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Newsletter created by and about the WKU Music department. Includes faculty, student and music group news.

56th Annual Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 56th Annual Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 15, 1951.

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 12 (December 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Day of Days (Poem)

What Do Christmas Carols Mean to You?

New Horizon for Piano Teachers: The Elementary Classroom Teacher Needs a Background of Piano Study

Christmas at the Panama Canal

Play Lessons for the Pre-School Age

What I've Learned in Judging Competitions (interview with Jesus Maria Sanroma)

Grass Roots of Opera in America: Colleges and Universities Set the Pace in Creating Opera Centers Throughout U.S.

Special Christmas Programs Are Rewarding

Covered Tone—What is It?

This Choir Goes Big Time: Doctors, Lawyers, Salesmen, Housewives, Salesladies—All Join Their Voices in This Inspired Group

Do You Teach Piano or Piano Music?

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 …

Aria Da Capo : An Opera In One Act, Burdette Marion Fore

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Foreword to Aria Da Capo

The libretto of the opera is a verbatim setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay's one act play "Aria da Capo." World events, especially World War II and the current Korean War influenced the choice of this timely, yet timeless play. Miss Millay's death occurred during the composition of the opera. She never knew, therefore, of the composition or performance of her play as an opera.

The form of the opera is that of the "da capo" aria. he form, of course, was determined by the play which ends exactly as it started. Thematic material consists …

1950 Ursinus College Messiah Performance Program, Music Department

Messiah Programs

This music event program from 1950 contains information about the 13th annual performance of Handel's "Messiah" at Ursinus College. It lists the performers and conductor as well as the order of each piece of music.

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?

Volume 68, Number 11 (November 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

In Defense of Kirsten Flagstad

Good Singing Takes Time (interview with Giuseppe De Luca)

Pipers of the Highlands

Truth About Conducting Horse & Buggy

Teacher All-Star Circus Band

How Jean de Reszke Taught Singing

Master Lesson on Chopin's Etude in F Minor

How to Build a Piano Class

Pharyngeal Voice

Volume 68, Number 10 (October 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Geroge Gershwin . . . as I Knew Him

What Every Parent Should Know

How Jean de Reszke Taught Singing

Will Your Students Succeed in Music?: Psychologic Testing Has Eliminated the Guess-Work in Evaluating Pupils' Innate Musical Talent

Breathing is Everything Exit—The Church Quartet

Faust and the Devil

Master Lesson on Chopin's Etude in A-Flat Major

Volume 68, Number 09 (September 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Audiences I Have Known

Arnold Schoenberg's New World of Dodecaphonic Music

Tuner's Tantrum

Music is My Hobby

I Learned Piano at 50

Master Lesson on Shostakovitch's Polka from The Golden Age

Volume 68, Number 08 (August 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Delius in America

Interlochen Holiday

What to Do About the Child Prodigy

When Chautauqua Hit South Branch

School for Conductors

How Schumann Became a Composer

Opportunity Starts in Your Home Town

Invent Your Own Exercises

Master Lesson on Mozart's Fantasia in D Minor

Organ Questions

New Records Artist's Obligation

Music is My Hobby (Edward J. Doyle)

Volume 68, Number 07 (July 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Johann Sebastian Bach . . . His World What Bach Edition Shall I Play?

What Sort of Man Was J.S. Bach?

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Teacher Draft for a Well-Appointed Church Music (from The Bach Reader)

Search for Bach's Grave

Heirs to Bach's Genius Instruments of Bach's Day

I've Always Wanted to Play the Piano

WQXR . . . Radio's Wonder Station

55th Annual Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 55th Annual Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 16, 1950.

Volume 68, Number 06 (June 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tanglewood: A Mountain Holiday, Summer Study for Gifted Students and One of America's Most Glorious Music Festivals

Opportunities for the Music Counselor

What is Singing?

Master Your Flute Tone (interview with Julius Baker)

Athletes at the Keyboard Wedding

Etiquette for the Organist

Deafness Comes Hard to Music-Lovers, but They Can Hear Now

Master Lesson on Chopin's Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 69, No. 1

Volume 68, Number 05 (May 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Summer Music in Europe Rain, Rats and Red Tape

Teen-Age Symphony: Fifty-five New York Youngsters, Ages 10-17,Play a Full-Scale Concert Season

He Brought Us Orchestral Music

Gaoler Played the Organ: Being a True and Faithful Account of Ye Versatile Doings of Peter Pelham, a Musician of Williamsburg in Ye Olden Time

Come with Me to Antoine's in Jacmal on the Island of Haiti Where the Mysterious Voodoo Drums are Made

Operatic Daughter (interview with Claudia Pinza)

Volume 68, Number 04 (April 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Story of Parsifal

Blueprint for Public School Music

Toscanini Tours

America Art of Choral Conducting

Changing Voice—A Symposium

How I Play the 'Cello (interview with Garbousova, Raya)

School Band: A Challenge Questions and Answers

Teacher's Roundtable

Master Lesson on Tchaikovsky's April

Campus Lights 1950, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 68, Number 03 (March 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Richards Strauss . . . Conducting is a Difficult Business

Modern Piano Musical Metaphysics . . . Its Cause and Cure

How to Build a Voice Psychologists

Evaluate Music

So You Want to be a Piano Teacher

Structure of Music Clarence Dickinson—Pioneer of Church Music

Let's Simplify the Liebestraum Cadenzas Master Lesson on Brahms' Intermezzo in E-Flat Major, Op. 117,

No. 1 Musical Medicos

For TV Thrillers

Volume 68, Number 02 (February 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Oklahoma Wizard

What Chopin Really Thought of Liszt

Record Your Performances . . . On a High Note: The Secret of Free, Effortless Top Tones—A Studio Tested Formula

Opera Isn't Dead

1950 Ursinus College Messiah Performance (Norristown) Program, Music Department

Messiah Programs

This event program from 1950 contains information about a performance of Handel's "Messiah" at Norristown Senior High School by the Music Department of Ursinus College. It lists the performers and conductor as well as the order of each piece of music.

Volume 68, Number 01 (January 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Social Implications of Piano Study: Leadership, Cooperation, Self-Confidence—These Benefits of Piano Training Make For a Well-Adjusted Personality

Ballet . . . A New Freedom

How to Choose a Violin

Don't Take Your Music Too Seriously (interview with Alec Templeton)

What is Your Vocal Problem?

Ninety We Lose: Children Aren't Little

Men and Women—Look at Piano Lessons from Their Point of View

Musician's Worst Enemy—The Common Cold

Voices Aren't Made . . . They Grow

What Music Teachers Forget to Teach

My First Big Opportunity (interview with Mario Lanza)

How to Play a Melody

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 10 (October 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Listening Pleasure

Football is More than Touchdowns

Fine Art of Practicing (interview with Byron Janis)

Strange Parallels

How to Write Music Manuscripts: An Expert Reveals the Secret of Neat, Legible Writing

Dilemma of the Strings

Sir Thomas Goes on Record (interview)

So You Want to Be an Artist? (interview with Charles L. Wagner)

Music in Industry Pays Dividends

On the Decline of the Art of Singing (first published in 1893)

Silence in Music

Miracles of Recording (interview with Lawrence A. Ruddell)

Mormon Tabernacle Organ in Salt Lake City, Part 2

Editorial: The Chopin Centennial

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