http://scriabin.com/etude/ en-us Copyright 2012 Tue, 01 Feb 1938 14:26:48 -0500 Members of the Senior Class of the Western Conservatory of Music, Chicago, gave an "Afternoon with Chopin," March 12th. President E. H. Scott gave a lecture of instructive criticism. A series of Vesper Services, historically arranged, have been given in University Hall, Ann Arbor, Mich., covering the ground from the... http://scriabin.com/etude/1902/04/home-notes-25.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1902/04/home-notes-25.html World of Music It has been my ambition of late years to analyze cer­tain compositions of one of the greatest masters the world ever saw. It is to him I owe the discovery of a new way to expose analytically the construction of the fugue-form, by means of colors and differently shaped notes. http://scriabin.com/etude/1893/07/analysis-and-logic-in-music.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1893/07/analysis-and-logic-in-music.html Musicology The statement that but few, if any, effective art works for the piano are produced in the busy present has been heard quite frequently of late, and the wail is ever increasing in monotony. It is said that the modern composers, in the search for orchestral color, are treating the piano in a decidedly exaggerated style; that the reaches are impossible for normal hands, and that the dissonances hold out so long that when they do resolve the effect is lost--especially on thin-toned pianos. As is usual in sweeping assertions, there is a shadow of fact for a base. In this case it is but the merest shadow, and it is almost impossible for those who know the truth to stand by in passive abeyance. http://scriabin.com/etude/1893/07/notes-on-the-works-of-some-living-composers.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1893/07/notes-on-the-works-of-some-living-composers.html Composers HOME. Dr. Pachmann returns to America and plays in Chicago in November. The Conductorship of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is still unsettled. Gustav Heinrichs is giving various Eastern cities good opera at popular prices. Materna has renewed her artistic triumphs in her recent reappearance in New York. The Michigan Music... http://scriabin.com/etude/1893/07/musical-items-64.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1893/07/musical-items-64.html World of Music One of your subscribers does me the honor to ask for information in regard to my edition of the "Deppe Method." Also, who Deppe is, where born, and if still alive and teaching. I have forgotten where Deppe was born, but he was a well-known musical conductor and teacher of... http://scriabin.com/etude/1893/07/miss-amy-fay-on-the-deppe-method.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1893/07/miss-amy-fay-on-the-deppe-method.html Teaching The following is a continuation of M. Moszkowski's article in the January Etude but may be read with interest as a separate article. No living composer for the piano is more famous than Moszkowski. In honoring The Etude with the first article he has written in many years we feel that our readers should join with us in making our appreciation more practical by informing as many musical-lovers as possible of this excellent description of the usages at one of the oldest institutions of musical learning in the world. http://scriabin.com/etude/1910/02/methods-and-customs-of-the-paris-conservatoire.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1910/02/methods-and-customs-of-the-paris-conservatoire.html Musicology The hero of the Richmond Festival seems to have been a young American composer and pianist, John Powell. Efrem Zimbalist, Alma Gluck, Louise Homer, Riccardo Martin, Carl Jorn, Clarence Whitehill and Henri Scott were engaged to appear... The annual meeting of the Oliver Ditson Society for the relief of needy musicians was recently held in Boston. An unusual number of cases of destitution have been assisted during the past year... Saint-Saëns has declared that he will write no more music for the theater... Glazounow, the great Russian composer, is writing a symphony on the Titanic disaster. It will be entitled "A Song of Death." http://scriabin.com/etude/1912/07/the-world-of-music-46.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1912/07/the-world-of-music-46.html World of Music Behind the Scenes The success of many ventures is due to the silent workers behind the scenes. The inspiration for some of the greatest masterpieces of music has come from men who are themselves forgotten. The excellent Italian musical periodical Revista Musicale of Turin devotes part of a recent issue... http://scriabin.com/etude/1921/01/behind-the-scenes-the-success.