripped them all in Bells and tain This cathedral “about with much practical information regarding the The highest bell tower in the world as good a bell as a fur cap voice, vocal production, and the proper use of has always been famous for its bells. tuary at Mountain Lake, Florida. Bell Towers.” a sheep’s tail for a clapper.” Now. all the the aiding resources of the body. Teachers and in 1909 was and still is the Metropolitan Another Florida carillon is in the students of singing, and singers will profit principal towers. much Tower in New York. It is seven hundred universities have chime in the reading and study of these chapters. Stephen Foster Memorial. It is sponsored Other Famous Bells The one at the California The chapters on Philosophical Approach, feet high and has a peal of four bells. University of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL of MUSIC and ARTS by the Florida Federation of Music Clubs The Spiritual Aspect of Singing, The Emo- The most famous bell tower in Italy The largest bears the inscription: “A new can be heard in Oakland and across the HAL D. CRAIN, Director tions, and Practical Advice should give' the for First, the is near bay. toweas three reasons. to honor Choral Singing the Cathedral at Florence. This commandment I give unto Many city halls have clock A school of serious purpose and high integrity. Unsurpassed teaching staff reader “food for thought” in developing you—that ye song includes ERNST character, in beautiful memory of the great American KRENEK, ERIK ZEISL, DR. S. R. STEIN, HAL D. CRAIN, ROBERT A. YOST, .and forming a healthy attitude campanile was built by Giotto love one another.” The Westminster Peal, with chimes. WOLFGANG FRAENKEL. toward singing and living. writer. Second, the Federation wishes Graded courses — Beginning to finished artistry. in 1334 and richly decorated with marble. or Cambridge The Columbian exhibited for Children Quarters, that New Yorkers Liberty Bell, Approved for Veterans Cloth Bound. Price, Ruskin, in to show appreciation for the beautiful $2.00. his “Lamps of Architecture,” hear from this tower, is at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, had becoming more Address Registrar, 3173 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, Calif. At your Music Dealer’s, “Swanee” River which inspired the song, ( Continued from Page 184) says, “Characteristics of power and popular in the United States than any a curious history. This duplicate Liberty or direct from the Publishers beauty 'Wag Down Upon the Swanee River, exist in more abundance in this other peal. It is based on one of Handel’s Bell had all sorts of “tone sweetners” campanile adopted as Florida’s state song in 1935. discussed method and in already proven than in all others.” themes. The sound of this peal can be thrown into the melting pot. There was OLIVER DITSON CO. Third, amphitheater Here is the answer to a voice The round campanile of Pjza (Leaning heard miles to give Florida an ideas! THEODORE PRESSER CO. Distributors many at sea. The bells are a copper kettle belonging to Thomas with a stage, a shrine, a caril- teacher’s prayer for the ideal pupil ma- Tower of Piza), was begun in 1174 and tuned to Jefferson, memorial DILLER-QUAILE Schools— 1712 Chestnut St. Philadelphia 1, Pa. the keys of D-flat, E-flat, F-flat, a surveyor’s chain of George Colleges finished lon which will play Stephen Foster songs. terial. in 1359. It is one hundred and and G. One of the earliest bells in the Washington, the keys to Jefferson Davis’ A life size will be in the the director who has never known seventy-nine feet high. Galileo tried his New World was imported home, chain, statue of Foster Only School of Music SCHOOL for Philadel- Simon Bolivar’s watch the experiments regarding the entrance to the building. a complete “success experience” with OF laws of gravi- phia by William Penn and hung in Town thimbles from Revolutionary War days, Normal Course with observation CONVERSE COLLEGE MUSIC For five generations the Maneely fam- Children’s Chorus will advocate “saving” tation from the top of this tower. The Hall in 1685. The original two lead War, Edwin Ger8chef8ki, Dean, Spartansburg, S. C. bells of Trinity bullets from the Civil as a of children's classes. ily has been casting bells in the foundry the child voice; in my experience Church, New York, were cast in England which had met In mid-air and made a at Troy, coloratura and as a director of chil- KNOX Department of Music New York. According to Chester boy Musicianship Courses for Galesburg, Illinois in 1700 and were a gift from perfect all, two Queen Anne. U for Union, and last of Thomas W. Williams, Maneely, bells cast by them now ring out dren’s music projects for more than ten Chairman •A chime of eight bells was ordered hundred thousand pennies contributed Children and Adults. COLLEGE Catalogue sent upon request. the call to America, years I have found that we best save the from England for Christ by children Union. worship not only in Church, Boston, from every state in the use, Instruction in Piano, Voice, CONSERVATORY but also in Australia, Syria, Bulgaria, child