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Volume 64, Number 12 (December 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

So This Is Our Christmas! (editorial)

Musical Dates of the Pre-Christian Period

Christmas Crib: The World-wide Adoption of the Holy Scene in the Manger

Secret of Song Speech (interview with Conrad Thibault)

Story of Christmas: As Told by the Titles of Christmas Carols and Songs

Wit and Humor of Musicians (Part Two)

What Hotels Mean to Music

Music Study Promotes Happy Homes: A Psychologist Discovers Notable Facts

Fiddler in the Sky

Spinet Rules in the 1947 Piano Field (Pictures)

Unknown Liszt Portrait

51st Annual Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 51st Annual Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 14, 1946.

The Effect Of Ocular Therapy On The Improvement In Reading, Bernadine C. Nonte

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

1946 Festival De La Bonne Chanson Program, L'Association Des Vigilants

Festival de la Bonne Chanson

Program booklet from the May 5, 1946 Festival de la Bonne Chanson in Lewiston, Maine, the 10th anniversary.

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1946-1948, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1946-1948 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, courses of study, course descriptions, student services, and biographical information about and images of faculty.

Violin Course: Grade 7, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 7, Graduate A: Lessons and Tests, number 121 through 140

Violin Course: Grade 8, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Lessons and Tests, number 141 through 160

50th Annual Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 50th Annual Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 15, 1945.

Volume 63, Number 12 (December 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Song for a New World (Poem)

World Christmas Carols

Legend of Switzerland's Native Instrument

Queen Receives the Queen (Marjorie Lawrence)

Music's March of Victory (interview with Beardsley, Ruml)

Revolution in Opera (interview with Laszlo Halasz)

How Records Helped Win the War

Christmas Carol

Edison's Contribution to Musical Appreciation

George Eliot—Musician

Getting a Piece Ready for Public Performance

Wayfaring Minstrel (interview with Burl Ives)

Leedy, Fifty Years Of Drum Progress, Leedy Manufacturing Company

Leedy Manufacturing Company

No abstract provided.

Volume 62, Number 12 (December 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dawn on the Horizon

Fresh Winds Will Blow Again: A Discussion of Music and Meteorology: A Physician Tells How the Weather Gets on Composers’ Nerves

Ladder to Virtuosity (interview with Mischa Elman)

Quiz to Test Your Musical Knowledge

How to Rehearse (interview with Donald Voorhees)

Edgar Stillman Kelley Passes

If Parents Had Had Their Way

Music as a Living, Human Element

New York's First Opera

What Nazism Has Done to German Song: What Happens to the Tunes When Hitler Provides the Words

Voice Training Through Emotions (interview with John Seaman Garns)

Immortal Pat: America's Super-Salesman of Music

Katherine Ruth Heyman—A …

49th Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 49th Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 16, 1944.

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1944-1945, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1944-1945 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, courses of study, course descriptions, student services, and biographical information about and images of faculty.

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, …

A Critical Analysis Of The Experiments Pertaining To The Psychology Of Physical Education From 1930 To 1942 Inclusive, Obert B. Piety

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Critical Analysis Of The Experiments Pertaining To The Psychology Of Physical Education From 1930 To 1942 Inclusive, Obert B. Piety

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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.

The Educational Program In The United States Bureau Of Prisons, Mark Roland Moran

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1943-1944, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1943-1944 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, courses of study, course descriptions, student services, and biographical information about and images of faculty.

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.

Music Education In The Public Schools Of Terre Haute, Indiana Until 1933, Willfred Fidlar

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

46th Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 46th Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 20, 1941.

Volume 59, Number 02 (February 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Star Enters Her 'Teens

Morning at Valley Forge

Lord Byron in Romantic Music

Reaching Your Goal at the Keyboard (interview with Percy Grainger)

Earlier God Bless America

Singing Success without Money or Manager

Brahms' Prickly Pet

Language of the Composer (interview with Béla Bartók)

Musical Ear

Lure for the Musical Child

Origin of The Star-Spangled Banner

Practical Hints for Training the Conductor (interview with Nicholai Malko)

Pirating Parnassus: Tune Borrowing in Tin Pan Alley

Technic of the Month—More Invaluable Czerny Studies

Violin Course: Grade 8, Compositions, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Compositions, number 801 through 860

Leedy Catalog 45, Leedy Manufacturing Company

Leedy Manufacturing Company

No abstract provided.

45th Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 45th Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 14, 1940.

1940 Festival De La Bonne Chanson Program, L'Association Des Vigilants

Festival de la Bonne Chanson

Program booklet from the May 19, 1940 Festival de la Bonne Chanson in Lewiston, Maine.

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1940-1941, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1940-1941 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, courses of study, course descriptions, student services, and biographical information about and images of faculty.

Three Children With Instruments Photograph, Franco-American Collection

Franco-American Music Traditions Exhibit

c. 1940

Sylvia And Rosaire Roy, Wcou Photograph, Franco-American Collection

Franco-American Music Traditions Exhibit

Sylvia Roy, born in Stratford Center, Canada, has played the piano since she was seven years old and is mostly self-taught having learned by listening to other family members. Sylvia and Rosaire performed around the state doing popular music, jigs, waltzes, and jitterbug styles at weddings, anniversaries, social functions, and for 13 years, at the American Legion in Lisbon. Sylvia continues to perform for private and public occasions.

L to R: Julie Vallee, Rosaire Labbe, Sylvia Roy (seated), Albert Cyr, Rosaire Roy.

Courtesy of Sylvia Roy; copy print by Jere DeWaters.