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June 22, 1922	MUSICAL COURIER
DENVER CIVIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY ORGANIZED
Will Be Modeled After Chicago Plan—Horace Tureman as Conductor—City Authorities Donate Use of Municipal
Auditorium—Concert Admission One Dime Only
tions are so well known that no comment is needed here. He has been an outstanding figure in Denver’s musical life for many years. He has done remarkably fine work during the past year, particularly in the development of the Denver String Quartet.
It is planned to give at least six concerts during the first year. This number can be increased if warranted.
The Denver Municipal Auditorium will be used for the concerts. It gives great pleasure to announce that Mayor Bailey and thè city administrations, realizing both the need and the place in municipal life which this orchestra will fill, have donated the use of the Auditorium free of charge.
Guarantee Fund.
The orchestra at the start will be financed through a guarantee fund raised by popular subscription. There will be no salaries paid, excepting a yearly salary to the conductor and one to the business manager, if the latter becomes necessary. It may be that for certain concerts the board of directors, working with the conductor, will deem it advisable to have assisting artists, in which case such artists will be paid the usual compensation. An admission fee of 10 cents will be charged for each concert. The purpose of this is to get a fund out of which the cost of the music and certain other incidental expenses, such as printing, may be partially paid.
The society has been rather closely patterned after the Civic orchestra of Chicago, an organization which since its inception in December, 1919, has played a very important part in the musical development not only of Chicago, but of the nation at large. The Chicago orchestra was first called “The Civic Music Student Orchestra.” The word “Student” was used in the name for the purpose of designating the fact that one of its objects was the education of local musicians in symphonic playing.
The time is considered ideal for the launching of this venture, and the board of directors of the Civic Symphony Society of Denver are counting upon the enthusiastic cooperation of all.
The board of directors of the society hopes that the guarantee fund will be raised chiefly by a large number of small subscriptions, because in this way only can the orchestra become a true civic orchestra. The guarantee fund in Chicago was raised chiefly by small contributions.
Ralph Hartzell is the president of the society, Robert
G.	Bosworth, first vice president ; Samuel E. Kohn, second vice president; James N. Wright, treasurer, and Mrs. Richard H. Hart, secretary. The following prominent citizens are on the board of trustees : Robert G. Bosworth, Richard
H.	Hart, Ralph Hartzell, Samuel E. Kohn, E. Clinton Jansen, Josephine Trott and James N. Wright. The following are the members of the society: Father Giuseppe Bosetti, Robert G. Bosworth, Mrs. George E. Cranmer, William E. Fisher, Lucius F. Hallett, Fred W. Hart, Mrs. Richard H. Hart, Ralph Hartzell, Charles S. Haughwout, E. Clinton Jansen, Samuel E. Kohn, Dr. Robert Levy, Mrs. Thomas J. McCue, George L. Nye, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Quereau, Mrs. Verner Z. Reed, Godfrey Schirmer, H. M. Stoll, William E. Sweet, Dr. A. S. Taussig, Miss Josephine Trott, Mrs. James J. Waring and James N. Wright.
[The following account, from the Denver Rocky Mountain News, of the organization of a symphony orchestra in Denver is so complete that nothing need be added to it. It would appear that this tentatively puts a new and experimental use to the idea of student orchestral organizations in that this body of players, while in one sense a student orchestra, is also to furnish Denver with its symphony music. It will be highly interesting and instructive to observe its development and progress. The movement originated with the Denver Music Society, which for several years, has promoted chamber music concerts in Denver.—Editor.]
One of the most interesting ventures to launch its way into the sea of endeavor, and one that is called worthy of the support of the community, not of just a few, but every citizen of Denver, was diclosed when the plans of the Civic Symphony Society were divulged at a luncheon held at the University Club Friday.
The Civic Symphony Society will fill a long-felt need in Denver cultural life. The organization has been incorporated and will act through a small board of ׳directors or trustees, corresponding to an executive committee. An effort has been made to secure representation in the society of all the groups interested in music. The present membership consists of twenty-five, with a board of trustees of seven, and will be increased from time to time. The founders of the society are desirous of admitting to membership only those who wish to be active in the management and furtherance of the aims, objects and actual work of the orchestra.
