Northwest Musical Herald

Volume 1: November, 1926 – May, 1927

Number 1 (November, 1926)

• Page 1: Front Matter and Table of Contents
• Page 2: [advertisement]
• Page 3: [advertisements]
• Page 4: [advertisements]
• Page 5: Foreword
• Page 6: [advertisement]
• Pages 7-9: Marion D. Lay, "Minneapolis Writer Scores Success: 'Winona,' Bimboni-Williams Production Heralded by Critic as Epochal Music Event"
• Page 9: "Symphony Presents Famous Soloists: Outline of the 24th Consecutive Orchestral Season Shows Many First Magnitude Stars" [Minneapolis Symphony]
• Pages 10, 14, 30: "A Musical Summer in Europe: Henri Verbrugghen Describes His Visit to the Mozart-Wagner Festival and Elsewhere"
• Page 10: [advertisement]
• Pages 11, 20: "[John] McCormack Tells Secret of Success: World-Famous Singer Gives Advice to Teachers and Students on How to Practice (Special Interview with Northwest Musical Herald Correspondent)"
• Page 12: "Elks' Male Chorus is Back in the Fold"
• Page 12: "Community Singing Wins in Minneapolis"
• Page 12: "A Musical Sorority Traces Music History" [Mu Phi Epsilon]
• Page 12: "New Features Seen in the MacPhail School"
• Page 12: [advertisement for St. Agatha's Conservatory]
• Pages 13, 29: H.A. Bellows, "The Transformation of Music: Good Music Actually Gives Its Hearers More Pleasure Than Poor Music"
• Page 14: [advertisement for the Progressive School of Music]
• Pages 15, 34: James Davies, "Local Musicians Who Have Won Fame: Some Great Names Who Have Called the State of Minnesota 'Home'"
• Page 16: Karl de Laittre [President of the Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Association], "The Growth of the Symphony Orchestra: From Small Beginning to One of the Five Leading Orchestras of the World"
• Page 16: "Minneapolis School of Music is Reorganized"
• Page 16: "St. Paul's Orpheus Club Wins Honors"
• Page 16: Helen Bryant, "Down Town Concert and University Series"
• Page 16: "Thursday Musical"
• Pages, 17, 33: William MacPhail, "Menace of Today's Popular Song: Rapid Growth Shown in Present Day Demand for Popular Musicians"
• Page 17: [advertisement]
• Page 18: [advertisements]
• Page 18: An Appeal for Support [for the present journal]
• Page 18: "'Why So Hot Little Man?'"
• Page 18: "Director Christiansen Returns From Europe" [F. Melius Christiansen, Director of the St. Olaf Lutheran Choir]
• Pages 19, 33: Francis Boardman, "History Set to Music"
• Page 19: "Schubert Club Offers Series"
• Page 19: [advertisements]
• Page 20: "U. of M. [University of Minnesota] Music Dept. Attracts Many"
• Page 20: [advertisement for Esther Osborn-Nelson, teacher of voice]
• Pages 21, 30: Victor Nilsson (Dr.), "Bayreuth Festivals as They Really Are: What a Local Music Critic Found at the Great Wagnerian Shrine"
• Page 22: Studio Activities
• Page 22: [advertisements]
• Page 23: Mrs. Charles S. Hardy [President of the Minneapolis Chapter of Pro Musical], "Pro Musica"
• Page 23: [advertisements]
• Page 24: "The Concert Season in St. Paul: Edmund A. Stein, Impresario, Foresees a Finer Season Than Ever Ahead"
• Page 24: [advertisements]
• Page 25: Oscar Day, "The Theater"
• Page 25: [advertisements]
• Page 26: Southworth Alden, "Musical Meditations"
• Pages 27-28, 31: Studio Activities
• Page 27-32: [advertisements]
• Page 29: Helen Bryant, "Theatrical Events at the Door"
• Page 33: James Davies, "In Memoriam" [Ms. Florence Austin Goodwin]

Number 2 (December, 1926)

