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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 06 (June 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Supreme Service of Music

Spectacular Meyerbeer

Childhood in Valhalla (interview with Friedelind Wagner)

Four Ways to Save Waste Paper

Governor Dewey Hails Music

Secret of Leschetizky

Beginning, Middle, and Ending: A Fundamental Art Principle Which, if Universal, Will Assist in Giving Balance and Climax to Your Interpretations

Relax!—Then What?

You're Not Too Old to Play the Piano

Music in the Post-War Curriculum

America's Musical Yesterday

Be Your Own Guide! (interview with Dorothy Kirsten)

Volume 63, Number 05 (May 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and World Unity

Mexico's Famous Folk Orchestra

What is Musical Interpretation?

Tell-How Tour of the Radio City Music Hall

New Keys to Practice

Mental Projection in Singing (interview with Nadine Conner)

Music Teacher and the Post-War Period

One Hour of Practice

Tragic Memorial

Musical Progress in San Salvador

Music for the Mentally Disturbed

America and Good Music (interview with Howard Barlow)

Volume 63, Number 04 (April 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Oceans of Tunes

Prescription for a Music Supervisor

Developing the Orchestra (interview with Artur Rodzinski)

Quality Pays

New Keys to Practice

Choose the Right Music

Rhythm, Music, and the Theater (interview with Rouben Mamoulian)

Annual Auditions for American Piano Pupils

What is Expected of an Accompanist?

Fading Fires: Why Does Musical Genius Expire in Some Cases and Continue in Others?

FDR's Favorite Song

Octogenarians, Take Notice

Elusive Pedaling

Applying Principles of Painting to Music

Independence at the Keyboard

Volume 63, Number 03 (March 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

I Want to Be the Leader of the Band

Figures and Phrases

Vochestra—A New Musical Combination (interview with Fred Waring)

Objectives of Scale Practice: Why is It That the Student Who Has Had a Thorough Training in Scales Can Be Distinguished Immiediately?

Do Musical Talents Have Higher Intelligence?: The Famous Quiz Kids Make a Remarkable Showing

Why Not Get Up a Summer Music Play?

Musical Genius and Youth

Artist Speaks of Music (interview with S.J. Woolf)

How Strong Is Your Foundation? (interview with José Iturbi)

Volume 63, Number 02 (February 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and a Loftier Race

New Keys to Practice

Music America Wants: The Amazing Story of How Two Banjos, a Drum, and a Piano Developed into a Vast Musical Enterprise (interview with Fred Waring)

Warming-Up Exercises Make Better Public Performances

There's No Substitute for Knowledge!: How Motion Picture Music is Written (interview with Victor Young)

Victor Young and Victor Young

Our Future Musical Theater (interview with Richard Rodgers)

Music Student Awards Make Better Pupils: War Stamps Make Splendid Prizes

Making Bach Interesting (interview with Alexander Borovsky)

Use of the Palato-Pharyngeal Muscles in Singing

Letter from London: Music, During Britain's Darkest …

Volume 63, Number 01 (January 1945), 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 …

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)

1944 Ursinus College Messiah Performance Program, Music Department

Messiah Programs

This music event program from 1944 contains information about the seventh 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 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 …

Volume 62, Number 11 (November 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Blessings at Thanksgiving

Does Practice Make Perfect?

What Is the Purpose of Music Study? (interview with Josef Hofmann)

Punctuation Enhances Musical Beauty: A Plea for Better Punctuation in Music, a Most Vital Part of Phrasing Often Disregarded by Young Piano Students

Theodore Presser as a Teacher

Masterpieces in the Jungle: The Saga of USO-Camp Show Unit 264

Meet Destiny With Your Head Up!

Curing the Mistake Habit: How to Help the Child to Help Himself in Weeding His Musical Garden

How to Plan Programs That Succeed: Judgment and Experience Bring Lasting Results

Get Your Vowels Right!

Setting Industry to Music …

Volume 62, Number 10 (October 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music of the Spheres

Beware of Discordant Voices

Music American Doughboys Hear in India

Compleat Musical Home: What Your Household Must Have to Secure Ideal Musical Results

Fifty Years of Settlement Music: Important Anniversary of the Creation of a Valuable Movement

Childhood and Youth of Edvard Grieg: A Musical Playlet for Young Folks

The Winnah

Physical Coördination in Singing (interview with Maria Kurenko)

Creating a Durable Musical Memory

Musical Fathers and Sons

Technic of the Month—Finale, from Rhapsodie Hongroise, No. 6, by Franz Liszt

Volume 62, Number 09 (September 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dependable Technic

Basic Beethoven: Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Remarkable Biography Still the Most Consulted Book In Its Class

Philosophy of Musicianship (interview with Fritz Kreisler)

Music in War Torn Normandy

Selecting Music to Fit the Hall: Should Music Designed for a Small Room Be Played in a Great Auditorium?

Aloha Oe and Its Famous Composer: How Hawaii's Queen Wrote One of the Most Popular of All Songs

Musician's Bible: Bach's Well-tempered Clavichord and What It Has Meant to Musical Art

How Can I Raise My Income: A Nation-Wide Symposium with Contributions from Practical American Teachers

It Came in a Dream: Great …

Volume 62, Number 08 (August 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mind's Ear

Why Music Study Is a Priceless Investment

Keep Jazz Within Its Limits! (interview with Paul Whiteman)

Greatest Show On Earth Grew Out of Music (interview with Mrs. Charles Ringling)

Vital Use of Drudgery

Building Character Through Music

Music in the Chinese Theater

Coöperative Pupil's Recital Plan Which Succeeded

Protect your Precious Musical Instruments

If Parents Had Had Their Way

Musical Ideas Come First

Practice With Your Brains!

Technic of the Month—Prelude in F-sharp Major, Op. 28, No. 13, by Frédéric Chopin

Volume 62, Number 07 (July 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Plant Morale

Jane, the Adult Beginner

How Music Helps the Salvation Army (interview with Evangeline Booth)

When the Great Day Comes: A Plan for a Peace Day Celebration (An Editorial)

Story of The American Debussy (Charles T. Griffes)

Passing of a Distinguished Editor and Musicologist

American Music for American Orchestras: A Renowned Conductor Tells What Kind of Music He Seeks from American Composers

Let Phrasing Solve Your Difficulties, Part 2

General Wanted a Wedding March

Master Lesson on a Fascinating Bach Prelude

Technic of the Month—Prelude in B Minor, Op. 28, No. 6, by Frédéric Chopin

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.

Volume 62, Number 06 (June 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Where Airy Voices Lead

Untapped Reservoirs of Musical Treasures: The Secret of the Second Wind with Notable Citations for the Life of Antonio Stradivari

Music in the South American Way (interview with Xavier Cugat)

Music Launches the Henry Grady

Divide and Conquer

Counting Can Be Fun!

Ear Scenery: The Theory and Practice of Sound Effects

Rolled Chords

Let Phrasing Solve Your Difficulties: Musician or Woodpecker? Which are You?

United Nations Piano Recital

Let Us Sing in English! (interview with Florence Easton)

Simplifying the Approach to Harmony

Guitar and Its Traditions (interview with Andres Segovia)

Technic of the Month—Prelude in G …

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

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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 …