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FESTIVAL, THE NEW SPARTANBURG no imported stars EVERYWHERE IN unique in that it uses OR- THERE AND and no d^bt^, A CONCERTO FOR VOICE AND HERE. and has no guarantors Jr., world ^ CHESTRA, by John W. Haussermann, the musical on April instrumental received its first performance various pro^a^featmed (Ohio) Symphony 24, by the Goossens. native boTn Smss Tree on inc Orchestra, directed by Eugene ERNEST BLOCH, a music play, A the con- , Following the regular form of dr. uses the voice conductor, , and certo, Mr. Haussermann 2-3 instrument, and on Wagnerian of the American part, without text, as an authority awarded the gold medal on the singer music, died in San Fran- Letters the firs in so doing, places demands Academy of Arts and unique ability April 17. He was The pres Festival director. which require an artist of cisco on composer to be thus honored. Converse College, is the task for the conductor of May 8 by the to surmount. This difficult formerly entation was made on to Margot Rebeil. Sym- Dr. Walter premiere was assigned the president of the Academy, , one Orchestra; and ceremony, phony Following the world’s greatest FESTIVAL is Damrosch. of the AN AMERICAN OPERA previous to that he had was played by in Bloch’s “Concerto Grosso” pianists, died recently by Alfred Wallenstein for thir- Yoik being presented been conductor orchestra from the New in Ham- began May 7 and a string . Born over Station WOR. It teen years at the Metro- Orchestra, con- Philharmonic-Symphony October 8, 1869, he to June 18; and the works House, New’ York, directing burg, will continue politan Opera Albert Stoessel. in Ber- among others, Geish- world premieres. ducted by made his debut to be given include, a number of important was a Gian-Carlo first per- lin in 1885. He win’s “Porgy and Eess,” While there he conducted the ” the most in- the Thief, outside of “ pupil of Nicholas Rubin- Menot'i's “The Old Maid and formance of “” given Strauss II gratiating of all the Johann Moscow and of Taylor’s “The King’s Henchman,^ California he introduced stein in Deems Bayreuth. In presented m New York Al- “Tennessee’s Partner, concerts in the operettas, was Liszt in Weimar. and a new work, the summer season of masterly direction of in April under the though he had not been by Quinto Maganini. Hollywood Bowl. unquestionably the years, Robert Stolz, who is in America for thirty heard o follower of the inimitable his interpretation PHILADELPHIA BACH FESTIVAL, greatest living was well known for THE The operetta was given entirely and Schumann. He edited James Allen Dash, on May Strauss. Chopin, Liszt, directed by language before an audi- of Brahms and Scai- several of the best in the German the complete works 8 and 9, included Germans, and Ger- and the “Mass ence of Australians, latti. known of Bach’s cantatas anti-Nazi never be- man-Americans, which was so in F Major,” this latter work was extraordinary. The Aryan COLLEGE, HOLLINS, VIR- in Philadelphia. The soloists that it HOLLINS fore sung Nazi Land. its one hun- Si- Stolz is a voluntary exile from proudly celebrated were Frances Greer, soprano; Anne GINIA, Hitler and Goebbels in May with a notable John Toms, tenor; James It is reported that dredth anniversary mon, contralto; overtures to get distinguished with Robert Miller, have both made indirect program in which many Pease, baritone; sig- Stolz back. Meanwhile, Vienna’s “Leb- leaders participated. A harpsichordist; Thomas Matthews, or- educational has been transferred to New the celebration was a the Philadelphia Opera Or- haftigkeit” nificant part of ganist; and in which York. very excellent musical program chestra. under the di- the Hollins Chapel Choir was fea- rection of Arthur S. Talmadge con- tured. The Etude sends its warmest gratulations to this splendid institution Bessie Carter (Competitionssomp and to its President, Dr. Randolph. Mr. Theodore Presser was an must be THE PITTSBURGH OPERA SO- phony Orchestra. Applications instructor at Hollins from 1880 to 1883, and full particulars may plans one- filed by June 15 ; that he made his CIETY is searching for an American and it was there secured by addressing the Foundation in English, requiring one hour be inauguration of The Etude at the act opera City. for the be pro- at 30 Broad Street, New York or less in performance time, to neighboring Virginia city of Lynchburg Pittsburgh on a duced next Spring in in 1883. Mr. Presser was a warm admirer double bill with Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci. A CONTEST FOR ORIGINAL COM- Lewis Cocke, President THE WAY TO the of Dr. Charles THE ETUDE POINTED All entries should be sent by July 1 to for young pianists, open to POSITIONS 1846 to 1901, to whom the college SUCCESS in care of Rich- citizens, from Pittsburgh Opera Society, all who are American of its prestige. Mr. Presser of Livermore, musical director, 5467 Bartlett owes much Mrs. Donald M. Fraser ard Karp, is announced by The Society of American Pennsylvania. regarded Dr. Cocke as one of the great- California, read in The Etude of last Street, Pittsburgh, Musicians of Chicago. This contest closes particulars may be est of all educators he had ever met. January a notice of the scholarship OPERA July 30; and full by the National Fed- A COMPETITION FOR AN procured from Edwin J. Gemmer, 1625 contest sponsored an- by an American-born composer is Chicago, Illinois. eration of Music Clubs to find outstand- Kimball Building, nounced by Mrs. Lytle Hull, president DEAN DANIEL A. ing young players of string instruments. New York. - of the New Opera Company, the Col- clipped the notice and handed it to THIRD NATIONWIDE COM- IHRSCHLER, of She The award is $1000 cash and a guarantee THE | seventeen year old violinist POSITION CONTEST of the National lege of Emporia, in Kan- her brilliant of a performance by the New Opera to give recog- as organ- neighbor, Dolores Maurine Miller. Then ComDany. The contest closes November Federation of Music Clubs, sas, whose work talent, is an- * quickly. Miss Miller won be secured by nition to native creative ist and as conductor of things happened 1, and full details may — the committee in charge of contest, which entitles her to a addressing the New Opera Company, 113 nounced by W' the Vesper A CappeUa the will be Street, New York the event. The contest this year year’s scholarship at the Juilliard School West Fifty-seventh Choir of the college has limited to two classifications—a chamber Music in , with all liv- City. K attracted national atten- of music work and a choral composition. The DAN, EL A. expenses paid by the National Broad- Hirschler tion, has been elected ing LEVENTRITT choral competition closes on J uly 1 and the presentation over THE EDGAR M. casting Company, and November 1. of the college. He has been FOUNDATION, INC. will hold its third chamber music contest on president Red Network in New York with from Miss of music at the NBC annual competition for young pianists Full details may be secured dean of the department NBC Orchestra, Leopold Gunderson, National Contest and his the famous early in October, in New York City. The Helen L. Emporia for twenty-eight years Her playing was State University, Uni- Stokowski . award will be an appearance as soloist Chairman, Louisiana election to the presidency is a fitting less than Albert Spald- Station, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. acclaimed by no with the -Sym- versity recognition of this excellent record. stressed her “superior talent ing, who ( Continued on Page 419) and developed equipment.” 361 JUNE, 1942 . N g . ' ' .

Editorial Compositions in Which Gems of % American Indian Music TBHE ETTOE || m® uMC Have Been Transcribed mm@m 2)atJ m Published Monthly and Harmonized by By Theodore Presser Co., Philadelphia, Pa. aspired to become creators, but who EDITORIAL AND STAFE unpleasant music we morse as those who have ADVISORY yrUCH OF THE EXTREMELY they find, alas, that instead of evolving a style of their own, Thurlow Lieurance l)R. JAMES FRANCIS COOKE. Editor |\/l hear these days under the alias of ‘modern should imitations with almost Guy McCoy and Priscilla Brown, Assistant Editors have merely succeeded in making V A*-*- be referred to the Narcotic Board for investiga- William M. Felton, Mask Editor friend, more bold than those who Japanese cunning. y Robert. Braine Dr. Henry S. Fry George C. Krick Dr. Rob Roy Peerv tion,” writes one Etude Pietro Deiro Karl art galleries, we have seen W. Gehrkens Blanche Lemmon Peter Hugh Reed music, good Often, in the great European Dr. Nicholas Douty Elizabeth Gest feel that to condemn any kind of contemporary Dr. Guy Maier William I). Revelli work- Some are so adroit in theii Paul Koepke N. Clifford Page class the critics who at- professional copyists at LIEURANCE was or bad, might place one in the of born at Oskaloosa, Iowa. March 21, 1828. He served as FOUNDED 1883 amazing counter- Chief Musician of the 22nd Kansas Infantry during the y BY THEODORE PRESSER that their reproductions are Spanish-American War and after- Wagner, and craftsmanship wards studied at the Cincinnati tacked the modernity of Haydn. Beethoven, College of Music and with Herman Bellstedt. At great physical sacrifice he has recorded hundreds art works are indeed so expertly of aboriginal melodies, many of which are in is that feits of the originals. Many the Smithsonian Institution and Brahms in their time. Our complaint about such music other museums. His harmonized transcriptions of these e S rCVCa fine musicianship and have brought that they are really forgeries and are - him world-wide acclaim. of genius. and deftly duplicated nr I i^»M°3 a numerous original it represents a paucity of talent and a total absence compositions such as “Romance in A”, “Felice” (Waltz !>ong),SnnuV "TKThe AngelusA and others place “collectors.” One , him high in the ranks of American around by racketeers to would-be composers. If there were enough great, music being written at this time, peddled (Contents jor J^une, 1942 American merchant paid a for- it would be impossible for the tune for a “Titian” which was INDIAN SONGS VOLUME highly technical mountebanks to LX, No. 6 • PRICE, 2S CENTS fabricated by an art counter- BY THE WATERS OF MINNE- MY WORLD OF MUSIC palm off their cacophonies. With LARK, MY LOVE (Range . 3G1 TONKA (A Sioux Love Song) E— eked out a I*'•sharp)-sharp) EDITORIAL feiter “hack” who High Voice (Original Concert Edition) .35 the exception of a few superior Violin - Dated Music or Flute ad lib. (Range lv MY SILVER THROATED FAWN 3^3 church-mouse existence in a Pa- F- sharp) (Sioux Love Song) souls, there is very little being .60 (Range c—F) . .40 YOUTH AND MUSIC Low Voice (Original Concert NEENAH The Philharmonic risian garret. Edition) (.Spirit Maiden) Flute or Distinguishes Youth Blanche Lemmon 366 done in these days that seems Violin or Flute lib. \ ad (Range d-flat lohn ad lib. (Range d-flat g-flat) MUSIC -E-flat) — AND CULTURE Every work of art is in a some- O'ER Our President Speaks earmarked for permanence. Edi- THE INDIAN CRADLE for Music I *fi4 Orchestral Acc. to ( k Low Key (Cl-flat) . Range E 0CratiC «.‘ It .50 —a) .40 ...l/ra.'.tiipi/w mo,,t 3 what definite sense “dated.” oo riSo?.«^ . a r> torial courtesy makes it imprac- Are 1 High Voice (Re-ital Edition— Easier RUE Pipe Major Bteplun MacKinnon 367 (Pueblo Love Song) ineiiejt il l payl of BrahmsT, andSTVSchumann the Piano . ion/ •mi reflects in significant ways Accompaniment) (Range F g) .60 -High Voice—Violin or A Walter to designate the great — Flute Obbl. Musical Saga of Samoa / tical for us (Range L ! ' ' ' Brin , Vm gnu g) Counterpoint in . '. Low Voice (Recital Edition—Easier — .50 Plain Language : the mores '. ! Artlilr 7' culture, the philosophy, Piano Accompaniment) S Gab t contemporaries, lest we be chal- (Ranged— It) Low Voice—Violin Flute Obbl. MUSIC IN THE HOME (Range c E-Hat) that produced it. Pal- BY WEEPING WATERS (Range — .50 More Music, More Defense lenged for our fairness or our of the age Working Or. O. H. Caldwell 3711 d-flat— D) SAD MOON OF FALLING f°r Finer Radio Programs .... LEAF ta b ^ .Alfred Lindsay Morgan 371 estrina takes us very certainly High Voice _ Master Pianist Recordings understanding- DYING (Range c ) .50 £? Peter Hugh MOON FLOWER (c—E)... — Ltucle Music Lover’s Bookshelf Heed 372 ... Low Voice (Range B . Meredith Cadmun 373 to those candle-lighted, incense- FROM GHOST DANCE CANYON b-flat—F) .50 MUSIC AND STUDY There is a kind of prevailing High Voice (Range g-sharp—F-sharp). SA-MA-WEE-NO (Little Sweetheart) The Teacher's Round Table laden basilicas of the Holy City. (Menominee Tlianiniv 4 1... U r l / • , doctrine that if one hears dis- Low Voice (Range b Love Song) Violin Obbl - —a) Medium Voice - • (Range F—F) .50 KKJVrSSii =.v»KiS & The fugues of Bach reveal the GHOST PIPES High Voice (Range agreeable music long enough, one <1—g) THE SPIRIT OF WANNA .50 High Voice epic of ca- (Range F—F) .50 will come to like it. That is, a character the Gothic Low Voice (b— E) .50 Low Voice (Range d «. —D) .50 ttasnsur a taste for the bizarre or the ex- thedrals of the early eighteenth HER BLANKET (From the Navajo) Music I’lays Many Roles Gehrkeus 38-t (Range d-sharp WASTE WALA KA KELO (I Love Music in a Famous rid Eire,, 383 —C) 35 lou Utility Da traordinary cultivated, century, stained-glass and all. So) Medium or Low Voice Sounding the Human Note Philip C. staples 3S6 may be HYMN TO THE (Range d—-D) in Music SUN GOD (Range .... .50 Porn-Fed Opera Gustar K lent in 387 c—a- nat) Technic just as tourists in the Orient are Haydn and Mozart reflected the .50 THE of the Month-Rapid 'Legato' I,UI,hr* 388 WEAVER (The Blanket—Her Passages—HMler Op.' ^DIAN SPRING Rosary) iY. Ko"s BIRD ( Ski-bi-bi- Medium or Low Voice said to peruked. rococo salons of the no- la) High Practice for Dr. Gup Maier become inured, after a Voice (Range E—a) .50 (Range b-flat— Accordionists .... 409 E) I ersonal Glimpses Pietro Deiro 423 Medium High Voice few weeks, to the incredible, over- bility of Middle Europe; Men- (Range d—g) .50 WILD BIRD George C. Krick 425 High MUSIC Medium Voice Voice—Flute Obbl. (Range (Range c—F) .50 d— powering stench of back alleys. delssohn is for the a Classic and Contemporary most part Low Voice (Range .50 Selections b—E) .50 Low Roses from the Voice (Range b— South . Those who live among such odors kind of L E) .40 The Green Johann Straus*, musical picture of ex- Cathedral . V s °NG (From the Red . Op. 389 9, *f Willow I ucblos) (Range ^ Lullaby) (Range Sweet Hour of Prayer ' Jiahn-Carleton c—D) 35 392 for a lifetime are unconscious of quisite bourgowie refinement in ^d-^K) . . .50 (Srafonia to‘ Chi,Veil' . •Bradbury-Kohitnann 393 Afir?March Cantata No! 136) Th. above repre.enls lor Tom Thumb ... Bach-Beard 395 them, but that does only o partial lis, of the Indian Playful not make THE MOST POPULAR COMPOSER OF HIS DAY which the objective was perfec- Songs Breezes • which Dr. Lieurance has ; Vernon Lane 396 transcribed and Coral and Instrumental Robert harmonized. Composition, A. llclinrd 396 them perfume for others. (1806-1888) tion: Chopin is a dream-like O Lord, I Pray (Vocal) .... Give Us the Tools Henri Herz received three and lour times as much lor his compositions (Vocal) . . R Lucke Nigh, 398 We have no fears that the aquarelle of the salons of the Flower (Violin and Piano) ..nuliam Dichmont 399 as Schumann. Chopin. Mendelssohn and even Liszt. Born in Vienna, rheme from ' ' PIANO SOLO the Concerto in B-flat minor Li/p Strickland 401 music of the future will not he NUMBERS BASED ON INDIAN THEMES '(Organ')' be became the most iashionable teacher in . From 1842 to 1874 “City of Light,” executed with INDIAN Wedding March -From "A he was Prolessor of Pianoforte Playing at the Paris Conservatoire. RHAPSODY B THE WE E p Midsummer 402 beautiful. Criteria of beauty do an emotional force and keenly mn ) nn ING WATERS ' °. Themes Suggested I, (Gr. He then became a piano manufacturer. From 1845 to 1851 he toured ,by Thurlow De 0r Lieurance (For .35 ou B pio-’« rs F - Concert '! ^'-odeissohn 404 change, it is true. The composers. the and . Practically all of his 200 compositions, artistic I lanists or FROM AN iK'ne!!lnlTrfJ d technic that no one has Advanced Students—Gr. INDIAN VILLAGE (Gr. many trivial and mechanical, at which Schumann poked fun, are ' 1.00 .40 SJ8BAS Daniel Steibelt (contemporary of G ST D gf*® equaled. Thus, Wagner, Debussy, A C E—Transcription now forgotten. ™E WATERS , by OF ??| i,, ' MINNE- Isidor Philipp (Gr. Beethoven) and Henri Herz (con- 1 ON KA— transcription (Gr. 5V.) . .50 Strauss. Stravinsky, and 5 ) 40 IN every e calL and love Stephen Heller, Concert - THE Op. Edition (Gr. song JUNIOR ETUDE 47 , .Y 0 . g 4 temporary of Schumann) 6 7 ) gg 08 were composer worth while S .35 leaves a T Simplified (Piano Pupil's Ed.— FB0WER MISCELLANEOUS Elizabeth Gest 428 Gr. 3 ) . among the , .35 most lauded musical writers of their we^iof Voice Questions day. Their kind of musical signature on his works which is as unmistak- K J^-; 25 Answered music was for the most sterile, part uninspired, common- able as the face of George Washington on a dollar bill.

1< IOL * Mu8kal ' ' place. It was dated, distinctly dated, but it V A™ PIfln° The NawiP’°Tone theFarNon^' ' Bralde tit was definitely What signatures will the composers of to-day ™- m«BERS ON INDIAN ! * leave upon , . , THEMES Homemade • • • 374 BY THE WATERS OF Music .... Howard ii W.,' manufactured according to the TONKA MINNE- SIOUX INDIAN mathematical musical for- the history of music? What kind of music, indeed, will come FANTASIE .60 "522 380IS of GHOST PIPES (Cello ‘ a 1 lo,na mulae the day. It makes one think of artificial flowers ad lib.) Ar- Music in Military or out of the present military volcano? The last war, ranged by Fred Cardin Strategy jl after E. as we have .70 Music Gets Them Together Taylor 880 • Edward artificial fniit, imitations of the real thing but as dead Give. Us the Tools Podolnky 382 as repeatedly pointed out in these columns, evidently had a very- Aquiring A Sense of Relative Pitch 382 the ’ bones in a * catacomb. Interesting the * corroding effect upon the souls Teen Age .* of blossoming Girl . composers ; ; who ... ::::: Rrown*nn Chorus Directors are invited m It is not, therefore, to send Entered a, B '"terfield the date that makes good music or survived in the melee. second-class matter January 16 419 Many of these creative aspirants for a list of the Choral Theodore Presser the irsa n Arrangements Qo. Act of March 3, IS79. P *' Copyright' PhiU- P makes it bad ; it is the music itself. ' * Music that is and S 1942‘ by ThThe“>dore^ 'n' unde, worth while produced compositions I of Indian Numbers Great Britain. PreJJer which were incoherent, strident, dis- by Thurlow 1712 CHESTNUT STREET Co is immortal. Age can not destroy it. Lieurance. There are few sincere cordant, horrific conglomerations of noise, indicating PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. a patho- people in the field of art who develop as much artistic re- logical and psychological condition too dreadful to imagine. Continued on Page 410

JUNE, 1942 363 ”

Music and Culture Music and Culture

Making Opera Democratic

A Conference with

^fyjrS. ^$ucfust (t^efmont

SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY DORON K. ANTRIM

Born in England, Mrs. August Belmont came to the United States, at the age of seven, with her mother, the English actress, Madge Carr Cook who played Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. At eighteen she was taking ingenue parts in the theater and soon rose to star- dom in such phenomenal successes as, “She Stoops to Conquer "Merely Mary Ann,” and “Dawn of Tomorrow.” At the peak of her stage popularity in 1910, Eleanor Robson left the theater to marry August Belmont, sportsman and traction owner. Instead of drifting contentedly into society life, she began using her money, influence and position to help others, making it a full time career. MRS. AUGUST BELMONT For twenty-five years Mrs. Belmont has been identified with in- numerable causes and helped raise more millions probably than any To-day John Doe Enthusiasm runs high among these far flung other woman in America. Seeing the plight of the Metropolitan is one of a vast au- opera fans. An eight-year-old boy wrote that he International News Soundphoto Opera Company, in 1933, and believing that opera was the respon- dience who sits in passed up a Saturday afternoon party for Puccini. sibility of the whole public and not only of wealthy sponsors, she regularly on the “In front of my dental chair,” writes a Baltimore organized the Guild which has had a wide in- Metropolitan Opera. dentist, “I have Installed a radio for the enjoy- fluence in making opera democratic. Our President Broadcast over one ment of my patients. Believe me, when I say that Speaks for Music In 1934, Mrs. Belmont received the gold medal for conspicuous hundred stations in they all want Saturday afternoon appointments.” u service with the Red Cross; in 1938, she was the only woman to the United States “I happen to have lived in the Middle West, the receive a gold medal from the Hundred Year Association for out- and Canada, and deep South and now in upstate New York,” writes standing civil service; and she has received the outstanding achieve- <7 short waved a man from Troy, New York. “In each of these ment medal for the past several years.—Editorial Note. throughout the parts of the country I have found opera broad- he inspiration of great music can to inspire Up a fervor for the Spiritual world, it is rated the casts to be practically an institution. Marketing F ALL COUNTRIES, it remained for the highest of any day time net work program on is done a day ahead, movies are attended during values in our wag United States to challenge the old postu- the air. And America has not only of life; and thus to strengthen Jemocracg shown an avid the week, life is planned so that Saturday after- against those O lates; that opera is for the few forces and not disposition to listen but also to learn about opera; noon is free for opera. Certainly life in America the many, and that subsidy is required for its its composers, which would Suhptgate singers, plots. The nation has un- has been revolutionized by this great national and enthrall m'anhind. support—and not only to challenge but to dis- dergone a cultural face lifting in the past decade institution.” credit them. Long an indulgence of the privileged unmatched in history. To satisfy the urge to learn about opera, study (Because music hnoivS no harriers few, opera in this country is by way of passing of language because it groups in schools, clubs and homes have sprung •; recognizes no im- into the hands of the people. A New Type Audience up. Friday class periods are often given over to a Among evidences of this is the opera audience, All of which has been something of a stimulus discussion pediments to free intercommunication of approximately of the forthcoming Saturday broadcast, ; because it Speahs ten million radio listeners, in- to opera production a universal tongue music by clubs, civic organizations, this being a part of the cluding great numbers of rural Americans, music appreciation who schools and colleges. There is scarcely a high pass up the Saturday course. Wagner is particularly popular at colleges. can mahe us all more vividtg afternoon marketing trip school in the land that would aware of that common think of going Down at Ottendorfer Library, humanitg which is ours to town in favor of “Faust” in their own living through on New York’s and the school year without staging at least lower East Side, each week assemble about fifty rooms; also the fact that the people now own the one operetta, or which shall one “little opera.” And a number of derelicts to hear the dag unite the nations the Metropolitan and San Francisco opera houses, broadcast from a portable of world in one great ” schools contrive to project the higher reaches brotherhood to name the radio. Librettos are passed out as long as they most notable institutions. of lyric drama. In one hundred and fifteen cities last. Before the advent of radio, America was rather civic opera is presented with local talent, includ- arid operatically. Prior to the broadcasts from ing symphony Franklin D. orchestras, some of which are The Opera Guild Is Organized Roosevelt the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, begun newly formed. The in 1931, the number of Americans who had heard Metropolitan sent out its first call for con- It is not only a new audience that radio has a *“er MPn7 a complete opera was tributions in 1933, when it raised $300,000, through * "" * ** estimated at one tenth of created for opera, and which Edward one per cent of the Johnson its radio appeal to the public. In 0/ Mttsic chtbs population. John Doe of Butte, estimates as one thousand 1935, it was felt (Printed by Permission)~ per cent increase over that Montana, may have read about the divas, a permanent organization was needed to dowa- the old, but also a new type of audience. gers and diamond Accord- coordinate efforts at its perpetuation, horseshoe at the Metropolitan ing to a recent survey so I organ- fifty-six and three-tenths ized the and heard occasional arias on films and records. Metropolitan Opera Guild. The Guild per cent of the contributors to the recent Otherwise, opera in general opera objective remains to find and the Metropolitan fund became interested and fuse opera enthu- only within the past five siasts everywhere, in particular never touched his life. Since then, to bring about a better under- years. These people seem to have found something 364 however, the picture has changed. standing of opera as presented at in it other than a social the Metropoli- function. tan and to contribute ( Continued on Page 426) the etude JUNE, 1942 365 — — —

9 Music and Culture

Youth and Music

'N NEW YORK CITY, 1842, a group of profes- sional musicians banded together as an or- The Philharmonic r called themselves the Cornin’ chestral society. They Hoot Mon! The Pipers Are New York Philharmonic Orchestra. On December 7th, of that year, they gave their first concert, followed by two more during that performances con- and Piping same winter. This number of Distinguishes Youth All About Pipes, Pipers stituted their first season, but the public actually served was not so small as the number of con- certs would indicate. For each concert was pre- ceded by about four “dress” rehearsals, which the public was also permitted to attend. Although the days of the hereditary Stephen in non escorted down the aisles by <£eemmon strain still Yl^icijor The listeners were Bu Blanche pipers are past, the piping Kf Pipe white-gloved ushers who carried slender white runs in Scots’ blood. Environment, wands as emblems of their office. While the au- however, has probably played as big the orchestra dience assembled in the auditorium, a part as heredity, in producing Scot- in an ante-room to tune their members remained offices. The board of judges consisted land’s modern piping fraternity. various sections of the United States. the Society’s all was ready the players at and the instruments. When conductor of the Worcester Stephen MacKinnon is announced as a competition for a of Albert Stoessel, Pipe Major a from their leader, marched cere- Its plan was command Festival and the Juilliard and Chautauqua Sym- a product of both factors. His ances- performance work for orchestra in one of four forms: three moniously to the stage. During the Howard Barlow, conductor of MacCrimmon pieces of about three minutes playing time phony orchestras; tors came from the all players stood except the violoncellists. single the Columbia Broadcasting System and Baltimore country, and he got his piping technic The quaintness of these Symphony orchestras; Leon Barzin, musical di- in Glasgow, Galldom’s bagpipe capital. customs brings smiles to the rector of the National Orchestral Association; As a boy of nine he joined one of Glas- faces of present-day concert and Max Wald, chairman of the theory depart- gow’s numerous juvenile pipe bands goers. They, along with the ment of the Chicago Musical College; and after and at seventeen was already a vet- “elegant” clothes and speech this eminent group had passed judgment on the eran many contests. For pipers are of the period have passed of manuscripts, it was found that almost a dozen largely by their standing as into limbo. But the New rated well worth consideration for the prizes York Philharmonic Orches- were contestants. offered. tra, formed in that long ago Pipe Major MacKinnon later served Six, three, money prizes were pre- season goes forward toward rather than in Scotland’s premier pipe band under sented because the second prize was awarded to its second century of great- MacDougal Gillies, noted piper and twenty-five ness with no change in its co-winners and two special awards of teacher of the traditional MacCrim- Ernest lofty standard of music and dollars each were donated in memory of mon school. Coming to Canada in 1911, CALGARY GIRLS PIPE BAND performance, and with its Schelling by a member of the Young People’s he has been active as teacher, adjudi- accustomed fidelity to sched- Concerts Committee. In addition, honorable men- cator, and pipe major. During the last ule. It has survived changing tion was given to a score called “Arizona,” the war he served overseas as a piper with times, customs, leaders, per- work of Harry John Brown of Oak Park, Illinois, the Canadian Black Watch and has other pastoral folk. bringing the total number of seven. sonnel; it has never canceled awards to since been pipe major of The Cana- In fact, as well as in a concert, and has postponed The two hundred dollars and promise of per- dian National Railways pipe band . legendary lore, the but two: one when President formance, which constituted first prize, went to Editorial Note. wood winds have been the Andre Mathieu, twelve-year-old Lincoln was assassinated, son of the direc- linked with flocks and other when death came to its tor of the Canadian Institute of Music. His re- herds from earliest leader, . markable talent has previously been noted. For F A HUNDRED PIPERS an’ a’ an’ a’ could times. And so long as Nineteen hundred forty- a number of years his precocity has been recog- “dumfooner” an enemy in Jacobite times, the pipe chanter was two marks for it a milestone nized in Canada and this country; in fact he was I what might a few thousand have accom- bagless its note was of great importance. The so exceptional that the Quebec Government sent plished? Their numbers seem to grow with suc- pastoral. But the bag Philharmonic Orchestra him to Paris when he was seven years old for Pipe Major MacKinnon ol cessive wars. Something like two hundred pipe with its air compressor now called the Philharmonic- training in piano and composition. When he the Canadian Black Watch. bands played their part in the last War, but principle changed the Symphony Orchestra because made his New York debut at Town Hall in 1940, not in blitzkreig fashion the New York Symphony was as the old song might piper’s tune. By deliv- critics could only echo the familiar “Hats off! A suggest. At its worst perhaps, the bagpipe can ering merged with it in 1928—is genius!” For the eleven-year-old a continuous flow spired by religious boy played thir- more old. More ANDRE MATHIEU. Remarkable Boy Composer, winner of the First Prize be weapon than musical instrument. At its of wind at increased one hundred years teen of his own compositions at that time, works tradition. The Bible this in the Young People's Concert Series of the New York Philharmonic. best it provides the finest martial music imag- pressure, it stepped than that, centenarian, which contained complicate dissonant harmonies, up speaks of “the pipe” long recognized as the most inable. And what is more important nowadays, the power of the chan- richness of texture and structure and develop- which may or may musical it is the outward and visible, as well as audible potent force in the ment that astounded his hearers. ter. Its note became not have been the education of our people, is the oldest orchestra each, one for strings, symbol of Scots regimental tradition. When War martial in one for wood winds and His prize winning composition was a “Con- quality and bagpipe. We do know in the country. one for brasses; a work for comes, the sound of “the pipes” becomes an in- its player chamber orchestra certino for Piano and Orchestra”; and on Feb- had to adapt that the Romans of In making plans for its gala centennial season lasting from five to seven minutes; a symphonic vocation. Pride of race and pride of regiment himself to ruary 21, three days after his thirteenth birthday, the chang- that time used the last fall, the Philharmonic decided to commemo- composition for full orchestra lasting eight to are summoned forth as by the touch of a magic ing he played it with Mr. Ganz and the Orchestra! type and tone of latter. Bronze and rate its own youth by honoring youthful creative ten minutes and an eight to ten minute con- Critics wand. his instrument. who attended the concert agreed with the For be- stone figures of bag- ability of to-day. It has long contributed to certino for solo voice or instrument with orches- judges The piper had a reputation for magic and that it was a work of genuine inspiration sides being a power pipers have been youthful understanding and interpretative ability tral accompaniment. And to composers in these spells before Scotland took him over. An American Indian lakes a try at the Pipes and one that showed originality in scoring In pagan plant, the bag sus- by giving a series of Young People’s Concerts forms In found among Roman who were between ten and eighteen years addition they praised times, his note echoed among eastern hills from pended the instrument the boy’s piano playin^ a remains in Britain. led first by and since his death of age it offered three prizes: two China to the hundred dol- field in which he is gifted. Mediterranean. Aromatic trade so conveniently that its player could march as Coming down towards the middle ages, by Rudolph Ganz. But as a special event it lars and performance by the New York Phil- winds wafted the sound we The boy’s father is hopeful across the Aegean. Then easily as he piped. Marching, wanted to search out new and unusual creative that his son’s un- like dancing, be- catch an occasional glimpse of our marching in- harmonic-Symphony Orchestra at a Young Peo- the Greeks gave it wings in usual ability, which began to the mythical lore came a natural expression of the talent and to reward it with money and with manifest itself in rhythm of his strumentalist in accounts of ancient wars; ple’s Concert for the composition adjudged the of Pan and his pipes. The Pied among improvizations at the piano when Piper sounded lilt. That is why we meet the bagpiper through the performance of its works. More and more we are best; one hundred dollars and Andre was two gargoyles and wood carvings found in pre- performance by and a half, will the same note, and it may still be heard in Irish the centuries becoming musical creators, where once develop under the careful super- more often on the march or with reformation we merely the Orchestra for the second best; and fifty churches; or caricatured both in dol- vision of the parents. and Scots glens when the fairies are abroad. the .folk followed in the paths already made. And this In order that he dancers, than tending his flocks. instrument lars for third best. may de- Bums’ picture and player. Sometimes the piper is velop normally and not of “Auld Nick” piping at the Like the Scarlet Pimpernel year, when the Orchestra looked back on its own To many persons it “burn himself out,” he however, he seems pictured as an ape seemed that the age-range witches dance in or pig. sometimes as an angel. d ^ W°rk °n hiS “Tam O’Shanter” is authentic to bob up in the beginnings, seemed an appropriate time to test was inordinately low and mUSiC 0nly three hours most unexpected places. As a One carving shows a fool that few compositions each °day Scots superstition and good holding a cat as a the powers of young people who were mythology too. The carved stone figure, he likewise of worth could be submitted by such ” has been unearthed from piper holds his pipes, and biting “children eSt mythical wood winds all seem to the tail to pro- beginners, a time to find out what incipient But ™- °f tJ e winners were have belonged the ruins of forgotten cities along when February 1, 1942, brought ? Americans from “The Great duce the music. Opinions varied the contest to the pagan nether regions, sort then as they still creative talent existed in the youth of Canada to a close S ° f the COUntry a of sylvan Silk Road.” Albrect Durer’s picture seventy-five manuscripts - although most of of him as a do on the merits of piping had come to themt LTLT purgatory peopled by nymphs, as music. And the now live in the (Continued shepherds and shepherd of “The Nativity” was on Page 410) probably in- ( Continued 366 on Page 410 1 JUNE, 1942 THE ETUDE 367 Music and Culture joy and blessing on every brightly, spreading ni/jp ’’ Music and Culture thusly: “May you Brahms replied to Schumann have done for me; may I never regret what you it.” He wrote to become entirely worthy of A Musical Saga of Samoa “God grant that my Joachim the following year: The Hey Day of wings may yet grow vigorously.' Brahms Comes Into His Own the giowth of Those of us who have watched or forty years, know public taste the last thirty inton acquired a knowledge of mi Brahms and Schumann that concert-goers have and love them. But at the symphonies of Brahms impression. It is said that first they made little concerts in this in the early days of symphony an exit in Sym- country, a sign was put up over case of Eu Waiter phony Hall, : “This way out, in The author of this fascinating story writes that he can furnish 7”Y Brahms!” an affidavit by himself and another witness as to its authenticity. , . that it might Schumann himself even predicted However, it will surely charm both adults and children with its would Professor of Piano, Converse College be a long time before the people generally tropical atmosphere and mystic appeal, and perhaps we should appreciate this music, and it has been an interest- not ask for legal certification.—Editor’s Note. ing thing to see and feel the security in the public mind of this master’s work. T IS A COMMON BELIEF that musicians as a Let me quote briefly I was a young stu- class are particularly unfriendly to each other. from the article. (It is When before the charm I It be true in some instances; we find well to bear in mind dent, and may AVE EVER HEARD about Samoa’s allegiance to the study of Brahms’ YOU Stars and Stripes, as we had twenty-one gun salute rang out from the three enmity in all walks of life. But we have many that Schumann was of the legend of the “Turtle and the Shark”? been taught to do at home in a school not so guns at the Government Post. The sound echoed examples in history that have shown the gen- gifted as a writer, as music had fully possessed H Perhaps you have, for it really is famous, unlike the one there. The Star-Spangled Banner and re-echoed from one mountain -side to an- erosity of one musician to another. There are well as a musician.) me, I had the privilege of but you, like myself, have probably believed that was more than music to our ears; but the chil- other. The tall wireless towers seemed to quiver some notable cases of generosity among dis- As I followed the hearing the great master it was only legend and that no part of it could dren, as they marched in almost backward look- tinguished artists of the “Romantic Period.” career of many clever himself. If I kept a diary, and sway from the terrific concussion. be true. ing at us, seemed to be more in step with our Almost as fast On September 30, 1853, , the talents, I thought that as I believe I did, I prob- as though she had come out of It was my good fortune to have been included, clanking anchor it young composer, paid his first visit to there must, and would ably noted the day and chain as grated through the one of the guns, our ship's cat made a dash for along with several other young men, in a Scien- at Diisseldorf. Joseph Joachim, suddenly appear, one the occasion with great hawspipes. the deep hidden places in the hold and was not tific Expedition bent entirely upon visiting out- the great classical violinist, was instrumental in whose destiny should be pride. With still greater The children were the only ones who seemed seen again for three days. The peaceful little bay of-the-way places and studying the life and mys- bringing these two men together. A short time to express the spirit of pride, I can say that I to have anything in particular to do, therefore, took on a different aspect and everything was life before, Schumann had visited Hamburg, and our age in the highest caught the spirit of his teries of the people on many of the islands as we sat foot on shore, the customary crowd at and commotion. young Brahms had sent one of his compositions and most ideal fashion, music. throughout the South Seas. once gathered around to welcome us in that sin- to the hotel for Schumann to look over. It was one who should not After Schumann’s tragic One week before the Fourth of July, we were cere and friendly way known only to the people Although such circumstances reveal his mastery by having a glorious time wandering about explor- returned unopened. illness and death, Brahms of the Islands of the South Seas. We wandered wnat place could the legend of the night be- usually end negatively, in this case everything a gradual development, ing the island of Tahiti. We had explored one about, proved a true and helpful and they wandered along. In some un- fore have in all of this celebration? It seemed turned out well, and there was no feeling of but spring, like Miner- island after another on our way from Hawaii friend to the widow, Frau explainable way we felt a mysterious bond be- as though it must have been left somewhere back resentment on the part of Brahms. This meeting, va, fully armed from Clara southward and had seen and heard many strange tween us. Schumann, and her Were we succumbing to the lure of there in the moonlight. Would the natives still arranged by Joachim, paved the way for a most the head of Jove; and things. children. By many, Clara these islands, or was it because we had come so remember? We would ask them. Yes, notable association. We find in now he has come, a whenever delightful and Schumann was We could have stayed in that group for days far just to celebrate considered with them the Fourth of we were ready to go they would take us. It would Schumann’s diary on the very day of this first young creature over and looked and listened and marvelied. But we Brahms the ideal woman pianist. July? be necessary visit. “Herr Brahms from Hamburg.” whose cradle the Graces in his youth to travel about eight miles across Diisseldorf She played her husband’s came to a sudden realization that afternoon, the next day the diary notes read: “Brahms and Heroes have kept the Island to the unprotected ocean side, where On music everywhere. as we breathed the soft air and looked up at the A Strange Story — She no kindly coral reef to see me—a genius.” Then “Much with watch. His name is Johannes Brahms; he comes also guarded the famous cove appreciated at once the music of Brahms and flag that faintly fluttered above the quay of The moon climbed high that night and finally, and seem- from the relentless beating of huge waves as Brahms” from Hamburg, gave him great it encouragement. Papeete— was a French flag! Of course we had ingly stood still overhead “Brahms” every day. as we listened to their they piled high against rugged rocks. where he has worked It would be most known it all along, helpful to those who are in- but we had never been away happy stories. One intrigued us more The impression in obscurity, though than the The little village which nestled there was terested in the works of these two great masters from an American port on the Fourth of July: others produced upon Schu- and we asked for it again: reached in trained in the most if, wherever a very short time, and we were met possible, schools and colleges would how could we be at this time? That question took “Once upon a time mann by Brahms, difficult rules a terrible famine visited by all of the natives—men, of his offer courses in this music. In possession of us. Honolulu women and children, the larger cities, lay two thousand miles the Island. The palm trees stood both as man and art by enthusiastic naturally parched in the who soon guided us over the rocks to the edge one can hear the symphonies performed behind us, and American Samoa thirteen hun- burning of as artist, was, as solicitude sunshine. The mangoes dried and the water. of an ad- frequently in public, and our dred miles to the On our faces were plain signs of be- opportunities westward. The answer seemed dropped their fruit. Wasiellewski tells us, mirable master, Ed- through The beautiful stralitzia were wilderment but on theirs broadcasts are constantly widening. Also to lie in taking a straight course rested such a calm “absolutely like a to Samoa. withered and brown, and the rippling waters ward Marxsen, and by means of recordings we confidence, that had we been less skeptical, spell.” may come to know by were silent Brahms recently introduced frequent Old men shook their heads as their should have hearings, the symphonic works of these On to Samoa at once dismissed all doubts. played his piano to me by a revered gods turned away in wrath and all their offer- and other masters, and recognize their With hurried Suddenly they began to sing in a clear musical “Sonata Op. 1” and wondrous “farewells” and a count to see ings were scorned. and well-known ar- beauties. chorus. It seemed almost a the “Sonata Op. 2” that all were really there, we weighed anchor chant, although there tist. (This At last, that the people was Joseph might live, a gallant was nothing weird or mournful for him, the Scherzo and turned the bow of our boat toward the Prince about it, but Joachim.) Even in Schumann and Chopin and a lovely Princess offered to sacrifice vibrant Op. sunset. and in a way playful. This continued for 4, and the “So- his outward their lives by jumping appear- Another friendship which was from one of the cliffs into three or four minutes; nata in F minor. Op. formed at this It is true that we sighed more than once as then they stopped and ance he bore all the period the sea. They would forever stay in that 5.” was that of Schumann and we looked cove to waited a minute or two. From these hear- Chopin. The back on the palm fringed shores of come when We also waited and distinguishing signs Polish pianist and composer, they were called. The gods would watched, ings and after fre- born in 1810, made Tahiti and also thought of the other islands that never taking our eyes from that green which proclaim him a tour into smile on them, and they would protect the quent visits on the Germany when he was little we were leaving, Island turbulent water. All at as over with their legends and mys- from once some one cried: one of the elect. twenty years of age. evil and famine. And the gods part of Brahms to He was a finished artist teries their “Firewalks” had smiled, There she comes,” and Sitting at — and superstitions. What and the to our utter amazement down to the that time, and charmed people had been happy and blessed ever Schumann, the lat- everyone who heard of Samoa? it breasting a wave was piano, he him. Would have legends and romance since.” a huge sea turtle. began to Schumann said of him: ter wrote the famous “Hats off, gentlemen 1 too? We did not know; but On in it came, until it open up regions of A we had a comfortable We were silent stopped where the wave article “New Paths,” genius!” And it was to for a few moments. Then al- Chopin that Schumann sense of well being as we sailed ended almost directly below us in wonder. We were dedicated the moonlit most before we could ask: the shallow extolling Brahms to one of his most beautiful “Where was the cove? water. It drawn compositions waters by night and the deep blue tropical seas was at least three feet in diameter Schumann from a portrait photograph more and Kreislenana Was it really true?”—“Of and the skies. Some mu- made Op. 16.” Also in his “Carnaval by day. course it was”—they would probably for the more Op’ have weighed more Bibliotheque National in Paris. into the 9, one would go with us in than one sicians were afraid of the numbers is called the morning and call for charmed Chopin, and is a There was still a day or so to spare, hundred pounds. It reminded us of circle. . as their a that Schumann, in . . veritable picture we beloved Prince and Princess bright piece 0 f Chopin in dreamy slipped quietly in to come forth. of Chinese Every age is mood through the bottle-necked jade, for there was , . . domi- Later Never could about it an in- his new enthusiasm, over-estimated Brahms as nated by Chopin moved to Paris we remember having a more ex- a secret coalition of kindred where he became entrance of Pago Pago Bay, one of the herent beauty. It put its in the spirits Do U best har- citing day to which head up and looked he had case of some other composers, ye ar a pianist to look forward. At last it who are its members draw ’ appearing bors in the South Seas. hard at us for the , principally a few such as Henselt and circle closer iiiThe°h came. A Fourth seconds, bobbed its head Sterndale-Bennett. that the truth S ^ 1S wealthy of July so many hundreds of of art may shine even Patrons, since con- We dropped anchor just as the back and forth, slipped quietly more cert hall°™alls werer° Polynesian miles from home, and yet below the surface scarce. ( how at home we felt! Continued on Page 416) children were- saluting the flag and of the water and disappeared 368 pledging The very air seemed American. Suddenly a We looked at the ( Continued on THE ETUDE JUNE, 1942 Page 420) 369 .