• Page 1: "Christmas Music and Christmas"
• Page 1: "Coming Late to the Music"
• Page 1: "New Musical Americans"
• Page 1: "A'Real Event' in Music"
• Page 1: "Getting Back to Nature"
• Page 2: ["Thurlow Lieurance is shown in this picture recording the theme of 'By the Waters of Minnetonka.' Below the composer's original notes of the song which made him $50,000.00."]
• Page 3: Helen Bryant, "Composer Makes Minnesota Famous: Thurlow Lieurance Tells How He Wrote 'By the Waters of Minnetonka,' in Interview"
• Page 4: "Sousa to Write Song for 'U': 'Business Men Like Lively Music,' Says Famous Conductor on Visit to Minneapolis"
• Page 5: Donald Ferguson, "Music Education or School Authority? What Phases of Music May Properly Be Taught in Schools"
• Page 6: "As Sophie Braslau Sees Musical World"
• Pages 7-8, 18-19: Twin City Musical Reviews
  • Page 7: A.E.H., "Symphony Presents 'Pines of Rome'
  • Page 7: A.S., "St. Paul is Pleased With M. Cortot's Playing"
  • Page 7: "Nikolai Orloff at the People's Church"
  • Page 7: "Mischa Elman Gives Music in Purest Form"
  • Page 7: "MacDowell Themes Please Thursday Musical"
  • Page 8: "Symphony Gives Another Sunday Concert Series"
  • Page 8: "Down Town Concert and University Series"
  • Page 8: "Verbrugghen String Quartet"
  • Page 8: "University Presents Chamber Music"
  • Page 8: "Minneapolis Symphony String Quartet"
  • Page 8: "Verbrugghen Calls Music Newest Art"
  • Page 8: "Orchestral Art Society Opens Season"
  • Page 8: "Symphony Chorus Rehearses Weekly"
  • Page 8: "Indian Opera Given by High Schools" [Lelewala by Charles Wakefield Cadman]
  • Pages 18-19: A.S., "Evenings and Sundays With the Orchestra"
  • Page 19: A.S., "John Beach With Pro Musica Society"
• Page 9: "Mischa Elman's Happy Musical Vacation: True Genius Must Never Allow Itself to Be Embittered, Artist Says"
• Page 10: Helen Gage, "Pianist Longs to Play for Own People: [Mischa] Levitzki Tells of His Musical Loves and His Discoveries in China and Japan"
• Page 11: Edward R. Sammis, "The Minnesota Nightingale Tells How: Florence Macbeth Finds That Courage and Hard Work Are As Necessary as a Voice"
• Pages 12-13: Frances Boardman, "St. Paul Delighted by Alfred Cortot: Pianist Shows That Music Cannot Be Divorced From Contact With the Emotions"
• Page 13: Studio Activities
• Page 13: [advertisements]
• Page 14: "Percy Grainger's Tribute to Paderewski"
• Page 14: John Sherman, "From Pants Factory to Concert Stage—[Boris] Saslawki's Story"
• Pages 15, 21: "The Fairy Tale of Marion Talley: The Remarkable Tale of How a Kansas Girl Gained Fame at Nineteen" [interview]
• Page 16: Musical Meditations [by Southworth Allen]
• Pages 16, 22: What Do You Think? An Open Forum for the Expression of Musical Opinion
• Page 17: "Music Critics Laud Indian Opera Winona [opera by Alberto Bimboni]
• Page 18: [advertisements]
• Page 19: [advertisements]
• Page 20: The Theatre (by Oscar Day)
• Page 20: [advertisements]
• Page 21: [advertisements]
• Page 22: [advertisements]
• Page 22: "University Auditorium Work Starts Next Fall"
• Page 23: "Louis Wolff, Head of Violin Department Dies"
• Page 23: Studio Activities
• Page 23: [advertisements]
• Page 24: Notices/Studio Activities

Number 3 (January-February, 1927)

