The Etude: Presser's Musical Magazine (November, 1921)
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THE ETUDL NOVEMBER 1921 Page 697 eee i SD SS 9 en eee an ES PEOPLE ELE i, » “papers. of Shanghai. In Canada, $2.25 per year. countries, $2.72 per year. Single copy, Price 25 cents. REMITTANCES should be made by post-office or ex- press money orders, bank check ordraft, or registered letter. United States postage stamps are always received for cash. Money sent in letters is dangerous, and we are not responsible for ita safe arrival. DISCONTINUANCES.—Owing to the educational character of THE ETUDE a majority of its readers. Therefore, the pub- ‘|| lishers are pleased to extend credit covering a Twelve Months’ subscription beyond expiration of the paid- up period. Those of our subscribers not wishing to avail themselves of this convenience of remitting later will please send a notice for discontinuance. do not wish to miss an issue. Chicago is about to celebrate the Semi-Centennial of its great. fire. There will be a Festival Play in a stadium seating 20,000 people, with a chorus of 500 and an orchestra of sixty. A prize of $100 has been offered for the best words, and a similar prize for the best music of a Chicago song to help in celebrating the event. Send your manuscripts to the Chi- eago Association of Commerce. , Salzburg, that dream-like little city nestling at the foot of the Austrian Alps, is now planning a huge festival theatre scheme which provides for a very large auditorium, a smaller sized auditorium, and a rehearsal hall, together with a beautiful _ open-air theatre all connected in one group. ‘There, in Mozart’s birthplace, one may, in a few years, see his works produced on an artistic scale never heretofore attempted. The Beggzars-Opera, first produced in London in 1728, will be seen in Amer- ica this year. The revival in London dur- ing the past two years has been a_ great success. It was said to have been George Washington’s favorite play. A Collapsible Bass Drum is one of the latest wrinkles advertised in the band Ahoy for a collapsible grand piano that we can all carry around in a hand bag! Feoder Chalipine, the “Caruso of the Basses” and the idol of the Russian people, is to make a sixty-day tour of the United States. One of the governmental stipulations in admitting him to this coun- try is that he is to avoid Bolshevik propa- ganda of all kinds. Why should our gov- ernment be obliged to draw such a line? . “Whilst we are feeding thousands of starv- ing children in Russia they are holding revolutionary conventions to convert the world into believing that government such as ours should be overthrown, in order that one such as they have produced may flour- ish. However there will be great eagerness to hear the great Russian Basso, whose power over the people was so great that ‘the government had to bow to his whims, ‘It is given out that Chalipine is not a Bolshevist. Chopin’s oldest pupil is still living in Paris. His name is Peru and it is said that he has virtually existed in poverty during the last few years. He is 91 years of age. About fifty years ago the United States bought Alaska for $7,200,000, less than the price of a modern battleship. It was thought to be a hopelessly frigid land where few civilized men could survive. This year Alaska has had a complete tour of a modern Chautauqua and it is said that the most advanced music was everywhere received with great favor. The Chicago Madrigal Club has awarded its one-hundred-dollar W. W. Kim- ball Co. prize to Mr. Adolf Weidig for his setting of the poem Sing Again, My Heart. The judges were Walter Spry, Mr. John W. ‘Norton and Mr. D. A. Clippinger. The Caruso American Memorial Foundation has been founded under the direction of Dr. Antonio Stella, temporary Chairman. His address is 214 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. Wilfred Laurier, director of the “Buddies Band,” announces two prizes of $200 each for the best composition writ- ten for Military Band. One is to be for musicians of American birth who have re- ceived their entire training in America, the other is for bandmasters of bands in the Regular U. 8. Army. Addressed compositions in sealed packages identified by a motto to William Laurier, corner of Seventh Avenue and Bleventh Street, New York City. The Coolidge Prize of $1,000 for the best chamber music composition “was won this year by H. Waldo Warner, viola player of the London String Quartette, for a trio for strings and piano. Next in _. honorable mention was another English com- “poser, Rebecca Clarke, a.viola player. