{"id":1497,"date":"2018-02-07T15:14:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T15:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2018-02-09T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:30:05","slug":"ripms-illustrations-of-the-weeksketches-of-opera-characters-in-the-baton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"RIPM’s “Illustrations of the Week”<\/br>Sketches of Opera Characters in The Baton<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Baton<\/em> (1922-32) was published by the Institute of Musical Art in New York City. In 1924, the Juilliard Graduate School opened, with its facilities directly adjacent to the Institute. By 1926 the two music schools merged although both continued to maintain their own administrations until 1946, when they officially unified as the Juilliard School of Music.<\/p>\n

A charming feature of\u00a0The Baton<\/em>\u00a0from 1923 to 1928 is a number of drawings by pianist, writer, and artist Leslie Fairchild. Particularly interested in depicting circus life, Fairchild\u2019s sketches were displayed in several locations including the Ringling Museum of the American Circus in Sarasota, FL, the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, WI, and the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, CT. As a piano student, Fairchild incorporated musical symbols into a style of simple lines and shapes, adding a touch of whimsy to the journal\u2019s written material. In 1928, he combined his drawing skills and musical training to write a children’s piano method book entitled,\u00a0A Jolly Trip to Music Land<\/em>\u00a0 (Chicago: Forster Music Publisher Inc., 1928).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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This week, we present seven of Fairchild\u2019s delightful little drawings of well-known opera characters published in The Baton<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Canio, from Ruggero Leoncavallo\u2019s Pagliacci<\/em>
\nVol. 3 No. 1 (October 1923): 13.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Cio-Cio-san, from Giacomo Puccini\u2019s Madama Butterfly<\/em>
\nVol. 3 No. 2 (November 1923): 13.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Wotan, from Richard Wagner\u2019s Der Ring des Nibelungen<\/em>
\nVol. 3 No. 4 (January 1924): 13.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Carmen, from Georges Bizet\u2019s opera of the same title
\nVol. 3 No. 5 (February 1924): 7.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Romeo and Juliet, from Charles Gounod\u2019s opera of the same title
\nVol. 3 No. 7 (April 1924): 11.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"The Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia, and his men\u00a0(below) from Puccini\u2019s Tosca<\/em>
\nVol. 3 No. 8 (May 1924): 12-13.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RIPM search tip<\/u>: To view more of Leslie Fairchild\u2019s drawings, access RIPM\u2019s Retrospective Index and Online Archive, and fill in the following fields: Keyword = Leslie Fairchild; Periodical = The Baton <\/em>[1922-1932]; Type = Illustration. \u00a0For more information on The Baton<\/em>, click here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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The Baton (1922-32) was published by the Institute of Musical Art in New York City. In 1924, the Juilliard Graduate School opened, with its facilities directly adjacent to the Institute. By 1926 the two music schools merged although both continued to maintain their own administrations until 1946, when they officially unified as the Juilliard School […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}