• Page 1: "When Critics Disagree"
• Page 1: "Northwest Music in the East"
• Page 2: "Who is Who in Northwest Music Circles: Henri Verbrugghen, Conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra"
• Page 3: John Sherman, "Chaliapin on American Psychology: His Difficulty in Understanding It—His Work on His Autobiography"
• Pages 4, 23: James Davies (Dr. ), "A Great Music Critic" [Samuel Langford]
• Page 5: "The World's Greatest Cellist Speaks: Pablo Casals Tells a Viennese Newspaper about His First Musical Memories and Experiences" [interview taken and translated from the Neue Frei Presse of Vienna]
• Page 6: "Minnesota Musicians Score in New York: Highly Favorable Reviews in the East—Symphony and St. Olaf's Win Honors—Mr. Fenyves' Recital"
• Page 7: Helen Bryant, "Milhaud, the Bad Boy of Today's Composers: The Ultra-Modern of French Musical Writers Speaks of the Trend in Today's Music"
• Page 8: "How to Handle the Child Prodigy: [Alexander] Brailowsky Tells His Own Experience—His Views of the Modern Composers and Jazz"
• Page 8: [advertisement for the Minneapolis String Quartet]
• Pages 9-10, 18: Twin City Musical Reviews
  • Page 9: A.E.H., "Miaskovsky Symphony Scores Tremendous Success" [Sixth Symphony]
  • Page 9: J.S., "December 17" [symphony concert]
  • Pages 9-10: "January 2" [American legion band concert]
  • Page 10: "January 9"
  • Page 10: "January 14"
  • Page 10: "January 16"
  • Page 10: "January 21"
  • Page 10: "January 23"
  • Pages 10, 18: "Mrs. Carlyle Scott's Series of Concerts"
  • Page 18: "St. Paul Concerts"
  • Page 18: "Pro Musica Presents Milhaud"
  • Page 18: "Madame Apfelbeck Dies" [Marie Louise Bailey-Apfelbeck]
  • Page 18: [advertisements]
• Page 11: Alfred Edmund Hinton, "Sketches of Modern Music"
• Page 12: [Concert Notices]
• Page 13: Sigmund Spaeth, "How Should We Listen to Music? A Famous Critic Tells of Foot-Listeners, Heart-Listeners and Head-Listeners"
• Page 14: Arthur Judson, "What an Artist's Manager Should Not Do: He Is Not a Miracle Man but Acts More as a Service Bureau"
• Page 14: Studio Activities
• Page 15: Ernest Newman [via the London Times], "Stale Bread's Spasm Band Was First: Ernest Newman Discusses H. O. Osgood's Recent Book in Defense of Jazz"
• Page 16: Robert A. Simon [via the New York Herald Tribune], "How to Get the Noisy Applause: Hints that Forthcoming 'Recital' Fiend May Do Well to Observe"—or Avoid"
• Page 17: Lawrence M. Brings, "What's the Matter With American Speech? Careless, Slovenly and Incorrect Methods of Speaking"
• Page 17: Studio Activities
• Page 18: [advertisements]
• Page 19: "Jazz Will Go; the Waltz Will Come Back: Sir Henry Wood, a Great Conductor, Tells a London Interviewer About Music in America"
• Page 19: [advertisement]
• Pages 20-22: J. O'Boyle, "Better Music Given Movie Theaters"
• Page 20: [advertisements]
• Page 21 [advertisements]
• Page 22: [advertisements]
• Page 22: Notices
• Pages 23-24: Notices and advertisements

Number 4 (May, 1927)

