Volume 62, Number 10 (October 1944)

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1 Gardner-Webb Unversty Dgtal Gardner-Webb Unversty The Etude Magazne: John R Dover Meoral Lbrary Volue 62, Nuber 0 (October 944) Jaes Francs Cooke Follow ths and addtonal works at: Part of the Coposton Coons, Musc Pedagogy Coons, and the Musc Perforance Coons Recoended Ctaton Cooke, Jaes Francs "Volue 62, Nuber 0 (October 944)", (944) Ths Book s brought to you for free and open access by the John R Dover Meoral Lbrary at Dgtal Gardner-Webb Unversty It has been accepted for ncluson n The Etude Magazne: by an authorzed adnstrator of Dgtal Gardner-Webb Unversty For ore nforaton, please contact dgtalcoons@gardner-webbedu

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3 , Aerca s No Network AN OPERETTA, SONG OF NORWAY, about Edvard Greg and usng uch of hs usc, had a ost successful openng recently n New York Cty Epsodes n the lfe of the great Norwegan coposer contrbute to the story, and any of hs ost falar and hauntng elodes are adapted to the uscal score In the excellent cast s Irra Petna, soprano of the Metropoltan Opera Assocaton presented by NBC Unversty of the Ar Course n Musc of the New World The broadcasts of "Musc of the New World begn October 2, and nclude thrty-eght weekly half-hour progras Ttled "Musc n Aercan Ctes, the seres traces the contrbutons to Aercan usc fostered n the populaton centers, both large and sall, of the WesternHesphere Boston, cradle of relgous usc and the sngng school La, Peru, center of vceregal usc Wllasburg, focus of uscal enterprse n the Colones fro early days to the present "Musc n Aercan Ctes broadcast Thursdays at :30 p (EWT) by the Natonal Broadcastng Copany and the ndependent rado statons assocated wth the NBC network ebraces three an approaches: a) Chef hstorcal uscal contrbutons; b) Copostons about ctes; c) Musc by coposers defntely dentfed wth certan ctes "Musc of the New World and ts copanon NBC Unversty of the Ar courses are broadcast as a publc servce for the advanceent of educaton and entertanent under the Aercan syste of free enterprse, operatng n the nterests of a free people Natonal Broadcastng Copany A Servce «Rado Corporaton ot * FRANCO AUTORI, conductor of the Buffalo Phlharonc Orchestra, who has just fnshed hs frst season wth the Chautauqua Syphony Orchestra as successor to the late Albert Stoessel, has been reapponted as conductor for the suer season of 945 SOLOISTS, to the nuber of twenty-seven, have been engaged by the New York Phlharonc-Syphony Orchestra for the new season whch opens on October 5 Aong these are Zno Prancescatt, Jascha Hefetz, Erca Morn, Frtz' Kresler, saac Stern, Gregor Patgorsky, Claudo Arrau, Josef Hofann, Wanda Landowska, Rudolf Serkn, Kerstn Thorborg, Charles Kullan, and John Brownlee SAMUEL BARBER'S Voln Concerto was ncluded n one of the recent progras of the ffteth season of Sr Henry Wood s Proenade Concerts at Albert Hall n London, wth the Australan volnst, Eda Kersey, as solost THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON opera broadcasts of the Metropoltan Opera Assocaton are to be contnued for sx years under the ters of a contract recently announced by the Metropoltan Opera Assocaton, the Texas Copany, and the Blue Network Under the agreeent, the Texas Copany contnues as the sponsor for the cong season, wth THE SIXTEENTH BIENNIAL YOUNG ARTISTS AUDITIONS of the Natonal Federaton of Musc Clubs, whch carry awards of $000 each n pano, voln, and voce classfcatons, wll be held n New York Cty n the sprng of 945 State audtons wll begn around March, 945, wth dstrct audtons, for whch the State wnners are elgble, followng The exact date of the Natonal Audtons wll be announced later All detals ay be secured fro the Natonal Charan, Mss Ruth M Ferry, 24 Edgewood Avenue, New Haven, Connectcut A PRIZE OF A $,000 WAR BOND wll be the award n a naton-wde copetton conducted by the Cncnnat Syphony Orchestra, for the wrtng of a Jublee Overture to celebrate the ffteth annversary of the orchestra, whch takes place durng the cong season The copetton s open to all Aercan ctzens and works subtted ust be between ten and ffteen nutes n length and wrtten especally for the annversary AN AWARD OF $,000 to encourage the wrtng of Aercan operas n general, and of short operas n partcular, s announced by the Alce M Dtson Fund the opton for the broadcastng rghts for the reanng fve years JOSEPH BONNET, dstngushed French organst, who had ade hs hoe n New York Cty snce 940, ded on August 2 at Ste Luce sur Mer, near Rousk, Quebec Just last year he had been gven charge of the organ class of a newly fored conservatory of usc n Quebec Mr Bonnet was born at Bordeaux, France, on March 7, 884 He was for soe years organst of the Church of St Eustache n Pars, and succeeded Alexandre Gulant as organst of the Socety of Concerts of the French Conservatory He had ade several world tours before the war LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI wll return ths onth to the New York Cty Cester as usc drector of the New York Cty Syphony He wll drect the orchestra C^opettond of Coluba Unversty and the Metropoltan Opera Assocaton The opera ust be not over seventy-fve nutes n length and by a natve or naturalzed Aercan ctzen The closng date s Septeber 945 and full detals ay be secured fro Erc T Clarke, Metropoltan Opera Assocaton, Inc, New York, 8, New York THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONTESTS for Young Artsts, sponsored by the Socety of Aercan Muscans, s announced for the season The classfcatons nclude pano, voce, voln, voloncello, and organ, wth varous ages for each group The contests wll begn about February, 945, and all entres ust be n by January 5 Full detals wth entrance blank ay be secured fro Mr Edwn J Geer, Sec-Treas, 50 Kball Buldng, Chcago, Illnos THE SOCIETY FOR THE PUBLICA- TION OF AMERICAN MUSIC has announced twenty-sxth annual co- ts petton Coposers who are Aercan ctzens (natve or naturalzed) are nvted to subt anuscrpts These should be aled between October and Noveber Full detals ay be secured fro Mrs Helen L Kaufann, 59 West Twelfth Street, New York, New York HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE IN THE MUSICAL WORLD