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MUSICAL COURIER
February 2, 1922
CURRENT MUSICAL PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Manuscripts are submitted at the risk of the composer
[The Musical Courier will endeavor to keep this department up to date and to that end requests that all notices and prospectuses of musical prize contests be sent to the Musical Courier so as to be included in this department. It will be found that in each contest the name and address are given, to which intending candidates may apply directly for further information.— Editor’s Note.]
Mrs. F. S. Coolidge—$1,000 for a string quartet. Contest ends April 15. Hugo Kortschak, Institute of Musical Art, 120 Claremont avenue, New York City. William Burnett Tuthill, 185 Madison avenue, New York.
The National Federation of Music Clubs—$1,000 for composition, the style of which is to be designated later; $500 (prize offered by Mrs. F. A. Seiberling) for a chamber music composition for oboe, flute, violin, piano and two voices. Ella May Smith, 60 Jefferson avenue, Columbus, Ohio.
The National American Music Festival—$3,800 in contest prizes at the 1922 festival to be held at Buffalo, N. Y., October 2 to 7. A. A. Van de Mark, American Music Festival, 223 Delaware avenue, Buffalo, N. Y.
The American Academy in Rome. Horatio Parker Fellowship in Musical Composition, the winner having the privilege of a studio and three years' residence at the Academy in Rome, besides an annual stipend of $1,000 and an allowance not to exceed $1,000 for traveling expenses. Competition ends March 1. Executive Secretary, American Academy in Rome, 101 Park avenue, New York.
Chicago Musical College—Seventy-three scholarships. 624 South Michigan avenue, Chicago, 111.
Baylor College—Scholarships ranging in value from $105 to $225 for high school students only. Contest ends in the spring. Baylor College, Belton, Tex.
New York School of Music and Arts—Ralfe Leech Sterner offers scholarship to voice student and Frederick Riesberg offers scholarship to piano student. New York School of Music and Arts, 150 Riverside Drive, New York.
music hours have been greatly appreciated by the public and the church is always crowded with music lovers. Miss Klink’s numbers included the great composer’s “Sweeter Sing the Birds on High,” “The Virgin’s Cradle Song” and the favorite “Serenade.”
Rogers Pupils in Concert
Marjorie Greiner, soprano; Floyd Daggett, tenor, and Raymond Freemantle, baritone, pupils of Francis Rogers, gave a vocal concert at the East Side Y. M. C. A. on Saturday evening, January 21. Dr. E. F. Bishop, of Savannah, Ga., bass, who has been studying with Mr. Rogers since October, has been engaged by W. R. Chapman for a three weeks’ tour through Maine in March.
Tamari MIURA
WHERE THEY ARE TO BE
From February 2 to February 16
Price, James:
Detroit, Mich., Feb. 14. Rachmaninoff, Sergei:
Chicago, 111., Feb. 5.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 6. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 7. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Feb. 10. Reuter, Rudolph:
Boston, Mass., Feb. 6. Chicago, 111., Feb. 15.
Reyes, Juan:
New Rochelle, N. Y., Feb. 14. Roberts, Emma:
Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 3. Youngstown, O., Feb. 6.
St. Olaf Lutheran Choir:
Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. 2. Rock Island, 111., Feb. 3. Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 6. Schelling, Ernest:
Detroit, Mich., Feb. 5.
St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 10-11. Schumann-Heink, Ernestine: Missoula, Mont., Feb. 6. Boise, Idaho, Feb. 13.
Sousa’s Band:
Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 2. Orlando, Fla., Feb. 3.
St. Petersburg, Fla., Feb. 4. Tampa, Fla., Feb. 5.
Havana, Cuba, Feb. 7-11.
Key West, Fla., Feb. 13. Miami, Fla., Feb. 14.
Daytona Beach, Fla., Feb. 15. Sparkes, Lenora:
Marshall, Tex., Feb. 8. Lafayette, La., Feb. 10. Orange, Tex., Feb. 14. Beaumont, Tex., Feb. 15.
Stanley, Helen:
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 2. Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 6. Portland, Ore., Feb. 8. Yakima, Wash., Feb. 10.
