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MUSICAL COURIER
April 26, 1923
New York Concert Announcements
Thursday, April 26
Percy Hemus, song recital, evening......................Aeolian	Hall
Effin Liversky, song recital, evening......................Town	Hall
Friday, April 27
Solon Robinson, piano recital, afternoon...........National Theater
Saturday, April 28
Winifred Byrd, piano recital, afternoon.................Aeolian	Hall
Astrik Kavookjian, piano recital, evening...............Aeolian	Hall
.Dance recital by pupils of Ilonka, evening.................Town	Hall
Sunday, April 29
New York Concert Society, afternoon....................Aeolian Hall
Monday, April 30
Consuelo Escobar and Constantin BuketofF, evening....Aeolian Hall
Tuesday, May 1
Music Week Concert, evening............................Town Hall
Giannini Engagements Coming in Rapidly
Although a month ago she was entirely unknown, Duso-lina Giannini is already in great demand for concert appearances next season. Engagements booked during the past week include a recital at Wells College, Aurora, N. Y., in October; a recital at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga., in December, and two appearances with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Henri Verbrugghen conductor, in St. Paul and Minneapolis, in January.
Contracts have just been signed whereby Miss Giannini will be added to the list of artists who record exclusively for the Victor. Her recordings will be made immediately and her records will be on the market before the next concert season begins.
Louis Baker Phillips as Composer-Organist
When Louis Baker Phillips played at the third concert in a series of American composers and artists presented by Caroline Lowe at the Wanamaker auditorium in New York on the afternoon of March 21 he was heard in the first movement of James H. Rogers’ sonata in E minor, a group of his own organ works (Lullaby and Prayer, Shadows and Caprice Grotesque) and Harvey B. Gaul’s Postludium Circulaire.
Herbert Witherspoon Artist Busy
Lewis Pendleton, baritone and artist-pupil of Herbert Witherspoon, was heard with splendid effect in three recent appearances in Maine. Camden and Pittsfield engaged him for recitals, and his presence in Bangor brought about an invitation to sing with the Festival Chorus at a public rehearsal. Mr. Pendleton was assisted in his recitals by Ruth Thomas. During the summer he will direct the voice department of the Music School in Andalusia, Ala.
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TENOR
Appeared In Italy,	I Now on tour with
South America, Mexico I	San Carlo Opera
and New York	I	Company
Concerts, Recitals, Musicales and Operas Dates now booking
Exclusive Management: INTERNATIONAL LYRIC BUREAU 1452 Broadway, New York Telephone: Bryant 2836
music it will understand first performances of compositions representative of the best and most vital in contemporary life—music that is frankly forward-looking and path-breaking. It accepts and proclaims experiment as a valid and indispensable artistic principle of all historic periods in which music has been in a transitional or formative state of technical or social development. It asserts that music is at present in such a state, and that those who oppose this principle serve a dead rather than a living art.
“During the coming season the International Composers’ Guild will give three concerts. Hall, dates and programs to be announced later.”
Sarah Bernhardt Compliments Schnitzer
The appended translation of a letter received in 1918 by Germaine Schnitzer from Sarah Bernhardt is indeed a fine tribute to the art of the well known pianist :
“Will you allow me, my delightful friend, to express again all my admiration and all my gratitude for the un-
GERMAINE SCHNITZER
forgettable and poetical hour of art which you offered me so generously on Sunday last.
“The power, the grace, the rhythm vie with each other for the prize in your marvelous playing; but what strikes me and charms me the most, is the delicate sentiment, the song of your soul, which bursts forth in every phrase.
“I was and am still overcome with emotion, at this hour when I write to you, of the remembrance of this art, so pure, so true and so noble. Then, I am going to tell you this more: Your charming person is transformed in an ideal beauty when the gods possess you; your two arms seem two wings, which float and come to rest! It is of infinite grace!
“I wanted to tell you all this, my dear one, and thank you again from the depths of my soul. I kiss you, my dear little sister in ideals, and cry out again to you, Thanks! Thanks!”
FROM THE PUBLISHERS
White-Smith Company
Chief Lone Eagle of Montana, leader of the Sioux Indians, has given out the statement that his people are tremendously interested in radio. They heard a program not long ago of Indian songs which featured The Land Of The Sky Blue Water, which was broadcasted from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Station from Troy, N. Y. He writes that his people call it “Big Chief WHAZ with the mighty voice.” So successful was the program that there have been requests for its repetition.
Boston Music Company
This publishing housp announces that it has the exclusive distribution rights of the United States and Canada for the Musique Picturesque, publications of Bertrand-Brown.
John Church Company
Mana Zucca’s new song, I Love Life, is proving to be one of the most interesting of its well known composer’s works. Mana Zucca will have fourteen new compositions ready for the public within a few months. Irwin Cassel has also written the lyrics for these.
