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MUSICAL COURIER
CURRENT MUSICAL PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
[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. Manuscripts are submitted at the risk of the composer.—Editor’s Note.]
Zuro Grand Opera Company (Details of contest m Musical Courier for January 25)—$100, $75, $50 and $25 for the designs of settings for any one of the following operas: Aida, Carmen, Faust, Rigo-letto. Contest ends April 15. Opera Design Contest, Carona Mundi, Inc., 312 West Fifty-fourth street, New York.
The Berkshire Music Colony, Inc. (details in issue February 15)—$1,000 for chamber composition which shall include one or more vocal parts in combination with instruments. Contest ends April 15, 1924. Hugo Kortschak, 1054 Lexington avenue, New York City.
The Hymn Society (details in issue February 15) — $50 for the best hymn-tune to be composed before April 8 for the Harvard prize hymn of Major Harry W. Farrington, Our Christ. Rev. Dr. Milton S. Littlefield, Corona, L. I., N. Y.
Chicago Musical College (details in issue March 8) Seventy-three prizes and scholarships, amounting to more than $20,000. Chicago Musical College, 624 South Michigan avenue, Chicago, 111.
Bush Conservatory (details in issue February 15) —Free scholarships for the summer school from June 27 to July 31. C. F. Jones, registrar, 839 North Dearborn street, Chicago, 111.
Philadelphia Conservatory (details in issue March 1)—Free scholarships for the Summer Normal at Beechwood School from July 5 to August 2. P. D Cone, Eastern Manager, Art Publication Society! 1702 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Committee of the Stadium Concerts (details in issue March 8)—American composers, native born and naturalized, invited to submit unplayed manuscripts. Manuscripts will not be received until May 1. Auditions for soloists to be heard at the summer concerts will begin in April. Mrs. William Cowen, Room 712 Fisk Building, Fifty-seventh street and Broadway New York, N. Y.
Baylor College—$1,000 in scholarships and silver cups to winners in contests for piano, violin voice vocal quartet and orchestra. E. A. Schafer Secretary, Baylor College, Belton, Texas.
American Conservatory (details in issue March 22) —Free scholarships for the summer session from June , to August 4. American Conservatory, 503 Kimball Hall, 300 S. Wabash avenue, Chicago, 111.
Dudley Buck—Free competitive scholarship for the summer master classes at the University of Kansas, June 11 to July 21. H. L. Butler, Dean, School ot line Arts, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans.
Chamber Music Association of Philadelphia—$500 for composition for string quartet. Score and parts must be in the possession of the Chamber of Music Association of Philadelphia, 1317 Pennsylvania Building, Philadelphia, Pa., not later than November 1,
Lorenz Publishing Company—Three prizes amounting to $325 for unpublished anthem. Contest ends July 1. Lorenz Publishing Company, 216 West Fifth street Dayton, Ohio: 70 East Forty-fifth street. New York; 218 S. Wabash avenue, Chicago, 111.
The Gunn School of Music and Dramatic Art, Inc —Six scholarships for the summer master classes The Gunn School of Music and Dramatic Art, Inc' 1254 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago.
in a unique manner typical terpsichorean phases in American life.
A program of the complete works of James P. Dunn was presented in Toronto by the Barnaby Nelson Studio Club, on January 30. Mr. Dunn’s songs are being widely sung by recital artists. His The Bitterness of Love is meeting with splendid success.
John Campbell, tenor, has included on his recent programs Elizabeth Harbison David’s Revelation, Frank H. Grey’s When Blossoms Come, and Victor Harris’ Silver.
Clayton F. Summy Company, Chicago
Clavton F. Summy has issued from time to time throughout the season a service sheet, and many well known educators and musicians look forward to the Summy Service as a welcomed addition to their general sources of information, and many prominent musicians have contributed interesting numbers. The last list published was edited by Allen Spencer, and a Song Service Bulletin, which is now on the press, was edited by Lucille Stevenson.	M. J.
Carlotta Russell Offers Fine Program
Before a select audience in the music room of the Pickwick Arms Hotel at Greenwich, on Friday, March 16, Carlotta Russell, soprano, gave an interesting and well-chosen program. The affair was the third of a series of Soirees Musicales presented during March by the Misses Thomas of New York. This series, which has had a wide appeal, included a piano recital, dramatic reading and lecture as well as the song recital.
In a program comprising an aria and songs in Italian, French and English, the singer turned from the classical to the modern with ease and fluency. The first group opened
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with Mozart’s Batti, Batti from Don Giovanni, which she presented in true Mozart style. This was followed by the Aria di Agrippina from Tolomeo, by Handel, and by Carey’s Pastoral, sung with verve. A dainty bergerette made a pleasing encore.
