Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 4-1-1946 Volume 64, Number 04 (April 1946) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, and the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 64, Number 04 (April 1946)." , (1946). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/196 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PIETRO MASCAGNI LAURITZ MELCHIOR, sensational Wag- nerian tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, recently celebrated his twen- tieth anniversary with the organization. To commemorate the occasion a gala concert was arranged, in which a num- ber of his colleagues joined Mr. Melchior in singing excerpts from three of the Wagner operas. Following the concert there was a back-stage ceremony, in which all departments of the Metropol- itan, from the board of directors to the stage hands, joined in paying tribute to the distinguished tenor. AN INTERNATIONAL music festival will take place in Prague, Czechoslovakia, from May 11 to 31, in commemoration of the fiftieth birthday of the Czech Phil- harmonic Orchestra. Leonard Bernstein, composer, conductor; Samuel Barber, composer; and Eugene List, pianist, will attend, representing the U.S. cured free upon request to the National THE RESTORED Co- and Inter-American Music Week Com- lonial city of Williams- BERNARD ROGERS’ mittee, 315 Fourth Avenue, New York 10. burg, Virginia, is to have opera, “The Warrior,” a resumption of the fa- with libretto by Norman IIAROLD SHAPERO, of Newton Center, mous eighteenth century Corwin, has won the THE BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCIIES- Massachusetts, is the winner of the sec- concerts in the Palace prizes amounting to TRA, the first municipal symphony or- ond annual George Gershwin Memorial of the Royal Governors, $1,500 in the Alice M. chestra in the United States, observed its Contest sponsored by B’nai B’rith Victory which were such a de- Ditson Fund Contest thirtieth birthday on February 10, with Lodge of New York City. The award of lightful feature of the sponsored in collabora- a gala concert. Baltimoreans who were one thousand dollars was given to Mr. educational program of fouikl * tion with Columbia Uni- Bernard members of the first night audience on Shapero for his Serenade in D for string that city before the war. versity for a new short Rogers February 11, 1916, were guests of the orchestra. The winner, who is twenty-five As in previous concerts the featured opera by an American Baltimore Symphony Association. A fea- years old, in 1941 received the Prix de artist will be Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsi- composer and an American librettist. Un- ture of the program was the world pre- Rome of the American Academy. chordist, who will be assisted by Alex- der the terms of the contest, the Metro- could not have been obtained miere of “A Peace Overture,” by Gustav ander Schneider, violinist; Daniel Said- Company caliber politan Opera Association holds a year’s The National Broadcasting Strube, who was the first conductor of THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for enberg, violoncellist; and Jennie Tourel, option on the first performance of the the orchestra. American Composers and Conductors ob- mezzo-soprano. The concerts will run in any other way.” work. appreciates the honor conferred upon served in February its fourteenth anni- from May 13 to May 18. of contemporary ELLABELLE DAVIS, American Negro THE TWELFTH ANNUAL National Folk versary, with a program of ONE OF EXTRAORDINARY out- . the will held in the Music Hall, music representative of some the lead- THE its UNIVERSITY OF THE AIR of Digest, NBC owes a soprano, will make her grand opera debut Festival be To Magazine ing American composers. Among those croppings of World War II is the appear- this summer, when she sings the title Cleveland Public Auditorium, May 21 to whose works were on the program were ance of “The Tone Crier,” a musical implying a role of “Aida” with the Opera Nacional 25, inclusive. The event this year will be citation’s incisive words gratitude for recognizing the Ernest Bloch, Theodore Chanler, Virgil paper published in English in Vienna, debt of in Mexico City. Miss Davis, who will be part of Cleveland’s Sesquicentennial cele- Thomson, and Philip James. Austria. It is a six page sheet of the the first of her race to be starred by the bration and will be sponsored jointly by for continuing a high stand- Uni- The format of “PM,” giving news of the mu- challenge aims and accomplishments oi the Opera Nacional, was invited to take a Western Reserve University and OPERA GUILD sical activities of American soldiers in leading part in Mexico City’s gala opera