voice by careful, pleasant in 1744. They have mingled their voices Its tone was satisfactory, but Chester OF MUSIC British than by allowing it the question- Composition. SHENANDOAH•w - - * - * m m m — — . . - _ L. E. Miller, Pres. with every popular ovation skepti- Guiana, Ceylon, Hawaii, Cuba, rather and for over two Maneely says, “They were plenty parks, Courses leading to the B. Mus., and B. Mus Mexico, New Zealand, and vari- able freedom of the alleys, ball Ed. centuries. In 1894 the bells were over- cal about the bell was Turkey, degrees. Member NASM. In the hear mixture.” The well corre- 66 EAST 80 ST., NEW YORK 21, N.Y. BU 8 1050 ous Polynesian Islands. of their bells and amateur shows! Several of the Shenandoah Valley, Dayton, Virginia hauled and a trained band of English purchased by the Daughters of the Amer- Two Were with ideas such as “tuning” for pitch, bell-ringers revealed the volume ican Revolution rebuilding Admiral Byrd’s Expedition. lated and -who are also careful modula- One of the first America exercising for flexibility, sweetness of their sound. Because of the the Memorial Bell Tower at Valley Forge. cities in North to sweet, forward, quality and shortage of bell-ringers, obtain a fine modern carillon was To- tion for that a society was The chimes in Michael’s Church Est. St. ronto, supervision, are the answer to BALDWIN-WALLACE formed in England which Canada. Fifty-three bells crown individual 1894 became ex- Tower, Charleston, South Carolina, have skeptical flKfomeXTKeatre the Victory choral needs. Even the most CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Lyric Arts Culture tremely popular. T Tower of the Houses of Par- any l and The members were from had a most eventful career. They w ere Singing Acting Speech Dancing liament. agree that such care and well pre- BEREA. OHIO (suburb of Cleveland) — — — the nobility, or' were college St. The commanding view of the will Beginners, intermediate, professional; private and class. students. cast in London and installed in first buildings could bring about only Affiliated with a class Liberal Arts College. Limited number of advanced VOCAL students accepted adds to appear- pared methods five year courses leading to degrees. said, “Great are the Michael’s British evac- the imposing Four and Faculty for workshop study, under professional direction, in 1764. When the ignorant Teachers. Send for catalogue ance of the the best results; only the most of Artist or Informa- Of OPERA IN ENGLISH and OPERETTA. mysteries of bell-ringing, and this Tower. tion to: may uated Charleston in thq Revolutionary such proven Presented lor public and producers. The chimes possibly condemn HAROLD W. BALTZ, Dean, Berea, Ohio Enroll now. Approved for Veterans. be said in its praise; that of all tim de- bells of Notre Dame Cathedral could War, they took possession of these at Write Sec’y. Shubert, 1780 Broadway, N. Y. City Montreal, are fine and deserving of facts. 198 ''MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” ETUDE EXALTS LIFE” THE march, 194s "MUSIC STUDY 199 0 —! , , 1 I

Junior Etude Contest Bells Are Everywhere The Junior Exude 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 jliorne by Wargaret and best stories or and for answers right corner of your paper. OBERLIN is open to all boys to puzzles. Contest and Write on one side of paper only. Do back and girls under eighteen years of age. not use typewriters and do not have any- ringing rocks the bell-buoy forth VERYDAY we hear bells Class A, fifteen to eighteen years of one copy your work for you. to warn ships in the channel not to somewhere, but we get so use age; Class B, twelve to fifteen; Class C, Essay must contain not over one hun- too near, or they may run into An attractive college town lends quiet in certain come under twelve years. dred and fifty words and must E to hearing them be re- rocks or shoals. Names of prize winners will appear on ceived at the Junior charm to this school for professional that we take them for Etude Office, 1712 connections beautiful bells on ani- in a future issue of The Etude. them Then, the this page Chestnut Street, Philadelphia (1), Pa., by granted, and we rarely notice musicians. many mals. Bells on elephants; bells on The thirty next best contributors will re- the 22nd of March. Results in June. Con- their relation to music. As in ringing across the desert; ceive honorable mention. testants may select their own essay topic bells as camels, COLLEGE from kinds of sounds come Put your name, age and class in which this month. they small bells hung around the necks the number of uses for which Thorough instruction in all branches of sheep, of goats, of cows high on were made; there are high pitched toned the mountains in Switzerland. These of music under artist teachers. High bells and low bells; bells deep harsh bells tell the herdsmen where the ELIZABETH A.GEST or thin; bells of rich quality or A Musical Experience Prize Winners for “My First Lesson” standard of admission. Special train- (Not printed in full) Essays in December quality. CONSERVATORY ing in band and choir direction. it must over February