Author: Hier, Ethel Glenn; and Teasdale, Sara.
Title: In a Carpenter's Shop by Ethel Glenn Hier, Poem by Sara Teasdale". A Printed Score from the Holograph Manuscript. [4 Parts, Consisting of the Scores for "High Voice", "Soprano, Violin, Cello and Piano", "Violin", and "Violoncello"].
Description: [1918]. [1918]. - Quarto, 13-1/2 inches high by 10-3/4 inches wide. Printed self-wraps consisting of loose signatures and leaves. What is offered here is the contemporary score for the young composer Ethel Glenn Hier's "In a Carpenter's Shop" with lyrics from a poem by Sara Teasdale. The 12-page score, consisting of 4 parts is lithographed from the holograph score onto 7 sheets of Ditson music paper. The first part for "High Voice" consists of 6 pages printed on both sides of each sheet. The second, for "Soprano, Violin, Cello and Piano", consists of 4 pages printed on both sides of each sheet. The third and fourth parts, for "Violin" and "Violoncello", each consist of one page printed on one side of the sheets. The pages are slightly soiled, particularly along the edges. There are creases to the edges and corners with some tiny minor tears to the left edge of the pages of the "High Voice" part. The signature making up that part, for Soprano, is splitting along the spine. Good. A review of a concert of original compositions given by the pupils of Walter Henry Rothwell on April 22 at the MacDowell Club states: "The works that perhaps received the greatest amount of applause were those of Ethel Glenn Hier. These included four songs, 'May Song,' 'In a Carpenter's Shop,' 'Japanese Lullaby,' and 'The Way That Lovers Use.' In all of them Miss Hier disclosed a delicate lyric quality, and an ability to write charming melody.. Her second work to a poem by Sara Teasdale was unusual and seemed vaguely reminiscent of a Cesar Franck carol." - [Published in the May 4th 1918 issue of "Musical America"]. The American composer, pianist and teacher Ethel Glenn Hier (1889-1971) studied composition under Stillman-Kelly and Percy Goetschius and piano under Marcian Thalberg at the Cincinnati Conservatory, graduating in 1911. She went on to study at New York's Institute of Musical Art (which was to become Juilliard) before heading to Europe where she pursued her studies in Berlin under Hugo Kaun and in Italy under Gian-Francesco Malipiero and Ernest Bloch. She was highly influenced by composers of the Vienna School of music, particluarly Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg, whose works were making an impact in Europe at the time. Hier was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1930-31, being one of only two women to do so at the time. From the library of Louise Llewellyn Jarecka (1880-1954), concert singer & writer. The wife of the composer Tadeusz Jarecki. A student of Marcella Sembrich, Jarecka was invited by President Wilson to sing at the White House. During the 1920's and 1930's she sang with many European Orchestras and in the Polish Opera. RARE. Good .

Keywords: MUSIC; CLASSICAL; COMPOSITIONS; ORIGINAL; LITHOGRAPH; HOLOGRAPH SCORE; IN A CARPENTER'S SHOP; HIGH VOICES; SOPRANO, VIOLIN, CELLO; PIANO; HIGH VOICE; PARTS; ETHEL GLENN HIER; SARA TEASDALE; POEM; LYRICS; IN A CARPENTER'S SHOP by ETHEL GLENN HIER,


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