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $2.00 per year in United States, Alaska, Cuba, Porto Rico, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Guam, Tutuila, and the City All orthe Hawaii, Vol. XXXIX_ No. 11 Naples plans to name the street in which Caruso was born “Via Caruso.” Galli Curci will add Madame But- tefly to her roles this year. Recently she has been in conference with John Luther Long, author of the story and play, and his collaborator David Belasco. Los Angeles is to have a stadium to seat 75,000, costing $800,000. Cleveland, Ohio, is to have a new studio building known as the Fine Arts Building. In Pasadena, California, the Music and Art Association has created a Com- poser’s Fellowship carrying with it an hon- orarium of $2000. Its purpose ‘is to give the same sort of aid to music that the sciences receive through the endowment of research work. The sole requirement is that the fellowship holder shall devote at least half of his time to musical composition. Arthur Farwell has been chosen as the first person to receive the fellowship. In the announcement put out by the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce is the following inter- “As compared with science, music stands at a great disadvantage. In spite of its universal appeal to the public, but little provision has been made for the endowment of musical composition. In _ science, such great foundations as the Carnegie Institute of Washington and the Rockefeller Medical Institute, each endowed with more than $20,000,000, permit many original investi- gators to devote their entire time, unham- pered by any other duties, to the produc- tion of new knowledge. A similar fellow- ship was created at the Western College for Women.”’—Hdgar Stillman Kelly. PRESSER’S MUSICAL MAGAZINE A MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR THE MUSICIAN, THE MUSIC STUDENT, AND ALL MUSIC LOVERS. Edited by James Francis Cooxe Entered as second-class matter Jan. 16, 1884, at the P.O. at _. Philadelphia, Pa ., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1921, by Theodore Presser Co. for U.S. A. and Great Britain NOVEMBER, 1921 ~The World of Music Englebert Humperdinck died Sep- tember 28, in Germany, Humperdinck was born near Bonn, Germany, September 1, 1854. He was a student of Ferdinand Hiller at the Cologne Conservatory, and won the Mozart Stipend which enabled him to study in Munich under Lachner and Rhein- berger. Later he won the Mendelssohn prize, in 1879, enabling him to go to Italy. There, he met Richard Wagner, and Wag- ner’s influence thereafter had a great influ- ence upon his life. At Bayreuth he assisted Wagner in the production of Parsifal in 1881. In the same year he won the Meyer- beer prize (7600 marks), and visited France and Italy. He prepared the score of Parsifal for publication- and also became the teacher of Wagner’s son, Siegfried. From 1885 to 1887 he was teacher of composition at the Barcelona Conservatory, Spain. Later he taught at Cologne, and at the Hoch Con- servatorium in Frankfurt. For a time he was the music critic of the Frankfurter Zei- tung. In 1893 his masterpiece Hansel and Gretel was produced at Weimar. This great work of gnius, founded upon the folk tunes of Germany, made an instant success, and is still in the repertoire of leading opera houses the world over. Since then he has written music for some ten dramatic pieces, only one of which has attracted wide attention (Koenigskinder). Since 1900 he has been the director of the Akademische Meisterschule in Berlin. In 1908 he visited. New York to attend the performances of Koenigskinder. He was received with great enthusiasm. No composer of his generation possessed greater technique in composition. Humperdinck’s health was never robust, and his output was accordingly limited. ‘ft | es Si ‘ mn Fd S ies . cece ? e rere a BS atone eee iinet CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER 1921 The World of Music ....ecceseeee25-- 699 MOACOLIANE:. isk PWR ES PPG eax oad The Pianist’s Palette, ...Harold Bauer 703 Recorded Music ....... Horace Johnson 704 A Little Brighter Music, .......... OF From a Master’s Workshop, Frederic Corder A Practice Plan that Brings Results, May Silwer How Genius Discounts Handicaps, Victor Blondeau Emphasizing Different Voices.. R. I. C. Glimpses of Genius ....Percy Grainger Studio Stories that Hit the Spot : Ernest J, Farmer Demand the Noblest Ideals, Sir Hubert Parry 708 How One Mother Got Time, Helen Tyler Cope The Finale,:- Yesterday and Today, Walter J. Spalding Elocution in Piano Playing, Constantin von Sternberg T09 A Little Learning ...Leslie 8S. Williams Interesting Your Pupils, Marcus A. Hackney Knowing the Keyboard, ‘ Bertha N. Tribull In the Field of Music ....The Recorder 71i1 Harmony Not Dry...F. Marion Ralston 712 A Visit to the Presser Home, Virginia Madden 712 Secrets of Style....... Sidney Silber 713 a Pe MOO cb bc ve we wk Ben Venuto 714 Marathon Composers sn cide. cscs veer 714 The Human Interest Element, . Frances Hoffman 714 The Critic in the Next Room, HH. Timmerman Tolstoi on Universal Melody .......... 714 Wake Up, Miss America, Harriette Brower 715 Begin Piano Study Barly, Martin V. Knight 716 First Aid for Stiff Wrists, Alice M. Steede I Can’t Find Time to Practice, Mae-Aileen Erb The Teachers’ Round Table, N. J. Corey The Musical Scrap Book ............ New Department of Recorded Music, Horace Johnson Voice Department ...Karleton Hackett Department for Organists SG: Bee ROO oa tain ak Gk ae trae Questions and Answers, Arthur de Guichard Department for Violinists, Robert Braine How to Arrange for Small Orchestra, E. H. Pierce 758 eve ee ee eevee eee | NTE oe as 6 5 hee a ae 759 BQ tt Be i nome gee yas Ae iene a #88 759 Pepin | THOR ‘ics cee eke ae see 760 SURAT :, DI. te bck cc gh a Seiad weed os ees 767 MUSIC AC. Sites F ete. 6 oS Fe G. F. Hamer 719 RR ny Rete ated rig grace Pe a = Thos. Bruce 720 ee os ine 5 id ae Melody of Peace W. A. Johnson Merry. Brook 3%... 