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

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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.

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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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PAUL NORDOFF lAlumnus and former Facully Member, had his Every Soul is a Circus programmed by Mar'l'ha Graham in her Phil- adelphia appearance in March. PERRY O'NEIL lFacul'ry Member, appeared January 24, as soloisf in lhe Isl' Piano Concerlo of Beefhoven wilh 'rhe Chicago Symphony, Hans Lange, Conducling. DOROTHEA PERSICHETTI lAlumna and Facul+y Member, was narra'ror for +he Fables composed by Vincenl a+ +he December Philadel- phia Orcheslra Childrens' Concerf, Eugene Ormandy, Conducling. VINCENT PERSlCHETTI'S lAlumnus and Facully Member, Sym- phony No. 3 will be performed by 'rhe Philadelphia Orchesira, Eugene Ormandy, Conducfing in rhe Fall of I947. A Suiie for Flu+e, Clarine-I' and Bassoon by ALFRED PIKE lS'ruden+, was performed a+ 'rhe Guild for Confemporary Music in March. MADAME SAMAROFF lFacul+y Member, spoke on The Performer as Crii'ic , al' +he Symposium on Music Criricism a+ Harvard Universily, May I, 2, and 3, I947. ROSALIND TURECK lformer Faculry Member, has given a Bach Series in fhe Scandinavian Counfries, fo be followed by a franscon- l'inen1'al four of Europe. THE ROVING REPORTER lim like a wandering asteroid, Beaten about from pillar to postg Lurking in the deeps of space, Lonely, cold, cornpanionless. lim, just a bit of cosmic dust, Floating idly in the void, Without a purpose or a hope, Going down the paths of Timelessness I arn the spindrift and the foam, Floating on the tideless sea, Flowing freely with the current Cleft by prows of passing ships. Roy Burrell