Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 7-1-1951 Volume 69, Number 07 (July 1951) John Briggs Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Fine Arts Commons, History Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, Music Education Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, Music Performance Commons, Music Practice Commons, and the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation Briggs, John. "Volume 69, Number 07 (July 1951)." , (1951). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/138 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]. JULY 1951 40 CENTS magazine• .A" Special Jssue Commemorating the :R.e-opening oj the Bayreuth 1estival On July 29, f95f, and the 75th HHiversary oj THE OLD AND THE NEW . • • Bob Jones Universi~ stands without apology lor t~e Symphony-less Detroit will have Music Educators National Con- its own orchestra next year, spon- ference, will conduct workshop old-time religion sored by a group of Detroit music- courses at the University of Colo- lovers. (See" Dilemma in Detroit, II rado this summer. and t~e ETUDE, April 1951) ... Corn- Hunter College in New Y ork absolute authority 01 the Bible. poser Roy Harris and his pianist City last month presented first wife lohono Harris will join the American performances of two It believes faculty of Pennsylvania College for one-act operas by European com- Women next fall ... Ernst von posers, "Comedy on the Bridge," in the standards 01 dec Dohnanyi, Hungarian composer, by Bohuslov Martinu, and will conduct an advanced seminar "Judgment Day" by Paul Berl. and integrty this month at San Francisco's In a single day last month, ,n the Old Boo, Music and. Arts Institute. Eugene Orm"ndy of the Phila- Serge Koussevitzky will open delphia Orchestra received invita- the Berkshire Festival on July 7 tions to conduct in four different with an all·Bach program. The corners of the globe. Bids came Bob J nes University hili July 14,program will be all- Haydn, from the Nippon Philharmonic in that of .July 21 all-Mozart ... Tokyo, the Argentine Slate Orches- beau lui new campUl With Saul Caston conducting, tra in Buenos Aires, the Australian the fifth annual Red Rocks Festi- Broadcasting Commission and a ith up.to.dat~ val of the Denver Symphony will group of impresarios planning a open July 6 . This year's tour of South America. uilding ond equipment. Salzbu.rg Festival will be inaugu- The House Ways and Means It believes rated July 27 with a performance Committee has approved the Mo- of Mozart's "Idomeneo." rano Bill, H. R. 2524, exempting Students profit from 0 Dr. George Howerton, pro· grand' opera and non-profit sym· Bob Jones University. in sane nd reasonable lessor of music history at North- phonic organizations from Federal m dern methods western University since 1931, will admissions taxes. This marks the become dean of the University's first favorable action taken by the School of Music on Sept. 1 . committee on removal of the war- Students have the advantages of the most modern equipment in Ity Dr. Etltvin Franko Goldlnan time admissions tax, which musi- radio station WMUU as elsewhere in Bob Jones University. last month received the Lincoln cal organizations maintain is caus- youn eople are Award of Abraham Lincoln High ing financial hardship to and may School "for his services to the lead to suspension of many of the nesses to eternal and unchanging City of New York." ... 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