666 .6iws A. P. Risher Vienna Waltz (Four Hands), L. Schytte Hobgoblins (Four Hands). F. A. Williams ..A. A. Mumma W. Rolfe 729 Revolutionary March .. Fairest One “ue Oo Rae, #8), a oet ks 8 ehere Te SOE bk Wk oe ole Feat» G. Karganeff 730 Dance of the Gnomes...... P. Ambrose 735 In Dream Land...... F. J. McDonough 736 Fragment from the ““Emperor Concerto,” Beethoven-Moszkowski 738 Gay & Graceful ........... Ferber 739 Valse Intermezzo (Violin and Piano) W. Lewis 740 Hero’s March from Op. 22 (Organ), Mendelssohn-Stewart In Some Sublimer Star (Vocal), Liza Lehmann Nuthin’ but You (Vocal) ...J. LD. Pease Keeping Time A. Geibel There is a Road that Lovers Know (Vocal) R. 8S. Stoughton > 2 e.4 ¢- & 5.0.8.6 9. 36 ‘It was believed at first tha RENEWAL.—No receipt is sent for renewals. On the wrapper of the next issue sent you will be printed the date on which your subscription is paid up, which serves as a receipt for your subscription. Liberal premiums and cash deductions are allowed for obtaining subscripticns. MANUSCRIPTS.—Manuscripts should be addressed to THE ETUDE. Write on one side of the sheet only. tributions on music-teaching and music-stud Although every poosible care is taken the pu responsible for manuscripts or photographs either while in their possession or in transit. be returned, ADVERTISING RATES will be sent on application. - Advertisements must reach this office not later than the Ist of the month preceding date of issue to insure insertion in the following issue. THEODORE PRESSER CO., Publishers, Con- are solicited, are not Unavailable manuscripts will 1712 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Charles D. Isaacson, for years con- nected with the New York Globe in the management of newspaper concerts, has severed his connections with the Globe, and will continue his work under the auspices of the New York Mail. The Coast to Coast tour of the Sousa Band was interrupted for a few weeks owing to an go peni sustained by Lien- tenant Commander Sousa when riding one of his spirited horses. The horse stumbled and fell on a rocky road near Philadelphia. the famous composer-bandmaster had sustained very grave injuries, but rapid recuperation and further examinations with X-Ray proved favorable. Upon his reeovery, Lieutenant Sousa’s friends (mainly those in the vicin- ity of Philadelphia) presented him with an album congratulating him upon his very narrow escape and his rapid recuperation. The book, possibly one of the most unusual autograph tributes ever presented, included individual leaves with greetings from War- ren G. Harding, Hon. William’ C. Sproul, Hoy. J. Hampton Moore, Hon. James M. Beck, Edward W. Bok, W. L. Coghill, Patrick Conway, Russell H. Conwell, Charles M. Courboin, Walter Damrosch, Hon. Henry van Dyke, A. L. Erlanger, Walter F. Fischer, Sam Fox, Dr. John L. Haney, Ruth Lloyd Kinney, Joseph Krauskopf, Leonard Liebling, John Luther Long, Hon. Roland . Morris, Arthur Nevin, Dr. Josiah Penniman, Theo- dore Presser, J. Howard Reber, Bishop Philip M. Rhinelander, Dr. Thadeus Rich, Felix Schelling, Henri Seott, Leopold Sto- kowski, Josef Stransky, Charles Z. Tryon, John Wanamaker, General L. W. T. Waller, Owen Wister, J. Fred Zimmerman, Chas. H. Schwab, T. E. Mitten, Percy Grainger, P. L. V. Key, Leonard Liebling, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, Wassili Leps, BH. T. Stotesbury, and many ‘others. & Moszkowski’s illness which has now lasted for two years, is, accord- ing to the New York Herald, of a very pe- culiar nature. He is subject to choking spells which prevent him from taking regu- lar nourishment. His condition does not permit of an operation to remove the cause. | The National Musical Instrument of Thibet, (the “Forbidden Land’ opened up to the world only a few years ago by Young- husband) is the bagpipe. The country, situ- ated beyond the northern mountain borders of India, is largely Mongolian in character, and is possibly the most primative of civili- zations of its kind. Aceording to the Geo- graphic Magazine a piper in the Indian Army who accompanied Younghusband, so inspired the natives that the royal musician of Thibet now plays “The Campbells are Coming’ and “The Drunken Piper’ in a way that would give paroxysms of joy tu anyone whose name begins with Mac. . David Seull Bispham, generally ac- knowledged as the greatest of singers of - American birth died in New York October 2d of an intestinal malady. Bispham was born in Philadelphia, January 5th, 1857, of Quaker ancestry. His early musical efforts were severely combatted by his family. After graduation from Haverford College he sang in many Philadelphia Choirs, later going abroad to study with Vannucini, Lam- perti, Shakespeare and Randegger. His pro- fessional debut was made in London in 1891. He then became connected with the Covent Garden Opera House and the Metropolitan Overa Company of New York, becoming one of the very greatest artists of his time. His Wagnerian roles were superb. Retiring from the operatic stage he entered the concert and oratorio field, making new _ successes everywhere and doing a work of greatest value for the English tongue. His recita- tions can only be described as thrilling. Haverford College conferred upon him the degree of L.L.D.. His repertoire consisted of 50 operatic roles, 150 oratorios and over 1,500 songs.
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