The second group opened with two songs by Sydney King Russell, Madrigal and The Word. Wolff’s Fairy Tales followed, sung with delicate feeling, in English, and Terry’s The Answer completed the group. The audience was an appreciative one, and the singer encored with her husband’s songs, Grandma’s Way and The Song of the Hill. The singer’s quality of tone, diction, style and phrasing gave pleasure to her hearers. Mr. Russell, at the piano, furnished adequate accompaniments.
Following the recital tea was served in the lounge, where many appreciative remarks were heard. “It is pure tone we have listened to,” was one comment. It was remarked that the dainty individuality of the singer was expressed admirably in the songs chosen for her program. That her success was spontaneous is evidenced by the fact that only a short time after the close of her recital she was engaged for another appearance in Greenwich within the month.
FROM THE PUBLISHERS
Carl Fischer & Co., New York
Among the songs which Loisa Patterson has made popular is Do Dreams Come True, a beautiful ballad by Sherman Fowler with lyrics by Lovell. Miss Patterson has just completed a ten weeks’ concert engagement with Bachman’s Band, West Palm Beach, Fla. Not only was the attendance estimated at between three and four thousand persons at each concert, but by broadcasting the program from the big radio station, WKAH, thousands of silent listeners also heard her sing.
Sam Fox Publishing Company, Cincinnati
Sam Fox, of the Sam Fox Publishing Company, is in Europe, where he will remain for some time. It is understood that he is opening a branch of his publishing house in London and in Paris. The Sam Fox Company, Ltd., was established in Australia and New Zealand some months ago, and it is understood that the new concern is getting along splendidly. The Sam Fox catalogue not only contains many popular numbers but also has numerous ballads for the concert program. It is perhaps one of the largest catalogues of teaching pieces in the country.
Edward Johnson, Metropolitan Opera tenor, has made a record of Dorothy Lee’s newest song, I Love You More, and reports are that the new Victor record is meeting with unusually good success. It will be remembered that Miss Lee is the composer of the song, One Fleeting Hour.
M. Witmark & Sons, New York
At Reinald Werrenrath’s recital in Bloomfield High School, February 20, he sang Ye Moanin’ Mountains, by Frederick W. Vanderpool, who happens to be a former resident of that town. As encores for his fifth group, Mr. Werrenrath sang Smilin’ Through, by Arthur A. Penn, and Sun and Moon, music also. by Mr. Penn, to a lyric by Gretchen Dick. These two Penn songs are always on Mr. Werrenrath’s programs, either in a group of American songs or as encores. Smilin’ Through has become so closely identified with Mr. Werrenrath that no recital of his seems complete without it. He tried to leave it out at his second New York recital because he had sung it at the first one, but the audience wouldn’t let him.
. The third American Composers’ Concert, under the auspices of the New York Federation of Music Clubs, was held at the Wanamaker Auditorium on March 21. Emily Deglian, soprano, sang two groups of songs by Frederick W. Vanderpool, with Mr. Vanderpool at the piano: A Rose in Autumn, Lammie, Love, and Can It Be Love? The Light, Heart to Heart, and ’Neath the Autumn Moon.
The White-Sheetz Company, Burlington, la.
This music publishing company has just issued a new ballad, The Thoughts I Bring to You, with words and music by William Leander Sheetz. The song is being distributed through the principal retail stores here in the East. George Reimherr, baritone, has programmed the song at many of his concerts during the winter, and has found that wherever it has been heard the audiences have liked it. Clarence Whitehill, Metropolitan Opera baritone, has also included it among his program numbers for concerts.
Breitkopf & Härtel, Inc., New York
This firm has issued a leaflet—Wagner Memorabilia— m commemoration of the great composer’s death. It will be mailed upon request.
J. Fischer & Brother, New York
At the suggestion of Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld, of the Rialto Theater, Mortimer Wilson composed an overture based on themes from songs in vogue during the days of the “Forty-niners which is being played with the new Paramount picture, The Covered Wagon. Dr. Riesenfeld was impressed to such an extent by the beauty of the work that J. Fischer & Bro. rushed through the publishing of the orchestra score so that it might be used to accompany the new film wherever The Covered Wagon is presented. Last season Mr. Wilson’s My Country was used by Mr. S. L. Rothafel at the Capitol Theater as descriptive music for a scenic fantasy.
As_ one of the offerings in the American group of songs on his program, March 6, at Carnegie Hall, Colin O’More sang Frank H. Grey’s When Blossoms Come.
At, his recital on February 20, at Aeolian Hall, Guy Maier played Eastwood Lane’s The Crap-Shooters. This is one of a suite of five American dances that transcribe
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An audience which packed the Auditorium from its lowest to its highest reaches, with all standing room in the galleries occupied paid homage to Lynnwood Farnam. The convention members filled solidly an entire section to the parquet.
His finger technic is incredibly facile, his wrist movement so flexible and swift as at times to resemble the haze of a humming-bird’s wings as it poises before a flower. His manipulation of the rigistra tions is equally perfect. It is all done so deftly as to seem but a part of manual technic.—St. Paul Pioneer Press.	v
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