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MUSICAL 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.
National Federation of Music Clubs—Nine prizes for American composers, amounting in all to $2,750. Contests end December 15. Mrs. Edwin B. Garrigues, 201 Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia, Pa.
Male Chorus of Swift & Co.—$100 for a musical setting (chorus of men’s voices, with piano accompaniment) for Sir Walter Scott’s “Hunting Song.” Contest ends July 1, 1922. D. A. Clippinger, 617-18 Kimball Building, Chicago, 111.
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.
Ithaca Conservatory of Music—One Master Scholarship (valued-at $600 a term), ten full scholarships and forty-two partial scholarships. Ithaca Conservatory of Music, Ithaca, N. Y.
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.
Institute of Musical Art—A number of free prizes and scholarships awarded to students whose talent is backed up by intelligence, ability, hard work and character. The Faculty Scholarship is annually awarded to that graduate from the regular courses who has proved himself to be the best student during the year. Dr. Frank Damrosch, director, 120 Claremont avenue, New York.
Reviere Writing Songs and Poems
Berta Reviere not only has won recognition for her singing, but she also has come into notice as a writer of songs and poems. She has issued a little pamphlet containing some of her literary efforts, all of which are worth reading.
VLADIMIR
GRAFFMAN
Concertmaster
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
CONCERT and RECITAL
Management: L. R. COLLINS 320 Palace Building	Minneapolis, Minn.
cord, N. H., on February 23. She appeared in Chicago on February 26, in Minneapolis on February 28; in Milwaukee with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on March 6, in Detroit with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on March 9 and 10, and in joint recital with Bronislaw Huber-man at Ann Arbor, Mich., on March 14.
Musical Magic in “A Scrap of Paper”
Josef Lhevinne recently received a “scrap of paper” which he insists he is going to have framed and hung on the wall of his studio. Yet it is nothing but a map of the United States and a portion of Canada in which lines extend in every direction from Madison, Wis. These lines pass through eighteen states and into Canada, some of them terminating at towns a thousand miles distant from their central point.
At first glance one might think the map the diagram of a railway system. If it were, it would but serve to recall to Mr. Lhevinne the days and nights he spends on trains while on concert tours, and he would have no desire to look at it twice. But, knowing the meaning of the lines, they represent to him a magical musical achievement. For they show in how many places he was heard when he gave a piano recital a short time ago at Madison.
By means of the University of Wisconsin’s powerful radiophone Mr. Lhevinne’s playing was distinctly heard at
JOSEPH LHEVINNE,
Pianist.
two stations in Saskatchewan, Canada, 1,000 miles distant, according to a report received by Malcolm P. Hanson, the university operator. Other reports equally astonishing came to Mr. Hanson from stations in this country.
B. W. Cochran, of Palmetto, Ga., sent in the report that by means of a single wire strung in the attic of his bungalow he heard the concert “very loud.”
Another report stated: “Your concert was heard in Mars. Fine!” This was thought to be a joke until it was discovered that the message was from Mars, Pa.
From Freeport, 111., came word that the entire program was enjoyed by a large audience assembled at the central fire station.
And now Mr. Lhevinne is wondering if the time will come when, instead of traveling all over the country, season after season, filling recital engagements, he can simply stay at home and fill them by playing in his studio.
Five Encores for Sundelius
Recently Marie Sundelius, between activities at the Metropolitan Opera House, appeared in recital at Middle-town, Conn., and won the warmest approbation of that community. Said the Press in brief when speaking of her singing:	“Marie Sundelius, of the Metropolitan Opera
Company, proved to lovers of music in Middletown that she is fully entitled to be connected with that organization.” Incidentally, Mme. Sundelius was forced to give five encores in response to the persistent applause.
Marion Veryl Sings in Detroit
Marion Yeryl, the American soprano, appeared at the Hotel Statler Thés Musicales in Detroit on Tuesday evening, February 14. A brilliant success was scored by the soprano at this, her first Detroit appearance. With the assistance of Carl Bernthaler, who has played Miss Veryl’s accompaniments for several years, she was heard in an interesting program.
William Simmons Heard in Stamford
William Simmons, the New York baritone, sang before a large Masonic body in Stamford, Conn., on Sunday evening, February 26. He was heard in “Arm, Arm, Ye Brave,” from “Julius Caesar,” and “He Maketh Wars to Cease,” from “Judas Maccabeus,” by Chadwick.
Ebba Sundstrom at Musicians’ Club
Ebba Sundstrom, violinist, played at the Musicians’ Club of Women, February 20 and on February 21 she was heard at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in a joint program with Ann Slack, cellist, and Sanford Schlüssel, pianist.
