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For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE ETUDE AUGUST 1935 PAGE 441 Instrumental rr Ensemble Music easy QUARTETS !£=;= THE BRASS CHOIR A COLLECTION FOR BRASS INSTRUMENTS , saptc PUBLISHED FOR ar”!S.""c-.ss;v' mmizm HIM The well ^uiPJ^^at^Jrui^“P-a0[a^ L DAY IN VE JhEODORE pRESSER ^O. DIRECT-MAIL SERVICE ON EVERYTHING IN MUSIC PUBLICATIONS * A Editor JAMES FRANCIS COOKE THE ETUDE Associate Editor EDWARD ELLSWORTH HIPSHER Published Monthly By Music Magazine THEODORE PRESSER CO. 1712 Chestnut Street A monthly journal for teachers, students and all lovers OF music PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. VOL. LIIINo. 8 • AUGUST, 1935 The World of Music Interesting and Important Items Gleaned in a Constant Watch on Happenings and Activities Pertaining to Things Musical Everyw er THE “STABAT NINA HAGERUP GRIEG, widow of MATER” of Dr. Martin ROBERT SCHUMANN’S one hundred Edward Hagerup Grieg the composer spends AN ALESSANDRO and twenty-fifth birthday anniversary was G. Dumler won for him an . SCARLATTI oratorio, much of her time, since her widowhood m enthusiastic ovation when celebrated on June 3rd and 4th, at Zwichau, 1907, with a sister in Copenhagen. 1 he com¬ f “The Martyrdom of Saint Saxony, by the unyeihng of a memorial tablet Ursula,” in unpublished poser and wife were cousins, which accounts Cincinnati May Festival on the composer’s birth-house, and by a sym¬ for the identity of their middle names. As Alessandro manuscript, has been re- phony concert and a performance of his with Eugene Goossens conducting. As vlVe" Scarlatti vised by Ennemond Tnllat, Nina Hagerup she became early known as a HERE THEY COME! “Paradise and Peri.” president of the College of Music o{ a widely known pianist of Lyons, France. pianist; and she, Edward Grieg and Mme. nati and as a composer of works for the ritual The manuscript is the property of the Norman-Neruda (later Lady Halle and one of the Catholic Church, Dr. Dumler has ren¬ THE BETHLEHEM BACH CHOIR has of the greatest feminine violinists of all time) Municipal Library of Lyons, and it is con¬ presented its annual festival m tbe Packer dered a valuable service to the musical art ot sidered one of the most precious Scarlatti gave in 1868, at Christiania the first public Memorial Church. On May 17th the St. concert ever devoted entirely to Norwegian America. relics in existence. It was first performed at Matthew Passion” was given a divided per¬ the Academy of Lyons in the early part of formance in the afternoon and evening; and THE FLORENTINE MAY MUSICAL Forty Years in Showdom the eighteenth century. y. the “Mass in B minor” was presented similarly FESTIVAL, of six weeks from April 24th to on the 18th. Bruce Carey was the conductor; AT THE THEATRE DE LA ZARZUELA June 4th, offered the world premiere of a new THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY of of Madrid, which is temporarily replacing the Norfolk, England, brought its season to a and the soloists were Louise Lerch, soprano; opera, “Orseolo,” by Ildebrando Pizzetti; a Rose Bampton, alto; Dan Gridley, tenor ; and Madrid Opera House, the season of Italian gala performance of “Norma, in honor of ‘•r ■ ihe Billboard,” the oldest magazine of the show “pitch man” mean in the foregoing paragraph, you would close with a program at St. Andrews Hall, opera opened with “magnificent productions^ Julius Huehn, bass. The “Mass in B minor the centenary of Bellini’s death; Glucks I world (founded in 1894 by W. H. Donaldson), has probably find many lines in “The Billboard” that would be on April 4th, of works by British composers. had this year its twenty-eighth complete per¬ of Puccini’s “La Boheme” and “La Tosca. The big achievement of the event was a “Alceste”; Mozart’s “The Elopement from the A recently had its fortieth anniversary. At first this as little understandable to you as the proverbial Greek. formance by this choir. Seraglio”; Rossini’s “Moses”; Verdis Ballo “magnificent rendering” of the “Sea Sym¬ unusual publication had almost entirely to do with printing Perhaps you may not know it, but there has been develop¬ phony” of Vaughan Williams, with the orches¬ HANDEL’S “SOLOMON” was given a in Maschera”; Rameau’s “Castor and Pollux, tra augmented hy some London players, the THE ROYAL OPERA of Budapest has performance, on April 30th, by the Boston and other works, with Tullio Serafin and and bill-posting to advertise entertainment. Thus, it be¬ ing a new language in America, which can be called only presented the “Carnival” of Schumann in a Symphony Orchestra, with Serge Kousse- Vittorio C.ui as leading conductors. Norfolk Chorus, and with