Music in the Home

Music in the Home

ADIO MAGIC RECORDINGS are being used More Defense Working for to build morale among industrial workers More Music, R• and to speed up Defense production. And now Radio Magic amplified melodies are even ac- celerating the building of battleships in the same were enlisted to stim- Up Defense Production way that whole brass bands How Amplified Music is Stepping Programs during World War I. It was Finer Radio ulate ship building therefore no surprise to radio men to learn that the 35,000-ton battleship Alabama, under con- struction at the Norfolk Navy Yard, was being built to music. The program comprised six con- & Sbr. O. J4. CMmlt jorycin certs daily, from records played through an ampli- By ^ydlfrecl cjCindsay fying system—four during the shifts and two at lunch-time. The music is described as “sweet and addition, one city in Kansas purchased a swing” “classic and corny” and its effect upon the other points in the plant. Four groups of loud- club. In system, so that the police cruising workers was found to be stimulating and to pro- speakers are employed powered by amplifiers in- mobile sound support the horns. around town can issue stentorian traffic com- mote increased spirit and effort. stalled on the poles which of one's reaction on the quality of program worthy of praise for its “human interest infractors of local rules of the road. In fact, the record-breaking total of a hundred Signals from the control station are transmitted mands to performance. This and integrity.” Of Corwin’s "Bill of Rights” are the music and its major sound amplifying and reproducing systems to the remote amplifiers over telephone cables. When modern sound installations made in would be a wartime musical log, broadcast, which listeners will remember con- were installed during a recent thirty-day period, A powerful sound system designed for perma- industrial plants, the purpose is above all to which in later years might well be- cluded with an address by the President, praise including a number of unusual installations. nent use in a new United States munitions depot stimulate morale and to promote general good come a highly prized family item. So was bestowed besause it “demonstrated what These sound jobs reveal the constantly widening at New Brighton, Minnesota, was installed ahead feeling between workers and management, by the much by way of radio is all too soon patriotism and a fine dramatic sense could do field for “sound” in business and industry, during of time so that it could also be used by the build- introduction of pleasing music during working forgotten, yet assuredly we have seven days after Pearl Harbor." The board con- the present critical period in National Defense. ing contractor for expediting and paging. The hours. radio concerts of fine music which tended that it “ought to be rebroadcast until it For example, twelve 100-watt loudspeakers apparatus consists of a central control cabinet Even though the noise conditions in such plants deserve be remembered along with Is familiar.” are doing yeoman duty in the Roanoke classify- with microphone and phonograph facilities feed- may reach such high intensities as 65 to 100 to are in our con- That cited for ing yards of the Norfolk and Western railroad, ing sixty-four power decibels, it has been found possible to introduce those which heard Alfred Wallenstein was an amplifiers which, in individual loudspeakers at each machine so that cert halls. award was understandable. For a number of turn, drive thirty- the music being played is heard clearly above the Each year the Henry W. Grady years past he has been responsible for many un- WALLENSTEIN two 100'- watt loud- factory roar. ALFRED School of Journalism of the Univer- usual as well as highly worth while programs. speakers. The system The loudspeaker system can also be used for sity of Georgia makes seven awards Besides his regular weekly features, there have is so arranged that local plant broadcasts of safety instructions and here seems no better way to begin to outstanding features of the national broad- been his Mozart Opera and Bach Cantata series, any of the ten groups for possible air-raid warnings. our department this month than by repeat- casting scene. These honors, named from their which have been widely praised, and others such of speakers covering The musical programs are started five minutes T ing a worthy suggestion, made recently dur- founder, are known as the George Foster Peabody as last year’s series of programs which featured various parts of the before the time work is to begin and thus have ing a Mutual network program (Wallenstein’s Awards. For the first time this year they were the noted violinist, Joseph Szigeti, and later plant can be used in- the effect of getting employees in and ready to Symphonic Strings), whereby musical listeners presented to programs. Since they are referred the Metropolitan Opera soprano, Elisabeth dividually for paging begin work promptly. can do their own special part for National De- to as the “Pulitzer Prize” of broadcasting, an idea Rethberg. in selected areas, of fense. It is a suggestion we feel that readers of of the honor attached to the awards can be A new and most important group in the history the whole A Relief from Fatigue system The Etude may wish to pass on to their friends. gaged. One of the seven conferments this spring Of broadcasting is the First American Opera Festival, may be used for Industrial tests have shown that in factory Each time you listen to a program of musical was given to Alfred Wallenstein, musical director which Wallenstein inaugurated on May 7th plant-wide coverage. work there is peak a of fatigue occurring about worth do this: “Imagine that a radio concert of of Mutual’s New York station WOR. by Dr. S. V. (Thursday, 8:00 to 9:00 P.M.. EWT). These Another sound sys- 11 A.M. To off-set this, music is begun at 10:55 fine music was being played in a hall with a Sanford, Chancellor of the University System of programs are a worthy continuation of both the tem has been install- A.M. and continued twenty-four minutes until twenty-five cent admission charge, the net pro- Georgia, during a dinner in New York, on April conductor’s and WOR'S pioneering projects in ed in the Beuerwyck 11:19 A.M. Then at the noon hour, news is given ceeds to go to help the war. You would pay that 10th in honor of the award members. Wallen- good Brewery, music. Seven broadcasts in all are planned, Albany, while the employees eat lunch in the cafeteria or quarter gladly, stein wouldn’t you? Well, think that was cited for “greater originality, his search and in case you have missed the first four we New York A num- alongside their machines. At 12:30 a “request” way about fine radio programs you hear at home for the lesser known classics, and the beauty and recommend that you mark the three scheduled ber of powerful re- program of musical selections follows. —and buy an extra War Saving Stamp for at leadership which he has brought to the perform- for this month on your radio entrant loudspeakers Other fatigue calendar. Such con- peaks occur at 2:30 and about 4 least some of them. Make them your own bene- ance of his Sinfonietta [heard on Thursday eve- certs as these would be appropriate for are placed at inter- P.M., and these are again ones the periods for quarter- fit concerts for Uncle Sam— in addition to your nings from 8:00 to 8:30 P.M., EWT].” vals throughout the hour musical assemblance of a listening group, for these broad- selections. At closing time, music is regular purchase of Besides warehouse War Bonds and Stamps.” his Sinfonietta, this gifted orchestral casts are being presented in cooperation with the and on again heard. The noon-hour “request” musical We offer a further plan to assist at this time. leader has three other important programs on U S. Treasury the loading plat- programs which follow the Department to aid the sales of noon news periods, All of us who own finer radio the air: forms. To acknowl- equipment than Symphonic Strings (Sundays, 6:30 to 7:00 War Savings Bonds. are made up of selections chosen by the em- our immediate neighbors and friends might P.M., Mutual); the Firestone Hour, featuring have THE FACTORY OF edge the call, the ployees themselves, and thus they We often lamented the fact that radio TOMORROW DEMANDS MUSIC feel that they organize a listening group once or Richard person being paged have twice a week Crooks 'Mondays, 8:30 to 9:00 P.M., news is not available far This scene in the large drug making plant of the Bristol-Myers a hand in arranging the noon enough in advance to Company music. Wed- for the best musical broadcasts, NBC-Red shows five goes to and by way of network': and the program known notify amplifiers through which music is supplied during the day. the nearest ding marches and “happy-birthday” as our readers of such worthy series as these. greetings promoting further help for America Thus the entire huge plant is wired for daily musical inspiration. of a number of Uncle Sam sell each Preferred (Saturdays, 10.15 to 10.45 PM.. But com- are often included on appropriate occasions. even though these broadcasts have passed member of the audience a twenty-five cent War Mutual) municator stations The usual practice for the supply their halfway mark, we feel justified handling Defense traffic—constituting of the neces- Saving in calling one of the located throughout the plant. sary Stamp as an admission charge. Not only Other winners of the Peabody musical recordings, is to furnish an Awards this attention to them now. For these are all-Ameri- most powerful systems of its type in the world. The initial can a better Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. has installed an plant neighborly feeling be advanced in year were the Chicago Round Table of the Air, Since the “library” of five hundred records, and weekly can events; not only are the operas the works installation, operations in the switching extensive industrial then this way but each of sound system which provides to furnish one hundred member of the group will forum broadcast from NBC: the program We American yard have been carried on with a notable increase new records a month, on composers, but the participating recorded music programs for the plant, in addition an definitely derive an uplift from adding his or her Hold These Truths, by Norman in efficiency. exchange basis. This accomplishes the Corwin, which was singers are all American, Orders are now communicated ver- to paging and elimina- bit in this and the orchestra em- announcing . manner. facilities. Nine large tion of old records, Perhaps the host of the oc- heard over all networks on December 15. 1941. bally over large areas, doing away with the need and continuously keeps the on ployed is Wallenstein s own Sinfonietta. It was speaker -trumpets are ‘driven by 150 casion will feel prompted to serve the anniversary a for watts of local industrial music collection refreshments, of the BiH of Rights; and the so- worthy time-consuming signaling by lights and flags. power. The both up-to-date and logical choice that George Gersh- system is also used to provide music and in but this is not an essential requirement for the called Soap Opera,” Against good operating condition. the Storm, written by wins ’ during the lunch Porgy and Bess” should have opened this Unusual and supper hours for the success of such a gathering. People like to Sandra Michael, Installations In some of the workrooms where get to- broadcast five days a week over series on workers. the new in- gether, May 7th. Following it came Douglas Another dustrial music has been particularly for the enjoyment of music; the NBC-Red network. In citing the unique sound installation has been During installed, high noise levels last for an Moore's “The Devil the same month sound systems there is and Daniel Webster” (May completed at the were in- prevail but the something communicable about musical award, the Peabody advisory Des Moines Ordnance new music board called it • Plant by stalled in twenty-one system successfully “a 14th : Gian-Carlo Menotti’s schools and colleges, twelve appreciation and the feeling daytime “The Old Maid and the Technical Service Corp. of Des Moines. meets this difficulty, particularly that we are shar- program which stands head This industrial plants, eight churches, with the aid of and the Thief” (May 21st); and on seven United small local ing musical enjoyment with others. shoulders above May 28th the system includes a master control station in the speakers installed at That very the mediocrities in its field,” States Government projects, eleven each machine in a world-premiere of Quinto Maganini’s Administration Building hotels, hos- rooms where feeling will enter into the buying of the stamps opera where microphone, radio pitals and the noise is great. In institutions, and in such miscellaneous general women and everyone Tennessee’s Partner.” and phonograph facilities have been provided. like the music to be who acquires one in this manner locations as a race track, distinctly audible, so they On June 4. Virgil Remote several funeral homes can will have an inner cause for Thomson’s “Four Saints in microphones are provided as well at the auditoriums, follow the melodies. double rejoicing. department stores, Men at work, on the Three Acts.” with its highly telephone switchboard, for paging, lodges, restau- other hand, Further satisfaction might be provocative and and at several rants, a roller prefer music only found by keep- RADIO rink, a bowling alley as “background” "I startling libretto by Gertrude and a night and so for male ing a log of the concerts heard; with some notes Stein, will be heard. workers ( Continued on Aaron Page 420) Copland’s < 370 opera, Continued on Page 420) JUNE, 1942 THE ETUDE 377 .

Music in the Home Music in the Home Are You A Victim Of Shyness? Louis E. Bisch, M.D., Ph.D., formerly Professor of Neuropsychiatry in the New York Polyclinic ;CHUBERT: SONATA No. 10 IN D MAJOR, OP. 53; Medical School and Hospital, and now a practic- 888. (piano) . Victor set Notable ing psychiatrist in New York City, was inter- Musical listeners who tuned into the Sun- viewed in The Etude for January 1942. His new day afternoon broadcasts of the New Friends of book, “Why Be Shy?”, grows more absorbing with The Etude Music this past winter will recall the five recitals each progressive page. To one who for years has during January and February in which Artur been engaged in business, with large numbers of Schnabel played all the piano sonatas of Schubert. collaborating employees, it is not surprising to Schnabel’s performances of the piano music of Pianist Recordings Master note the author’s statement that at least one Schubert remain among the most persuasive dem- Music Lover’s Bookshelf in every three persons is a victim of the psy- onstrations of his artistry. chological confusion resulting from shyness. Dr. When we consider that the sonatas of Schubert Bisch tells “the why,” “the when,” and “the how” difficulties, Schnabel’s ex- offer pianists endless Any book here of this condition and shows the means by which pressive and free-flowing performances of them (Pu f^eter Jdufyh Peed reviewed may it may be conquered by the reader, providing be secured from are the more appreciable. For this reason the work THE ETUDE MUSIC pathological lesions which should that has gone into their conception and exposition there are no MAGAZINE ut the first be treated by an expert physician. The book orice given plus is not immediately apparent to the casual listener. postage. should be of great help to the millions of victims Rumor has it that Schnabel has been busy record- Bonnet in the Perotin, arrangement for full symphony orchestra Kern’s works lately, and the present tempo employed by Mr. of shyness, which is quite often observable among ing several of these Miller’s sensitive nonetheless owns expressive appeal tunes find new life and appeal. musicians and music students. set is undoubtedly a forerunner of others to come. the music performance. arrangements of six song hits from different The “Sonata in D major” has been aptly described in the present “Why Be Shy?” graceful gra- in major (Kreutxer), Op. 47: shows by Kern accentuates the and as an expression “of irresistible force and orig- Beethoven: Sonata A By Louis E. Bisch, M.D., Ph.D. Rudolf Serkin (piano) cious qualities of the melodies. Many will no doubt inality, and of an eventfulness which was never Adolf Busch (violin) and Pages: 265 welcome this unusual contribution to chamber B,j B. Were,Jilt (Ladniman again, in Schubert, joined to such a brilliant style.” Columbia set 496. Price: $2.00 music. The Gordon String Quartet brings the same There may be some who will be captious of de- The fine musical intelligence and teamwork *of Publishers: Simon and Schuster in their artistic expressiveness to Kern’s tunes as it would tailed aspects of the performance, Schnabel’s Busch and Serkin are well evidenced con- this Although to a Beethoven quartet. lingering over a phrase here or there or his lack ception and performance of work. A Study in German Romanticism Music of Spain,” has felt this and his history is The Machinery of Publicity Mozart: Symphony in C minor, K. 183; York of compliance to the con moto marking in the technically Busch is by no means as proficient New Swalin calls his finely sympathetic, but at the same time highly That is what Dr. Benjamin F. What might be called the confessions of a press effect of his playing Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, John Barbi- second movement. However, when all is said and as his partner, the over-all the violin concerto. It is an discerning. The author prefers to have the work excellent work upon agent just come the press of the Bobbs- rolli, conductor. Columbia set X-217. has from done, the impression sustained is that this is the remains as satisfying as that of any other vio- excellent analysis of the outstanding concertos, called a panorama, rather than a history. The Merrill Company. This press agent, or if you Serkin bring vigor Dr. Paul Nettl, the Czech musicologist, . has performance of an artist who loves and under- linist on records. Busch and are all too rarely. The work fact that Spain is a country of many different some of which heard choose the swanky term “Public Relations Coun- and intensity to the first called this early symphony of Mozart “the most stands Schubert. The pian- is finely documented and ably planned and types has made the author’s task difficult. - daring, romantic sel,” is Constance Hope, and her clients have for ist has been splendidly re- movement, and their and passionate of his early written. The material in this new Spanish musical his- artists, performance of the tar- works in its form.” Certainly, the symphony af- the most part been concert and operatic corded. ;] “The Violin Concerto” tory is so picturesque, that the book reads easily. antella-like finale is fords a striking example of the although she has taken side excursions Into Weber: Sonata No. 1 in C by genius of the Author: Benjamin F. Swalin The Zarzuela and the Spanish dances are ably composer linens, dresses, and restaurants. major. Op. 24; Claudio Arrau far the best. The set is at eighteen, for there are elements to Pages: 172 covered, as is Hispanic music in the Americas and be noted A press agent is a Professor of Mass Psychology. (piano) . Victor set 884. excellently recorded. here which were later to become - Price: $3.50 the music of Portugal. The work is a music room He must turn the search lights of publicity upon Among Weber’s most en- Brahms: Symphony No. 2 tial traits of Mozart’s mature style. An earlier re- Publishers: The University of North Carolina necessity, as nothing exists which comprises the his client until they shine so brightly that the during works for piano in D major, Op. 73; cording of this work was marred by non-resonant Press splendid material in this book. whole world avoid seeing In this must be counted his first Philharmonic Orchestra, recording. Although the present set offers more “The Music of Spain” cannot them. vital way, some gifted and personable young musi- two sonatas — Op. 24 and direction of Felix Wein- reproduction, it cannot be said that Barbi- The Music of Spain Author: Gilbert Chase Op. 39. True, they lack gartner. Columbia set rolli’s performance is a truly expressive one. cians, actors and Hollywooden debutantes have The reviewer has been looking for this book Pages: 375 academic ingenuity, in Sibelius: been turned into big in but 493. Symphony No. 1 in E minor. Op. 39: Phila- business an amazingly for some time. He was sure that it would come. Price: $4.00 their poetic light-hearted- Weingartner’s treat- delphia Orchestra, , short time. The press agent’s job calls for inven- conductor. There have been many excellent works upon Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. ness and seeming insou- ment of Brahms is both Victor set 881. tion, ingenuity, diplomacy, and enormous per- Spain’s incomparably enchanting music, but they ciance there is much .more congenial and compan- Sibelius’ “First Symphony” sistence. In former days, he thought his job w has been aptly de- have for the mesi part been sketchy. to appreciate than con- Anyone who Dvorak In Biography ionable. He does not in- scribed as a fantastical expression although not a to hoax the public as cleverly as possible. He has lived upon the Iberian Peninsula during the One of the best of contemporary demn. The two sonatas flate the Brahmsian displeasing one. musical reasoned that the hoax based upon a ridiculously Conceived in the grand manner, past half century mentioned are romantic realizes in a short time that it biographers is the Austrian, Paul Stefan, and drama nor does he over- it is not far removed from Tschaikowsky and yet false statement was anything that Mr. J. Q. P. pieces, faintly reminiscent your reviewer always feels a peculiar sense of stress the sentiment. its individuality remains unassailable. Ormandy’s would laugh off in sportsmanlike fashion, but he of the composer’s opera security in opening a biography of this fine Although our preference interpretation pursues a broader symphonic out- would still remember the publicity. Now things “Der Freischutz.” Victor has musical workman. He leaves no necessary point of the several recordings look than that of the late Robert Kajanus; further are very different. Publicity must be true or at already released the second the uncovered and wastes no words upon unessentials. of this symphony re- clarity of line and tonal texture in his latest re- least as true as possible. sonata in an attractive per- mains with cording Dvorak welded his Czechoslavalcian soul with Beecham, offers a more valid substantiation of the Miss Hope writes with her tongue in her cheek formance by Alfred Cortot, this America through his residence in America in the set seems to us to composer’s intentions. It is and her pen in champagne. Your reviewer found and splendidly recorded. now comes an equally a better Strauss: fine works that it produced. He was a man who own feeling for From the Shores of Sorrento (from Aus this a very amusing book with fair warning of fine performance of the first CLAUDIO ARRAU lived for his music. Personally, line and understanding Italien); Chicago Symphony he had little pre- what the aspiring artist must expect to catch by Claudio Orchestra, direction the Arrau. of tense in his makeup. The writer of this the Brahms’ orches- of Frederick Stock. Victor disc review public eye and ear, to say nothing its Debussy: 18535, of mouth, Etudes No. 1 and No. 7; Jacob Gimpel tration once heard him say, “Ich bin niir and expression than either that of Bar- Paganini (arr. Stock): Moto perpetuo; ein einfacher nose and throat. (piano). Columbia disc and Ippolitow- 17305-D. birolli or Ormandy. Ivanow: Boemischer Musiker.” (I am only a simple Procession of the Sardar from Caucasian Sketches; “Publicity is Broccoli” Debussy’s twelve etudes, dedicated to the mem- Kern: Show Boat Bohemian Musician). —Scenario for Orchestra; Cleveland Chicago Symphony Orchestra, direction Author: Constance Hope ory of Chopin, are not mere finger of Fred- exercises; some Orchestra, direction of Artur Rodzinski. Columbia erick Stock. Stefan’s biography is splendidly clear and in- pi Columbia disc 11738-D. Pages: 264 them are real poetic miniatures. No. 1 is a hu- set 495. teresting. Fifty Dr. Stock recently signed a pages of the book are devoted Price: $2.00 morous gibe at Czerny, in contract with Victor; fast tempo, and No. 7 Kem: Melodies (arr. to Dvorak’s activities in Charles Miller) : Gordon and the lovely, picturesque America. The work is Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Co. is a study in chromaticism. Gimpel plays both movement from String Quartet. Decca set A-293. Strauss’ early excellent in every respect. There is a fine bibli- with fine technic and symphony, written in his twenty- expression. It was Rodzinski’s idea that ography, in which there Kern arrange an second year while on A Spanish are no less than three I Perotin: Trio Organum Triplex; a visit to Italy, is the first Gypsy Trio he W orld of Wagner — Anonymous (15th orchestral scenario of his “Show Boat” references to articles in The Etude music. Al- issue under this new contract. Music Maga- Wagner is century) : Le Moulin As welcome running a merry bibliographic de Paris; Caurroy: Fantaisie sur Pair though by no as this zine. race means a true symphonic work, this excerpt is on “Une jeune Fillette”; records, one cannot but with Shakespeare these days. Despite and Couperin (Louis) : Chaconne; regret that is one of the few remaining war prej- score is no conventional potpourri. “Show Boat” the “civilized” countries “The Life and Work of Anton Dvorak” Joseph conductor did not see fit to udices, the queer little Bonnet (organ) . Victor disc 18413. record the entire in which there is still preserved man of Bayreuth is the contains so many memorable tunes, melodies work. a colorful indi- Author: Paul Stefan Here It is among the best of subject of recent we have a miniature recital of four en- which are Strauss’ early com- viduality of the present population. books and articles in many filled with that yearning quality which positions. The Spaniard Translated by: Y. W. Vance joyable Stock’s performance tongues. So very little organ pieces played with impeccable we associate of the ubiquitous is one of the most independent is known that is authentic with Foster. Heard in a richly scored Procession and indifferent Pages: 336 taste by Mr. Bonnet. We o.f the Sardar (said beings about the life of Shakespeare recommend that all to be based on a in any land. He is proud and aloof, unless Price: that most writers Hmdu folk tune) $3.00 readers investigate this disc, and then look up is effectively planned and real- he knows you very well content themselves with analyses of his indeed. He prefers to Publishers; The Greystone Press works. information on the various ized and Ins performance With Wagner, however, composers, for all of the Paganini piece keep to himself and he can be extremely sus- the case is very different. were men of prominence in —although less exciting Masses of reference their time. Although than the Toscanini ver- picious of outsiders. Courteous, intelligent material are available and sion- and there is some question on the ~theless there seems authenticity of the well played. The recording in deft, as well as emotional, he finds in music one to be an increasing flow of bio- both discs is well con graphical material. ( Continued on Page 414) of his chief delights. Gilbert Chase, in his “The BOOKS 372 t. 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Triumph Music and Culture Music in the Home A Notable Domestic Musical Implicit in this two-part counterpoint is a Followed a Star” gives an acutely feminine view Far Northwest rhythmic framework of four-part harmony (a) with in the of the master. She does not concern herself which may be compressed into four essential his libidinous caprices, with which so many of who had studied in and had HAPPY to record physician Counterpoint chords (b) but rather, HE ETUDE IS ALWAYS his biographers waste much space, have come to America to practice. Mme. Sabourin is a achievement of musicians who Ex. 3 she views him and his works from an Idealistic the and accompanies herself at which less natural born singer he T reaped success amid surroundings standpoint in relation to the world in which linguist, she sings in English, French, persistent musicians the piano. A plots of the leading music patient, industrious and lived. She tells the Italian, Russian, and Spanish. have found impossible. This is the story of dramas as her life story of the master unfolds would father came to Ed- radio pro- “When I was sixteen, my fashion. A com- a mother of thirteen children, whose and does it in very fine clear there until my marriage in 1917, Language monton. I lived in Plain dur- grams heard over the air from stations of the parative chronological table of world events who was then a young doctor Company in Alberta, when my husband ing the life of Wagner is very interesting and Canadian Broadcasting following. decided we should come to Bonnyville where we the reader to get his historical bearings. have won her a wide and enthusiastic helps village is literally a promi- have lived ever since. Our the is it done? Treble and alto are outlined in For instance, “'The Flying Dutchman” was pro- Madame Marguerite Sabourin, wife of How has lived in door to the North. It is situated one hundred and the treble, tenor and bass in the bass part. The duced the year in which the bicycle was invented nent physician, Dr. Severin Sabourin, ^Alrth ur S. (jarhett in 1917. sixty-five miles northwest of Edmonton, so you fixed quantity, or (1840); “Rlenzi” was performed in the Bonnyville, Alberta, since her marriage principal melody, however, is a miles see, I have quite a distance to go for my broad- year Edison was born (1847); “Tannhauser” was Bonnyville is one hundred and sixty-five in the lingo of the craft, a cantus flrmus. The casts. And it was a great honor to have been in- given in Paris the year the Pony Express was counterpoint, or counter-melody in the bass, is so vited as a special guest artist for the A. C. F. A., started in America (1861). contrived as to fill out the harmony for tenor and lovely singers and most ‘‘Richard Wagner Who Followed a Star” for Edmonton has many bass. of them younger than myself. Author: Gladys Burch much Counterpoint Is thus largely a matter of note- fine singer, a baritone. Pages: 573 “My husband is a Our Part One: “Gentlemen, Old Bach is Here!” juggling. The composer casts his eye over the voices blend beautifully and for many years we Price: $2.75 cantus flrmus, and so contrives his counterpoint specialized in vocal duets. We still do, when the Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, Inc. that it will amplify the chords Implicit therein. doctor is not too busy to practice. We had a An essential necessity, however, is that the coun- promising family choir but our tenor has gone. ter-melody shall be not only complementary to The oldest son is now a member of the Royal Mozart Makes His Bow the cantus flrmus but also tuneful and free-run- Canadian Mounted Police, and has been sent to to write the HIS IS NOT A TREATISE on how harmony-notes) and other devices to be dis- ning: melodious in its own right, yet not so An attractively illustrated book for children is a detachment in Montreal. All our children sing counterpoint. It is rather an attempt to ex- cussed later. Mozart,” obtrusively as to obscure the cantus flrmus and ‘‘Curtain Calls for Wolfgang a Musical all but one have ‘solo’ voices. I have been able T plain its terms and uses for the average thus “steal the Play for Children. The story is confined entirely Vertical or show." to teach the piano to only one of my girls owing listener, especially the radio listener who must Horizontal to the childhood of the little musical miracle. The reader may ask, to my frequent illnesses, but I have taught them needs catch his music on the wing. ’Tis here Tones The work makes an excellent gift book for chil- does the composer first theory and singing. One of is our boys a fine ’tis gone! The point is, how- dren. Several of Mozart’s themes appear in simple map out a series of comet player. He studied this at college. This win- music, ever, that for piano, violin duet, simple Millions nowadays are listening to tones ar- arrangement and ter I chords and then turn Madame Sabourin’s Unusual Musical Family. am going to present our ‘all-girl’ chorus to ranged string quartet. recorded or broadcast, that is rich in counter- vertically to into my audiences. Three of girls, them counter- my two boy sopranos point; yet they have little concrete knowledge of form a chord, may, by “Curtain Calls for Wolfgang Mozart” point? or does he write northwest of the city of Edmonton, which is some and myself. I have a very lovely and popular little Authors: Opal Wheeler and Sybil Deucher its many devices, and what they contribute alike horizontal extension, three hundred miles north of the Canadian troupe of one boy his counterpoint ad lib. and four little girls—singers to the greatest of masterpieces, the least of teach- form a melody (with Pages: 109 border. all. They are well known in our district. and then discover after- Price: $2:00 Mme. ing pieces; and even the craziest of “torch-songs” or without embellish- Sabourin, French-Ameriean, was born at “Cecile our daughter pianist and myself, are ward that he has out- Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. and “boogie-woogie.” ments) and converse- Auburn, , ; and educated in the preparing a two-piano number for ourselves at lined a series of chords? United States. Every melody is a compound of harmony-notes, ly, harmony is usually She is a cousin of the celebrated present. Later perhaps for the public— Either way is possible: not just passing-notes, changing-notes, syncopated notes, implicit in any melody Canadian tenor, Paul Dufault. She studied piano yet.” but usually both occur from which are framed figures (“words”) phrases, so that it can be “com- Impresario Supreme principally with Madame la Comtesse la , de Neu- Congratulations to a fine musician and a model at once! A good com- ville, at Holyoke, clauses and sentences. All these are in the prov- pressed,” so to speak, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, an extraordinary Italian Massachusetts, who was also a mother! poser starts out with a ince of counterpoint: and counterpoint itself is into a chord, or series business man with rare diplomacy and artistic musical thought-stream simply the technique of framing multiple melodies of chords. taste, held his post as Director of the Metro- similar to the verbal having recriprocal relationship to each other. If this is true of a politan Opera House for twenty-seven years dur- thought-stream The turns and twists of which ing the most brilliant days of that great theater melody are as distinctly single melody, it is in the field we all have. Just as of music. He did more to bring of counterpoint as chord-building, also true if a counter- forward American words, grammar, and operas composed by Americans than any other chord-progression and modulation are in the melody is used for ac- The “Nasal” province of rhetoric are pounded impresario in America. Sometimes he was ac- Tone harmony. They unite to form the com- companiment. For il- into us till our thoughts cused of furthering an Italian monopoly at the poser’s “vocabulary” of music; just as rhythm and lustration take the fol- are coherent, Broadway centre in which he reigned imperially 'k(f JJoward J4. dddgerton form (architectural plan) provide his “rhetoric.” lowing from a Gavotte and come out in for so many years, but German, French and Rus- Though harmony and counterpoint differ in in G minor by Bach. speech that is clear sian operas did not suffer during this period. HE MOST function, they are not apart. Chords, as every- It consists of a melody and correct, so the RIDICULOUS fallacy connected an open mouth, the Gatti-Casazza knew “everybody” result is the perfect tone. body knows, are built composer studies his in opera and with modern vocal study is the one con- as from a “root” or bass- in the treble, and a To test this matter conclusively, his personal story of his forty-two year long Tcerning so-called pinch the no note, and stand pillarwise. Melodies running harmony, counterpoint “nasal” tone. There are firmly at may be counterpoint the nostrils and try to get a pure career is full of interesting incidents regarding many false ideas of tor formed from the same notes running lengthwise. in the bass. and form, until they near-superstitious nature There is no “singing It would be the great singers. through the nose” now, His encounters with great com- which still cling like barnacles to y A clear illustration of this is the opening of well work together to give voice teaching, the result is ridiculous. the to play this over posers are interesting historical Now release the gra: Gloria ARTHUR S. clarity high lights. Dur- but a little mental effort might suffice to rid from Mozart’s “12th Mass”: a number GARBETT to his musical the close the mouth firmly and hum. of times, to ing the period of his occupancy of his post at the profession of this Singing ot ideas. Mozart one at least. How many teach- through the fix in the mind the wrote the Metropolitan, the general nose produces a pleasing sour character of the per- ers continue to tell their pupils not various Overture to “The Magic to sing Finally, still humming, Ex. 1 harmonic changes throughout. , formances improved immensely, as did the wel- open the mouth slow Flute the night before through the nose, when they mean quite the the opening performance. to its fullest extent and as fare of the performers. During the previous Grau opposite? slowly close it r Copyists took the pages as fast peating several Ex. S as he wrote them regime, for instance, a chorister times. If there is orchestrating received fifteen The alleged cause of a “nasal” no undue co as he went along. It tone is put forth stnction of came out per- dollars a week—under Gatti-Casazza, the throat muscles the r-fl • ffl fect he was in a gross misstatement which does result, whi • =£5 in form and substance, a kind much to re- the -I of fugue, a raised to from seventy to eighty mouth is open, is the — 4 M dollars. The tard progress of vocalists. Nine perfect tone. Mora stream of invertible out of ten author- the singer should counterpoint capable of jump in the fees of artists is also noted. Where ities say always be told, Heaven that “nasal” tone arises from singing “Part of eve knows what in the way of Patti was content with tone must be sung extended devel- $1200. Caruso received through the nose, a statement through the nose!” opments, and which they admit irrepressibly gay from start to $2500 a performance, although in the must Furthermore, to sing without finish. not be taken literally, yet to which audible or co: Except for the two eighth great tenor got from they comitant nasal notes, that melody is $6000 to $9000. cling with seemingly exhalation is actually formed The Speed of chronic dependence. the foui entirely from the chord of major Masters “Memories of Opera” dation for eighty per C Humming is really not cent of all C-E-G. Other fast unpleasant, and it is “breathim workers were Schubert Author: Giulio Gatti-Casazza done by singing StrUggUng and Men- only through the nose, y ^dent-S Few melodies consist delssohn Shortly Pages: 325 whereas E27LlS:r wholly of “harmony-notes” before his death. Schubert spoke constricting the nasal f ‘‘ passages to the exclusion as in this case, but for artistic reasons h s in te tl0n to stud Price: $3.50 same absurd Mozart de- ? . . y counterpoint” as of all air and p , f ^ though “vibration” produces chaos When coLlSm^Tl^ sired the firm strength of the trumpet he didn t know any; but that Publishers: Charles Scribner’s Sons a singer combines tones. was just talk His the action of humming Usually, the rigidity of Unfinished Symphony” and harmony-notes is softened is full of it. Mendelssohn by passing notes thanks 374 (notes occurring by steps between to his teacher, Carl Zelter, was nomenally a phe- skilled < Continued on Page THE ETUDE JUNE. 1942 418 )

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Music and Study Music and Study Teachers Round Table Time for Lessons The Do you believe that grade school stu- dents should be excused during school Turning the Student hours for private music Instruction? I music curves naturally into two-meas- cover many miles and find grand coopera- Conducted Monthly ure swings. As you play, lean slowly to- tion with the exception of one school. Oddly, the County Superintendent takes ward the piano in the first measure, and a perverse stand although accepting my swing your body away from it in the for high school work. I am proud credit second; ditto in third and fourth and of the musical reputation of Oregon, "Buckeye."—Mrs. so on. Artist although once I was a into an M. A., Oregon. fjflaW Now note an interesting circumstance; in the first measure the accent comes on Yes, the whole northwest has come a the second beat, where no note is played! long way in the field of music education. $ Noted Pianist has no accent, ,4 Posthumous Conference with Other sections of our land might well The second measure and accents drop their pretentiousness and take a and Music Educatnr the third, which on the third leaf from the intelligent and effective beat, again has no note to be played! cooperation your state's music teachers How can this be? The syncopation before have achieved with the educational au- each of these beats indicates the stress. Correspondent* with this Depart- thorities. Note also that in not a single measure Is arieS J^lachett ment arc requested to limit Letters a Of course all grade students should to One Hundred and Fifty Words. a melody tone played on the first beat; be excused during school hours for in- which, in the absence of syncopation, is strumental instruction. Shame on that sure evidence of first-beat weakness. SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR TIIE ETUDE BY ROSE HEYLBUT Superintendent! can be How he so un- by the manipulation of time values— I hope you and other thoughtful enlightened as not to realize that the sort of “tempo rubato” or rhythmic free- Round-Tablers will take the trouble to study of a musical instrument offers put these examples to the test, for they dom as it were. (Sounds very grand, One of the greatest singing-actors America ever produced, Charles Hackett, more mental discipline, emotional outlet, are invaluable lessons in accentuation. doesn’t it, but I’ll try to make it clear!) the opera and concert. a highly and training in physical coordination for two decades, dominated fields of After A note is held slightly longer than its And don’t let anyone get you into the than any two ordinary school subjects. short biography, happily without the successful debut at La Scala, as Wilhelm Meister in “ Mignon in support actual value, or is played a hair’s breadth habit of accenting the beginning of a Instrumental training under good, ex- usual Sitwellian smart cracks. However, Storchio, Mr. Hackett was immediately offered a cabled contract too soon or too late, or slight surprise or phrase with one of those inept down of Mme. the standard Mozart in perienced teachers ought to be made as biography Eng- it, hesitation is introduced into the phrase touches which some teachers universally with the Metropolitan Opera Company. He declined preferring first to compulsory in grade and high schools as lish is still that perennial old favorite, line. And remember, above all, that an use. Remember that the opening of a train himself in active operatic routine. He appeared at the Metropolitan reading, writing and ’rithmetic. the “Life of Mozart,” by Edward Holmes. emotional accent need by no means be phrase is like the take-off of an air- later, in 1919, and remained there over a decade, winning dis- You can get it in the Everyman’s Library Charles Hackett at two years the loudest plane an active, series. of a series. Often indeed it — upward launching of the time of his American Debut. tinction for his keen penetration into stylistic accuracy as well as for the is the softest tone of the group. the music into space. When an airplane Recommended Books excellence of his vocal art. In his last years, Mr. Hackett divided his time Bach, like all composers, is full of dy- takes off, does it first come down from Many of between extensive concert tours, and teaching at the Juilliard Graduate us were so grateful to you for namic and emotional accents which miss the air, strike the earth and bounce back the list of books you recommended that Accents and Pressures School. The fruits his wide experience as performer and teacher, are first beats. Go through your two-voiced up? Does it dig or of we hope another will be forthcoming. sink down into the HE QUESTION of vocal problems, we be- Is there any way for one to distinguish readers Etude in these thought-provoking Mr. May we have It soon? Would recom- inventions, and you’ll be surprised to find earth before it takes off? Of lieve, offered of The views. Hackett you tonal lengths—strong and weak beats course not! lies at the door of the teacher rather mend a good Mozart biography also?— how few of them naturally It takes off as died in York City, on January 1, 1942. Editorial Note. In the music of J. S. Bach? I should accent first quickly and lightly directly Tthan at that of the pupil. Certainly, the New — E. B., New York. probably say, how can the relative pres- beats of measures. For example, Inven- into the air as possible. So why should sures be applied? How can teacher finds more problems with which to cope. I tell which tions No. 1, 3, and 9. If you will write out teachers always Here are a few you may not have read notes prescribe down touch as should be played softly, and which a few The pupil has only his own, and no two students “My Musical strong measures of these without bar lines the beginning of a phrase? Life,” Rimsky-Korsakoff. and strongest? Do the sixteenths, Let’s have are eighths, or phrase marks you will confronted with precisely the same difficulties. experience “prescribe” for each voice the exact structural density of the An old favorite in a new, handsome re- quarters and so on have any- quickly discover more “upness”—or at least as much at- to bones of the head and thing to do with relative pressure? (I am where the musical The teacher, on the other hand, must be con- vised edition. shapes curve to a tention to the active, vital launching of dosage it needs. Only in this way can he con- mask that take so important a part in the entire twelve years old, In the seventh grade at climax, and you will find that these a phrase stantly on the alert, first to recognize then “Great Modern Composers,” edited by school, so have patience.) as to that “parachuting” or and scientiously afford the individual pupil the kind scheme), and that no single set of rules can be come regularly Oscar Thompson. Excellent My teacher, a famous one, in short and long waves. “three-point landing” to correct whatever problems his pupils bring series of says that the at the end of it. of help required by him. How many are there properly applied to their use—no matter what first note In each measure Is the Don’t thirty-three essays and critical comments strong apologize for your age. The ear- before him. That is why I am vigorously opposed “big beat and all the rest weaker. My mother who, like the quack doctor, have the prescription name” may have evolved or endorsed those on most of the outstanding contemporary lier in life a student thinks to any set who sits with me when I practice does not seriously “method” of vocal instruction. If a of quick relief only to render the sufferer when rules as useful to him. composers by Gilbert about musical Chase, Walter think he Is right. She asks if all Bach's processes the better for teacher has twenty pupils, he has twenty com- this has quickly exhausted itself to a state of The voice student thinks that if Kramer, Paul Stefan, Carl Engel, Basil pieces would be played that way. future progress. Trouble with only he can “Dilemma” most per- pletely different types of voice-defects and voice- sons, greater distress and still greater weakness the master some mysterious i Maine, Edward Dent, and so on. especially those with good — technical “tricks” which ears and merits to deal with. He finds driven voices and “The Opera, a History of its Creation good natural technical seed sown in this ground springs up quickly and do not exist), his difficulties will ovbr. I simply cannot get it through my head coordination, is be Yet and Performance,” Brockway and that they go mellow ones; tight voices and free ones; hard then withers Wein- that there are teachers alive to-day, even glibly through their whole away because it has no roots. turning from the pupil to the professional field, stock. Required reading for all opera- lives in a hazy pink ones and dulcet. Into some he must build the "famous” ones, who insist that first beats daze, and then die we find that mere vocal technic is by no means lovers. unhappy and strength of steel, into others, No Common Method in measures are invariably “strong” and frustrated because they the rich pile of the whole story. Technical accomplishment “Prom Madrigal to Modern have not alone Music,” must be branded by a dynamic achieved anything worth velvet. How is he to do all this? Not, certainly, Douglas accent. while The greatest harm can be done by teachers has never yet made a satisfactory performer. Moore. A well presented survey Surely m music. Artistic by setting you must be mistaken about your accomplishment comes forth one single set of “rules”! It is who, out of honest conviction of the five so-called "periods? in music; only through no doubt, formulate Certainly, this is not to say that technical mas- teacher’s directions. Perhaps in the pieces blood, sweat and tears, plus presumptuous as well as designed to develop impractical to suppose elaborate “methods” for all their pupil? to follow. tery a sense of style and which he has had hard thinking—no matter may be neglected (or that many of our you study, the accents how 6gifted that any pattern of instruction formulated in form in the listener. you are. All voice teachers in the world, of course, have younger artists would actually do come on the first beat, which not be better off for more “The Magic Bow,” advance could possibly straighten out the diffi- Manuel Komroff. is Now that you a common goal the production of beautiful of it!); it sometimes the case. But if you use your are twelve, you are old — tone; means only that it is not the whole An absorbing romance of Paganini enough culties of twenty individual living throats. in intelligence (I’m certain to practice by The but unanimity of goal is no excuse for attempting story. novel form; from your letter yourself. Your Competent technical instruction can pro- gives an exciting account of that mother need no teacher’s task, rather, is to keep himself flexible you really think seriously about longer work with you to approach it through unanimity of method. My duce a fine student; world conditions, artistic and Or look at this not an artist. Artistry can political, music) you can soon find Sarabande from the ™ bo|* y°u and she enough, both mentally and vocally, to be free of in out for your- enjoy doing it personal feeling is to beware of the teacher who never be taught Paganini’s day. Would make a fine “English Suite in A minor”: together. by methods, or teachers, or self where the accents fall. Play the Younger children the merest suggestion of a movie! of course need “system.” says, “You must not sing until I books. excerpt slowly, giving strong accents careful practice have taught It must be developed in living action. The very serious subject of musical ac- on supervision. What is a “system” after all? One “The Romantic Rebel,” first beats. Usually, it is you how to breathe, Felizia Seyd. centuation Sounds awful, doesn’t it? Amd just remember, how to manage your muscles, can always start a heated controversy can only be adequately dis- won’t you, that no merely a method of procedure that by touch- A fascinating glimpse of the life Try it again, this has succeeded to theorize and cussed in a book -length time not only playing matter how “famous” how about your tones.” As soon as a ing upon the comparative treatise—but this your teacher is in the case excellence of American times of George Sand. each first beat very of a singer gifted enough to make much every musician softly, but lingering you have a right to teacher sets out with preconceived patterns of and European “The Science knows; stresses or disagree with him himself noticed. operatic performers. Are the Euro- of Pianoforte Technic” accents on it as if you were waiting anytime There is no possible way of pre- come as often in the middles, for the about first beat accents, instruction, he has lost that flexibility of diag- peans “better”? Then Thomas Fielden. Despite its next beat. if you dicting that the fun begins! high-falutin’’, ends, or off Then play the second can prove his method will have equal success -beats of measures as on first beat that your stresses nosis which alone can his forbidding title, a like are more make services valuable. To my mind, the American is sane presentation of beats. a deep sigh, and go with other voices, only in vastly superior Natural accents depend entirely quietly on to mnsi“'' a very broad way. By Granted that the modern technic. No one will the soft *“ student has voice and musical to the European provided agree with on the contour and first beat of the next measure. this I mean there are certain that he is allowed to every detail curve of short or long Sr* basic almost in- of it. but it will clear Repeat the instinct—and if he hadn’t, he’d probably be follow the up phrase-groups. If this process in each measure. flexible modes of same school of training. What confused perspective is scrupulously vocal procedures that must be happens on many a tech- watched, Instantly the music comes studying something other than singing— in these discussions you don’t have to worry to life, the adhered to, and different he is that we compare European nical point. And what a about exquisite in each vocal category; relief to find the rhythmic “wave” shape of each curve should sing, and have his individual problems performers, a "scientific” or pattern of the emerges Imperative that is, as regards who have had the opportunity writer who is not dull or naturally, and Czerny soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, for music, for it will fall you have truly re-created diagnosed after he has revealed them. obscure, and to naturally into its and so on. Thus, the extensive routine training, with read a book on technic proper the music. (No way, actually, of asserting that a Americans who place. most important vocal problem, it that does not claim to different would seem, is step from the vocal studio into have discovered Accentuation Can you now determine system” might not have had equally a limited number an of is of two kinds, dynamic whether your to secure more general the truth! The author even accents are acceptance of the fact of assigned parts and count ad- and emotional. A dynamic or emotional? noteworthy results with him!) What themselves lucky if mits that dynamic accent is sim- Per- would one that no two throats someone else may yet find out haps a mixture are the same (even to the they appear in them ple. The emphasis or of both? think of a doctor who treated all his a dozen times a year. something for himself! Ha! accentuation is patients The What about obtained through with wonder is, not that the that Floating contrast of loud . sample OI SeCOJ the same prescription? The vocal Americans are not better, Elbow? and or-thirdnr thi-H beatu teacher soft. On the other hand, emotional accents is Debussy’s is not unlike a doctor. but that they are as poised “Mozart,” Sacheverell SitweU. accent de Lune. Ci He must be first an expert as they are' The A good, (often called agogic It is written in accent) nine-eight i American ' thus is achieved think and quick-seeing diagnostician and, proves himself to be more of it in three-four. PSPSIk in second adapt- Note 376 how place, a practitioner of able, more ingenious, more intelligent. ( Continued on Page sufficient resource and Take the 426) matter of languages ( Continued on Page 412) JUNE, 1942 THE ETUDE 377 —

