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Volume 62, Number 05 (May 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Your Musical By-Product

Musical Twilight in Europe

Amazing, Little-Known American Musical Development (interview with Archer Gibson)

How to Improve the Enunciation of Choir Singers

May Day in Eisenach: A Little Visit to the Home of Bach

Million New Potential Music Students

Masters and Matrimony: When Wives Are Helpmates, and When They Are Not

Why Many Piano Pupils Never Pass the Fourth Grade

Porker Changes Musician's Career

How Taps Was First Blown

Purposeful Practice

Claudio Monteverdi—Father of the Opera

Joy in Early Violin Study (interview with Samuel Gardner)

Technic of the Month—Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 28, No. 10, by Frédéric …

Volume 62, Number 04 (April 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

De Gustibus non est Disputandum

Great Mr. Handel Enters the Films

Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

Piano Practice Game That Is Fun

Great Pipe Organs in American Mansions (interview with Archer Gibson)

Great Mr. Handel Now in the Films: Scenes from the English Technicolor Success, Courtesy of Midfilm, Inc.

Building Musicianship (interview with David and Clara Damrosch Mannes)

Rolling Her Way to Triumph: How a Girl with a Gift Arrived by the Wheel-Chair Route (interview with Ethelwynne Kingsbury)

Reaching Fame the Hard Way (interview with Jan Peerce)

Music Should be Fun for Children: How Music Parties Made Practicing a Joy

So …

Campus Lights 1944, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 62, Number 03 (March 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Birth of a New Era

Make Haste Slowly!: A Conference with The Nightingale of the Air (interview with Jean Dickenson)

Everlasting Quest for an Ideal (interview with Leonard Pennario)

Sir Walter Scott's Influence on Music

Young Conductor (interview with George Szell)

American Musical Firsts

Great Yesterdays in Music (interview with Edgar Stillman Kelley)

Getting Ahead Through Competition

Building Public Musical Taste (interview with Erno Rapee)

Are You Drilling Parrots or Training Musicians?

Fundamentals at the Piano (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)

Technic of the Month—Prelude in G Major, Op. 28, No. 9, by Frédéric Chopin

Tchaikovsky's Wit

Volume 62, Number 02 (February 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and the Spirit of Youth

Music Helps Britannia Rule the Waves (interview tieh Archie Payne)

How I Won My Way Into the Metropolitan Opera (interview with Anna Kaskas)

Valuable Items of Interest to Singers

Early American Choral Music: A Strong Factor—The Handel and Haydn Society

U.S. Soldiers Receive Hymn Rations

That Music Killed Fifty Thousand Germans: The Thrilling Story of the Royalist Who Wrote the Most Famous of Revolutionary Songs, La Marseillaise

Watch Your Metronome!: Let the Metronome Help You Build Business

Approach to Chopin Playing (interview with Alexander Brailowsky)

First, Get the Notes Right: A Commentary Upon Accurate …

Volume 62, Number 01 (January 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphonies of Smiles

Musician and the Common Cold: How Famous Artists Have Fought the Most Common Malady

Color in Singing

Bull Market in Pianos

Importance of Piano Posture

Avoiding Stilted Diction

Don't Be a Sound Post Jiggler

Opportunities for the American Composer (interview with Charles Wakefield Cadman)

Original Don Cossacks and the Music of the Don (interview with Serge Jaroff)

Fighting Man and His Music

So You Want to Try Hollywood? (interview with George Lessner)

Child Who Hates Music

Music and the Battle of Life: Why Music Gives Us Courage

Technic of the Month—Prelude in A Minor, Op. 28, No. …

1943 Ursinus College Messiah Performance Program, Music Department

Messiah Programs

This music event program from 1943 contains information about the sixth 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 61, Number 12 (December 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Canticle (Poem)

Piano When Peace Comes (interview with Lucien Wulsin)

Hints for the Young Violinist (interview with Carroll Glenn)

Turning the Searchlight on Musical Harmonies

Music and the Americas of Tomorrow (interview with James Rowland Angell)

Jitterbugs of Yesteryear: Dancing Madness through the Ages

Save Your Old Etudes: They are Valuable

Carols at Christmas

Music and War Manpower

Story of Beethoven's Adelaide

Don't Wreck—Build: How Destructive Criticism May be Turned into Profitable Criticism

Singing with Philosophy (interview with Igor Gorin)