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1921/01/behind-the-scenes-the-success.html Editorials Granados, the Spanish composer who perished on the Sussex, carried his entire fortune of $6,000 in his belt, which, by the way, had been earned in America. Gallito, the Spanish bull fighter, recently left $2,000,000... Christoffer Hannevig, Norwegian-American capitalist and ship owner, has of¬fered a new opera house on the American plan to Christiania, Norway... Moritz Jaffé, the 85-year-old Berlin composer, has recently revived his operas Ekkehard and Das Kätchen von Heilbroun. http://scriabin.com/etude/1921/01/the-world-of-music-45.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1921/01/the-world-of-music-45.html World of Music In order to pass muster with real critics you must therefore convince them that you are an artist and not a mere night or day laborer. If you are that and noth­ing more, you cannot hide it from an expert one mo­ment. You may make money--and since that's what you are after, it ought to satisfy you--but you cannot expect to be admitted into the inner circle of genuine musi­cians. http://scriabin.com/etude/1923/12/what-the-metropolitan-music-critic-looks-for-most---by-henry-t-finck.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1923/12/what-the-metropolitan-music-critic-looks-for-most---by-henry-t-finck.html Editorials An Interview Secured Exclusively for the Etude With the Famous Virtuoso VLADIMIR DE PACHMANN Who at the Age of Seventy-five Has Remolded His Entire Repertoire According to New Principles Which He Claims Are of Paramount Importance http://scriabin.com/etude/1923/12/should-piano-playing-undergo-a-radical-reform---vladimir-de-pachmann-de-pachmann.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1923/12/should-piano-playing-undergo-a-radical-reform---vladimir-de-pachmann-de-pachmann.html Interviews I have repeatedly had students come for instruction who have after great effort prepared one, two, or at the most three show pieces, even pieces as far advanced as the Tschaikowsky or the Liszt Con­certo, who barely knew what key they were playing in. As for understanding the modulations and their bearing upon the interpretations of such com­plicated and difficult master works, they have been blissfully ignorant. http://scriabin.com/etude/1923/11/basic-principles-in-pianoforteplayingsecured-exclusively.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1923/11/basic-principles-in-pianoforteplayingsecured-exclusively.html Interviews Dorothy Howell has appeared as a new star in the constellation Feminine English Composers. At a recent concert she played her own Pianoforte Concerto in D Minor, of which the critics say, "It is an exceptional work in the fact that it is one of the few real concertos, that is, works in which the solo instrument joins with the orchestra and does not merely alternate, since the days before the virtuoso got the upper hand in the concert room." ... Dame Ethel Smyth's new opera, "Fete Galante," had its premiére at Covent Garden Theater. London, on June 11th, and was "a great artistic triumph" for England's "most serious woman composer." ... Amy Woodforde Finden, one of the most gifted of recent English song-writers, and best known for her "Indian Love Lyrics," had a memorial to her unveiled in April at Hampsthwaite Church near Harrogate. http://scriabin.com/etude/1923/11/world-of-music-15.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1923/11/world-of-music-15.html World of Music Dr. William B. Pape, known a number of years ago as Willie Pape, pianist and composer, died at Mobile, Ala., August 30th. He was born in Mobile... The Moody-Manners Opera Company, of London, offer a prize of $1250, and 10 per cent. of net profits made by the company, for an original opera, the offer open to anyone... The favorite instrument in Spain is the mandora, of the guitar family... Stavenhagen, a well-known pianist and composer, has been appointed to the presidency of the Royal Academy of Music in Munich. http://scriabin.com/etude/1901/10/musical-items-63.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1901/10/musical-items-63.html World of Music To the Beginners in Harmony. Studying harmony means gaining a working knowledge of the materials used in making music. It does not necessitate a gift for composition; it does not require that you have even so much as a desire to write music; but, as you who play use exactly... http://scriabin.com/etude/1902/01/fi.html http://scriabin.com/etude/1902/01/fi.html Five Minute Talks With Girls