Music and Study Music and Study he VIOLINIST, PIANIST, OR PLAYER of any orchestral instrument may choose an T instrument as costly as his purse will buy. T IS JUST OVER TWO HUNDRED YEARS since organist, as a rule, is not so fortunate, being Nicholas Louis, Count Zinzendorf, returned to The use the organ over which he presides; I America from his native Bohemia to finish obliged to likely have to take the job in “status his work of establishing Moravian communities Pennsylvania and he will Better Results Town, condition of the instrument How io Get Trombone the or "economies” to serve as centers from which quo” so far as missionaries might be sent out to the Indians; is concerned. experience we have but the church organization itself, the ancient Drawing from our own quite receptive Unitas Fratrum, dates officially from 1456, when found most church authorities maintenance of the persecuted Bohemians and Moravians, under anon (jrubl to suggestions for the care and B, matters were approached or Small Organs the protection of the King of Bohemia, George ¥ the organ when such from Old Podlebrad, formed a religious association in the in a tactful and constructive manner. barony of Litiz on the border of Moravia, in In one of my early positions, the organ was what would now be Czechoslovakia. badly located in a cold, isolated place, near a Lititz (the old spelling was Americanized in large window; this condition was much improved and inclusion of a drum, for that would be worldly. 1880) began in a geographical sense when a these are the “ophokleide” (or ophicleide) by the installation of a steam radiator, not too mouthpiece, When the band was called upon to help celebrate Lancaster County farmer, of Warwick Township, the “serpent” which had an ox-horn near the pipes; and by the addition of a storm Fourth of July at the springs, not a drum was so charmed by the delightful personality and looked “like the devil” for it was made in the window. This contributed greatly to the comfort imitation of the pictures of was heard, but there were all the old instruments of all, since it eliminated the cold draught illustrated including the trombones, which must have given Satan in the old through the pedals and manuals. The next im- Bibles probably the Niimberg a solemn tone to the occasion. This Fourth of the pipes are clogged — provement was suggested by an excellent organ Screen and Bal- Bible, which furnished so July celebration is still a tradition in Lititz, with dust. man; it consisted of regulating the pipes—that cony of the new many artistic motifs for Penn- where it is made a feast of lights and music for Hammond Muse- When a new organ is is, creating an even flow of wind throughout the village folk. There are similar springs at um Organ at sylvania Germans. The place soft installed, a competent the scale of each set of pipes, to prevent a Gloucester. Mass- of the ophicleide in the mod- Nazareth, and the trombone-players used to organist should go over tone from being followed by a loud tone, or vice achusetts, where ern orchestra is now taken stand on a gallery built above the stone wall of note, versa. The result was a great improvement in early in April. E. each stop, note by by the bass tuba. the springs. Such customs as these give a quaint, the tonal ensemble. The next step was to replace Power Biggs (be- to Insure that the voic- Since no games not even old-world atmosphere to the trombone towns in low), nationally — old pedal action and to bush or felt ing is correct and in some of the famous organist, checkers nor backgammon, the rural sections of Pennsylvania. keeping with the char- the parts, thereby doing away with the “clack.” gave a recital of were permitted in the com- The Easter services are the finest in the church We once visited a church where the organ modern music, in acter of that particular munity, which held its houses year. It is then that the grandest, most solemn stood over the furnace room! The floor was un- which he was stop. The regulating and land from the church and music is heard from the choir and from the trom- assisted by Wil- lined, so that both heat and dust came through should be even ; in other was completely dominated by bones. The exercises of Passion Week begin with liam Primrose, and interfered with proper tuning and cleanli- eminent violist, words, the wind flow it, there were few forms of “the Acts of Sunday” read from the New Testa- ness. A partial remedy for such a condition would in the premiere should be even through- recreation possible to anyone. ment. The beautiful anthem of Hosanna from be to insulate the floor with mineral wool. The of Leo Sowerby's out the scale of each the choir accompanies the Poeme for viola pipes could then be taken down and thoroughly set of pipes. Only after reading. During the week and organ. The cleaned, together with all the action; it is quite the organ is thus “fin- the readings carry the entire program probable that the latter would need repair or was broadcast ished” should it be ac- narrative onward to the ^ replacement. over a national cepted from the builder. final sacrifice. The hymns chain. The Trombone Choir Plays irom the Balcony are not joyous as at A "Decorated" Organ Tactful Suggestions of this Ancient Church. Christmas, but dirge-like Christmas greens and flags are enemies of the At this point the and suited to the plaintive organ and organist; I have found it necessary question may arise; of Zinzendorf that he gave him a choice farm music of the trombones. to point out the dangers of using the display how is one to get these four hundred and ninety-one good Lancaster On Friday morning and pipes as a background for decorations. So many County acres, with afternoon matters attended to? fine springs. It began as a the hymns mark persons have the mistaken notion that these Our advice is first, to village when Count Zinzendorf, who had gone the stations of the Cross. are “dummy” pipes. It would be wise to look play the instrument back to Bohemia, conferred upon it by letter the In the evening there is inside the case; if metal tubes connect these status of economy instead of congregation and the reading about Joseph you now have so well pipes with the wind chest, they are speakers. gave it, in memory of the founding of the asso- of Arimathea and the that the church people Or one might look into the pipes from the front; ciation three hundred years before, the name myrrh and aloes, followed will have perfect con- if there are “teeth” Litiz. by just back of the opening, fidence in your knowl- the Liturgy of Good The organ, this indicates that they are speakers. In addition designed by John Hays Hammond. Jr., Friday, sung antiphonally. the inventor, has one hundred and twenty-five edge and ability. Only Trombones in the Ancient Church to serving as background for seasonal decora- It is one of the sets of pipes and was built over a period of twen- then will they listen to finest tions, even The establishment of the little we have heard of organ pipes being ty years. Several prominent organ builders col- religious com- church services heard in your plans and sugges- munity was celebrated with trombones. THE borrowed for a minstrel show! laborated with Mr. Hammond in its construction. And CORPSE HOUSE-The Band is not taken America. tions; again let me say, into the Church for practice The ever since that time, the music of the but into the Corpse House, hand-pumped organ is becoming a rarity; trombones which is used prior to funerals. The Easter love-feast, when tactfully present- has preceded or followed every church a prominent maintenance man informs us that one cannot festival with the dramatic sym- expect the organ man to make a ed. Never make negative, complaining criticisms; of traditional he now has very importance. Indeed, the trombone bolism few organs without electric new instrument out of an “old boat” as anti- Only art and music were encouraged. . beloved by the have concrete definite plans ready before taking choir probably originated in Bernard motors. The comfort of having the ancient church; represents the meal of a steady, reliable quated organs are sometimes termed. any steps. Adam Grube (there are , love Jhared for “there existed still Grubes in Lititz) by wind supply a trombone choir in Herrnhut the disciples and loved more than compensates for the ex- This matter of the cleaning had been called to the village ones of Jesus while and regulating of Let us consider further the playing of the which welcomed each group of to organize the pense of this necessary immigrants which m the grave °f Joseph part of the organ. pipes is very important; church music so that a well trained of Arimathea. sit down at your key- small instrument. Assuming that you have only Christian David led over the choir and On° Eaf»Ter Let us now consider mountain passes an mornm g, the people the care of the organ. A board, go over each set orchestra of skilled musicians f£ go forth early of pipes slowly, note one pedal stop, a 16-foot Bourdon, it is from Moravia” in the days of might be avail- tofr greeto the competent tuner well to persecution and able risen Lord. The should visit the organ at least whether the scales for the many special church trombone choir goes flow evenly in tonal volume. have this voiced to its fullest capacity. exile which followed the little occasions The through the four times Also give interval of peace Moravian streets, playing a year; in the fail, before the heat It be calendar, like the Catholic, chorales to awaken may a surprise to find much variation in it all the wind it will in the barony of Litiz. is very rich he sleepers. is supplied; just stand for full organ effects, in special After the service before the Christmas and Easter the scales. Multiplying The old occasions. The choir sang at the church the number of bad tones depending on the pedal to trombones were of the slide sort, and the the trombones festivals; and again manual couplers for and orchestra played lead the way to in the spring, after heat is by the number it only the finest classical the graveyard of stops may reveal a very un- soft pedal. If was these which were used in the music— t e t0 discontinued. If there is a Swell 16-foot Bourdon, early days' Bach, Beethoven, ™ n eet the ris ing sun. only two visits are possible, they Haydn, Mozart, ., l In his book musical condition. A good organ man, it in Lititz. A valve has since been and more Bach ^ n „ “The should however, is a great help to have a “split stop” so that substituted for and Beethoven. n IlUS Weygandt be made just before the two principal can remedy the slide, to the has told us’ what a great deal of this trouble. the bass part may be detriment of the tone; the old h s feTInesfeelings are forf festival days. drawn for soft pedal. For As eariy as 1840, the Philharmonic scenes such as these: If the organ has stood for a instruments are said to have discoursed Orchestra The organ number of years softest bass effects use manual alone, omitting sweeter in Lititz produced man must do real work; not merely without music. It seems Haydn’s “Creation.” Some time M 'r° thorough cleaning, a great deal of dust the pedals. In that many more changes have m visit the church and leave modern organs, a soft manual before, three of the Lititz a receipted slip! Be- has settled taken place in wind instruments players had had a te“ T, in the pipes and action. The pipes stop may be “borrowed” than in stringed share fore the time of visit, the organist for the pedal. Study the instruments. m its production in Philadelphia. ‘n Northam should run should be taken down and cleaned; Of the old instruments used in *here P™ County through likewise the individual manual stops; do a the mTfatheri””"? the scale of each set of pipes, to check great deal of full orchestra conducted by Adam action; the tuner is unable to do a good job where “hand picked” Grube, in 1765 THq Drum Outlawed for any dead or bad notes, and any registration, using single stops. in the Brethren’s other adjust- House at Lititz (the present little church, y OI tnat ment to be Many years ago I received A village a belfrv that , made. The regulating an invaluable lesson band had been 1 °ks and cleaning lecture hall) many are now obsolete. organized in ism off toward Wind from Harry Two of but the churchly Gap and Water Rann cf pipes do not generally come Rowe Shelley, who gave a recital father, ..utaTot ave heard the under the usual per ",t of a golden trombones terms of a contract, on the worst organ in town.” 378 morningnmg, (Continued so this work must be pro- He secured very on Page 424) vided musical results for separately. It is well to be reasonable; ORGAN by individualistic use of stops. The organist should (Continued on Page 412) the etude JUNE, 1942 379 —

Music and Study rhythm. they can join ensembles and improve their the Mexicans Do Not Play Music and Study to us Why Singing should, of course, be as natural especially in as breathing; we all need to sing, “La Paloma” Homemade Music such troublous times as these. Therefore it is and pleasant to note that singing by family Ko,j etvman back during Bf Walter £ Oa„L Communities Bf n friends around the piano has “come What School Bands Do for Modem the last decade, in spite of competition from HE piano is the ideal home instrument a SK THE AVERAGE AMERICAN what nation radio, cinema and automobile. because it is "the mirror of the musical Z\ the song La Paloma suggests to him and he With all these resources and many more at our T universe." Every type of music has been tell you that this probably romantic and old will course, disposal, there is no reason why young of our arranged for it. While it cannot, of old Cuban habanera makes him think of Mexico. ROM COAST to COAST communities listen; and ex- reproduce color of the various orchestral should not perform as well as money upon the tone Radio directors often use this song to set the nation have spent large sums of Bu JUlert rJ^un fap perience abundantly proves that only through instruments, it is a great help in studying the lin- plays with a Mexican locale, Fbands, band instructors, instruments, uni- radio intelligently. scene for and ear structure of symphonic works. And the piano performance can we learn to listen buildings at schools. Now and for many it conjures up pictures of Mexican life, forms, and music has a lovely timbre of its own, a sort of crystalline citizen, whose mind but actually La Paloma is seldom heard in Mex- hen some well intentioned quality which distinguishes it from all other in- look like the interior of a cash register, arises directors, this article A Great American Musical ico. Americans who think it a typically Mexican must To thousands of bandsmen, band instructors and by struments. Students are apt to be so intent on ' get for all song find that when they travel south of the in meeting” and says, “What do we Mr. Dunlap will be a friendly pat on the back. And many thousands more “key-punching" that they never actually hear Anniversary border they never hear La Paloma played except this outlay?” parents and community leaders will say, “You needn’t tell us—we know!" the sounds they produce, thus missing a vast This is a perfectly justifiable question which the in Our oldest American orchestra celebrates its in places catering exclusively to tourists. The But there are times when we remind ourselves of the enduring values amount of sensuous pleasure. a right to ask. There April the Mexicans have an old tradition against playing citizen, as a taxpayer, has band participation, just as we take time tia freshen in our minds the Few aspire to become piano virtuosi, but many centenary this year. Founded in 1842, of communities, however, which its first singing Paloma, and in Mexico tradition is are thousands privileges inherent in our democratic way of life . Editor’s Note. find lifelong happiness in sight-reading ability Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra gave or La can in answer give abundant enthusiastic evi- which enables them to browse at will through the concert December 7 of the same year. The strong. really does, and for anyone Hill. orchestra tradition against playing singing dence of what a band green pastures of music literature. What a thrill founder was Ureli Corelli The The the or of trouble to find it, there is much is of goes back to 1864-67, who takes the there Is in playing for the first time a piece of the third oldest in the world. In the course La Paloma in Mexico when evidence, tangible and intangible. its long it orchestras, in good music which is totally unfamiliar! It is like history has absorbed many Maximilian and Charlotte, pawns the imperial In 1940, a business trip took me to Little Rock, exploring a new and fascinating landscape, a real including the great New York Symphony in 1928. chess games of III, were set up in Arkansas. I had heard much of the Little Rock adventure of the soul. A highly trained musician It has had a remarkable series of eminent con- Mexico City as Emperor and Empress of Mexico. ductors, High School Band, which is recognized as one of can “hear with his eyes,” but most of us have to of whom it is difficult to mention one Most Mexicans hated having the Austrian prince without the outstanding organizations of its kind in the try things out at the keyboard in order to grasp listing all. Among the best known names, and his Belgian princess forced upon them as country, having won the National Championship them thoroughly. however, are , Karl Bergmann, rulers and they did everything in their power to Leopold for four consecutive years. For that reason I felt Some are deterred from piano study by the sup- Damrosch, , Theodore make Maximilian and Charlotte uncomfortable. Thomas, that this city might be an ideal spot for a survey posed difficulty of the task, and we can hardly Anton Seidl, , Walter Dam- One of the most popular entertainers in Mexico rosch, Edouard of just “what good” a high school band really is. blame them when we consider the nature of the Colonne, Gustav Kogel, Henry J. City at that time was Concha Mendez, a Cuban Wood, Victor Herbert, My quest did not end there, but the story was instruction which has been offered until fairly , Was- soprano who was the reigning favorite of the sily Safonoff, complete. Ever since then I have gathered much recently. Nobody likes to practice technical exer- Richard Strauss, Karl Panzer, Max Teatro Imperial. The Empress Charlotte enjoyed Fiedler, Ernst Kunwald, Fritz information and many opinions all of which have cises by the hour, or wade through endless vol- Steinbach, Gustav the programs of Concha Mendez and went often Mahler, Josef Stransky, been corroborative. umes of etudes, Modern teachers let their pupils Henry Hadley, Artur to hear her sing, and one evening when Charlotte Bodanzky, , Knowing that Little Rock as a com- work on music itself to a large extent, and assign Willem van Hoog- was in the audience the Cuban introduced La straten, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Arturo munity is relatively little different formal studies only to develop certain qualities of Toscanini, Paloma. The song from Cuba became an instan- Bernardino Molinari, Arthur Honegger, from thousands of communities in style or to correct individual faults. Clemens taneous hit, especially with the Empress. It be- Krauss, , Ossip Gabrilowitsch, America, I endeavored first to get The playing of the violin or the violoncello leads Erich came Charlotte’s favorite song and in apprecia- Kleiber, , , Ottorino the opinion of the so-called “man A Remarkable High School this naturally to string ensemble work, which is prob- tion she sent Concha Mendez a jeweled bracelet. Band— is a picture of the famous Little Rock High Respighi, Hans Lange, Werner Janssen, in the street.” I walked about in School Band. This band won the National Championship in 1937 1938-1939 and 1940. ably the most delightful form of group music. As Otto Hearing that La Paloma was the favorite song Klemperer, Artur Rodzinski, Carlos Little Rock and got in touch with The director, (left) is L. Bruce Jones. This High School maintains three bands. The everyone knows, only stringed instruments can Chavez, of the Empress, one of Mexico’s Georges revolutionary Concert Band of Ninety Members; a second band plays at sports events, school assem- play in absolutely Enesco, Igor Stravinsky, ,' many people through casual conver- perfect tune, since all keyed in- poets decided to use that very song blies, and gives one concert each semester; a third band Ernest Schelling, Rudolph to ridicule serves as a Training School. struments have a tempered scale of twelve equal Ganz, and many the empire. He composed sation. One man in a five and ten others. a ribald poem about The manager, from 1905 to cent store said, “Well, if semi-tones. Consequently, string music is the 1922, was the Empress and set it to you ask me, Felix the music of La Paloma. Leifels; and from then to the I’ll say that it purest, the most ethereal that we possess. Pro- present, His song was known as makes the young folks tains the high school willing to give Arthur La Paloma Liberal and it its talent and service to the occa- fessor Judson, under whose skillful guidance walk straighter. It makes them Walter R. Spalding of Harvard used to say became famous throughout keep band. First I received sion. Not only is this true the orchestra has made Mexico. Even Concha locally, but time and to his pupils, “If you don’t hear string great advances. Mendez their heads up, throw their chests quartet was forced by revolutionary pressure to the following from again the Little Rock High School Band has par- once in a while, sing out, and makes them look you’re just nothing at all.” And La Paloma Liberal at the Teatro Imperial— better. the Governor of the ticipated in sectional and national celebrations if it is so fine to hear one, what when There must be some good to that. I must it be to Empress Charlotte was not in the audience. State of Arkansas with distinction. play in one? When Maximilian had a nephew that used to be a (1940) the Hon. Carl heard of the singer’s audacity , “The exceptional training and talent of this or- Almost anybody can play a harmonica instinc- in singing the regular slouch but since he joined the insulting ditty in his own theater E. Bailey; ganization is constantly sought by colleges and tively, or with band he a minimum of practice; yet a he ordered her banished walks like a real he-man.” “In opinion, there is single from Mexico. my no organization universities, and young musicians from Little number of them together produce a very good Concha Mendez In a restaurant I gained the confidence of a in the city did not return to Mexico until of Little Rock which gives the citizen- Rock are numbered in the music organizations effect, especially in conjunction the woman who had this to with other in- revolutionists had ended Maximilian’s say, “I declare, I never ship generally a greater feeling of civic pride of large struments career universities throughout the country. The like the guitar. Tune your guitars in before a firing squad see that band go down the street that I don’t than this matchless at Queretaro and Charlotte organization. The director entire music department of the Little Rock triads, in two octaves do-mi-sol, wish that I High — do-mi-sol— in had returned to Europe to had had a chance like that when I and present and past personnel of the are end her days in in- band School has attained a reputation which gives to the same key as the harmonicas. Then hold sanity within the was a girl. Young folks ought to them walls of a chateau provided have a good time. entitled to highest commendation. the citizenship on your lap and press by of this community just pride.” a Hawaiian steel firmly her brother, the king They get enough trouble later in life. They all “The of Belgium. When the influence of this organization in bringing This was followed by a above the proper frets while thrumming Cuban seem to be having statement from the with the did reappear in Mexico City she a fine time in the band.” A about a more widespread appreciation of music right hand. was as Hon. Murray O. Reed, President of the Little Rock You can thus produce the three popular as ever and the railroad minor executive said, “I used theater was filled with to think and musical organizations is manifested by the School Board: chords necessary to harmonize a simple an that bands were melody. enthusiastic audience eager to all fuss and feathers you know, fact that a large number of high schools through- A violoncello welcome her — “The worth of the Little Rock High or two would help define the bass return. When she iust for show. Well, I changed School Band appeared upon the stage my mind when I out the state have been influenced by its example more clearly. If none she has been impressed upon the community are available, a good sub- received a great ovation found what they did for my son and bring by the and the audience re- my daughter, to into existence similar attractive organi- stitute can be made of a fact that the band has repeatedly won national packing-case, on the quested that her first song seemed to make them work harder at everything. zations.” be La Paloma Liberal recognition. model of a ‘‘cigar-box fiddle.” I think that req“ esfc was made music put energy into them! I The next letter Home Concha Mendez came from the Mayor of the “The sociological, music has just received a strong impetus silenced the audience wouldn’t have had them educational and disciplinary Commemorating with this little speech: miss it for anything.” City of Little Rock (1940), the Hon. J. V. Satter- through the revival of the “recorder,” this important event Mr and value of the Little Rock High School an ancient Mrs. Never shall I do what field, Jr.: Band to wind Theodore Steinway held you ask, Senores' I Little instrument which was supplanted by a reception in wear An Incentive to Hard Work Rock and the State of Arkansas is the Stemway on my wrist the bracelet “As celebrations and in- flauto transverso. Hall in honor of John Barbirolli given me by the gala days come to this estimable. Although it requires no “lip,” Eng- unhappy All this, however, did We are fortunate in having Mr. L. lish-born princess who to-day not seem to me to be con- community, it is a constant and is as easy to conductor of the orchestra. weens alone 'wiri source of pride and Bruce finger as a penny whistle, it In the ac- clusive, and I Jones, an outstanding director, has companying owed and mad, ,ery ,ar asked several Little Rock satisfaction to in charge photograph, from from S„ntr community know that there is a musical or- a very sweet tone which many prefer to that left to right are Her y leaders, including of the band. The director and the of shown Mr. words appealed to representative “hard-boiled” ganization available present and the flute. Edward Johnson, the chivalry of which is both capable and It comes in four sizes—treble, alto, manager of the the business past personnel of the band are tenor Metropolitan 1 n t 1US be men and elected public officials, to give entitled to the and bass and a Opera Company, Mrs. San the tradltion against highest — considerable quantity of four- Barbirolli the sffi their written opinions commendation. iw of ! , - r a lr !l p on the value of the band. I part M EnieSt Hutches 0ma - °nce Charlotta music has been adapted for it. Piano °n, president ™ had was nr” “The accomplishments teachers || benffiehftedeDeen the sure that their of the director I nl ? \ Fp°™dation, hated enemy of Mexico, viewpoints as taxpayers and and his now urge their pupils to learn the recorder and Mr. and Mrs. but the Mexican as 1 fine organization so that Steffiway people showed stewards of public funds would reflect BAND ond give the citizenship of Little that they could display the un- ORCHESTRA a charSv adulterated opinions Edited by Will Rock a great feeling of civic defeated of in R v I pride, enemy by those whose money main- e e I i and help to 380 not singing La Paloma. bring about a more ( Continued on Page 421 ) fUNE, 1942 THE ETUDE 381 3

Music and Study recent onslaught on London music has been em- Music and Study ployed to great advantage. Nine professional singers and a pianist have been organized to run the nightly gauntlet of bombs and shrapnel, go- from one air raid shelter to another enter- Music in Military Strategy ing tataing the people of London and its suburbs; the try to banish “air raid blues” by tB, £Ju,aJ pjMf, M2). idea being to singing popular songs and leading community Manual Partnership singing. placed in cots in the hospital. Dr. Morton had This was no sooner said than done. A few days USIC has, from time immemorial, played a and interested in the soothing effects of later short wave accounts of the use of music to very important role during war time. The always been music. She had heard the Serbians from a neigh- ease the tension were heard in this country. The M first practical use of music was made by hospital, themselves just barely recover- took place in the subways. No trains were military men to lighten the step of marching boring singing Violin singing. She asked why, stations where the for the men. Martial tunes are just as necessary for the ing from their wounds, running through the tube con- Serbians were naturally successful execution of military maneuvers as and was told that the cert was held, and on the tracks where rapid minds. She decided guns and bullets and airplanes. The soothing musical and sang to ease their transit cars used to run there were now hundreds hospital where tones of a song or a melody will ease the greatest to ask some of them over to the of people with blankets and mattresses, sitting up A Conference with musical tensions of mind and body and infuse new the wounded Frenchmen lay. A group of to sing. strength and courage to carry on. Serbians made their appearance. A master of ceremonies opened up the program beds, It was Tyrtaeus, poet and musician, who made The French patients lay tensely in their saying: “The motto of the Empire is ‘Let the peo- white and one of the first practical applications of music hands clenched, knees drawn up, faces ple sing.’ ” Then he cried, “Are we downhearted?” (^rlcci ^fYjorini to warfare. In 685 B.C. he led the Spartans to set with pain. The Serbians sang love songs, “Nooooo,” was the howling answer. serenades, lullabies and gay folk-songs. Marching victory in the second Messenian War by having Then they burst out into song. Singing helped Internationally Renowned Violinist reper- the soldiers sing as they marched to battle. That songs and hymns were also part of their them to pass the time underground, waiting for Tyrtaeus had the right idea was confirmed time toire. The wounded French soldiers relaxed; their the raid to end. and again as successive wars were fought in the knees straightened out, their fists unclenched and A rather curious aspect of the part that music SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY MYLES FELLOWES course of history. It is equally true in the present color came back into their cheeks. They could not played during the current war was during the Serbian, yet the music was war. understand a word of first days of the Nazi occupation of , the bring about these remarkable During the First World War many incidents oc- sufficient to capital of . The German soldiers seemed to curred in which music played a beneficent role. changes. hypnotize the civilians with lilting songs, Amer- Erica Morini has passed through three distinct appearances, her professional activities were Dr. R. S. Morton rentes one illuminating incident. During the present conflict music has been ican dance tunes and German Waltzes. Groups of stages in reaching the mature and sensitive ar- curbed for a time, and she was given further There had been a bloody encounter between the playing a most important role in making life just soldiers, as reported by Leland Stowe, appeared tistry that distinguishes her to-day. At the age of years of intensive study and normal, wholesome Bulgarians and the French and many French sol- a bit more bearable not only for the fighting sol- in different streets singing gaily, to the accom- c'ght, she ranked as the foremost child prodigy. living. Her reappearance, as a young woman, diers had been brought in wounded on stretchers diers but for the fighting civilians as well. In the ERICA MORINI paniment of accordions, as though nothing out of A few years later, she was hailed as the foremost established Erica Morini among the foremost the ordinary was happening. woman violinist of the time. To-day she stands, musicians of our time. In the following inter- A twelve piece Nazi band struck up in front of the truly without any qualifications, among few view, Miss Morini outlines for readers of The from its study; a person who carries music about Parliament, for the most amazing concert the great present day violinists. She teas born in Etude some valuable hints for perfecting violin with him as part of himself will reveal this nat- capital ever had, and crowds of Osioans were soon technic. Vienna, where her father directed a well known Her remarks about the bow arm and the ural sympathy, in listening one way or another. Such a Music Gets Them Together to Roll Out the Barrel. So enchantingly music school. Her outstanding musical gifts as- change of up and dozen strokes are especially child will sing to himself, go to the did they play - piano to that no one thought of rolling out serted themselves before she was three. Her first valuable. Editorial Note. — finger out little tunes, listen The value of music in industries is being more understanding scores the Germans. attentively to the than of “pep” talks and The band played almost ceaselessly love, oddly enough, was music about him. Such perfectly natural demon- and more widely recognized in America. New or- booklets. After all, man is a human being and until night, never lacking an audience. This was which the piano, she he musical strations place chestras, new choruses, new bugle corps are being when he works with his fellows toward some en- part of the technic a dual responsibility upon the which enabled only 1500 troops has mastered without EDUCATION of child’s protectors. The first is established in industrial plants in all parts of nobling objective, for the good of all, he forgets on April to surround a 9, 1940, to lull 250,000 Osioans to non- any formal instruc- T any child begins musical the United States. Here is a group chorus of the about strife. Human understanding is resistance. child with only worthy music patterns; the great tion. While her father long before actual Crown Can Company. It includes sixty singers, solution of labor problems. Let’s have more and the second, to help him express himself tonally. was busy teaching his study years. The wise representing employees from a Vice President more of these well tried and proven industrial Under Cover of Song That is the time for lessons to begin. piano pupils, the child parents and teachers down to members of the House Maintenance musical organizations. The child’s natural aptitudes should Meanwhile skeleton forces were occupying Par- would hide behind the again be Crews. realize this, and try, The Vice President of the Crown Can Company, liament and other public considered in determining the form his lessons buildings. German sol- curtains and listen. If early Many of these members were selected Mr. as as possible, to are to take. by the Richard Schwartz, who is one of the leading diers filled the open windows of Parliament, It is wise to remember that “musical all the pupil chanced to stimulate in the child Director, H. W. MacMillan, because they had espe- protagonists of industrial music, says, “Music in singing lustily, talent” is an extremely comprehensive while one pumped an accordion. strike a wrong note, term. One cially fine voices. Only a few could read a real love for and in- music. industry? Decidedly yes. First of all, there must Crowds of Osioans blocked the must take pains to discover whether a child’s pavements below, the baby would cry terest in In five months, however, they were able to give be entirely satisfactory working conditions. actually music. That, musical abilities are After enjoying this. out, “That’s wremg!” bound up with the piano, the a representative program in public. But the that, music does three of course, is the best violin, or things. 1. It provides a The cleverest piece of musical mass psychology and come toddling some other medium of expression. Unless main thing is the way to start! that American spirit of liberty release from the humdrum of modern was staged Devoted there is a valid mechan- two days later when the main body of across the reason for judging differently, and equality is room to as I emphasized by bringing together, ized life. 2. It gets folks together as nothing 20,000 am to music and the child’s else troops began to disembark. Within half finger own desires are usually a safe guide, in the inspiring atmosphere of music, an out the correct convinced employees does. 3. It provides practical inspiration for houi the as I am in the harbor’s semicircle of quays was a melody or harmony beginning at least. In my own case, my of all classes; and this leads to a finer social by that music study happier, more profitable living.” curious sight. lends father’s wide On the embankment were perhaps ear. Her great desire musical knowledge and experience three incalculable riches to proved wiser platoons of German infantry, their kits was to than the wishes of the three-year-old and have piano les- life, I rifles am nonetheless child piled neatly below them. Arms interlocked, sons. When she was I used to be, and I have never regretted swinging from opposed to forcing his putting side to side, they shouted a four, however, her a violin into my hands. As a general German song, “music lessons” upon thing, Going to Town. More echoed to father decided that however, the child that instinctively any child who per- shore from the transports. Behind their her reaches for a violin should be given booming perfect ear as well sistently one, while the choruses was the refuses to child that implication that there was noth- as the shape of her amuses himself at the keyboard should show interest. It is far ing serious about these troops flexible Erica Morini as a Child Prodigy be allowed to begin his studies marching down the hands augured better there as well. gangways. to treat music The Osioans failed to realize that their well for the study of as a life-force rather Hard Work and Determination capital was being conquered. the violin, and began her The serenade went lessons on that instru- than a study subject, and allow serious work on for ment. At The only pattern to hours while the troops landed, first, the child rebelled, throwing aside to wait until follow in music study is, of and the city the youngster reveals a liking for was taken. her little fiddle in course, that of earnest, conscientious order to amuse herself at the it. This does not mean that “not liking” hard work, keyboard; to prac- colored with the Music has always but presently she became aware the tice determination never to be satis- played an important role in of may serve as an excuse for dropping study' natural affinity fied. While that is the the affairs of people between herself and the bow and It means simply goal of all serious study, it at war, but this seems to be that the natural aptitudes of the strings that has dominated is often difficult to interest the first time that it was her life ever since. the child must be taken young student on put to practical use to At into account. A person those terms hypnotize seven, she entered the Vienna Meisterschule without alone. He is eager to assert an entire city and thus feeling for music will derive little himself, make a blood- and, a year later, value to master the less made her debut under Artur difficulties that seem to conquest. Music is of hold him extreme value to war- Nikisch, at the back from such ring Leipzig Gezvandhaus. Upon this assertion. Therefore, it is people. It bolsters up their advis- courage, eases occasion, Nikisch said, able to encourage their “She is not only a wonder- the student to perfect those CHORUS OF THE psychic tensions, soothes CROWN CAN COMPANY. H. W. MacMILLAN. pain and enables child; but a wonder and a technical matters which DIRECTOR them to carry charming child!” Fol- VIOLIN loom all important on on. lowing upon a number Editsd by his horizon, even 482 of amazingly successful Robert Braine though the mature musician re- gards them only as a ( Continued on Page THE ETUDE JUNE, 1942 414 )