n a seres of sx pars of concerts on Monday evenngs and Tuesday afternoons THE NEW YORK LITTLE SYMPHONY, Joseph Barone, drector, wll present a seres of sx concerts on Frday nghts durng the cong season As forerly, the orchestra wll ntroduce young Aercan solosts, conductors, and coposers n foral debuts These nclude Donaldna Lew, soprano; Wlla Bodkn, bartone: Mary Mchna, panst; Albert Brusloff, volnst: and Harry Hewtt, coposer A NEW NOTE n ndustral recreatonal actvtes was regstered n August when the eployees of the Gruen Watch Copany were guests of the copany anageent at a perforance of Rgoletto, gven by the Cncnnat Suer Opera Assocaton at the Cncnnat Zoologcal Gardens FRITZ KREISLER S next rado appearance wll be on October 9 The reanng dates n the NBC Telephone Hour seres, whch began July 7, are January, February 9, and Aprl 6, of 945 AN ANNUAL COMPETITION to be called the Ernest Bloch Award has been establshed by the Unted Teple Chorus of Long Island, for the best work for woen s chorus based on a text fro or related to the Old Testaent The Award s one hundred and ffty dollars, wth publcaton of the wnnng work guaranteed The closng date s Deceber, and all detals ay be secured fro the Unted Teple Chorus, Lawrence, Long Island A PRIZE OF ONE HUNDRED DOL- LARS s offered by The H W Gray Copany, Inc to the coposer of the best anthe subtted n a contest sponsored by The Aercan Guld of Organsts The closng date s January', 945 Full nforaton ay be secured fro The Aercan Guld of Organsts, 630 Ffth Avenue, New Y'ork 20, New York THE EIGHTH ANNUAL PRIZE SONG COMPETITION, sponsored by the Chcago Sngng Teachers Guld, s announced The award one hundred s dollars, wth guarantee of publcaton of the wnnng song Manuscrpts ust be aled between October frst and ffteenth, and full detals ay be secured fro Mr E Clfford Toren, 3225 Foster Avenue, Chcago 25, Illnos OCTOBER, 944 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC MRS HARRIET AYER SEYMOUR, a leadng Aercan poneer n the Held of uscal therapy, ded on July 30 n New York Cty, at the age of sxty-eght She was wdely known as an advocate of the use of usc as a cure for certan fors of llness Mrs Seyour was born n Chcago and was educated uscally n Gerany For a nuber of years she was on the faculty of the Insttute of Muscal Art Largely as a result of her observatons of the healng power of usc n her hosptal work durng the Frst World War, Mrs Seyour founded the Seyour School of Muscal Re-educaton In 94 she establshed the Natonal Foundaton of Muscal Therapy, of whch she was presdent THORNTON W ALLEN, New York coposer and usc publsher, ded on July 30 at Hyanns, Massachusetts Included aong hs any actvtes was a perod of eghteen years as anagng edtor of Muscal Courer whle stll n college he won fae as the coposer of the Washngton and Lee Swng, whch he wrote for hs ala ater Followng ths he fored a usc publshng copany and wrote, on request, a great any college songs LEON SAMETINI, head of the voln departent of the Chcago Muscal College, ded on August 20 He had been on the staff of the Chcago Muscal College about forty years Mr Saetn was born n Rotterda, Holland, and becae known as the nfant prodgy of the Netherlands At the age of ffteen he was a protege of Queen Wlhelna and was presented by her on a concert torn- At sxteen he was graduated fro the conservatory at Prague After cong to the Unted States he appeared as solost wth the Chcago Syphony Orchestra SIR HENRY WOOD, well known Brtsh conductor who was just about to celebrate hs ffteth annversary as a baton welder, ded on August 9, n London He was faous for havng naugurated n 895 the Proenade Concert seres, whch n June of ths year opened ts golden jublee season n Albert Hall, only to be bobed at the very frst concert Sr Henry was born n ( Contnued on Page 62) Sr Henry Wood 553

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Frederck Knsley 569 Tepo Rhyth, and Phrasng Carol M Ptts 570 percusson Instruents Need Care! Wlla D Revell 57 The Etude Honor Roll 572 * The Volnst s Foru Harold Berkley 573 Questons and Answers Dr Karl W Gehrkens 57 Creatng a Durable Muscal Meory Andor Foldes 575 Muscal Fathers and Sons Paul Nettl 576 Technc of the Month Fnale, fro Rhapsode Hongrose No 6 by Franz Lszt Dr Guy Maer 597 MUSIC Classc and Conteporary Selectons Dance of the Skeletons Mlo Stevens 577 Leaves n the Wnd Percy W MacDonald 578 Roance R Schuann, Op 28 No Souvenr of Old Venna Francesco DeLeone 582 He Leadeth Me (fro More Concert Transcrptons of Favorte Hyns") Wlla B Bradbury (Trans, by Clarence Kohlann 584 Flckerng Candles Harold Locke 586 The Juggler Carl Wlhel Kern, Op 92, No Vocal and Instruental Copostons Show Me the Way (Sacred Song Hgh Voce) H Alexander Matthews 588 Ase s Death, fro Peer Gynt (Voln & Pano) Edvard Greg ( Edted by F E Hahn) 590 Mornng Prayer (Organ) (fro Ges of Masterworks") Peter I Tschakowsky (Arr by Paul Tonner) 59 Delghtful Peces for Young Players Dance of the Lttle Wooden Shoes (fro Sde by Sde") (Pano Duet) Ella Ketterer 592 Fath of Our Fathers (Pano Duet) (fro Favorte Hyns ) Henry F Hey (Arr by Ada Rchter) 592 Who s Afrad? Wlla Seller 594 Coe Trp Along H P Hopkns 595 Gpsy Rondo (fro The Chld Haydn ) F J Haydn (Arr by Ruth Bapton) 595 Technc of the Month Fnale, fro Rhapsode Hongrose, No 6 Franz Lszt (Wth lesson by Dr Guy Maer) 596 THE JUNIOR ETUDE Elzabeth Gest 608 MISCELLANEOUS The Wnnah" (Mare Rogndahl) Voce Questons Answered Dr Ncholas Douty 599 Organ and Chor Questons Answered Dr Henry S Fry 60 Voln Questons Answered Harold Berkley 603 Entered as second-class atter January 6, 884 at the P O at Phla Pa under the Act of March 3, 879 Copyrght, 944, by Theodore Presser Co, for U S A and Great Brtan $250 a year n U S A and Possessons, Argentna, Bolva, Brazl Coloba G ' Rca Cuba, Doncan Republc Ecuador, El Salvador Guateala Mexco Ncaragu Paraguay, Republc of Honduras, Span Peru and Uruguay Canada and V foundland, $275 a year All other countres, $350 a year Sngle copy, Prce 25 cents I THE ETUDE DURING the past four staggerng years llons of people have rsen each ornng and, lookng up to the deathfraught skes, have realzed that the new day ght be ther last They have asked theselves, What s gong on n the unverse to brng about ths onstrous