Swinford, Jerome:
Cranbury, N. J., Feb. 4. Providence, R. I., Feb. 78־.
Thomlinson, Ralph:
Mamaroneck, N. Y., Feb. 5.
Tyrone, Ada:
Stamford, Conn., Feb. 12. Watson, Pauline:
Quebec, Can., Feb. 3.
Troy, N. Y., Feb. 6. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Feb. 8. Easton, Pa., Feb. 10.
Elmira, N. Y., Feb. 13. Shamokin, Pa., Feb. 15.
Saltsburg, Pa., Feb. 14. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 16.
Letz Quartet:
Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 6. Forsyth, Ga., Feb. 9.
Hollins, Va., Feb. 11.
Roanoke, Va., Feb. 12.
Chapel Hill, N. C., Feb. 13. New Bern, N. C., Feb. 14.
Lhevinne, Josef:
Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 6. Troy, N. Y., Feb. 8.
Lhevinne, Rosina:
Troy, N. Y., Feb. 8.
Taier, Guy:
Milton, Mass., Feb. 5. Holyoke, Mass., Feb. 7. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 11. Chicago, 111., Feb. 12.
Lima, O., Feb. 14.
Clev ■land, O., Feb. 15.
Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 16.
Milligan, Harold:
Delaware, O., Feb. 7.
Morini, Erika:
Ann Arbor, Mich., Feb. 3. Murphy, Lambert:
Fall River, Mass., Feb. 5. McKeesport, Pa., Feb. 9.
Namara:
New Wilmington, Pa., Feb. 8. Peoria, 111., Feb. 10.
Nevin, Olive:
Delaware, O., Feb. 7. Nielsen, Alice:
Providence, R. I., Feb. 5.
Pattiera, Tino:
Louisville, Ky., Feb. 7. Pattison, Lee:
Milton, Mass., Feb. 5. Holyoke, Mass., Feb. 7. Chicago, 111., Feb. 12.
Lima, O., Feb. 14.
Patton, Fred:
Pcekskill, N. Y., Feb. 7. Pavloska, Irene:
Battle Creek, Mich., Feb. 6. Peege, Charlotte:
Oklahoma City, Okla., Feb. 4. Dallas, Texas, Feb. 6.
Ft. Worth, Texas, Feb. 9.
San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 11. Galveston, Texas, Feb. 14. Houston, Texas, Feb. 16.
Philadelphia Orchestra:
Washington, D. C., Feb. 14. Baltimore, Md., Feb. 15.
Richmond, Va., Feb. 8. Charlottesville, Va., Feb. 9. Baltimore, Md., Feb. 10. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 12. Washington, D. C., Feb. 13 N ■w Britain, Conn., Feb. 14. Boston, Mass., Feb. 16.
Gerhardt, Elena:
Newark, N. J., Feb. 7. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 13. Aurora, N. Y., Feb. 15. Hackett, Arthur:
Lansing, Mich., Feb. 10. Heifetz, Jascha:
Boston, Mass., Feb. 5. Washington, D. C., Feb. 7. Baltimore, Md., Feb. 8. Montclair, N. J.. Feb. 10. Albany, N. Y., Feb. 14.
Hess, Myra:
Toronto, Can., Feb. 2. Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 9. Galveston, Tex., Feb. 15.
Hinkle, Florence:
Sault Ste Marie, Mich., Feb. 3. Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 7. Port Huron, Mich., Feb. 9.
Holmquist, Gustaf:
Chicago, 111., Feb. 16. Howell, Dicie:
Detroit, Mich., Feb. 14. Illingworth, Nelson: Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 16. Jeffrey, Helen:
Lawrenceville, N. J., Feb. 11.
Jollif, Norman:
Englewood, N. J., Feb. 7.
Konecny, Josef:
Belleville, Kan., Feb. 2. Ellsworth, Kan., Feb. 6. Sterling, Kan., Feb. 7. Kingman, Kan., Feb. 8.
Pratt, Kan., Feb. 10.
Yates Center, Kan., Feb. 13. Girard, Kan., Feb. 14.
Osage City, Kan., Feb. 16.