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and Study TIME, psychologists have said Music or three pianos, with several players OR A IjONG same part. With so many that’ mtisic could be used successfully as a How to Judge Chrfdren s doing the per- formers there would have to be a con- F stinruliES for work. A practical experiment Singing ductor using the conventional baton in this direction was tried a few years back by prepare and just as in the case of Q. I have been asked to help Questions movements other an ingenious office manager in Oakland, Cali- a score sheet for the convenience of I suggest that large ensembles. you ask installed loudspeakers in the corridors Judges of school choral contests. Will you fornia. He Plays Many Rules publishers of The Etude to Music the send you please give me the points. In order of of his building. After a month, he made a careful of music for two Importance, on which i/uu think grade a selection or more of his tenants. chil- checkup of the results with each school choral groups composed of pianos, stating about what grade of dren from grades five to eight (singing most enthusiastic replies to his material you want. Percy Grainger has He received the unison and two-part music) should be Answers efficiency queries. In some offices, the output and scored?—M. D. experimented with large piano ensembles, ever (J3y avid wen and if you could get in touch with some- of the workers had become greater than A. I am appending a list of the things one who has seen him at work, you in others, it was said that a new spirit that seem to me to be most important might before; Service get ideas. Possibly Dr. Joseph higher morale had set in. in group singing by upper grade children A Music Information Maddy of of cheerfulness and a Music a Supplementary Article by Mr. Philip C. Staples, and which, therefore, should be regarded the National Camp at Interlochen, Workers in the building also attested to the With Michigan, might be willing to tell by contest Judges. The only thing that you beneficial results. They confessed that at the end President nf The Bell Telephone Company of Philadelphia is that about Percy Grainger’s work at the troubles me about your question Conducted By of each working day they were as calm and as you ask me to list the items in order # Camp. refreshed as if they had spent a day of leisure The Etude recognizes that in the field of music employed for thera- of importance and this I find very diffi- at home. peutic purposes, there is little that the medical man would call cult. I am pretty sure that beauty and Loudspeakers throughout the factory of West- “scientific dosage." In general, many have observed unusual results, purity of tone quality is the most im- A Question on Grace Notes l Jersey, bring portant one, but I am not at all certain inghouse Electric, in Newark, New but there still remains much to be investigated.—Editorial Note. Q. In the TValtz in A-flat major, Op. 39 about the order of the others, and I am G‘ music to the factory workers. To some of the No. is W zT 13 . by Brahms, which the correct not prepared to defend the order in way to play the grace-notes? On the sec- workers, music acts as a tonic for the nerves; ond count or before the second count? which the items are listed below. jj graph records. The patient selects a favorite the —Miss L. S. to others, it is a pleasant diversion from monotony of the work. In almost all cases, concert number, sits back in his seat, and while 1. Beauty and purity of tone quality. or J 1 1 fi_L both production and morale are higher in the listening to music forgets (at least so these 2. Intonation. Professor Emeritus 1—4» =8Mi factory the music is performing. dentists attest!) about the pain of drilling. 3. Voice blending. J when Oberlin College England enlisted music Sometimes music travels even much further 4. Expressing the real meaning and i Recently, war-torn mood of the music. i to the cause of speeding-up production in the afield, with striking results. It seems we are Music Editor, Webster’s New -| 1. 5. Diction correct pronunciation, good : possi- — W ; munitions factories. Loudspeakers brought only scratching the surface of music’s T “* enunciation, and articulation. International Dictionary recorded music to the workers during the bilities. A news item, syndicated by the Inter- 6. Perfection of ensemble attacks, re- A. The grace-notes are usually played working hours, and special rest periods were national News Service some time ago, demon- leases, following leader in tempo before the count. instituted in which the workers could assemble strates that experiments with music venture changes, and so on. eously. Then came the era of harmony, in auditoriums to hear concert performances into strange pastures. The news item speaks this being followed by a style that com- by England’s foremost artists. It was found for itself: bines both About Scale Playing Various Questions harmony and melody. Which that, because of the music, fatigue and nervous “Soulful music is a distinct aid in the of the melodies is the more important at Q. I have been reading your answers Q. I am submitting the following ques- exhaustion among the workers were reduced production to various questions in of milk, according to Clifford tions for your answer: a given point is usually a matter of taste The Etude. I wonder if you would answer my ques- notably. In work that required no concentra- Robinson, dairyman. 1. What does the title of Infante's fa- or feeling. There is no “method” of de- tion? I am a Junior in high school and mous piano piece III Vito mean? tion, the presence of the music helped to re- “Robinson has experimented with his herd termining which is primary and which have had four to five of 2. If a note In a long run is given an years music. My secondary. scale-playing move boredom. A careful computation over a of seventeen accidental sharp or flat at the beginning technic is 196. Do you con- cows and reports a gain of of a measure—does that apply to the same 11. A quick dance, usually in three- sider this a high enough technic for the period of several weeks disclosed that from twenty-two pounds of milk a day while time the note in the higher and lower registers? four I’ve taken?—V. R. and often in the minor mode. It is six to twelve per-cent increase in production stable radio sounds out soft, 3. What does “commodo" mean? music of a or quite different from the tarantella, which A. It all depends on how your scales 4. In regard to lies, when a piece took place whenever the music was performed. sentimental, strain. The milk, too, is richer, is No question will be answered in sound changes key flat to sharp, and so on. on in six-eight. See Grove’s “Dictionary of THE ETUDE when you come to play them in In unless accompanied by the full name the experiments tried thus far, the music he says. the same note, Is the tie carried over or Music and Musicians” for further infor- musical compositions. The purpose of and address of the inquirer. Only initials, of Chopin is that a slur? or pseudonym and Rachmaninoff brought the “Snappy tunes mation and Ulustrations. given, will be published. technical study is to prepare you to per- dance make the animals 5. In regard to octave higher signs form most effective results. restless during the milking period. must there be a sign under the left hand musical compositions more nearly to denote that It follows the right hand perfect and more beautifully, and if you "Robinson announced his results after a (say in long runs for both hands) an Symphonies With Lunch Material in American I’ oik can play a scale in a Mozart sonata at test.” octave higher than marked? two-week approximately the Music has entered into our own defense 6. What does Quasi Niente mean? Music speed you mention, Much has been written about the fact that Bell Telephone Company of Philadelphia Employees listen 7. Does L’istesso Tempo mean the same and I hope that some of this material making it sound like a string of beautiful programs as well. At the Republic Aviation Q. For my Study Club paper this year to amplified music periods in countries occupied by Nazi forces, the first as Voppio m o rimer te f will be helpful to you in writing pearls, you four times daily. See article by I have been given the your have probably accomplished Corporation in Farmingdale, Long Island, 8. What does the musical topic "American Mr. Philip C. Staples, President four notes of the marking paper. I believe all of The Bell Telephone Com- Beethoven “Fifth Symphony” .” In the material that I have, that the publishers of that you could expect to in four or five Searrcndo mean? symphonic music serves as a noon-hour respite pany, which follows this article. there are so many varied opinions that The Etude will be able to supply years of are a signal of hope for the oppressed a signal 9. Why In waltzes do the quarter notes you with study. from — I have found it the fatigue of work. It has been reported on the first and third beats point down, difficult to assemble any of the items mentioned below, with of ultimate victory for the free democratic forces. anything definite. Could you give me any that, because and the second beat point up? Does it the possible exception of the soothing effect of music, will to live, received lease information as to this topic of the bulletin a new on life after The dynamic theme of Beethoven is surrepti- denote accents on the first and third —where I might look for published by work has become more efficient throughout the hearing material.—Mrs. D. C. H. the University of North a few songs by Schubert ! but also in tiously beats? I thought waltzes were accented How to Become a Band ) , whistled by conquered Frenchmen, Bel- on the first beat only. Carolina. day. The official report is that the 2,600 men of bringing about that A. I am giving you a list of sources, state of calmness, that re- gians, Dutch. It is hurriedly scrawled on street 10. Many modern pieces are so marked 1. How Man Made Music, Conductor the plant enthusiastically by Fannie welcomed these noon- laxation of body which is so necessary in bring- as to appear to have two melodies. Please Buchanan, walls. It is played over the radio, sent to the especially the chapter “The Q. I am interested in bands (concert) hour concerts which are given Inform me as to a good method of dis- either in the court- ing about recovery. As a result of Dr. van de conquered lands United States Makes Its would like to get into the field of con- by short-wave from Great Brit- tinguishing primary from secondary Dr. Kar! Gehrkens, Music.” yard (on sunny days) or in W. one of the world’s ducting a school , the large restaurant. Wall’s experiments, soft music melodies. 2. A Century of Progress band. I play the ac- from phonograph ain. The motive is a persistent most distinguished musicologists, in American cordion The reminder to the 11. whose (two years) and also play workers, when interviewed, have said What does SnllarcUi) mean? Is It Song, by Marx and percus- that machines fills the sick-rooms (and radio ear- vanquished meticulous work upon all musical Anne Oberndorfer. sion In band and that hope is still alive. How far Bee- similar to a tarantella?—C. C. P. words orchestra. Am starting the music has wonderful 3. to recuperative powers for phones dangle from in the latest Webster Dictionary has com- A Story of Music, by Barbour and study harmony. the heads of sick-beds) in thoven’s magnificent tonal flst-of-defiance A. 1. It fatigue will means "The Life" or just “Life.” manded wide-spread Freeman. Especially My question Is Would it be wise and nerves. hospitals praise, retires as head Ch. XVII—“Music in to try throughout the country, helping to go in keeping up the morale of 2. No. of the to get Into this field playing these Instru- The subjugated coun- Department of Music Education of the New World.” Curtiss-Wright Corporation in Buffalo has bring ments? If so, about through music what science of medi- tries will 3. At a convenient Oberlin College, what are the requirements perhaps first become known tempo; leisurely. a post he has held since 4. America and installed six hundred when this Her Music, by Lamar for such a position? If not. what should loudspeakers to bring music cine cannot achieve. 4. It is an enharmonic tie. 1907. His many books, particularly “Music war is over. Stringfield. University of I do, as my ambition is to to its workers. Notation North Carolina work in music There are almost a thousand Music has 5. Yes. and Terminology,” have been I am now sixteen often proved beneficial in helping But this recent Bulletin, March, 1931. Vol. X, years of age, and in my plants in use of a musical motive has very successful. For more No. 7. Pub. third the country which, if they do pro- 6. Almost nothing, i. than twenty year of high school.— not the mentally diseased. e., very, very by U. of N. C. Press, J. p. Some time ago, the news been only one of several years he edited the Chapel Hill, N. C. vide music instances in which great softly. “Proceedings of the during the regular working period, columns 5. Songs A. My advice is that carried a story of a concert given by Music Teachers National Association,” of the Americas, by Florence you begin at once music serves as an instrument of 7. an arrange for rest periods for war. In the No. L’istesso tempo means “at the Botsford. the study of workers during which Vincent Lopez and his annual collection of papers of great value. some wind Instrument such orchestra in the Brooklyn present conflict, same tempo’’—as they can relax to which has already brought us when a composition He has had the honor as trumpet, clarinet, the strains of a concert of State Hospital of serving as Presi- trombone, bassoon, for mental cases. The beneficial so many surprises, music changes from two-four to six-eight with dent of the records. was destined from the Music Educators National and so on. Eventually you will results of this How Direct have to concert were obvious to the physi- first to the same basic tempo. But doppio viovi- Conference and the Music Teachers a Piano Ensemble learn Experts have play a strange and unique part. Na- something of all the wind instru- been as loud-voiced as psycholo- cians and nurses. When mente tional Association A paralytic case began to move means twice as fast. for one year. Dr. Gehr- Q. I would like to know in what manner ments, but gists in praise Nazi troops invaded Poland and you must have solo playing of music as an aid in their pro- his laid siege to 8. Flowing or gliding; kens was born on an island in Lake to go about directing an hands and feet in accompaniment glissando. Erie ensemble of ability on at fession. to the Warsaw, the music of Chopin in 1882. He from twenty to thirty least one, and the sooner Some twenty years ago, Dr. was used by the 9. Possibly because the Viennese was educated at Oberlin and pianos at one time Willem van music. A more cheerful attitude waltz I mean, where you start the better. de was perceptible Warsaw radio with has since devoted most of his may I obtain the music I advise you also to Wall began experiments in extraordinary effectiveness in has a sort of agogic accent on the second professional and how the medicinal value in the cases of several life to should I go about the directing? change from mentally depressed the college. He is retiring to accordion to piano, not of music in keeping up the morale of beat of each measure, in realize I may soon only several New York and the Warsaw citizens addition to the the ambition undertake such a concert because Pennsylvania patients. of devoting himself to certain for you will need to On a dynamic accent a worthy cause so I know the piano hospitals. His results twenty-four hour schedule, on the first beat. important literary should like a proved so unusual that between mo- and musical works, in- prompt reply.— keyboard in your he Two dentists in Dallas, Texas, 10. w. H. harmony study, but recently an- mentous All part music up to about cluding the extended the sphere of announcements and speeches 1600 was Question and Answer Depart- because the his activity throughout nounced that of officials, A. I piano is the best instrument pain in the dentist’s chair can be polyphonic—that is, it consisted of ment, which he has know of no music for the country. Soothing Chopin’s music was used two conducted since 1933. multiple for developing music proved to be valuable as an antidote for the or piano ensemble all-round musicianship— greatly relieved through the powers more melodies performed simultan- —Editor of Tins Etude but it would be entirely not only for of music. terrible rain of Nazi and even the band conductor bolstering morale (one patient who They have bombs. The last musical feasible to use material written needs to be installed push-button boxes on the for two an all-round could not be helped because composition broadcast over the 384 musician these days. he did not have the arms of their dental chairs which Warsaw radio control phono- before the Germans took JUNE, over, was the fiery THE ETUDE 1942 385 —a }

Music and Study lnvad A Waltz Dream Bela Orchestra an eloquent spokesman for the (pajos nationalistic Revolutionary Etude. The indescritr- became Count of Luxemberg] Sibelius tone poem this, from those strange and fabulous beings frequently been country. It can be said that cry, ably heroic spirit of Warsaw has Finnis April in Paris arouse sympathy for the jgddy Duchin who postured in poetic attitudes atop some moun- commented upon with awe by eyewitnesses— did more to Nocturne in E Flat] factor. It caught t e Note out of passing other single Sounding the Human tain peak, picking compositions longer than anyone dared to cause than any Girl Is Like a Melody) spirit which, much In America, A Pretty 'S: imagination of the outside world. Kostelanetz clouds. able to withstand the fierce attacks Your Face Before Me hope, was become a symbol tor I See ] probable that this particularly, did Finlandia of Nazis by land and air. It is that when, Black Eyes A Humanizing Element Finnish resistance: It may be recalled ) vi t r Salon orchestra spirit was being generated by Chopin’s music. It Guitars Philharmonic- Two ] No one contends, of course, that these anec- subtle during the war, the New York is reported that the Nazis recognized the Soul performed the work, the Body and Cavallaro dotal items add a single cubit to the musical decreeing that any perform- Symphony Orchestra | power of Chopin by stood Your Mine, You] Beethoven and rose spontaneously to its feet and in Music statures of the Messrs. Mozart, ance of his music was punishable by death. audience composition. A Bunch of Roses these gentlemen out of the j. Green Brothers Schubert. But they do bring conquered Czechs used the music of in homage until the end The Germany, the Wedding of the Winds] earth on In its present war against Nazi of those clouds and down to the same Dvorak and Smetana—Smetana mostly—in much of Mane) neglected any force that Recollections which the listener walks. that the Poles employed Chopin. has not ^ Webef the same way en- Summer Evening Smetana’s music could have military value. It has, therefore, The personalizing path was first broken prop- After Hitler took Czechoslovakia, Danube Waves) (judtav emm to a degree unequalled was heard more and more frequently over the listed the services of music Eugene’s1 Viennese Orchestra erly in radio by who has ini- power. Almost as soon as Waltz Dream ] Prague radio. The Czechs could not openly re- by any other military tiated untold generations into the mysteries of forces began their attack—and simul- First Love sist the Nazi invaders, nor could they speak their the Nazi Harry Horleck music and the human beings who made it. Some grandiose military prepara- Gold and Silver] defiance in so many words. They hoped to sug- taneous with their years later, the same torch was taken up by the urged their composers to se in gest to each other what they thought and felt tions—the Soviets I* I “'Robert Goldsand NTIL FAIRLY RECENT YEARS, music was But, alas, for our well-intentioned, enthusiastic gifted Deems Taylor who never hesitates to turn with which to keep up public Valse in F Minor i through the music of their two nationalist com- produce music viewed by most people as a sort of Blessed query. Our English friend heaped coals of wrath its light into the dark corners of music, those from morale. Shostakovitch, the leading composer in posers. Sections of “Ma Vlast,” excerpts WITH VOCAL U Event brought to earth by storks, other- on our innocent head. It seems that we were same dark corners where lies hidden so much of “Slavonic the Soviet Union, put on an army uniform: but, POPULAR “,” and many of the wise known as composers. The latter were strange guilty of ‘‘typical American curiosity.” Why, asked interest to the listener. On the first of a recently offerings over the Prague Dances” became daily creatures bearing little resemblance to man. our friend, should we be at all interested in inaugurated series of radio programs featuring brass band music. Piano Concerto in B Flat .. radio. music provided the sparks to keep set to work on choral and ) M The * • iyiarun Taylor, there sketch This More Often] Scientists, inventors and psychologists, to name Delius, the man? There was the music; why was a dramatizing high the nationalist ardor of the conquered Gliere produced compositions for military bands. Why Don’t We Do aflame only a few, were quite understandable, but com- should one want to know more than that? We lights in the life of Robert Schumann. We do not Czechs. Finally, the Nazis forbade the perform- Other Soviet composers like Prokofieff, Dzerhin- Dream Valley ) Eddy Duchin posers—well, there the average person ran into were made to feel as though we were some sort recall ever before having heard a skit such as ance of any Smetana work throughout Czecho- sky, and Shaporin also became fertile in the Let’s Be Buddies] difficulties. If he thought of a composer at all, of a modern Paul Pry with an eager eye to a this on a commercial program. Apparently per- slovakia. Even then there were repeated violations production of martial music. These musical com- Raymond Scott his mind pictured some strange, mysterious being keyhole. The attitude of our friend was, of course, sonalities—even composers’ personalities—are be- of the law in many cafe-houses, which needless positions are part and parcel of the Soviet war Now I Lay Me Down to Dreanu who sat dreaming atop Mt. Parnassus, ears cocked only a continuation of that age-old attitude that ginning to pay off! effort. They are relayed throughout the length to say, were severely punished. Lang Thompson of the Soviet Union by powerful Darling for any symphony that happened to come fly- seeks so stubbornly to keep untouched those same How often, these days, one runs into a layman During the Soviet-Finnish war, Finland had a and breadth You j ing by. veils of secrecy that have been wrapped about after he has been exposed to a lecture on music powerful non-combatant ally which helped to radio equipment. Who knows?—this music may It’s Never Too Late) Gray Gordon composers and their music for generations. appreciation, or a magazine article, or radio rally the sympathy of the world to its side. This be at least a partial explanation for the wonder- Chopsticks This sort of thing, of course, was a hangover many a (Incidentally, it is only ally was Sibelius' “Finlandia,” which suddenly ful morale existing throughout the Soviet Union. Tmy Old Town from the musical Dark Ages when music was the an enharmonic change commentator and been greeted by some such ) Q Lombardo Along Miami Shore] y plaything of the few and not, as to-day, the of this same attitude that causes its last-ditch amazed statement as this: “I didn’t know that The Girl with the Pigtails in Her Hair) Horace playmate of the many. The composer, in those advocates to deplore Opera in English. It’s so C6sar Franck used to get Ideas for his composi- The Singing Hills j'Heidt early days, was a sort of musical magician who much nicer, they say, and so much less disturbing tions by playing loudly on the piano for hours Music in a Famous Utility Nevermore would touch the tip of his pen to paper and lo! not to know what the singers are actually singing, at a stretch.” Or “I didn’t know that the Blue ) Kay JN0Dle violoncello I’ll Follow My Secret Heart a sonata was born. These miracles about. The real composer is gradually wiggling Danube Waltz was first written for a choral so- Dawn ) came to be known as Inspirations, and they were out of the grasp of these greedy monopolists; let ciety.” And so on, and so on, with the preluding, Bell Wayne Kmg Mr. Philip C. Staples, President of the range of volume. Likewise, brass bands are not Till Reveille the sort of thing a small group of people knew us hope the words will soon follow!) I didn’t know this or that about this or that ] Telephone Company in Philadelphia, who is him- satisfactory because of the difficulty of control- Kiss Me Again existed but no one talked about them. composer. These same I-didn't-knows betoken an self a musician, has furnished The Etude with ling the sound range. Generally, the tempo must The Troubadours Roses of Picardy To-day, all this has changed and we think of Again Credit to Radio awakening interest in the man (and. later, the the following. Editor’s Note. be too fast — not nor too slow, rather rhythmic Beethoven and music) it is Any Bonds Today Wagner, Mozart and Bach as Much of this that very likely the mere playing and even. Symphonic D. Robertson humanization of music and its and popular orchestral Arms for the Love of America] human beings. We know they their of the music never would have had petty makers may be directly attributable to radio. aroused. he matter of presenting music to recordings seem to provide the type of music jealousies and their In angers, their loves and their When this modern miracle began this connection, we are reminded of a recent the large clerical groups in the Accounting best suited. The problem of controlling the vol- broadcasting hates, their stomach aches and their of radio experience when preceded moods music—good, bad and indifferent it we the perform- TDepartment of the Bell Telephone Company ume in large office spaces is one of — reached in considerable high exultation. In other words, they were sub- one hour more people ance of a Stravinsky work with a brief reference in Philadelphia developed from a casual obser- importance, in order to prevent blaring and than formerly would ject to all the ills and joys to which the flesh to the story of Gershwin’s contact with the vation that employees at the end of a day’s work echoes. patronize a single concert hall in ten years. Some- great of man is heir. As a result of this knowledge and' Russian composer. Give the thing had to be done to interest this legion Gershwin wrote to Stravinsky, frequently started singing in unison. The super- As to the employees’ reactions toward music, Us Tools the of realization that a composer is pretty much then in Paris, and asked to study visors advised that this was one means which we have found that they uniformly listeners. It was not enough to play the “Sym- with him. appreciate like the rest of us, and not a mysterious half- phony in minor,” Stravinsky, in an attempt to fix a suitable fee the employees seemed to find helpful in over- it. Any failure to play a program brings im- Ohe fjeu, War tie G by Mozart; the listener had Sonf for Wan being, we have become infinitely more interested for his charges, cabled Gershwin: coming the natural effect of extended periods in mediate question. We frequently play a record to be baited with something he could understand. “What is your in the music he writes. Knowing close application work. something about So he was told approximate annual income?” Gershwin’s non- to An experimental in- of quicker tempo as the last record on the final (Behind tL Wan Behind the Cjun about Mozart in terms and by the man who wrote it is very apt to give depth chalant reply was. "About twenty stallation of recorded music was made and the program, as it seems to give the employees a parallels which the listener could understand. thousand.” A and understanding to our appreciation of his cable fairly general reaction led to the belief that music was revivifying dash just before Where revelatory anecdotes were flew back from the impressed Stra- they quit work. The The publication of music. available, they of real value in large vinsky: “You stay there; I’ll groups where the work best description of its effect on them is their were introduced. The result? When the conduc- come over and the new war song, One still hears echoes from the study was of a routine nature not requiring any con- own comment that “it gives Dark Ages when tor’s baton came down, the listener with you.” us a lift” during Give Us the Tools, by one in Kankakee, siderable amount of conversation or close was supposed to go only as far as the music On the next mental the periods of the day when there may be a Albuquerque or Charlestown felt a bond of sym- day after the broadcast, we heard William Dichmont, is and never to the concentration. natural let-down. man behind it. We well recall pathy with the work. from exactly eighteen persons who had aimed straight at the And when, a week later, been There now is a central recording an experience of about five years ago, tempted device with The musical program has not been introduced when we he heard how Beethoven had flown into to turn the dial of their radios when solar plexus of the were deeply a storm- twenty-three amplifiers located on three floors for the purpose interested in the music of Frederick ing they heard a work of increased production; we rage and torn up the dedicatory title page by the fearsome Stravinsky in the Revenue Accounting Axis. It is a song with Delius, the English-born Division, providing have made no effort to develop data along composer. We had se- of his new symphony, when was to be played but who had actually listened that real punch for he- cured he learned that to music for approximately six hundred employees. line, although a vast amount of his music for study and the entire we do not observe that the music Napoleon had turned dictator, that same listener program because the humor of the Four daily, lasting men, who realize that had availed ourselves programs from twenty-five is distracting or that it of every opportunity to dapper Russian, slows things up. As to was a bit more inclined to lend his ear to the as evidenced by this little anec- to thirty minutes each, are normally scheduled they are on the fight- hear the few performances the effect on accuracy of work, we have been given his music. There “Eroica.” He had a pretty dote, had appealed to them. In ing line for freedom. was hot temper himself, other words, the first, immediately after starting the day; the unable to determine one biography, a good one, by Philip this that music has any effect Hesel- and he had heard of Napoleon bit of personalizing had drawn It has been received tine. and dictators; he eighteen second, just before the noon lunch hours; the thereon. Lately, we have But what about the man? What he listeners found that some of was could hang on to things like these. to Stravinsky’s music who otherwise third, about 2:30 P.M.; and the fourth, just be- the patriotic with equal enthusi- leally like? Prior to this airs arouse keen response, and period, we had become And again a week would have continued to we quite later the listener in Kan- avoid him like the before closing time. On days when the weather is propose to use such asm in the United friendly, through correspondence, recordings to some degree. with a kakee, Albuquerque or Charlestown plague. particularly bad or extremely hot, additional States as well as in celebrated English probably song composer who, it ap- heard about Schubert’s scribbling his Hark, Hark, programs are provided. A Partial List .. Canada, the home of peared, not only A Pioneer Writer of Favorite Records was a Delius enthusiast but also the Lark have found the composer. had on the back of a menu card one evening We that the classical or semi- known him. When this welcome One of the many and earlier INSTRUMENTAL Mr. Dichmont knowledge long ago in a vanished Vienna. influences that classical types provide the most useful and popu- was bom in Accrington, Eng- came to hand, what was This little tale brought the composer and and more natural than to brought the round-faced, and his music out of the lar recordings, although we intersperse ’ studied piano, violin, ask spectacled and slightly through- Afraid to Dream and harmony in our friend for his personal reminiscences ivory tower in which they had ) anchester. of oafish Schubert been kept for out the program some of the more popular songs Prankie He came to the great a bit closer to the world the I’m Feeling Like A Million ( Carle America nearly forty composer? Here years was the writing years was an opportunity to listener knew. of James Huneker. This with vocal recordings; however, the latter ago and has been learn After all, Schubert must have been are A Perfect Day) one of the leading something first-hand of Delius, distinguished tilter at the organists, vocal the man- a good fellow who was not windmills of all the more difficult to control because of the wide Avalon A1 Goodman teachers, and composers Van- some revealing above sitting in a caf6, arts ( of impressions, perhaps, from fel- was engaged, when a young couver, B. c., a surrounded by boon man, by Theodore where he now resides. low-composer companions, and, who knows] Presser whose mind we respected. to write articles for this 386 perhaps getting a skinful occasionally. magazine He A long became the first editor ( Continued on THE ETUDE JUNE, 1942 Page 424) 387 — — t —

V" / \ 7 Music and Study ROSES FROM THE SOUTH I ,1 « with The Beautiful King, Johann Strauss, Jr., about ten have become JiteraJJy immortal, Of aJ] the five hundred odd waltzes written by the Waltz fn the days before the modern magazine, the Vienna, always under the shadow of the ice-capped the lead. Hardly Jess tuneful is Boses from the South. During the hard winter in talking machine, the radio (to say nothing of Opera Blue Danube in Corn-Fed shores of the sunny Mediterranean and are looked upon as joyous harbingers of spring. Grade 4. television), the isolation of farm life teas so com- Alps, roses come up from the plete that there was what might well have been JOHANN STRAUSS, Op. 388 called a “rural mind." In this cultural black out, “hay seed," and “country bumpkins" thrived, 3 but with the advent of modern inventions and A 3 m—r — - ) — -&* <0 inventions Community Makes Jr l 1 it * > m irj -q educational facilities these can no Minnesota Rural ] if T == A =*= f— — j 4 — 1 ~\ longer be applied. The young people in the farm i — home to-day, relatively speaking, have more far Out of a Local Indian Legend and and finer cultural opportunities than did those in An Opera great cities a quarter of a century ago. t t t s 1 3 Presents It M With all this, however, there has not been a Successfully si 3 3 commensurate local initiative in presenting col- m s lective musical effort, such as is described in the m following article. The chief value of an ideal is not merely its attainment but the fact that one is working toward an ideal. What if some of the A A A music used in the Greenbush Festival was ap- -0 r propriated from operatic masterpieces? The Fes- T s J i ££t£ 3 3 tival represents a fine beginning, and from this i I p p p | £ artistically inoculated natural soil will come P 4 S3 s t : S sif- usually sophisticated hosts they had not only written an opera, but that they m 3 3 I had been strangely enthu- were even going to sing difficult operatic arias 1 ill p P i siastic; but the day was hot with talent drawn from the neighboring country- and I nad wearily resigned side. We just knew it could not be done! myself to a period of inex- Still, here was the soprano, leading off in her pressible boredom. opening aria with words set to the music of The performance had Werner’s Song from “The Trumpeter of Sakkin- 3 started off well enough with gen.” She was singing with such musical com- i a vigorous and realistic In- petence and dramatic power that at first it could dian War Dance. It was easily be suspected she was a professional from interesting one H m — had to ad- some opera company. But no, had I not visited mit—and it even drew mild with her, myself, in her own home only the day * * s * applause. But it was this before? As she had gone about the heavy tasks of L ^ 3 girl’s singing that aroused the farm woman in this newly conquered wilder- me from a mood of tolerant ness, I had never dreamed that she had the i p condescension capability and talent which she was now reveal- and caused me ing. hastily to reach Our interest quickened as the performance con- 1 r 2 for the program tinued. The lyrics were especially apt. Their effect which had ~ • THE CAST. DRESSED IN CHIPPEWA COSTUMES been was heightened by an effective use of original OBTAINED FROM THE LOCAL INDIANS. given a perfunc- musical 7- 1 1 compositions for the arias - u? A • and recita- fag 0 | mm m t 7 n m m tory glance only * r • tives, along with classical operatic selections and r, F, a few n T minutes folk tunes from various countries. native composers, who will write new music, The audience before. What of over four thousand people sat in real American music, which will in all prob- rapt atten- f was this, we had tion, ability and we realized that here was be far more indigenous than that come something to see? decidedly new and admirable. i d 4 which In comes from the hearts our great rural music of - of iJ’fT . “Waunda and M= 4if-| / - V-.-O: America, this ~ r 1 cities. Alain Hughes’ story this was going to be a significant event ^ * — * T1 H • j 1 frff of effort in : * — j 1 f Wannaska,” r —— northernmost the —on.e that held the germ 13=^! Minnesota is indicative of of great accomplish- program read, ments to come. our future possibilities. 3 4 “An Opera in 6 This article is based upon the author’s Five Acts, writ- irnese tyro observation of the opera performers as the opera performance, on ten and pro- unfolded in interviews with members its sylvan setting—for the opera of the Greenbush duced by had an Indian community and with the erne and all the action Professor O. J. Peder- people took place on a broad son, of the river bank within director of the Greenbush Community a bend of a little stream. We Greenbush in the Band . Editor’s Note. audience sat in a natural amphitheatre (From left to right) WANNASKA. Community.” on the sloping banks of WAUNDA, and CHIEF WAYZIATA This the other side and the little village music came across the water without distortion. — population °« tdoor setting on the green five hundred JJ® bank with a TARTLED BY WHAT I HEARD, I bark canoe sat up lies near the Canadian „ fl °ating on the quiet border in the brush coun- frpairi suddenly and listened intently a graceful to the try west of the Lake of the Woods. little Indian tepee, was S young singer. “The Authors,” worth v V Surely this was not the hard continued the program, e ‘ 01 *he working “while composing much »“ farm girl whom we de2 . had seen wash- of the music, have C B also ing heavy milk cans taken arias from the and pails only the day be- great P th °pera was operas and have written lyrics for ! adapted from an old fore. She was singing like a them to lndLn w °L prima donna! As fit the action of the> Chippewa of the story. It is to be sung Indians who live her voice soared, strong and true, amid the sylvan in Roseau p Whefe throughout—there being no spoken * Green bush is located. surroundings, we realized dialogue.” The voun^ Ph that this was to be 1PPeWa warrior > Wannaska, an afternoon the Sioux rescues of enjoyment in spite of all the Seeing Is Believing TnL n lden ’ Waunda forebodings Cree Ton - from a band which had been aroused when I was We S T chuckled secretly at the vain ambition ^ kid*apped her from dragged, protesting, to hear local and her a talent musi- ingenuous peoJelnn "' confidence of these rustics, With a chiva lry, extraor- cal production in the northern not one of dinarv in r L Minnesota com- whom probably J 1 f that had ever seen an opera -° peri °d> he escorts her munity while visting there last August. perform- backoack to heiher F* My ance. Yet, here they were, people in Dakota. blandly declaring that ( Continued on 388 Page 417 ) THE ETUDE 3S9 — — — — — ——i s ——— ——A— L— — — —— — — —• — H1 — 1 u L — —— 1

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392 International Copyright THE ETUDE 393 ARIOSO Sinfonia to Church Cantata No. 156 two this day mines of melody, only now being adequately explored Bach wrote in all one hundred and ninety Church cantatas which remain to a sense of repose in this theme which is irre-ist centuries after their creation. The Arioso from “No.l56”is one of the loveliest of these. There is the performance, as for instance in the trill in the third from the last meas ible. The transcription by the English composer, Gilbert Beard, facilitates ure, where the left hand holds the chord while the right hand executes the trill. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Grade 5. Transcribed by Gilbert Beard Adagio espressivo m.m.J=88 poco rneno P ca?itando e legato

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t=t r r “Give Us the Tools,” exclaimed Winston Churchill “and we will do the work!” From that time thcanajor effort of industry iu the Allied Countries has been to turn our factories into the ramparts of Victory. William Dichmont, Canadian composer, has caught this spirit in a vigorous, militant poem to which he has given a stirring setting. The song has made an immediate and pronounced impression. Words and Music by —0—j 1 _u rj £ may not swerve By foot or hand From Thy com-mand, Not to be served, but to serve.

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N A FRAGRANT, DEW- Slowly at first, then rapidly; always SCENTED, June morning this very softly. O little study lilts and trips Remember that the best way to lightly over the new mown meadows. acquire beautiful, clear, rapid pass- But, you’ll have to look out not to age legato is often to practice in this trip over the notes—for I warn you, “scratch” staccato way. ...When the timing cannot falter a the etude is not as easy as it looks! You will, of course, notice many split-second from the score ... it is 1. To play its pleasant “perpetual mo- items along the way—for instance, then that professionals, teachers and tion” measures up to required speed Measures 5-8 are repetitions of 1-4; students alike turn to the musical "... I now have more pupils than ever world's standard of accuracy . . is no cinch. It must not sound like Measures 25-37 are repeats of 1-13; The depression habit does not leave before. an exercise; there must be no jerks, hardest Measures 13-16 are literal ELECTRONOME people quickly. So, even if there is more jolts or breaks; no hammer-claw sequences — learn these especially > Trade mark R.* U.S. Pftt. Off. i money about, folks still spend it with care. finger2. action may be used. Nothing well. The final Measures 41 to 47 are ELECTRIC METRONOME teaching is based on Century Edition My disturb the curling, swirling tricky. I recommend playing the must precision at 15 c a copy with the result that folks have One of science’s smallest first note in Measure 42 (C-sharp) patterns. motors ticks off supremely accurate come to the conclusion that I am careful it: and 44 (also C-sharp) with left Here’s how to work at tempo from 40 to 208 beats per min- ; with their money. This, I believe, is just one Learn only eight new measures hand; make a good retard in Meas- ute simply at the flip of a switch. Amaz- of the reasons why I am getting more and each day. After the first day be sure ure 46. In learning this measure I ingly convenient; tempo changeable . Century.” more pupils . . Thanks to with one hand and right while it is to study the new eight measures be- would practice it thus: running. No springs, no winding. fore practicing any “review” phrases. Ex. 4 Covered by 5 year written guarantee. Memorize very slowly, each hand You can choose your pupils from for 3. PRICE *12.50 the world’s great music if you make separately. Be sure to memorize the See it at your local music store. Six-day Century Edition your regular choice fingering perfectly at the time. same FREE trial at our risk. Send for details . . . here are some of the numbers You can never take a chance with of money-back offer. which make teachers say, ”I don’t see how you can do it 15c.” fingering in pieces like this. You for FRED.GRETSCH mfc.co. must know it infallibly. The right Makers ol Musical Instruments Since 11(3 hand is best memorized by measure There should no be accents any- iO BROADWAY, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

1 186 Moonlight Sonata . . . Beethoven patterns. where in the piece. The ideal way to 3236 Finlandia . . . Sibelius Now begin to work for speed play it is in an up and down per- PED ALIZ ATION! 3346 Scherzo, Opus 32 . . . Chopin (always single handed) —practice petual motion curve right from the Color your Plano Playing with artistic use ot 2117 Liebestraum . . . Liszt the Pedals. How to produce the striking effects 1181 by triplets (don’t look at the music!) start to the finish. The left hand, Polonaise Militaire . . . Chopin that make your music "different". A new presentation of this important subject. A quick 3252 Reverie . . Debussy stopping at the end of each triplet although important, is not really a correspondence course. Write for lnlormation.

3241 Tales From Vienna . The Woods . . Strauss and instantly preparing mentally melody: easy elbow curves up to A REED STUDIOS 1648 March Militaire . . . Schubert 2912 Alta Vista Bakersfield, Cal. and physically for the one, — next (Measures 4 and 8) and thereafter "Thr prdalt are the s out the 681 Rustic Dance . . . Howell of piano thus; in shorter Star . phrase 981 of Hope . . Kennedy groups will give 1175 Valse, Opus 64, No. I . . . Chopin Ex. necessary smoothness and bass solid- 514 Beautiful Blue Danube . . . Strauss ity to the right-hand curves. FILE YOUR 1310 Merry Widow Waltzes . . . Lehar 361 For freshened perspective, I would Poet and Peasant Overture . . . Suppe • SHEET • MUSIC— 1497 Fifth Waltz, * 6 etc. often Opus 88 . . . Godard , T 8^, practice the right hand an 1015 Kamennoi Ostrow . . . Rubenstein Count strictly in fours; push up octave higher than written—keep- Don't PILE it! 1028 Prelude, No. I . . . Rachmaninoff the speed as fast as ing the left hand in its usual place. 1096 Rustle of possible. TONKABINETS add to your musical pleasure Spring, Opus 32, No. 3 . . . Sinding for they not onlv preserve and protect 1341 Sonata Now, in full measure impulses, As to pedal: since the effect de- your Pathetique . . . Beethoven sheet music but keep it hndable as well. The Til 1041 Valse Arabesque, . . sired Opus 82 . Lack thus: is that of a gentle, cool, frag- Tonkabinct shown 1179 Second Hungarian Rhapsody has a drop front. . . . Liszt Ex. 2 rant breeze swishing up through the 1043 Witches Dance, Inside there arc Opus 17. No. 2 . . . MacDowell keys, five specially H80 Fantasie Impromptu, much “half” pedal is recom- de- Opus 66 . . . Chopin signed sliding mended; which means, measure long trays and an extra ” shelf Prepare! Prepare! stretches of “top” pedal depressing in which to — keep the sheet Get a copy the Century etc. of the pedal about one quarter to one music sorted con- 4. Same in tivo measure groups: half the way down. But remember, veniently. CATALOGUE Ex. 3 This 18th Century whenever your right hand in stvle is in genuine 1}[* plays at your dealer or write Mahogany to har- us the neighborhood of Middle C, or monize with finest asking for one . . . more than well below it, use only very slight, music rooms. (Wait! Many other styles 3400 numbers are swift dabs of and listed. I Rest! top pedal (for example, sizes. Write for free illustrated ( Preparel in Measures 13-23) folder and name 5. Both hands slowly, firmly and Good chances to “swish” are of nearest dealer. legato (about = 56-60) TONK A J with flash- offered in the ascending scale shapes MFC. CO 20c in (Dept. 212) ing fingers: no pedal; no looking at of Measures, 4, 8, 17, 19, 21, 23, and 1980 N. Mag- copy keyboard. Canada so on. nolia A v.. Chicago 6. Practice Nos. (2) and (3) again, At the end of each day’s practice, I this time with gently “scratched” CENTURY MUSIC advise playing part or all of the PUB. CO. finger staccato. This is done by etude slowly = 56-60) TON 251 (J and softly, Kalinets WEST 40th STREET. NEW YORK CITY “scratching” the key lightly with without pedal and without looking curved fingers touching key tops. at the keyboard. for Sheet Music JUNE, 1942 409 ; t — —

scale thought it mel- cause the consists only received her aegree of Master of Arts sweet; Shakespeare 0j our wandering blending tones. Dated Music in music last June. She has been ancholy. Meanwhile in This is the factor that keeps minstrel had long been known the Voice Questions ( Continued from Page 363) composing since she was six, and a well as piper eternally tuning up. For every Cradle Song, which she wrote for Ireland and Scotland, as His trail is plain- note is off pitch until drones and With all this comes the chorus of the piano when she was eight, has been throughout Europe. music chanter are coordinated. It was orchestrated Vladimir Bakaleini- ly marked in the folk lore and this "SAMDILDFF by protagonists of unrest, telling us that pinned every country. factor too that “the pipes” to the world in the future is likely to koff and played by many of the coun- of almost NICHOLAS DOUTY standing its Greek scale when most other .JnswereJ DR. BEL CANTO STUDIOS AND OPEBA ACADEMY be a very disagreeable place in which try’s orchestras. Her Philharmonic He was a member in good wood 1$ guilds from winds were keyed to modern to live and that the music which is prize winning composition was a of the German minstrel scale intervals. The drone chord IN LOS ANGELES dated 1942 must be in a style reflect- "Piano Concerto,” composed during which came the Meistersingers. did not musician, harmonize with the new spacing. ing the worst in life, rather than the summer of 1941. France knew him as court The MUSIC CENTED DF THE WOHLD bellows pipe it is true, ETUDE unless accompanied by the full name the best. One of the two special prize win- minstrel, and shepherd. Boccaccio’s Irish was, and No question will be answeredin THE the inquirer. Only initials, or pseudonym given, will be published. This art, gone beserk, may indeed ners was Mario di Bonaventura, who- Italy and Cervantes’ Spain danced still is keyed, but the piping frater- ana address of Living today in Los Angeles are most of the world’s great mu- be an interesting reflection of the was born in Follansbee, West Vir- and made merry to the rhythm of nity has always been divided on the sicians, to mention only a few pathological and neurological effect ginia, but has lived in New York for his lilt. As burgh piper too, he was question. of this era of tyranny and- world more than five years. Son of a barber, a civic institution in lowland Scot- Iturbi, Heifetz, Hoffman, Barbi- Sing Should a Well Educated Musician be Able to A Harsh Verdict A Pianist Who Wants to Learn to murder. The result is, in many cases, he attends the Music School Settle- land as early as the fifteenth cen- a state contest at Wel- Teach Himself How to Sing? rolli, Coates, Achron, Schoen- q 1 / am entering sure to sing “Er> Q. 1 am a tenor of twenty-fire with a a sequence of incoherent “burps” be- ment on Third Street where he stud- tury. “Evening and morning and at Speaking of the bellows pipe, an lesley, and I want to be advised me to range of two octaves middle-C to high-C. The berg, Cadman, Rozsa, Zador and speaking the intellectual ies piano, violin eighteenth century correctly. My choir director and spir- and composition. other times needful he marched bagpipe treatise while the di- low tones C to E are of a slightly gruff and make a pronounced rolling B Toch. itual indigestion of the hour. His prize winning contribution says, “The style and class ut school raspy quality, quite different from my middle to through the town to refresh the compass of true rector of the vocal training to “Uh.” I am con- voice . By tensing my throat I can descend We have no interest in hearing a the contest was “Three Symphonic leiges,” says an early historian. And pipe compositions are such as corre- says to sing it more like ‘•winter’ and under, A; the volume becomes greater but the quality SamoilofT Studios ofTer a string of Sketches.” cerned with the words The sentimental musical com- spond with the drone’s sound. word is not is sacrificed. Can you recommend exercises The but when 1 sing “wint-uh" the monplaces such as those The other way between, as that will develop this low ranget Some tenor complete musical training for which made special award winner his wages. contrary of this is what makes the distinct. Should it be half ,, music calls for C and tones lower, and I would up many of the popular pieces of was Gunther Schuller, son of a long- bellows “uhr t the beginner, the advanced artist The regimental piper completed pipe so shocking to the ear. piano like to have a reserve of still lower tones. yesterday. o 1 am sixteen and have studied five Yet there is still a place time member of the second violin the circuit Thus a passage of Correlli, Spring After singing these tones with a tense throat when he brought “the Festin, or years. I play such pieces as Qricg, To and the teacher. for these, because there are millions section of the New minor. My teacher I get a raw feeling in the throat. Is this na- York Philhar- pipes” back along the caravan routes Handel and so on played with pips Chopin, Etude in G-sharp I will lose, to ture’s sign to beware and stop or is it part of of people whose musical opportuni- monic-Symphony Orchestra. says that if I turn to singing, He is a of Egypt and India. In both countries cuttings (fingerings) a the necessary muscular soreness needed for Special Teacher’s Course and drone, some extent, the firm foundation l am estab- ties have not advanced to a point student at Jamaica High School great proper vocal development! H. E. E. and now native military pipe bands play must carry a great deal of the au- lishing with the piano. I hare sung a — where they can appreciate music of is studying theory at the public and I feel more at ease when Lessons also by special personal re- Manhattan the Scots instrument and its thor’s meaning deal in A. It is quite unusual for a tenor with tunes away. How wretched teacher studied and a better class. Those School of singing than playing. My low cordings. Book on Voice being pub- who stage a soul Music; received his first with all the good high tones to have equally good the flourish, if not quite the and insipid a jargon this music is singing tiring to the nerves and collapse found ones. Your letter sounds to me as If you had when they hear music of this training in theory from the assistant I have been told to keep lished by Theodore I’rcsscr Co. finish of the Black Watch or Seaforth to a judicious ear is obvious.” breathing difficult. been singing much In choruses and little as a type, merely because it organist of St. diaphragm hard, but I am afraid / do Dr. SamoilofT will teach all summer does not Thomas Church, where Highlanders. Sikhs, the soloist. If you will examine the repertoire of Gurkhas, and Probably the piper was just trying use this advice all the time. My range is please them, usually do so because he sang in the boys’ choir. not music written for the tenor solo voice, you at his Studios. Greatest Pathans have to B-flat below High-C. Should 1 taken to the imported to keep up with the times. The world from Middle-0 will they enjoy posing as very exclusively of his instructors, however, find that it contains comparatively few have been mountain music like ducks of phrases In which the tones lower than D are sensitive or to water. music to which he had contributed surprisingly smart critics. distinguished composers, on whose of Importance. The middle and upper tones In most countries the piper as a not a little, had Write catalogue—Special rates for the Duration. As a matter of fact, they scores he somehow left him are the ones upon which the characteristic for represent a has spent hours of time. type has changed little in centuries behind. His drone chord A. 1—In the June 1939 issue of The Etude quality and expressiveness of the tenor de- small and insignificant part of the He won the special was per- award with two and his instrument the pronunciation of the letter “R” is dis- pend. These remarks do not appertain to that 610 South Van Ness Avenue Los Angeles, California public less. Pipe bags haps the fundamental bass on which has existed in every movements from a symphony. which cussed at length, and the opinion of two or rare voice the Wagnerian "Helden Tenor,” are still made of sheep generation and goat skin harmony was based. Besides, Bach, three authorities cited. Please get a copy, which as Mr. Melcholr explains. Is usually — squeamish individuals Too young to write serious orches- as they were in ancient and read our advice under "Voice Questions quite like a baritone In quality and who without the human experience tral music?’ times. The Handel, Haydn, Schubert, and Bee- which Well, the results of this Answered." usually commences his career beribboned drones which produce thoven, as a baritone. creates breadth of understanding. competition the all used bagpipe effects in 2—It Is difficult for us to understand why controvert that idea al- background bass, were Homan refine- pastoral you should "lose to some extent the firm Wbal Is To Be Done a Boy’s Voice Whether the- World War II most conclusively. or dance movements, so why When YOU CAN NOW LEARN will It appears, rather, ments, foundation you are establishing with piano" Changes? FREEMANTEL will have as drastic added one by one to mask the shouldn’t he reverse an effect upon music that we have a wealth the process. But by studying singing. Singing and piano play- Q. 1 I am fifteen years old. and often my of natural’ mounting power — train YOUR VOICE as World War I is a ability and shrillness of the judicious ear finally ing are two branches of the same art, and voice squeaks and cracks. People tell me that matter for specu- that needs fostering. prevailed. "I attended a concert given by Mary Stewart, a PRECISION PIANO TUNING We need the chanter go hand In hand. Many fa- voice is changing. I reed. Somewhere their study may my Can do anything for former pupil of Frederic Freemantel. 1 was so lation. such contests as along Nobody mutilates Correlli, Festin or these to stimulate this mous singers are also excellent pianists. Cor- it impressed by her fine singing I travelled 10.000 Our Tiew Tempera meter Is a scientific teach- Again, pneumatic pipe line, miles from Shanghai to New York for privi- let us keep our musical this ability. bellows Handel now on the bellows rect singing Is more apt to be restful to the 2— range is from High-C to Middle-C, the ing device for either oral or correspondence. san- The “Midsummer Night’s pipe. The My legs of studying with Mr. Freemantel." stepped up bagpower; firm, erJor; no guess work. ity in this world Dream more drones instrument nerves rather than tiring to them. The and I want to be an opera singer. As no male (Signed) Priscilla Pole -Hunt Our graduates earn of confusion. We Overture,” written by itself is almost as mute *5 to $15 a day. Fortieth seven- were added and upright position, with the body well poised, soprano ever sings in opera, what can 1 dot year. Authoritively must not let the science teen-year-old articulated to become as the “Harp FREEMANTEL STUDIO endorsed. Write for free booklet. of the Felix Mendelssohn that once. . . Irish and the deep breathing tend to strengthen the V. G. re- pipes in organ. — 205 Wtrt 57th S». N.w York, N. Y. BRYANT SCHOOL, 77 B. B., Augusta, Mich. perception of beauty, tains whole physique and Improve the health. called “aes- its hold on performers and pipers in the main have gone back thetics,” The piper had to Your conception of the action of the dia- A. Somewhere between the ages of twelve be suffocated by the listeners, so, too, draw the line to the mode repel- do works by a youth- and music of the Great phragm Is altogether wrong. The dia- and sixteen, the boy soprano's voice changes. lent somewhere. He kept his miasmas of a mad hour. ful Wolfgang chanter, bag Highland phragm Is sort of movable partition The vocal cords are lengthening, and Amadeus Mozart. It has and Bagpipe. a sepa- the LEARN "SWING" MUSIC INCREASE “Chord o’drones” because rating the lungs from the digestive apparatus muscles that move them are becoming YOUR happened in other his in- The story of Quick course to players of all instruments—make your countries and con- the lusty lunged fra- ! strument had to It Is continually In motion, downwards as stronger. As a result both the speaking and own arrangements of ’•hot" breaks, choruses, obbligatos, INCOME tinents that be portable. And ternity embellishments, figurations, blue notes, whole tones, etc. music of lasting worth in Ireland and Scotland is a the breath Is Inhaled and upwards as it Is the singing voices of the boy “squeak and Easily— Substantially -Pleasantly the fixed bass of the MODERN DANCE ARRANCINC has come from the drones in turn romantic exhaled. It Is never hard and still except In break. In simpler words, the boy Is gradually — Take Subscriptions — pens of veritable fixed chapter in the history of Duets, trios, quartettes and ensembles—special choruses for the intervals of death. Get a hook of anatomy and study becoming a young man. He can do nothing —modulating to other keys—suspensions — anticipations youngsters.” It can his scale, shown music. Bards, THE ETUDE MUSIC The happen here. the harpers, and pipers, about the breathing muscles and their ac- about it except to wait, more or less pa- —organ points—color effects—swingy backgrounds MAGAZINE Philharmonic m accompanying Write today. diagram. Listen were tion. If you decide to sing, take some les- tiently, until his voice is settled. Then he — Write for particulars — while connecting links in the chain ELMER B. FUCHS our instrumentalist sons from a good singing will have a tenor, baritone, 1712 CHESTNUT ST. tunes up. of Celtic teacher before you or bass voice 370 Lewis Avenue Brooklyn, N. Y. PHILADELPHIA PA. Distinguishes Youth minstrelsy. “The pipes” form any bad habits. according to the length, the thickness, and took up the the resilience of the vocal cords. Scale of theme of race when the His prob- lem then will TRAIN Equal turmoil of war The Voice of a Boy of Thirteen be the normal one of prepar- , < Continued Temperament had drowned the ing himself In MU PHI EPSILON NATIONAL CLUB HOUSE from Page 366) G G» A At 0. I am thirteen and 1 sing in a choir, the music for the type of Hoot B C Ct A Residence for Musicians in New York City Mon! 393 420 maidens’ music,” as either alto or voice which has developed. 445£ 471 499 528 559 one bard termed soprano, whichever the occa- Rates $6.50 to $10.00 per week—Transients $1.50 per night the sion demands. Rates include East. Strangely music of the harp. And the clan My range is from B below the the use of kitchens for cooking enough, the second to The Young and laundry, also the freedom of the Club Rooms. The staff A the first line above it. Am I a Soprano Who Soon Gets Hoarse Pipers piper took IJJ Central Park West (Cor. SSrd SI.), Sat. IS New prize winners over not only the role of soprano or 0 I am fifteen, a good soprano, and l do a lark C.ly Results shared not only an alto , as my voice is equally GUARANTEED! the '• the bit singing, but J need W bul * d» *trwngthrn lit* vocal organ* prize minstrel, but strong in both ranges t J. E. G. of practice and voice ? — but the same city of birth something of the — l«»oni—but by sound, scl- Are Cornin’ culture. I am in high school and therefore enUftcaHy corwt silent and vocal exercise*, Boston. form and Make THE ETUDE Your Marketing Place and absolutely guarantee The girl, Luise Vosgerchien, rhythm of his lay as well, find it inconvenient to take singing lessons, complete satisfaction Wrtt* Vo,c* Book. FREr. Sent to Etude Advertisers Open the Doors Real one under . no wrote a composition he classical music After singing for a while my voice becomes a to 17 years old unless signed by parent called of the Highland * ’ Window ( Continued UAI/ICIUCIJ lUgJ PERFECT VOICE INSTITUTE, Statfw 551$, from Page little hoarse. Can I prevent this ! Please tell Opportunities HE. UkeSL CHICAGO Shopping, inspired 367) agpipe is couched tones of the soprano and the very low one by a stroll down in a prose or me of some exercises to make my voice higher of the alto. It Is a rare voice for a boy and Boylston 59 recitative . Street past oriental 668i rhythm, not easily ex- useful and clearer J. G. shop calibre of the players probably ‘ »•» one to the choir director. The prac windows; varied w „ presseti in tlce of singing the boy, Allen D. Each drone is terms of modern music. both an outer and an inne Sapp, Jr., as widely. But the twisted up or A. Apparently you are tightening some of an bagpiper was too d< The voice Is good for your musicianship. Howevei undergraduate in Harvard Uni- ltS note transition from harp to pipes the muscles above the larynx, perhaps the firmly rooted in tradition blends into the ch you are approachng the age versity, to be ter was spread when you wll pharyngeal muscles and even the tongue submitted an Andante. r\s keynote, A, at over about two centuries experience that phenomenon, and daunted by an occasional a little above dreaded b jaw muscles. It cannot be a very Dika Newlin, lam- v in Scotland. every boy, called change pronounced winner of third Sir Walter of voice. When 1 stiffness, place pooning. “ the Scots instrum Scott blended comes, do or your voice would not sound well was born fact not continue singing with you and you in Portland, Oregon, aSS dr and folklore to boys voice would get very hoarse instead of and In Chaucer’s day, °ne added to sound “the too long, or you will run to quote the 1 th slightly hoarse. Perhaps came to the graduate “The ter in thJthe pibroch” at danger of hurting you are singing too school of Co- Canterbury seventeenth the battle of Bannock- your man’s voice. Th long at time Tales,” “A century tu years of voice a without resting, or you may lumbia University Bagge-pipe an octave urn in change are sad ones to the bo by way of Mich- wel could be lower. The 1314 But it was not until be singing too loud or too high. You should igan blowe and sowne, drones 1 Comforfc yourself with th State College, where and sound a tne sixteenth 8ht practice a short time every day. and see that she was therewithal he continuous century that the piper that your voice wU1 surely com you graduated brought us out of keynote eh wv , never stiffen any of the muscles con- at the age of fifteen, with which every became a ranking though In another range am and towne.” He was marching note of the functionary in the nected with singing. the- University and blow- char 11 lnterlm make yourself a of California US bl d heirarchy of muI * goo 2. Perhaps Marchesi’s book of "Elementary at Los ing strongly in “Good harmoniously. the clans. The heredi- musicianJL’Vby studying an Instrument Angeles from Queen Bess’s” ?n hi !f And t ary or twe Exercises, Opus 1,” might help you to sing which institution reign. °ffi ce was and the usual she* Spenser «">“ ‘he ran ); e(j certain scholasti higher and clearer. thought his music Instrument g ^ WeU You need the advice of £uned and aimlies after your health too, fo a warmed up where piping, so to speak, vmfwni ^ h good singing teacher. This book may be 410 to pitch, d ’ a a man slnBer. both oi.? ,? a strom procured through the publisher < Continued body and a well of The on Page 422) trained mind. Etcdb. THE ETUDE JUNE, 1942 411 — — ? — — . -