Process of Weight Release in Piano Playing

Modern Ballet and Its Music

Technic of the Month—Prelude in B major, …

Volume 61, Number 11 (November 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphonies of Smiles

Musician and the Common Cold: How Famous Artists Have Fought the Most Common Malady

Color in Singing

Bull Market in Pianos

Importance of Piano Posture

Avoiding Stilted Diction

Don't Be a Sound Post Jiggler

Opportunities for the American Composer (interview with Charles Wakefield Cadman)

Original Don Cossacks and the Music of the Don (interview with Serge Jaroff)

Fighting Man and His Music

So You Want to Try Hollywood? (interview with George Lessner)

Child Who Hates Music

Music and the Battle of Life: Why Music Gives Us Courage

Technic of the Month—Prelude in A Minor, Op. 28, No. …

Volume 61, Number 10 (October 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sixty Years Young

Boccherini of the Minuet: Italian Composer Born Two Hundred Years Ago (February 19, 1743), was the Correlli of the Violoncello

Eighty Years of Musical Triumph (interview with Moriz Rosenthal)

Contact with Parents

Profitable Vocal Study (interview with Lily Pons)

Bow Troubles of Violin Students

Mr. Jefferson—Musician: Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Our Great American Statesman Brings New Facts About His Musical Life

Music in the Streets of Cathay

Missed Lessons

Music Teachers! The Hour of Opportunity Is Here!: Practical Ways to Increase Your Income by Taking Advantage of Amazing New Conditions

Since Singing Is So …

Volume 61, Number 09 (September 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Walt Whitman was a Music Critic

How to Become a Better Pianist (interview with Jan Smeterlin)

Opera for the Millions: An Analysis of the Popularity of Opera (interview with Milton J. Cross)

Use the Mirror in Voice Study

Claude Debussy, French Patriot

Musicians in Khaki: A Vision of Victory in Music Thrills Britain's Armies: The Amazing Story of Symphony Orchestras Made Up of Officers and Men

Among the Composers

Fundamentals of Good Breathing

Natural Power in Piano Playing

Roses and Thorns in the Path of Private Teaching

Grieg—Nationalist and Cosmopolitan: Personal Recollections of Edvard Grieg, Part 4

Three T's: …

Volume 61, Number 08 (August 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

On the Wings of Joy

Grieg—Nationalist and Cosmopolitan: Personal Recollections of Edvard Grieg, Part 3

Innocent Merriment with Music (interview with Franklin P. Adams)

Musical Oddities—Bells

Let Your Studio Help You Teach

Spirit of the Spirituals: Religion and Music a Solution of the Race Problem: A New Aspect of Negro Music

Ruby Elzy

Flying on the Wings of Music

Smallest Finger

Saga of the Westminster Choir (interview with John Finley Williamson)

Discovering the Soft Pedal: The Real Significance of Una Corda and Con Sordino

Making the Most of a Few Minutes

Choice of a Teacher

What the Accompanist Ought to …

Volume 61, Number 07 (July 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Words and Music

Etude Music Lover's Bookshelf

Grieg—Nationalist and Cosmopolitan: Personal Recollections of Edvard Grieg, Part 2

Music Gave Me a Career (interview with Deanna Durbin)

New Era for American Composers (interview with Deems Taylor)

Artistic Possibilities of Good Jazz (interview with Raymond Scott)

Key Lines for Hand Position

Importance of Good Keyboard Action

Scale Contest That Worked

Left-Handed Musicians

How I Worked It Out

Why Not Better Violinists?

Those Puzzling Fifths

Problems in Choral Singing (interview with Albert Stoessel)

Shostakovich Talks on War and Music

Arousing Interest Through Color

Americans All!

Recital Preparation

Our Songs Embody Our National Morale …

48th Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 48th Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 18, 1943.

