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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 4-1-1944 Volume 62, Number 04 (April 1944) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, and the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 62, Number 04 (April 1944)." , (1944). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/218 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. r oria , THE FIRST PERFORM- ANCE of a full-length symphony, composed for and dedicated with per- mission to the Army Air Forces, by Corporal Sam- UhcisuaL College uel Barber, took place AmemcA's most on March 3 in Boston, when the work was pre- Samuel Boston Barber sented by the Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky. The “Symphony Dedicated to the Army Air ORATORIOS, OPERAS Forces,” was begun last September at IN ITS RADIO PROGRAMS, CONCERTS, RECITALS, Fort Worth Army Airfield, Texas, when APPEARANCE, some in Corporal Barber accompanied pilots on AFFORDS STUDENTS OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC many flights. It is his second work in this f:rm, his “First Symphony” having- HERE. THERE. AND EVERYWHERE ASSOCIATION WITH PROMINENT GUEST ARTISTS. been written in 193G, and having the dis- tinction of being the only American work IN THE MUSICAL WORLD produced that season in Salzburg, when it was conducted by Artur Rodzinski. The new work is in three movements land, and the United States, died on APPROXIMATELY TWO THOUSAND song and makes use, in the second movement, February 3 at Aix-la-Provence. She was leaders among men and women in uni- of an electrical instrument especially seventy-nine years old. An authority on form have been trained in a period of a constructed by the Bell Telephone lab- the medieval folklore of her native coun- little more than a year by the USO’s ten oratory, to simulate the sound of the try, she was awarded the Legion of music advisers. This was announced at a radio beam used for night or “blind” American musical compositions with Honor as “The Ambassadress of French USO Music Advisers national conference flying. those of Brazilian composers, through Song.” in the offices of the Joint Army and Navy Aaron Copland, president of the Amer- Committee on Welfare and Recreation EDWIN McARTHUR, young American ican Composers Association. The plan FRITZ KREISLER, in Washington. A farm boy in the Army conductor who in 1943 spent six months also provides for an exchange of orches- noted violinist-composer, who has never handled a music instru- in the South Pacific war area under the tral conductors in the post-war period. will make his radio debut ment is taught to play the trumpet, joint auspices of the War Department when some time this Army and Navy musical shows are pro- and USO Camp Shows, has returned to LEONARD PENNARIO, pianist. Private summer he appears in duced, symphonic bands organized, song that war theater at the specific request First Class, A.U.S., whose New York the first of a series of leaders trained and music-on-the-march and in the personal suite of Lieutenant- debut with the Philharmonic-Symphony five exclusive appear- stimulated—all through the efforts of General George C. Kenney, Commander Orchestra was a sensation of the past ances as guest artist on USO’s music advisory staff. The USO of the Fifth Air Force. Mr. McArthur, season, has been playing with West "The Telephone Hour,” distributed 3500 amateur song kits during reported to be “somewhere in New Coast orchestras to help to raise funds to heard Monday nights at Fritz the past year and is now sending quan- SLER Guinea,” has the distinction of being the provide libraries of records for service- 9 P. M„ EWT. Mr. Kreis- tities of sheet music to all its clubs. Army first civilian assigned to work directly men overseas. On February 19 he played ler was largely influenced in his decision music materials now sent to troops all with Army officials in shaping up pro- the “First Concerto” by Tchaikovsky, to play over the radio by the increasing over the world, according to Captain grams of music-making by the service- with the San Francisco Symphony Or- number of letters coming to him from the Morris C. Rosenberry of the Army, in- men themselves. chestra, under Pierre Monteux. more isolated places of America. Many clude 100,000 V-DISC records of clas- of the people in these far-off communi- sical, semi-classical, and popular music each month; Army Hit Kits of six popu- THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL BACH YVETTE GUILBERT, French singer and ties are never able to go to a recital or concert, to hear