April 13, 1922
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 15. 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, 61718־ 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. V.
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.
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.
Marie Tiffany “on the Jump”
Marie Tiffany is being kept “on the jump” these days by many concert engagements. She gave a joint recital with Douglas Stanbury in Lynchburg on April 3 and two days later she was heard in Ohio. The singer will appear with Francis Macmillen in Canton on April 16.
Pavloska Begins Western Tour
Irene Pavloska began her western tour with a recital in Watsonville, Cal., on March 31. Miss Pavloska will be kept on the Coast until late spring by engagements in many of the leading cities.
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under the direction of John W. Beattie. The papers handed in were so good that it was difficult for the judges to decide upon the prize winners, and it is interesting to note that 509 gave correctly the title of selection, name and nationality of composer, 264 with correct spelling. The latter will receive the perfect score emblem offered by the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music. These emblems, as well as the numerous prizes, were presented to the winners on April 7 in Press Hall.	.	,
Next in importance in the development of musical appreciation and the education of audiences is the series of Sunday free concerts presented to the city by the St. Cecilia Society. These concerts are held in the Armory, which seats about 3,000 people, and are free to the public, the expenses being guaranteed by business firms of the city and the musicians donating their services to the good _ cause. The first one took place on February 26, and they will continue for five Sundays. Community singing is a feature.
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MRS. C. A. DONALDSON’S
CHORAL WORK WINS
MICHIGAN F. M. C. PRIZE
Mme. Davies Gives Brilliant Affair for Clara Butt
Clara Novello Davies gave a supper and dance at her studio, 15 West 67th street, on Sunday evening, April 2. in honor of Dame Clara Butt and her husband, Kennerley Rumford, baritone. Mme. Butt’s appearance at the regular Sunday night concert at the Metropolitan Opera House early in the evening was followed by the supper at Mme. Davies’ studio and by dancing which continued until a late hour. Among those present were:	Mme. Frances Alda,
William Faversham, Mrs. and Mrs. Cosmo Hamilton, Laurette Taylor and her husband, J. Hartley Manners, George Grossmith, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Althouse, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Proctor, Laurence Leonard, Hall Caine, Lynn Harding, Capt. Ugo d’Anunzio, Marie Novello, Mr. and Mrs. Basil Rathborn, the British Vice-Consul General at New York and Mrs. Evans, Lionel Powell (the London impresario), Paul Reimers, Mrs. Frederick S. Coolidge, Chauncey McKeever, Mr. and Mrs. J. Theus Munds, Mrs. Dunlop Hopkins, Mme. Clayburg, Mrs. Lawrence Keane, H. O. Osgood and others.
Soder-Hueck to Have Busy Summer Session
According to present indications Mme. Soder-Hueck will have a busy summer session at her Metropolitan Opera studios. Owing to the many requests that she has had for lessons this summer, she has decided again to hold a master class, from June 15 to August 10, and already old and new pupils are making reservation for time.
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MRS. CHARLES A. DONALDSON, winner of the Michigan Federation of Music Clubs prize foi choral composition.
Mrs. Joseph A. Michaelson is general chairman of the programs.
The Civic Orchestra, Ottokar Malek, conductor, gave its second annual concert on March 1 in Central High School auditorium. The long program showed the results of much rehearsing and careful training, and Mr. Malek deserves much credit for giving his valuable time and his strength to introduce to these young people some of the orchestral literature, and to. give them experience in ensemble playing.
A very interesting program was given on March 5 at the Browning Hotel Sunday evening musicale by Mrs. Al-den Williams, mezzo soprano, and Bess Bennett, pianist. The accompanist was Vera Bennett.	.	.
John W. Beattie, director of public school music in this city, is in Nashville, Tenn., where he went to^ attend the National Supervisors’ Conference now in session in that
CltThe St. Cecilia chorus of thirty-five women’s voices, with Harold Tower as director, gave a musical service on March 26 in St Mark’s Pro-cathedral. Schuberts The Almighty,” with Mrs. Joseph A. Michaelson as soloist; Franck’s “La Procession,” and several unaccompanied Russian numbers were sung.	־
Frederick W. Alexander, head of the department of music at the State Normal School at Ypsilanti, lectured here on March 8 in South High School auditorium on How to Listen to Music.”	H. B. R.
Margolis Pupil in Recital
Gustave Freeman, dramatic tenor and artist pupil of Samuel Margolis, New York vocal instructor gave a recital on March 18, at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn. Mr. Freeman, who has studied with Mr. Margolis for a number of years, revealed in his work excellent results. His voice is one of much power and brilliancy, and his interpretations of his various numbers showed intelligence. The young
tenor received tremendous applause.
Erna Pielke, contralto, who is numbered among Mr. Mar-gobs’ foremost pupils, was the ^ assisting artist. She san£ her program numbers with finish and taste, and was recalled many times.
Meisle to Sing with Banks Glee Club
Kathryn Meisle will be heard at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday evening, April 19, as soloist with the Banks Glee Club, of which Bruno Huhn is conductor.
