http://etudemagazine.com/etude/ en-us Copyright 2023 Tue, 01 Aug 1939 20:46:03 -0500 B. A. Rolfe is distinctly a self-made musician, in every sense of the word. Literally brought up from childhood in a circus band, his progress to Broadway, and his large variety of enterprises, make this one of the most colorful articles The Etude has ever presented. http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/tooting-a-horn-for-fifty-years.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/tooting-a-horn-for-fifty-years.html Interviews I see no harm in learning by imitation, provided that the models are worth imitating, and that the imitation does not become mechanical or slavish. http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/sing-with-your-heart-by-frieda-hempel-internationally-renowned-prima-donna.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/sing-with-your-heart-by-frieda-hempel-internationally-renowned-prima-donna.html Vocalists Realizing that a player does not belong to himself, but to the community in which he is privileged to live, the real musician feels somewhat like the missionary who is guided by the urge to "teach all nations." From such heroic beginnings are handed down through the ages great reminders of the struggling past. Such a fair memory must belong to The Allentown Band, coming down to these days in an unbroken line and standing before us as perhaps the finest monument and tribute to the perseverance of a few performers who boasted only primitive instruments and a great love of music. http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/americas-oldest-civic-band.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/americas-oldest-civic-band.html Miscellaneous I look upon the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski and Eugene Ormandy as the greatest musical instrument of its type in the world. There has never been anything in the way of an orchestra so exquisitely perfect and responsive. http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/new-concepts-in-present-day-music.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/new-concepts-in-present-day-music.html Interviews The band has its own trade mark, duly registered. It has two large busses and an instrument truck for transportation to music festivals and football games. It has a wardrobe and property department. Thirty-five volumes in its scrap book library tell of the value of the band as a means of publicity. http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/and-the-band-won.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/and-the-band-won.html Miscellaneous "Music has been aptly termed 'the fourth essential,' only food, clothing and shelter preceding music in importance in a well rounded and happy life. And to participate in a musical performance, even one of mediocre degree of excellence, is ever so much more enjoyable than merely to sit and listen. The progress or retrogression of a nation depends on its home life; and a musical home is a happy home." http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/what-do-bands-mean-to-america.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/what-do-bands-mean-to-america.html Interviews The band itself was largely to blame for its own downfall. The musicians felt that they were secure in their positions; and their chief interest, and in many cases also their only interest, was in the pay envelope. The result was that many of the bands were terrible. http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/the-renaissance-of-the-band.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/the-renaissance-of-the-band.html Musicology EDWARD VII and his son the Prince of Wales (later George V) were, according to the Court Calendar, to appear in a military ceremony to take place before St. James" Palace in the heart of London. As an American youth studying abroad, we stood for hours in the "kerbstone" crowd,... http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/sound-the-trumpet-beat-the-drums-from-handels-judas-maccabeus.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/04/sound-the-trumpet-beat-the-drums-from-handels-judas-maccabeus.html Musicology IGOR STRAVINSKY is announced as having been appointed as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University, for the 1939-1940 academic year. Though designated as a chair of poetry, this Professorship is awarded annually, without regard to nationality, to men of high distinction and preferably of international reputation in... http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/08/the-world-of-music-51.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1939/08/the-world-of-music-51.html World of Music H. P. Danks, a composer whose songs were widely known and used a number of years ago, died in Philadelphia. November 20th, aged 79 years. He was the composer of "Silver Threads Among the Gold," and "Don't Be Angry With Me, Darling," He wrote a great deal of church music. http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1904/01/musical-items-71.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1904/01/musical-items-71.html World of Music "English is a good language to sing, no matter what is asserted to the contrary. Personally, I class English, next to Italian, as the best language for singing. But the worst of the matter is that so few speak it properly. Quite unfortunately the English do not study English diction, yet they should study it as they study spelling and grammar." http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1904/01/a-talk-with-alberto-randegger-by-william-armstrong.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1904/01/a-talk-with-alberto-randegger-by-william-armstrong.html Vocalists There is still living in Vienna an old lady in her ninety-first year who sang in the chorus at the first performance of Beethoven's "Choral Symphony." http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1900/10/musical-items-70.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1900/10/musical-items-70.html World of Music An Italian composer, Gallignani, director of the conservatory at Milan, has written a large choral work with the Latin title, "Quare" or "Wherefore." The titles of the sections of the work are "Humanity," "The Stoics," "The Epicureans," "Skeptics and Atheists," "Mystic Chorus," "Song of the Sun," and "Invocation to Supreme Love." http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1903/06/musical-items-69.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1903/06/musical-items-69.html World of Music Art becomes national, it seems to me, only when it expresses the egotism of the race. There must be a subconscious certitude of being before there is the impulse to voice those sentiments which individualize a nation. http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1903/06/the-influence-of-our-composers-upon-vocal-art-in-america.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1903/06/the-influence-of-our-composers-upon-vocal-art-in-america.html Vocalists It is within the power of every teacher to interest her patrons in the matter if it be properly presented. The trouble is that too many teachers recognize no duty further than an hour spent by the side of a pupil, during which time the pupil is told a few things concerning time and tune, and perhaps the position of the hand. http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1903/06/the-music-festival-and-its-influence.html http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1903/06/the-music-festival-and-its-influence.html Editorials