remove when perfectly enunciated, Acquiring a Sense of and be- Turning the Student Into An Artist the check-rein of obstacles and rhe come a definite aid in centering Questions find Obgm mb Chuih (.Continued from Page 377) projecting pure tone. You will Relative Pitch Psychology that the singers who record the greatest number of “bull’s eyes” in Cjeorge $roiunion through & match alone. The average Italian singer, for she will turn out performers to producing beautiful tones also can o f MUSIC all his opportunities to sing many them—not before. understood. But enuncia- be the best S. FRY, Mus. Doc. ihrouoh r61es in many performances, sings No one, of course, can speak of bricks in the has become a Nnsiveeed Lj HENRY tion is only one of the Ear training definite By is in to-day, them all In Italian. When he re- what is going on Europe of artistry. And of musical education. Examina- complete structure part G. O. traditional thing was to Ex'Dean of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the A. quired to sing in French or German, but the the shape and integrity of that struc- tion requirements of universities now MAX SCHOEN feels need of his artistry his auditor often the judge a performer on but one thing—the naming of melodic inter- ture depend on include the Department Inquiring what language it is. The alone. The fact of being the best Head of will of the singer to make himself vals played on the piano by the ex- of Psychology and the full is true of the artist, or uniquely dressed, questions will be answered in THE ETUDE unless accompanied by same French and dressed, the most Carnegie No aminer. Education, pseudonym given, will be pub- to a lesser degree, of the German. counted for exactly nothing. Con- name and address of the inquirer. Only initials, or fortunate Institute of Technol- opinions While some are enough to lished. Naturally, in fairness to all friends and advertisers, we can express no But the American must—and does! tracts were not permanent; the per- ogy- be gifted with a sense of absolute or as to the relative qualities of various instruments perform in all operas and, in each former had to please the audience at < . of relative pitch others have to ac- Professor Schoen's book offers a well selected case, his accent and enunciation are each performance or risk being hissed winch quire the precious sense of pitch dis- and well balanced assortment of material far and the better than those of the Euro- from the stage. And after two or will interest musician, psychologist, crimination. well. The first chapters deal with pean who sings in strange experiences, his (or music lover as will take it for a tongue. three hissing her) to Get Better Results our immediate auditory Q. 1. I understand that legato style is the tron being considered, so we How Though the Tonic Sol Fa is gener- musical sensations— manuals and Such shortcomings of tones in isolation and In then* essential characteristic organ playing. Is granted that it is the two as the American services were no longer required. experience _ of w Inch of which we are ally considered the best method of successive and simultaneous combinations the playing of a march on the organ to be pedals size, specifications artist displays and there are enough That made a hard school, but a help- and harmony. of the — constitute the basis of melody the legato style as a choral or hymn sending you by mail. Since the stops sense pitch, it our of same of them! grow out from the Did or Small Organ developing a of is not Later chapters treat the effect of music on suggested by those included — of the conditions ful one. I am not suggesting that emotions. tune? How can legato he observed in a piece Orgatron are imagination, ideas, feelings, and the instrument would under which he suitable to all persons. Just why, we of organ music with four or five octaves or in the organ, and as pursues his career, we Americans begin hissing tactics, of instruc- Part Two is devoted to The Psychology chords succession, without first making be treated along the same lines, no ( Continued from Page 379) say. But we can quite in and not out of any inherent national but certainly, ren- cannot believe includes valuable comments upon will en- an audience could Aptitudes, and an effort to reach the notes and second to tion book is available. However, we Musicality and Tile Psychology of Artis- defects. der valuable it, since we do know that nothing Tests of “jerk” the passage? deavor to give you some information which a performer service by Singing—a significant contribution to vocal tic may be valuable to you In using the stops i the Urowtn or reserving is absolute, and therefore exceptions .. : ,i Tiarhflrs of music will find the right to express disap- never depend solely on combination to those of an organ. Diapason is The Danger of Speed similarly proval as well to the rule are abundant. Repeatedly tone, and would be used as approval. Indis- pedals or manual pistons; for the the foundation . . . a/idfo/iaZ/i/ exce/Ze/if For we encounter persons who cannot where the Open Diapason is suggested for one thing, the American musi- criminate applause is a kind and tone is likely to become routine and do Widely endorsed by music educators and psy- the organ. Melodia appears as “F” and cal “markets” are such things in the universally accepted chologists everywhere, it is essential equipment that a young friendly gesture—but it does not keep lacking in originality. By the single being of the same Wick* Organ »* a musical in*trument which bring* for every teacher of music. Valuable also to “MP”—the second stop A artist is constantly tempted by the performer easiest way, yet they can do them parents for determining musical aptitudes of quality as the first, but softer. These stops a “on his toes.” The ex- stop method one becomes familiar untohl plcanurc anil »ati»faction to the artist yet, "Practical readable both from point 8' Flute. The — hurry-up method of well in children. and may be used instead of an establishing ploitation of the individual and not capacities of quite what to others seems a content unit will appeal to Un- with most of the tonal of view of style and Viole (string tone) is similarly treated and these fine pipe organa are priced within the reach himself. If he can secure a radio or difficult and roundabout way. musical profession, to educators and to scientific his art is the most potent factor in the organ. We .” would be used in place of Saliclonal. Gamba. readers in oencral —Carl E. Seashore. “ One of of music lover# everywhere. Atk for demonttralion. a motion-picture Cello so forth. The Flute d*Amour 4' is contract, if a pub- keeping back Americans from being must not condemn such people since the most valuable additions to musical pedagogical and The expression pedals deserve bet- ." Melodia, which is true * licity “build-up” literature in recent years The Etude. $3.25 an extension of the * can be prepared for the truly great they accomplish their ends; ... •r* artists they could be. ter they Ex. 3 also of the Quint 2%'. The Swell stops are treatment and consideration than order copies or for further in- Ulrralure. telling the tfory of ff'irit h'm as a result, the public will ac- To appearing on the ^ And public and management alike “work out their own salvation.” To largely duplicates of those Or/(tint, it yours far thr asking • * r is usually given them; a good organ- formation write to Dept. M605 rpt him artist, Great organ. The Viole Celeste is a stop " —not as an perhaps, must share with the native singer the deny anyone the development of his V ist avoids a “one-legged technic”; he with the Viole. The Pedal stops v- - ‘ •» but as a “glamorous” name. Theo- undulating blame for this retarded development. faculties because he cannot cultivate all are produced from the Sub Bass set. and does not keep the right foot glued to 2. Must the chords in Ex. 2 and Ex. $ be retically, of course, the decision lies them along The Ronald Press Company the uses of the couplers are indicated by the swell pedal while left accepted lines is unin- repeated or held ? F. C. in the The Importance of the foot their names. youngster’s hands; he can Enunciation telligent. plays a kind of violoncello bass on Of course in such cases we 15 E. 26th St., New York, N. Y. reject the contract and the build-up, I A. The type of passage would govern the know that vocal students expect are always plagued with Enclosed is a list the stops on the the tonic, sub-dominant and domi- the fact that question of retaining a legato in the playing Q. of WICKS and turn his face resolutely toward playing. Will suggest com- some word of definite advice, so let one would be efficient of a march. A majestic march, containing organ I am you nant notes. This is quite common. more if he did the winning of genuine artistry. probably would not call for binations to be used for a full choir and a But me end with a discussion of the value things in the theoretically perfect “big” chords, Not so long ago I played legato. playing of octaves men's quartet? I use the Ocdeekt and Tremolo why fool ourselves? It requires more of good a number LOVERS a continued The enunciation. Clear, accent- manner. AAHCir bar- on the Swell organ during communion. Is there So he would! But the ques- Fine records at requires a sufficiently large hand. ORGANS ffWl than average mortal of organ solos on a modern three ’W' w smoothly - tell courage to turn free, well projected gain p r i C es. Bach. the passage does a softer combination more suitable? Please pronunciation is tion is, can he. We must face reali- If this is not available, and away manual instrument. The regular or- Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Wagner, etc., playable me what good the Hazard 2%' stop is. It is . from present recognition—and one of the greatest assets not permit of assistance from the “other” Highland. Illinois the singer ties and admit there on any phonograph. Original imports cost $1.50 to very shrill and I never been able to use ganist was a woman of are some im- hand, it should be played as smoothly as have wealth! —in order to strive for future can store up whom it was $2.50 each—American duplicates only 50c and 75c. for himself. It consists your Ex. 1 suggest playing it with any other stop on the organ. Would said her possibilities. Send for FREE catalogue containing hundreds of possible. In we eminence, which, being in the fu- playing of the organ sound- you recommend the addition of chimes to this of a sharp ear for individual niceties With selections. the octaves as smoothly as possible, but de- ture, ed very much like the preceding in mind we following chords. The organ? We are going to build a new church, may not even develop. It is easy of sound, plus a melodeon; there taching the three 'ii'iiPiujvina the habit of meticulous The GRAMOPHONE SHOP, Dept. E either to this one. took a more favorable viewpoint to chords in Ex. 2 and Ex. 3 indicate that they and add organ , or get a new enough to say that a gifted was neither sweetness, nor lightness 18 East 48th Street. New York Planisu Send for tret booklet show and beau- pronunciation. The point is, it Sometimes, in adapting In one of your issues you gave the names — must what might are to be repeated. ing how you may greatly improve your tiful girl should nor fullness—all of which I otherwise have been of tiro Catholic magazines one them the spend three to five be a habit. To speak in a careless found a piano accompaniment to the organ, it , of technic, accuracy, memorising, slght- years learning were possible on this thought a cumbersome way of de- might be wise to hold one note in the chord Caecilia. Will you give the publisher’s name? readirig and playing thru mental forty to fifty minor fashion all organ. At the muscular co-ordination Quick results. Practice effort day and concentrate on others. I would like to subscribe to one of the mag- roles a year, close of the service, veloping a sense of relative pitch. PIANO TUNING ALLjED TAUGHT and repeat the minimized. Used by famous pianists, teachers and performing them with- the this organist re- azines . words of one song at lesson time The H. M. C. students. No obligation. out recognition, marked that I way was to identify melodic in- Splendid field for men and women musicians. Broadwell Studios, Dept. 62 -F Covina, California in order to rub off will not do. “used the pedals a to a two manual organ At all times, in all lan- School endorsed by Steinway &. Sons, Baldwin Piano Co., Q. I have access the tervals by the A. The combination to be used for a full corners of her work in hard and guages, the great deal!” One could not avoid first melodic interval W. W. Kimball Co. and other leading piano mfrs. in a local church, which includes a stop key singer must give scrupu- Write choir and exacting cf a given song for information marked “Swell Unison Choir N”. No one a men’s quartet would depend on routine—but the ones using the pedals a great deal, or piece. For instance, Dr. William Braid White, Principal who lous attention to the full having its use. Will you explain? the character of the passage, amount of tone value of upon . seems to know have the fortitude to do this, been brought up on hearing the first two notes of a cost desired and so forth. There does not seem to espe- every word he utters. He must hear Buck’s “Pedal School of Pianoforte Technology Also can you give the approximate of SWING PIANO! cially it Studies” piece on the 5149 the electricity, per hour, for running the be any combination of a softer character than Learn to play real Swing Piano. Send for fi%c Home when involves rejecting an them, feel them, and others, not to mention radio one person may begin AQATITE AVE., CHICAGO reproduce them. motor to supply this organ with wind ? The the one you name, included in the specifica- Study Folder. TFACHliRS: write for business Qlter offer from Hollywood or a rich the “Preludes and to hum or sing the tune he thought CHRISTENSEN STUDIOS, 52 Kimball Hall, Chicago spon- Further, he must be at all times con- Fugues” of Bach! instrument has two stops which tchcn drawn tion of your organ. Your 2%' stop being a sor, are rare indeed. Moral; was being until several seconds have Geigen Nazard, should be usable with your And so they con- scious use the pedal played, and suddenly out , do not work of saying his words in all their keyboard a when hissing noise is the full great organ. It is an “off unison” stop, tinue in he passed , wh-en a heard and the artistically wrong but clarity great deal with both feet, finds himself mistaken, he will ex- Send for your FREE copy of and also within the scope of and avoid pipes speak property. What is the cause of speaking the twelfth and should not predomi- humanly understandable course “pumping” the claim, “Oh, I nate in of beautiful sound. In this respect, he expression pedals. thought it was such THE MUSIC TEACHER’S HAND BOOK this trouble —A.G. the combination being used. Chimes taking can be added to the organ, what they can. In the last must gild So many of the and such a piece.” but other stops the lily he new organs Thus a certain Contains lists and illustrations of Studio Supplies, A. The stop key you mention may be r — must try, con- w ould be more advisable unless there is a spe- analysis, it is not Teachers' Business Helps, Diploma and Certifi- it the young artist’s through the tain only small scale melodic interval suggested par- “Swell Unison.” Try in reverse position cial clarity and purity of his pipes; and the some cate Forms, Medals desire for the chimes. We mentioned the fault! As long as and Musical Jewelry suitable (opposite to the “on” or regular position) the public will adu- utterance, result is an ticular piece. for awards and gifts for music Catholic Choirmaster and the Caecilia maga- to make a beautiful word unimpressive tone which Therefore, if one selects students, etc. and ascertain whether It cancels the tone late and pay for “personality from zines in the issue you mention. The address value” seem even never fills the church. the many Theodore Presser Co. 1712 Chestnut St. Phila.. of the Swell stops drawn. For instance, draw more beautiful than it is. familiar pieces twelve, Pa. of the first is 440 East 9th Street. Brooklyn, rather than artistry, there can each one of the Swell 8' stops only and move the be but When he has achieved Personally, I prefer of which begins the New York, and the second is published by this, he has an old style on one of stop key you mention “on” and “off” while this one result. The public will come organ different McLaughlin and Reilly Company, 100 Boylston done more than pronounce well; with good tones, even intervals, through associa- holding a note on the Swell organ and note to hear singers he if more Street, Boston, Massachusetts. A Definite who are known less has made hand drawing tion with the result. If the stop is “Swell Unison" it himself a better singer. He of stops is necessary the interval he will have ond Practical System for their singing than for Schools—Colleses will cancel the tone of the Swell stops, ex- their will find that he the solo violinist a means of identifying Q. I am organist at the local church, which ALL Piono Students has better tone, or pianist gets all relative pitch. cept through couplers. We cannot give you and clothes, their “contacts,” enclose list and Teochers their par- greater freedom his effects One will, of the cost of the electricity since we of stops included in the organ. Should Investigate in projecting it. For,' from one source - course, have to memorize do not ties; local of tone Which stops should be used for the playing managers, knowing this, in mastering the organist to what know the wind pressure of the instrument, of the habit of fine enun- may well do interval each piece is the CONVERSE hymns for congregational singing? V©|. For Beginners will clamor likewise’ COLLEGE your electricity rates and so forth. We sug- —A. C. 1— . , , *1.00 to engage the services ’ Clue. Ernst Bacon, Dean, Spartansburg, of ciation, the singer finds that at times. 8. C. gest that the instrument be examined such singers— he has by Vol. 2“For Students with yet both public and converted an expert organ mechanic to ascertain A. We. of course, are not familiar with an Play the the the Fair Knowledge . obstacle into an aid. instrument well, Herewith is a of . *1.00 managers add each fin- suggested list cause of the trouble you mention. amount of tone available from the their voices to the Words, Galesburg. organ or when articulated in slovenly ger attacking the key pieces by which to HI. congregation, but think you Vol. 3—Advanced Students *1.00 general opinion that bemoans in the exact identify the inter- KNOX James MacC. Weddell, Chairman. might be able the fashion, can be an center, vals. Catalogue sent free upon request to use “full organ” for accompanying • actual deterrent no over-lapping The opening interval is Q. Our church is considering the pur- hymns fact that America produces tones; with of each for congregational singing. so very to the emission of chase of an Orgatron. The Etude publishes On reed organs SHEFTE PIANO IMPROVISING free tone. (That prompt attacks designated. Each this combination few really great singers. and releases; person will probably organ numbers with registrations is often available by the eon all Give Amer- is the reason no for the * why beginners’ vocalises trailing want to select CONSERVATORY opening of the knee swells on the right and PLAV eRS 1.00 ica the conditions that have fingers or feet. This his own pieces and OF MUSIC Hammond organ. Since the Orgatron has produced are sung on vowel is the left hand sides of the instrument. 8' stops sounds and not on path to should be encouraged SHENANDOAH Wad*E. Miller, Pres- “stops” which I have never seen on a pipe Piano teachers the greatest artists of better organ to do so. produce normal pitch 4' the world, and full words.) playing in a or reed organ, can you tell me where I may (same as piano). should write us But those same words, true Pioceed stops speak orchestral style. thus: Play a melodic in- look for detailed information and instruc- an octave higher and couplers for special adver- a th rt of bring into action a tising 412 ( the Shenandoa tions for the Orgatron? II.B.M. note one octave higher or plan. Continued on Page 432) V»n»vValley, Dayton,n' I” Virginia.S,5«« — lower in addition to the key or keys bein'* A. You do not state the size of the Orga- played. MUSIC *U SO WAS ASM AH. FORSTER tVILKMU INC. » CHICAGO THE ETUDE JUNE, 1942 413 — "

never be The Boston Symphony, direction of playing! There should amount of pressure to be released, bad Victor set vibrato is Serge Koussevitzky. 886. over -vibrato. The ideal NATION-WIDE Manual Partnership for the exact place to release it, and the an belongs on the VlULIJV IJli;.'iTIU\!s different lines. This set library very » : to release and with- conceived along , St exact moment shelf beside the superb recording the Violin be narrow in scope (as op- draw it. As a general guide, however, It should tremolo of the that Koussevitzky gave us of C. P. E. ... ( Continued, from Page 383) posed to the broad SERVICE he must remember that at the mo- “Concerto for Strings.” small, and very rapid Bach’s a ment of changing the bow, these two gypsy fiddler), BRAINE means to the end of complete musical motion of couple of years back Stokowski re- L, ROBERT fingers must be quite relaxed and in vibration. The visible expression. While working at technic, should be re- corded this work in an arrangement must, at the same time, exert pres- the fingers and wrist however, the student should never be with No questions will be answered in THE ETUDE unless accompanied by the full name ...FOR arm and not in keeping music of its initials, very duced to a minimum. The and address of the inquirer. Only or pseudonym given, will be published. larger sure that varies from firm, to permitted to lose sight, of the relaxed, how- time. The present arrangement, made loose, until the bow has been hand should be quite goal of music. precisely, Siloti substantiates better the changed. Any tension in this pressure ever, and this relaxation, by phony,” in which we hear the song of birds, In approaching violin technic, the Bow Trouble AMERICA'S the tone. and beauty of the it is dif- and other harbingers of life in the country. of the fingers causes the changing of should be utilized to release strength score, M. W.—Without seeing your bow, student does well to regard his work your trouble. There are other examples which might be originates free- which Bach in his day thought so ficult to say what is causing the bow to be heard in an inde- In this way the tone causes named. as the complete cooperative partner- It might come from several different not need of that he transcribed it pendent ugly) is ly, fully, purely—and does highly for of re-hairing, or a defective In the United States the so-called "pop- left (and sound that no —a poor job ship of his and right hands. Their of the screw ular music” teems with imitations. Drummers UNDERWOODS part of the music and has no place the artificial addition of exaggerated the organ. Koussevitzky’s perform- frog. Then again, the threads work is entirely different. The which tighten the hair may be worn; or the in the theatrical orchestras found that their in it. Only relaxed pressure can vibration. ance of this work, and also of the “Imitations” caught on remarkably well with pianist plays different notes with his hair itself may be of poor quality. Take your achieve General practice studies should in- lovely Grieg piece, is marked by a a good repairman (there is one in the their audiences, and so they spent half their right left hands, essentially, a soundless beautiful change bow to and but Carnegie Hall, New York City). time in thinking up novel sound effects, of bow. clude the playing of very long notes fine feeling for phrasing and a sim- vicinity of their work-processes are the same. In re-hairing a violin bow, all fine and split which would attract attention to their work good staccato (also with the full bow, allowing the tones ilar attention to expression. usual quantity in the pit. A big demand developed for nov- The work- processes of the violinist’s A a part of hairs must be removed. The bow is from one hundred elty Instruments, by which all kinds of "imi- bowing technic) can be mastered by to carry; scales, trills (including the Wagner: Die Meistersinger—Excerpts; of hairs in a good hands have practically nothing in hundred and twenty, fastened in tations” could be produced. The result was stops; and the to one slow practice, note for little finger) ; double common. The left hand is entrusted note. Each Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, straight lines, and in a width of nearly half that every orchestra drummer was obliged to note Intonation can be carry around a cart-load of these instru- with note technic, intonation, and should be given a crisp, yet re- standard studies. Fritz Reiner, conductor. Columbia an inch. ear ments, in order to work out the effects indi- fluency. laxed little push, and each push aided by concentrated study in set X-218. The right hand is responsible Income from Violin Playing cated in the score. should be training. before a piece has I have before a catalog of musical goods, You are fortunate if your typewriter is an Underwood. In the for the enormous technic of bowing, followed by a tiny pause. Even The excerpts are the Prelude to R. F. C.—As you say, it is rather difficult to me issued by one of the largest music houses in Thus is the crispness of the true stac- been perfected, it is wise to practice earn much of an income from violin playing first place, Underwoods are so ruggedly built they can stand as well as for all problems of tone. It Act 3, the Dance of the Apprentices the lists in one of the smaller cities of the United United States. On one of its pages it cato achieved, even in rapid playing. it with piano accompaniment, accus- up under exceptionally severe use. In the second place, when is impossible, of course, to say which and the Procession of the Master- States. Many of the violin teachers in such a number of contrivances which produce the sound effects Never take a staccato with the end toming the ear to its responsibility cities add to their incomes by playing at required by a modern Jazz or repairs become necessary you will find thoroughly trained is the more important; but it is quite singers. Reiner does notable justice swing parties, dances, weddings, hotels and so on. orchestra. They are as follows: possible to establish the of the bow. The secret of a good stac- of keeping in strict harmony. The service representatives operating out of 436 offices from one fact that the to the music, particularly the Pre- Many violinists combine with small en- Song Whistles, Locomotive Whistle, Loco- cato is to play it in the middle of student should keep himself alert to motive or Steamboat Whistle, Perry Boat. end of this country to the other. work of the right hand and arm is lude which remains the most effec- sembles, such as violin and piano, violin, furnish- Ocean Liner, Cuckoo, with Tuning Slide, the more difficult. the bow and with a very loosely re- the fact that all his problem prac- piano and violoncello, and so on, for Even among pro- tual of the three excerpts when sepa- Shanghai Rooster, Bantam Rooster, Hen Today, with the rapidly increasing for typists laxed ing music for such affairs. Playing for wed- demand and fessional violinists, one can readily wrist. ticing is merely the means to the end Cackle, Peacock imitation, Jaybird imitation. rated from the score. The review dings is a profitable side line for the violinist. secretaries, it is more important than ever that typewriters be find performers The problems of the left hand cen- of music making. He can help him- Classical music is usually used for high class Baby Cry, 3 tone Locomotive Whistle, 2 tone whose left hands are copy of the prelude kept in was unfortunate- weddings. The Bridal Chorus (Wagner) is Interurban Whistle, Bird Whistles (Canary- good working condition. far more developed than their right ter, for the most part, about general self by regarding his work as a close ly marred by being off-center. usually used for the Processional, and the Bob White), Slap Stick, Bear Growl, or Lion technic, such as runs, hands. That is to say, they can play scales and partnership between his two hands. Mendelssohn Wedding March for the Re- Roar, Rotary Rattle, Bell Plate, Slap Pad, Dog UNDERWOOD ELLIOTT FISHER Bach: Sonata in E major; Yehudi and Bark, Double Rattle, Bones, Tornado, COMPANY correct notes more readily rapid passage work. One of these cessional. For a music program before the Rail- than they road (large and small), Rain ONE PARK AVENUE problems however, Hephzibah Menuhin (violin and ceremony the following are effective; Inter- Imitation, Door NEW YORK, N. Y. can achieve beautiful tone. In the which deserves Slamming, and so on. piano). Victor set 887. mezzo from “CaValeria Rusticana” (Mas- Service Everywhere Through Nation-wide Organization last analysis, however, we value the special mention is the trill. The stu- cagni), Reverie (Debussy), Berceuse from There is a vast number of others, which any A dent should Of the six sonatas which Bach “Jocelyn” (Godard), Are Maria (Schubert), radio listener will recognize. music we hear for its beauty rather practice to develop espe- UNDERWOOD ELLIOTT FISHER HELPS SPEED VICTORY for Serenade (Schubert), To a Wild Rose (Mc- cially a good trill with his wrote violin and cembalo, this than for its mere correctness. little fin- Dowell), Oli Perfect Love (Barnby), Licbe- A Didier Nicholas Violin one has long favorite ger; since, in violin playing, the little Notable Master Pianist been a great straum (Liszt), In a Garden (Sowerby), Morn- S. P. I.—Didier Nicolas (Aine) 1757-1833, Correct Pressure with ing (Grieg), Romance (Sibelius), Oh Promise was the best of a family of Mirecourt (France) finger is the weakest, it is generally both performers and the public. Me (DeKoven), Call me Thine Own (Halevy), violin makers. He made very good instru- The two most important problems Recordings Its third is neglected. This is a great mistake! movement one of the and hundreds of others. There will always ments after the Stradivari model. His violins for the right hand involve the were very much liked at one time, result change Ten to fifteen minutes of every day’s most beautiful expressions of its kind be request numbers from the ones who en- the gage the music. of which is that thousands of Imitations with of the bow, and the tone quality practice ( Continued from Page 372) that Bach wrote. The play should be devoted to trilling Menuhins his brand, “A la ville de Cremonne, Nicolas which, however, is also greatly de- with the little finger. A good trill with style, but the two opening Aine,” formed into a triangle, were placed on pendent upon the vibrato trived, although the the market. He belonged to the French of the left with this finger is a decided advan- Victor owns movements are by no means as in music. For instance, here in the United school of violin making. hand. A truly fine change of the bow tage. Not greater brilliancy and clarity. only does it strengthen the smoothly traversed as the last two. States, many people are crazy about “imita- No one can tell, without seeing it, whether is a matter that Introductory cannot be explained Schuman: American Festival tions.” violinist, your violin is genuine or only little finger for general use, but it Overture Adam: Variations on a Mozart Theme The or performer on other an imitation. in a few words! It requires a lifetime National Symphony instruments, who can imitate birds, dogs, Labels in a violin mean nothing, as thou- often helps to avoid harshness of Orchestra, Hans Ah! Vous dirai-je Maman; Donizetti: and various wild animals, and so on, Is sure to get sands of violins have counterfeit labels. Send of practice, striving, and acute aware- Kindler, conductor. tone in finger work. I have often Victor disc 18511 Die Zigeunnerin; sung by Militza the “big hand” at a popular concert, radio your violin to Lyon and Healy, violin dealers, ness. The basic essentials, however, William Schuman performance, or vaudeville show, awhile the Wabash Avenue at Jackson Blvd., Chicago, amused myself by playing behind a is one of Amer- Korjus. Victor disc 13826. may performer who sticks to the classics may get Illinois. I think they charge five dollars for be summed up in terms of re- screen and asking ica’s foremost composers. some musically The pres- The Adam variations is vocally one only a smattering of applause. Of course, in an opinion. I find these violins priced at laxation and pressure. To change ent in expert friend to guess with overture, as well as his third a great country like the United States, there $450 a well known American catalog. I ad- Offer, which and of Miss Korjus’ best recordings, and n from an up stroke are hundreds of thousands of vise you not to buy the Nicolas violin of the bow to a finger I am trilling. No fourth symphonies, have music lovers which one has been been widely the Donizetti song affords showy who do enjoy has been offered to you, down stroke (or vice versa) her the classics, and only the best unless you find out , the vio- able to praised say when I use my little fin- and programmed by many in music. whether it is genuine or not. In buying or linist opportunities. must above all things keep his The same condition selling a violin, always take ger! Trilling with the different fin- leading conductors throughout the does not prevail in this precaution. Massenet: Gavotte; and Gou- many of the arm freely relaxed. There must be no gers, country. — foreign countries, especially always slowly at first and then The American Festival Over- those of Europe. stiffness in the nod: Romeo and Juliet—Waltz; BidU When I visited the various Position of Bow on Strings upper arm (with in more ture countries of H. T. rapid tempo, is an excellent (incorrectly called Festival Over- Sayao Europe for the first time, I found C.—Emphasing the importance of which he does (soprano) . Columbia disc that not play but which exercise. ture on the craze for “imitations” was lacking, playing with the bow-hair at the proper dis- the label) is based on three or serves as a base of 17301-D. at least it was much less than in the tance from the bridge, Leopold Auer, the support) . The I have purposely left the discussion notes suggested to the composer United States. great teacher says in his book, "Violin Playing under arm, with by Miss Sayao recreates her operatic which he does play, of the vibrato for the a boyhood People who listen to the popular amateur as I teach it,” "Play between the bridge and last, because “call to play.” It is in- must also be characters with youthful charm; this hours on the radio will notice that nearly half fingerboard, for it is within this relaxed and free. Next that is the most individual geniously scored compass that and the and adroitly worked the performers regale their audiences the tone is most full and sonorous. comes the wrist is one of the soprano’s best records. with Only when the important center most important part of out. imitations,” and usually it is desirable the violinist’s The performance here is get the major por- to secure a very soft, sweet marked Mozart: Mass in tion of his turning movements, and lastly tonal equipment. C minor—Agnus Dei; of the applause. In the palmy days of tone, pp, may you play near the fingerboard In the last analysis, by essential instrumental vaudeville clarity, Montreal none of the performers dreamed or even upon it. On the other the fingers themselves, which all tone Festival Orchestra, with hand as soon hold depends upon the vibrato but, for one familiar of concluding his or her act with anything as you play near the bridge with the score Les Disciples with any degree the bow and exert and the de Massenet Choir, but an “imitation.” of their pressure upon bow. The common mistake Kindler’s liberties with I remember one vaude- strength the tone grows harsh. When play- the com- Marcelle ville star, a “trick” violinist, ing absolutely it. All of these in approaching Denya (soprano), direction who invariably pp, no more than brushing the • ETUDE readers can introduce members should be as the vibrato is to look poser s tempos are concluded his disconcerting to of Wilfred act with a string of “imita- strings, the effect known as the flautato. THE ETUDE with its many inspiring and in- relaxed upon it as Pelletier. Victor disc 18512. tions.” as possible—so much so in a substitute for warmth say the least. Among these was the imitation of the which imitates the timbre of the flute-tone TO structive features to their pupils and musical Here prayer friends is of a negro very inexpensively . . . fact that, as a purely and feeling—which, of course, a worthy performance of a preacher. This was achieved is obtained. In each and every stroke, the bow and what a hypothetical it is Strauss: Death and Transfiguration, by playing E * ,r ° favor you wU1 he doing them! For Op lovely excerpt on the G string, and was so real- should move in a straight line running iOC only 35C. exercise, not and never can from an unfinished istic we enter a three the bow would drop to the be. Whatever is 24; All American that it sent the audience parallel with the bridge. months trial subscription. Orchestra, Leopold mass off into spasms aio* ?®5?lng the June. July absent from by the ever cherishable Mozart. or mirth, and the Cono* . and August issues for floor if someone the violinist’s emotional Stokowski, performer was rewarded 1 1942. applied a sudden conductor. Columbia with a equipment set Negro Spirituals; tempest of applause, as great, I am smart can not be 492. sung by Dorothy clip this ad. or if you prefer, slap to the player’s right wrist. made up by sure as was ever awarded Paganini simply send tremolo Maynor himself, us 35c (U. S. stamps acceptable) with each The next vibration! Following this Stokowski (soprano) with unaccom- at the summit of his career. name important step is the fix- recorded this work MASTER-MADE VIOLINS and address to whom you would like mistaken with panied Male Other vaudeville performers the trial subscription ing conception, however, the Choir. Victor set M-879. were almost subscriptions later to go. This offer Is good of the pressure that the right many equally successful. Trial may for the summer violinists in 1934 In They spent half their time regular months only and will not be re- imitate the singing these spirituals with an n working be converted into full 4 fingers sentimental and this out imitations CHELSEA FRASER, 2025 ?* this year , Just exert upon the bow. This pres- set remains of every conceiv- STARK, SAGINAW, MICH. year subscriptions ($2.50) gSfj: think! for 35f. you gypsy style preferable to unaccompanied ame musical some musical of playing, and offer a the choir Miss Maynor sound, or noise, which could with credit allowed for the friend approxi- sure centers around the distorted and badly possibly mately $12.00 worth of second and broad, focused has be duplicated by the human voice 35<* paid for this introduc- music (if purchased open, slow vibrato palpably achieved not only authentic or A REVELATION entl°U third fingers. reproduction of the an their instrument. IN RESIN tory offer. !nnumerah1^ other de- Practice alone accus- present one. for Violin, Itghtfui ?eatures? visible in the motions of flavor but he craze for Viola, Cello, Bass the fingers Vivaldi: Concerto a more natural appeal. For "imitation” spread to or- toms the violinist to feeling the Crosso in D minor, chestral3 . works. “OLD exact and wrist. This inevitably Op she It is true that we have a few KENT" results in 3. No. 11; might well be singing here at and Crieg: e eiassics. Beethoven, THE ETUDE MUSIC • The Last Spring! L" 2? himself, intro- MACAZINE 1712 CHESTNUT ST.. ( duced a few PHILA., PA 414 Continued on Page 424) in his immortal "Pastoral Sym- JUNE, THE ETUDE 1942 415 . —- .