Isobel Baillie and came an adjunct of that army of men with buckets of paste “Broadwayese.” Here, for instance, is a specimen of musico- Roy Henderson as soloists. choreographic and scenic arrangement by vitzky conducting, and with the assistance of •3--- Gustave Olah and with a new orchestration chorus and soloists. Though it had not been ALLAN ARTHUR WILMAN, a twenty- and long brushes who inaugurated the glorious campaign to dramatic criticism of a vaudeville act in this language, ATHENS, GREECE, has celebrated the of the Schumann work done by Otto Berg, heard in Boston for half a century the event five year old composer of Chicago, has been conceal all possible of the beautiful scenery of America. which is taken from “The Billboard’s” contemporary, the orchestra leader of the Opera. is reported to have been one of the most two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the awarded the Paderewski Prize of one thousand Out of those theatrical posters came most of what we now “Variety.” birth of Bach, by performances of the St. successful of the season. dollars for the encouragement of American John Passion” and the “St. Matthew Pas- call “out-door advertising,” thus making a large part of “Dated material and uninspired THE CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHES¬ composers. ^ ^ salesmanship puts this mixed team in TRA of Amsterdam, Holland, celebrated in CHARLES MARTIN LOEFFLER, dean America appear like a huge riot of brilliantly colored poster the small time class. They throw May the fortieth anniversary of Willem Men- of American composers, passed away on May THE TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHES¬ atrocities. The twelve-sheet on the barnside, proclaiming everything possible into the soup and A “MASS PRO DEFUNCTIS (Mass for gelberg as its conductor. In recognition of 19th, at Medfield, Massachusetts. Born J an¬ TRA and Mendelssohn Choir held a two day come up with malarkey, neither their the Dead)” by an unknown composer of the the event there were two orchestral concerts uary 30,1861, at Mulhausen, Alsace, he studied Spring Festival in May, for which they tried the unbelievable wonders of “The most colossal, unsur¬ singing, dancing, musical work or gags, seventeenth century, had its first performance and two programs of chamber music, all de¬ violin under Rappoldi, Joachim, Massart and giving the programs more popular appeal and passable, unconquerable circus of the universe” soon grew the latter predominating, hold any¬ in America when given on May 15th, at the thing. voted to the compositions of Hollands com¬ Leonard, and composition under Kiel, Bar- reducing the prices of admission; with the up into other signs of vast dimensions which recently broke University of Pennsylvania, by a chorus of giel and Guiraud. He came to America in Girl is a flashy redhead, while man posers. result that for the first event, by the choir stamps himself as a comic via an up¬ two hundred voices under the leading of Dr. £•«— 1881, played under Theodore Thomas and out into electric lights and neon tubes advertising every¬ Harl McDonald. It had been secured from and orchestra, there were eight thousand in turned hat brim. As it turns out, she’s GEORGE L. LINDSAY, Director of Music Leopold Damrosch, and from 1885 to 1903 attendance, and for the second, by the choir thing that might be sold. the comic and he’s her straight, but, the historic Monserrat Monastery of Cata¬ Education in the Philadelphia Public Schools, shared with Franz Kneisel the first vio in lonia, by Dr. Jean Baptiste Befk, a noted and a five-piano team of leading pianists ot “The Billboard” is a very comprehensive publication. It considering their material, it makes was elected president of the Eastern Music desk of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, after the city, twelve thousand filled the Arena no difference either way. musicologist of the university. Educators Conference at its recent meeting which he retired to devote his time to com¬ Gardens. A hint to managers of similar en- includes everything from occasional reviews of grand opera Deuced here in a five-acter.” in Pittsburgh. position. Among his best known works are terprizes in other communities. to advertisements (pages of them) dealing with automatic THE MONTE CARLO opera season the symphonic poems, “A Pagan Poem, ‘La opened with a gala performance of Verdi’s Mort de Tintagles,” and “Memories of My game machines, looked upon by some as gambling devices, For the curious person, “The Billboard” reveals that there “Rigoletto,” with Desi Halban Kurz—a INDUSTRY’S RECOGNITION of music HANDEL’S “MESSIAH” recently had a is assuming great proportions.