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Concert Programs 1952-1953, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Department Of Music

Concert Recordings & Programs

This is the annual compilation of music programs from the Department of Music for the time period indicated

Volume 69, Number 07 (July 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Bayreuth

Bayreuth 1876 . . . The First Festival

Richard Wagners Seen by the Press

Burrell Collection

Turbulent Life of Richard Wagner

Small Recitals Do Pay: A Tried and Workable Answer to the Question of How to Inspire Pupils to Practice

High Larynx—Hazard for Singers

Volume 69, Number 06 (June 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Side of the Angels: The President of Julliard School, One of America's Outstanding Composers tells June Graduates

How to Succeed in Music

How Do I Get a Manager?

How to Get Started on Your Career as a Piano Teacher (interview with Arthur Judson)

Teachers I Have Known

How to Dress for a Concert

Make the Most of Your Recital Debut!: A Well-Chosen Program Can Help Your Professional Career to a Good Start

Too Many Languages

Great Kreisler Hoax

Accommodations are Plentiful This Year at the European Festivals

Aspen

Adventures of the Trill

Master Lesson on Johann Sebastien Bach's Gavotte from …

Volume 69, Number 05 (May 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music at the Festival of Britain: Performers and Listeners Will Gather in England this Month for a Gala Once-in-a-Century Celebration

Singing Patrolmen: New York's Finest Sing to Prevent Traffic Accdients, to Welcome Visiting Dignitaries, and Just for the Fun of Singing

There's Music in Your Piano

Singer's Voice and the Sinuses of the Nose

Teaching is Selling Planning a Choral Rehearsal: For Best Results, Each Step Should be Carefully Mapped Out in Advance

Immortal Trifles, of Gilbert & Sullivan

Master Lesson on Beethoven's Sonata Pathétique

Program Note for Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring

How Sweet Adeline Got Its Name: America's Favorite …

Volume 69, Number 04 (April 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dilemma in Detroit: Survivors of the Detroit Symphony Support Themselves with Odd Jobs and Look for a Successor to Sponsor Henry Reichhold

Zoltan Kodaly was my Teacher

How to Teach Adult Beginners

Music Has No Short-Cuts: Solid Careers Emerge Only for Unhurried, Systematic Training (interivew with Joseph Fuchs)

It's Free—It's Fun—It's Forum!

More About the Pharyngeal Voice: Widely-Used Method in the Golden Days of Italian Bel Canto

Class Piano Teaching Gets Results . . . A Successful Teacher Reveals the Formula She Has Developed Through Years of Trial and Error

Sing with Your Fingers

Volume 69, Number 03 (March 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Problem of Sincerity

There's Music in Stamps

Every Voice is a Problem

How Do You Look to Your Audience? (interview with Basil Rathbone)

Shall I Teach My Students Popular Music?

Don't Force the Issue!

Notes of an Amateur Violin Maker

Ernest Ansermet

Master Lesson on Handel's Sonata in D Major (Larghetto and Allegro)

Campus Lights 1951, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 69, Number 02 (February 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Thoughts at 70

Music Teaching as a Profession

Jeanie Was a Lucky Girl

Origin of the Fugue

It's All Done with Muscles! (interview with Andor Foldes)

Singing Can Be Simple

That Inevitable Symphony

Deficit Master Lesson on Richard Strauss's Morgen

Volume 69, Number 01 (January 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Most Potent Musical Forces of the First Half of the Twentieth Century Were . . . Achille Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Maurice Ravel, Richard Strauss, Paul Hindemith, Arturo Toscanni, George Gershwin, Bela Bartok, Serge Prokofieff, Jan Sibelius

What is Happening to Music in America

Modern Music: The First Half Century

Let's Give Them a Rest!: Five Overworked Piano Pieces by Mendelssohn, Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff Should be Retired in Favor of Less-Hackneyed Numbers

Rhythm Makes the Music Go

How I Stage an Opera (interview with Margaret Webster)

Art of Mezza-Voce Singing

Some Thoughts on How to Perform Bach …

Volume 68, Number 12 (December 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Gifts for the Music Lover

Story of Notation: Byzantine Neumes, Jewish Cantillation Signs and a 10th-Century Monk's Clever Idea Contributed to the Evolution of the System We Know Today

I Want a Christmas Story

Albert Schweitzer Was My Teacher (interview with Lucie Chenevert Lawson)

How to Write a Song (interview with Sigmund Romberg)

Student Recital . . . 1950 Style

Christmas Music in Mexico

Technique and Musicianship

It's Easy to Read Music

Master Lesson on Chopin

Mazurkas in F Major and G Sharp Minor

How Many Christmas Songs Do You Know?

Campus Lights 1950, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 67, Number 11 (November 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Richard Strauss: 1864-1949

Goodbye, Mr. Johnson

What Is Your Vocal Problem?