condton? As they vew the tornado of fre, ther thoughts have gone out to the valant en and woen ther beloved husbands, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, ssters, and sweethearts who have staked ther all to put, out the fre so that we ay go on n a world of peace dreang, creatng, constructng, laughng, lovng, playng, and prayng for a better knd of lfe Strange, very strange, t s that for unknown centures Man has been tryng to lnk terrestral harony wth the spheres However fancful the dea ay see to odern scence, t engaged the agnaton of at least two of the foreost scentsts of ancent tes and was accepted by llons of people; The Chnese, n the d past, were aong the frst to dvne a connecton between the heavenly bodes and the tones of the pentatonc scale Ages before odern astronoy and ts fabulously ntrcate atheatcal coputatons were known, the wse en and the uscans of Cathay, vewng the heavens wth ther naked eyes, were assgnng the naes of planets to the tones of the scale Later on, n Greece, Pythagoras ( B C,), accordng to hs dscples (as Pythagoras left no bocks), saw even ore defnte relatons between the planets and usc Thus, one of the greatest Greek phlosophers, atheatcans, and astronoers presented the followng, represented n odern notaton by Dr Ralph Dunstan and known as the Syste of the Seven-Strnged Lyre : o -c o u -*-> H L 0) O- o- D o o u H w CD o OCTOBER, 944 Nete; lowest (shortest) strng, hghest note; lkened to the Moon Paranete; next to lowest (strng) ; lkened to Venus Paraese; next to Mese; lkened to Mercury Mese; ddle strng; prncpal or keynote; to the Sun Lchanos; forefnger strng; lkened to Mars SJL WMC of L SphereS THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES Ths faous pcture by the enent Englsh panter, G F Watts, has frequently been called "The Musc of the Spheres," although the artst enttled t "Hope" lkened Parhypate; next to Hypate; lkened to Jupter Hypate; hghest (longest) strng; lowest note; lkened to Saturn Edtoral Note that two great cvlzatons for centures held that usc sprang fro the haronous otons of heavenly bodes Even though t be yth, t s a persstent yth Myths have wonderful vtalty wtness alchey (stll practced clandestnely even n our bg, flourshng ctes), and astrology, the hundred-llondollar racket, whch even ts vcts subconscously realze s nonsense Thus, wth the usc of the spheres Even Shakespeare wrote poetcally: There s not the sallest orb that thou beholdest But n hs oton, lke an angel sngs, Stll qtrrng to the young-eyed Cherub Dr Roy K Marshall, Assstant Drector of the Planetaru at the faous Frankln Insttute n Phladelpha, ponts n the Insttute s lbrary to a work by a conteporary of Shakespeare who was possbly the greatest phlosopher, atheatcan, and astronoer of hs era, Johannes Kepler ( A D) The book s known as De Haronce Mund - and was dedcated to Jaes I of England Kepler showed that the planes of the orbts of the planets passed through the center of the Sun, the ovng factor n the great planetary syste What was rearkable fro a uscal standpont was hs atheatcal coparson of the uscal ntervals to planetary oveents, whch he thought was as portant as hs other dscoveres The harony and rhyth of the oveent of the planets seeed a very real thng to h, although he coprosed hself by drawng fcttous horoscopes for the Eperor and for Wallensten, a concesson to superstton whch he explaned was a necessty for exstence Could the theores of ths strange ystc, regardng the harony of the spheres, at soe te prove of practcal advantage to an? Who knows? Leonardo da Vnc, who ded four centures ago, spent uch of hs lfe deplorng the fact that an could not fly, and ade desgns for flyng achnes whch are surprsngly lke our own n ths day He was laughed to scorn for even dreang of such an possble thng as flyng Dr Marshall always has taken a curous nterest n the uscal speculatons of Kepler, because he s hself an accoplshed volnst Possbly through the unversalty of ther professon, astronoers, peerng out to the varous unverses wth whch we are surrounded, take greatest nterest n all phases of lfe, notably the arts Many have been nterested n usc Galleo Galle ( ), whose developent cf the Dutch nventon, the telescope, brought the vson of the heavens thrty tes nearer the earth, was rased n the hoe of hs father, (Contnued on Page 62) 555

5 , Musc and Culture Beware a Dscordant Voces ly 2) 'llar (Rander D J Mar Gancher (b New York, N Y, July 3, 899) began usc study at the age of fre and has confnued hs uscal actvtes ever snce Aong hs any teachers have been Otto Schweers, Henry Levey, Alberto Han, and Warren Heddon, For ten years (99-929) he played pano n theater orchestras He then becae nterested n busness and has snce devoted hs te to the anufacture of personal addng achnes, takng over the anageent of a forty-year -old fr (Autoatc Addng Machne Manufacturers) then nearng bankruptcy, whch he brought to prosperty despte the prophecy of hs frends, who sad, Nobody can brng that busness back ; least of all a uscan' Today he s the owner of the busness Musc then becae hs hobby and hs joy n hs hoe lfe T HE GREEKS agan had a word for t cacophony (pronounced ca-cof'-ony) Ths strange, badsoundng ter eans just that bad sounds, or ore precsely, the condton charactertzed by harsh, dscordant sounds In the feld of uscal perforance there are four sources of cacophony Whether or not conscously felt, these cacophonous stuatons do annoy us all They lead not only to a state of crankness, but worse they prevent the asprng uscan fro attanng the profcency whch he so ardently seeks For ths reason, both the teacher and student ust becoe acquanted wth these sources of cacophony, so that every conscous effort ay be ade to eradcate the fro the usc roo, or fro earshot of the uscan Eewara ol Cacophonous Coposers What are the sources of cacophony for the perforer? Brefly, they are the cacophones ntroduced by the coposer, by the perforer hself, by the nstruent; and lastly, but ost portant, by the envronent Wc ay pass over the cacophones ntroduced by the coposer wth the hopeful reark that acceptance of a coposton by a publsher assures the perforer of the nu aount of nose Much undue condenaton, however, s heaped upon the coposer when cacophony