issue) When our alarm clock rings (Held from Class A, Elizabeth Anne Butz, (Age 16) be a jangly bell or it would not ac- (Prize winner in Class A) Pennsylvania its purpose—to wake us up The lights were glowing as the con- Class B, Frances Madigan (Age Sick-in-Bed Games complish 14), Write for catalogue describing Ober- when we would much rather sleep. ductor raised his baton to begin the slow Michigan OF MUSIC and mournful climb of Tchaikovsky’s Class C, Suzanne Younger lin's conservatory courses and its The school bell calls us to lessons, (Age 8), ^JJutchinion Sixth Symphony. The Symphony melted Texas and in a hurry. The door bell always superior equipment practice together in wonderful harmonies and (200 demands attention, but its bell has as the fairy-like rhythms. Soon the strings took up the rooms, 26 modern organs, etc.). changed through the years from a herds and flocks are, Answers measles, and violinist, Zimbalist, for Z. second theme, sweet and poignant, and I to Quiz OMETIMES bad colds, to tinkle of the bells is heard down in of your Junior jingly bell rung by pulling a wire, clarinet would soon echo such things keep people in bed for 3. Look in past issues realized the ; S valleys. 1, 2, Tchaikovsky; 2, a form of bell, or even a res- the ill to Etudes and see how many Quiz ques- a buzzing electric them, but I had only a moment for such several days, yet they are not too can be made by ring- composition in which the principal theme 0 Degrees: Bachelor of Music, Bachelor can answer correctly. Ten is with two or three rich, Many tunes reflection. given the cue I was want amusement to help pass the time. tions you onant When returns between each succeeding bells. These are made in theme; interesting musical a perfect score for each Quiz, and each tones. The telephone bell in- ing hand ready to blend my instrument into the of Music Education; Master of Music, There are lots of musical 4, Sibelius; 5, the name of an opera by will take the' place mistake subtracts one point from your Symphony. I had feared nervousness, but things to do then that Gounod, and also the name of a char- Master of Music Education. score. there was only peace and happiness that of practicing. f acter in the opera; 6, G-sharp, B-sharp, can find that 4. Write down a melody or two that you r f f ,l. came from being a part of something words | -# 1. See how many you ur £j= D-sharp, F-sharp; 7, trio; 8, first theme compose. Be sure to keep the meas- that unbelievably wonderful. can be spelled with the letter names was from first movement of Symphony Westminster Chinns, London. in G FRANK H. SHAW. Director Member of the National Association notes, a, b, c, d, e, f, g. Write ures in correct rhythm and don’t for- Nancy Heitmann (Age 17), of the minor, by Mozart; 9, without accompani- you have found in staff get signatures and accidentals. The Illinois. the words sists on an immediate answer. The various sizes, have wooden handles, ment; 10, an aria. Box 539, Oberlin, Ohio of Schools of Music. and next time you get to your piano, try it notation, using first the treble usually stand a table in a you fire gong clangs for a drill in school. and on then the bass. If you do not happen to over and see if it sounds just as Dear Junior Etude: The clock on the mantel tells us row where they can be rung, one at have any music paper, just draw some intended it to sound. My major instrument is cornet but I know if its ring, but the a time, to form melodies. I want to be a first-class band conductor 1 staffs. 5. Make (or buy) a cardboard keyboard. the hour, with quiet lines and make your own should know something about all kinds of over your exercises grandfather’s tall clock in the hall All such bells are small and light instruments, therefore 2. Write the alphabet on left margin of On this you can go 1 am studying other in- struments as well. 51st YEAR Chartered by the Board of Regents of York if can and pieces. comes right out with a rich, low tone in weight, but not so the big bells New State paper, reading down. See you Every time I study in musical history about write the name of a composer, per- Instead of slipping back during an ill- to sound out the hours. Some clocks that hang high in the church steeples a composer I draw or paint his picture and this helps me to remember him and his work better, former or musical term beginning with ness, you may be surprised to find these these or in the bell towers. Some of for then he is a real friend I could never really pushed you ahead each letter. You may have to skip Q pastimes have weigh many tons and can be heard Letter Boxers forget. BROOKLYN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC I am enclosing a picture of myself playing but you can write the name of the in general music knowledge. Frederick E. Bergbrede, Director great distances. How they are made my first recital. This xylophone I made my- Send all replies to Letters in care of self. For this I used in poplar and oak wood for COMPLETE COURSES of various metals and raised high the Junior Etude, 1712 Chestnut Street, the frame, which was sandpapered and painted PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMA—College Credit Preparation—Teachers Certificate the towers to form sets of carillons, Philadelphia 1, Pa., and they will be SECONDARY CERTIFICATE—High Schooi Regents Credit PreparationP Quiz. No. 5 how they are played with levers, forwarded. PREPARATORY CERTIFICATE would make a long story. The following lines 1. What instrument plays the lowest names of its dominant seventh chord? are quoted from OPERA SCHOOL ART DEPARTMENT sing The bell in America letters tone in the brass section of a 7. When three performers play or i most famous which space does not permit All Instruments, Singing, Composition combina- printing symphony orchestra? a composition, what is the is the great Liberty Bell, and one in full. SPECIALIZED INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION • SUPERVISION In Service Credit Courses for Public School Teachers. Approved 2. Which composer was born in 1840 tion called? of the most famous sets of chimes Veterans Courses. “I am in my ninth year of piano lessons and Seventh Ave., at Lincoln Place Brooklyn, and died in 1893? have chimes and we find ourselves in the world is in the tower of also play organ. I would like to hear from N.Y. some pianists 3. What is a rondo? and and organists.” whistling the tune of the chimes. Westminster Abbey in London, Claudette Leveque (Age 15), 4. Was “Finlandia” written by Tchai- Then, there are the warning bells. even though you can’t play on them, District of Columbia Gan you afford to be without kovsky, Sibelius, or Grieg? "I hope to be concert pianist and I also THE ETUDE at $3.00 a year when you The tiny one around the kitten’s you can make their tune and play it a 8. From what composition is the theme neck play the organ. I would like to hear from 5. Is Faust a term meaning not very consider you will be receiving approximately $50 worth of music? lets the birds know she is near, and on the piano. You could also play it music lovers.” fast, the name of an opera or the given above taken? only Janice Liljegren (Age 16), name of composer? 9. What is meant by ? they can fly away. The scissors on musical glasses. You need Massachusetts is vocal solo third, “I would like to receive a letter from a 6. If a minor scale has four sharps in 10. What a melodious in an grinder swings a bell as he walks four tones, the first, second, Junior Etude reader.” opera called? its signature, what are the letter along, to let people know he is there and lower fifth of the scale. Fill four June Alcorn (Age 11), and ready to sharpen their knives glasses with just enough water to Indiana PIANO-EXCELEENCE-PRIZES (Answers on next page) “I have studied piano for five years and play scissors. and The ragman’s wagon make these tones. The Westminster for church. We have no school bands here. I hope has a string of bells, shaken by the chimes peal forth every fifteen min- some one will write to me.” Orlen Richards, Wisconsin for 1948 Guild Diploma Winners jogging wagon. These bells patterns. are usu- utes with their regular tune ”1 am a student violinist and would like to hear from ally of different sizes and make dif- The tune on the hour is given above. music lovers about my own age.” The Pentatonic Scale Edward Le Strange (Age 18), (Made available through the co-operation of Business Patron ferent tones and it is coats of dark rose enamel. Then I fun to tell, as Have you ever heard it? New York ith three Members of the National Guild of Piano Teachers) and sawed it into the it bar of flat steel prac- times built their music on this scale the bells come closer, am studying piano and give lessons to a Usually everybody is so busy how many bells "if. oper lengths to get the pitch that was needed e‘gbt boys and girls, I would like hear from to Holes were drilled in each bar Artist Diploma Winners— Five cash prizes $250 each, plus ticing major and minor scales it is and many are still using it. can be counted from their tones with- other music students.” r the scale. id placed on the keyboard which was m- round-trip fare to New York for Experience Janet Arlen Leisenring (Age 15), further audition; final winner forgotten that there are Try playing some melodies on this out looking at the bells. The sleigh A Musical with strips of felt, the keys being held sometimes Michigan ilated receives another $250 and New York rubber covered pegs to fit the debut. using keys. (Not printed in full ) place by forms of scales, too, such as the scale, only the black You bells jingle as the horse and sleigh arrange the keys other Dear Junior Etude: lies. My teacher helped me key of C. It the whole-tone scale can play The Farmer in the Dell; speed silently over the snow; (Prize winner in Class from February) I play the make the instrument in the Collegiate Diploma Winners from Coast to Coast—Each of chromatic scale, the bi- B piano and and play instruments, second unds good alone or with other outstanding Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; the theme cycle bell a chance or third trombone in our High School instrument. TEN most receives $100. and the pentatonic scale. warns people of the rider’s A