Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 11-1-1948 Volume 66, Number 11 (November 1948) 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 66, Number 11 (November 1948)." , (1948). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/167 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]. 0 \A\ CO ^ , c\ The Board of Directors Of the National The Orchestre National of Prance, Under Federation of Music Clubs, at its fiftieth recently in the direction of Charles Munch, gave a anniversary meeting held favoring an concert in New York City on October 17, Chicago, went on record as International the opening event in a tour which will extension of the Club’s This resulted cover nearly forty cities of the United Music Relations program. calling upon States and Canada. This is the first in their passing a resolution an Inter- foreign orchestra to visit the United the United Nations to establish II. dedicated to pro- States since the close of World War national Music Week, moting harmony among nations through Santoliquido’s Opera, “Ferhuda,” has been the medium of music. announced for production in Boston next April by Armando Masini, General Di- rector of the Florentine Music Associa- distinctive The Choir Invisible tion. Santoliquido has a very harmonic and interesting melodic and Eugene C. Cowles, composer and emi- with a gift. The opera concerns itself nent basso of concert and opera, died to do with story set in Tunis, and has September 22, in Boston, at the age of Arabian life. eighty-eight. Born in Stanstead, Quebec, Mr. Cowles became an American citizen for Contempo- the The International Society in 1888, and the same year joined for its rary Music has announced dates Bostonians Company, remaining with allow next festival, in plenty of time to them until 1898. His Will Scarlet in composers of all countries to submit their was one of his most nota- of the Library at Washington, D. C. Dr. “Robin Hood” festival—the society’s twenty- 1948-49 for ma- compositions, the best works. The Duncan Emrich, chief of the Library's nounces fellowships for ble roles. Of his will be held at Palermo, Sicily, in musical composition. Forgotten. third, Folk Song Division, has supervised the ture students known is his song. April 22nd to 30th, 1949. There will be government The fellowships are open to any citizen fits the spirit unique project, in which our give at Christmas extra programs besides those of the United States for one year be- Nothing you can actually making records of native of the Jan Saviit, orchestra leader, who began international juiy. is possi- a works selected by the ginning October 1, 1949, with a as a piano, tor folk music of great interest to musicolo- his career as a youth in the Philadelphia occasion so perfectly whose seventy-fifth All applications must of the Arnold Schoenberg, the general public. bility of renewal. died suddenly on October 4, honored gists and to Orchestra, opportunity all birthday falls next year, will be be received by February 1, 1949. All in- his music, love, faith and in Sacramento, California. Following piano is with a special concert. may be secured by addressing Harriet Cohen, the eminent British formation studies with Carl Flesch, Fritz Reiner, beautiful instrument. in the Executive Secretary, American was. up in one pianist, is recovering at her home and Artur Rodzinski, Mr. Savitt wrapped beautiful new Wurlitzer Jose Pablo Avenue, New This is the Three Mexican Composers— serious accident to her Academy in Rome, 101 Park Station and later thoughtful con- in London, from a connected with WCAU thoughtful gift deserves 430. You may have it Eduardo Hernandez Moncado, N. Y. Such a Model Moncayo, right arm. Carrying a tray of glasses, York 17, with Station KYW. He then organized shown, figured walnut Luis Sandi—were commissioned by mahogany, as and Miss Cohen slipped on her kitchen floor, his own “name” band which won na- sideration. invite you to see the Institute of Fine Arts of Mexico to The Copyright Office of the Library of , or blond oak. We cutting the artery in her arm and par- tional fame. and consider this. grand, up- write one -act operas to form a triple bill her Congress has issued a complete catalog your choice carefully, the many other Wurlitzer tially severing the nerve. Although Make for a four-week season of opera at the music published and registered in the Spinette and student pianos doctors promise eventual recovery, she of leading organ pianos than those of right, which was sched- with a complete John T. Austin, one of the buy Wurlitzer of styles Palacio de Bellas Artes, cancel a crowded