February 1949) James Francis Cooke

Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 2-1-1949 Volume 67, Number 02 (February 1949) 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 67, Number 02 (February 1949)." , (1949). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/165 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]. i ';;\IT5 The Hands of Marcel Dupre Price 30 Cents February 1949 ! Polish mas- complete piano works of the world-famous aitists ter A number of THE DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Chopin Festival. will take part in this conducted by Antal Dorati, presented on world premiere of Bela January 8-9 the ROREM, a young composer from “Prince Bluebeard’s Cas- NED Bartok’s opera, the winner of the fourth singers were New York, was tle.” Two Hungarian-born Con- annual George Gershwin Memorial Dorati to sing the solo engaged by Mr. the New York Victoiy Desire test, sponsored by parts: Olga Forrai, soprano; and Rorem’s award Lodge of B’nai B’rith. Mr. Ligeti, basso. was won with of one thousand dollars studied with his Overture in C. He has of Victor Herbert was and A BRONZE BUST Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson unveiled in Fairmount Park, Master’s degree recently last June received his the entrance to Robin He Philadelphia, near from the Juilliard School of Music. the Kelly Street Chorus, in Europe. Hood Dell, by plans to continue his studies widely known singing organization of director of the that city. James Ervine is THE TWENTY-FIFTH anniversary of numbers among its mem- established chorus, which The Curtis Institute of Music, are active in the business Curtis Zim- bers men who in January 1924 by Mary professional life of Philadelphia. Cyrus H. K. and balist, daughter of the late sig- Curtis and Louise Knapp Curtis, was Boston were pre- gatfng on teBer: SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY and the the leading French composers nificantly celebrated by two programs know it will You want a Wurlitzer piano. You in January an these were Dar- January 6th presented sented. Included among ' 5th and Symphony Griller grst violin; Jack given on January his ^Jacques ’ one. Happier be- “American Festival" as a feature of ius Milhaud, Albert Roussel, historic Academy of Music in make your home a happier v Qlin . phmp Burt0n, at the as conductor of this famous Francis Poulenc, Olivier Messiaen, first evening was de- final season Ibert, Colin Hampton, ’cellist. Philadelphia. The will be lovelier. Happier because a concerts in viola; and Curtis cause it organization. In two pairs of and Jean-Louis Martinet. voted to the really magnificent the together. Happier successive weeks, American music of Orchestra (one hundred and piano draws the family FRITZ KREISLER, the noted violinist- Symphony twenty-five years was reviewed, and EDWARD JOHNSON, general manager conducted by Alexander past has presented to the Libiary ten performers) , such a fine instrument is a home cen- works were pre- Opera Association, composer, virtuoso because a number of significant of the Metropolitan manuscript of Hilsberg; with Efrem Zimbalist, composers Swedish of Congress the original sented. Included among the was honored by receiving the and Director of The Curtis In- ter for fun and relaxation. Brahms’ Concerto for Violin and Piano, violinist compositions were played were of Vasa, Class of Commander, in Piatigorsky, Head of whose Order the original manuscript of stitute, and Gregor reasons, but there’s a better Schuman, Howard in the world of together with playing These are good Henry Cowell, William tribute to “his eminence by the Cello Department, as soloists the “Poem for Violin and Orchestra,” Lukas Foss, Walter Piston, Leo as a token of appreciation Minor for Violin and Wurlitzer in your home can help your Hanson, opera, and The Brahms’ manu- the Concerto in A one. A Roy Harris, assistance shown Ernest Chausson. pro- Sowerby, Samuel Barber, of the hospitality and bought Violoncello by Brahms. Also on the script is reported to have been children go further in life. Like a good educa- Burlingame Hill, and Aaron guest singers” at the Metropolitan. No. 2 by Samuel Edward to the sum of ten thou- gram was Symphony order of King by Mr. Kreisler for Copland. The award was given by Harold Barber, a distinguished graduate of The tion, a Wurlitzer is an investment in your sand dollars, and according to Gustav V of Sweden. Music Division of Curtis Institute. that pays rich Spivacke, chief of the child’s future. An investment TIBOR SERLY has returned from Buda- could easily The second evening was devoted to op- Hungarian vio- the Library of Congress, it served as a judge in the GABRIELLA LENGYEL, first of which was Franco in poise and popularity and social pest, where he more than that amount at eras, the dividends Paris, is the winner be worth Bartok International Music Competition. linist, a resident of Leoni’s “L’Oracolo,” the second a scene 1948. The present. success. In developing character and person- The composition contest produced one of the Carl Flesch Medal for from “Eugen Onegin” by Tchaikovsky, most important in- hundred and five works, none of which competition for this hun- presenting two exceptional Negro stu- ality and, who knows?