Philadelphia Conservatory of Music - Variations Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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'ci ii 4 imliii .,-S ,. ,- y- ,Ci ,, f'- gif ...l - . an-n.e,ra1. -.,.1-- -i ,,,-f language among peoples from many lands and as a cornersfone fowards 'GSf'n9 Peace- ROBERT Keeel-lroN The dicfionary defines music as a succession of fones so modulafed as fo please fhe ear. To me, music and beaufy are synonymous. All beaufy confains music, and all music confains beaufy. Noi' all of us like fhe same fype of music. Our fasfes vary iusf as our personalifies do. While some of us look fo music for sfimulafion, ofhers find in if comforf and consolafion. In music 'we see our fondesf hopes and ambifions being fulfilled. Music weaves a silken nel' and imprisons us in fhe fascinafing land of our imaginafion. We find ourselves carried away on fhe magic carpef of sound fo differenf lands and surroundings. We see fhe Far-Easf wifh ifs graceful whife buildings, feeming markef places, and slowly moving camels. We see Cid lfaly as if sfands on fhe shores of fhe fwinkling Mediferranean. We can picfure fhe peasanfs in fheir colorful cosfumes, dancing, singing, and laughing. Wifh music, no disfance is foo greaf and no fime foo shorf. There is no person who can say honesfly fhaf he has never heard music. H' is all around us. We hear if in fhe voices of children af play. We hear if in fhe sfeady drip of fhe falling raindrop. We hear if in fhe surging ocean waves and in fhe sharp melancholy cry of sea gulls overhead. Who has nof heard fhe sound of fhe wind sighing fhrough fhe pine frees wifhouf realizing fhaf if is a deep and peaceful music? The bubbling of a brook, fhe rusfle of a leaf, fhe chirp of a bird-all fhese are music. So none of us could honesfly say fhaf he dislikes music. For fo dislike music would mean fo dislike all fhe sounds of nafure and fhe earfh. Music was senf by God as an example of His greaf work. Lef us freaf if wifh fhe love, reverence, and respecf fhaf if deserves. LYDIA FRUCHTMAN

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arzlzfhizn SusTained CJ-2:10, e 3 0 A r I-P+ ,gl A-L Vafr.fJ.r.ssE'nss sf ssein unior Wofent . The place - room eleven. The fime - fwelve noon on Safurday. Nine people of various ages are seafed before a desk and behind fhis desk sfands a pleasanf young feacher. ln case you haven'f already guessed, fhis is fhe seffing for fhe weekly fheory class conducfed by Miss Chrisfman. As a forerunner of fhe more advanced fheory classes, if includes fhe defining of fhe basic fundamenfals of music. The con- sfrucfion of fhe differenf 'rypes of scales and infervals and fhe recog- nifion of song pafferns are also parf of fhe required curriculum. For fhe mosf parf, fhe afmosphere fhai' prevades is lighf, for all of fhe sfudenfs feel free af any fime fo quesfion and discuss anyfhing which fhey do noi' undersfand. They know fhaf Miss Chrisfman is only foo glad fo answer fheir inquiries and welcomes fheir quesfions. Some of fhe sfudenfs wish fo become concerf pianisfs, ofhers 'reach- ers, buf no maffer whaf field of music fhey underfake, fhey find fhe fheory class invaluable. In all, fhis class provides one of fhe mosf infer- esfing and enioyable hours of fhe week. ANNE MARIE KEARNEY war Wo more The Unifed Nafions has cerfainly done much fo promofe fhe cause of world peace. If alone, however, cannof hope fo abolish war. The peoples and nafions of fhe world musf obfain a common undersfanding of each ofher before a lasfing peace can be realized. One of fhe fore- mosf ways of creafing fhis undersfanding is fhrough music. Haydn once said, as he was deparfing on a visif fo England, fhaf alfhough he could nof speak English, fhe people would undersfand him because his lan- guage was fhe language of music. Today, alfhough we may nof be able fo speak, lef us say, Russian, we CAN enjoy and comprehend fhe music of fhaf counfry. For if is fhe music fhaf serves as an infernafional

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Our .Na!!0!gClI1'l0 MARGARET BARTHELL lAlumnaI is now under +he Managemenl of Ihe Associaled Concerl' Bureau, Inc. and appeared in a recilal al' Carnegie Hall, Sepfember 2I, I946. JOSEPH BATTISTA lAIumnus and pasl Faculfy MemberI is now under Judson Management He recenily played Ihe Mendelssohn G minor and Ihe Shosfakovich Concerfi wilh Ihe Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchesfra, Francis Madeira, Conduciing. , MERVIN BERGER lSIudenI'I is Ihe April Soloisf al 'rhe Philadelphia Young Musicians Musicale. THCMAS BROCKMAN lAIumnusI will be soloisl' a+ Ihe Dell, Sum- mer I947, Dimilri Mefropolis, Conducfing. JACK COWELL lAIumnusI is doing Posi' Graduafe sludy in Com- posifion wifh Paul Hindemiih al' Yale Universily. WILLIAM FAIRLAMB lS+uden+I played in January al' fhe Tri-Couniy Concerl' in Radnor and ai' I'he Guild for Confemporary Music in March. HENRY HARRIS Iformer Facul'ry MemberI now assisianl' professor of Piano a+ Iowa SI'a+e Teachers College was a soloisi' wi+h Ihe Minneap- olis Symphony under The ba'ron of Dimifri Mefropolis when 'Ihe orchesfra gave a concerr ai Teachers College. RICHARD THIELE GREGOR IAIumnusI was soloisr in February wiI'h Ihe Spokane Philharmonic Symphony, Harold Paul Whelan, Conduclor. WILLIAM KAPELL lAIumnusI gave his second sold-our Carnegie Hall Recifal and will conceriize +hroughou+ Europe in I947. BORIS KOUTZEN'S IFacuI'ry Memberl 3rd Sfring Quarfel' had ifs firsi' performance given in New York under Ihe auspices of Ihe Nafional Associafion of Composers and Conduclors, November I946. EUGENE LIST lAIumnusI affer an exfensive Iour in fhe Unifed Sfares s'I'ar+s his European four March 30, in Paris.