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By means of singing classes the great majority of the Fising gens eration are in touch with the vocal musle of many composers, much of it of high musical calibre. The fact that these classes are never likely to produce a cultivated vocal The theatre of the Royal Ac-artist is nothing. The fact that they urge innumerable; children ademy of Music was crowded in towards a love of beautiful songs thail week for one of those
is much. So the piano-class, studenta"
entertainments which novel though some may and the foreshadow the coming of Christ-Idea of mass teaching of this in- mas. After spirited renderingstrument, and hopeless though It by the orchestra of a Bach over may seem to others, can reason ture in A, the curtain rose on aably be expected to be an Influence one-act play by Nevin Halys call- for good: If it does nothing else ed "Gamma.";
It should develop a greatly increas ed audience for piano-music, and it Is quite likely that many members of the classes will be Induced by experience of it to become serious students of the piano.
A widow, Mrs. Blake, who had been crippled in a motor accident. lay on a couch hoping one day.to see again the son who had been "missing" since the war. A girl who has been reading to her, and who had also been through the war, tells how her dead father had taught her how to use a revolver; and in the end, by a curious con- catenation of circumstances, it is this damsel's fate to meet and ahoot the missing son! A more lachrymose little story can acarcely be conceived; but Miss. 'Grace Keyte played the widow so touch- Ingly, and Miss Muriel Gale the girl so sincerely, that the audience sat rapt. Here, and in what fol- lawed, the admirable training of Mr. A. Acton-Bond was once, more pleasantly manifest,
The pantomime, The Sleeping Beauty," in four scenes, which came next, proved, far more sea- sonable. Here the author, Mr. Thomas Evelyn Ellis, had given us
a very topical and amusing skit
on times and things, ranging from 1615 to 1928. We saw the prin- cess first as a young girl in the Court of James I. (who compelled
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In each phase she and her various princely adorers had many amusing things to say and do; and with, a charming musical setting by Mr. William Alwyn, an ex- student of the Academy, the whole thing rattled along in a most exhilarating fashion.....
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"DAME DE PIQUE"
OPERA AND BALLET IN PARIS
THE LIBRARY
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS'S NEW TE DEUM
“BOYCE'S SYMPHONIES
(By Herbert Hughes] Laudamus Has been composed by A new setting of the Te Deum
Ralph Vaughan Williams for the enthronement of Dr. Cosme Gordon Lang. as Archbishop of Canterbury. This, published by the Oxford University Press, is a noble and majestic work and Hkely to rank as the best setting of our time. It is composed without elaboration, strictly for liturgical use, and within this scope the com- poser has
surpassed himself.
His own personal scope, his own Idiom, s komewhat severely limited the old combined "In- fluences of English folk music and the art of the Tudor mimiclana retain their hold-upon him," and may be observed in their solemn work; but these Influencer no longer result in mannerisms-here, at any rate.
The now Te Deum is clearly spontaneous, written in a moment.
of inspiration, at white heat. The melodic lines are boldly drawn, the rhythm free; the to- nality, harmonised diatonically, undergoes many striking changes, either abruptly from sentence to sentence or by swift transition. Thus the opening In G major by a short cadence in E miñor. passes Into G sharp minor, and from that enharmonically into a brilliant A flat major. A cadence here at "Lord God of Sabaoth"---of Cone bar in an implled F minor (the note F is sung in unison) lends suddenly into A minor. A major. soon follows, then G major, then for the moment in B flat, back to G, then into E, quasi-modal. And so on.
It is all tremendously eloquent, with that inevitability that be- | longs to first-class work. When
Who is in a talking" aim, "The Five the prayer comes, "We therefore pray Thee, help thy servants," It O'Clock Girl."
comes withoutapy studied at- tamot at dramatic contrast, na- turally and simply, without any bank in the rhythmic movement: The old canticle that suffered so much at the hands of nineteenth- Miss Betty Gray made a win
century Anglicans and part-song some princess, and, with the other'
Paris. The performance in merchants takes on a new dignity Royal and fairy folk equally, well Paris of Tchaikowsky's "Dame de and impressiveness in setting played, the audienca
was in al-Pique" (sung in Russian) by the that le courageous and sincere. most continual merriment, and all "Opera Russe de Paris" was in a Constant Lambert has done an concerned shared the final ova-way an historical event, as the excellent deed in transcribing and tion.
work had never been given before editing for the. Oxford University. -E M. W. in France. Composed in 1890,Press the eight symphonies written the opera has thus bad to wait by William Boyce (38 or 3s 6d thirty-eight years before being each), Boyce who died in 1779, mounted on the Parisian stage. A has suffered undue neglect as a good deal of water has flowed under composer of Instrumental music. the bridges of the Seine and of (Continued at foot of preceeding.
PIANO TEACHING
- A BRITISH SCHEME FOR
CLASSES
the Neva-ince the peaceful- 'nineties, and naturally Tchaikow- "By Arthur Mason]- There is presently to be sub-sky's setting of Pushkine's drama mitted to education authorities, seems definitely to belong to "an- The action Is Ton- musical educationists, the musical other epoch. profession, and the public a scheme stantly Interrupted by set "arins" of plano-teaching to classes of soliloquies, "divertissements," and children. New to ourselves, this all the paraphernalia of operatic is a familiar activity in the United conventions which were still at that date withstanding the onslaught of Btates, where, although the move- ment is of recent origin, hundreds the new Wagnerian technique. of thousands of school-children are. now being taught in class the els ments of plano-playing..
Nevertheless, Tchaikowsky some- how seems to triumph over!! these handicaps by sheer musician- The scheme proposed. for our own ship. There are pages in the score country-the work of Major J. Tof this opers which are worthy Bavin, well known as a lecturer rank beside the best of од music
to school pupils and symphonie or teachers has been based upon is well sustained, Increasing Inne creations; and the musical interest | America's highly successful
methods of class teaching. The teneity as the drama develops children assemble in class as for the other hand, there are fou
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replica of several octaves of a
the orchestral writing is perhaps
planoforte keyboard. Guided by more interesting than the vocal their teacher they learn, first, to find their way about the keys of m piano, and then to play the single notes and the chords of a piece of simple music.
The Russian company, though possessing notars magnitude, acquitted
Having played upon their imita
showed his intimate, and M. Slaviankký the opera by conducti
tion keyboards the notes of scales out without the core,
Lucezaraka, Leontoy and exercises, and the notes of the
Corties sang well in plecs of music they are to study, they go one by one to a real female roles; M.
dramatic Hermannit plano in the class-room, and play.
thereon the real notes of that though cast for sm music. And not only to the chil-superbly in a baritone
remarkable quality,
dren's skill of Anger trained, but The Ida Rubinstein ballets have they are taught the rudiments of
music's construction, and other come to an end, the last new things the knowledge of which will to be produced-
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