Arizona republican., 1921-07-24
Musical Notes
By Eugene RedewlII
BY EUGENE REDEWlLL

By Eugene RedewII
 The subject, What is tone?" still holds the boards. It seems that a very few recognize and know what is good tone. Probably good tone is so scarce that it remains hidden, and thus one cannot recognize what isn't. Some say that the critics are the only ones that know good tone. They have the variety of experience by attending all musicales that develops their knowledge by a system of com- parisons and eliminations of the un- desirable tone quality. To be good critic one must know good tone, and | to know good tone one must be critic-so it develops that critics are
 born and not made. It is obvious that when musicians-a pianist, vio- linist' or singer hears the same tone quality continuously it is believed to be the standard to judge by. Tone today is far better than at the time of Mozart and Beethoven. Their pianos were light weight affairs with thin tone, lacking in power and wholly unknown to the modern art of acoustics. Bach's clavichord issued modern jazz orchestra. During their time the violin came into prominence and was heralded the king of in struments'' on account of its gorgeous tone quality. Two violins are placed
 before us, both weighing the same, made of practically the same selected
 woods, looking somewhat alike and
 to the untrained eye they are about
 the same all around Probably the shiny one would be selected in pref erence by person who did not know
 the difference. One can be bought
 any day for s25.. but the other is
 pricelss and cannot be had for less
 than $5o.ooo. It is a Stradivarius.
 The difference is in the tone. So
 many people judge musical instru-
 ments as furniture! Comparisons in
 values in musical instruments are
 Judged solely on the tone. Moth
 CTS piano" of course, had the sweet
 est tone;" we were reared to its
 quality and of course, sentimentally
 speaking, it is perfect-but honest,
 now, when these old relics have been
 put in a museum along with. the stuffed cat, shouldn't we, in justice to
 ourselves, open our eyes and ears and
 look into the acoustics of musical in- struments with such equal craving
 for knowledge as we dig into the | '@eeAo VI OdI pC1OVCQ IAH 1LlLxl6 JuSr
 few more years and the mysteries
 of what happens when we strike a piano key will be common Knowledge [ to every school child. In the mean time everyone should understand that
 music is universal language and l we listen to 1t every day, and to know ) more about tone development and the , ability to distinguish the differnce
 between good and poor tone belongs
 to everyone who desires to be non,
 inally well informed on all present
 day subjects.
 Bright College Years" Yale's song
 which. is set to the tune of "Wacht
 am Rhein." will continue to be the
 college song, unchanged. The tune
 of the song offended some of the
 alumni during the war. and the class
 of 1899 offered a prize for a new
 setting of the words. The alumni ad
 visory board on June 21 announced
 that it had declined gratefully the of
 fer of 'ss.
 A young man in Wall street posed
 as d messenger and walked off with
 $14.000 worth of Liberty bonds Afte,
 he sold the bonds he used $1S00 of tht
 money to stage concert for himsell
 at Aeolian hall. Then he bought two
 violins and bungalow down by tn,
 sea shore to practice in. When ar. frested she only had a dime left ? Whether there will be any extenuat ing circumstances developed through the young mans infatuAtion for mu : sic Is up to the number of musi, < lovers on the jury.
 Mascagni has been known as tn, FI "one opera man" He wrote the sue H cessful opera. "Cavalleria Rusticana Il about 25 years ago. but has writer Il dozen operas since, all Of whicl H have proved failures. His very lates H effort. "Il Piccolo Marat," however Il has been pronounced an uproariou H success. I'll Pfccolo Marat" will b III produced, at the Metropolitan oper; H house the coming season.
 III Marie Tiffany former Phoenix gir H and now a Metropolitan artist, ha H about completed her bookings for tn H coming season. She tours the South H ern states in September and tn Il Middle West in November.
 Il Taste for jazz is changing. Tn H appeal to the feet Is slowly beinl HI superseded by an appeal to the hear III and the head. The waltz is becomin III popular aga1n, the ballad IS ga1nln II in favor while the enchanting inter Il mezzo is being listened to with en H joyment. We see Kiss Miss. III Out Where the West Begins."f Pal II Moon." @Moonbeams." and other mum H bers of the popular appeal sort bu H higher musical order being programme Il and requested in places by person H who a few short months ago woul H listen to nothing but rirky dink jag, Il Down at the Old Swimming Hole, II Is Hitting, catchy tune and a lyri II so repletef in truisms that it take II us back to boyhood days and is II sure follow-up to the recent filmin II of the masterpiece of the same title