• Page 1: [advertisement]
• Page 2: "Who is Who in Northwest Musical Circles: Cecile M. Skaaden" ["Mezzo-Soprano, Voice Specialist"]
• Page 3: "A Personal Letter From Winifred Wagner"
• Page 3: "Music and the New Auditorium"
• Page 3: "An 'Event' for Mr. Damrosch"
• Page 3: "The Noise of Antheil"
• Page 4: "Fritz Kreisler Plays in St. Paul: Excessive Devotion to Technique Opposed by the Artist—A Bit of the Philosophy of Life and Love and Music as the Great Violinist Sees It"
• Page 5: "Rachmaninoff Pleads for 'Melody': The Great Russian Composer's Recital in St. Paul—His Plea for the Older Conceptions of Music as Against the Young 'Internationalists'"
• Pages 6-7, 19: Victor Nilsson (Dr.), "A Pilgrimage to Bonn and its 'Beethoven Haus': Music Critic Visits Beethoven's Birthplace and Finds Famous Old Instruments and Other Musical Treasures and Relics"
• Pages 8, 24: "Percy Grainger Visits Minneapolis: He Hears His Composition 'The Warrior' Played by the Symphony Orchestra—Musical Views and Pianistic Ideas"
• Pages 9-10, 22-23: "Tendencies and New Tenets: Eugene Goossens Speaks of the Variant Theories of Music Today—Polytonality and Atonality"
• Page 11: "University Will Present 'Carmen': A Great Event Set for the Memorial Stadium on the Campus June 11 Next" [University of Minnesota]
• Pages 12-13: Ruth Anderson [Instrumental Supervisor, Minneapolis Public Schools], "Music in the Public Schools"
• Pages 12-13: "Who is Who in Northwest Musical Circles: Dr. F. Melius Christiansen" [Director of the St. Olaf Choir]
• Page 13: "The Beethoven Centennial"
• Pages 14, 21: "The Music of the Soviet Republic: Alfredo Casella Finds the Musical Field There Very Much Alive—What the State Does for It"
• Page 15: [Notices]
• Page 16: Saint Paul Activities: Work of the Schubert Club
• Page 16: Studio Activities
• Page 16: [advertisement]
• Page 17: Studio Notes
• Page 17: [advertisement]
• Page 18: "A Visit from Mrs. Gaines" [Berenice Van Loan Gaines]
• Page 18: [advertisements]
• Page 20: Twin City Musical Reviews
• Page 20: [advertisements]
• Page 20: "Mr. Witherspoon Discusses Musical Ethics"

Volume 2: October, 1927 –

Number 1 (October, 1927)

• Page 1: [advertisements]
• Page 3: Announcement
• Page 3: Florence Aylen, "Rhythms"
• Page 3: Table of Contents
• Pages 4-5: James Davies (Dr.), "Modern Tendencies in American Music: An Article in Which the Critic Challenges the Attention of the Musical World"
• Page 5: "Claudia Muzio Will Open Season of Schubert Club"
• Page 5: National Note
• Page 6: Arthur J. Gaines [Manager, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra], "Symphony Completes Anniversary Plans: Minneapolis Orchestra Will Open Twenty-fifth Concert Season on October 21"
• Pages 7-8: "Minneapolis Schools Standardize Course: Study of Music Appreciation Considered Essential to Intellectual, Emotional and Spiritual Development of Pupils"
• Page 8: [University of North Dakota Music Department Notice]
• Page 8: "Service to be Keynote of Thursday Musical Activity"
• Page 9: "New Music Courses Offered by University Extension"
• Page 9: "New York Symphony Plans Golden Jubilee Celebration"
• Page 9: Across the Seas [Notices]
• Page 10: Harold L. van Doren, "Art Institute to Open Auditorium: Exhibition of the Work of Twin City Artists Will be Featured During Month"
• Page 11: "Northwest Singers Prepare For National Audition Test"
• Page 12: Russell McLaughlin, "Camp Selected for National Orchestra: 300 High School Musicians Will be Chosen for Membership in Organization"
• Page 13: Minneapolis Notices
• Page 13: "Twin City Musicians Join Theater Strike"
• Page 14: St. Paul and Duluth Notices
• Page 15: Minnesota Notices
• Page 15: Obituary
  • Mrs. Sophie Sherdingstad Dahl (b. 1883)
  • Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler (aged 65)
  • Marcus Loew
  • Ralph Lyford
  • Isadora Duncan
  • Ethan Allen Taussig
• Page 16: National Notes
• Page 17: Notices and Advertisements
• Page 18: "Old Favorites to be Featured Over WCCO"
• Page 18: "Three Players to Begin 25th Year With Symphony"
• Page 18: South Dakota and Pro Musica Notices
• Page 19: Notices
• Page 20: Dramatic and Fine Arts
• Page 21: [List of Visiting Artists for State Teachers' College, Moorhead, Minnesota]
• Page 21: [advertisements]