Kouns, Nellie and Sara:
Menominee, Mich., Feb. 13.
Kubelik, Jan:
Hartford, Conn., Feb. 2. Greenville, S. C., Feb. 8. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 10.
Land, Harold:
Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 15. Lawson, Franceska Kaspar:
Washington, D. C., Feb. 2. Mansfield, Pa., Feb. 10. Alliance, Ohio, Feb. 12.
Alcock, Merle:
St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 7. Artone Quartet:
Detroit, Mich., Feb. 14.
Baroni, Alice:
Washington, D. C., Feb. 3-4. Charleston, S. C., Feb. 6-7. Savannah, Ga., Feb. 9. . Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 11. New Orleans, La., Feb. 13. Mobile, Ala., Feb. 15. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 16.
Boston Symphony Orchestra:
Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 3. Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 9. Braslau, Sophie:
Detroit, Mich., Feb. 2-3. Coffeyville, Kan., Feb. 6. Concordia, Kan., Feb. 8. Salina, Kan., Feb. 10. Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 13.
Bryars, Mildred:
St. Thomas, Ont., Feb. 2. Fredonia, N. Y., Feb. 3. Buhlig, Richard:
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 10. Butt, Clara:
Vancouver, B. C., Feb. 7. Cleveland Orchestra: Hamilton, Ont., Feb. 2. Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 3.
Olean, N. Y., Feb. 4. Criterion Male Quartet: Salisbury, Md., Feb. 6. Mamaroneck, N. Y., Feb. 7. York, Pa., Feb. 9.
Montclair, N. J., Feb. 10.
Crosby, Phoebe:
Gainesville, Ga., Feb. 7. Curtis, Vera:
Sault Ste Marie, Mich., Feb. 3. New Bedford, Mass., Feb. 12. De Kyzer, Marie:
Willimantic, Conn., Feb. 6. Dux, Claire:
Lynchburg, Va., Feb. 6. Chicago, 111., Feb. 10-11.
Fanning, Cecil:
Danville, 111., Feb. 3. Murfreesboro, Tenn., Feb. 6. Shaw, Miss., Feb. 8.
Natchez, Miss., Feb. 10.
Red Springs, N. C., Feb. 16. Flonzaley Quartet:
Greenville, S. D., Feb. 3. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 4. Charleston, S. C., Feb. 5.
will also appear on the Banks Glee Club spring program. It is published by J. Fischer & Bro., New York.
Harold A. Loring’s Good Season
Harold A. Loring, the lecturer and recitalist on American Indian music, and his Indian assistant are having a good season. Their appearances last month included, in addition to Lansing, Mich., on January 23, also Alma College, Alma, Mich., on January 29; Mt. Pleasant, Mich., State Normal, January 28, and Saginaw, Mich., on January 31.
MacPhail School’s Rapid Growth
The MacPhail School of Music and Dramatic Art, of Minneapolis, has had one of the quickest growths of any big school in this country. Founded fourteen years ago, the enrollment today is probably as large, if not larger than any school of music in the country. Its students now number over 4,000, its teachers number 100, and its sixty-four studios no longer suffice for the accommodation of its growing clientele. Next summer a new building will be erected on the corner of La Salle Avenue and 12th street.
Japanese Prim a Donna Season 1921-22
Now Being Booked in Concert, Recital and Opera American Management:
JULES DAIBER, Aeolian Hall New York
Klink Sings Brahms Program
Frieda Klink recently sang a Brahms program at a Friday Noon Hour of Music at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian (Brick Church), New York, and was received in silent appreciation by the large congregation. Incidentally, these
ANGELO FERRARI
Conductor Chicago Opera Ass’n
CORRIERE DELLA SERA—(The Huguenots)—Meyerbeer’s score was heard again with pleasure by many, and it was heard by more who heard it for the first time, and did not disdain it, thanks to the care given by the maestro Angelo Ferrari, obtaining from the orchestra fusion and precision, and thanks to the excellent ensemble of the players. The public, with reason, recalled the artists, and also many times the maestro Ferrari, who was responsible for the complete equilibrium of the spectacle even in the most difficult points.
