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MUSICAL COURIER
We Nominate for the Musical “Hall of Fame”
ARTURO
B01MUCCI
Italian Violoncellist
BECAUSE
if He is Italy’s foremost ’cellist.
if He graduated from the Conservatory of Bologna when only seventeen.
*I His celebrated maestro, Francesco Serato, resigned from the Serato Quartette to give Bonucci his place.
•I He laid aside his instrument for the sword when his country was imperilled.
if He won the rank of captain on the field of action, receiving three medals for valor.
*I He conquered Paris, London and then New York with his art.
if He has received the highest critical praise from critics in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, Baltimore and other cities.
if Max Smith in the New York American said, “He gave a remarkable demonstration of skill, technically immaculate, and musically without blemish. His playing was finished in every detail, his tone smooth and expressive.
if Pitts Sanborn in the New York Globe said, “He played sincerely, with musical feeling, with grace, with charm.”
if He will return to America for his third successive season.
if He is managed by the Metropolitan Musical Bureau.
April 20, 1922
MUSIC WEEK PROGRAMS ARE OUT
New York’s Music Week’s first detailed plans have just been announced. They show, among the many hundred events already listed for the seven days commencing Sunday morning, April 30—to date over 2,000 in all over five boroughs of New York and the suburbs within a radius of thirty-five miles, this number constantly being added to at the rate of scores a day—many striking features.
Some of these the Music Week Committee announces as follows:
Massed singing of Sunday School children, of scores of Sunday Schools, in the Meadow opposite the Mall, Central Park, and in the Long Meadow of Prospect Park, on Sunday afternoon, April 30, at 4 P. M., together with special Sunday School Music Week services in individual Sunday Schools the_ same day, the committee arranging this comprising ministers and Sunday School executives of all denominations—Rev. Milton S. Littlefield (chairman), Rev. Charles S. Ackley, Rev. George Reid Andrews, Walter Bock, Rev. Staley F. Davis, Rev. Abraham Duryea, Rev. Edwin Fairley, Rev. Hugh Hartshorne, Rev. Stanley B. Hazzard, Rev. Calvin W. Laufer, Rev. Joseph Silverman, Rev. William I. Southerton. The Navy Band is to play at the massed singing in Central Park and the United States Army Band in Prospect Park. This Sunday School observance is being made possible by a contribution from John D. Rockefeller, who is taking a marked interest in it.
A Peace Pageant on Saturday, May 6, in the North Meadow of Central Park, at 2:30 o’clock, given by the United Neighborhood Houses of New York and the People’s Music League, the Arts and Features Committee of the United Neighborhood Houses managing. A thousand children in the pageant scenes and a thousand more in the choruses. Mrs. Julius C. Bernheim, chairman, with her aids:	Olive Whitson, chairman Festival Committee, and
Mrs. Arthur Reis, of the People’s Music League, chairman of the Music Committee; Mrs. William Meyerowitz, Mrs. Ned Kaufman, Mrs. A. L. Sparks, Mrs. S. M. Nelson, Margaret Oppenheimer, Ida Oppenheimer. Christian Kriens, conductor of orchestra, Tali Essen Morgan, director of chorus. Anna Hemstead Branch, literary editor of the program. Special features include a Peace Banner Processional, directed by Mrs־. A. M. Sparks; a prize peace song with its words and music by Stella M. Hoage, of Portland, Ore.; appearance of Goddess of Peace, attended by thirty children costumed as doves and fifteen older girls as handmaidens, followed by groups portraying (first) Commerce and Industry, (second) Art and Beauty, (third) Sports and Play, (fourth), Happy Home. The chorus will have paper head dresses and capes in colors and will be massed so that they will present the appearance of beds of flowers, in eight different color effects. Teresa Bernstein Meyerwitz is to serve as art director.
Monster concerts in at least four of the armories of New York and Brooklyn, given by three of the city departments of New York, the Street Cleaning, Fire, and Police, using their own musical organizations with the aid of special artists secured by themselves—Police Department concert, Seventy-first Regiment Armory, Monday, May 1; Street Cleaning Department concert for Manhattan and the Bronx, Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory, Monday, May 1; Fire Department concert, Tuesday, May 2 (Armory not yet announced). Chairman, Commissioner Enright, Commissioner Taylor, Commissioner Drennan; Directors, Charles J. Sil-verbauer, Peter B. Mitchell, Chief Crawley. Admission in each case by ticket.
A special Music Week recital by the New York City Federation of Women’s Clubs at the Hotel Astor at its annual meeting, afternoon on Tuesday, May S, Mrs. Richard M. Chapman, president, Louise . Mundell, chairman of music committee, together with special recitals by individual women’s clubs, among them the Verdi, Chiropean, the Urban and the Philanthropia. The latter, in addition, will have fifteen of its members making up special parties throughout the week, to attend various musical events throughout the city.
The Girl Scout troops in Brooklyn, with their glee clubs and bands—more than one hundred and fifty troops in all and numbering over four thousand Scouts—in all to sing and play on the Borough Hall steps Saturday afternoon, May 6. During the week these Brooklyn Girl Scouts will arrange musical programs at all their weeekly meetings, and on Sunday, April 30, will attend churches in uniformed groups, and, wherever permitted, will sing as auxiliary choirs.
Scores upon scores of recitals and fnusicales in the churches and halls of the foreign quarters of New York are to be given by the more than thirty distinct nationalities in the five boroughs, under the auspices of a special committee of the Inter-Racial Council of New York, headed by Felix M. Warburg and Mrs. David Rumsey with one member for each nationality. Each of these entertainments in the foreign colonies will present its own national music. In addition, certain noted musical organizations and individuals in these colonies are offering themselves for general performances anywhere in New York that they may be wanted, such as the Swedish Glee Club of Brooklyn, and a group of Hungarian musicians who have been gathered by Emmy Kovacs of New York to sing and play Hungarian folk songs for anybody.
A special program of Ancient Hebrew music is to be given by the New York State Federation of Jewish Sisterhoods at Mt. Nehob Temple, One Hundred and Fiftieth street and Broadway, Thursday afternoon, May 4, at 4 o’clock.
A Council Fire of the Woodcraft League of America, Ernest Thompson Seton president, with special Indian songs and rites, in Van Cortland Park, Saturday evening, May 6, the public specially invited.
Competitions' in the form of concerts to determine the three best high school orchestras in New York, the Music Week Committee having offered money prizes with which the winning orchestras are to buy instruments. Boys’ high school orchestras, Thursday evening, May 4; Girls’ orchestras, Friday afternoon, May S; mixed orchestras, Friday evening, May S. Awarding of the prizes, including a special prize for the best essay by a high school student on “Music,” at a special performance for school children at the Capitol Theater, Saturday morning, May 6, at 10:30 o’clock, the (Continued on page 49)