wrongly attrbuted to h actually proceeds ether fro the perforer s nablty to do h justce, or fro perforance on an nferor or unsutable nstruent; or, ore lkely than not, fro hearng the coposton aganst extraneous sounds n the envronent For exaple, play a Bach three-part fugue If soeone n the roo now starts to carry on a conversaton, that conversaton nvarably becoes the unntended fourth and leadng part n the tonal coplex thus created, destroyng, of course, the entre coposton Bach, palpably, ust not be held accountable for condtons beyond hs control Beware of Cacophonous Perforers The perforer s contrbuton to cacophony s all too obvous Not only the sultaneous strkng of dsordant tones, but also the strkng of sngle tones n arcng volaton of rhyth, of nuance, of uscal eanng n general all these are here ncluded wthn the eanng of the ter Whatever the perforer does to dsplease or shock our ears, by so uch does he contrbute to cacophony n usc It s, of course, the responsblty of the teacher and the duty of the pupl to seek, by proper educatonal procedure and practce, to reove ths ost evdent varety of annoyance Even though the teacher be a Carl Czerny, and hs pupl a Franz Lszt, stll cacophony wll not have been eradcated f perforance s pertted on an llsoundng, or napproprate, nstruent A pano out of tune s one of the ost tortuous of afflctons to the cultured ear How so any hoes can endure panos so out of tune that perforance upon the, even by Edtor's Noth D J MARI GANCHER IN HIS MUSIC ROOM a vrtuoso, would be ntolerable how parents wll yet attept to rase uscal chldren despte such atroctes of neglgence all ths, anfestedly, s a proble fallng ore n the sphere of psychatry than of usc Beware of Cacophonous Instruents It ought to be clear to any parent, to any student, that pleasng usc cannot be gotten out of an nstruent that can produce only foul tones Obvously, the reedy 556 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC coe to our ears as so any thuds ana thups Obvously a coposton played effectvely on a prnno a Pano store or on a concert stage, ght well sound cacophonous when played equally well on the sae pano n our hoe But even though the coposton, the perforer, and the nstruent are faultless, yet another factor, far too frequent n occurrence, ay well destroy ost ruthlessly one s tonal pleasure Ths destructve factor s the envronent n whch the perforer plays We shall now dscuss those audtory rrtants n the envronent whch ltate aganst the perforer s best efforts rrtants whch, when cobned wth uscal tones produce that characterstc nerve-grndng hodgepodge herenafter to be referred to as envronental cacophony When a coposer sets down hs concepton of a pleasng successon of tones, he does so on the nave assupton that no other sounds wll copete wth and overthrow the Too, when a vrtuoso wth soulstrrng nspraton runs off a strea of scntllatng passages, he scarcely suspects that n the next nstant two lades n the audence wll gush forth n sblant chatter, producng a contrapuntal cacophony no less destructve to hs art than a buzz-saw accopanent The gr fact for the perforer s that he ust reckon wth nose nose beng any sound whatsoever not produced n accordance wth hs uscal ntenton Not only wll t run hs dsposton, already qute teperaental, but t wll reduce to sheer nose tself hs ost exquste, hs tenderest, tones The uscal tone, ost tenuous of sounds, s fragle beyond the fralest of rrors shatterable by the softest of whspers Beware of Cacophonous Surroundngs We ust face the fact, obvous as t s, that on y n a slent edu can the uscal tone survve When tones float n a e- s proper tunng and regulaton of the nstruent The nstruent, MR AND MRS GANCHER though tuned properly, ay yet hey eploy the Haond Organ, the Solovox produce a cacophonous result f and the Novahcord n securng effects copostons played upon t do not qute ft ts tonal ake-up Thus, there are a nuber of fountan-lke pano peces, such du of nose, the beautful s overpowered by the as Ravel s Jeux d eau, whch coe off very badly on ugly, the sweet by the sour Our ears lose all sensaton of tone; we becoe aware only of nose Conse- cheap uprght nstruents and whch requre for ther ost superb perforance the best of grand panos quently, playng usc n a nosy envronent s but The student, therefore, ust play only such copostons as sound best on hs nstruent n hs hoe at the crcus would no longer be the Ave Mara to swell the volue of nose The Ave Mara played Few people really apprecate the ense dfference Mr Stokowsk s credted wth sayng that n tone "Musc obtanable when the sae nstruent s s a Pantng on the Canvas of Slence It played n dfferent appears locatons How any of us, havng clear, then, that no student can hope to heard a pano n perfor well a dealer s store, bought t on the who practces n a nosy roo, for he strength never of ts clear, brllant gets an tone, and then, havng opportunty to hear usc It proudly cannot nstalled t n our be too overfurnshed strongly sttng roo, urged that students ust have sckened have a to our quet heart when roo n the whch crsp tones now to practce No sounds other ( Contnued on Page 605) THE ETUDE Musc and Culture Musc Aercan Doughboys Hear n Inda T O THE AMERICAN SERVICE en and woen newly transplanted to the alen sol of Inda, not the least of unusual frst pressons wll be ther ntroducton to the natve usc of that ancent and fascnatng country Ther ears are accustoed to the occdental syste of elody and harony, and whether t be a classcal progra perfored by a great ryphony orchestra, the popular usc of a naeband, or the jve and swng of the ubqutous jukebox, the basc structure reans unchanged In other words, our usc for s haronc, u'hle Indan usc s onodc and was developed centures before our own contnent was even dscovered If, n lesure hours our en should walk n the Madan or park n Calcutta they ay hear the oldest woodwnd nstruent n the world the flute A Bengal Hndu ablng along playng a baboo flute s a very coon sght The elody wll be strangely nor, wth the characterstc evason of cadences that leaves an presson of vague elusveness But after awhle, f one s at all responsve to usc, the char of the flute player s eody wll begn to work ts spell, and the hearer soehow accepts the fact that the usc