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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

Study Of Performance Of County Scholarship Students At Indiana State Teachers College For The Ten Year Period Ending June 1949, James H. Watts

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Volume 67, Number 08 (August 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Invention in Music

Getting the Most from Your Music Lessons: Practical Hints on Oft-Neglected Factors in Music Study

Denmark's Royal Conductor

Education in Opera (interview with Boris Goldovsky)

Fiddling While the Sun Burns

Hail Rotarians, Kiwanians, Lions, Optimists and Members of All Service Clubs

Imagination, the Key to the Child's Musical Interest

Music, the Universal Language

Gaining Experience (interview with Stella Roman)

Shall I Become a Professional Musician?

Playing the Piano in the Church Service

Keep in the Middle of the Choral Road

Inconsistencies in Musical Notation

Strictly American Vocal Problems (interview with Mack Harrell)

Just How Leschetizky Taught

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)

54th Annual Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 54th Annual Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 17, 1949.

Volume 67, Number 06 (June 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Will Television Do for Music?

Rhythm Puts Life Into Music

New World of Television (interview with Paul Whiteman)

Story of Schani Strauss

Russian Masters of Yesterday (interview with Alexander Grechaninoff)

Our Country is Hungry for Good Music: A Post-War Candid Camera View of the Ever-Expanding Interest in Music in America

Make Your Recitals Interesting!

Elements of Bel Canto (interview with Ebe Stignani)

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography (Part 12)

Holes in the Teacher's Pocketbook

Mozart's Romanze, A Master Lesson

New Form for Violin and 'Cello Tops

Volume 67, Number 05 (May 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Importance of Musical Craftmanship

How to Punctuate Through Phrasing

On Becoming a Better Pianist (interview with Moura Lympany)

Paderewski the Incomparable: The Most Dramatic Figure in the History of the Piano

Concerning the Concertmaster (interview with Harry Zarief)

Finger Stroke in Piano Playing (interview with Henry Levine)

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography, Part 11

Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties Recent Visitors at Harvard

Singer and Stage Fright

Preparing for Opera (interview with Polyna Stoska)

May Birthdays and Anniversaries

Style Show: Piano Recitaloque

Volume 67, Number 04 (April 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Independence

Door to Grand Opera for Young American Singers, Part 2 (interview with Wilfrid Pelletier)

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography, Part 10

Beginning the Career (interview with Marilyn Cotlow)

Overcoming the Crime Hazard With Music: An Exciting Community Experiment: How the Denver Junior Police Bands Have Successfully Been Killing Delinquency Before It Happens

America Holds the Hopes of the Musical World (interview with Ralph Vaughan Williams)

World's Most Remarkable Collection of Orchestral Music: The Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection in the Free Library of Philadelphia

Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties: Pursuing a Speciality

Today's Children Build Tomorrow's …

Volume 67, Number 03 (March 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Code of Ideals

Door to Grand Opera for Young American Singers: The Absorbing Story of The Auditions of the Air as Told by Its Brilliant Director (interview with Wilfrid Pelletier)

William Arms Fisher, Memorial Service at the Arlington Street Church, Boston, MA

World's Favorite Hymn

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography (Part 9)

Will Music Festivals Regenerate France?: How Dramatic and Musical Spectacles are Awakening a Great Nation

Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties, Part 3

How to Build Confidence (interview with Leonard Warren)

Sense of Security in Piano Playing (interview with Henry Levine)

Technic Must Release Music! (interview with …

Campus Lights 1949, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 67, Number 02 (February 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musicians and Sensitivity

Training of a Pianist (interview with Alexander Brailowsky)

Music That Comes in Bottles

Mexico, Land of Musical Charm

Sing Your Way Back to Health

Musical Development in Ethiopia (interview with Alexander Kontorowicz)

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography (Part 8)

Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties, Part 2

From an Avalanche of Recordings

Words and Music

Music a Hobby in the Grass Roots

Diderik Buxtehude, The Great Dane (1637-1707)

Look Out For Your Hands!: Neuritis, Neuralgia, and Temporary Paralysis Must be Watched

Why Not Go In for Amateur Opera? There's No End of Fun Over the Footlights

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 67, Number 01 (January 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

On Keeping a Musical Diary

Eugène Ysaÿe as a Teacher (interview with Jeannette Ysaÿe)

Musical Fireworks Behind the Iron Curtain

Composer Needs Determination and Faith (interview with William Grant Still)

Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties: Haycyon Days at Harvard

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography (Part 7)

Mania for Speed by Performers of Music, Part 2

Do Musicians Live Longer Than Others?

Ua94/6/1 Steeley Veach Scrapbook 2, Steeley Veach

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by Steeley Veach containing programs of concerts and recitals performed by Veach. Contains some church bulletins and clippings as well.