Dorothy Drew Vienne, Op. 26.” This should not be the thousands of other rural com- laborated on it. Young works of Schumann and Brahms the “Carnaval, Op. 9.” here, wrote most of the lyrics and Let us mistaken for the Corn-fed Opera munities in this country. The Hey Day of Brahms and Schumann according to graded difficulty. including They are totally different, the earlier Our search was soon brought to a a great deal of the music, consider which are the least difficult up of shorter pieces, all of the recitatives. Dr. Laurence and Brahms. One work being made (Continued from Page 388) focus on the Greenbush Community pieces of Schumann years old, (Continued Page 368) some of which are of rare beauty, Band, an organization composed Parker, who is seventy-five of the least difficult works of Schu- be played en suite. both the words and music for 19, and which should Min- coughs arose from the women and almost entirely of farm people. The wrote mann is the “Flower Pieces, Op. As they cross the river from the “Carnaval de Vienne,” single in existence for Waunda’s Lament which she sings at collection of short pieces more or In own people ambush them. men of the audience. I must admit, Band has been consider a nesota, her In fact the strain of attending so variously estimated. Some parts may be used for recital pur- fifteen years and under its present the death of Wannaska. All of the less related but all expressing in an that he, the hated Chip- I was somewhat shaken myself. The fine as any- Thinking of many social affairs ruined his health. his Concert Studies as poses. Professor O. J. Pederson, actors were local people — some exquisite way Schumann’s love for pewa—blood enemy of the Sioux tragic ending gave such an artistic director, During the decade between 1835-1845, thing Chopin has written in this have a number of piano duets high state the highest jumpers and loudest flowers. This piece could be followed We been the kidnapper, they lash quality to the whole production, that has reached a relatively Liszt knew each other. form. He raised the piano-transcrip- had Chopin and which if used would prepare the bittersweet of perfection. This was evidenced by whoopers in the War Dance being by the Arabesque Op. 18 which is of to the stake, heap dried brush one could not resist its Liszt expressed unbounded admira- tion to real artistic dignity, and by him still student for the more ambitious the it had musically set the staid and substantial business men the same general character and upon him, and set it afire with howl- spell. way tion for Chopin and said of him : “He the abundance of his work in this music works. The sym- Greenbush and deacons in the differs enough to keep up the stu- chamber glee. But Waunda, atmosphere for each act of the opera of field, enlarged the musical ing and revengeful is incomparable!” Others said that doubtlessly phonies make excellent four hand An Astonishing Accomplishment church. The fact that many of dent’s interest. We are mentioning who during this time has been greet- and played much of the accompany- no pianist ever equalled Chopin in horizon of many pianists. His ad- the “Andante and Vari- working in the material enough to cover two or three music, and his plight and Momentary depression vanished, ing music, such as Rimsky-Korsa- our cast have been touch. His music is the most diver- herence to “program” music led him ing her folks, discovers years’ study for students of High ations” for two pianos is a work of however, into awe, with the realiza- koff’s Song of India and the Intro- fields during the present season has sified and exacting of any composer to exalt emotional intensity and dra- dramatically saves him in a manner School age. rare beauty. Of course the “Concerto, tion that we had just witnessed an duction to the Third Act of Wagner’s hampered us somewhat. But it has for the piano. His dances, such as matic sequence, rather than devices reminiscent of Pocahontas and John the Arabesque, as the name indi- Op. 54” remains among the ten astonishing accomplishment up here “.” This was the group all been good fun and the crowd Waltzes and Mazurkas, are entranc- of thematic and structural evolution. In Smith. cates, have composition of ex- greatest concertos written, and if in this out-of-the-way rural com- conceived the idea of the seems to have been pleased.” ing; his Nocturnes are the essence of Hence the accusation of the reaction- we a The timing in this scene was so which quisite character. teacher should there is no orchestration at hand, the munity, three fifty Professor Pederson is too modest. romanticism; his Polonaises are the aries that he lapsed into stagey sen- The close and the performers, in their hundred and opera, fostered its composition, and tell it that arrangement for two pianos is worth wild about it! The glorious patriotic spirit of Poland, sationalism. the student how came exuberance, came so near to actually miles from Minneapolis, and twenty produced it. The crowd was Schumann so the piece. The while. miles four present applauded and his Etudes the highest expres- For a just estimate of Liszt’s char- named cremating the noble youth, that they from the main line of a rail- thousand motif of the opening measure seems Brahms has made a very important Result of Cooperation for encores. sion of artistry! To this day, hardly acter and works, as well as for very had me surreptitiously casting about road. Our awe inspired a resolve to vigorously and clamored difficult, but it is not difficult if the contribution to the piano literature, find discernment, who ever does an artist give a piano re- delightful reading, we suggest Sit- for the nearest fire extinguisher. the secret of it all, to see if the “Yes, the job was an ambitious People of musical constant flow of sixteenth notes is but a large part of it is difficult and inspiration all over northern cital that does not include something well’s book, “Liszt.” Sitwell is an Eng- About four thousand others were behind what had been one,” said Professor Pederson, “but had come from explained. Pianists are should be attempted by advanced by Chopin. The test of time has lishman and gives a very interesting prone to play doing the same thing! One could done here might be given in turn to not too difficult. Several people col- (Continued on Page 421) this piece too fast. I studied it with players only. The principal difficulties proven the strong appeal of his music. and unbiased account of Liszt as man almost feel the impending danger Professor Ernst Rudorff in Berlin, lie in the complex rhythms, and the Now, in all honesty, it must be and artist. tearing at the heart strings of the who was a pupil of Frau Clara Schu- stretches in chords as well as subtle recorded that between Chopin and spectators. Evidently the rustic De Liszt a certain rivalry existed; per- Liszt on MacDowell mann, and I would say that the shadings in harmony and tone. The Mille, who was directing this play, haps a little jealousy on the part marking of the Clara Schumann Edi- Variations on a Hungarian Song, Op. of Americans can be proud of the fact was an unconscious master of the Chopin. Be it also recorded that Liszt tion is authentic, that is, quarter 21, No. 2, is a good piece to prepare that Liszt praised our own Edward art of building up and maintaining was above such feelings, note = 126. the way for later study. There is and, true MacDowell when he played in the also suspense. OPPORTUNITIES aristocrat that he was, showed only classes conducted by Liszt a charming arrangement of the Ga- at Weimar. Waunda, however, rescues him ust in Various Study Hints j the most generous nature towards all “Watch this young man! You will votte by Gluck which is not difficult. the nick of time and in a very moving striving artists. If he had but one hear from him!” were his words. Liszt The next piece of Schumann after Of the “Ballades, Op. 10,” perhaps plea, sung to the music of Mascagni’s overcoat, and some young artist accepted the dedication of MacDowell’s the Arabesque might be either the Edward is the best known. In this Intermezzo from “Cavalleria Rusti- ...in the Iddndic ddiefd needed one, Liszt sacrificed his own “Concerto A minor” for piano. On the Novellette in F major, Op. 21, No. 1, grade of difficulty the “Waltzes, Op. cana,” tells comfort. Liszt them what he has done has been rather other hand, Liszt did not appreciate or the Papillons, Op. 2. The latter 39” may be classed. for her ADVANCED COURSES OFFERED BY maligned and then shyly confesses her THE by those who belong to the Brahms. It is said that when Brahms piece demands a greater variety in Of the earlier works the “Sonata in love more classic for him. The Sioux, appreciating school. Perhaps at times visited him at Weimar, Liszt asked the technic and touch than the F minor, Op. 5” and the Scherzo, Op. UNIVERSITY EXTENSION CONSERVATORY he was a poseur. the remarkable character and be- But when one con- him to play and went to sleep. Like- former, and is longer. If we select 3 are difficult. Before taking these templates the many great havior of the young man, release him qualities wise, when Liszt played, Brahms went the Novellette let it be remembered two works, one would do well to study BY THE HOME STUDY METHOD he had, the others fall and make him a member of their into insignifi- to sleep. To use a common phrase, that Schumann wrote these “Little the brilliant “Sonata in F-sharp tribe. Then in cance. As a pianist he still holds the they just Stories” a dignified and impres- Music didn’t “hit it off.” We can at the time when he had minor, Op. 2,” and the Rhapsody i:i has always ranked high among professions. There is sive Indian title as the greatest of all times. In understand, however, the been accepted ceremonial, they give wide dif- by Clara. There is a G minor, Op. 79 No. 2. never an overcrowded every branch of pianistic technic he Waunda to him in marriage amid field for the well trained musician. ference in temperament; the splendid note of triumph which was natural There is a wealth of shorter pieces established a new standard, not only symphonic of much rejoicing. We in the audience mind Brahms, the more when we think what he had to over- in the “Intermezzi,” “Capriccios,” and • Interesting positions are open in every part of of daring rejoiced, the field. very small cost and no interference with your dexterity, but of the full dramatic trend in Liszt’s come in too, not only because virtue Schools and Colleges are scheme of a very angry father-in-law, “Fantasien.” Of these we merely making it necessary for every regular work, you, easily and quickly can qualify emancipation of style from its pre- writing. had received its reward, but also be- teacher to be equipped for his work; By the same token we know old Friederick Wieck. This composi- enumerate the most popular: Capric- the Radio is calling for higher and more profitable positions in the vious limitations. for highly specialized training, and With him begins how to appreciate both tion is cause relief had come to our tortured standardized teaching musical world. these widely a great favorite, as is also the cio. Op. 76, No. 2 in B minor; Capric- makes the successful use of competition keen even in small communities. the piano on a differing expressions of art. It Novellette in emotions! was E major, No. 7, and may cio, Op. 116, No. Intermezzo, scale to suggest the 1; Op. sonority and the same with Rubinstein’s lack of be considered about In quiet dramatic contrast now, Are you an ambitious musician? DIPLOMA OR BACHELOR'S DEGREE the same grade 116, No. 2; Capriccio, Op. 3. splendor of the orchestra. 116, No. the Whatever understanding of Brahms. Rubin- of difficulty. Slightly “3 happy couple journey to their A successful musician is most always a busy one We help you to earn more and to prepare for bigger more difficult, The Intermezzi, Op. 117” are all at- Because he did was made enormously of this very fact it is almost effec- stein, with much the same tempera- and quite as beautiful future home on the banks of the impossible for him to go away things in the teaching field or any branch of the and buoyant tractive. Likewise the “Four Pieces, tive by a singular eloquence and Roseau for additional instruction; yet he always finds time musical profession. We award the Degree of ment as Liszt, but less able to hide as any is the Novellette in Op. 119,” River east of Greenbush— to D major, in which are two numbers. broaden his experience. To such as Bachelor of magnetism that showed him a master his where these our Extension Music. With a diploma or Bachelor’s feelings than the well-bred Liszt, No. 4, called “In the Style to-day there actually is situ- Courses are of greatest of audiences. of a Ball Intermezzo (A minor) and the mas- benefit. Degree you can meet all competition. expressed himself in this fashion: or Dance.” Sehr ated a charming little village named munter (Very jolly) sive Rhapsody in E-flat that From about 1850, Liszt occupied a are just- Digging out for “As for Brahms, I hardly know how After a study of Wannaska. There they live very yourself new ideas the Papillons, the ly popular. “ V ill In and Mail — — central position in the musical world for the betterment of your students This Coupon to describe precisely the impression teacher should select some The happily. He is a mighty hunter; she UNIVER^TY EXTENSION CONSERVATORY, that gave him or all of remaining works of is a wearisome time-taking task. Dept. A-292 great influence. He he Schumann 1525 E. 53rd Street, Chicago, lllino.s. made upon me. He is not supple the “Scenes From is a lovely squaw; and a little boy is trained Childhood, Op. 15.” and Brahms not When you can affiliate with a school many of the younger mentioned are too 3108 '*' ’ ustratecl pianists enough for the drawing-room, not This work born to them. lessons, and full information regarding i may be played by young well known What Indian couple recommended by thousands of suc- I hav^marked'lfelow and, by his principles of technic, laid by musicians to merit fiery enough for the concert-room, or old. An could be happier? all cessful teachers, you may be sure Piano, Teacher’s the excellent number from the consideration. We echoed this Q Normal Course Harmony Violin foundation of modern piano It is hoped that this that their confidence Piano, Student’s C nor primitive enough for the town. I “Intermezzi, sentiment justifies your D Course 33 Cornet—Trumpet Cuitar Op. 4” is No. discussion as they sang their infinite- Public playing. He was the 6 in B will help to confidence in new CD School Music— Beginner’s Advanced Cornet first virtuoso or- have little faith in show the young ly ideas for your C such natures.” minor. It is quite unknown tender duet, Love Has Given Us D Public School Music—Advanced Voice chestra conductor, and would student of high school work which we make available to C3 Saxophone and gave at his There again, time age or a little Q Advanced Composition Choral Conducting Piano Accordion alone has told be a novelty on any program. older, This Home Upon the Roseau. you. C3' own expense the first production how he or she can approach Ear Training Cr Sight Singing Clarinet Reed Organ of the story. Most of Rubinstein’s music Before But History of Music “Lohengrin” the study of the greater the more alas, tragedy comes to the lov- Dance Band Arranging O Banjo in Germany. He was the has sunk advanced literature of these Look into oblivion, whereas Schumann like ing couple. Wannaska back over the past year! What inspiration of Wagner, the “Symphonic two great masters. is mortally in- Name and it is Brahms’ music is progress have you made? .Adult or Juvenile. still gaining Studies” or the Great Fantasie, jured in a hunting accident doubtful that Wagner would ever Op. and is Street No steadily. Rubinstein was primarily 17 If you are ambitious to a in C major, one should study brought in to die. Singing tra- make further have attained his greatness in such the * a City * * progress, enjoy * . piano virtuoso; Brahms was inci- “Fantasy greater recognition, State . works as Pieces, Op. 12.” These ditional Indian Swan Song express- the “Ring of the Niebelun- very and increasing financial returns, then Are you teaching now? If so, dentally a how many pupils have you?. . . pianist, and primarily a attractive pieces may ing his love for gen, “Tristan,” be played alone Folk Waunda and his fear- you owe it to yourself to find out Do hold and “Die Meister- composer. His ideas music may be you a Teacher’s Certificate? Have you studied Harmony?. were the result or in groups. I likened to a lessness of what this singer,” if -it had once heard Josef Hof- death, he expires. Waunda great Home Study Musical not been for Liszt’s of mature thought wig which has Would you like to earn the Degree of Bachelor of Music? and the manner mann play them fallen into a salt sings a Organization has to offer you. At help. The total impact en suite; and wizne, heart-breaking Lament and of his in- of developing these thoughts to borrow an expression fluence chal- although the performance from then, with grave and was stimulating and fertiliz- lenges the was fault- Tonne; every affecting admiration of every seri- less, perhaps year adds fresh jewels solemnity, ing to a notable degree, they are not connected he is majestically borne reaching far ous musician. o e crystals that THE U enough in form on it, until off DIVERSITY beyond the period of thought to warrant for burial. XTENSIDN C^o n dervato r his own life. Piano teachers would this at last the only His do well to A more successful resemblance to the As the sad work as a composer although not so funeral procession 1 5 has been recognize the importance original is in 2 5 EAST 5 3 R D STREET of teaching important the general contour." moved (DEPT. A- 2 9 2 ) a work is the “Carnaval de off to the slow and muffled CHICAGO. ILL 416 —MacDowell beat of the war drum, tears and

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trapuntalists. Briefly, and in an easy, strumental music had developed, periods: the socalled “Golden Age chatty way sketch the life of the Dowland, profoundly affecting counterpoint. Interesting the Teen-age Girl Counterpoint in Plain Language of Vittoria, Gabrieli, Lasso, Italian cities during the Renaissance Counterpoint was originally all vo- Hasler and Palestrina, emerging from and the position of music in that life. cal, and written in the Gregorian the Renaissance; and an unnamed Little can be said without taking time (Continued from Page 375) modes, which are superbly adapted but important era after the rise of from other instruction, but that little and J. S. to voices but ill-fitted for instruments J4. W. ButUrfiM Protestantism with Handel will leave its imprint. The dominant peaks. of fixed pitch, especially the organ contrapuntist, a Bach enthusiast. on till C major returns at the end. In Bach as its towering seventh contains overtones that are very crude. and keyboard instruments. With Handel seemingly thought in terms addition, are many transitional The beginning was a vital part of the universe; any high attempt been these, problems of tuning turned up. CONSERVATORY of counterpoint, letting the under- “visits” to neighboring keys, or chro- Never before had any school student is pleased at being system of har- But hands fall easily upon the man- of the teachers Give frequent parties, or permit \\ lying harmony take care of itself, fol- matically altered chords in the same made to formulate a *RE YOU ONE engaged occasionally for brief periods OF MUSIC melody. Counterpoint was, ual to form solid chords, so that a fixed by experience your girl students to do so. My own lowing conventional lines; while Bach key. monizing Z\ whose fee— in conversations about the profun- feeling for harmony devel- give buffet suppers to Established 1867 \ at and is, purely a product of Christian growing attainments—is too high pupils often often appears to have had chord- Such modulations do not come *V and dities of life. Does a piece have found only in the oped, and with it a sense of tonality beginners, and yet which they ask their “boy friends.” Independent sequences in his mind which came random. They are imposed by the need Europe. It is still to attract young Spanish rhythm? A few words should America's Oldest Europeanized culture unless and modulation—matters beyond the securing or in These are given in my own studios; School Devoted Exclusively to \ out contrapuntally in a superb, spon- for variety; by a need felt in writing orbit of who has difficulty in about the composers of the follow and Allied Arts taneous flow. music as in writing English, to avoid you want to include the minuscule scope of the Gregorian Modes. the high school pupils? Girls and later they dance—in among the Music holding late 19th century and their work in \ A good composer has both in mind, “tautology,” a too frequent use of the island of Bali in the Pacific. Singers adapted themselves to these especially trying to grand pianos. It must be remembered of this age seem developing latent national traits. A complete school of Music, as did in writing his tone- same chord, or too prolonged use of The first attempts were based on developments, so that the twelve interested only that the desire of young girls for teachers—vain, lazy, With our world in the chaos caused Dramatic Art and Dancing. poem, Les Preludes. This work is pro- the same tonality; often by the de- the interval of a fourth, as from C to Gregorian modes were worn down by clothes, sororities and parties. parties, clothes, and dances is not in boys, by rampant nationalism, the young Courses lead to degrees. gram-music, based on a poem by sired aesthetic effect; and quite often F, and its inversion, the fifth, F up usage, and against all canon law, to they drop their merely a mad search for amusement More often than not be to ? the music student can easily made Lamartine, describing a life- journey by the range and characteristics of to C. These are still, with the octave, our present major and minor modes. music or are compelled to stop by or a wish to be with members of Registration: see that the study of music does tie from birth to maturity. It the for is “perfect” intervals. kind With this came a era. sex. their rapidly de- passes instrument which he writ- the Another new The parents whose patience is tried to the opposite With September 4, 5 \ forces of modern life. through various scenes: ing. derived, evidently, over imaginations in with the primordial If he wants a dulcet oboe solo was from the bag- Great Research was and the se- limit of their endurance. veloping abilities, and Begin: September 8 Will this be a complete "giving in” Classes gloom and the mystery of birth; the he must be kind to the oboe, a rather pipe, for one note is repeated in the crets of counterpoint demanded new statistics show that great intellects, they grasp at all the \ Musical of youth, in order impetuosity of adolescence and early pernickety instrument rises it: to the weaknesses Special Students May Enter at with a lim- bass while the chant above applications. The Church gave its numbers of children start music les- imagined delights of an expanded class? depends Any Time. love; world-weariness and flight to ited range, acid in its top notes and a drone-effect emerging as the to mankind, to maintain a That \ knowledge but after the sons, but that an appallingly small universe. The obvious things at hand the country; and a final return to the inclined upon the teacher. If she studies con- Write catalog to go bagpipe in its lower “pedal-point” or “organ-point” so Golden Age left the pioneering to percentage continue beyond the early stand for those delights until they / for \ battle of life and victory. tones. common in modern music. stantly, keeps her own ideals high, other hands. The Church retired grades. What does this mean to your are guided Into an appreciation of In writing the thoughts of those 2650 Highland Ave. this work he wished to Summing up thus far, it may be The object was to find agreeable within itself to glory in the subtle she can mould achieve- class now, to the audiences, to the greater and more enjoyments. / Cincinnati, Ohio \ demonstrate his fixed idea: a plan said that a major task (but not the accompaniment for the traditional in her care toward a similar devotion ments of the six-century span from music public of tomorrow? The prob- A wise teacher capitalizes on the of composition in which the themes sole task) of harmony is to provide chants that could not be altered. The to the best. The teacher must not Hucbald to Palestrina. lem children of high school, par- very element which often causes are mostly derived from a series of the composition with a solid frame- chant was a cantus firmus, a fixed forget the streak of devotion to ideals Following the example of the philo- ticularly the teen age girl, must be the teen age student to stray from notes in the composer’s mind and re- work; and the function of counter- song. The need was for a melodious sophic Greeks, the Early Fathers the musical narrow way—the love of that is present in the young boy and vealed only as they reached. emerge in the point is to overlay this framework of flow of subordinate melody above or mingled religion girl—that Idealism found under the with music theory; But if the girl of this age is so vain romance, of glamour. Music must be form of melodies and themes. In this more or less vertical chords, implicit below the cantus firmus, or both but with the Renaissance, colorful art. sophisticated veneer and Indifference De scholarly and self-centered, how can she be represented as a Never case, the “raw notes” were E-E-D-G- and explicit, with a continuous hori- above and below. That is, horizontally thought became experimental and forget that many a concert star has of every teen age student. Nine out E-C-A-C-D-E. These Inspired? You must remember that Paul he turned into zontal flow of simple or multiple mel- flowing counterpoint rather than will never become objective. Francis Bacon was born good quali- been helped to success by a glamorous of ten students UNIVERSITY love-tunes, pastoral interludes, gloom, ody. The main melodies each individual has many also may chordal harmony. 1561, four years famous artists or good teachers. But 1 CHICAGO before Palestrina ties, and other qualities that can be “build-up,” although, of necessity, he defeat, victory. From these in turn he provoke their own counter-melodies, this Once need was clear, civilized crowned if, alike to talented ones and to develops accompanying the Golden Age with his put to good advantage. Study your Is a hard working and well-trained figures and accompanying figures and florid dec- Europe became one vast THE SCHOOL OF laboratory Missa Papae Marcelli, and, In musician, and this side of his life others, the teacher has made the counter-melodies. The best orations. 1626, pupil; discover what qualities may known in which all the devices of counter- died of a chill caught while stuffing is not stressed to his public. Do not study of music both pleasant and melody is this: This is be utilized. Although she seems self- a functional view of coun- point were worked out by countless Hhtcic a dead chicken with snow to find out ambitious. try to sell your art as a tedious thing. practical, connecting it with the hap- terpoint rather than academic. Be- scholars in the centered, she may be only Ex. 4 cathedral schools and if cold pier life, would preserve meat. Hence has for in English, Present music, as known and lived by hours of she has done much offers accredited courses in Piano. Voice, fore going more fully into detail it monasteries As she worked an A for the next three cen- the Violin. Organ. PubUc School Music. ice-chest! office musicians, in as roseate hues as pos- toward keeping their devotion to may be well to glance at the high- turies. a place in the senior play, an By the end music a life time matter. Harmony, and Orchestral Instruments. spots of the century, Newton in the class election, urge her to work sible. of its history, especially as they By the fifteenth Confers Degrees of B. M.. A. B.. and century the “per- had clearly affect current restated the laws of toward giving a recital of her own, a As a representative of this art, see M. M. usage. fect fourths and fifths were spar- In planning his mathematics relating to sound to it that in your studio, in your ap- work, Liszt is care- ingly used, and so program over the radio—if you can Distinguished faculty including consecutive fifths that worried ful of his harmony, too. It modulates Counterpoint Before Harmony organ tuners got new get cooperation from the local radio pearance, and in your life you present were forbidden, composers ARTHUR C. BECKER through having ideas. Handel a clearly conceived series of Counterpoint thus had a wider range station or, if these undertakings are a picture interesting to the young. is a thousand years found thirds and sixths more malle- — SERGEI TARNOWSKY key-changes: C major; E of harmony for his counterpoint in Your studio should have the best major; old, and was developed long before able and ductile; too ambitious, a number on some through a system of nota- the major World of Music MME. MARIA KURENKO A minor to A major, and so harmony. It has had and minor modes. With church society or club meeting. possible equipment. Any autographed two peak- tions was established—the only one RICHARD CZERWONKY him the dying embers of the Golden pictures that you possess of interest- in common use which Make the actual practice material ( Continued from Page 361 ) gives both Age blazed anew. WALTER KNUPFER pitch and duration The old Protestant as interesting and colorful as pos- ing people should be displayed; young of a tone at a rivalled SAMUEL A. LIEBERSON Palestrina with his choral sible. people love autographs, and they love glance. Practically all the Even though you inwardly FEUERMANN, eminent violon- SPECIAL NOTICES devices works, adding EMANUEL The Dept of Drama offers a 3-year Coarse & ANNOUNCEMENTS were known: polyphony for oboes wince at the lack of technical equip- success. Study yearly if possible, and counterpoint in all cello virtuoso, has been appointed to di- and trumpets, and singing let your trip be given Address Registrar species: inversion, canon, strings for ment, do not stress scales, trills, proper pub- rect the Chamber Music of the Curtis for Bulletin imitation, glory. But he SPECIAL augmentation, was the last of the chords and studies until you are sure licity. Take in every concert or other Institute of Music. Mr. William Prim- NOTICES ANNOUNCEMENTS diminution, and so on DePAUL UNIVERSITY 1 purists. [ of the artistic venture in your own city and rose, whose fame with the Primrose —terms we shall explain later. student’s allegiance to the Room 401, 64 E. Lake Street. Chicago. Hi. l.lGHTl.t I M!I) Lonely Classics. Records Lists SIXGIXG in Leipzig, as as possible is far spread, will * MADE EASY: For information Johann Sebas- cause. At first give many in nearby towns. Quartet teach viola. 016 8 ' 3151 H,(fh pieces with rich s,reet ' Denver, * CoVo audress— Eastern Studio, Chambersburg', tian Bach saw Musical Composition Runs Wild that the only logical harmonies, pronounced melodies or When convenient, take groups of Dr. Hans Wolmuth, Stage Director of the tuning for keyboards was the Tem- "showy” pupils on these out-of-town trips Philadelphia Opera Company, will in- kEAK* PIAXO There followed a period of exultant effects; gradually improve TUNING — Simplified, pered Scale of struct a class in opera at the noted in- authentic instruction, $1.00 Literature virtuosity. twelve equal half-steps the quality of the material your high school student dotes on tree. I — Composers such as presented. rof. Ross, 456 Beecher St., Jean peimitting stitution established by Mrs. Edward W. Elmira, modulation to all going places and, if the ?**** AU d Okeghem and his pupil, Josquin keys. Remind the student that a certain — opportunity IthinecHfL*N.’ ^ des Bach set Bok in honor of her mother. E. Clifford himself the task of ex- presents itself, give COMPOSrriOAS Pres, wrote beautiful music, piece could be learned if her technic them the pleasure COHKECTED and ore- but also ploring its (Continued on Page 432 ) Toren, ’ resources, 0r pi blicat'?n. Arrangements made much trick-music. pouring out his were adequate; introduce scales of meeting personally the artist. m i They some " Speaking Mom melodies. Original music composed humorously great soul Director , (reproducing) hor in our words. Send work for transformed popular monumental polypho- here, a study there. As the pupil becomes interested, j* GvI der Phonograph. W free criti- songs such Hl'll°Hill, ii ,? Mar S m Harrv as nies ..It William . Wooler, B. Music, more truly Street. Stonehnm - i 14846 of the future transfer that interest Mas: Washhnrn_Ave.,w Detroit, L'Homme Armee into chants than Be definite, both in your lesson from the ex- Mich. for canti anythmg Trains students for active musics] firmi; Wagner ternals to the vital careers in they fooled with envisioned: such assignment and in the art itself. Pour their chosen field. Progressive faculty. mathemati- stuff program for Conserv- cally indeed as Wagner’s all atory occupies own building. Piano, voice, derived mutations own dreams the year’s work. If your course is the richness of your imagination SINGERS T.r dlvlene Tell your by inver- out- Apprentice Theatre—Now Casting principals & chorus for violin, cello, reed and brass instruments, Music Loving Friends were made light & heavy opera. church about THE ETL'DE and ask sion; they of, and the dreams of all lined by into your teaching; the Broadway. alRO Summer Theatre pre- and choral music, theory, music them to give wrote for huge double- grades or years, set the com- diminished sentations, Producers & Scouts invltea. education and you the privilege of those who (Also Separate Screen Youngsters* Dept.) expression. Fall semester begins September 16. sending in their subscriptions. treble- or have followed seventh is full of color; For terms. Apply Sec’y Suppe, quadruple-choirs with in- Bach. pletion of one of these as the first color was in- 1780 8*way, N. V. Ask Little has Write E. CLIFFORD TOREN. Dir. for Catalog of Rewards for subscriptions genuity rather than been added to the re- goal. Give frequent troduced by the early Venetian con- you send beauty as the sources recitals, but 3201 Foster Avenue, Chicago, IUinois. goal. of counterpoint THE ETUDE 1712 Chestnut It was all in fun, however since Bach, since this is the age of acute self-con- Street Philadelphia, Ar- A Revealing New Book in Two Parts Pa. tistic integrity w at the resources returned fjr , are must be sciousness do not and counter- eft L — thrust a nervous PARAGON OF RHYTHMIC COUNTIN point to future writing. Mr. and Mrs. Crosby Adams soared to its Golden Age. For the present pupil before the public until she has FOR ALL RHYTHMS RIVERDRIVE SCHOOL OF MUSIC & ARTS is enough 9 to PIANO If Meanwhile say, as Frederick had TEACHERS' CLASS 84 Riverside pays to read and patronize the Renaissance had the many opportunities to appear in PARAGON OF HARMONIZING Drive ETUDE advertisements. They are S ld bulletins occurred, and music ’ long ag0: “Gentleman, small, Informal TEACHING REPERTOIRE applied to New York City of buying spread from oldnM n ^ gatherings. As often opportunities. Always remember— " Bach is here!” FOUR KINDS OF FREDERICK G. KOEHLER, "I saw it in church to home and as practical, Montreat, North Carolina HARMONIZATION Director THE ETUDE court for use as have the recital a dress Dormitories entertainment This enlightening Send for explanatory circular or for pageantry, discussion will affair; a high school girl dearly loves JULY 23—31 SUMMER SESSION in- be continued EFFA ELLIS PERFIELD Students may enter 418 in the July to 1942 East at any time. Etude. wear a l 86th St. (Park Ave. > New York “formal.” Cit For catalogue and information addrrtt S+crrtory THE ETUDE JUNE, 1942 419 .

of Radio Then someone suddenly suggested And still another use Working for Finer music is in the new develop- School Bands for A Musical Saga that we should sing as the natives Magic What Do Modern therapy,” now being had. So we tried out every tune that ment of “musical treat mental cases in Programs Communities of Samoa we knew and could sing together. We employed to Radio This Summer . . . has been found even made a very poor attempt at certain hospitals. It (Continued from Page 381) remarkable effect Page 369) their tune, but all to no that music has a Continued from Page 371) ( Continued from singing ( bringing back to normal, patients avail. The good natured natives were in of music sciences, and other wide-spread appreciation and so on, gives the mem- becoming more amused, suffering from depressive Maier constantly Guy were overjoyed. Of the Hurricane,” for and about and musical organizations.” bers a wide acquaintance with much natives. They give up mental maladies. By selecting “Second and at last when we had to music. is “finished their lovely Princess could the school children with a story by Dr. J. A. Larson, Principal -of the good Enough music course, of them right melody, the effect on high IS COMING TO US IN A there in to complete failure some School, reported as up” each season to afford the oppor- live in human form out or seda- Edwin Denby, will be presented on Little Rock High not were almost convulsed with laughter. patient can be stimulative she had taken the form and on the 28th, the First follows: tunities for learning that come as a the sea, so tive. In fact with certain musical June 11th; ever We stood there in deep thought. result this wonderful turtle to be exert Opera Festival will Close With “The Little Rock High School Band of perfecting the work. This Series of Sectional Master Classes of There was not much to be said, for compositions, the melody may American understand?” Taylor’s “The units concert, training, and material is offered to the public in near them. “Did we almost narcotic effects on the patient. a production of Deems in three — wondering we were fast becoming convinced But we were absorbed in in such Henchman,” which has a lib- military—exerts a wonderfully whole- concert performances. Selections that they possessed some faith, or Sound levels are important King’s what was next to happen. of com- Edna St. Vincent Millay. some influence not only on the pupils scaled for difficulty constantly keep • BATON ROUGE June 24-26; Louisiana State University (Special power, or perhaps even knowledge, work. Some surprising cases retto by being credited Marking the Five Hundredth An- taking this form of instrumental the members “on their toes” so to engagement. Mozart recital and Teachers Forum Magic Song that we knew nothing whatsoever plete cures are now Another with the Radio City Music Hall music but also on the rest of the speak, and are making music, as a session only). about. to the use of musical therapy, niversary Of sing the same real force, Again they began to and recorded Air, Dr. Erno Rapee, on April student body. felt in many ways— for • June 29-JuIy 3; Alverno College of Music, 1413 However, in our minds still clung the aid of broadcast of the us it sounded ex- culture, for care-free song. To melodies, reproduced and amplified 12th, gave one of the most ambitious “The military, or marching or- appreciation of the finer So. Layton Blvd. watched a feeling of the unreal, and we were actly as before, and as we events of its kind that ganization of the instrumental music things of life, for better radio pro- • CHICAGO July 6-10; Sherwood Music School, looking for some convincing proof through Radio Magic. and notable Fine Arts doubtful this time, the water, less radio has known. This was a per- classes, gives training in a military grams, for better musicianship as Bldg. per- to make us absolutely sure that what Headphones we looked for a repetition of the A New Use for maneuvers for its performers, and for finer citizens.” • we had witnessed was really true. formance of Mahler’s “Eighth Sym- sense through MINNEAPOLIS July 13-17; MacPhail School of Music, Lusalle that we had just witnessed. educators have discovered formance this so Certain phony” with four hundred perform- members. It is a colorful and inspira- at 12th. The natives undoubtedly felt Source of Civic Pride The singing ceased, and we waited that students can actually absorb an not at football A • they began to sing again and once ers participating. Only in a country tional group, only and BUFFALO July 20-24; Mrs. Una Leeming, Sec’y. 24 Elam again a minute or two. A shout rang understanding of some subjects by R. E. Ritchie, President more the whole episode was repeated where free people exist and where other athletic events, but also at the of the Little Place. out, and we opened our eyes wider, having these topics played into their Rock Chamber of Commerce, wrote: for us just as before. After this, a radio, like the press, is unrestricted, opening of various civic drives and at • PHILADELPHIA July 27-31; Theodore Presser Co., 1714 Chestnut for ’this time, not the turtle but a ears, while the students’ attention is “Citizens second and a third time, until we could an event of this kind have dedications, and so on. The band puts of Little Rock and the St. swimming en- large shark came leisurely centered on some related or even formations stunts at football entire trade area are extremely proud • were more than satisfied that they taken place. Dr. Rapee has presented on and RICHMOND, VA. August 3-7; Mrs. J. Montague Holland, Sec’y. in. He was at least six feet in length tirely separate subjects. of the Little were justified in the faith that they many notable broadcasts in his long games that are interesting, intrigu- Rock High School Band 104 West 30th Street. weighed a hundred be and certainly Through this means, thus it may ing, and emotionally inspiring. With organization. Coming up through the • ASHEVILLE, had. We began to have the same association with the Radio City N. C. August 10-14 (Private lessons to Aug. 21). Miss and fifty pounds, perhaps more, for that headphones are on their way various band faith ourselves and should have felt Music Hall of the Air, but this was it all the musicianship is not sacri- organizations of the Marie Shank, Sec’y. 801 Jackson Bldg. he was immense, but apparently not toward a new popularity among col- Junior great surprise had we not seen the his most ambitious one. Besides an ficed. The intricate formations with High Schools, the concert the man-eating type. He had a cer- lege students. At least that’s the case quality friendly turtle and shark come swim- augmented orchestra of over a hun- proper timing, music, and marching of the High School Band and as on he came, — 9 to 10.30: tain grace about him at Columbia University in New York its perfect discipline MORNINGS Teachers' class: Nor- ming in when the singing ceased. dred, there were nearly three hun- excellence are carefully designed, and under the mal demonstration of the AFTERNOONS Private turtle had done, Miller-Maier Music Mas- lessons, not so close as the City, where two record-players and leadership tery Plan, a fascinating new method auditions and technic The thing that still puzzled us, as dred choristers and seven soloists. A worked out. The sergeants and squad of L. Bruce Jones, Direc- of piano study groups. acted in very much the same based on the Miller Keyboard-Staff Table, drills but he six headphones are in constant use tor, give and we left the cove, was the miracle leaders as well as those in the ranks, the Little Rock citizens a games, and the Maier technical principles could imagine that vast audience in America heard this ; also manner, and we in a musical study room in the main analysis of new teaching material, technical wrought by that singing. Did singing get real military marching with just pride, supported by the indi- prob- KV EWINGS Artist recitals performance, and many of the pre- lems, etc. 11 to 1: Repertoire he was looking at us as we stood library. As this idea gets noised and Style for players and lecture*, free to members vidual and collective and auditors. Inclusive class anywhere else in the world produce peoples of Europe, living in sor- cision-like movements that are help- accomplish- fee—$25.00. of class. Steinway Piano. there on the rocks. Presently he around among the educators, radio now such unvarying results? ful discipline; ments of this organization. and misery, also it; in and those who enter finned about, dove down and was men in college towns may have some row heard and We came to believe many things military training of any kind later “The business people generally feel gone. interesting and profitable work to do at the Radio City Hall in New York as we traveled among the peoples of on are well prepared to advance that one of the finest investments PLAY A DEAGAN MARIMBA The natives danced for glee. Their on the local campuses. there was a capacity audience. the South Seas. forget it they ever WM. S. HAYNES COMPANY Would we Divided into parts, Mahler’s rapidly. The discipline imposed is not made was their financial happiness knew no bounds, for this At Columbia University it is neces- two Easy to master . . . all when we got back to our compli- dictatorial, cooperation during the Flutis “Eighth for its but is self-imposed. The early years of or Distinction was their Prince, and he and his sary for students in one of the re- Symphony” employs always popular . . cated civilization? We hoped not. pupils strive to excel and to do as this branch of the public school sys- lovely Princess had never failed quired courses to study classical texts the Latin hymn Veni, Creator richly satisfying. STERLING SILVER—GOLD—PLATINUM well as possible because tem in aiding the School it as firmly Spiritus they have a Board in them. They believed in music and to listen to recorded works and a part of the end of the Write Dept. E. Catalog on request just pride in the organization. financing this department.” as they believed the sun would rise of leading composers. This second part of Goethe’s “Faust.” In They meant J. C. DEAGAN, 108 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, also see and feel the value of the C. E. Crossland, President of the INC., CHICAGO Mass. and set. formerly that groups of students this work Mahler expressed his great More Music, training they are receiving. Little Rock Clearing House Associa- »* We stood watching them and won- must crowd into the listening booth love for his fellowmen and his in- “The training band is composed of tion, had this to say: dering how anything like this could in the musical library, to hear the herent mysticism. Hearing this ard of music appreciation in our those musicians who are not pro- “We consider the Little Rock High Corn-fed Opera actually take place. Could they do More Defense records. But somebody got the idea music in a performance which was backwoods communities is higher ficient enough to be members of the School Band an outstanding benefit it again? “Certainly they could.” No that the listening could be done in later praised for its musicianly (Continued from Page 417) than we have believed. concert organization. Any and credit to our city, as well sooner had we asked them than they (Continued from Page 370) a study room, if headphones were straightforwardness, we thought how member as a My hosts were thanked profusely may challenge the lowest chair mem- worth while activity in the high Minnesota and from North Dakota, began again to sing in the same used. Then the student would also be significant it was that such an event for having brought me to this per- ber of his school work. childlike simplicity. When the song the levels relatively able to read his musical own instrument in the con- were loud in their praises, using such music need be literature should occur at this time via radio formance over my protests. What I enough, cert band when and if he feels “With Little Rock having one cen- phrases as “Magnificent”; ended we waited, and sure low and the sound sources can be while listening, if he had that kind in America, and we wondered how that “Finest had seen had been truly he tral significant. just as before, in came the turtle. large general speakers. of a mind. For can excel the player of the higher high school and a consequent musical achievement northwestern example, he could many in Europe, where Mahler’s I hoped that it would be the fore- There mistaking but that it or concert organizations. large number of pupils from Minnesota has ever was no In contrast with workrooms of high read about the technic of Mozart music is banned, The judges which to seen.” runner heard the broad- are of a great advance in the was the same turtle for it was iden- while listening the pupils themselves, with the draw talent, together with able di- These words were fervently noise intensity are certain depart- to an exhibition of cast and how its cosmic implications echoed music of light our rural communities. This tical, and so was the whole perform- it. Or, if of appeal to the band leader. rection on the part of our school by myself. I was ments in textile plants, such as the he were behind in his and spiritual values impressed them. entranced by the admirable accomplishment Thus, with authorities, had been ance with the one before. The turtle burling or mending rooms, where mathematics he might struggle with The a keen but wholesome ours has for a number of dramatic power of the singing and noticed improvement in the the result of the efforts of ordinary played its role and disappeared. The a Calculus rivalry the musicianship years been one of the the acting; the hand workers are surrounded problem while he listened broadcasts of the of both or- outstanding captivated by the simple NBC Symphony ganizations farm folks, most of them only one singing was resumed and again by mountains of cloth material which to Beethoven. is constantly improving. high school bands in the country. but artistic beauty of the plot; Orchestra in its last four programs and generation removed ceased. At exactly the right time in The The pupils are pitting “Local civic organizations from the Old maintain a depressing pall of silence students seem to like the head- of the winter themselves and busi- delighted by the appropriateness of season was due to against Country—for the Greenbush district swam the shark, stayed as before, all day long. In these hitherto “silent- phone idea, and after their own record to ness firms thoroughly appreciate the outdoor four months’ , the — improve its stage setting. then went from our sight conductor of themselves benefit was settled by immigrants from Nor- as-the-tomb” departments, the com- use of these Radio Magic aids, and not to please the to the community and are But the compelling the those occasions. Studio 8-H, from impression was way, There certainly was no doubt band leader, glad to Poland and Bohemia. Surely, ing of Radio Magic music has been a instructors call them a solid the only real way for give the band full coopera- this: there is a success. which the orchestra has broadcast huge reservoir of what they have about it all, but we were just natural great relief to the workers, tremen- As circumstances pupils to excel and learn. tion and support. accomplished can be permit, more Radio since its No local athletic musical talent and appreciation unbelievers and wondered whether inception, has long been re- “The done by the rural people of dously stimulating their interest in Magic sound channels will be in- concert band of balanced in- event, patriotic meeting, public among the millions other garded as lacking in essential tonal of people living communities that turtle and shark might not live their work and their sense of well- stalled, to pour strumentation gathering, or celebration of our land. Many of instruction into the resonance. —as it is possible to get is considered in our rural communities. The in the cove and come up every Many radio engineers re- ex- them have advantages so being. students’ ears, while their balance with complete without the participation tent much superior eyes are garded it a group of seventy to of of this has never been often without any magic singing. as too “dead” in sound, measured. to those available We The effect of such music in in- absorbing a totally different ninety the high school band.” to these people liv- or a meaning that young musicians of In fact, many people have never would sit down and wait and see. its acoustics were lack- high been ing on Minnesota’s dustry has been to increase produc- related topic. school age— Noland Blass, President of aware last frontier. ing in the resonating reads new musical selec- the of it, and very few have tried Everyone thought his own thoughts tion * * * * “liveness” Let our rural from six to eleven per cent. But tions every widely-known department store, folk once catch this usually associated day to increase the reper- The to harness its potentialities as have as he gazed out over that azure the great benefit to be “An with concert halls. Gus Elass Greenbush idea and accomplished emotional man merely asks toire of selections Co., stated: these people inspiration and Southern Sea, for were all Toscanini is said with which it is at Greenbush. The we quiet is the stimulation of employee morale whether to have found the “I feel that they too will integrate music is bright or gloorny. acquainted, perhaps I know a little artistic finish the music of as we watched a long, long time. studio “too dry” and to increase its of this performance The and the building of a splendid spirit The musician in tone. When musi- more the best operas with asks whether it is good cal than the average person about and the their own local patient natives waited with us but Stokowski took over literacy. Constant work sympathetic response shown of friendly cooperation between or bad.” the NBC Sym- along this the Band. I legends and history. phony me, with have had two boys grad- to both the drama They too. will nothing happened. workers and management. Orchestra last fall he induced practice analogous to daily and the “high make the great —Eduard Hanslick. uate from High School three years classic music of the ( Continued reading of English, brow” music by the rural on Page 426) foreign languages, (Continued audience world an actual living 420 on Page 424) were a revelation part of their to me. The stand- private and community THE ETUDE JUNE, 1942 lives. 421 , e