belongs to the nstruent, the an and the scene The flute s the second oldest nstruent n Inda, and ts geness goes back thousands of years to the god-an Krshna, who s credted wth beng ts nventor legends say that he chared both an and beast wth hs ortal and agc elody He was the god of the shepherds and the herders, and per- NAUTCH DANCER OF THE HIGHER CLASS StrcL(and Dstngushed Aercan Coposer Long Resdent n Inda haps the ost loved of all Hndu detes The flute s to households n Inda what the pano or rado s to our own doestc scene Tuned to the varous Indan scale-odes, of an octave copass or less, lttle wooden flutes can be bought n any bazaar for a few annas* Though the ntrnsc value of ths flute s sall, one s aazed at the usc that coes out of t n the hands of a capable player Yes, our Servce an wll soon becoe falar wth flute songs -wherever he ay go, for the flute s the unversal nstruent n Inda, fro Madura or Trvan n the extree South to Darjeelng, Sla, and other hll statons of the Halayas n the North; fro Bobay - The noral value of an Indan anna s one-sxteenth of a rupee, or about two cents WANDERING MENDICANT SNAKE CHARMERS AND THEIR OCTOBER, 944 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC PIPES LILY STRICKLAND Faous n the Occdent and n the Orent to Calcutta, or to the Assa-Bura border, where at present our alles are fghtng the Japanese n the dstrcts of Iphal and Koha on the Manpur front At Mytkyna and beyond the border lands fro Delh to Lahore and Srnagar to the Hndu Kush and the northwest fronter of Afghanstan always there wll be the flute-songs, though the players ay be Hndus, Buddhsts, Mohaedans, or Assaese A Curous Cacophony Our solders are bound to run nto soe street processon ncdental to the any Hndu relgous festvals when a group of uscans wth flute, cybal, bells, and dru, wll lead the band of worshppers of Kal, Shva, or lesser gods and goddesses to the rver It wll be a colorful scene but the usc wll probably be a eanngless cacophony to the ears of the newcoers Our boys wll be vastly aused by the dru -players and ther ncredble rhyths and they wll respond to the excteent of the fast tepos beaten out by obsessed druers carred away n the eotonal frenzes that are the nevtable part of relgous processonals on festval days Our Johnny Doughboy and hs confreres of sea and ar have a treat n store for the when they nn across ther frst real druplayer They ay fnd one n the Madan, sttng at the base of one of the any great statues the Brtsh nave erected to ther heroes Anyway, the lads wll pause entranced They are falar wth the convulsve antcs of the "trap-artst of a swng band who, wth dstorted face and gynastc oveents, beats out hs rhyths on the drus Yet the dru n Inda, sad to be the oldest nstruent n that old land, was astered by dru-players n technques undreaed of by our ost epleptcappearng jazz druer The dru has been called the heart-beat of Inda ( Contnued on Page 607) 557

6 HEN W n 653 Izaak Walton n hs agreeable and engagng style wrote The Copleat Angler, or The Conteplatve Man s Recreaton, he endeavored to set down all that one shod know about the art of catchng the fshes of the waters of Merre England Thus the present wrter ventures to tell what, n ths day n whch the household uscal joys have been ensely ncreased by the developent of the fabulous electronc uscal nstruents,* are the thngs ost necessary to ake usc n the Aercan hoes of actve and well-ntentoned people of today, a proftable and joyous experence To realze the great advance, one ust look back a few decades after the anner of the retrospectve best sellers of the hour The prncpal fgure n hoe uscal nterest ust always be soeone, sklled or unsklled, who loves usc and has the abton to brng the ebers of the faly to a better understandng of ts very great power Such a one was y other who, although Massachusetts to the core, would have resented any ntaton that she was a Boston Brahan Her faly assocatons and her four years at Wellesley had kept her n touch wth odels of good taste n art, usc, lterature, and also n hoe furnshngs The best types of the handcraft of Sheraton, Hepplewhte, and partcularly Duncan Phyfe (sx of whose prceless chars glorfed our dnng roo) were just as sgnfcant to Mother as the rtual of gettng e polshed up once a week for a trp to Boston to hear "the orchestra under the strngent baton of Wlhel Gercke Mother usually told e sotto voce how nferor he was to the drea of her earler lfe, the wllowy Hungaran Arthur Nksch On one occason I was pertted to shake hands wth Gercke, who sad wth an onscent sle: Lttle boy, you are shak- *To avod confuson, the author refers to these electronc nstruents hereafter as rado-phonographs" 558 The Copleat Muscal Hoe What Your Household Must Have to Secure Ideal Muscal Results by Ralph Bartlett ^Velder ng the hand that once shook the hand of Brahs The artstc purty of y boyhood hoe surroundngs was also shown by y Mother s horror of anythng related to the Vctoran era, save the novels of Dckens and Thackeray, the poes of Tennyson (whch she looked upon as second rate to those of Eerson and Lowell), and the operas of Glbert and Sullvan, whch were regarded as a forgvable coc relef to Bach, Beethoven, and Brahs All of y uncles and aunts and cousns had fne panos n ther hoes, and they boasted of ther Stecks, Knabes, Mason & Halns, Baldwns, and Chckerngs Ours was a Stenway Soe of the nstruents were uprghts, one was a square, but ost of the were grands There was one French Erard and one Englsh Broadwood whch were ponted out as peranent alens, foregn to Aercan uscal nterests Through soe perversty of fate the only cousn n our group who becae faous n the professonal uscal world, cae fro a faly of very oderate eans, whch could afford only an old plebean Bradbury square The pano was, as t stll s, the center of uscal culture n the hoe The top of the nstruent was usually lttered wth usc, but always, nd you, usc of the asters We saw to t that no neghbor could coe n and fnd t harborng uscal trash Now and then there was a copy of the Atlantc Monthly, the essays of Walter Pater, or the exotc prose of Lafcado Hearn, together wth ssues of Punch or the London Illustrated News Mother evdently dd not thnk that ths was an expresson of cultural