The Front Cover Picture
ST.
CECILIA
By BERNARDO CAVILLINO
PRESTO
MUSIC
TIMES
THE CLASS MAGAZINE OF THE MUSIC ARTS AND TRADES
NUMBER 2293
MAY, 1940
FOUNDED 1879
One of an $18,000,000 Art Exhibit
Recently Lent to The Art Institute of Chicago
national Ttlusic Week yssue
By the Royal Italian Government
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FEATURES
"If we were asked to sum up Cavallino's
place in art, we should describe him as the
painter of the seventeenth century who beyond
all others was gifted with charm . . . A spirit of
exaltation exudes, as it were, from the St. Cecilia
of the Gallery at Naples. The saint falls on her
knees at the approach of the angel who has come
to crown her, and extends her arms in an elo-
quent gesture of submission while her eyes are
fixed on the celestial abode to which her soul is
soaring. Her lips are parted as though to inhale
the sweet intoxication of her own music. There
is, too, a subtle spirituality about all Cavallino's
female saints which finds expression in soft
masses of flowing drapery scintillating with the
splendour of spun gold and gleaming silver, and
seems to expand into an ecstasy of song
"Yet this perfume of graciousness, elegance
and gentleness in Cavallino's work is no more
than an artist's rendering of the common things
of earth . . . In this St. Cecilia . . . musical rapture
finds expression in the metallic tones of beaten
copper, and the pale gleam of topaz and gold
interspersed with frequent transitions to the blue
of the sea merging into somber, transparent
green."
ALDO DE RINALDS, NEAPOLITAN
PAINTING OF THE SEICENTO
Special Courtesy to ]. Bradford Pengelly
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Greetings For National Music Week
By William Howard Beasley,
President NAMM
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By J. Bradford Pengelly
Interlochen, The Famous Music Camp
By Helen Hollingsworth
Our Sixtieth Anniversary
Echoes of Sixty Years in the Music Trade
America Hails Music Week
Music Under the Midnight Sun
By George Wainright
From an Indian Pow Wow to a
Million Dollar Parade
The Tri-State Band Festival, Enid, Oklahoma
By J. Percival Davies
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FRANK D. ABBOTT
Editor and Publisher
Editor Emeritus
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Telephone Harrison 0234
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