parisons and criticism ne reserves his credited with hav- Highlanders are remarks for a on tha most devastating Are Cornin' ing turned the tide of battle “the ! Pipers on pipes.” Hoot Moo The bungling performance 1 TO STUDY? Whether or not the skirl WHERE SHALL GO occasion. What could surpass for barbed criti- The Piand Accohdioiv pipes” influenced Canada s of “the the comment, “Scotland, my 410) perhaps remain a cism OContinued from Page destiny then, must XXXXXXXXXXXTXXXXX.nl II 11 XXXI i has country, what I’m suffering for ye matter of conjecture. But it (Eastern) a tight corner since, noo”! h Private Teachers (Western) Private Teachers sounded in many Practice for Accordionists x considerable pipe tunes Shifting blood. MacArthur's, Mac- skill in execution and as the names oi popular in Numbers ran in the Color H interpretative ability. In the ground, 79th Farewell to Gibral- Kays, MacGregors, and MacIntyres testify. The of the viewpoint popular ROSE OUGH KATE S. CHITTENDEN J urlar, the theme is usually ex- Rocks of Aden, The From Pietro 2)c S were among the most noted of these, or tar, The Barren Bu » a pipe band rates much higher » VOICE Pianoforte — Repertory — Appreciation pressed andante. It is then stripped Farewell to Meerut, fancy, but the MacCrimmons were the mas- 25th K.O.S.B.’s Former Assistant to Lazar S. Samoiloff individual piper. The swing Collins y THE WYOMING. 853 7th AVE., * and reduced to its Egypt, than an As Told to ElVera in Hollywood ter pipers. of all adornment and The Burning Sands of N NEW YORK n color of many kilts, accentuated Reopened Her Voice Studios at the hey- barest essentials. Thence it is re- almost like an empire roll call. and CALIFORNIA x The bagpipe was then in sound J 1931—8TH AVENUE OAKLAND, m of pipes and drums, and the Glencourt 6115 through a series of in- fault of the piper’s ryhthm H Telephone M day of its glory. Schools were estab- developed And it was no to analyze his position before appeal * CCORDIONISTS OFTEN ASK hand H complicated variations to York, Ticon- precision of movement, to piping was taught as a creasingly that Washington, New FREEMANTEL S lished, and here / why they repeatedly make er- he practices them. A weak hand po- FREDERIC of whirlwind fingering. And are not on both eye and ear. And again \ fine art. Tradition has it that the a climax deroga and other cities Instruction rors when it is necessary for sition with flabby muscles can never 3 EDNA GUNNAR PETERSON Voice like a folk song ends in his the spur of competition has main- were products of older what begins the roster. They were included Author of 24 home study lessons, m master players shift from one part of the accomplish results, no matter how Concert Pianist—Artist Teacher tained a high standard in Scotland. them to * "The Fundamental Principals of Voice Production and m is doubt like a Bach fugue. itinerary. Irish Schools, and there no practice. H Angeles, Calit. Tones How to Sing Them" m bands march in piano keyboard to another. many hours are devoted to 229 So. Harvard Blvd. Los Singing"; also "High and In this highly descriptive music, with army Hundreds of pipe * * that these existed. Ireland was the Among tunes associated FE. 2597 Studios: 205 West 57th Street are several factors which The hand must be held in a firm * events of clan life footsteps of the Hundred Pipers. There New York City Phone Circle 7-5420 center of the Celtic world, the memorable life, the reveille tune Hey Johnny the N cultural to these errors: in- arched position over the keys, and Battle fifty bands graded A. B. may contribute N course at one of the recognized were recorded for posterity. Cope are ye waulken (awake) yet, is As many as and a joints never be N in the annual cham- correct fingering, incorrect hand po- the knuckle must LAZAR S. SAMOILOFF the final hall mark pieces predominate as might be ex- aptly suited to the occasion. It and C. compete l colleges there was most in. rules sition, and improper playing position permitted to cave These * Voice teacher of famous singers J Bards, harpers and pipers pected, and laments follow closely, the rude awakening of Sir pionship at the Cowal games. Tone, ALBERTO JONAS sought by celebrates of M which naturally throws the keyboard apply to playing on every part H From rudiments to professional engagements but there are convivial, satirical, and Preston tuning, execution, expression, drum- Celebrated Spanish Piano Virtuoso h alike. The MacCrimmon school in the John Cope at the battle of M Beginners accepted. Special teachers' courses position, which, in turn, often the piano keyboard. It is a mistaken Teacher of many famous pianists m other fanciful pieces in the same and marching, all are taken out of n misty Isle of Skye however, was the Pans. The Highlanders fell on his ming 19 WEST 85TH ST., N. Y. C. Tel. Endicott 2-8920 N of idea that one position is applicable m 610 So. Van Ness Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. form. Many of these were preserved into consideration by judges ap- induces an awkward movement H fountain head of the art in Scotland. army while they slept. The fact that N On Thursdays in Philadelphia. 132 South 18th Street. to the upper end of the keyboard, M the association. the hand. N Tel. Victor 1577 or Locust 9409 Successive generations of the family in a syllabic notation in which Scots Guards pipers played Over pointed by the pipe band N the Not connected with any Conservatory. only single in The accordionist does not have the another to the center and still a third M established a piping and teaching syllables represent not the Sea to Skye at the funeral of the What the piper failed to do war x ELIZABETH SIMPSON pianist whose to the lower end. The pivot action at N notes, grouping and gracing as same advantage as the N dynasty which lasted for some two but late King George, was a surprise to he has since accomplished by more x Author of "Basic Pianoforte Technique" stationary and the elbow makes it possible for the years. well. Some pipers can still chant and or less peaceful penetration. The skirl keyboard is always hundred most pipers. m Teacher of Teachers. Coach of Young Artists. EDITH SYRENE LISTER the full range of his vision. hand to maintain a uniform playing for “ While Byrd and Purcell in England write the notation, and the art of of “the pipes” has become an au- within H Pupils Prepared Concert Work. Class Courses AUTHENTIC VOICE PRODUCTION position. The rotating movement of h in Technique, Pianistic Interpretation, Normal pibroch playing has been passed Partial Recovery This handicap can be overcome, 405 Carnegie Hall, New York City n were composing motets and madri- A thentic sound of the American scene. M Methods for Piano Teachers. N along a thin red line of player to the however, if the accordionist will take the hand is an aid in smooth passage * Collaborator and Associate Teacher with the late W. gals, the MacCrimmons breathed new In years the art There are pipe bands in most large 609 Sutter St., San Francisco; N the last hundred Warren Shaw and Endorsed by Dr. Floyd S. Muckey present day. the time to observe the rules for the playing. 2833 Webster St., Berkeley, Cal. " life into the ancient form known as of piping has been slowly but surely North American cities on both sides N Wednesday: Troup Music Studio, Lancaster, Pa. H correct position of the instrument Many accordionists are so very Thursday: 309 Presser Bldg., Philadelphia, pibroch. And it is this form that car- recovering lost ground. It can never of the international line. Chicago. Pa. M « and then adhere to them. busy keeping up a practice schedule * ries the thread of Scotland’s story. regain its former glory because the Detroit and Boston, as well as several Private Teachers (Mid-West) ' " Ex.2 Mac Crimmon Will Never Return " N It is just as imperative that the that they never take time to stop n conditions under which it Canadian cities each boast two or blossomed (Frank) (Ernesto) i J . 1^1 think. It n Music Classified three. there be twenty or right hand be trained to play with- and pays to take the time _ F1 and flowered are gone for good. No- And must ARNOLD SCHULTZ LaFORGE-BERUMEN STUDIOS to J fifty out benefit of seeing the keyboard analyze the right hand to be sure The music of the Highland Bag- body now can afford to spend seven more within a mile radius of Teacher of Piano H Bagpipe Cheve Hiove Cheve Chcento Cheve Hiove J Voice—Piano Notation as it is for the left hand to play the it is equalized and that sufficient M Author of the revolutionary treatise on pipe falls into three main categories, years apprenticeship to such an un- New York. The majority are off- Frank LaForge teacher of Lawrence Tlbbett tine# 1922 H piano technique **J are entirely preparatory work has been done so 1100 Park Ave., Corner 89th St., Ceol Mor, literally (big music), to remunerative profession. There are, shoots from Scots fraternal societies, bass buttons which out "The Riddle of the Pianists' Fingers" New York ne ) J L 1^1 .JR . J Tel. Atwater 9-7470 PI of that each finger is developed, and h published by the University of Chicago Press give pibroch its gaelic classification; however, a few full time professionals and provide a convenient safety sight. This can only be accom- N 1 1 r - ^ 3 622 FINE ARTS BLDG. CHICAGO, ILL. 1 If- f- n ITT plished by team work between the none is weaker than the rest. J Ceol Meadhonach, or (middle music) left. These are mainly graduates of valve to blow off excess pride of race. N Cheve Cheemtc Cheve Hiode Trae Haeoto the plain chant of the pipes: and the army school of piping or in the But there are some excellent pipe mind and the fingers. It follows then Let us suppose that an accordionist that the fingers is studying a certain exercise to train « RAYMOND ALLYN SMITH, Ph.B., A.A.G.O., RICHARD McCLANAHAN Beag, < little service of cannot be expected jj Ceol or music) , the horn- Highland aristocrats who bands on this side of the Atlantic. Representative TOBIAS MATTHAY M to do their part correctly if him to go quickly from one piano key J Dean pipes. jigs, strathspeys and reels, and With the defeat of the Jacobites can still afford the distinction. But Outstanding among these, the Ford the piano Private lessons, doss lessons in Fundamentals M Central Y.M.C.A. College m to another, of Lecture-demonstrations for teachers the quicksteps. The middle music is in 1745. and the breaking up of the there are more pipers to-day than band of Detroit, and the Canadian keyboard is never held in the same although there may be * School Music m N Complete courses leading to degrees. Coeduco- 806 Steinway Bldg., New York City m probably the oldest consists clans, the piping families were dis- ever. Of position twice in succession. As most considerable distance between. Re- and course not all the wind that National Railways band of Montreal N tional. Fully accredited. Day or Evening. Low tuition. artists . H mainly of Celtic folk tunes set in slow persed. The bagpipe itself survived goes into bagpipes admit that they depend to a peated errors may reveal the fact * Kimball Hall, 306 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois comes out sweet have divided contest honors in recent » march time. Some of the dance tunes, as the special instrument of drilled music to Scots ears. And what would years. For every Fourth of July, the certain extent upon finger memory, that a weak fourth or fifth finger is M EDWARD E. TREUMANN 3 however, are of unknown antiquity. highland regiments, and the quick- thrill a patriot again, might leave pipe band championship America does it not seem entirely logical then causing the trouble. Under these cir- of Concert Pianist—Artist-Teacher Piping that : DR. FRANCIS L. YORK and dancing have always been step replaced pibroch as more suited the critics cold. For behind the sym- is held at Round Hill, the fingers can more easily cumstances it is advisable to con- Recommended by Emil Von Sauer, Moritz Moszkowski Connecticut. m Advance Piano Interpretation and the Theory work J associated. and Josef Hofmann. And the bagpiper because to the rhythm of the road. Some of bolic skirl, piping has its own exact- With another gauge the distance of various inter- centrate on exercises to strengthen M required for the degrees of Mus. Bach., Mus. Mas., war on his hands, Studio, Carnegie Hall, Suite 837, 57th St. m and Ph. D. in music. at 7th Ave. 3 of his wind reserve, tone volume, and. the hereditary pipers found their ing standards and its own vals on the keyboard if the keyboard the offending finger. Tel. Columbus 5-4357 New immortals. the marching instrumentalist has H DETROIT INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL ART York City „ Summer Master Class—June to Sept. natural sense of rhythm, always way into the army. Others Wherever itself is M Detroit, Mich. —Apply now. M has accom- pipers foregather, the com- more important things than contests always in the same position? There are three things to do when 4 - - - w - — » been the ideal folk dance accom- panied their fellow clansmen to the posite shade of the whole MacCrim- to think about. He has gone back to We have used the term “proper it is necessary to skip distances on UA4Al,HALLLlIIlII»miIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIimiXXXIIITTTTM panist. new world. W. H. MacLean’s “Ac- mon dynasty playing stands with ear alert. his historic role. Along eastern cara- position of the accordion.” the keyboard. A little practice will Pibroch is too sophisticated be count of the Settlement of Scottish No pagan There to deity ever wielded greater van routes, Sikhs, Gurkhas, Anzacs, are certain rules which apply enable the accordionist to do them classed as folk music. It might be Highlanders in America” tells us power in his to this Music Lovers to eorn chosen field. And at a and Scots march to the strains of position but they are more or simultaneously. The first is to think LIBERAL COMMISSIONS termed the Gregorian Chant, of the that, between 1760 and 1782, some respectful less securing subscriptions for THE ETUDE. Part distance hover the lesser The Barren Rocks Aden The flexible, as each individual may inwardly the location of the key to or of and full time. No Cost or Obligation. Write bagpipe, and like the former was twenty thousand Highlanders settled shades. For the be guided by these for com- MacKays tran- Burning Sands of Egypt. And, who rules and then be played; the second is to place the plete details TODAY! Address: probably a formalized in the version of ra- southern colonies, principally scribed the master works in make certain adjustments staff knows, the Pied Piper himself may to suit his finger in position over that key; and cmrri-ATioN df.p-t cial chant. The minstrel line was the North Carolina. They sought refuge notation, and the individual MacArthurs were be tuning up to remind a war weary stature. We refer to the third is to strike the key. Errors THE ETUDE MUSIC MACAZINE sound track along from 1712 ST.. which the main the aftermath of one revolution the great exponents of adults, of course, CHESTNUT PH 11.A., PA. MacCrimmon world again that whoever calls the as children will be are generally caused by the reversal stream of music flowed from pagan only to become involved in another. technique and teaching taught the methods. tune, pays the piper. correct position by their of this procedure and the key is times into the Christian era. And it Before long the remnants of the The revival of the teachers. Highland gath- The point we want to make struck first, the thinking is done carried with it. much that was pagan clans were rallying again to the ering with is its series of piping and that after one has found the posi- afterward and no attention what- in origin. sound of “the pipes,” both for and dancing contests ***** tion has produced a best suited to him he should ever is given to having the finger The classical in form of bagpipe mu- against King George. large and growing keep it number of highly and not continually change it. position over the key before sic consisting it is of a theme with varia- Farther north the irrepressible skilled "The deep impression Playable performers. And from this which the played. olio o< Solo—or with String Ensemble tions Solo part, was peculiarly adapted to the minstrel had already gained a foot- class fhe 27 paget, S2.00. With Orch. Parti a few great pipers rhythmic property Proper Exercise $4 . stand out of music made on After the Through limited range and fixed in foregoing suggestions muiic dealers or C.O.D. from scale of the hold Canada. There were not a as worthy successors the There are of the master human mind is clearly shown by numerous exercises de- have been given attention, CLEF PUBLISHING instrument. Its development had of few pipers among we recom- Sole HOUSE Hudson’s Bay players. To compare signed for New York 1 8 36thSTREET LONG these with Tos- the fact that the specific purpose of mend that time be devoted ISLAND CITY. N necessity to be along lines of inten- Company factors, fur traders, canini, for several centuries in to spe- and and Nijinsky and Schnabel, training the Philadelphia as hand and fingers to shift cialized studies along this line. sification and elaboration of com- adventurers. It was here, too, the history of There Agents at the a recent writer did, is modern European positions Jjearn to play perhaps look- quickly from one part of are several fine study folios PIETRO DEIRO the paratively limited melodic material. capture of Quebec in 1759, that the ing music, all now be- ACCORDION BY MAIL.! for trouble. The piper has the most popular dance the keyboard to ACCORDION But necessity his another without er- ing offered by publishers of accordion brought forth intricate modern martial tradition of “the own opinion, tunes ror. HEAD- and like “Old were the tunes of songs, and all These exercises are fingerings and ingenious pipes” Man all well and music. QUARTERS variations was established. Spurred on River” he says nothing good, but just keeps the most but to obtain the 46 Greenwich especially written in time and favorite songs were turned very maxi- In conjunction two—ti tempo, demanding great by their national music, with such studies, Ave.. N.Y.C. t ^ * t e a c the Fraser rolling along. it — o rr* « t»o n d When comes to com- mum benefit from Write for into dance tunes.” their use, it is we recommend diligent r,Uf for —Sir John Staines practice of Free Catalog ^ FRF.E inform*! essential that the METTW DOM ACCORDION Nf ABQUAR1 422 accordionist stop (Continued nw ch on Page 427) INC. ?«V*‘,L « Av* • New York < 5th & 6th ftues.) 1237 W . Girard THE ETUDE Ave., Ph.i*., JUNE, 1942 423 oi correctly informs the minds those appeared on the editorial page first people who are leading America to Evening Sun in Baltimore on What Schnol Bands Do for Modern of The The professional musician will, d Instruments “Sorting out the music. February 14, 1921: deplore this unselfish perceive in some cases, Communities loot next day, I began to attitude. He will groan at the stories Another that a sharp and searching criticism familiar to him) of Mozart’s gossip that (too ( Continued from Page 421) had leavened all this of Beethoven’s tantrums, OF SHERWOOD’S Huneker described the collars precocity, when arrogance. “Personal Glimpses” wore and the of Wagner’s the judging is com- that Richard Strauss DISTINGUISHED apart, and my daughter is no,w in her in front when His groans, however, are of small fell in love with pleted.” girl that Nietzsche thing Cjeorge d.. ^J(ricl second year. his importance. The important is the head of another at Sils Maria, he was also, in ARTIST-TEACHERS "Our band is one to be proud of not S. Strauss, street actually delivering that the man in the representative Little Rock firm, Pfei- vivid and disarming way, only because of its musical ability, its knows that there exist composers UITAR RECITALS have been Oyanguren is a reserve officer in the wrote: sound criticisms of ‘Ein Heldenleben’ marching precision and good psy- fer Bros., Inc., Mozart, Beethoven and Wag- rather scarce during the past Uruguayen navy, it is probable that Varro Gut und Bose.’ The named tJMargit the student body, “We are quite proud of the wonder- and ‘Jenseits von interrupted chological effect on ner. Thanks to the men and the in- G two years, so it was with a his concert work will be I Little Rock better I got to know him, the more but also because its leadership and ful achievement of the Artist Teacher Piano. Internationally the fluences named, the great and the great deal of anticipation that we for the duration. of de- High School Band, which has won understood this method, and its esprit de corps are working to been coaxed down from journeyed to New York, on February From reliable sources we learn that kjiown as musician, educator, and lecturer; it. For of all small have in several National contests, and as a more I came to value the standard text, Living Piano velop the highest type of character is still making his author of back with the distant mountain.tops and turned 14, to listen to a recital by the young Andres Segovia Band.” result, has brought considerable the things that he brought Instruction; contributor to Musical Quar- all members of the beings. guitarist, de la Torre. A home in Montevideo and has been early years in Paris, into recognizable human Cuban Rey Leonard Steidel, President of the favorable credit to the city of Little him from his terly and other periodicals; a teacher fair-sized audience had gathered in giving concerts in the important best of all was the is the large manufacturing cooperage com- Rock.” perhaps the whose wor\ endorsed by many of greet the artist on his music centers of South America. Se- critical doctrine that the Town Hall to world's most famous musicians. pany, J. H. Hamlen and Son, Inc., These are the words of community French in New York, and govia once related to the writer an is inseparable from the first appearance members, leaders, business men—and work of art Notable Master Pianist Instruction from eminent artist-teachers is available to talented students reported: incident that in Buenos does is in- the enthusiastic applause at the end happened ‘‘The Band not only provides for they are not only the feelings of artist—that what a man from the beginning of their studies at Sherwood. Degree courses in all in- conditioned of each group of solos left no doubt Aires and is worth repeating. About struments, voice, public school music, conducting, theory, and composition. the boys and girls an outstanding op- those men. In untold hundreds of finitely and inescapably Recordings never had about the recital being a success. It the time he was ready to step on the portunity for cultural and educational communities—where national recog- by what he is. Huneker Enroll now for Sherwood’s loui-cost Summer Courses, June 22—August 1. ( Continued from Page 414) is our firm conviction that Rey de la stage to begin his recital, an organ advancement, but also furnishes as nition may have not been yet won, any doubt of it. Whenever he heard Ask for all-expense estimate. 412 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Torre is an outstanding personality grinder stationed just below the win- fine a medium as any that exists for or sought—the band has been a point of a new man, his first curiosity was some Negro religious gathering, giv- dows of the auditorium began a dole- disciplinary training and character of pride for the citizen regardless of always about the man; the man’s among the younger generation of to ing lasting expression the emo- guitarists, and while his playing still ful rendition of the Miserere from building. The physical development station or means, regardless of work could wait. It was by this route usic tions and faith of her people. Negro School which comes from the marching whether participation in its activities that he enriched his criticism with shows a lack of dynamic contrasts “II Trovatore.” Segovia’s manager spirituals are really hymns and each INSTITUTIONAL MEMBER OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS OF MUSIC activities of the Band give it added are direct or indirect. No one factor its innumerable small illuminations, and variety of tone, his technical hurried outside and informed the its definite purpose and func- value for the training of our youth. can unite any group of people more and got into it its extraordinary has equipment is more than adequate, gentleman that a great artist was “But of prime importance is the than common enterprise and effort. brilliancy and intimacy, its air of tion. and the rendition of the exacting about to give a concert and should creation in the minds of the coming In some cases the band stands alone confidential revelation, its incompa- Songs of Vienna; Lotte Lehmann program revealed a highly talented not be disturbed. Pocketing a peso, generation of a fine sense of civic in bringing the community together. rable human interest.” (soprano). Columbia set 494. and serious minded musician. the organ grinder moved on with the enwooJ pride and duty. The youngsters in And what of the many thousands of All these semi-popular songs are The program opened with items by remark, “I am always willing to OBERLIN COLLEGE Composer's Personality this Band are grateful for the privi- happy children participating in band? The full of a sentiment which was repre- Louis Milan and Miguel de Fuenllana, oblige a colleague.” CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC lege of working long, tediously, and Their skills are being developed, their There you have the outspoken ap- sentative of the friendly and care- sixteenth century lutenists, If Spanish the dance team, Veloz and Yo- CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Dirtrionof Undmwood College faithfully throughout the entire bodies strengthened, their minds preciation of a pioneer in personality free character of the people of followed by six short pieces by the landa, is booked for an appearance far IF omen. Thorough prepara- tion for careers In music under their • professional school season for the joy that comes stimulated— whole lives en- by one of America’s most distin- Vienna only a few years back. These seventeenth century French lutenist, in your city, it, A music school In an attracts* a distinguished faculty. B.M. do not miss as you college town. (Member of the National Associa- degree, certificate and diploma each year of finding Little Rock out riched beyond measure. guished literary lights. Back in 1921, recordings give tion of Schools of Music.) further evidence of Robert de Visee; next came a Pavane will have an opportunity to hear the In piano, voice, violin, organ, Thorough instruction for carefully selected stu- harp, other Instruments, pub- we were two decades closer to those Lotte Lehmann’s deep feeling and and a Folia by Gaspar Sanz; Cour- Spanish guitar virtuoso, Vicente dents In 8ll branches of music under artist teach- ers. Special training In band and choir direction. lic school music, theory, har- same Dark Ages which would have sensitive musicianship, and her ar- ante, Bourree and Fugue by Bach; Gomez, playing several of his com- Writo for catalogue describing Oberiln’s con- mony. history and appreciation servatory courses and its superior equipment (200 of music. Weil -equipped stu- you stop at the door practice rooms. to the music tistic ability to elevate musical mate- also a Minuet and a set of Variations positions in his own individual style. 23 modern organs, etc.). De- dios. beautiful buildings on grees ; Bachelor of Music. Bachelor of School Mu- 138 acres near 8t. Louis with and never go inside to meet the man. rial that all too easily sic; Master of Music. Master of Music education. could be made by Sor. The rest of the list was de- This artist plays with a freedom and its frequent concerts, operas, It would be hard to FR AN K H.SH AW, Director, Box 562. Oberlln, Ohio other musical attractions. For overestimate the to sound trite and commonplace. voted to modern works by de Falla, abandon that never fails Sounding the Human Note in Music to captivate catalog and view book, write value of Huneker’s work in humaniz- Nin: Little The Bird with the Golden Torroba, Granados and Albeniz, his audience. Harry Morehouse Gage. Pres. ing music and its makers, in estab- Beak; and Aria of Acis and Galatea; Choros, No,. 1 by Villa-Lobos and two The banjo Box 1242. St. Charles. Mo. ( Continued from Page 387) was brought to the at- lishing bonds of interest between sung by Lucrezia Bori (soprano) with excerpts from the “Evocaciones tention of a large audience at a re- those who create and those who only George Copeland at the piano. Vic- Criollas” by Alfonso Broqua. cent concert Etude. those of the Cincinnati Sym- INSTITUTE OF of The It was same that same body. He wanted to know listen and read. tor nrTDAIT disc 2201. Rey de la Torre was born in Gibara, phony Orchestra under the direction .SMOPOLITAN articles, later collected in a small something about the mind, the Many of the program annotators, SCHOOL UliIKUH musical art Nin: El Vito ( Andalousie) Vil- Cuba, OF , and December 9, 1917, and at nine of Eugene Goossens. On this MUSIC DR. volume called "Old Fogy,” that put manners and the moods of the man. radio occasion FRANCIS L YORK, Choirmon commentators and essayists of lancico (Noel SHIRLEY GANDELL. M.A.. Oxford Basque); Igor Gorin years of age began the study of the University. the restless feet of Jim the Pen- Given this, the music achieved per- program included the “Sym- Enoland, President. DR. EDWARD B. MANVILLE, President to-day have carried forward the work 38th year. Accredited. Offers courses (baritone). Victor disc 2213. guitar with Member of the National Association of Music Schools. Severino Lopez, Cuban phonic Variations and Finale In all branches of Music. Certificates, man on the path to fame. He sub- spective and inner meaning. in which on Founded 1897. All branches of Music and Dramatic Art. Huneker was one of the diplomas and degrees. Desirable board- The songs of Joaquin Nin display guitarist. In 1932, he traveled 8cbool of Sacred Music. Faculty of 70 artists. Accredited of the best- In to Bar- Melodies by Stephen Foster,” by Ar- ing accommodations. Located in down- sequently became one his “Steeplejack,” the two- early pioneers and certainly Amer- Teachers’ Certificates, Diplomas and Degrees. imagination and style, are al- celona, Spain, town musical center. and to take advanced work cady Dubensky, member of the Box E, H. B. MANVILLE. Business Manager known and respected musical critics volume story of his life, there is a ica’s first. To-day the personality of New 306 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago. ways a joy to hear. Bori brings on the guitar with Miguel Llobet, the York Philharmonic-Symphony 52 Putnam. Detroit. Mich. and essayists ever produced in Amer- chapter called “A Vocal Abelard.” In the composer is given a suitable Or- subtlety and feeling great ica. it, Huneker to her singing; Spanish guitar virtuoso; and chestra; and in this writes: “I am enamored stressing; its importance has come to work the com- while Gorin is inclined to be showy. in the winter of Through most of Huneker’s nearly of gossip, memoirs, recollections be broadly recognized. 1934, he gave a re- poser has made effective use of the cital at the two-dozen volumes, there is a main which concern distinguished people.” In this Academia Granados. banjo. These banjo parts were connection, tribute is well Qbfaplatti)JnHtitutr of theme which keeps constantly recur- H. L. Mencken After his return to Cuba, he done by (Posit has told how Hun- definitely due The Etude for the was Hank Karch, prominent ring, to wit: his deep and abiding eker, a lover of good food engaged to play a recital at the banjoist Confers Bachelor of and drink, humanizing note it has sounded in Trombone Town, and teacher of Cincinnati. Music Degree, Master of Music Degree, Artist Diploma interest in the man. Huneker felt he would sit for hours Sociedad Pro Arte Musical, the at his special music ever since its founding by first One of the critics wrote: “Arcady Faculty of Nationally Known Musicians never really knew the music until he table in Liichow’s in New York guitarist ever to appear in the audi- Dubensky and, Theodore Presser many, many years Pennsylvania has taken some of Stephen BERYL RUBINSTEIN, Director, 3411 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio the round torium of knew man. To out a com- surrounded by such men as Rafael ago. With the permission this society. Since then Foster’s melodies and given of Dr. James ( Continued from Page 378) them a plete picture of any composer who Joseffy, Anton Seidl, Rey de la Torre has filled Dvorak and Vic- Francis Cooke, editor of The Etude, many con- brilliant and fascinating orchestra interested him, the persistent Hun- tor Herbert, he would hold forth on we should cert engagements in his native coun- garb. After like to quote here a por- and within the a cadenza played by BALDWIN-WALLACE M1LLIKIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC eker would ferret out every piece of “the drinking walls of the little try, Porto habits, love affairs, tion of his letter to Rico, and finally appeared Emil Heermann, the DECATUR. us in connection church below I have banjo suddenly CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ILLINOIS information he could uncover. Every debts, private quarrels, heard the little in New York. warts, wens, with the writing of this A great future broke forth with BEREA. OHIO (suburb Offer, thoro training article. After orchestra playing may Oh Susannah, bring- of Cleveland) in muaic. C»ur»e. leading to little anecdote was grist to his busy blood pressures Bach and Bach safely Affiliated with Bachelor of Muaic Degree. and tastes in vic- stating his be predicted for this ing a smile a first class Liberal Arts College. Diploma and Certifr- magazine’s long and and promis- of delight to many tour and five IB musical mill. de- Bach and Beethoven Bach. faces year courses leading to degrees. Faculty c*U Plane Voice. Violin. Oraan. Public School While Huneker was a tualry of every author, and ing young or Artist artist, com- termined interest in “the artist. and dispelling the feeling Teachers. Send for catalogue or informa- Muaic Methods and Muaic Kindergarten Methods highly skilled personal Think of an Easter at of gloom tion to: pianist and possessed poser, singer, conductor morning Julio Bulletin tent and actor in life of the composer,” Martinez Oyanguren, which haunts ALBERT RIEiHENSCHflEIDER. free upon requetl he writes this: Nazareth and the the everyone in these sad Dean. Berea. Ohio of keen critical acumen, he knew that Europe, from Auber to Zola.” procession, trom- Uruguayen W. ST. CLARE MINTURN. Director Or, per- “If we had to conduct The Etude guitar virtuoso, whose times.” technical discussion dealt only with haps, bone-headed, marching to the ceme- Huneker would launch “into an with the cold concert and radio bones of adjectives, try- tery at performances If you are a lover of the the dry bones of the musical body. intricate and enormously sunrise! What better asso- aye fretted interesting ing to describe music endeared him to all What Huneker which can be ciations can American instruments; if you wish to absorb sought—because he account of the scandals at Bayreuth one have with those guitarists, told only in the tones of music, departed for his native AMERICAN it level knew quite well that it would interest in 1886.” ridges of blue unbounded enthusiasm and inspira- CONSERVATORY than that of the would become very barren.” country about a year ago most of the men and women about best of our Fatherland’s hoping to tion; if you want to hear the guitar, Suppose we quote a bit more from There you music played be with us OF MUSIC — have a neatly again this season. CHICAGO him—was the flesh that put and in the churches But mandolin and banjo at their Offers courses in all branches made up this same article by Mencken which keen of our own mountain this best; of music and dramatic art summation of the attitude seems unlikely on account Faculty that land? of the if you want to meet personally the of 135 artist teachers unsettled Member of National conditions; c- , . Association of Schools 424 and since (Continued Send,, for, a frec , of Music on Page 427) caUlog-Address : John R. H.ttat.edt, President. 578 kTmh.i; Building. Chicago THE ETUDE JUNE, 1942 425 — . :

take the place of the String years. The next sea- the best in four for Finer Quartet which has lately been heard for Accordionists Democratic Every Working Shifting Practice Making Opera son was the best in five years. on Saturdays from 5:00 to 5:30 P.M., season since then has shown an im- EWT. Vera Brodsky, pianist, is also OF MUSIC 365) Programs (Continued from Page 423) SCHOOL i Continued from Page Radio EASTMAN all the provement over the last, announced for continuation of her spring tours being sell-outs with calls from Page 420) recitals during < Continued Sunday morning to its support. We of the Guild be- from cities never heard from those of any given key on the low register of coming June (11:05 to 11:30). Miss Brodsky arpeggios and particularly lieve that opera has grown from a before. and dimin- of the piano keyboard, and then management to allow him this month plans to feature a con- the dominant seventh public necessity, the radio chord for that private luxury to a Metropolitan broadcasts have been a con- work seventh. These will train the quickly play the major University of Rochester to conduct his orchestra in temporary American on each ished The and that the unique artistic contri- a great help to civic opera associa- 8-H. get the feeling of the space bass, first one octave higher, and cert hall instead of Studio program and to have the composer fingers to bution of the Metropolitan entitles it tions and have stimulated local of vari- then two octaves higher. This helps , Director performances were for a short interview. to be allowed for the playing hence his first present Assistant Director to nation wide support. Our organ- presentations. F. L. McKittrick, also advise the to train the fingers for rapid changes Raymond Wilson, from the Cosmopolitan The Standard Symphony Hour, heard ous intervals. We experiment in democ- broadcast ization is an manager of the Flint Opera Com- scales in octave form with in chord positions. in New- York City. the Mutual Don Lee network practice of 22-August 15. RCA Victor nas released seventeen com- the responsibility for Opera House on Summer session June racy by which pany of Flint, Michigan, tells how the chromatic. We wonder how many accordion- composers re- Later, he planned the reconditioning every Thursday night from 8:00 to emphasis on Classes are taught by the regular faculty positions by American the future of opera is offered to the coaching. sit diffi- his cast does its "We improvise special exer- ists who are now encountering the Eastman-Rochester Or- of Studio 8-H with NBC’s chief engi- 9:00 P.M., PWT, recently began a We often and guest instructors. Courses lead to corded by thousands who enjoy it to-day. score,” he with metronome and students to hasten their culty have hitherto neglected the Degree. chestra, Dr. Howard Hanson, Conductor. neer O. B. Hanson. A slanting roof new series of concerts featuring the cises for our Bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctor’s Starting with a few thousand writes, “carefully recording tempo, important essential for the over the stage and of Angeles progress in accurately skipping from most members located in the New York was constructed Janssen Symphony Los interpretation and cuts, through keyboard to another. building of all technic, namely scales. Eastman School Publications by members of the faculty include: in the background a marcelled wall the direction of the American one part of the area, to-day the Guild has long most of the broadcasts. Consequent- under is one based upon They are the very backbone and of half columns (known as convex composer-conductor Werner Janssen. A favorite of these distance memberships in forty-five ly, we have had invaluable help in Vocal Questions,” T. Austin-Ball; side studies and arranged for the foundation upon which all technic is “Answers to Some diffusers) was built. Further the This symphony orchestra is regarded Hanon states, Alaska, South Africa, Hawai- producing opera for the people of neglected, Harold Gleason; similarly treated to accordion under the title “The Vir- built. If they have been “Method of Organ Flaying,” ian Islands and foreign countries. our community.” walls were by many as one of the foremost far Accordionist.” We select any of we urge accordionists to take the Counterpoint," Gustave Soderlund; membership of around curves. The result was a more organizations of its kind in this tuoso “Examples of It has a Last year, the new Municipal on them. tonal quality, a noticeably the simple exercises at random, and time to go back and work lloesen; twenty thousand but since these in- Association, Milwaukee, resonant country; the players are said to be “Handbook of Conducting,” Karl Van Opera of was of exercise can super- new- tonal “liveness” both on the air instead of playing them as written, No other form clude many group members, the launched to unite the talents of local among the foremost musicians in “Modern Methods for ,” Nelson W atson; character- play them thus: the first measure sede them, and accordionists who final count would be much higher. production and in the studio. With the country. There are few- peers to we groups in the of opera at cuts” “Chorale Collection,” Elvera W onderlich. Stokowski much is played as it is, and then the second have tried the various “short A membership in the Guild en- moderate prices. Giovanni Martinelli, istic showmanship, Janssen as a program maker; he pleased with the results explained, measure is played an octave higher. to technic have eventually had to titles the holder to a weekly mag- star of the opening production of knows the value of linking familiar, For further information address: floodlight- The third measure is played as writ- retrace their steps and perfect their azine, box office and sundry other “Pagliacci,” told the Association, “We found a way to unfamiliar and lesser-known works sound.” ten and the fourth measure an oc- scales. privileges. The Guild publishes books “Like many other cities over Amer- along with novelties. It is unfortu- ARTHUR H. LARSON, Secretary Registrar literature study purposes, The NBC Symphony Orchestra is tave higher. Continue as far as pos- and for ica, Milwaukee, now I find, is fully nate. as we have said before, that Eastman School of Music now on summer schedule, but in sible on the keyboard and then Pietro Deiro will answer questions conducts back stage tours, broad- prepared to produce opera. As in this concert is not heard on a coast- defi- descend accordingly. Begin the exer- about accordion playing. Letters Rochester, New York casts a weekly explanatory program Hollywood where an opera company these uncertain times nothing to-coast hookup. cise on low F on the keyboard instead should be addressed to him in care for the main event, gives lectures, was recently launched, there are in nite as to its future functions can be transposed in all keys. of The Etude, 1712 Chestnut Street, holds contests, children’s perform- Milwaukee symphony orchestra play- forecast. Radio, as one official in- of C. It may be exercise is to play Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ances and contributes money and ers, and various groups, singers, formed us recently, is working al- Another simple other equipment to the Metropolitan. most on a day to day policy. At the The Teacher’s Round choruses, dancers, and theater tech- College of Fine Arts Summer Study in New York One third of the money from the time of writing two conductors were nicians, all fully prepared for opera. Syracuse University last drive Table was raised through Guild We can now have local opera in announced to conduct the orchestral RICHARD McCLANAHAN Bachelor of Music efforts. As an example, the old cur- every concerts in June; these are Burle Mstthay representative. good-sized city in America. (Continued from Page 376) Degrees Master of Music tain was cut up and the pieces sold Marx, the Brazilian, on June 2nd and first This country has the resources, the Piano, Piano Teacher Training, Voice, New technical methods should be for souvenirs at one r I take back what I said about “Opus learned in connection with the simple dollar each. talent, the equipment and the au- 9th, and the American Edw in Mc- “Personal Glimpses” Violin, Organ, Cello, Harp, Composition, 740.-’ I have found the “Czemy-Liebling, elements of music, gradually built up Music appreciation courses in schools Arthur on June 16, 23 and 30. Public School Music dience, thanks to radio.” into a vocabulary of performance. Volume HI.” much more concise, prac- All the advantages of a large University. Special and colleges make use of Guild ma- Some opera In beginning its third year on the (Continued from Page 425) productions in schools tical and all-inclusive for advanced stu- dormitory, with 33 practice pianos for women terial, and some schools have been air at the end of April, the Telephone music students, 3 pipe organs attain a high professional tone as dents. Among its thirty-two studies are RICHARD McCLANAHAN'S persuaded to give credits for listen- those given at the Juilliard Hour (Mondays, 9:00,- to 9:30 P.M., 740.” SUMMER SESSION-juiy6 to Aug. 1 4 School in a number from “Opus leading artists or get acquainted secretary, Joseph F. Pizzitola, 81 Suf- Foundation Course in the Matthay Principles of Plans ing in. 1 For bulletin address to either players er teachers. New York, the Curtis Institute in EWT) inaugurated a new series of Here are those I find indispensable: Technic is useful with the manufacturers and look folk Street, Holyoke, Massachusetts. Dean H. L. BUTLER 12 lectures—facts, principles, procedures, materials. Philadelphia, programs featuring the world's fore- No. 1. Thirds in five finger position, Private lessons, playing-classes, and two lectures and the State Univer- of Fine Arts on An Amazing Response over an exhibit of the finest fretted Here is a question received from Room 35, College “The Language of Music''. sity School of Music in Louisiana. most musical stars. Among the both hands: No. 4. Incisive staccato instruments made in this country; one of the boys who recently joined Syracuse, N. Y. Six weeks—July 6 to August 15 That the Guild’s efforts to widen chords; No. 5. Last year this school contrived artists already heard or to be heard Octaves: No. 6. (also Op. Private lessons at any time. the should preparations to the army and had the good sense to the Metropolitan’s base 740, No. 1), Five finger passages: No. 11. you make of support difficult “Manon” in French. Pas- in the near future are Jascha Particulars from have borne fruit may be (also Op. 740, No. 2), Arpeggios: No. 18. visit the 1942 Guild Convention to be take his guitar with him. “Can a judged by quale Amato, former tenor, and Louis Heifetz, , Lily Pons. 806 Steinway Building, New York City i also Op. 740. No. 10) held at Springfield, Massachusetts, guitarist get by in a fairly good the contributions to the drive , Various right hand Personal ’phone: Kingsbridge 9-8591. last Hasselmans, former conductor at the Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles SMITH COLLEGE which came from thirds; No. 20. (also Op. 740, No. 5), June 28, 29, 30 and July 1. There you orchestra, just playing thirty-six every state in the Metropolitan, now instructors Thomas, Jose Iturbi, Helen at this Jepson, Double runs; No. 23. Summer School of Music Union. A lady of Santa Barbara, (also Op. 740, No. will hear the guitar virtuoso Vi- chords, that is the twelve major, school, are largely responsible for Charles Kullmann, and James Mel- 8 All ) , sorts of left hand rotation, for FOR MEN AND WOMEN California, sent a check for cente Gomez; Eddie Alkire, Hawaiian twelve minor and twelve dominant fifty-two the success of these ton. It is expected that strength BOSTON UNIV. COLLEGE OF efforts at most of these and endurance: No. 25. (also Op. 14th Session, June 22 to Aug. 1 dollars for a season of fire-side guitar artist; Anthony An tone, ban- 7th chords, and could one harmonize Louisiana University. artists will be frequent guests on the 740. No. 40), Sharp chord staccato; No. Thorough preparation for careers |V1 1 J ^ I IT joist; Graduate and undergraduate courses in in music. B.Mus.. M.Mus.Ed. and w W seats, saying it was well worth it. A 29. 'also Carlo de Filippis and Thomas properly with these chords for ac- Edward Johnson has a plan for Telephone Hour, making perhaps Op. 740 No. 32 (. Various kinds Theory, Composition, Musical Literature, A.M. degrees, and diplomas. Voice. Piano. Organ, gang of Texan oil Kotsakis, mandolinists; companiments Musicology, School Music and all branches Violin, Cello. Brass. Wind and Percussion instru- prospectors, whose making opera four or five of vibrato. and many and rhythms only?” available in local com- appearances during the of Practical Music under distinguished fac- ments. Public School Music, Theory. History of drilling equipment included a radio, other outstanding soloists, of which In answer, we will say, that of course Music, Musicology, Composition. Church Music. munities at low cost. In it, the Metro- year. Donald Voorhees continues to ulty largely comprised of Smith College Distinguished faculty, including many Boston took up a collection for the opera politan this is only a partial list. There will you have enough chord material to staff. Graduate course of study leading to Symphony Orchestra members. Cultural opportu- would supply a few of its conduct the Bell Symphonic Orches- M.A. degree. Certificate in Music Pedagogy*. nities of Boston. Attractive dormitories. Catalog. fund. A taxi driver dispatched be the festival concert, where a large play accompaniments to Academic credit Bi-weekly concerts Alfred II. Meyer, Dean. 53 Blagden St., Baston. a singers, conductors, concertmasters, tra of fifty-seven pieces. most num- granted. Egypt Honored Musicians by faculty and students. Maas. "soldier,” saying that if the opera fretted instrument orchestra and bers, unless they contain coaches, local organizations to fur- A new- series of programs more in- featuring By For bulletin address went, so would a lot of his trade. In Simpson M. Ritter other ensembles from all parts of tricate harmony, as ish the bulk of the talent, orches- a symphony orchestra with voices many of the Make THE ETUDE Your Marketing Place schools of Guelph, Canada, At. Egyptian banquets in B.C. 1300 the country Arthur W. Locke, Director more tra, ballet. In this begins on will appear. Among the modern pieces do. Why not get a Etude Advertisers Open the Doors to Real way he hopes to Monday June 1st (3:30 to Room Sage Hall Northampton, Mass. than thirty-five hundred children and thereabouts, musicians — al- other prominent features 2, Opportunities encourage production in cities that 4.00 P.M., EWT, Columbia of the con- good chord book and gradually learn contributed network). though very a cent each. A New Jer- do definitely regarded as vention announced so far, are the the diminished not have it now. Bernard Herrmann is the conductor. and augmented sey man gave eighty members of shares of stock It will the servant class, ac- fretted instrument contests, includ- chords fall to the lot of America Among Columbia network pro- also those of the 9th, 11th "JUILLIARD SCHOOL OF MUSIC in a sugar concern. Offers of real cording to the involved social scheme ing competitions after the war, to carry on the cul- grams scheduled to be of fretted instru- and 13th. By persistently adding four estate, heard through of the of blood transfusion were day—were nevertheless asked ment orchestras, ERNEST HUTCHESON. President tural advances the world has made. June are the Columbia Broadcasting soloists, duets and or five new chords to your musical made. A Stradivarius violin, a cig- cannot to dine at the same table as the quartets, the We and we will not fail. Symphony, under Howard soloists being divided vocabulary every week, you would arette holder once used by Barlow, guests. This Caruso, on privilege was granted to into three classes, elementary, inter- soon be able Sunday afternoons; the recitals to play everything, INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL an oil painting no ART and a collection of other servant. Musicians might mediate and advanced. of Eileen Farrell (soprano), with Mr. All those in- without having to substitute one GEORGE A. WEDGE, Dean stuffed birds were among the gifts even aspire to marriage with a mem- terested Barlow and the Columbia should contact the Guild chord for another. proffered. Concert ber of the upper classes, but this Individual vocal and instrumental instruction. “The Orchestra (Wednesdays, 3:30 to Classes in Theory, Com- But most unforeseen of all was man who disparages music as 4:00 neither elevated the P.M.. the musician’s social position, and all branches EWT ) of music education. effect a luxury ; and the highly en- * * this new audience has had on and non-essential is doing standing nor improved * * * dorsed and the status of Courses leading the the popular British American his to diploma and B. S. and M. S. degrees in Metropolitan box office. The nation an injury. There is no bet- offspring which likewise re- instru- Festival (Fridays at the same mental, singing, and public school music 1937-38 season, beginning and end- ter way to express time) mained a The pianoforte departments. patriotism than A new series member of the servant is at once the race course of our imagination, and the ing with Wagner featuring the Colum- class, confidant incidentally, was through music .” Woodrow Wilson. no matter how high in society of our solitary and deepest thoughts; the solo quartet, on the other Catalog on request. bia String Orchestra is announced to the other hand, is a refined intellectual parent might stand. conversation in a congenial, select circle.” Room 122, 120 Claremont Avenue, 426 Adolph Bernhard Marx. New York

