March 2, 1922
MU SIC AL COURIER
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CURRENT MUSICAL PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
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[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 IS. 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 a lyric-dance-drama ($400 for the libretto and $600 for the composer). Libretto to be in hands of judges May 15; completed work in hands of judges December 15. Mrs. Edwin B. Garrigues, chairman Composition Committee, Room 201, Bellevue-Strat-ford Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa. $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.
Harmony Club of Fort Worth, Texas, $500 at the next biennial of the National Federation of Music Clubs for the best one-act opera by an American composer. Mrs. John F. Lyons, 900 Southland avenue, Fort Worth, Texas.
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. 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 England Conservatory of Music—$450 in prizes to students of the school. Ralph L. Flanders, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass.
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.
numbers—“Berceuse” and “Black Key” etude—and Liszt’s “La Campanella.”
Mr. Bachaus, in responding to Mr. Damrosch’s address, expressed surprise and satisfaction for the serious manner in which the students performed. The Institute of Musical Art may feel justly proud of its accomplishments.
At the conclusion of the program a pleasant hour was spent in the reception rooms, where refreshments were served.
Zerffi Pupil Assists at Recital
Victor Ledecky, a pupil of William A. C. Zerffi, assisted at a concert given on Sunday, February 12, in the Bohemian National Hall, by Marie Dvorak, a niece of the celebrated composer. Mr. Ledecky sang two groups of songs with excellent voice and style and was accorded a hearty reception.
Jaroslaw de Zielinski in New Quarters
Word comes from Jaroslaw de Zielinski, noted pianist, composer and conductor, that he is now occupying his new home at Montecito. Santa Barbara, California. He announces that he is planning a professional trip into foreign lands at an early date.
garian folk melodies which, however, are very freely developed. The pieces, which had to be repeated, are shortly to be published in Vienna.	Z. K.
Zoellner Comic Opera. Successful.
Heidelberg, Germany, February 4.—Two new operas by Heinrich Zoellner, well known as the composer of favorite male choruses, have just been produced at Municipal Theater here. The first “Matteo Falcone” (after Chamisso), is in the veristic style of Mascagni, et al, which at second hand fails to please. The second, “Das hölzerne Schwert” (The Wooden Sword), is an excellent, melodious and jolly little comic opera with an effective comedy plot, probably of French origin. It took the audience by storm.
Zenatello and Gay “Touring” Spain.
Milan, January 14.—Giovanni Zenatello and Maria Gay, the well known singers, who are said to be negotiating a new American contract, have started for a short tour en auto through Spain.	A. S.
“Pagliacci” as a Pantomime.
Berlin, February 4.—A curious experiment has just been made by the management of the Deutches Theater (formerly Reinhardt’s), which is attempting a ballet reform of its own with the aid of a company directed by the well known ballet-master, Eric Charell. Leoncavallo’s opera, “Pagliacci,” in a somewhat condensed version, was acted as a pantomime, with a leading German actor and film .star, Werner Krauss, as Canio. Nedda was represented by a Russian dancer, Vera Karalli, and both had a triumphant success. The orchestra was hidden. In costuming and stage management the performance worked wonders and, since “Pagliacci” is one of the operas in which the action is self-explanatory, the effect was remarkably gripping. A comic ballet pantomime, “Adventure,” which followed, took the edge off the tragedy, and sent the spectators home in a happy mood.
C. S.
Cadman on Tour
Charles Wakefield Cadman, who left Los Angeles on February 6 for a two months’ tour of the east and south, lias just completed a tour of the northwest where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm by large audiences in every city in which he appeared. While in Seattle Mr. Cadman gave a radio recital, in the office of one of the big newspapers, that was heard all over the Rocky Mountain regions and was picked up 1,600 miles out at sea by a warship. He was besieged by invitations to repeat the concert, but his time was too limited.
In the east some of the important cities in which engagements will be filled are Jordan Hall, Boston; Canton. Ohio; at the University in Woster, Ohio. In the south he will appear in New Orleans, Mobile and Birmingham, Ala., and El Paso, Tex. He will also appear in many of the smaller cities en route in the east and south, returning to Caliifornia in early April where he is booked for a series of concerts in April and May. On this tour Mr. Cadman will be accompanied by the Indian Princess, Tsianina.
Mr. Cadman’s programs are especially full of interest this year as he includes piano transcriptions of the music of his opera “Shanewis,” as well as the music for the “Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam,” which has caused such comment wherever presented. On the tour which he is just now beginning, Mr. Cadman will also include his newest cycle of songs, a Chinese cycle consisting of four songs entitled "The Willow Wind,” the lyrics of which were written by Moon Kwan, a Chinese poet who formerly resided in Los Angeles.
Institute of Musical Art Reception
The Institute of Musical Art of the City of New York. Frank Damrosch director, gave a reception to Wilhelm Bachaus in the concert hall of the Institute on Saturday afternoon, February 18. The festivities commenced with a musical program rendered by students of the school, including Anna Lefkowitz, Phyliss Kreuter, Dorsey Whittington. Franz Hoerner, Lillian Fuchs, Louis Kau’fmann.