— glowing career! the THE YEAR 1949 marks the one a be worthy of a first ternational award was conducted at Green and Louise Park- was considered to anniversary (on October 17) of dents (Theresa award School of Music and Drama dredth Menotti’s prize. In the piano contest, first Guildhall Chopin, noted er). The third was Gian-Carlo Lengyel the death of Frederic of Israel, the London, in November. Miss “Amelia Goes to went to Peter Wallfish in composer, and to mark the pronounced operatic hit, Serio number of contests and has Polish graduate of winner of the violin contest was has won a tributes are being the Ball.” Mr. Menotti, a Austria, Italy, event many memorial Sulfas and the award for the toured extensively in present to receive volumes of Piovesan of Italy; celebration will officially Curtis, was Baltic States, and planned. The string ensemble went to the Tatria France, Holland, the deserved applause. All of the operatic best get under way on February 22, the com- String Quartet of Hungary. Jugoslavia. presentations were noteworthy in every poser’s birthday. The Kosciuszko Foun- the nation-wide respect. QUARTET, re- dation is sponsoring Italian THE GRILLER STRING Curtis Institute of Music has listed VICTOR DE SABATA, eminent committee which will organize and pro- The nowned English chamber music group, world's most conductor, had a sensational success as tributes and con- upon its faculty many of the appointed the quartet in resi- mote commemorative the Pittsburgh Sym- has been national famous artists of the past half-century. a guest conductor of at certs. Howard Hanson is the dence at the University of California has provided phony earlier in the season. All box office Peabody Conservatory of Mu- No institution in history the spring season. Accord- chairman. entire twenty-one years’ Berkeley, for series more munificently for its talented stu- records for the quartet sic in Baltimore has announced a ing to the announcement, “The are now world- r history of the orchestra were broken, and cooperation with the Balti- dents, many of whom particularly concerned with fos- of concerts, in piano is not of efforts being made will be the famous. It needn’t. For though a good already there is talk music more Symphony Orchestra, to include per- tering a community of chamber to secure Maestro de Sabata as the the Wurlitzer costs less than you think! the cheap, manent conductor of the western Penn- THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY’ of No piano made contains finer parts or costlier sylvania musical organization. countrywide men’s musical fraternity. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, now possessing materials, yet the price is far below that of members actively THE FRIENDS OF HARVEY GAUL, at twenty-two thousand interested in music and music education, many other famous makes. Why is Wurlitzer their annual meeting in December, an- National Conven- “because the calibre of mu- was celebrated at the at a nounced that able to bring you a quality instrument tion held at the Stevens Hotel in Chi- sical compositions submitted to the com- cago. The Convention was the most bril- moderate price? The reason is simple: mittee this year fell below the standard the fraternity’s history. Dean agreed upon by the Judges, no First Prize liant in Na- Albert Lukken of Tulsa University pre- will be awarded in the Harvey Gaul Charles E. Lutton, for thirty years More people buy Wurlitzer pianos tional Composition Contest.” Honorable sided. the organization, was pre- mention went to Joyce Barthelson of Secretary of other name beautiful silver plaque. A than those of any Scarsdale, New York, for his “The Forty- sented with a of new members were niners” for solo voices, chorus, and or- large number the impressive ritual of the chestra; and to Grenville English for his initiated in ceremony Dr. Earl “Kings,” a work for mixed voices with organization, at which of the Music Department solo for .baritone, and piano. There were V. Moore, Dean Michigan, and Dr. sixty-three entries from sixteen states.

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