musical experience gives us took me two months to make this band. I enjoy the Junior Etude very much. scale has only five of the Largo from the “New World” approach; the gong on fire-engine to appreciate other artists. Music can be The pentatonic a From your friend, High School Diploma Winners—TWENTY cash prizes of $50 Symphony; the first part of Swanee or called an international language. It Virginia tones and you can make this scale by on an ambulance clangs to warn A. Wick (Age 12), Ohio Selma Mednikov, Winner of Artist each. speaks all experience P-sharp, G-sharp, A-sharp, River and Oh Susanna; and almost people or cars to get out of the way tongues. A musical Diploma, 1947 Excellence Prize. Grad- playing in uate of Juilliard School of Music. Superior Rating from Visiting aids us in our activities at home, Honorable Mention for “My First judge in 1948 auditions Is basic F-sharp all of The Campbells Are Coming and they’re in a hurry; the Pupil of Carl Friedberg. Lives in C-sharp, D-sharp, and again railroad en- requirement for school, in our jobs, in church, and also Lesson” Essays: New York. each of above. Send for rules. just the black keys of the Ole Man River. gine has a swinging bell to warn to end on— in our social standing. Dolores Ellenas, Mary Therese Gregory. Polly ster, Nancy Green, Fredricka There are dozens of others. Try people to keep off the tracks or else D»ngI^J~e- Box 1113 piano. — Mary Ann Ottaviani (Age 15) Mary Belle Smith, Oliver,.Betty ^^r. NATIONAL GUILD OF PIANO TEACHERS ’ Austin, Texas nations and races in olden to think of some. The flow of the tide in the harbor York. ^ Many New "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC’ ETUDE 200 THE MARCH, 1948 201 — ———— — — — • — — — —

EVERYDAY HYMN BOOK, For MY Piano , Richter Probably the best THE COVER FOR THIS MONTH—Bee- by Ada — known SHORT CLASSICS YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE, in arranging these. Stripping them of of its kind is Ada Richter’s My Edited Ella theatrical thoven is such a gigantic figure in music book Own for Piano, Compiled and by accessories and molding them with its piano that any effort here to give a brief sup- Hymn Book arrangements Ketlerer—The thorough teacher, who rec- into short easy-to-play pieces in grade in the second plement to the Beethoven portrait cover of favorite hymhs grade, ognizes the value to her pupils of an three, he has made these gems into rec- easier. Now there on this issue only can be very inadequate. and some even has been acquiantance with the classics, will be reational fare for the entire family. The EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC In the great mass of literature on created a demand for a similar book f delighted with this volume. As it con- selection of numbers is admirable. Here Beethoven various incidents mentioned equally well known hymns. This new tains thirty-five short numbers, grades among others are I am Called Little PUBLISHER S NOTES presents of verify the fact that a favorite recreation book not only such pieces but two to four, the pieces may be assigned Buttercup, A Wandering Minstrel, We effective of this great master of music was to take Lovers it also contains arrangements gradually as supplementary material in Sail the Ocean Blue, all with texts. Monthly Bulletin of Interest to all Music walks by himself. Because of his habit A of hymns specially written for and sung the pupil’s course of study. The contents A copy may be ordered now at the Fairest The University of Rochester of walking about Vienna it was easy for atopy. by children, such as: Lord Jesus; of this book were selected as a result of special Advance of Publication Cash “legend" as Beethoven’s passing the Heavenly King; I Think with Miss Ketterer’s own Price, 40 cents, such a Children of their popularity postpaid. The sale is Howard. Hanson, Director the home of a blind girl and being in- When I Hear That Sweet Story; God, pupils over the course of several years. limited to the United States and its pos- spired to enter her home and improvise Make My Life a Little Light; and Sav- At the special Advance of Publication sessions. Raymond Wilson, Assistant Director improvisations resulting for her, these jor iour, Like a Shepherd Lead Vs. The text Cash Price, 35 cents, postpaid, orders for SOUSA’S FAMOUS MARCHES, Arranged in his Sonata, Op. 27, No. 2, which is of the first verse is given with each. copies of this useful volume may LITTLE RYHMES TO SING AND PLAY, For Undergraduate and Graduate Departments Henry Levine Advance single over as the “Moon- Piano Solo by known the world IfFiarcli, 1948 Orders for single copies only may be be sent to the publisher now. Piano, by Mildred Hofstad—Made Up Of orders for this book are literally pouring light" Sonata. placed now at the special low Advance well-known nursery songs, this time, because of the book is More authentic, however, seems to be in. Now for the first SONGS, For Mixed intended ADVANCE OF PUBLICATION the covers of Publication Cash Price, 40 cents, AMERICAN NEGRO for pre-school musical training. Julietta lifting of certain restrictions, SUMMER SESSION