snobbery, as was that of a neghbor on whose lbrary table there were always a few paper-covered French novels, garnered on a European tour fro the banks of the Sene Everyone knew that no one n the hoe spoke a word of French The nsgna of culture, however, evdently gave the uch cofort In those days there were three classes of usc students: "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC (a) Those who took lessons at hoe (b) Those who went n town to the conservatory or to prvate teachers (c) Those who ascended to the lofty heghts of lessons at the Unverstty wth teachers followng the tradtons of the able Dr John Knowles Pane, a slng gentlean wth affluent sdeburns As we lved far fro the center of the cty, we had a successon of teachers who cae to our hoe They usually stayed to dnner, and thus cong ntately nto our faly lfe ade a very real presson upon e Ṁy father was a wholesale shp chandler and, although a college an, spent uch of hs day wth the hardy en of the sea It was y other s constant fear that he would revert to the crudty of our own sturdy ancestors who saled the seven seas n roantc wndjaers It was doubtless for ths reason that she was so careful of her cultural bulwarks Therefore, one day when Father surprsed us wth our frst talkng achne, boastng a huge, brght blue ornng-glory horn, whch he placed truphantly n the corner of our parlor, Mother broke down n tears I was a boy of ten at the te, but I have never forgotten Mothers angush nor the look on her face when she sad: don t want that ugly, horrd screechng, squawkng thng n y house Just thnk what t wll do to Ralph! As a atter of fact I was thrlled by the blare of a strrng Sousa March that cae out of the unholy funnel The blue ornng glory was proptly oved to Father s den on the top floor, a regon to whch Mother conteptuously referred as the soke house The nae was not undeserved, as Father was a furous soker Shortly thereafter Mother gave a tea to a concertaster of the orchestra, Tothee Adaowsk, whch was attended also by hs brother Joseph Adaowsk, the cellst Wth ths consecraton, our parlor becae THE ETUDE known for all te as the usc roo All that ade It uscal was the pano, the usc racks behnd the daask curtans, one part of a shelf n the bookcase devoted to a few books on usc, and Aunt Edth s harp wth ts pathetc broken strngs, whch had never been played upon snce ths grlhood herone ded t was ntated of a broken heart In ths day such a usc roo would appear rdculously ncoplete wthout a fne ode rado and a superor record reproducng nstruent I have long snce ceased to call these aazng rado-phonographs, whch open the gates of the great lterature of the art, "achnes because ther delcate, scentfc precson and advanced constructon reove the fro the class of thngs that n the ordnary nd s assocated wth a achne They are really the result of llons of dollars spent n laboratory research experents, and have becoe as essental a part of odern usc roos and odern uscal educaton as the uscal nstruents theselves No Stradvarus or Guarnerus strove longer or harder to preserve tone values than have the akers of these nstruents More than ths, the best exaples are encased n asterpeces of desgner s art The akers have eployed the fnest nteror decoratng artsts obtanable to nsure appearance and style whch, lke the great acheveents of the asters of furnture-akng of the past, ay be brought to ft the fnest hoes of today wth the certanty that fro an artstc standpont they wll be of endurng beauty, as are our precous Duncan Phyfe chars whch are now n y own dnng roo Many well-known uscans ard teachers now laugh at the atttude of educators three decades ago when they contended that rado and reproducng nstruents would do away wth huan uscal actvty n the hoe That s, they thought that these nstruents would supplant the need for utc study and practce and lead to an era when people would no longer bother to take the te and trouble to learn the art, save n the cases of those who desred to becoe professonals Exactly the opposte has occurred The present enorous expanson of uscal actvty n the hee s due to the fact that the doors to the world of usc have been opened by these rado-phonographs Standng on the threshold of a new world of televson, already we see great fgures of the opera, concert, church, and foru brought vsually to the usc roo whch becoes sprtually, ntellectually, poltcally, and artstcally just as vtal to odern lvng as the dnng roo s to our daly physcal well-beng Muscal knowledge cong through these channels has ncreased uscal ntellgence so that what once was obtanable only through hours of practce, now becoes clear through entally quckened actvtes The real progress s n the bran and not n the fngers We thnk faster now because we have the best tonal and techncal odels, not away off n soe dstant cty New York, Chcago, San Francsco, Boston, London, Pars, or Lepzg, but rght n the heart of our own hoes Ths has whetted the nterest of the student, rased hs understandng ncredbly, and ade hs own practcng conspcuously ore nterestng On a busness trp to the Southwest I vsted Austn, Texas A frend took e to the Unversty wth ts new CHIPPENDALE RADIO-PHONOGRAPH BY CAPEHART OCTOBER 944 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC Musc and Culture half-llon-dollar usc buldng, the last word n collegate uscal equpent I was not surprsed to see n ths exquste and coplete edfce, a large secton devoted to the record lbrary and rado-phonographs, whch I was assured are ncessantly n deand Thousands and thousands of students gong back fro college to the hoe, brng wth the new standards of taste n lterature, usc, and art They are no longer content wth cheap, tonally perfect nstruents, nor wth cheap furnture whch akes the lvng roo a center of confuson rather than a beautful, hosptable place n whch to lve and work My usc roo s nspred by the genus of the eghteenth-century aster furnture-desgner, Robert Ada, and y pano, furnshngs, and rado-phonograph are n that fashon whch has always seeed to e sple, elegant, and chaste I often wonder what would go through Mother s nd f she could coe n and actually hear her hallowed Boston Syphony playng the Cesar Franck D Mnor wth the sound cong wth ncredble sltude, not fro a screechy