Volume 61, Number 06 (June 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Just for the Thrill of It

Wartime Piano Conservation: How to Take Care of Your Instrument for the Duration (interview with Theodore E. Steinway)

What Music Means to Mrs. Miniver (interview with Jan Struther)

Steps to a Vocal Technic

Concert Pianist on the Production Line: From Baby Grands to Bombers

America Made Me a Success (interview with Emanuel List)

Roads to Effective Piano Playing

March to The Stars and Stripes Forever: A Successful Uncle Sam Drill for Boys and Girls

Grieg—Nationalist and Cosmopolitan: Personal Recollections of Edvard Grieg

Technic of the Month—When Spring Climbs the Mountains, Op. 42, No. 6, …

Volume 61, Number 05 (May 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Passing of a Giant

Place of the Little Symphony

Music and the Municipality (interview with Fiorello H. La Guardia)

Have Fun with Music! (interview with Kent Cooper)

Three Main Touches

Hymn That Was Found in a Bottle

Freedom in Singing (interview with Lily Djanel)

Among the Composers

What the Nazi Vandals Did to Tscdhaikowsky's Home

Tension Relieving Music at the Front

Memorizing Is Easy: That is, If You Know How

Beethoven as a Deaf Musician Sees Him

How to Develop an Arpeggio Technic

Music Studio Goes Patriotic

Technic of the Month—Techhistories for Boys and Girls

Important Elements in the Foundation …

Volume 61, Number 04 (April 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

At the Rising of the Sun

Musical Community Plan Which Works

Portal of Musical Dreams: A Message to All Teachers and Pupils from One of the World's Greatest Masters of the Piano

Holding the interest of Pupils

Died in Action: Requiescat in Pace Saxophone

Backstage with the Orchestrator (interview with Russell Bennett)

Class Piano Instruction in 1943: How Subtle Management and Informal Encouragement Produce Results

Problem of the Young Singer in Opera (interview with Fritz Busch)

O Canada, Glorious and Free! Canada's Most Loved Patriotic Songs

Handling the Meddlesome Mother

Important Elements in the Foundation of Touch: Tone Color Controlled …

Volume 61, Number 03 (March 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Declaration of Interdependence

Democracy in Music

Prima Donna's Amazing Fight Back to Health and Success: Faith and Music Can Work Miracles (interview with Marjorie Lawrence)

Don't Neglect the Hymns!

How of Creative Composition (interview with Mrs. H.H.A. Beach)

Foundation Principles in Octave Playing

Twenty Years of Accompanying (interview with Stuart Ross)

Basis for Good Singing (interview the Jennie Tourel)

Sport of Music: Millions of People Look Upon Music as the Greatest Game in the World

Nazi Perversion of the Ideals of the Great German Masters

Training the Hands for Piano Playing

Music an Industrial Asset

Doctor as Musician

Bugle Call …

Campus Lights 1943, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 61, Number 02 (February 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hail to the Viola!

Who Should Have a Singing Career? (Interview with Nelson Eddy)

Private Teacher and Public School Team Work

How Vitamins Can Help Musicians

Do You Want to Conduct? (Interview with Alfred Wallenstein)

How A-440 Became the Standard Pitch

Switzerland’s Musical Position in the World War: The Important Mission Assumed by That Country under the Present Circumstances in Europe

Foundation Exercises for Scale Playing: Essential Drill for Rapid Musical Progress

Mexican Musical Folklore, Part 2

Uncle Sam Wants Singing Centers Everywhere

Organ Music Nobody Knows

Karl Merz Music Hall: A Notable Tribute to a Great Musician

Importance of …

Volume 61, Number 01 (January 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music, The Humanizer

Coming to the Front

Make Haste Slowly (interview with Helen Traubel)

Interesting Parents in Piano Recitals

Key Markers

New Opportunities for Ambitious Music Students (interview with Thurlow Lieurance)

How Vitamins Can Help Musicians

Foundation of a Modern Piano Technic: A Discussion of Grading, Touch, and Tone

Amusing Musical Episode

Whistling As an Art

New Approach to the Cross-Rhythm Problem

Let's Have More Music on All Fronts

You Must Go to Work (interview with James Melton)

Mexican Musical Folklore

How Public School Music Helps the Private Teacher

How to Increase Your Practice Endurance One Hundred Percent

Topsy-Turvey Test: …

Ua94/6/1 Steeley Veach Scrapbook 1, Steeley Veach

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Scrapbook compiled by Steeley Veach regarding recitals and concerts he performed in between 1941 and 1943. Includes many church bulletins, concert programs and clippings.