Mr. Kreisler’s artist- lar songs each month (words and music) FESTIVAL at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, actress, who at the turn of the century and untold happiness. and “Hymns from Home,” leaflets of will be held May 19 and 20 at the Chapel was well-known throughout France, Eng- ry will bring them twelve nondenominational hymns and of Lehigh University, with Ifor Jones the Twenty-third Psalm, which are is- conducting. The programs of the two-day sued to the soldiers through the chap- sessions will include the Cantata No. 104, lains and also put into K-Ration parcels. “Thou Guide of Israel”; the Cantata No. 102, “Lord, Are Thine Eyes Not Searching etitionA for the Righteous?”; the Motet, “Be Not LINA CAVALIERI, famous opera singer Afraid”; the Cantata No. 93, “If Thou of another day and member of the the Radio but Sufferest God”; the Cantata No. 4. THE COMPETITION for the fifth an. the RCA Victor Division of Metropolitan Opera Company for several the prizes “Christ Lay in Death’s Dark Prison”; nual Edgar Stillman Kelley Junior Schol- Corporation of America. One of years following her debut in 1906, died on will be awarded for the best string quartet arship of the National Federation of February 8 fell on her home and as usual, the complete “Mass in B Latin when bombs Music Clubs will be limited to residents submitted from the republics of suburbs ofl Florence, Italy, minor.” E. Power Biggs will be the Fes- other prize will be in the de- of states in the Central Region, compris- America, while the tival organist and will give a recital at work sub- molishing it and killing the singer. She ing Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, given for the best ensemble VOICE, PIANO, PIPE ORGAN, VIOLIN, 11 A. M. on Saturday, May 20, in the and Can- was famed for her beauty as well as her CHORAL TRAINING, ORCHESTRA, SPEECH Kansas, Arkansas, North Dakota, South mitted from the United States 1944, Central Moravian Church. Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas, and ada. The. contest closes May 31, voice, and sang in many concerts in AND ART ADDITIONAL and full information may be secured by America. She appeared also with the WITHOUT COST ABOVE REGULAR Oklahoma. The competition is open to ACADEMIC TUITION Chamber Music Guild, musicians under sixteen years of age, and writing to The Manhattan Opera Company. BERNSTEIN, Street, N. W., Zone 6, Wash- Bob Jones College, LEONARD young assistant State auditions are scheduled for Febru- Inc., 1604 K which stands without Arts and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees, conductor of the New York Philharmonic- ary, March, and April. All details may be ington, D. C. for the apology "old-time religion" and and in the Symphony Orchestra, who earlier in the secured from Miss Etelka Evans, Cincin- Graduate School of Fine Arts PRIZES TO THE TOTAL OF $2000 GRAND OPERA at New season made a sensational last-minute Conservatory Music, Cinn., Ohio. the absolute authority of the Bible, has nati of War Bonds are to be York’s new City Center had courses leading to the in* United States Master of Arts and substitution for Bruno Walter, suddenly National Federation of of Music and Drama had an increase in enrollment of fifty awarded by the per cent the taken ill, will appear with the orchestra OF Master of Fine Arts degrees in music THE NATIONAL FEDERATION Music Clubs to federated music groups a brilliant and success- MUSIC CLUBS has announced the sec- in the last two years. Bob Jones College and speech. next season, not as assistant conductor, which, during the period from September ful opening night when The Bob Jones College as a guest conductor. Artur ond annual Young Composers’ Contest 1943 to May 15, 1944, present programs offers variety but Rodzin- 1, on February 16 a most a wide of courses leading to Academy for total awards of three hundred dollars. which in the opinion of the board of affords splendid opportunities ski has been reengaged for his second effective production of The major prize of one hundred dollars most significantly serve the nation’s Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science or season as permanent conductor and mu- judges "Tosca” was presented high school training is for a composition for chamber orches- war efforts. Donor of the awards is Don- especially valu* sical director of the organization. Other under the direction of degrees, and in the Graduate School of tra, with a second prize in this classifica- ald Voorhees, noted American conductor able to young guest conductors who will appear with men soon to tion of fifty dollars.