ornng glory horn, but fro a asterpece of the desgner s art Such glorous usc would even have lured Father fro the soke house It see;, lke a drea when I realze that anyone at coparatvely sall expense can possess records and a recevng set whch vrtually ake h the patron and the propretor for all te of great syphony orchestras, great opera copanes, great quartets No kngs of yesterday could cla ths uscal wealth It just doesn t see real The Copleat Musc Roo s a drea I dreaed about ne long before I could afford y collecton of fne usc, y usc books, and y nstruent and records, whch were bought wth the dea of securng the hghest obtanable qualty Not everyone can realze hs deal, but usc can be brought to the average lvng roo n a easure to sut one s eans I realze that n ost hoes the pano and the rado-phonographs ust be utltaran, all purpose nstruents It ay not see necessary to have the best possble set to take care of Lowell Thoas Aos n Andy, fresde chats, Aerca s Town Meetng of the Ar, Inforaton Please, prze fghts, and Duffy s Tavern Nuerous excellent saller odel sets are well ade and have a fne tone for ther prce range Many fales have these n dfferent parts of ther hoes the bed- ( Contnued on Page 62) 559

7 Musc and Culture, * Musc and Culture I Ffty Years of Settleent Musc Iportant Annversary of the Creaton of a Valuable Movee ^ Cjnnar N 894 a blonde grl wth a drea n her heart entered the slus of New York Cty and began gvng u:c lessons to ten chldren In 944, that drea has grown nto the Musc School Settleent, the oldest and largest of ts knd n e country In reachng ts Golden Jublee, however, the Musc Schoo Settleent celebrates ore than ere length of exstence It stands as the frst project n settleent usc and the odel upon whch soe nnety slar nsttutons have been founded; t has provded uscal and socal assstance fo over deocratc processes of racal equalty, self-expresson, and the voluntary self- v dscplne that s the soundest ffty thousand students; and t has rendered dstngushed servce n the entrely EMILIE WAGNER Founder of the Musc School Settleent oveent n Aerca safeguard aganst delnquency The blonde grl whose drea began the work s Mss Ele Wagner, who stll conducts pano classes on Long Island As a chld, Mss Wagner heard a clergyan descrbe the ptful condtons that exsted aong the underprvleged dwellers of New York's East Sde; and the pctures he drew lved n her nd When she was graduated ANTHONY DI BONAVENTURA fro Goucher College, she deterned Typcal Musc School Settleent student who recently appeared at Lewsohn that her lfe s work ust le along Stadu playng the frst oveent of the Thrd Beethoven Concerto, n C nor the lnes of relevng, soe of those condtons; but what she ust do and how she ust do t was by no eans settled Her professonal captal conssted of the entre student body and of boundless good wll and a thorough knowledge of usc ther parents All durng the Thus equpped, Mss Wagner vsted the ost densely crowded sectons, and year, concerts are gven and decded that what the young people needed ost was a chance to nterest theselves n soethng beautful and wholesoe Accordngly, she ade frends the proceeds of whch go Parents Teas are arranged, wth chldren who she saw playng along the Bowery and the crowded East- toward enablng others to have Sde streets; talked wth the; played wth the and told the that f they lessons Mr Chaffee states; would coe to her own sall roo, she would teach the usc! We do not cla raculous Alost at once, Mss Wagner had ten pupls ten lttle slu chldren who propertes for usc It would cae, learned of the wonders that could coe out of a pano and a fddle, and be dle to say that tough raced back to the streets to tell about t Insde of a year, Mss Wagner s roo lttle street boys becoe reclaed characters by the was too sall to hold the applcants who cae crowdng to see f they, too, could have a share of the fun That s how the country s frst usc settleent school ere ( Contnued on Page 606) 560 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" thp unversty Settleent and, later, of the began Through the cooperaton of t funds were rased In te, the Junor League, larger quarters were ade avalable School s present quarters at 55 East ru An Aazng Growth, a omnl n 897 and reaned twelve Davd Mannes becae ^rtluy Farwell who occuped the post for one year, years, to be succeeded by Artl ur charge of ts present drector, =^ o, a«school SSL»» «* Melzar Chaffee, now hs th y J of UOo students of twenty seven tw w t exactly "^ the'secret oythe School s success? What has the Mus,- School sssp s * a at-ur rs Settleent accoplshed that could be duplcated byothcrgroupsn oh,,oul - tp- There are three answers: the character of the uscal work ;! a those connected wth t In ts approach and n ts ethods of nstructon, the School ranks aong the frst-lne school settleents of the world The teachers are experenced specalsts, and no student s adtted unless he shows a genune nterest n and love for usc There s no 'playng at usc! No solo work ay be studed wthout an accopanyng progra of theory, ear-tranng, harony, enseble work, and hstory A barely nonal (ee s pad by students who can afford t those who cannot are granted scholarshps fro a broadly adnstered Scholarshp Fund, the antenance of whch s the chef delght MELZAR CHAFFEE Drector of the Musc Settleent snce 99 and a leader n ths portant oveent THE ETUDt A The Chldhood and Youth of Edvard Greg A Muscal Playlet for Young Folks curea 3, rancd C^ooh If s Interestng to note that "Song ot Norway" a professonal operetta based upon the lfe and the usc of Greg, recently becae the latest spontaneous h I of the fles n New York and Los Angeles Edtor's Note S IN ALL of the playlets n the author s seres, "Muscal Playlets for Young Folks (frst pub- - lshed n 97), ncludng those upon the lves of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Verd, Mendelssohn, Chopn, and Wagner, the objectve of these texts has been to ake the as practcal, nstructve, entertanng, and playable as possble The characters represent persons at varous ages and naturally there should be an allowance for theatrcal ncongrutes, dnee the perforers ust be of relatvely slar age In the atter of costues and any knd of scenery, the ngenuty and research of