Biffin and Rose in Joint Recital
Mary Biffin and Maximilian Rose were engaged for a joint recital given at the Lyceum Theater, Monticello, N. Y., March 11.
LYELL BARBER, pianist, who, since the end of December, has filled some twenty-five concert dates, twenty of which ivere with Marguerite D’Alvarez. Everywhere he icas warmly received, both by the public and press. Before the end of April Mr. Barber tv ill have a number of additional dates with Mme. D’Alvarez. For next season his manager, Walter Anderson, is booking the young pianist exceedingly well, his appearances including a recital in New York and in Chicago. He made his metropolitan debut this season with excellent results.
Matzenauer Making Extensive Concert Tour
Margaret Matzenauer now is making one of the most extensive concert tours ever undertaken by a prima donna of the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company. Geographically her spring tour extends from Washington, D. C., to San Antonio, Texas, and includes virtually all the important cities oi the Middle West. Artistically her tour is developing into the finest triumph she has yet achieved. Included in her engagements are appearances with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. She is being announced as the principal attraction at the music festivals that will be conducted this spring in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Evanston, 111., and Marysville, Mo.
Speaking of her recent appearance in Detroit, Charlotte M. Tarsney, of that city wrote:	“Mme. Matzenauer cre-
ated a superb impression as soloist at the subscription concert of the Detroit Symphony!” “Matzenauer has the perfect contralto,” in the opinion of Dick Meade of the Toledo News Bee. who also describes her as the “grand opera star of tradition, regal in appearance, mistress of her voice, and delightful of personality.”
“Mme. Matzenauer is like her voice,” writes the critic of the Toledo Blade “statuesque magnificent.” A writer in the Toledo Times will have it that Matzenauer is the “superlative degree” in the contralto field. “The most glorious voice in America stvelled out into the very uttermost recess of Orchestra Hall,” wrote Ralph Homes of the Detroit Times in beginning his review of her recent appearance there.
Writing of her appearance with the Metropolitan Opera Company in “Don Carlos” at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, the critic of The Record said:	“In the Sara-
cenic song Matzenauer actually developed into a coloratura, and a fine one, too.”
Of her Metropolitan appearance in Boston in “Samson and Delilah,” the critic of the Boston Herald said:	“Mme.
Matzenauer lived up to all expectations. Her voice is phenomenal in its range, and effective through its whole register. She sang with great dramatic power where necessary, but showed herself equally capable of handling the many tender arias that fell to her lot.”
Of this same appearance, the reviewer in the Boston Transcript had the following to say:	“In Mme. Matzen-
auer’s golden voice the music of Delilah had full measure of beauty and passion. From first to last hers was a thrilling, often an engrossing performance, and for once in the scene of seduction there was little thought of the need for stage or setting—music and singer between them supplied plentiful illusion.”
Sandusky Enthusiastic Over Menth
According to press reports, it was a genuine ovation which was given to Herma Menth on the occasion of her recital at the Sidley Memorial Hall, Sandusky, Ohio, on the evening of February 24. The audience was so enthusiastic that the young pianist was compelled to give four encores and to repeat three of her programmed numbers, valse in A flat, Brahms; “Alt Wien,” Godowsky, and “Boite a Musique,” Sauer. This was a return engagement.
March 9 Miss Menth appeared in Ridgewood, N. J., and March 22 will find her giving her fifth recital in Canton, Ohio.
Brooklyn to Hear Kathryn Meisle
On April 20, Kathryn Meisle will make her first appearance of the season in Brooklyn when she will be heard at the Academy of Music with the New York Liederkranz Orchestra. This engagement necessitated •some decided rearrangements in her bookings, but Hugo Steinbruch, conductor of the orchestra, and the committee in charge were so insistent upon Miss Meisle’s singing that her manager, M. H. Hanson, persuaded the local managers who had booked her to change her dates in the middle west.
Dolores Under N. Y. C. L. Management
Mina Dolores, soprano, is now under the exclusive management of the New York Concert League. February 19 this capable young singer was the soloist at the Sunday evening concert at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Philadelphia and was well received in a group on songs.. On February 11 Miss Dolores was given an enthusiastic reception at the Washington Irving High School, New York, and February 25 she was soloist at a concert at Galen Hall, Atlantic City, at which time she included on her program the “Vissi d’Arte” aria from “Tosca” and a group of short songs.
Rubinstein to Play Again with Philharmonic
Erna Rubinstein, the latest addition to the ranks of premier violinists, who made her debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Willem Mengel-berg, was secured for two more apearances with that organization. March 14 she appeared at one of the Tuesday evening concerts at the Metropolitan Opera House, and on April 2 she will play at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn.
Dux on Extended Tour
Claire Dux, soprano of the Chicago Opera Association, is now on an extended concert tour, which began at Con-