First Aid for Ailing Brass: How to Make Your Instrument Work Better and Last Longer

Let's Help Our Young Orchestras: An Amateur Group is Harder to Conduct than the Boston Symphony (interview with Arthur Fiedler)

Use the Pedal—Don't Abuse It

Can Students Learn to Think?

Let Them Doodle!: In the Early Stages, Having Fun with Music is More Important than Sight-Reading

Why Not Take Up Your Music Again?

Pictures Have Impact

Good Bass Is Hard to Find

Fighting the Famine of Strings

Psychologist Looks at Music (interview with Victor …

Volume 67, Number 09 (September 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Why I Went to South Pacific

Talent Isn't Enough!

Short-Cut to Choral Singing

Miss Mary at the Manuals

Modern Music Is Nonsense (interview with Darius Milhaud)

I Used to Play Piano, But . . .

Good Dancers are Good Musicians (interview with Patricia Bowman)

Boston Musical Radio Census

What Makes a Composer Great? (interview with Igor Stravinsky)

Don't Worry About the Next Depression!: Here's How One Teacher Solved the Problem

Tabernacle Organ in Salt Lake City

Get Them Started Right!

Those Fascinating Woodwinds

They've Revived the Music Box

Editorial: Music and Barnumism

Volume 67, Number 07 (July 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Summer Music Study in the Open

How to Copyright Music

Building Musicianship (interview with Georges Enesco)

Summer Symphony: Music Festivals and Concerts Enrich Our Vacation Season

Musical Leipzig of Yesterday: Highlights on the Origins of the Famous Musical Center One Hundred Years Ago

They Called Him Skid Row Tchaikovsky: A Symphony of Healing

Problems of the Young Pianist (interview with Paulena Carter)

Campus Lights 1949, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 67, Number 12 (December 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Christmas Comes (poem)

Handbells—Ancient Art Revived

Sing Ho for Christmas

I Learned To Sing By Accident (interview with Mario Lanza)

Swing Into Your Tone

Don’t Plan To Be a Conductor! (interview with Ernest Ansermet)

Why Do We Call Them Carols?: Songs of Christmas Link Today with the Ancient Past

It's the Same Old Claque: Then and Now—New York or Paris—

Relax and Improvise! (interview with Grace Castagnetta)

Concerning Spiccato, Sautille Arpeggios and Articifial Harmonics

Does Your Band Play in Tune?

What Is Your Vocal Problem?

Organ Practice and How To Get It

Master Lesson On the Sarabande and Bourrées …

Volume 66, Number 08 (August 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphysis

Building the Glee Club (interview with Kay Holley)

Entirely New Motion Picture Experience!: The History of La Traviata

Paderewski—Pianist and Patriot

Sense of Tempo

Music for a Ballet (A Notagraph)

Let Music Help Make the Peace

Are We Music Educators?

Revolutionary New Process in Recording and Reproducing

Concerning the Contrabass (interview with Philip Sklar)

Are You a Violin Teacher?

Band—What Is Its Future? (interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)

Practicing Away From the Piano

Volume 66, Number 07 (July 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Memorable Anniversary

America's Most Popular Anthem

Rules for Practice

Greatness

America Goes to the Ballet (interview with Aaron Copland)

Chopin's Piano Method, An Anthology

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): Educator, Publisher, Philanthropist Centenary Biography

Bank Notes and Music Notes: How an Organist Has Contributed to the Atmosphere of the Country House

That Liszt Cadenza: How to Study the Cadenza for Liszt's Liebestraum

Practice Can Make Perfect

Musicianship Through Education (interview with Harriet Cohen)

Volume 66, Number 06 (June 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Eternal Chopin

Orchestra As a Municipal Asset (interview with Harl McDonald)

Nest of the Nightingales: An Exquisite Musical Fairy Story

How Can I Become a Pianist? (interview with Artur Rubinstein)

Romeo and Juliet of the Mountains: How Music and Drama Ended the Notorius Hatfield and McCoy Feud

Natural—or Impossible! (interview with Cloe Elmo)

Concert Hall in Your Home

Approach to Elementary String Class Teaching

Pride of the Navy

Shifting—Sliding—Change of Position

Wednesday Afternoon With the Cecilians

Basis for Piano Technique

Volume 66, Number 03 (March 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Wife Begins at Forty-Plus

Spare Time Orchestras: Musical Amateurs of Notable Ability

Training of An Artist (interview with Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff)

Rachmaninoff As I Knew Him

Irregular Rhythms in Chopin

Joys of the String Quartet

Making a Specialty of Teaching Adults (interview with Nat D. Kane)

Toward a Sounder Philosophy of Musical Education (interview with Erich Leinsdorf)