the teacher are far better than any specfc drectons:" whch ght be dffcult and practcal n ost cases Therefore, the teacher s gven the wdest lattude n devsng costues to sut the pupls selected to play the varous roles No curtan s really necessary Audences often are greatly aused by watchng the scenery beng placed nto poston Ths playlet was presented n MS by Mrs Fanny Reed Haond of Holyoke, Massachusetts, and was found to be practcal and successful THE PEOPLE OF THE PLAY Alexander Greg: Edvard s father Gesne Hagerup Greg: Edvard s other Maren Greg: Edvard s sster (sx years older than Edvard) Ingeborg Greg: Edvard's sster (fve years older than Edvard) John Greg: Edvard s brother (three years older than Edvard) Edvard Greg: Faous coposer (sx years old at the openng of the play) Ole Bull: Faous volnst (thrty-three years older than Edvard) Arthur Sullvan later ( Sr Arthur Sullvan ): Irsh-Englsh coposer (Fellow-student of Edvard at Lepzg) Dudley Buck: (Aercan fellow-student of Edvard at Lepzg) Frau Schultz: Greg's landlady at Lepzg Carl Renecke: Coposer Panst at the Royal Conservatory, Lepzg Edvard Hagerup Greg w as born n the Norwegan r cty of Bergen, June 5, 843, and ded there Septeber 4, 907 He frst studed pano wth hs other, a well-traned uscan He entered the Lepzg Conservatory n 858 and reaned for four years as a pupl of Hauptann, Rchter, Retz, Renecke, Wenzel, and Moscheles He ade any appearances n Europe as a panst, but s best known as a coposer whose works are faed for ther strong Norwegan color ACT I Father Greg, sokng a large ppe and readng a newspaper, s dscovered at rght stage Mother Greg s seated left stage and s knttng In the center, n a group, are Maren Greg, Ingeborg Greg, John Greg, and Edvard Greg The young folks are sttng upon the floor, playng a gae of donoes Edvard Greg s whstlng the tune of The Capbells are Cong Curtan Ingeborg Greg; Always whstlng or sngng! Edvard, OCTOBER, 944 I can t thnk about the gae! Mother Greg: Let h alone He s happy John Greg: What s that tune you are whstlng, Edvard? Maren Greg: It s a Scotch tune, John Father Greg: Let h answer! Edvard Greg: It s called The Capbells are Cong Great Grandfather Greg brought t wth h fro Scotland when he left hs hoe to coe to lve n Norway Once I heard t played on the bagppes Mother Greg: Can you tate t, Edvard? Edvard: I ll try (Re tres and all laugh) John: Mother, why don t we have Norwegan usc lke that? Mother Greg: We do, but t s nothng lke the usc I studed n Haburg and n London Our usc s a usc of the farers and the workers, and not so uch of the concert hall or the parlor Edvard: But couldn t t be ade a great usc of all Norway? Father Greg: Yes, f a bg enough genus coes along Edvard: What ght a Norwegan dance sound lke? Mother Greg: Well, t ght sound soethng lke ths (Plays Greg s Norwegan Brdal Processon) Edvard: I thnk t s lovely, Mother If I dd not want to be a nster I would lke to be a coposer John: Ha! Ha! Ha! ( Chldren laugh uproarously) Father Greg: Don t laugh, chldren There s no hgher offce than that of the servant of God Ingeborg: But Edvard s so full of schef! Maren: Teacher called h a lttle rascal, when he played hooky Mother Greg: Edvard! What would y father, the Mayor of Bergen, have sad to that? It sn t true, Edvard? Edvard ( gultly ) : I ddn t ean t, Mother Every ornng when I went through the woods to school, I heard the trees and the rocks sngng Father Greg: Always dreang! Edvard: And I dd not want to st all day long, shut up n an old schoolroo One day I looked and I saw lttle en dancng n the hlls ( Musc off stage Hall of the Mountan Kng record ) Look, Mother! Close your eyes Don t you see the dancng now? ( Edvard closes hs eyes and Mother Greg puts her forefnger to her outh to hush the gggles of the chldren) Then I saw a drea pcture n the clouds It was an Arab grl dancng (Antra s Dance by Greg s heard n the dstance Ths ay be an unaccopaned voln solo or a record) Then I just couldn t go to school It was ranng terrbly I cae to a house where there was a water spout gushng and I stood under t untl I was soaked Then I went on to school Ingeborg: And when Teacher saw h standng there lke a drownng ktten she was afrad he would catch cold and sent h hoe John: Then t was too late for h to coe back Mother Greg: Edvard, you couldn t have done ths! Edvard ( cheerfully ) : Yes, Mother I tred t four tes and t worked every te Father Greg ( chucklng to Mother Greg ) : Gesne dear, I a afrad you had better ake a uscan of h He never wll be satsfed wth Bergen, where the fsheres sell les out to sea Edvard: I love the strong sell of the sea It s the "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC" EDVARD GRIEG IN HIS PRIME sell of Norway, wth ts streas and waterfalls and forests and lakes and fjords whch are alve wth fares and trolls and erry people! Mother Greg: But Edvard, usc study s dffcult and you ust practce long and work hard Coe, chldren, t s te to get at your lessons Maren: Please play for us frst Mother Not the usc of Beethoven, Bach, or Mozart, that you studed n Haburg and London, but the usc of the Norwegan people, that you drea ay bo heard n concert halls all over the world < Mother Greg plays pano solo arrangeent of Moveent fro Greg s "Concerto n A nor, arranged by Levne) Curtan ACT n Scene I The Dnng Roo at Lands, the suburban hoe of he Gregs The faly, Father Greg, Mother Greg, Maren, Ingeborg, John, and Edvard are seated around the table at breakfast The te s that of a vst of the great Norvegan volnst Ole Bull Hstorcally, Ole Bull dd not have hs voln wth h at the te, but the author ntroduces one by rght of poetc lcense Edvard Greg s now ffteen As the curtan ascends, the faly s seen wth bowed heads as Father Greg s heard sayng grace Curtan Father Greg: We thank Thee,- dear Lord, for Thy goodness n provdng ths food We thank Thee for peace n the land We thank Thee for the blessngs of good health Aen Edvard: Aen Please pass the fsh cakes, Mother Father Greg: Edvard, not so quck! Have patence Edvard: But Father, I awfully hungry! Ingeborg: He s been up for hours I saw h rdng off on a pony John ( dersvely ) : Watchng for the sun to clb over the fr trees on the fjord! Maren: Or tryng to hear a chorus of erads down by the strand! 56