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MUSICAL COURIER
April 26, 1923
THE MacDOWELL COLONY FUND
There is no cause in music more worthy of support
Nobody in the American musical world needs to be told what the MacDowell Colony is or what it does. It is unique—in this country or any other. It affords each summer a place where a limited few who work in the Seven Arts can go and find, at moderate rates, seclusion for creative work. And the work that has come from the colonists in the sixteen years of its existence speaks for itself.
(Mrs. MacDowell, it must be emphasized, receives no personal advantage in any way from the Colony; on the contrary, she has herself made large contributions of land and money to it).
THE COLONY IS IN IMMEDIATE NEED OF FUNDS
Its income comes from a small endowment, from the dues of the Edward MacDowell Memorial Association, from voluntary contributions and from the earnings of Mrs. Edward MacDowell, who constantly travels about giving recitals of her late husband’s compositions.
This latter source of income has been cut off this season by the unfortunate accident of which Mrs. MacDowell was a victim early in January. She has been incapacitated from work ever since and in consequence
THE WORK OF THE COLONY THIS SUMMER IS ENDANGERED
At the suggestion of Joseph Regneas, a special fund was started to make up this unexpected deficit. The response has been generous, but in order to ensure the continuance in full of the Colony activities this summer
MORE MONEY IS NEEDED AT ONCE
Send your check for any amount to the MACDOWELL COLONY FUND, care of the Musical Courier. Your contribution will be acknowledged in these columns.
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$100 for Community Pageant
The Arts and Festivals Committee of the United Neighborhood Houses offers a prize of $100 for a community pageant, to be performed by the young people of the different neighborhood houses, in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of New York.
It is desirable that: (a) There be no changing of scenery ; (b) The time of performance be not more than one and one-half hours; (c) The spectacle have precedence over the dialogue; (d) There be scope for dances and pantomime.
The competition closes October 1. Manuscripts should be sent by registered mail, with self-addressed stamped envelope enclosed, to the Arts and Festivals Committee of the United׳ Neighborhood Houses, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The author’s registry receipt will be considered sufficient acknowledgment.
The committee reserves the right to withhold the prize, should the manuscripts be below the standard necessary to be awarded the prize.
Walter Anderson, Inc., in New Offices
Walter Anderson will hereafter be known as Walter Anderson, Inc., his firm recently having been incorporated, and on May 1 he will move to new offices at 114 West Forty-fourth street, New York. Mr. Anderson went to Boston last week to attend the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the firm of Chickering & Sons.
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.]
The Berkshire Music Colony, Inc. (details in issue February IS)—$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.
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 be received until June 1. 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 25 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 of Fine Arts, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans.
Chamber Music Association of Philadelphia (details in issue April 12)—$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 (details in issue April 5)—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.
W. A. Clark, Jr., president of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles—$1,000 for •*he best symphony or symphonic poem for orchestra and $500 for the best chamber music composition (trio, quartet, quintet, etc.) by a composer of the State of California. Contest ends September 1. Caroline E. Smith, manager of the Philharmonic Orchestra, 424 Auditorium Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal.
Civic Summer Master School of Music—Free scholarships for the six weeks’ session, June 25 to August 4. Secretary Civic Music Commission, Box 514, Winston-Salem, N. C.
Ithaca Conservatory of Music—about one hundred free and partial scholarships.—Ithaca Conservatory of Music, Ithaca, N• Y.