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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.

News-1951-06-06, The Royal Serenaders Male Chorus

Newspapers

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Program; 1951-06-05, The Royal Serenaders Male Chorus

Concert & Event Programs

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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)

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

News-1951-01-24, The Royal Serenaders Male Chorus

Newspapers

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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 …

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1951-1952, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1950-1951 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, its affiliated branches' purpose and locations, images of student and campus life, department descriptions, biographical information about and images of faculty, course and program descriptions, information about student services, and tuition information.

Your Album Of Gretsch Guitars For 1951, Gretsch Company

Gretsch Company Catalogs & Price Lists

Foldout style featuring pictures and descriptions of their guitars. Prices and patent numbers included.

A Survey Of Parental Opinion Toward The Educational Practices Of The Meridan Street Elementary School Of Brazil, Indiana, John Wayne Whittington

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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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)

Program; 1950-07-16, The Royal Serenaders Male Chorus

Concert & Event Programs

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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

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 047 And 048, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.

Program; 1950-06-18, The Royal Serenaders Male Chorus

Concert & Event Programs

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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

A Survey Of Music In The Junior High Schools Of Indiana, Arline H. Feinberg

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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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)

Program; 1950-04-09, The Royal Serenaders Male Chorus

Concert & Event Programs

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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

Program; 1950-03-31, The Royal Serenaders Male Chorus

Concert & Event Programs

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