SECOLO—(Dejanice)—Maestro Ferrari has tried by every means to give to the opera a lively contrast of tones and an effective communicative warmth. The complete success shows that he did not fail in his purpose.
POPOLO D’l TALI A—(Dannazione di Faust)—A good part of the success is due to maestro Angelo Ferrari who has rehearsed and directed the opera with fervent affection. It is because he knows what is wanted and obtains what he should, that he has offered us an execution vibrant with life, serene in equilibrium, and fine and exquisite relief. The orchestra punctuated and commentated in perfect collaboration with the artists and the mass, docile and ready with the eloquent baton of the director.
PERSEVERANZA—The calls for the artists and for maestro Ferrari were not less than twenty, and on account of the diligent concertation of the exceptional maestro Ferrari, the fusion between orchestra and stage left nothing to be desired. Elegant setting in the third act.
SECOLO—(Mefistofele)—Maestro Angelo Ferrari, director of the opera, interpreted the prologue with fine amplitude of line, obtaining from his orchestra a full and warm sonority. They gave with impetuosity and still with sufficient clearness all of the Sabba romantico. That is to say, the two most s. mphonic pages of the whole score.
PERSEVERANZA—(Tannhäuser)—In the concertation and in the direction of the work, maestro Ferrari gives a new demonstration of his fervor, of his untiring activity, of conscience, quickness of eye, of assurance, of the energy of his directive action; from the best of his artistic carnet. He has made every effort for the concertation of the work to become well balanced, homogeneous.
ITALIA—The direction of the opera gives a real title of merit to Maestro Ferrari. The balance of the parts, the emphasis of particulars, the vigor of the staccato, the substance of the various motifs, were all cared for with the greatest diligence, resulting in an efficient interpretation.
© Fernand de Gueldre, Chicago
of fireproof construction, four stories in height covering the frontage on La Salle Avenue of 160 feet. The equipment calls for five pipe organs and an auditorium seating 500 persons.
Courses of study lead to the degree of Bachelor of Music, to the graduates’ diploma, and to the granting of certificates. The Chautauqua department is in charge of Mrs. Edna Thomas-Gordon, who is a graduate of the Northwestern University of Chicago and Evanston (111.). She has had six years’ experience with the Midland Chautauqua and Brown Lyceum, having also been chosen by the National Republican Committee to introduce first voters to President Harding during the campaign in 1921.
During the coming year, Glenn Dillard Gunn, the well known pianist and pedagogue of Chicago, and Harrison Wall Johnson will present a group of their advanced pupils in piano recitals. Clara Williams and Harry Phillips, from the department of voice, number many of the city’s leading professionals among their pupils. George Klass and J. Rudolph Peterson, from the department of violin, devote themselves entirely to large classes of students. Hamlin Hunt. Stanley R. Avery, J. Victor Bergquist, James Lang and Frederick W. Mueller will teach the theoretical subjects required for graduation.
Thaddeus P. Giddings has arranged to broaden the public school music curriculum to include a larger amount of practice teaching and observation for students in the department. Maude Moore and John Seaman Garns have planned a number of dramatic evenings to be given during the winter months.
The new year brought a larger enrollment in the MacPhail School of Music for the opening of the midwinter term on January 4 than ever before, according to William MacPhail, president of the school.
Hurlbut Artist at D. A. R. Meeting
Gertrude Early, coloratura soprano, scored a pronounced success at a recent meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution, held at the Hotel McAlpin. She was especially happy in a group of French songs, her voice of crystal clarity and effortless top tones completely winning her audience. Her French diction was a delight, the text being used as a perfect medium for the various moods of the songs. She is an artist from the studio of Harold Hurlbut.
Cecil Forsyth’s “Tobacco” Popular
The well known Arundel (England) Male Voice Choir included on its program of December 14 three part-songs, Brahms’ “The Lawyer’s Invocation to Spring” and “A Nutshell Novel,” by Cecil Forsyth. Cecil Forsyth’s “Tobacco,” a recent humorous number, has been selected for the next concert of the Mendelssohn Choir, Chicago, and