Sesquicentennial Commission. THE METROPOLITAN conducting poll to find out Austria who have the privilege of engag- ard of program excellence: the Air. And NBC shares season as a result of her spectacular suc- has been a versity of popular with radio ing in musical activities during part of cess last summer in concert appearances THE TWENTY-THIRD annual observ- which operas are most votes already have their time. Reports of concerts, opera, in that city. ance of Music Week this year will have listeners and 20,000 liberal education scores of national and tours glee clubs, " Trail blazer of this honor with as its keynote, “Emphasize the Need for been tabulated for two lists of operas. On of and the activities of THE COVENT GARDEN OPERA HOUSE Music in the Post-war World.” It will be the first list, “Aida,” “Carmen,” and G.I. boys make very interesting reading. regardless their organizations — with in London, which was used as a dance celebrated from May 5 to 12, as Music "Tristan and Isolde” headed the group, Evidently the men overseas, who have for the masses , of international hall during the war, reopened on Feb- Week always begins the first Sunday in and on the second list, “Haensel and been interested in music, have made it ruary with series of programs letter suggestions has Gretel,” “Der Rosenkavalier,” and “Boris a point to take advantage of this great economic level, scholastic status or hundreds of world leaders who have 18, a by May. The 1946 of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet Company. Ac- been issued, and copies of it may be se- Godunoff” were the most popular. cultural opportunity. cording to latest reports, the first opera . educational place of residence participated in presenting season since the start of the war is sched- uled to begin in April, when the French OL CLoir J, nuiSi Opera Company, composed of leading op- ompetitionS " This pioneering college of the programs to the American people. c DR. KARL RIEDEL, for the last twenty- eratic artists of France, will give a five four years a conductor at the Metropol- to six-week season. Plans under the di- THE SEVENTH SUCCESSIVE Edgar A CASH AWARD of one thousand dol- itan Opera House in New York, died in tens thousands, ether has brought of rection of Boosey and Co. are under way, Stillman Kelley Junior Scholarship Audi- lars is the prize announced by the E. that city on February 2. University of the Air— currently offers The NBC also, for the organization of a new Eng- tions of the National Federation of Music Robert Schmitz School of Piano, San will this year open entrants Francisco, in connection with the creation SIR HUGH ALLEN, professor of music and co-ordinated four entertaining and instructive courses: lish opera company which will have its Clubs be to via the airwaves these at Oxford University, president permanent home in the opera house. from the Eastern Region. State auditions of The Debussy Prize for Pianists, do- and of are being conducted during April and nated by Mrs. William Pflugfelder of the Royal College of Organists, died in university course in citi- May, with the final audition taking place Garden City, Long Island, New York. booklets, a GEORGE SZELL, the Oxford, England, on February 20, at the The Story of Music. Thursdays during June. Details may be secured from The award will be made in September, eminent Czech conduc- age of seventy-six. Miss Etelka Evans, Chairman, Cincinnati 1946, to the contestant showing the high- history, music, litera- tor, been engaged to zenship, world The World’s Great Novels Fridays has Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio. est musical attainments in the presenta- RUDOLF KAREL, composer, professor at direct the Cleveland Or- tion of a required program of piano the Prague Conservatoire, arid member chestra, beginning with enter All ture, home economics ... To most of Home Is What You Make It Saturdays COMPOSERS are invited to a com- compositions by Claude Debussy. de- of the Czechoslovak Academy of Arts and the new season in Oc- petition for a new anthem to be added tails may be secured by addressing The Science, died on March 6, 1945. tober. He succeeds Erich to the Chapel Choir Series. The contest Secretary, The Debussy Prize for Pianists, this education college Our Foreign Policy Saturdays its students, of Leinsdorf, who has been is sponsored by the Chapel Choir Con- 3508 Clay Street, San Francisco 18, Cali- ARTHUR TUBBS, for almost forty years ductors’ Guild of Capital University, the orchestra’s conduc- fornia. dramatic and music critic of The Phila- Columbus, Ohio, and full details’ may be tor for the past three George delphia Evening Bulletin, died January secured by writing to Mrs.