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of Music Week, what is to be known as the Harlem Music Week Festival, special musical events carried out entirely by Negroes, under the direction of Laura Sedgwick Collins.
Perhaps one of the most extraordinary and most vitally important features of Music Week will be the vast number of “special programs” that are to be given in as many charitable institutions, hospitals, orphan asylums, homes, prisons, as may ask for them. For these special programs the professional musical talent of New York has been called upon to give their services free and voluntarily in the sacred cause of music. The way these people have responded has been noble. Mrs. William Cowen, who is in charge of the “special programs,” said the other day that over 99 per cent, of the people she had communicated with had said yes gladly and had volunteered to go anywhere she might say. Some of these professionals who will thus be heard by the poor, unfortunate and destitute of New York, who wiil thus be given the finest music that can be imagined, are the Letz Quartet, New York Trio, George Meader, Rafael Diaz, Richard Hageman, Herbert Witherspoon, Greta Tor-padie, Herma Menth, Carmela Ponselle, Francis Rogers, Helen Stanley, Frank La Forge, Estelle Liebling, Sascha Jacobsen, Nana Genovese and Cornelius Van Vliet.
There is to be a week’s Festival of the Organ at Wana-maker’s, and at R. H. Macy’s a tremendously big Music Week store rally, when the employees will sing their Alma Mater song. A group with the most distinguished men and women of society importance are to serve as patrons and patronesses. There is to be a most distinguished Welcome Committee, comprising the leading citizens of New York, men representing non-musical activities and interests.
April 19, 1923	MUSICAL COURIER
APRIL 29 OFFICIALLY OPENS NEW YORK’S MUSIC WEEK
of chimes everywhere that chimes can be rung early Sunday afternoon, special Music Week services are being arranged in every Sunday School possible, in the length and breadth of New York, and in Central Park and in Prospect Park, and possibly in some of the big parks in Queens Borough, there will be massed Sunday School song services, at each of which from 5,000 to 10,000 children will sing, accompanied by the U. S. Navy Band and the U. S. Army Band, with the park commissioners presiding.
Children are to play an exceedingly prominent part in Music Week. Orchestras from the high and elementary public schools will contest in four great groups, and on Saturday morning of Music Week, in the Capitol Theater, which has been specially donated for the occasion by the management, prizes will be awarded the winning orchestras, Otto H. Kahn will speak, and a special musical program will be provided for the best music students in all the public schools in New York, as many as this big Broadway motion picture playhouse will hold. Director of Music for the Public Schools George H. Gartlan will have charge of all of this.
All the foreign colonies in New York will participate actively, brilliantly and vividly. Through what is known as the Interracial Council, groups representing something like forty distinct nationalities will give two wonderful concerts of folk music in Aeolian Hall, with all participants in costume. All the foreign consuls of New York are to take part in this. Directly alongside of these concerts will be, as part
The fourth New York Music Week is now very nearly set. It begins Sunday, April 29, and is to run a full and what seems certain to be a splendid course of music, music, music, for seven days and nights. New York has never, experts say, seen such a concentration of music as this Music Week will be. Last year, the third Music Week had, during its seven days, the incredible number of three thousand distinct and separate musical events. But the fourth Music Week will far surpass this.
So many are the personalities of New York’s Music Week this year, and those of its pendant Music Weeks in adjoining cities, that the lists alone run into the thousands of names. The little circular that has been issued by the New York Music Week Association, containing a reproduction of the poster that will soon be seen everywhere over the city, alone contains not far from a thousand names of special committees. Otto H. Kahn is honorary president; William Fel-lowes Morgan, chairman of the finance committee; Isabel Lowden, director; W. Rodman Fay, secretary; William C. Potter, treasurer; Thomas L. Leeming, chairman for Brooklyn; George Cromwell, chairman for Richmond; Albert Goldman, chairman for the Bronx, and among those on the board of directors, the executive and finance committees and the incorporators are: Dr. Eugene Allan Noble, of the Juilliard Foundation; Felix M. Warburg, Martin Conboy, Ralph Jonas, Paul D. Cravath and Morgan J. O’Brien, Jr.
In addition to the special services and special sermons in the churches on the opening Sunday morning, and the ringing
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