March 30, 1922
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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. Ithac- Conservatory of Music, Ithaca, N. Y.
Chicago Musical College—Seventy-three scholarships. 624 South Michigan avenue, Chicago, 111.
New England Conservatory of Music—$450 in prizes to students of the school. Ralph L. Flanders, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass.
New Y’ork 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.
recital in his home city, at Easton, Pa., appearances followed at Lafayette College, Susquehanna University and Selins-grove, Pa., after which there will be recitals in the western part of the State. Mr. Laros is playing a group of characteristic National dances, including the “Crap-shooters” by Eastwood Lane, Sowerby’s “Irish Washerwoman,” and Carpenter’s “American Tango.”
Another Sibyl Sammis MacDermid Intimate Recital
The sixth in the series of intimate recitals which Sibyl Sammis-MacDermid is giving in her Riverside Drive studio, took place on March 26.
Mrs. MacDermid contributed a group of her husband's songs to a program in Carnegie Hall, March 7; and appeared in a musicale at the Vanderbilt Hotel on March 12. March 31 she will be soloist in a Beethoven program, under the direction of Clarence Dickinson, at the Fifth Avenue Brick Presbyterian Church.
Woodside Sings at Haywood Musicale
At the musicale given on February 5 by Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Haywood at their home, 65 West Seventy-first street, J. Uly Woodside, baritone, sang a very interesting and effective program, including compositions by Strauss, Wolf, Brahms, Massenet, Lully, Hahn, Fourdrain, Pessard, Elgar, Foster, Coleridge-Taylor and Margetson. Mr. Woodside is a true artist in every respect and his rendition of these songs showed unusual skill and interpretative ability. He has been trained by Mr. Haywood and has served as his assistant for the past two seasons.
Artists Booked for Pittsburgh
Edith Taylor Thomson, the manager of Pittsburgh, Pa., has arranged a course for next season of four Thursday concerts which will be known as the Pittsburgh Concerts. The attractions booked are as follows: November 2, Titta Ruffo; November 23, Erika Morini; December 14, Queena Mario and Vincent Ballaster; January 25, Harold Bauer and Pablo Casals. John McCormack is one of the artists this manager will present in a separate recital next season.
Lionel Storr Heard in New England
Lionel Storr appeared as one of the soloists at the first Warren Ballad concert at the Selwyn Theater on Sunday
evening, January 22. He also was engaged to sing in several New England towns during February.
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Fergusbn with the St. Louis Symphony
Bernard Fergtisoh, baritone, who is to sing five dates with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra during the latter part of April in Decatur, Urbana and Bloomington, 111., will sing “The New Earth,” Henry Hadley; "A Tale of Old Japan,” “Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast” and “Hiawatha’s Departure,” Coleridge Taylor. These five appearances with the St. Louis Symphony come as a tribute to Mr. Ferguson’s recent success with the Jessie L. Gaynor Choral Club of St. Louis. Rudolf Ganz, conductor of the St. Louis Symphony, together with Arthur J. Gaines, its business manager, attended the concert given by the club and after hearing the program of Mr. Ferguson immediately communicated with his representative, Henrietta Spader, aiid contracted for his appearance with the Symphony.
Leo C. Miller, conductor of the Jessie L. Gaynor Choral Club, in a letter to Mr. Ferguson, sums up his St. Louis success with:
You had unusual success with the audience and also the chorus, and I assure you as soloist. Your magnetic stage presence, thorough, artistic and very beautiful singing, and the splendid choice of songs, all combined to make your appearance as soloist with the Jessie L. Gaynor Choral Club a real music event of the St. Louis Season 1921-22.
Women’s Orchestra Plays for Operetta
An audience which filled the ballroom of the Bellevue-Stratford to its utmost capacity listened to Fay Foster’s “The Land of Chance” when it was given recently under the auspices of the Philadelphia Music Club. The cast was a large one, drawn from the membership of the club. Mrs. Edwin Alfred Watrous was stage director and Caroline Littlefield presented an excellent ballet of young girls and children in some difficult dancing.