1942 Ursinus College Messiah Performance Program, Music Department

Messiah Programs

This music event program from 1942 contains information about the fifth 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 60, Number 12 (December 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Operatic Proving Grounds

Star Eternal—Poem

Interesting Problems in Music Making (interview with Bronislaw Huberman)

Thrilling Possibilities of the Amateur Orchestra (interview with Leopold Stokowski)

Discrimination at the Keyboard (interview with Alec Templeton)

Twas the Night Before Christmas—Notograph

Lullaby. A Requested Editorial Disquisition

How Scales and Arpeggios Help Sight Reading

World's War Call for Music: Striking Contrast Between the Songs of Totalitarianism and the Songs of Freedom

Essentials of Vocal Art (interview with Emilio de Gogorza)

Christmas Carol Broadsides: When Christmas Song Sheets Were Hawked in the Streets

Have You Piano Hands?

Music Masters Memorialized by the Mails

Technic of the …

Volume 60, Number 11 (November 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music of the Church and Chancel

New American Symphonist

Duty—Honor—Country: A Story of Music at West Point—Its Great Choir—Its Grand Organ—Its Famous Band

Our Nervous Pupils

In Everything Give Thanks: Thanksgiving 1942

Making Practice Painless

Background for Opera (interview with Bruno Walter)

Profitable Piano Practice (interview with Edward Kilenyi)

Challenge for Younger Organists

Keyboard Mechanics from a Virtuoso's Standpoint (interview with José Iturbi)

How to Improve Orchestral Playing (interview with Frank J. Black)

Nine Brothers Make a Choir

Amusing Musical Episodes

Progress with the Boy Choir

How Analysis Helps Piano Study

Master Lesson on Chopin's Prelude in A Major

Technic …

Volume 60, Number 10 (October 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Education in Advertising

Campus Glee Clubs Promote Morale

Music Marches with Uncle Sam (interview with Emanuel Feuermann)

America's Needs in Opera (interview with Giovanni Martinelli)

Life with a Musical Father: How a Genius Cared for the Training of His Children (interview with Suzanne Bloch)

Ancient Music and Dance in Modern Ceylon

Opera, War, and Wagner: How Much did Wagner Influence Hitler's War?

Daily Music Hours Popular at a Great University: Students Demand Good Music Three Times a Day

Fast Five Fingers

Goals in Music Study (interview with Francisco Mignone)

Yes, Music Can Begin at Forty: Start To-Day and You May …

Volume 60, Number 09 (September 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Selling Your Musical Ability

Our Young Musical Army

President John Quincy Adams' Picturesque Musical Impressions: A Quaint and Highly Pituresque Outlook of the Sixth President of the United States Upon Music in the Early Years of the Past Century

How Chopin Really Looked: Only Photograph Come to Light

Successful Singing (interview with Vivian della Chiesa)

Woods Used in Musical Instruments

Music in Switzerland

Profitable Musical Calling of Women: A Condition Which Should Open a Large, Well-Paid Field for Trained Musical Workers

Oldest Music Store in America

Rapid Sight Playing: A Practical Method to Produce Quick Results

Disney's New Musical Picture …

Volume 60, Number 08 (August 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Right Kind of Relaxation

Climbing to Musical Success

Music, Morale, and Elsa Maxwell

Amazing Garcias, Part 2

Creative Technic for the Pianist (interview with Claudio Arrau)

Forgotten Swiss Opera is Revived

Forward March with Music

Black Key Rote Playing Prior to Sight Reading: A New Teaching Device Found Fascinating to Little Ones

Why and When Do Teachers Really Fail?

Rhythm of the Malaguena

Music for Defense

Paganini, Champion of Restlessness

Maladjusted Child in Music Instruction: Can the Abnormal Child Be Brought Back to Normalcy Through Music?

Strauss Waltzes Give a Ball for the Instruments of the Orchestra

Enlisting Music for …

Volume 60, Number 07 (July 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music—A Prime Wartime Necessity!

When Opportunity Knocks

Music for the Fun of It (interview with Elizabeth Mitchell)

William M. Felton, Obituary

Antidote for Worry

Human Metronome

Sixty Years Among the Masters (interview with Alexander Gretchaninoff)

Allez-Oop! Circus Music Goes Classical, Including Interviews with Merle Evans, Circus Super-Bandmaster, and the Well Known American Operatic Baritone, Robert Ringling, Mus. Doc.

Magic Metal: Romantic Traditions of the Bells

Simplified Clef Reading

Sidelights on the Scale: The Modern Scale Fingering

How to Facilitate the Acquisition of Technic

Music Unites the Americas: A Review of a Memorable Musical Educational Congress

Don’t's in Stage Comportment

War …

47th Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 47th Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 19, 1942.