the association of the Countessa postpaid. Voices, by John W. Work—This compre- Its familiar melodies, emphasized in of a single book will embrace playable Guicciardi with the creation of this So- hensive book containing over two hundred single notes only, are cleverly adapted OFFERS arrangements of the most famous Sousa June 28—August 6, 1948 nata. As the story goes, Beethoven already Childhood songs, religious and secular, to the five-finger position Stripes Forever; THE CHILD TSCHAIKOWSKY', Negro folk for each hand. affected with the malady that began marches: The Stars and was Days of Famous Composers, by l.otlic Ells- has been compiled by John W. Work, a The singing of a text leads to quick El Captain; King Cotton; The Liberty to take away his hearing when on a sum- All of the books in this list are in University memorization Post; worth Coit and Ruth Bampton—The books member of the faculty of Fisk of the tune, and serves as FALL SESSION preparation publication. The Bell; Semper Fidelis; Washington mer evening in 1802 he had walked clear for distinguished in the field of first ear training. This School Cadets; Man- in this series have been warmly welcomed and a man easily will be out into the suburban section of Vienna low Advance Offer Cash Prices ap- The Thunder; High by teachers and pupils, the correlation of the Negro spiritual. Although some of the proven by the use of this collection in September 27, 1948—June 11, 1949 ply only orders placed others. All tran- where paused outside a villa in which to NOW hattan Beach; and three he and music serving to make lessons spirituals are given with melody and text the studio and in the home. As early Delivery (postpaid) will be made expert arranger, story some of the Viennese elite were enjoying scriptions are by the when the books are published. more interesting. In this new book on only, over one hundred appear in har- keyboard work, these tunes provide a social gathering. Some of the guests Henry Levine. Paragraphs describing each pub- Tschaikowsky the music should prove monizations for four-part choral use. Five diverting recreational fare and make for address still be ordered at the For further information chancing to look out saw Beethoven in pages One copy may lication appear on these especially attractive. There arc simplified chapters of descriptive text matter on early awareness of rhythm. the moonlight and in full respect for his special Advance of Publication Cash excerpts from the Pathetique Symphony; the music of the Negro and an extensive While Miss Hofstad’s book is being pre- ARTHUR H. LARSON, Secretary-Registrar genius they prevailed upon him to come Price of 70 cents, postpaid. American Negro Songs For Mixed Voices Marche Slav; Piano Concerto, No. 1; and bibliography and index increase the pared, single copies may be reserved at in play for them. Among the guests and Work .80 to schools and libraries as the special Eastman School of Music the beloved June (Barcarolle) . The Troika book’s value Advance of Publication Cash young heiress, Julietta, BASIC STUDIES FOR THE INSTRUMENTS was the charming Basic Studies for the Instruments of the is included as an easy duet. A selected well as to music teachers, choruses, and Price, 30 cents, postpaid. for whom Beethoven secretly but futilely Orchestra Traugott Rohner OF THE ORCHESTRA, by Traugott Roliner— Rochester, New York Student's Books, each .25 list of Tschaikowsky recordings also is choirs. cherished a great love. At their request This new work offers excellent study and Conductor's Score .60 given. 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from a An Interesting Letter Home Group in Brazil ^ MUSIC SUGGESTIONS FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS AHEAD <( raced around Rio teach her. We to buy • These Etude: selected lists will prove helpful in choosing appro- Dear instrument and now she is studying brougnt an priate and interesting Now in its lunchtime today my husband Flag Day material for the many special pro- At rather hard all your little 1 to 2 grades, grams. number. Your ar- to be arranged for schools, clubs, societies, church Mother s Day June, 1946, (JUNE I4TH) home your grade pieces, looking forward to organizations, every time! In 1 & 2 etc. The piano numbers may be used with rival is a bright event (MAY I3TH) own building her own “Etude,” which recently my hus- CHORUS NUMBERS timely advantage for pupil-recitals or study needs. Music editorial asks an impor- this issue the publisher to to meet any described asked your send out Passing (Mixed) .... Barrett . .$0.08 requirements cheerfully sent for appropriate, ques- band 15541 The Flag Is By tant, these days very examination. VOCAL SOLOS in the cultural heart of to her, although she cannot read your 219 O Glorious Emblem (Mixed) O'Neill ... .15 should be considered not only by tion. It 224 Hail to the Flag (Mixed) Jeffery ... .05 Cat. No. Title and Composer Range Price Chicago, with greatly ex- texts. musical beings Stars and Stripes Forever ( Mixed ). Sousa 10 25176 Candle Light. .Chas. Wakefield She is my oldest pupil. Some weeks ago 35260 question into an- studio facilities I transpose that Stars and Stripes Forever (S.A.B.) . Sousa 12 May Cadman d-g. . . .