Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 4-1-1943 Volume 61, Number 04 (April 1943) 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 61, Number 04 (April 1943)." , (1943). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/229 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]. It is not pleasant to have your peaceful life upset by wartime needs and . It is to restrictions and activities. not pleasant die, either. Between you who live at home and the men who die at the front there is a direct connection. ... By your actions, definitely, a certain number of these men will die or they will come through alive. If you do everything you can to hasten victory and do every bit of it as fast as you will save the lives of some men who will otherwise can . then, sure as fate you die because it you let the war last too long. .Think over. Till the war is won you cannot, in fairness to them, complain or waste or shirk. Instead, you will apply every last ounce of this thing done. ... In the name of and your effort to getting God your fellow man, that is your job. BY HIS DEEDS MEASURE YOURS vJOHN FALTER '-vuidn war i gamzation needs , your help. The Government rmed Citizens Service Corps as part of local Defense Councils. 3 8r° UP ' S 34 W° rk ' n your community, cooperate with it t thet limit of your ability. organize one If none existSi help to 66 b°° klet te »ing will be you what to do and how to do it to you g 3t nn charge if you win write to this magazine. 1 "is is your war u 1 neip win — it. Choose what you will do now ! every Civ ILIAN A FIGHTER ARTURO TOSCANINI and the NBC Symphony Orchestra paid a tribute to American composers in a program on February 7, when they played the joyous Comedy Overture on Negro Themes of Henry Gilbert; Night Soliloquy of Kent Kennan; The White Peacock of Charles Griffes; and the “Grand Canyon Suite” of Ferde Grofe. The last named work, now widely recognized as one of the great orchestral masterpieces of Ameri- can music, received a huge ovation. The miniature score recently has been issued by the Robbins Music Corp. ROY HARRIS’ “FIFTH SYMPHONY,” dedicated HERE, THERE, AN D EVERYWHERE to The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, had IN THE MUSICAL WORLD its world premiere when it was presented on the program, February 27, TIIE BACH CHOIR, under of the Boston Symphony BETHLEHEM hold its Orchestra, in Boston, Music Week, May 2-9 the direction of Ifor Jones, will and Serge Roy thirty-sixth Bach Festival Friday under the baton of Harris the 1943 Saturday, May 14 and 15, in Bethlehem, Koussevitzky. Describing by foolhardiness. They are "plenty tough” THE SPECIAL KEYNOTE of Pennsylvania. Works to be presented, in new symphony, Mr. Harris writes that not Music Week will be “Foster American the when the time comes, but they do in- the Music,” ac- addition to the “Mass in B minor,” he hoped in it to express qualities of lose their heads and this accounts in and World Unity Through of the Na- clude three motets; Cantatas, Numbers 4, American people which our popular dance measure for the almost fabulous cording to the announcement large and a Kyrie in minor. reveal. Inter-American Music Week 144, and 180; D music, by its very nature, cannot records of American gunners in the air. tional and programs will be pre- The success of “I Love Life,” so long a Committee. Special DESIRE DE FAUW, a member of the mu- by schools, churches, music clubs, PAUL KOEPKE, concert favorite, as a wartime song of sented V'.r of the Con- service ,K conductor staff of the Theodore Presser music teachers, women’s clubs, sic editorial inspiration, is a great surprise to many. certs Symphonique of is the winner of the prize of and many educational and recrea- Company, clubs, Jr Montreal, has been ap- hundred dollars in the composition tional agencies. This will be the twentieth one FREDERICK JACOBI’S “Ode for Or- vl pointed musical director of Music Week and contest of the Chicago Singing Teachers’ chestra" was given its premiere in Febru- annual observance ^ features will be and conductor of the Guild. His prize-winning song for voice ary, when it was played by the San one of the outstanding conducted on Chicago Symphony Or- and piano, entitled The Ivory Tower, is Francisco Symphony Orchestra under the the festival of music to be Federation of chestra for the season to lyrics written by Ensign Virginia direction of Pierre Monteux. the air by