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'Why I Study Music

Junior Club Outline (Prize Winner in Class A) Assignment for June My study of music has a definite aim. Studying, If properly planned by an appre- listener or performer, rewards the boy, “but ciative said Ned Townsend, a quiet The Classic Suite student with a "key” that opens to him all solos for the Is beautiful. This key unlocks the door I am going to play six Song, that i Play the Volga Boatmen against which barriers have been placed by Scouts Tuesday night.” You frequently listen to composi- for my father to sing at his club Boy chords people who are antagonistic toward the works play tions called “suites.” which uses only the I, IV, I night. He has “And I am going to sing and of the masters. It is indeed a misfortune for meeting next Tuesday (What are these chords mother’s club a What is a suite? (pronounced in minor. them to lack this valuable key. yet they do to, and we have patriotic numbers at already asked me not think so and even doubt If there Is such are putting on sweet) called?) rehearsals.” next week when they key. testimony that there is such a vvnata txic uoc ui **«,»***& had a couple of a To my Savings Bond program.” The movements in the older clas- key will be added the word of countless mu- for each “More power to you!” exclaimed a War all these fine programs just sical minded people In America. will all be on the look- sic suites usually included some Terms Bob. “I’ll do something, too. I “I guess we uplifts the other?” she asked. ‘‘Why not do some- forms: I seek the understanding that out for places to do our bit,” said Bill of the following dance soul, tames the wild beasts, refines the crude thing?” promise.” “So will I,” echoed the e What is meant by Dal Segno? many things allemande, bourree, courante, ga- and Imparts to all who accept It a more per- the meeting adjourned. Drake. “It’s funny how is by Al Segno? “That’s what I say,” answered others, as f What meant fect beauty. Seek It and you will find It. but turn up.” votte, gigue, minuet, sarabande; Jerry Barker, who was president last At the next meeting Joan an- g What is meant by Da Capo? only by patient and fervent study. be practical,” a prelude often opened the suite. This Is why I study music. nounced seriously, “We will now hear “That’s the way to year. Billy Pace (Age 16). said Joan. “And as president, I will What is the time or meter signa- “What do you mean, do some- from the members who pledged Musical Program Evansville, Indiana ask the secretary to keep a written ture of the gavotte? The minuet? thing?” asked Bob Miller, the secre- themselves to be practical and use (pronounced jig, with record of each performance, where, The gigue? It is necessary to play entire tary. “Aren’t we doing things?” their music at least once between not when, and by whom it was given. I’m a soft j). The follow- Ladder Puzzle “Sure we are,” answered Joan; “I club meetings.” Several hands were suites on your prqgram. sure in September we will have a The suite, by having the succes- be think the club has been doing fine raised, and Joan nodded to each in ing numbers, from suites, may fine list to read at the opening meet- sive movements contrasted in work, and Miss Thompson thinks so, turn to report. used or other similar numbers may ing after summer vacation, and we character, paved the way for one too. Louise Miller: “I played duets with be substituted: She said she was very proud of S 1 Nfi. will be doing something important of the finest forms of composi- us. But I mean, why not do some- my sister three evenings to help her Lully, Gavotte; Bach, Minuet and and worth while and we can do our tion. What is this form called? thing with our music besides playing with her counting.” Gigue from “Partita in B-flat” (Bach bit in this way. And I would like to (The sonata) £. J.onara Sid programs for each other, because Bob Miller: “I played a harmonica sometimes called his suites “Par- Mu ask all the members to write in their Lully, Purcell, Couperin, Bach from “Third Eng- we’ve done that for a long time, and solo at the P. T. A. meeting.” titas”) ; Gavotte, note books Bring music to everyone and Handel were noted for their no one else gets any benefit from our Jerry Barker: “I played the violin lish Suite”; Sarabande, from “Fifth we can, in everyway we can, when suites, in which they used these OROTHY did not know what to in the titles and composers. (She did club. And you know we have some at a lodge program for my uncle. It English Suite”; Bourree, from “Sec- WFl k. ever we can. old dance forms. What period do with the diary she received not know all the composers very good“•ood musicians in our member- went over big!” ond English Suite”; Handel, Prelude “I think you’ve started something of time did these composers cover? for her birthday, as she had a looked them up.) ship.” Marilyn Stevens: “I played my in G, from “Suite No. 14”; Sarabande very nice big, Joan,” said Bob, as the meeting one in her desk and never Wednesday, she wrote down some “Do you mean to invite guests, for mandolin for a shut-in last Satur- from “Suite No. 11 in D minor.” adjourned. On each step of the ladder change one let- remembered to write in it anyway; of her favorite compositions that had instance?” asked Barbara. day.” Some modern examples of suites Keyboard Harmony ter In the word, until the word SING becomes so another one seemed more than been presented on radio programs “Yes,” answered Joan, “or go Bill Drake: “I played my ’cello at are: “Peer Gynt Suite,” by Grieg; the word WELL. Work each time from the useless. “Why not it altered word. make a musical during the week. places and give programs and bring a young people’s church meeting last h Play the I, V, I and the I, IV, I “Nutcracker Suite,” by Tschaikow- diary?” her mother suggested. “Keep Thursday, she went to a friend’s music to people who have none.” Sunday evening.” chords in several minor keys (re- sky; “Sheherazade,” by Rimsky- a list of the pieces you learn the house, and where she heard some very “We could do all those things, it Patsy Bellfield: “I played for my member to keep the V, or domi- Korsakoff; “Firebird Suite,” by Stra- music you hear.” beautiful records, so she added the seems to me,” said Evelyn Jordan. father to sing for some business nant chord, major, even though vinsky. These are descriptive and are W hy l Study A lusic "That is a good idea,” said Dorothy. names of the pieces and their com- “Certainly could,” friends you are playing we answered at our house. We had two re- in minor keys. not built on the old dance forms. (Prise Winner in Class C) “I believe I’ll try it.” That was posers. Sun- Joan. “The main thing is to use our hearsals and it was easy.” day, and To study music and become a good she wrote in her diary the Friday, she entered the of music more. mu- names Our slogan ought to be Evelyn Jordan: “I went with my sician has always been first lines ” my ambition. I have of the hymn they sang that all the songs they had sung ‘Do it now.’ in school aunt to sing and play at the Old Letter Box been taking lessons a year, and I love to play. day in church, also naming the author during the week. “Sure,” Perhaps some day I will become a famous said Jerry. “Let’s get People’s Home and they loved it.” Dear Junior dtude : entertain player. Also I feel that of the words and the composer of our parents at a musical tea. music will develop re- the Saturday, she went to a into practical activity “I After reading about the B-Sharp in musical immediately.” think it is all perfectly thrill- Club A Junior B-Sharp Club has been organized finement and culture In me. and when I am music. South Dakota, 1 would like to tell you about for younger girls and an ail-boy B-Flat Club movie and entered the names of the (Jerry always did like big words). ing,” exclaimed the older I hope to be able to play the works of Joan, “and I cer- B-Sharp Club of Syracuse, New York. is in progress. 1 think that clubs like these Monday was music-lesson Edith Duncan (Age 17), Dorothea Duncan (Age the great composers and thus become fa- day, and principal numbers sung in the story. “What do tainly We have a business meeting on the first are a solution to a teacher's problem of keep- you mean, practical am proud of the club; but it 15), Miriam Duncan miliar with their she wrote (Age 13), South Bend, Thursday of the mouth to study the life of ing pupils interested in music. contributions to the field down the name of her new “Look up my week’s diary,” activity?” she said asked Louise Miller. seems not one of us played for Uncle Indiana musicians and also operas. We have several We would be glad to hear from any other of music. Music is said to be the language of piece, the name of its social affairs and attend composer and to her mother. “Music, music every- “Well, Sam.” a concert together B-Sbarp or B-Flat Clubs. the soul, and It appeals to our emotions. I for instance,” he began, “I during the year. Our monthly dues are used the date and place of his birth. Your friend, hope some day to play with so much feeling She where. It will not take long to fill this.” for this purpose. We are now planning am going to play accompaniments “Oh yes, we did,” said Bob Miller, to Carol Kies I can move my listeners to tears and laughter. found a small picture of him, too, “I played American the W hy I Study Music These are some of the reasons I study music. which she also pasted in. Beautiful at the Robert Moura (Age 10). P. T. A. meeting for the crowd to Tuesday, there was a parade in (Prise Winner in Class B) New Bedford, Massachusetts sing. And I The Junior Etude will Class A, fifteen to eight- town and, The Music Birds kept them in good rhythm, as she knew all the "Why do I study music?" you ask. For the award three worth while too,” he added proudly. Junior Etude een years of age; Class marches the band played, simple and most common reason, I love she wrote prizes each month for the B, twelve to fifteen Class I have music. I think I ; Uerse and H)rawingi by diva not done anything yet,” love it more than anything most ^acb else In the world, except interesting and C, under twelve years. Prize ( Continued my mother and dad. Winners for March Initial on Next Page) I original always look forward to Saturday because stories or essays Names of all of the prize When the Music Birdies that is the day I have Contest Puzzle: When you haven’t practiced, my music lesson. There on a given subject, and winners and their When you’re playing is nothing at- See pupils who are glad, music When I prefer, not even parties or dances, Class A. Gertrude Sullivan The Birds are sad to see; you’re having comp’ny, for correct answers to tributions will (Age 16). Alham- They’ll listen carefully, to a lesson with my teacher, or a study in appear Dn bra. California It makes them feel quite happy; And puzzles. But when they hear you working you are asked to play, harmony, or rehearsal with the Dutchess Contest is open to all boys and this page in a future issue of And if you do it nicely, The Class B. Dorothy Okoniewskl (Age 14) But grumpies make them Just County Philharmonic girls under eighteen years of age, whether Etude. Buf- sad! They hop about in glee. get right up and do it Symphony Orchestra, The thirty next best contributors falo. New York They’ll join the melody. or to participate In your in competitive musical a Junior Club member or not. Contestants will be given Class C. Barbara Bonham most pleasing way. affairs. a rating of honorable men- (Age 11). Green- are grouped according to age as follows: tion. belt, Maryland A proof of my sincerity and love for music study is the fact that every day. including Sunday, I (Honorable perform, or participate in, or re- SUBJECT FOR THIS MONTH mention lists will appear hearse, or attend other musical features, and next month this is aside from my daily practice. I, one of many millions of musical people, consider myself most fortunate in studying, appreciat- Summer ~^>tuc!u ing, understanding, and enjoying this heav- enly art. All entries must be received at the Junior Etude Office, 1712 Chestnut Street. Philadelphia Pa later than June 22nd. Winners ’ ’’ Josephine Betros (Age 17), will appear in a later issue. Poughkeepsie, New York CONTEST RULES Dear Junior Etude : received iny 2. Name, age and class (A, B, or music prize anil thank you C) must appear in upper left corner and your address in ' UCh - the upper right corner of S, v “ ral of lll '‘ your paper. If you need more children in our than one sheet of *paper, be A. ^ sehL l i sure to do this on each sheet. p * a ciub. and we call it 1 i the ' 1, r t 3. Write on one side of paper only and M yjf,n, Llub. I am going to play do not use a typewriter. 1P.ai22.aderewskiL ., 4. Do not have anyone copy s Minuet at our recital. your work for you. B-Sharp 5. Clubs or schools are Music Club, From your friend, requested to hold a preliminary contest and to snbmlt not six entries (two for each more manthan Suzanne Hernandez (Age 10), class). Liverpool, New York. 6. Entries which do not meet these New Mexico requirements will not be eligible for prises. (See letter above)

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Harmony Simplified—York; New work in For Organ and Piano, have been held throughout the United for each part and 30 cents for the Con- — Miller; Harmony keyboard leaps,” “staccato and legato OF DUETS MONTH—Mr. Harmonic Devices interested in the ductor’s Score. Delivery will be made the cover for THIS phrasing,” “thumb under passages,” etc. Arranged by Clarence Kohlmann—Church States. Now every one for Beginners—Orem: Theory and sale MaUey is the photographic artist Book wish to com- art of singing will have an opportunity immediately after publication. The James Music Orem, Elemen- They will be pleased to learn that an at- pianists and organists who cover subject on this Composition of of Dr. of this publication is confined to the responsible for the tractive format has been planned in the bine their talents in effective piano and to profit by the experience Sam- Music Music Theory—Smith; Practical June 1942 issue of The Etude tary Richter publications organ duets suitable for church use will oiloff and to develop under his direc- United States and its Possessions. Dickey and French; The style of the other Magazine. Spring and summer are so Music Theory— outlined in The Singer’s Hand- Harmony Books; Harmony with unusual “matchstick” illustrations find this collection just the thing for the tion as part of each other that it is not Robyn-Hanks PUBLICATION OFFERS much a in addition. purpose. book. ADVANCE OF “Spring Song” Ear, Eye, and Keyboards—Heacox; out of keeping for the for collection of Mr. well known for his A volume of invaluable suggestions for WITHDRAWN—The works announced this for Juniors— When published this Kohlmann, picture to be used on an and Keyboard Harmony theme of this eighteen studies will be priced consid- book, Concert Transcriptions of Favorite amateur and professional singers as well month as ready for publication are quite dated for the month Gest. issue which is higher than 25 cents, but until Hymns, and his fine performances as as vocal teachers, this book contains the interesting as each supplies a definite enthusiast will erably usually designated as the first month of The layman and find printing details are completed, a single organist at Ocean Grove, N. J., is very basic principles of good singing, which need where available material is scarce, the summer, although summer north of special pleasure in: The Fundamentals copy may be ordered for that amount in well qualified to compile and arrange a if followed as directed for the prescribed or non-existent. With the tremendous 21st. From Song to Sym- the equator commences June Re- Music—Gehrkens ; of cash, delivery to be made as soon as the collection of this kind. period of time will be a distinct help to popularity attained by the modern ar- gardless of dates and seasons, we well phony—Mason; Musical Instruments first edition comes from the press. The pieces which this volume contains all vocalists. For the teacher, problems rangement of the Tschaikowsky Piano may remember that it oft has been said Epochs in Musical Progress— Kelly; are taken from the works of the great are presented and discussed and excellent Concerto in B-flat Minor many pianists in various forms that spring e’er should Hamilton; Masters of the Symphony— CHILDHOOD DAYS OF FAMOUS COMPOS- masters and include such selections as suggestions given for dealing with them of moderate attainments began to ex- be kept in our hearts. Mr. MaUey has Goetschius; which constitute the special ERS—The Child Mozart, by Lottie Ellsworth Andante from the 1st Symphony, Brahms; as they appear. An extensive list of songs plore other works in search of melodic been introduced to Etude readers before, Appreciation outlined by course in Music The Swan, Saint-Saens; used as Coit and Ruth Bampton—Children will Ave Maria, appropriate for various types of voices gems of equal appeal to the frequently- through his fine photographs the National Federation of Music Clubs. gain a finer musical insight through the Schubert; Andante from the 5th Sym- also will be included and should prove played excerpt from the Russian master’s cover subjects. He is a professional mu- there are the fine Standard History Too, use of the material in this phony, Tschaikowsky; and Adagio invaluable as teaching material sician occupied with his teaching, choir- from and as composition. There are many such, you of Music—Cooke; Outlines of Music His- book, crammed with in- the Moonlight Sonata, Beethoven. Two audition and concert suggestions for the know. This interest soon became known master, and organist activities in Salem, Complete History of tory—Hamilton; A fantasies Virginia, and also with giving some time teresting educational fea- by Mr. Kohlmann on Christmas student. to music editors, and one of the foremost Music—Baltzell; Young People’s History tures. Musically, there is and Easter themes also in his community to conditioning pianos. Music are included. Details such as choosing the correct of these has made the book that is being of Music {Illustrated —Macy ; of much to interest every These excellent arrangements are of teacher, preparing for and taking an published this month. See description the Pilgrims—Pratt; Introduction to Mu- SONGS OF FREEDOM-/! Brand New Col- young pianist, but the ac- only moderate difficulty and can be mas- audition, as well as the important in-be- below. sic Appreciation and History—Moyer lection Patriotic American Songs for All companying stories and tered easily by the average organist tween steps of keeping of Cooke; on Harmony Ab- or physically fit are The literature of interesting entertain- for Sunday services. Great Pianists on Piano Playing— The Listener’s Book — Occasions—for Everyone to Sing ! The im- beautiful music the many ways in which pianist. They are published in convenient practically and sensibly discussed. Care- ment material for young men’s singing of Chapel Piano Music: Its Composers and Char- bott; and Why We Love Music—Sea- mediate publication of this book of patri- Send in now for your copy they can be used make this publication score form, permitting each player to ful attention Teaching: ob- will be given to the im- groups is none too plentiful. The Pub- Musings, at the special advance of pub- acteristics—Hamilton; Piano shore. serve , otic songs will be wel- of special value in the studio and public the other part as well as his own, portant fundamentals of tone production lishers believe the operetta now being Its Principles and Problems—Hamilton; Catalogs and lists on the finest read- come news to leaders lication price of 40 cents, postpaid. school alike. and hence, two copies are required for and voice placement, as well as to devel- published will prove "just tiling.’’ The Shortest Way to Pianistic Perfec- ing material will be sent you gladly. A the of group singing in As implied title, performance. by the the story is opment of musicianship, personality, and As Is customary, when works listed SUMMER MUSIC STUDY PLANS—“Great tion—Leimer-Gieseking; How a Depend- request addressed to the Theodore Pres- at schools and colleges as about “childhood days” in the life of Place your order now for this useful the advantage of a well rounded educa- special vari- able Piano Technic was Won—Brower; 1712 Chestnut Street, Philadel- advance prices are ready for pub- well as those responsi- oaks from little acorns grow” has in ser Co., Mozart and, as might be expected, book. Two copies some may be ordered at the tion. Because Dr. Samoiloff knows that lication, this will serve as a notice that ous ways proven itself by innumerable and The Pianist’s Thumb—Wells. phia, Pa,, will receive prompt attention. ble for the success of of the illustrative music has been selected special advance of publication cash price even a fine vocalist vocal student will enjoy: Funda- can not succeed on the special offers are withdrawn and that club meetings, ban- exemplifications. But never without the The of from that written by Mozart in his youth. 40 cents each, postpaid. The sale is voice alone he gives pertinent and rain as mentals in Voice Training— lippinger; SCORES—/! Lis- advice on copies will be obtainable from your music quets, social, service, counterparts of sunshine SYMPHONIC SKELETON All of the serves confined music to show the com- to the United States and its how to dress, correct posture for standing dealer, stimulants to growth and expansion. The Clear-cut Speech in Song—Rogers; What tener’s Guide for Radio and Concert, by or the Publishers, at the prices —————— and community gath- poser’s style in a manner that long will Possessions. and walking, ^ seats of learning reflect Every Vocal Student Should Know— 3 in and the correct use of the quoted with the following descriptions. UlliliLlSlufl erings of all kinds. For world’s famous Violet Katzner. No. 8—Symphony No. be remembered when it is used in con- speaking voice. This not only careful beginnings but wisdom Douty; The Head Voice and Other Prob- Major by Brahms Proceeding with feature should prove Copies may be had for examination, of here is a group of songs F — junction with the story and a stage THREE LITTLE PIGS, the set- A Story with Music interesting to everyone, as the develop- course. and thought in matters contributive to lems—Clippinger ; Great Singers on this unique series which presents detailed with real “punch”, the ting in a miniature theatre, as music for for Piano, by Ada Richter For her newest ment of a pleasant speaking voice is every development; the great business insti- Art of Singing—Cooke; Resonance in analyses of the great symphonic works, a Themes from the Great Piano Con- kind to which a playlet, etc. Detailed suggestions for addition to the “Stories with tutions have advanced small be- Singing Speaking Fillebrown; Your Music” success essential of a professional career. certos, Selected red-blooded American will thrill and sing from and — Miss Katzner has taken the beautiful and Arranged by Henry such activities are included. series, Mrs. Richter has chosen the be- In ginnings through diligence and judicious Voice and You—Rogers; and Common- advance of publication, a single copy Levine is a book that will tUl the rafters ring. Included are The Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F Major and The charming bring pleasure illustrations and refer- loved Three Little Pigs. of The Singer’s Handbook Stars and Stripes Forever, Come On, application; our wonderful musical in- places of Vocal Art—Russell. reduced it to an easily readable single may be or- to many pianists, players capable of per- ences to available recordings are only a Here again, as in her dered for America!, Star-Spangled Banner, V stitutions have grown from foundations Violinists will find stimulating fare in: melody line. Arranged and presented in $1.25, postpaid. forming creditably music of moderate The few more of the additional features of laid, more often than not, in the Practical Violin Study Cinderella; Jack and the for Victory, America the Beautiful, Give home —Hahn; The Vio- graphic form, the entire work is here re- difficulty—grades 4 and 5 but who do this clever publication, which is sure to — of some indefatigable enthusiast. it Beanstalk; and the Nut- LET’S CHEER! Vs the Tools, Hail, Land of Freedom, So lin: Its Famous Makers and Players— vealed as a logical thought design. Struc- BAND BOOK, by James M. not have the time nor the inclination establish precedent as the first to is with achievement. in a series cracker Suite (Tschaikow- Fulton and and a dozen others. The music for some The most notable Stoeving; How to Master the Violin— tural tabulations and indications of the Major Ed. Chenette—Here, in- give the practice necessary for mastering to be issued by the Theodore Presser Co. sky) Mrs. careers, springing from simple but vital Bytovetzki; to , Richter has in- deed, is a is in close score, like hymn tunes; for How Study Kreutzer— instruments employed in the different band book of exceptional merit entire piano concertos. While still in the process The popular sources, have come to bloom through the Cutter; Violin of being com- terwoven the fascinating and genuine others, choral parts are given; while for and The Student’s Vo- phrases make possible a quick coordina- excellence. The sponsoring Tschaikowsky opus is pleted a single copy may be ordered now included, of course, given. ever stimulating light of new ideas on cabulary—Gruenberg. story in simple form editors, who have achieved still others just the melody is In tion of eye, ear, and mind, adaptable to for nation-wide as is also the Grieg Concerto in A Minor. the main plan. future delivery at the special price among her every case, the music and texts are of For the Music Educator we suggest; any type of pages of de- reputations in the field of band litera- listening-study program. As of 20 cents, postpaid. Besides these there are the most melo- The priceless hours of summer, when The Art of A Cappella Singing Small- lightful illustrative music. ture, have designed good, readable size, well printed on good — in the works previously “skeletonized”, this book to fill the dious themes from the Rubinstein Con- general activity has retarded, offer golden man and Wilcox; Essentials in A special feature of Three Little Pigs need of the paper. The book has an attractive red, Conduct- the analysis proper will be prefaced by average band which is called certo in D Minor, the Schumann opportunities for self-enrichment, CATHEDRAL ECHOES, An Organ Collection will its Concerto white, and blue cover and is issued in for the ing—Gehrkens; Choir and Chorus Con- be adaptability as a unit to recital upon to perform at football an exposition of the different forms that ivith games, ath- in A Minor, the MacDowell reaching to Hammond Registration, Compiled Concerto in the handy 6" x 9" size. Immediate de- out new leaves on the higher ducting—Wodell; Instrumental Music in and purposes, when the story can be read letic events, rallies, may be used by composers for the sym- Arranged assemblies, etc. D Minor and selections from branches. Students who grasp these oc- the Public Schools by William M. Felion—Because aloud by the teacher or concertos livery of a single copy of this new book —Normann; Games metrical arrangement of their themes. an older pupil The contents of the Let’s Cheer! of Rachmaninoff, casions to discover of the many requests from organists Beethoven, Chopin, of choice patriotic songs will be made for new approaches to and Dances—Stecher and Mueller; The who while the younger students play the mu- Band Book include With this illuminating guide not only were so such well-known Liszt and Mozart. A most their chosen professions, to polish new Gist of Sight-singing— enthusiastic about the organ col- sical episodes attractive col- only 10 cents, postpaid. Quantity rates Lewis; History of concert goers, on the piano. Some of the favorites as: The Marine but radio listeners, and lection, AT Hymn; Yankee lection of fine piano music for supplied request. your dime for facets, so to speak, further exemplify the Public School Music—Birge; THE CONSOLE, a new al- numbers can be sung. Too, 75 cents. on Send The Music record “fans” will add immeasurably to there will be Doodle; Massa’s in de Cold, Cold familiar line quoted bum, similar in design Ground; In Robot Land, An Operetta for a copy of Songs of Freedom today! above. Supervisor — Tapper; Preparation and and content, is the usual illustrations which the In Men’s their musical enjoyment. In advance of young the Gloaming; Captain Jinks; Voices in We are pleased to list below a number now being prepared for publication. and Two Acts, by L. E. Yeamans. Presentation of the Operetta—Beach; publication student will delight in coloring. Home on the of books a single copy of the Brahms Here again Range. Text for each num- originally was CHAPEL USINGS An Album Sacred which make fruitful reading for School Orchestras and the author has selected know of produced at Oberlin Col- M — of Bands—Woods; Symphony No. 3 Skeleton We no juvenile story which so ber has been provided the layman, the musical Score may be numbers from in each part so lege when the late Compositions for the I'iano, Compiled by enthusiast, and The Training of Boys’ Voices the masters and contem- aptly lends itself to Mr. Yeamans was —Johnson; ordered for 25 cents, postpaid. musical adaptation. that, where necessary, certain the student alike. For the pianist we Psychology porary writers which are of the affiliated with the Oberlin Rob Roy Peery—Unlike most compilations for the Music Teacher— particularly There is ample room for descriptive epi- players Conservatory recommend: effective can lead the audience in singing. of solo What Every Piano Pupil Swisher; and in the organ arrangement. Music. It is hilariously of numbers Chapel Musings does not Light Opera Production Many sodes, and the composer has ably real- Parts funny, not Should Know Hamilton STUNTS FOR PIANO, A Very First Exercise of will be provided for; D-flat Pic- difficult — ; Piano Playing Burrows. them will appear for nor expensive to duplicate numbers already in another the first time as ized her opportunities in such pieces stage, and the with Questions Book, by Ada Richter—“Stunts” and “Ex- as: colo; C Flute and Piccolo; E-flat collection but contains compositions Answered — Hofmann; Harmony Students organ offerings. Several original Clar- music is within a range will find beneficial works We’re Off to Build Our Houses; Invita- inet; Solo, comfortable for ercise” are two words in the title of this and appropriate and 1st B-flat Clarinets; 2nd young which have been especially written or settings of some well- tion to the Fair; The men of high school age. There are new piano book, in preparation, that Wolf’s Song; Little B-flat Clarinet; 3rd arranged for this new book and are copy- now known hymns make up the B-flat Clarinet; E- eleven principals, two of generous con- Pig Sleeps; and Rolling Home in flat whom do fe- are only partially descriptive. The stu- tents. the Alto Clarinet; B-flat Bass righted by the Theodore Presser Co. Butter Churn. Clarinet- male impersonations. Vocal = dent will like Oboe; Bassoon; Score 75 Such well known names as -Advance the implication of these Transcriptions B-flat Soprano Saxo- cents. Ralph Fed- of Pullication Offerd have been included Single copies of words as he will Three Little Pigs may phone; 1st erer, Carl Wilhelm Kern, and G. O. like the titles and the from masters such E-flat Alto Saxophone; 2nd as Bach, Handel, be ordered now at the companion pianistic activities Relay Mozart, advance of pub- E-flat Alto Saxophone; Hornberger are representative of the fine I U N E 1942 Beethoven, B-flat Tenor INTRODUCTORY Schubert, Chopin, lication cash price of 25 cents THREE MONTHS caliber of the Race, Broad Jump, Climbing a Pole, Wagner, postpaid. Saxophone; E-flat Baritone OFFER composers included in this All Tschaikowsky, Saxophone; -Has it ever occurred of the books in this list are in preparation Saint-Saens, Deliveries will be made as soon to you that volume; and titles. Faith, + for publication. The Running on Tiptoes, and Pole Vaulting. L*rieg, as the B-flat Bass Saxophone some the Prayer, On low Advance Cash Sibelius, Rimsky-Korsakoff, (B-flat Bass or of your musical friends Offer Prices apply only to orders placed Yes, he Du- book comes from the press. who are not well Mount Olive, Moonlight Over Nazareth, Delivery NOW. will like them almost as much as bois, and 3rd Trombone, Treble Clef) (postpaid) will be made Lemmens. No number is ; Solo B-flat acquainted with when the books are published the real beyond The Etude would and Vesper Prayer are typical of the Paragraphs describing activities after which the exer- the ability Cornet or Trumpet (Conductor) wel- each publication appear of the average ; 1st B- come the on these pages. cises are organist and THE SINGER’S HANDBOOK opportunity to know it calm, peaceful Sunday atmosphere felt named. the pedai by Lazar S. flat Cornet or Trumpet; 2nd better parts are not extreme in scope. B-flat Cor- by having it coming Album of But every Samoiloff—The name of Lazar into their throughout the compositions in the book. Duets— For Organ and Piano Three wide-awake teacher will see The S. Sam- net; 3rd B-flat homes on Little Pigs— For Piano registration is for the Cornet; 1st E-flat Horn an introductory Kohlmann .40 .25 two-manual oiloff is familiar, to trial basis? Numbers for offertory, prelude, postlude, beyond these interesting play titles to the organ, vocalists and teachers or Alto; 2nd This can be with effective and E-flat Horn or Alto; 3rd done at the Cathedral Echoes— For Organ .... Felton. solo appropriate of singing, as a musician ridiculously and quiet music will be found as well as .60 The Singer's studies themselves and if they have of considerable and 4th low cost of 35* Handbook . harmonic E-flat Horns or Chapel 1.25 drawbar and pre-set directions Altos; 1st Trom- for the three music for special occasions Musings— For Piano Peery .40 had previous merit and an outstanding vocal summer issues, such as experience with Mrs. Rich- ior the teacher— bone; 2nd Trombone; 1st June. Julv Hammond at church and in the and 2nd Trom- and August. Christmas and Easter. Dr. Peery, Childhood Days of Famous Composers— Stunts for ter s educational his many pupils achieving Possibly you because Piano . and recreational ma- nome. success in bones or have some spe- ^' ozor .aD Tenors (Treble Clef) ^ Coit-Bampton .20 terials opera, movie, ; 3rd cial friends to of his position as organist in a well- for piano students they will know A and radio work. For many Trombone; whom you would like to Let's Cheer— single copy of this Baritone; Baritone (Treble Band Book. . Fulton-Chenette album may be bring this known church, and his fine record as a Symphonic Skeleton Scores— Katzner that “hidden” in this book years his sage advice and helpful musical treat, paying Band are the means dered hints Clef) ; Basses; the small Books, Each .20 No. 8. oymphony at the special Drums; Piano-Conductor. musician, is well qualified No. 3 in F Major for teaching, advance of publi- have been available amount yourself to compile a Piano Conductor .30 painlessly, “extention of to only the few for- ... or no Brahms n Pr Ce °f 60 While the parts and score doubt you volume such .25 fingers cents> PostPaid. Copy- of this book have dozens as this—a book of melodious, over one octave” “division of r,w ! tunates who have had the opportunity of acquaintances nght restrictions limit are being prepared, a single who would scales the sale to the of studying copy of each jump at the between the hands,” “execution of united under his direction either may be opportunity to get Advertisement States and its Possessions. ordered at our advance of publi- these 430 privately or in his Master Classes three interesting issues which cation cash price (postpaid) for this nominal of 20 cents sum. Just think THE ETUDE JUNE, 1942 Advertisement ... for 35* they will be

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getting 60 pages of fine music, which if Acquiring a Sense purchased singly would cost around World of Music $12.00, in addition to numerous instruc- tive and inspiring articles on a variety of Relative Pitch 419) of musical subjects, plus other journalis- (Continued, from Page tic features of definite value to musical will 412) folk. And remember . . . this amount (Continued from Page be credited on the regular year’s sub- THE ESSEX COUNTY SYMPHONY SO- scription price of only $2.50 if your mu- CIETY will open its annual Stadium Con- are sure in Newark, New sic loving friend decides, as we cert Series on June 2, terval and have the student recall he will, to insure a continuation of these Jersey, with a performance of Rossini’s Wontk which of his selected pieces it sug- inspiring, monthly visits of The Etude. “The Barber of Seville,” conducted by gests. Knowing that a certain piece Sir , with a cast of • with the given interval, the SPREAD THE INFLUENCE OF MUSIC AND Metropolitan Opera artists. begins INCREASE YOUR INCOMF.-Thousands of student is able to name the interval the years have earned A SPLENDID SUMMER ETUDE after learning Etude readers over THE BROOKLYN SYMPHONY ORCHES- given. For instance, commissions, thus adding to substantial TRA has announced the engagement of Just look at the features we have planned the melodic interval of a perfect their regular income, by taking sub- for you in July. Sir Thomas Beecham as the regular con- fourth the student recognizes it as scriptions to The Etude. Unlike ped- ductor for next season. Sir Thomas also the beginning of Auld Lang Syne, dling books and other periodicals, it will will conduct part of the season of the since he knows that this song require only a small amount of time plus and Detroit Symphony Orchestra. perfect fourth, natur- a little pleasurable effort on your part to begins with a “sell” your musical friends and acquaint- ally deduces correctly the interval. MRS. LEWIS JAMES HOWELL, president ances on the unprecedented musical If he cannot decide what tune be- of the Duo Music Club of Philadelphia, bargain to be had in this, the world’s gins with the interval he might hum was recently elected president of the New predominant musical publication at only of Federation of Music Clubs. Mrs. or sing the beginning of each his $2.50 a year. There will be a substantial Jersey Howell, wife of the president of the selected tunes to the interval played profit in it for you, not to mention the Teachers Association, finds the tune that really great satisfaction you will receive in Philadelphia Music until he sharing the inspiration and enjoyment is very active in musical circles of Phila- coincides. With a little practice he the neighboring state of which The Etude brings to all music delphia and should have a good sense of relative lovers. Arrangements to represent The New Jersey. pitch. Etude can be made by any responsible I cannot recall any piece begin- person by simply addressing the Cir- ARTHUR W. QUIMBY, head of the mu- ning with the augmented fourth or culation Department, The Etude Music sic department of Flora Stone Mather diminished fifth. This interval oc- Magazine, Philadelphia, Pa. College of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, has been appointed to the curs between the third and fourth CHANGES OF ADDRESS-Thousands of chairmanship of the music department notes of When Other Lips from “Bo- people are moving to other towns now- of Connecticut College. He succeeds Dr. hemian Girl.” Nor can I recall a adays as a result of the war effort. If J. Lawrence Erb, who retires at the close work commencing on the minor MRS. CHARLES E. MITCHELL you are one of these, please let us have of the present academic year. Professor seventh, but this interval begins the your new address at least four weeks in Quimby has also curator been of music second theme of Schumann’s Merry advance of your moving, so that you at the Cleveland Art Museum. MUSIC FOR THE FUN OF IT Peasant. will be sure not to miss a single issue of Mrs. Charles E. Mitchell, wife of the President The major seventh occurs of the National City Bank, is an accomplished between The Etude. This also applies to those authoress (“Music With a Feather Duster ’) the second and third notes DR. ERNEST G. HESSER, former chair- and brilliant musician. For years she has been vacationers who want to receive their of Blumenlied by Lange. However, man of the department of music educa- one of the leaders of musical life in New York Etudes at another address for the vaca- City. You will find her remarks in The Etude the major seventh tion of New York University, has recently delightful and profitable. is distinctive by tion period. Always give us the old ad- been appointed Director of Music of the virtue of its being so acutely un- dress, as well as the new, and by thus SIXTY YEARS AMONG THE Public Schools of Baltimore, Maryland. melodious that one can scarcely fail co-operating, you will help us to render MASTERS to recognize it without the aid of you satisfactory service. Alexander Gretchaninoff, one of the foremost an THE GOLDMAN BAND, Edwin Franko of the older living masters of , tells association. graphically of his experiences with great com- ATTRACTIVE PREMIUMS GIVEN Goldman, Conductor, will again be pre- posers whose names come to you nightly over In fact, these last FOR the radio in broadcasts three mentioned ETUDE sented this summer in the of symphonic music. SUBSCRIPTIONS—Although gov- Daniel Gug- intervals are rather distinctive. Simi- ernmental restrictions in the form genheim Memorial Concerts in New York ol ALLEZ OOP! CIRCUS MUSIC larly downward intervals may be- priorities have and Brooklyn. The series will begin on made it impossible for COES CLASSICAL learned. us to replenish June 17 and special signficance will our stock of some premi- be A thoroughly fascinating article upon the music given of the circus, with reminiscences Prime: God Save the King; Amer- ums, we are still able to supply to to the program because of the fact from Robert those, Rmgling, Mus. Doc., son of one of the founders that this ica. who prefer to take credit for securing year marks the twenty-fifth an- of the great show, and Merle Evans, most fa- mous of circus band Etude niversary of the leaders. Dr. Ringling Minor subscriptions in premiums, a num- organization of the incidentally, solo baritone with the Chicago Second: Londonderry Air; Opera Company for ber of unusually useful Goldman Band. fourteen years, carries out Dark Eyes. and serviceable the traditions of the Ringling family, which articles. A partial started out as a concert company. descriptive list of avail- Major Second: I Love You Truly;' able premiums, with the credit applied on COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG (Virginia) BRIDCINC THE VOICE Humoreske (Dvorak). each, follows: held its annual Festival of 18th Century Crystal Waters bravely tackles a phase of voice Minor Third and Aug. Second: O Garden Shears: This unique implement Music on May 4-9, in the ballroom of development which is really very simple but which is often neglected Canada; not only cuts the by singers. There Lullaby i Brahms). clean but holds the flower Governor’s Palace. The only ones of should be no vocal gaps in the voice and Miss part shows how the bridging may Major Third: Old of the stem as it is cut. Saves their kind in America, these concerts acmeved. be Black Joe; Blue scratches, Danube. increases reach, simplifies present the music of the America of the Second and third notes of flower SIDELIGHTS gathering. Your reward for secur- 18th century, in the intimate setting for ON THE SCALE main theme. ing one subscription. which it was originally composed. OrviUe Lindquist, professor of pianoforte play- Perfect Fourth: Oberun Conservatory for many Auld Lang Syne; Handifold haswL ^a years, Purse: Here is a streamlined peculiarly lucid manner of presenting Traumerle. educational problems Purse that will make you in very helpful wav«? wonder how HAROLD BAUER has been engaged to by hiS lntere£ «nv article "pon Aug. Fourth tbesS . and Dim. Fifth: When you got along without one. The conduct Purse a special six week course of Other Lips includes a roomy, from “Bohemian Girl.” non-spill coin pocket, piano clashes at the Peabody Conserva- CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR’S IDEAS two protective Third and Fourth notes. pockets for $1.00 and tory in Baltimore. The ON COMPOSITION classes, open to Perfect $5.00 bills, with a secret pocket for both ?™ngeline Fifth: O Star Eve larger performers and auditors, will begin Uehman, composer, pianist, singer of lc or wel1 bills and window W L and benefited b.v his help in (Wagner) holders for identifica- in October. , he ovvn £ works - Her article upon the tion cards, etc. Folded, great French composer-organist Aug. the Purse meas- is an inspira- Fifth and Minor Sixth: Hearts 4" 11310 l0vers ln search ures wide x 3%" high. It information^ and comes in FREDERICK HOBBS, former Floivers; Waltz C-sharp minor moire blue or black. Awarded leading for secur- baritone of the D’Oyly THE (Chopin). ing one subscription. Carte Opera AMAZING CARCIAS Company of London, Major and since 1927 its is the only Word Sixth: My Eversharp Scissors Set: - for this family of Bonnie; Liebe- This practical business ncludir Manuel manager, died - del Popolo straum. April 11 at Nor- Garcia 1 S ! , ]f Scissors Set aw?5 &1 Wl his comes in : son - Manuel a gold, embossed wich, (1805-1 90fiV- J? England, where the company and his daughters, Marie-Felicite covered case was fM™oVioiiwe ahbr n x Minor Seventh with red lining. It includes > and Pauline Viardot-Garcia and Aug. Six.: playing at the time. He was I£°babl^o M^y no family/ ever one pair of 8” well known has had such an in- Merry Peasant. gold handle Household fluence upon the art of singing Second Theme. among Gilbert and Sullivan arl The famn ic circles e ’ in teacher - Shears and one pair of 3%” u i°3i Francis Rogers of the Major gold handle America, through Seventh : Blumenlied, Flower Embroidery the former regular Scissors. Awarded for secur- tours Song (Lange) of the D’Oyly Carte . Second and third ing one subscription. Company throughout this country. notes. Eighth 432 Octave: Elegie (Massenet). THE ETUDE

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