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MSI toil* January* 5 UM IMQNITUE |WIP|THU |t II |3A ,8 '9 20 21 22 23 Zi t 26 27 23 2930 31 I r What Music Means to By Helen Keller — —- — )) Lovers Books for Duo- and Score The Yardstick of American Civilization New Hampton SERIES THE HAMPTON SERIES THE HAMPTON * **************** ARROW-SCORES TWO-PIANO FOUR-HAND ALBUMS MINIATURE playing is one of the scores while homes, in cottages, in modest apart- Two piano, four-hand Do you like to follow Since the dawn of history the extent to which a people partici- with the many, in farm pianists, or the most fascinating pastimes for listening to concerts, radio broadcasts Here it has always been an orchestral works? pate in music has been, perhaps, the most accurate yardstick ments, as well as in mansions. but unfortunately records of great of scores of extremely expensive pleasure because is your opportunity to buy Rimsky-Korsakow s of their civilization. Many nations have produced great com- the high cost of such arrangements. works such as Jubal (ninth lineal de- ob- Prokofieff s Classical Sym- In Genesis iv. 21, we are told that Hampton Publications removes this Scheherazade, vm v«« I posers and great musicians whose inspirations, more often twenty- and Tschaikowsky’s A utcracker stacle completely by assembling phony Nfchotm Riro*ky-K.T«Jtnw father of all such as scendant of Adam and Eve) was the two-piano arrange- Suite at a few cents each. Read the con- than not, came from the patronage of the art by the fashion- seven (27) interesting Srhrhcnndc eight Hampton Miniature classic and modern compositions tents of the handle the harp and organ.” In the history of every people ments of able and that Score Volumes listed below, and you will wealthy rather than from the natural desire of a at a price ($2.50 for both parts) Kutu^n Fa*t« down to realize that you not only get these scores since the beginning of time as we know it there are references brings the cost for each number people to understand and use a form of expression that raises incredibly low prices, but also the the almost incredible figure of less than at Score-reading, endorsed to musical instruments. Music meant something in Fourteen of the arrangements Arrow System of the soul and spirit above the common level. This very patron- music and JOt each. * thirteen by great educators such as Dr. Paul J. 1 are entirely new, and the other life savages, long before there Weaver of Cornell University and Dr. tuMrrn* age of music and musicians by the select classes reflected a the of every people, even the are standard arrangements formerly sold George Wedge of the Juilliard Music at from 50{? to $2.00 each. yearning for something which is not to be found in painting was a telegraph or a telephone pole or a railroad track or an School, is added without additional cost. or architecture or in the printed word. For in music the crea- automobile—perhaps even before there was a wheel! It ha9 CONTENTS tions of the great can be recreated by countless others. The remained for the people of the United States, however, to CONTENTS (Saeta) Albeniz *Cadiz Vol. 5 Stravinsky Ballets masterpiece of a Raphael Vol. I—Rimsky-Korsakow — can only be admired ; the master- democratize music, to use it in their daily lives, not re- for Arensky Waltz (Suite Op. IS) Petrouchka Scheherazade—Suite The Firebird (Sonata in D) Sacre du Printemps piece of a Beethoven can actually be performed. muneration or glory, for the inspiring, Bach, J. C. *Minuet Russian Easter—Overture but soothing and cura- Price Beethoven *Minuet in Eb 96 Pages—Price $1.00 192 Pages— $1.75 foreign editions S9.00 tive influence of this most popular fine (Cos( in foreign editions $6.00) (Cost in of the arts. Bizet Minuet ( L’Arlesienne) America is the greatest musical nation in the world, not so Boccherini Minuet in A Vol. 6—Modern Overtures much in the acclaimed achievements of a few great composers Joyeuse Marche Vol. 2 Mozart and Gluck In times of national emergency music takes on greater import- Chabrier — Tschaikowsky—‘‘1812" Solemn Over- Intermezzo (Intermede) and musicians as in the daily participation in Chaminade MOZART OVERTURES ture music—the ance as the most potent Dvorak—“Carnival" Overture and economical morale building Chopin Military Polonaise, Op. 40, No. 1 Abduction Seragliolmprcsario, The Brahms—"Academic Festival” actual performance, good, bad and indifferent, if you will Pizzicati (Sylvia) Cosi Fan Tutti Magic Flute, The — avocation available Delibes Valse Lcnte and Brahms "Tragic”’ to every man, woman and child in Amer- Marriage of Figaro — Dance (Henry VIII) Don Giovanni Goldmark “Sakuntala” of its millions of people, old and young, in German *Morris Idotneneus Cleinenza di Tito homes, in the 96 Pages Price $1.00 ica. “Only when man plays is man truly man,” concludes a ^'Shepherd’s Dance (Henry VIII) — primary GLUCK OVERTURES (Cost in foreign editions S6.00 schools, in the high schools and in colleges. There *Torch Dance (Henry VIII) great poet. Alceste are more pianos in use in Gliere *Dance of the Russian Sailors Iphigenia in Aulis this great democracy, per thousand Vol. 7—French Works Tarantelle, No. 2 Orpheus and Eurydice Heller Op. 85, Debussy Nocturnes of population, than in any other country in the world. The House of 96 Pages—Price $1.00 — More Kimball and its dealers take satisfaction in the Mendelssohn Canzonetta, Op. 44 (Clouds—Festivals—Sirens) (Cost in foreign editions $7.20) — pianos Bizet “L’Arlesienne” Suite No. 1 are made here annually, more are sold to a knowledge Moussorgsky *Hopak (Fair at Sorotschinsk) — people that Kimball pianos and pipe organs are among Bizet “L’Arlesienne” Suite No. 2 *Minuet (Divertimento in D) Berlioz—“Roman Carnival" Overture whose state of civilization Mozart is the highest ever known; for the essentials to Vol. 3 Beethoven Overtures Berlioz—“Damnation of Faust” Suite a people whose masses have attained higher Prokofieff *Gavotte (Classical Symphony) — Coriolan Leonore No. 1 96 Pages Price $1.00 civilization is measured, not by — the conspicuous achievements civilization and Rachmaninoff Finale (Concerto Op. 18) Leonore No. 2 culture than the masses of any other people Egmont (Cost in foreign editions S9.00) Prelude in s minor, Op. No. 3 Fidelio Leonore No. 3 of the few, but by the state of living C 1, and culture that prevails in the Prometheus world. Ravel *Pavane for a Dead Infanta 96 Pages—Price $1.00 Vol. 8—Russian and Rimsky- (Cost in foreign editions $5.00) Bohemian Works Korsakow ^Flight of the Bumble-Bee Rimsky-Korsakow—Coq d’Or (Suite) * *ValseTriste Ippolitow-Iwanow ****** * " r * te *or a Sibelius (Kuolema) comphnientary copy Vol. 4 Miscellaneous Works 1FrPP1 *** — Caucasian Sketches CC of our illustrated ***** Strauss *Tales from the Vienna Woods booklet—“The Tschaikowsky—Nutcracker Suite Smetana— Yardstick of American Civilization.” (Waltzes) Borodin —Prince Igor (Dances) The Moldau (Symphonic Poem) Tschaikowsky Sleeping Beauty (Waltz from Ballet) Enesco—Rumanian Rhapsody Smetana Prokofieff—Classical Symphony From Bohemia (Tone Poem) Price $2.50 (for both separate parts) 112 Pages—Price $1.25 112 Pages—Price $1.25 (Cost in foreign editions S8.25) (Cost in foreign editions S9.00) The starred, titles above are those of compositions that have either W. W. KIMBALL never been available for two-piano playing, or could be procured CO. only in old-fashioned arrangements. Particular attention is directed Drop a postcard in the mail for to the “Minuet in E” by Beethoven, the three English Dances by the descriptive brochure about Eighty-live Consecutive Years free, German, the Gavotte by Prokofieff, the “Favane” by Ravel and ail Hampton Miniature Arrow Scores other starred titles. KIMBALL HALL Copyright. W. W Kimball Co.. 19+1 CHICAGO HAMPTON PUBLICATIONS 400 MADISON AVENUE • NEW YORK CITY JANUARY, 1942 1 f I . ' . u M M M mmstl® majqjajnSv- Published Monthly By Theodore y presser Co., Philadelphia pa, EDITORIAL AND y ADVISORY ST A FI DR. JAMES FRANCIS COOKE. Editor Guy McCoy and Priscilla Brown, Asihtan/ Editors William M. Felton, Music Editor Robert Braine Dr. Henry S. Fry George i C Krick Dir, Rob Roy Peery KeO W. Gchrkens Blanche Lemmon P«ier Hugh Dr1 NichT'oNicholas llouty Elizabeth Reed Gest Dr. Guy Maier William PAPI, dis- Paul D. Revel li CENNARO Koepke N. Clifford Page IN TOUR of THERE AND EVERYWHERE conductor of FOUNDED 1S83 BY THEODORE FRITZ KREISLER’S CONCERT HERE. tinguished PRESS I: R Opera I some twenty-six appearances has been THE MUSICAL WORLD the Metropolitan cancelled or deferred until a later date. Company, died suddenly This seems to have been a precaution- in New York City on ary move, although assurance is given November 29, just a few injuries ORCHESTRAL ASSO- was to (Contents of his complete recovery from JUAN JOSE CASTRO, Argentine com- THE NATIONAL hours before he jor ^anuanj, traffic acci- Barzin, conductor, pre- the / 942 sustained last summer in a poser, was honored by the League of CIATION, Leon have conducted in November, at Carnegie Hall, mat- dent in New York City.