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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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 66, Number 12 (December 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Little Lights of Christmas (Poem)

Sibelius Today: A Flight to Helsingfors to Visit Finland's Master Including a Conference with the Composer of Finlandia

Musical Christmas of Yesteryear

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): Educator, Publisher, Philanthropist Centenary Biography, Part 6

Mania for Speed by Performers of Music

Christmas Music—A Universal Language

Test Your Teaching Methods

Great Russian Music of Yesterday (interview with Alexander Tcherepnine)

My First Day at the Conservatoire de Paris

Igor Stravinsky and the Greek Tragedy

Music Means Joy in Chinese: The Chinese Cultural Theater Group Affords an Opportunity for Americans to Learn of Cathay

Comeback—Words and Music

53rd Annual Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 53rd Annual Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 18, 1948.

Volume 65, Number 12 (December 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Down (Poem)

Silent Night, Holy Night!

America's Great Peace Hymn: The Story of America, the Beautiful and Its Composer, Samuel A. Ward

Amazing Subterranean Oratorio Performance: An Astonishing Account of a Notable Concert 750 Feet Underground in a Fabulous American Cavern Fairyland

Keep It Natural! (interview with Eileen Farrell)

Revival of the English Carol

What Gives a Violin Tone?

Joyous Mendelssohn (1809-1847): An Anniversary Sketch of the Brilliant Career of Felix Mendelssohn

Young People in Music (interview with Malcolm Sargent)

What the Singer Needs for a Career in Radio (interview with Jane Wilson)

52nd Annual Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 52nd Annual Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 20, 1947.

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.

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)

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.

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, …

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.

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.

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

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.

Volume 57, Number 11 (November 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Heredity and Music

Success in Voice Study (interview with Nelson Eddy)

Radio Flashes

Practical Aids in Getting Pupils

Composing for the Radio

ASCAP's Giant Music Festival

Do You Know?

How I Mastered Eighty Piano Concertos (interview with Henrietta Schumann)

Helpful Pedal Exercises

Who Wrote America?

Short Cuts in Piano Technic: Valuable Ideas Derived from a Study of the Keyboard Philosophy of Tausig, Deppe, and de Pachmann

Music for the Pre-School Child

Fatigue Hour

Success for the Young Musician (interview with Jan Smeterlin)

Encouragement Versus Criticism

Make Your Practice Period Profitable

Use and Misuse of the Metronome

Music As an Anaesthetic …