season of United States, together More people available in a wide variety has had to builders of the United States, and to open September 15. Later reports the music published abroad and the du- uled concerts in England, on the Continent, list of Company, and finishes, including which delayed This will founder of the Austin Organ other name. tell of union difficulties response to wide- deposited here for copyright. any . fabric. and jn the USA. In in Hartford, Con- rable new Wurlitzer plastic season. -needed comprehensive died on September 17, in making this the opening of the requests, however, Miss Cohen supply a much good judgment not listed spread necticut, at the age of sevety-nine. Mr. You are exercising If your Wurlitzer dealer is bibliography of all music available in will devote her enforced rest to a series known for telephone direc- opened should be of Austin was internationally overwhelming leadership in your classified The Houston Symphony Orchestra May onward, the United States, which too, because the of Master Classes. From to the development of choice, information. the musical direc- value to librarians, music crit- his contribution tory, write for complete its first season under Miss Cohen will hold, in London, a immense you this teachers, the modern organ, and he held numerous it possible to bring of Efrem Kurtz on November 1. ics, radio stations, music dealers, Wurlitzer has made tion Master Class for teachers and advanced instru- of was the world patents on improvements to the Included on the program from the USA. and students. price. students ment. Mr. Austin organized the Austin fine instrument at a moderate premiere of the “Children’s Suite” from Organ Company (now Austin Organs, the Republic Pictures film, “The Red in 1898, and continued as its head DE KALB, ILLINOIS Pony,” for which Aaron Copland wrote Inc.) WURLITZER COMPANY, retirement in 1937. THE RUDOLPH the music. The suite consists of six until his movements.: 1. Morning on the Ranch; Gordon, violinist-conductor, 2. The Gift; 3. Dream March and Circus Jacques years conductor Music; 4. Walk to the Bunkhouse; 5. founder, and for many Quartet, died Grandfather's Story; 6. Happy Ending. of the Gordon String September 15 in Hartford, Connecticut, a Paul Olefsky, twenty-two-year -old ’cell- at the age of forty-nine. Mr. Gordon, formerly concert- ist of The Philadelphia Orchestra, has native of Russia, was Or- been appointed principal ’cellist for the master of the Chicago Symphony quartet season 1948-49. Mr. Olefsky, youngest chestra. He organized his string head member of the Orchestra, a graduate of in 1921. In 1942 Mr. Gordon became the Curtis Institute of Music, succeeds of the violin department of the Eastman Samuel Mayes, who resigned to become School of Music in Rochester. He was the principal ’cellist of the Boston Symphony. the recipient several years ago of Mr. Olefsky was the winner of the Naum- Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal for berg prize last year, which entitles him Distinguished Service to Music in the to a recital in November in Town Hall, United States. New York City. Rupert D’Oyly Carte, proprietor of the Jean Graham, pianist of Dayton, Ohio, famed D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, is the winner of the ninth annual con- died September 12 in London at the age test of the Edgar M. Leventritt Founda- of seventy-one. Son of Richard D’Oyly tion. The award includes an appear- Carte, founder of the D’Oyly Carte Com- ance with the New York Philharmonic- pany, he grew up in the tradition of the Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and for Stokowski. Miss Graham has studied in thirty-five years following the death of recently Dayton and Chicago, and more his father, Rupert D’Oyly Carte main- in New York with Ernest Hutcheson and tained a close personal interest in the Isabella Vengerova. IN FAR-OFF KOREA company. The Library of Congress has just issued direct- Harry Barnhart, choral conductor. Who The Seoul Philharmonic Symphony Or- National Conservatory of Music, a combined catalog of Phonograph Rec- started com- his Capriccio. The regular director is credited with having Music of the United chestra of sixty-seven members gave two ing ords of the Folk in the United States, group is Ralph Jacoby of New munity singing Latin America. The catalog concerts before an audience of fifteen of this States and September 3 in New York City at music lovers in the foothills York, a graduate of the Cologne Con- died is fifty pages in length and may be ob- thousand The servatory and well known in Europe the age of seventy-four.