Pennsylvania Dutch Music at Ephrata: A Musical Anomaly, Part 2

How Joseffy Taught the Piano

Colorful Harp Effects With the Organ

Opera and the Balakirevs

Romance of Famous Bells

Tops at Twenty-Two (interview with Elliott Lawrence)

Interesting Letter From a Home …

Campus Lights 1948, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 66, Number 02 (February 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

I Have Taught Myself to Sing

Learning How to Sing

Candid Musical Snapshots of Post-War Europe

Backstage With a Concert Tuner

Pennsylvania's Colonial Influence on American Musical History, Part 1

New Music for an Ancient Land

Singing Builds Character

Playing by Touch

Keeping Up Mendelssohn

Advancing the 'Cello Section, Part 1

Bands: Past—Present—Future

Chamber Music and Its Role in Musical Education

Master Painter on Masters of Music

Imagination and Technique (interview with Jésus Maria Sanromá)

Volume 66, Number 01 (January 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Whither Away?

Mysteries of Middle-C: A Reminiscence

Prevention is Better Than Cure! (interview with Bidú Sayão)

Young Music Must Have New Tools

Mozart, the Musical Flower of the Rococo Period: How the Historical Background of a Composer Affects His Music

Odd Musical Instruments: Grotesque Tonal Curiosities from Different Lands

Can We Tame the Boogie-Woogie Bogey?

Why Bach Has Become a Must for Piano Students

Art of Expression: Tone Production and Tone Shading, Part 1

An American Musical Policy

Heart of the Song (interview with Clara Edwards)

Volume 65, Number 11 (November 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mr. Smith and Music

Yes—You Can Compose Music!

Preserving the Voice (interview with Frieda Hempel)

Harp as a Career (interview with Elaine Vito)

Ninety Years in Music (Mr. and Mrs. Crosby Adams)

My Hall of Memories: Famous Singers I Have Known, Part 3

Building of the Paulist Choristers (interview with William J. Finn)

Passing of The Little Flower

Special Music for Weddings and for Memorial Services

Band, Orchestra and Chorus

Choral Cultism

Music Links Them All: The Unique Power of the Tone Art to Draw People Together

Master Lesson on Chopin's Prelude, Op. 28, No. 8

Volume 65, Number 09 (September 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Keeping Young With Music

Romance of Home, Sweet Home and Its Author: The American Actor and Poet Who Wrote the Words Was One of the Distinctive Figures of His Day

What About the Woman Violinist? (interview with Evelyn)

My Hall of Memories: Famous Singers I Have Known, Part I

Teacher's Round Table

Practical Side of Piano Practicing

Can You Set a Standard?

Pedals—The Soul of the Pianoforte

Schumann's Whims (Grillen), Op. 12, No. 4 (Master Lesson)

Volume 65, Number 08 (August 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Matter of Degrees

Roads to Memorizing Piano Music

Heart of the 'Cello (interview with Gregor Piatigorsky)

Observations of an Artist on Tour (interview with Ray Lev)

Securing a Good Piano Tone (interview with Earl Blair)

Variations on a Given Theme

True or False in Harmony Land

Importance of the Piano for the Organist

Building Finger Efficiency in Piano Study

Developing the Tenor Voice (interview with Frederick Jagel)

Volume 65, Number 07 (July 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Moods

Ever Play in a String Quartet?

Musical Tour of Europe Today (interview with Marjorie Lawrence)

They Hail from the Red River Valley: The Amphion Chorus of Northern Minnesota and Dakota Records Success Formula for Male Choruses in the Average American City

Radio Conducting As a Career (interview with Henry Weber)

Hearing and Musicianship (interview with Curtis H. Muncie)

Theory Behind Music: Teaching Children to Understand the Background of the Art

Developing the Boys' Choir (interview with Coleman Cooper)

Volume 65, Number 06 (June 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art and Advertising

Tiny Tots' Adventures in Theory

Virtuoso in the Jungle (interview with Leonard Pennario)

Music Teacher Takes a Vacation

Song That Named Four Towns

Etude in Calcutta

Mrs. Mascagni Turns the Trick

Romantic Career of Michael Kelly: Mozart's Irish-Singer Friend

He Fought His Way to the Top Down Under: How Bernard Thomas Heinze Became Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Pedaling—the Stepchild of Piano Study

Technical Proficiency in Singing (interview with Lucrezia Bori)

Volume 65, Number 04 (April 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Eighty Memorable Years

Bringing Delight to Music Study

Singer Faces the World (interview with Maria Jeritza)

God's Apostle of Music Dr. Eben Tourjée, Musical Pioneer: The Story of the Founder of America's First Conservatory of Music as Told by His Nephew

Is Sacred Music Progressing?

My First and Last Lesson with Ignace Jan Paderewski

Musikwiz—True or False?

Arm and Its Relation to the Keyboard (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)

Essence of Music Study (interview with Leonard Bernstein)

Campus Lights 1947, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.