IN THIS ISSUE:—AN AFRICAN SCALE—BY NIC. G. J. BALLANTA-TAYLOR jVtySICAL(OVRIER Weekly Reuieur OF THE World 's Music Forty-Third Year Price 15 Cents Published by Musical Courier Company, Inc., 437 Fifth Avenue, New York. Entered as Second Class Matter January 8, 1883, at the Post ^ 00 Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3p,1 , UDSCnPtl0n *P-LOU Foreign $6.25 Annually VOL. LXXXIV NO. 26 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1922 WHOLE NO. 2203 Photo © Mishkin, N. Y. MYRTLE SCHAAF, Mezzo Soprano, Metropolitan Opera Company. Photo by Elgin, N. Y. DELIA VALERI TEACHER OF PROMINENT SINGERS, AND TWO YOUNG PUPILS WHOSE SINGING WITH THE METROPOLITAN AND IN CONCERT HAS PROVED EXCEEDINGLY SATISFACTORY. Photo © Mishkin, N. Y. SUZANNE KEENER, Coloratura Soprano, Metropolitan Opera Company.