$0 50 panded May experiment with the 35234 good I started an young- other key: Does music develop 35232 Stars and Stripes Forever ( Unison) . Sousa 10 26132 Candle Light. .Chas. Wakefield especially designed for est one. Forty years may be the differ- (MAY 1ST) does and I will tell you 10732 Our Country's Flag (Unison) Wolcott .. .10 Cadman b flat-E flat 50 neighbourhood? It her dad slipped into the ence. While . . . and other Spring An exquisite poem by Lee Shippey in a musical music teaching. will overlook my im- 35233 Stars and Stripes Forever (2 Pt. Festivals how, if you kindly setting of particular richness. This song has been School Chorus) Sousa 12 perfect English. It is not my mother CHORUS NUMBERS adopted by the American Parent-Teacher Asso- Flag Song Fling Out Her Glorious ciations for Mother’s Day Programs. Certificate, Diploma, Degree courses in Piano, Voice, Violin, Organ, Cello, Wind C2I76 ( tongue. Cat. No. Title Composer Price 26559 . Mother O' . Folds) (Male) Hammond .12 Mine. Arthur Kellogg c-sharp to .. . .50 we moved into our g Instruments, Public School Music, Conducting, Theory, Composition. Courses About two years ago Forever ).. Sousa 12 20230 In May (Unison) Ira B. Wilson $0.06 A new and unusually sympathetic setting of the 35119 Stars and Stripes ( Male allow eyes for well-known text by Kipling. new house. High enough to (Cantata for School) .... Root 50 35326 In Maytime (S.S.A.A.) .. Oley Speaks 10 for veterans under G.I. Bill of Rights. Summer Session opens June 21. Our Flag 26002 Mother's . through 35342 In Day.. Frank H. Grey c-E. . .40 ever and ever delighted, to gaze Our Colors (Short Cantata for Maytime (T.T.B.B.J . . . . Speaks-Peery 15 19695 Mother Calling! Alfred Hall E flat-g 40 another stretch of the 10234 Blossom Time (2 Pt.) J. W. Lerman 15 For free catalog, write Arthur Wiltlman, Musical Director, 1014 each window at Mens Voices) Spross 40 17956 Mother. . Stanley F. Widener c-F 40 I 15 Dawn Bay and the surrounding 35428 Stars and Stripes Forever of May, The (2 Pt.) . F. Berger 12 Michigan Illinois. Guanabaray A song with an excellent text. South Avenue, Chicago 5, 20409 'Tis May (2 Pt.) Ira B. Wilson 08 hills, with small hamlets tucked into their (Male) Sousa-Tidmarsh . .15 24022 Old Fashioned Mother Of Mine 20672 'Tis May Upon the Mountain green slopes, and little towns around the PIANO SOLOS Richard Kountz d-E flat 60 (2 Pt.) William Baines 12 24021 Old sea coast. But—the long winding cobble- 16275 Betsy Ross Spaulding ..Gr.2.. .30 Fashioned Mother Of Mine 15512 Lilacs (2 Pt.) Cadman-Forman .. .10 to this part of Flag Goes By Grey Gr. 2*/2 .50 Richard Kountz E-F 60 stoned street leading up 25426 15504 Lovely Springtime Pt.) . Moszkowski-Forman . MUSIC SCHOOL (2 .12 24020 Old Fashioned Mother Of Mine tram 27454 Flag of My Country Stairs Gr. I. . .25 Brazil’s metropole made living—no 6174 May March (2 Pt.) R. R. Forman 15 Richard Kountz F sharp-g somewhat lone- 16501 Hats Off to the Flag Spaulding . .Gr. 3. . .40 6165 60 no bus no gasoline—a Maypole, The (2 Pt.) . . . H. E. Warner 12 ERWOOD — — The above song ( published in 3 keys) is a song 12089 'Neath Old Glory Ralph Gr. 2'/2 .40 have made but for 20297 May Time (2 Pt. R. M. Stults which will do anyone's heart good to sing or some existence. Would ) 08 of Schools of Music Institutional Member of National Association Flag. Kern . . 8234 'Neath the American Gr. 3 .60 20370 hear at any time, but it is particularly acceptable Spring Fantasy, A (2 Pt.) . Norwood Dale 08 music. for Mother’s Day. 1 1896 Ours Is a Grand Old Flag. Spaulding . .Gr. I . . .25 20330 Bright May Morning Pt. fairly well and have (3 Little I play the piano l 25776 Mother. . Evangeline Lehman..., .d-E . 40 17720 Salute to the Colors. ... Anthony . .Gr. 2 /2 .40 —Treble ) R. M. Stults 12 helped my husband to manage the re- Dedicated to Mine. Schumann-Hemk. 14568 Stand by the Flag Stults Gr. 3. . .35 20188 Come, Let Us Go A-Maying 19632 Little Mother first of which corder. We play duets, the 301 1 1 Stars and Stripes Forever .. Sousa Gr. 4. . R-50 (3 Pt.—Treble) Ira B. Wilson 10 Daniel Pro+heroe c sharp-D 50 CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEGE I arranged out of “Anna Magdalena’s 30552 Stars and Stripes Forever 10866 O That We Two Were 18680 Little Mother O' Mine RUDOLPH GANZ, President accuse Family Recital in (Simplified Edition) ...Sousa Gr. R-50 Founded 1867 by Dr. F. Ziegfeld Kalvierbuchlein.” (She would me 2^2 Maying (3 Pt. Treble) H. W. Wareing ... .12 Janeiro — Herbert Ward E flat-E flat 50 B.MUS., B.MUS.ED., M.MUS.ED. Rio de 30868 Stars and Stripes Forever CONFERS DEGREES OF M.MUS., of sacrilege, I hope, should we meet 274 May Pole Dance, The (3 Pt. 6884 Mother O' Mine..B. Remick d-E. . .35 Member of North Central Association and National Association of Schools of Music (Trio) (Simplified workshop downstairs, where he soon grew ) Sousa-Carleton ..Gr.V/ .30 beyond.) You easily can imagine us —S. A. B.) R. E. DeReef 15 24043 My Mother's Song. .John Openshaw.. d-g 60 ALL BRANCHES OF