Simmons and Turner in Concert
William Simmons, baritone, and Jean Turner, soprano, appeared on Monday evening, March 27, at a concert given by the Men’s Club of the West End Collegiate Church Miss Turner was heard in songs by Dunn, Curren and Nevin and Mr. Simmons presented numbers by Burleigh, Schneider, Kramer and Lohr. Meta Schumann proved a capable accompanist.
Meldrum Plays at Mail Wireless Concert
The New York Evening Mail is conducting a new series of concerts which will be broadcast from ‘WJZ, the West-inghouse station at Newark. N. J. John Meldrum, pianist, was scheduled to appear at the first of the concerts on March 29.
Grand Rapids Receives Honor of First Award—Elshuco Trio Plays for St. Cecilia Society—Lenten Musicales— Music Memory Contest—Sunday Free Concerts Grand Rapids, Mich., March 27.—A high honor has been won by Mrs. Charles A. Donaldson, prominent member of the St. Cecilia Society and one of its directors. She has been awarded the first annual prize offered by the Michigan Federation of Music Clubs for a choral composition. Mrs. Donaldson’s composition is a setting for a mixed chorus of a passage from the one hundred and fifteenth Psalm, beginning with the words, “Not unto us, O Lord. The accompaniment is for organ. It will be sung on April 25 at the annual convention of the Michigan Federation of Music Clubs in Kalamazoo. It has already been sung in this city by the choir of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, with Mrs. William H. Loomis directing and at the organ.
One of the finest recitals heard for many seasons was the one given before the St. Cecilia Society on March 10 by the Elshuco Trio. The program consisted of the Brahms trio in.B major, two movements from Saint-Saëns’ trio, op. 18, and trio in D minor by Arensky. Distinguished by beautiful tone, good balance and shading, as well as by a spirit of joy in the music it is interpreting, its program will live long in our hearts.
Two of the Lenten Morning Musicales arranged by the St. Cecilia Society have taken place this month. The first one, on March 8, was given by Carolyn Willard, pianist, of Chicago. Miss Willard gave a scholarly and interesting reading of an unconventional program and proved her thorough musicianship and excellent training. Interesting as novelties to us were two Finnish lyrics by Selim Palm-gren and “Serenade a Mytilene,” by Emil Blanche(. America was represented by Howard Brockway’s “Capriccio and by MacDowell’s prelude and fugue, op. 13 (with which she opened her program), and the same composer's polonaise in E minor, with which she closed it.
The second of the Lenten Morning Musicales was given on March 21 by Arthur Kraft, lyric tenor, of Chicago. Mr Kraft’s beautiful and sympathetic voice, the evenness of his tone production, and the artistic excellence of his interpretations drew enthusiastic applause from his audience, and he was gracious enough to add to his program several encores, besides repeating two numbers which gave great pleasure, "Avril pose ses pieds lents, by Paulin, and “The Nightingale and the Rose,” by Rimsky-Korsakoff. He was accompanied by Robert MacDonald, _ of Chicago, who also won the approval of the audience with an excellently played group of piano solos, of which “Baigneuses au soled” was perhaps the best. Mr. Kraft will leave Chicago in September for New York City, where he will be associated with Frank La Forge, and where he has accepted a position in St. Bartholomew’s Church.
As one of the three final concerts in the music memory test just ended, a choral and organ concert was given on February 28 in the First Methodist Episcopal Church by the combined choirs of South Congregational Church and Central Reformed Church, directed by Harold Tower; by the Calvin College Chorus, directed by Reese Veatch; by James S. Grocock and Harold Tower, organists; Mrs. H. Frederick Dailey, cellist; Norma Stimson, violinist, and Mrs. Frank Lusk and Mrs. Reuben Maurits, sopranos. March 9, at Press Hall, and at the overflow concert in St. Cecilia auditorium, the program was given by Arthur An-dersch, pianist; Marion Frost, Bessie Evans Richardson and Robert Hentschel, violinists; Mrs. Paul Kempter contralto; Augusta Rasch Hake, Florence Morrison and Helen Baker Rowe, pianists. March 10 some 958 persons gathered at the Armory for the final contest. Of these, 893 were children from the fifth to the ninth grades, thirty were high school students, and thirty-five were adults. Twenty-four numbers were played by soloists and the combined school orchestras,
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VOICE EDUCATION
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ELEANOR McLELLAN
“Maker of Singers”
Do You Know
The requirements for a successful career?
What makes a voice sound large near by but lacking in carrying quality at a distance .
Why few singers are successful?
Why many soprano voices sound thin and squeaky ?
Why alto voices often sound hollow and “whoopy” ?
The art of combining technique and interpretation?
Why a voice sounds “bleaty or yelly ?
Why many voices last but a short time?
That uncontrolled emotions affect voice technic?
That it is possible to have a resonance which is not jammed, pinched or forced?
That dieting affects the breathing?
That there is a science of deep breath taking and breath control?
Why many voices sound too high or too low?
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