Director Damrosch delivered a short address in which he expressed great pleasure in being able to have the shident body meet so great an exponent of music as Wilhelm Bachaus. “At the concert halls,” he said, “the contact is lacking,” and added further that the ultimate in art is possible only in being truly reverent.” "To play merely notes,” continued Dr. Damrosch, “is just caricature, the study of great works devoutly is the keynote to interpretative understanding.”
Mr. Bachaus then delighted the audience with a magnificent reading of the Beethoven sonata, op. 109; two Chopin
Boston Bows to
MIROVITCH
Eminent Pianist-Composer
Press Lauds Russian Artist as Soloist with Boston Symphony Orchestra, February 13th, 1922
“Has proven the most popular of all the soloists who have appeared thus far.”
—Olin Downes in Boston Post. “A master of technique and a musician of temperament.”
—R. R. G. in Boston Herald.
Already Booked Solid for January, February and March, 1923 A Few Available Dates Open in October, November and December, 1922
Exclusive Management: S. HUROK,	Aeolian Hall, New York
Chickering Piano	Ampico Records
French Composers Made Swedish Academicians.
Berlin, February 1.—Paul Dukas, Ravel and Pierné, the eminent French composers, have just been elected members of the Royal Academy of Stockholm.
Free Music for Vienna Students.
Vienna, February 1.—A novel scheme introduced here will provide free concerts for university students who are, under present economic conditions, practically excluded from hearing regular concerts. So far, the Rosé Quartet and d’Albert have given concerts in this series, volunteering their services for the good cause. Incidentally, there is also a series of concerts being held for young people at very low admission prices. This series is launched by the Government Board of Education and it is estimated that 36,000 youngsters have already attended these recitals, each one of which is preceded by a short explanatory talk. P. B.
A Weber Jubilee in Dresden.
Dresden, January 29.—In honor of the Weber jubilee performances running at the Opera House, the intendant, Dr. Alfred Reucker, and a number of prominent musicians decorated the Weber Monument in front of the Opera House with a laurel wreath, paying homage to Weber as an opera conductor, in which capacity he, like Wagner after him, functioned in Dresden.	A. I.
More Successes for Pfitzner Cantata.
Stuttgart, February 3.—Immediately after the Berlin performance of Pfitzner’s cantata, “Von deutscher Seele,” Fritz Busch conducted the Stuttgart première of the work with great success. The tickets for both rehearsal and performance were sold out and the audience paid sincere homage to the composer, who was present. The work was also performed with success in Essen.
Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony Has Première.
Copenhagen, January 31.—Carl Nielsen’s fifth symphony, his latest work, has just had its first performance by the Danish Music Society at Copenhagen. Nielsen will give two orchestral concerts in Berlin in March, and the new work will probably be heard on that occasion.
Petschnikoff’s Successor.
Munich, February 3.—Jani Szanto, the violinist of the Munich Trio, has been appointed master of the violin class at the Music Academy as successor of Petschnikoff. On this occasion the professor title was conferred on him.
Another Japanese “Butterfly.”
Milan, January IS.—Nobuko Hara, the young Japanese singer, has made a great success in the title role of “Madame Butterfly” at the Dal Verme. She showed very good vocal qualities as well as musical intelligence. Like her countrywoman, Tamaki Miura, she is a pupil of Sarcoli Sain, the former tenor, who is now a leading teacher of singing at the Tokio Conservatory, and who also visited Milan recently.
S. C.
American Soprano Makes Opera Debut in Berlin.
Berlin, February 8.—Valerie Doob, an American singer resident in Berlin, who has given a number of successful concerts with the Philharmonic Orchestra under Leo Blech, was seen for the first time on the opera stage last week when she took the part of Gilda in “Rigoletto” at a performance given by the Grosse Volksoper of Berlin in the new Schlosstheater in Steglitz. Her pure, flexible and high soprano was heard to great advantage, and she proved herself to be an excellent actress as well, wholly lacking the nervousness that generally accompanies a first appearance. Schenrich, of the German Opera House, sang the Duke, and Kammersänger Cabor, of Lessau, was a fine Rigoletto. Madame Doob was accorded an enthusiastic ovation by the crowded house and she had to appear repeatedly after every act. Gustav Brecher conducted with his well known verve and swing.	S . B.
Bloch Work Has Budapest Première.
Budapest, February 1,—At a recent chamber music concert, Bela Bartok produced for the first time in Hungary a composition of Ernest Bloch. Together with a young-violinist, Zoltán Szekely, he played the viola suite. It aroused unusual interest and, strange as it may seem,_ a curious similarity of some of the motives with Hungarian folk melodies was noticed. In the same concert Bartok played light short piano pieces, his latest work. They are unusually interesting and colorful, and are based on Hun-