MUSIC. SPECIAL INSTRUCTION FOR CHILDREN AND NON-PROFESSIONALS pal and hobby-partaker to my 13652 Under the Stars and Stripes True Gr. 3.. .50 two looking—for several years already into a real 35036 Maytime. Waltz Song (3 Pt. 19404 Never Forget Your Dear Mother and Her Prayer Address Registrar, 60 E. Van Buren St., Chicago Illinois 27154 Our Flag (With Words) ..Adler Gr. 2. . .25 5, for handy-man, even including flute-studies! —Treble) Clara R. Ricci 18 May Parker Jones through your music pages something l/g d-F 40 27261 Star-Spangled Banner .... Arr. Richter . I .25 Gr. 15715 Glad May Morning, Pt. arranged. Recorder music doesn’t seem little Marina, five years old, Dutch and A (4 18696 Old Fashioned Dear. .Cecil Ellis c-F 50 PIANO DUET Mixed) E. L. Ashford 12 19420 — Song of the . to be in your line. golden -haired, came up to me on Sun- Child, The. 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KEYBOARD TOWN A PLEASURE PATH By Louise Robyn TO THE PIANO TECHNIC TALES ! one This book covers a new field in the child's early CHILD) book (FOB THE PRE SCHOOL training, for it supplies a link that coordinates Robyn eyes, ears and fingers, and enables the child By Josephine Hovey Perry By Louise -actually to read notes fluently within a sur- very young- with any first grade prisingly short period. The book is not an fascinating study book for the May be used in conjunction This principles starts as a rote-p aying contains the experiment—its material and have est student of the piano book for the piano. It a instruction years. Be- the child (a) sings and plays piano been tested and proven for many book wherein principles in first year reads what has been fifteen essential with MIDDLE C the note-names are selection by rote, (b) that his ginning Gradually the building up the child's hand so played, and finally, (c) writes it. technic, introduced with the story-element which per- until reading and equals his music-reading ability, voung student is advanced fiiiger dexterity sonifies each note with its own note-name. The into one. All of the ma- powers. Each prin- playing are welded thus aiding his interpretative pedagogic plan avoids the use of counting be- in story form and the book terial is presented in story element, a feature the "one-unit" system employed child ciple is introduced cause of illustrations that appeal to the abounds in than seventy -five little melo- of brochure imagination and creates interest. throughout. More imagination. Ask for FREE copy that appeals to the child's procedure in dies are included in this unique boojs. on the psychology, pedagogy and Price, 75 cents piano teaching. pre-school ONE^ Price, 75 cents TEACHER'S MANUAL TO TECHNIC TALES—BOOK , Price, $1.00 lor the teacher. > is an indispensable book > Price, 75 cents FOLK SONGS AND BUSY WORK FAMOUS PICTURES FOR BEGINNERS FOR PIANO BEGINNERS INCLUDES COLOR CHARTS AND BOOK FOR LITTLE PIANISTS) CARDS (A WRITING TECHNIC TALES CHORD CRAFTERS CUT-OUT Perry Bacon Mason By Josephine Hovey (BOOK TWO) (TECHNIC TALES— By Mary BOOK THREE) object of this book is to furnish entertaining designed to meet the needs of The „ A method book work to little folk be- By Louise Robyn years of and constructive "busy Louise Robyn piano beginners from seven to eleven study. Especially is this useful in By keyboard har- ginning piano A continuation of Technic Tales, age. Notation, rhythm, scales, teach the relation- class instruction. It aims to tremendous success of Miss transposition and musical form are pre- for the second year of The mony, fingers, piano keys, and their Book 1 manner. ship between the Robyn’s Technic Tales, Books 1 sented in a most efficient and unique grand staff. All direc- at the piano. It contains note representation on the study to the art pictures and over a half-hundred and 2 is undoubtedly due Three dozen tions are in rhyme. additional technical prin- former are to be cut fifteen with which the study of cards are provided. The feasibility the including the trill, arm at- and pasted in the book at designated places; Price, BO cents ciples, be accomplished in con- them can direction and tones and triads, latter are cut out at the teacher's tack for single junction with almost any course for of information they contain memorized. dternate the item various crossing problems, the piano. 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The early study teaching, with any mod- Includes 12 exercises with applied etudes necessary in' used, especially in class appreciation of Tales, Books Qne and Two Each material lays a foundation for instruction book. nical training of the child begun in Technic ern piano second portion of the "brought to life" with a descriptive story element. Helpful the best in music. The exercise has been pre- book is devoted to elementary harmony Price, 75 cents explanatory notes and photographic illustrations. sented through the use of games and cut-out Price, 75 cents the- cards. This book is a second-year book to MUSICAL ALPHABET author's very successful Folk Songs and Famous AND FIGURES BYWAYS IN ETUDE LAND Pictures. 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