The Women’s Orchestra of Philadelphia aroused unusual interest for the fine results it accomplished under the direction of J. W. F. Leman. There are about fifty members in this organization ahd Mr. Leman is to be congratulated upon the rapid progress it has made tinder his guidance. The orchestra played Mendelssohn’s “Fingal’s Cave” overture as an introduction to the operetta.
Activities of Ruth Lloyd Kinney
During the week of February 6 Ruth Lloyd Kinney sang at the Colonial Theater in Germantown, Pa., and delighted large audiences. The following week she appeared at the new Sixty-ninth Street Theater. On Washington’s Birthday Miss Kinney gave a program at the Italian Club, at which time Ambassador Ricci of Washington and Mayor Moore of Philadelphia were among the guests. A few, of the contralto’s January dates were as follows: 15, soloist at a musicale given by Mrs. Frank G. Rice in honor of Yvonne Hoeveler of operatic fame in Paris; 17, Matinee Musical Club in the afternoon and at the Fortnightly Club in the evening, when Henry Gordon Thunder was her accom-ponist.
Nevin and Milligan at Parnassus Club
Olive Nevin and Harold Milligan gave their recital "Three Centuries of American Song” at the Parnassus Club, New York, on March 6. On this occasion Miss Nevin wore for the first time the new costumes designed for her by John Rae, the well known illustrator, who is a recognized authority on early American dress. Another highly interested spectator was Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin, the widow of the composer, a group of whose songs are a feature of the Nevin-Milligan program.
On March 8, Miss Nevin and Mr. Milligan repeated the program for the members of the Dutchess County Musical Association in Vassar Hall, Poughkeepsie, when they were heard by an audience which overflowed the hall.
Harold Land’s Engagements
Harold Land, baritone, was heard with T. Tertius Noble in recital at St. Thomas’ Church, March 26, when he sang selections by Handel, Mendelssohn, Sterndale Bennet, George W. Chadwick and Tertius Noble. On the afternoon of April 9, he will sing the part of Jesus in Moore’s “Darkest Hour” in St. Thomas’ Church. For several consecutive years Mr. Land has been requested by the composer to sing Macfarlane’s “Message from the Cross” at “Old St. Paul’s,” and this year is no exception; he will sing the part Tuesday noon, April 9, in that edifice.
Cadman Songs Sung in Bowery
At St. Mark’s-in-the-Bouwerie, Cadman's Indian songs, have been used twice within the month by Constance Eber-hart. During the singing hour in the Folk Music Series, she used “Far Off I Hear a Lover’s Flute,” “Spring Song of the Robin Woman” and “Her Shadow.” The same songs were repeated by request of Dr. Guthrie when Amy Lowell read her Indian poem “Many Swans” at the afternoon service two weeks later. At a concert at Prince Bay, S. I , March 10, Miss Eberhart used Cadman’s “Nausicaa’s Song,” “Groves of Shiraz” and his new “Streams of Fate.”
St. Denis and Shawn Have Many New Dates
W. A. Fritschy, the Kansas City manager, who runs courses in other cities as well, has booked Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn and the Denishawn Dancers for three performances in Kansas City, Mo.; Salina, Kans., and Concordia, Kan., on November 15 .14׳ and 16 next. Other new engagements secured for this attraction by Daniel Mayer include Wichita, Kans.; Joplin, Mo.; Tulsa, Muskogee, Oklahoma City, and Ponca City, Okla.; Louisville, Ky.; St. Louis. Mo., and Indianapolis, Ind.
Samoiloif Pupils in Opera
Lazar S. Samoiloff, New York voice teacher, has received letters from two of his artist pupils who are now in Europe, namely, Jean Barondess, who is in Italy, where she is to sing soon, and Sonya Yergin, who, under the direction of Waghalter, will sing in “Boheme,” “Butterfly,” “Carmen” and other operas in Berlin.
Many Spring Concerts for Laros
Earle Laros, the pianist, has a very busy spring calendar arranged for him. Beginning MarelT• 14 he was to play every night for the remainder of the week. Starting with a
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