Denver has been wholly dependent on the outside world for its orchestral and symphonic music, and believing that good music is as necessary in the development of the community as good reading, the organization has been founded. The purpose is not to make Denver a city of musicians, but the aims of the society are three-fold:
1.	To give musicians, whether they be amateur or professional, an opportunity to become proficient in symphonic work, under capable professional directors.
Create Love for Music.
2.	To inculcate in the public, particularly the rising generation, an understanding and love of good music.
3.	To make Denver known as a musical center; a residential city where the young can get something besides movies and jazz.
A symphony orchestra of sixty or seventy musicians will be formed. If there are no players for some of the rarer and more unusual instruments necessary in a well-rounded orchestra, likely candidates will be chosen and educated in the use of those particular instruments. All members of the orchestra will be under contract for the entire season of approximately thirty weeks. No salaries will be paid to the members of the orchestra, but each one will receive an honorarium of $5 for each concert. It must be understood that this honorarium is not “pay,” but is intended merely to defray carfare and incidental costs to the members.
The board of directors have chosen Horace Tureman as the conductor of the orchestra. Mr. Tureman’s qualifica-
selections from memory before a board of judges and an audience. The judges were Effa Ellis Perfield, chairman; Beatrice M. Hoxey and Mrs. E. C. Marvin.
In an opening address, Mabel Corey Watt, director of the school, stated her purpose in offering the scholarship.
“It has been our idea to stimulate interest and enthusiasm and to teach the children the valuable lessons of faithfulness, regularity, punctuality and good sportsmanship,” said Mrs. Watt. “To present a child with a medal or a silver cup is in my belief a most unwise proceeding, but a prize which has as its final attainment a continued effort on the student’s part can exert but a good psychological influence. Such a prize one of these pupils will win. Let me impress upon you that the winner cannot collect and carry away her winnings tonight! She can gain my ‘promise to pay,’ but she must, throughout all the coming year, through attendance and endeavor, collect the prize herself.”
The judges announced their decision a difficult one to make because of the excellence of all the work. The final decision was made in favor of Helen Dorothy Pils, who showed technical proficiency and musicianship. She is twelve years old and has studied with the director for four seasons.
On June 3, two Junior recitals were held in the Gymnasium. One starting at 7:30 P. M., showed the work of nineteen little folks. This program ended at 8:20 and was followed by a second one at 8:30. During the intermission an interesting feature was the performance by Frances E. Riley and Mrs. Watt of the Schubert-Tausig “Marche Militaire.” Thirty-six young pupils played in these two recitals. The playing of some elementary violin pupils _ added variety ׳to the program. A large audience enthusiastically received the efforts of the young musicians, who proved _ their excellent training and musical ability. The processional to Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance” presented an attractive spectacle to the many proud parents.
June 7, was •the closing recital, at which older students of both piano and violin rendered an attractive program. Two string quartets in which the teacher of the violin department, Helen Helems, participated added greatly to the interest. This recital showed the results of several seasons’ work at the school and augured well for the musical future of a number of the young people. At the close of the program Dorothy von Glahn presented Mrs. Watt with a handsome bouquet as an expression of appreciation from two of her older classes.
Paul Stoeving Resigns from Ithaca Conservatory
_ Paul Stoeving, well known violinist and bowing specialist, author of many standard books on the violin and director of the violin department of the New York School of Music and Arts, has resigned his position at the Ithaca Conservatory of Music and will in the future devote his activities to New York.
Pupils of Mabel Corey Watt School of Music Perform
The Mabel Corey Watt School of Music, studios in the Flatbush School, Brooklyn, N. Y., completed an unusual series of pupil recitals on June 7. Because of the large number of students it was necessary to give four programs ; two of them taking place in one evening.
The one on June 2 was a contest recital for a scholarship in the school. A year of perfect attendance and punctu-
HELEN DOROTHY PILS, winner of scholarship of June, 1922.
ality, with the required amount of practice and a satisfactory report in conduct were the conditions imposed upon the contestants in the final test. These contestants, of which there were six out of forty-seven who entered the contest in October, were required to perform five