the National set of 1943-44. Hans Lange, Fager, U.S.N.R. It was selected as the Music Clubs. D6sirr con- Db Fauw associate conductor with best of more than two hundred manu- Suggestions for programs to be — be se- the late Frederick Stock scripts. (Competitions — ducted during Music Week may for seven years, will continue his con- cured from C. M. Tremaine, Secretary of will con- and Inter -American Music nection with the orchestra and SERGEI PROKOFIEFF’S cantata, “Alex- W. LEVENTRITT the National THE EDGAR Fourth Avenue, duct part of next season’s concerts. In Nevsky,” had its American pre- Week Committee, 315 ander FOUNDATION has announced that its addition, he also will direct the activi- City. on March 7, when it was presented open New York miere fourth annual competition will be ties of the Civic Orchestra, the train- di- by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, pianists and violinists between to both (WASHINGTON) PHIL- ing group of the Symphony Orchestra. Leopold Stokowski. Participat- players TIIE TACOMA rected by the ages of 17 and 25, instead of Mi-. De Fauw will be only the third di- event was the Westminster HARMONIC ORCHESTRA reports that it ing in the of only one of these instruments, as for- rector in the history of the Chicago Princeton, New Jersey. The has been able to complete a most success- Choir from merly. The winners will have appearances Symphony Orchestra, since its founding artistically and financially, cantata, which first was heard in 1939 in with the New York Philhar- ful season, next season incon- in 1891 by Theodore Thomas, who con- with the composer acting as despite restrictions and other Moscow, monic-Symphony Orchestra. Applications ducted imtil his death in 1905, to be of wartime necessity. With al- conductor, was developed from incidental be received until May 15, and full veniences will sixty- succeeded by Dr. Stock, who conducted Prokofieff had written for most half of its membership of music which details may be secured by addressing the from 1905 to 1942. made up of women players, the or- a Soviet film of the same name. The Foundation at 30 Broad Street, New five chestra, under its founder-director, Eu- work is considered especially timely, as York City. MERLE EVANS, director of the Hardin- expulsion Linden, presented a series of four it deals with the defeat and gene Simmons University Cowboy Band, has by concerts, at two of which the soloists from Russia of the German invaders, COMPOSI- resigned in order to return to Ringling THE FIRST STUDENT were Mona Paulee, Metropolitan audition the national hero, Alexander Nevsky. the Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. TION CONTEST, sponsored by tenor. winner, and Theo. Karle, noted director of the circus National Federation of Music Clubs, Evans, who was SERGEI RACHMANINOFF, Russian com- open to native born composers between band for twenty-four years, gave up that HUTCHESON, distinguished poser-pianist, and Mrs. Rachmaninoff the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, is ERNEST position last summer, when the entire and president of the became citizens of the United States at a announced by the president of the Fed- pianist, composer, band was ordered out on strike due to a Patterson Gannett. Music, was awarded in New York on February 1. eration, Mrs. Guy Juilliard School of controversy over wages. ceremony classifications with prizes Music become a United There are two an honorary degree of Doctor of “I am very happy to each of fifty and .twenty-five dollars in at the midwinter com- citizen in this land of opportunity on January 24, CARLTON COOLEY, former viola player States classification. The national chairman of Rachmaninoff’s mencement of Rutgers University. with the Philadelphia Orchestra, was and equality,” was Mr. the Student Composition Contest is the following the event. Amercan composer and au- represented on the program of that or- comment distinguished ADELE LEWING, pian- thor, Miss Marion Bauer, 115 WesP Sev- ganization when his “Caponsacchi,” an teach- enty-third Street, New York City, from ist, composer, and epic poem for orchestra, had its first MANA ZUCCA’S “I Love all details may be procured. er, died on February 16 hearing Friday after- apparently one whom Philadelphia on Life” is City, at in New York noon, February 12, with a repetition on the great hits of the of are an- the age of eighty-two. evening, February 13.