Oiver Ditson Company
Two attractive catalogues, entitled the Ditson Novelty List, issued in April, have been received by this office. The new catalogue is not only alphabetically listed but there is also a thematic list of the most important numbers issued in the last months. The two catalogues are nicely illustrated and should prove very valuable to teachers and students. Both will be sent upon request.
Clayton F. Summy Company
At regular intervals, the Clayton F. Summy Company issues what is known as The Song Service Bulletin. This little pamphlet usually carries a reproduction page of from five to six of this firm’s newest publications. It is more than a thematic catalogue. Each composition is thoroughly explained and all details regarding its technical difficulties, whether a piano piece or a vocal piece, are clearly brought out. These bulletins are numbered and will be mailed regularly to anyone asking for them.
This same publishing house also issues what is known as The Clayton F. Summy Company Study Service Sheet, which is also numbered and published at various intervals. Looking over them at random the writer finds that No. 13 contains technical principles suggested by Walter Spry of Chicago. Then the folder contains fifteen or twenty compositions for the piano, giving a short resume of the composer’s works and, in detail, the composition. Another one is entitled Technic for Music’s Sake, by Glen Dillard Gunn, pianist, pedagogue and critic of Chicago, who discusses the fundamental principles of piano playing. Each Study Service Sheet carries a wealth of information. This publication will also be sent to all who express an interest in the Summy publications.
M. Witmark & Sons
The Lega Musicale Italiana offered a prize nearly a year ago for a song written by an Italian-American. ־ The club is composed of such well known musicians as Gennaro Papi, Martinelli, Gigli, Stracciara, Cure¡, Crimi, Schipa, Bimboni, and many others equally well known. The committee selected' to judge the various submitted manuscripts, is made up of Barraja, De Crescenzo, Gagliano,^ Buzzi-Peccia, with the chairman of the committee, Frederick W. Vanderpool, the American, composer. The manuscripts were merely numbered, and the envelopes containing the contestants’ names were opened April 6 at the home of Buzzi-Peccia and it was discovered that the winner was Signorina Giulia Reel¡, the title of the composition being, Canzione Villereccia. Mr. Vanderpool naturally is gratified by the signal honor paid him by this society in selecting him as the chairman, showing also that his songs are held in high esteem by the Italian singing contingent.	M. J.
The International Composers’ Guild
[The Internationa! Composers’ Guild forwards us the following material. Comment is unnecessary—The Editor.]
“The International Composers’ Guild, Inc., wishes Jo make clear to its subscribers and other friends, that it is in no way connected with a society recently formed by six persons who were associated with the Guild during its second season, but whose unsuccessful attempt to impose changes incompatible with the aims of the founders of the Guild led to an inevitable separation.
“Although this organization has modelled itself outwardly along identical lines, its purpose and _ policy are fundamentally opposed to the progressive spirit of the International Composers’ Guild.
“Confusion may arise from the fact that this new society is using the old office of the International Composers’ Guild and has announced concerts for the season of 1923-24 to be given at the Klaw Theater, which housed the Guild concerts last winter.
“Moreover, as it has apparently made use of the Guilds list of subscribers and mailing list, we ask all those who have heretofore shown their interest in our movement to carefully distinguish between this organization and the International Composers’ Guild, Inc. .
“The International . Composers’ Guild has successfully completed its second season and has shown that it not only fills a real need in the musical life of New York, but also is able to live up to the full meaning of the title ‘International.’ First performance, at least in New York, has been given to works of the following men: Bartók, Berners, Bliss, Casella, Cotapos, Delage, van Dieren, Dukekski, Engel, Gaillard, Goossens, Gruenberg, Ireland, Jacobi, Kodaly, Koechlin, Kramer, Lourie, Malipiero, Milhaud, Myaskovski, Ornstein, Pizzetti, Poulenc, Prokofieff, Ravel, Rudhyar, Rug-gles, Salzedo, Saminsky, Satie, Schoenberg, Schmitt, Stravinsky, Steinert, Varese, Whithorne and Williams.
“Strengthened by the support of a growing public as well as by the clamorous opposition of reactionary and conservative forces, the International Composers’ Guild plans, during the coming season, an even more vigorous pushing of its aim to produce only that music which is new. By new
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ULYSSES PAQUIN
BARITONE
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Wilson LAMB
Mezzo Soprano
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Available May to October Haensel & Jones, 33 W. 42d St., N. Y.
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Concert	Recitals	Oratorio
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Management of HAZEL BACHSCHMID. 935 Pa. Avenue, N W.	Washington, D. C.
GUEST ARTIST San Carlo Opera Company
SEASON 1922-23
Available also for concerts
Management: FORTUNE GALLO 1128-29 Aeolian Hall,	New York
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Maestro Aldo Franchetti at the Piano
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