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MUSICAL COURIER
April 26, 1923
MACDOWELL COLONY FUND
CONTINUES TO GROW
When on December 30 last, Mrs. Edward Mac-Dowell was disabled by a taxicab accident so that she is still unable to leave her apartment, Joseph Regneas was the first to propose, in a letter to the Musical Courier, that a fund be raised for the support of the MacDowell Colony at Peterborough, N. H., this year, which will lack the usual support given it from the earnings of Mrs. MacDowell herself. Mr. Regneas’ letter was as follows:
I have just heard of the unfortunate accident to Mrs. Edward MacDowell, on the eve of her departure for a recital tour. Mrs. MacDowell is likely to be incapacitated for some time under the most favorable conditions.
Since the income from these recitals is one of the great mainstays of the Peterborough Colony, it would be a nice compliment, and at the same time act as a balm during her days of convalescence, if a fund were raised to partly take the place at least of the income lost through her indisposition.
To further such a plan, I beg to subscribe $100 (one hundred dollars) with the understanding that twenty-five of my colleagues, or those interested in the Edward MacDowell Association, will subscribe a like amount.
May I ask you to give publicity in your valued paper and also act as recipient of this fund?
Faithfully yours,
(Signed) Joseph Regneas.
New York, January 1.
Following Mr. Regneas’ suggestion, the fund has steadily been gaining by voluntary contributions from individuals, from various MacDowell Clubs (of which there are many scattered throughout the United States), and from other musical organizations.____
Contributions during the week ending April 21 in-
cluded the following:
From a Friend (through Caroline B. Dow).....$100
Harmony Club, Derry, N. .H.................. 75
Junior MacDowell Club, Roselle and Roselle
Park, N. J............................... 50
The value of the work which, by the aid of this
fund, Mrs. MacDowell will be able to continue, is beyond question. The Musical Courier again urges all in any way connected with or interested in music to be generous.
The Musical Courier will continue to act as collector for the fund. Contributions, which will be acknowledged in these columns, should be addressed to the MacDowell Colony Fund, care Musical Courier, 437 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Macbeth in Texas
Florence Macbeth, coloratura soprano of the Chicago Opera, on her return East after a series of successful appearances on the Pacific Coast, was heard at the Houston (Tex.) Auditorium on April 9, and the same week she sang at the Kidd-Key College Auditorium in Sherman (Tex.) under the personal direction of Edwin Kidd.
afternoon, April 10. A large audience of the faculty, students and former students heard Miss Francis in arias from Cavalleria Rusticana and Madame Butterfly. After the performance there was an informal reception at which many of the conservatory pupils were presented to this former student of the voice and dramatic departments who in the past few years has successfully sung roles with the New Orleans and Chicago Opera companies and, during the present season, was leading woman in Rita Coventry and The Merry Widow.
The Beneficent Society of the New England Conservatory of Music, whose funds are loaned to talented students toward completion of their musical education at the conservatory, held its annual meeting, Monday afternoon, April 16, and elected officers as follows: President, Mrs. Charles H. Bond; vice-presidents, Mrs. Frederick S. Blodgett, Mrs. Henry H. Proctor; directors, Mrs. Frederick S. Converse, Miss Mabel W. Daniels, Mrs. Ralph L. Flanders, Mrs. Langdon Frothingham, Mrs. Wallace Goodrich, Mrs. Henry S. Howe, Miss Jane E. James, Mrs. Henry L. Mason, Mrs. Silas Peirce, Mrs. Sullivan Sargent, Mrs. Joseph South-wick ; secretary, Mrs. Chauncey B. Allen; treasurer, Mrs. Henry M. Dunham; assistant treasurer, Arthur Soder-mann; auditor, Miss Martha Perkins.
The secretary’s report showed. an extensive use of the society’s loan funds in the past year and emphasized the generosity of two distinguished graduates of the conservatory, Lee Pattison, ’10, and Guy Maier, T3, who have volunteered to play with the Conservatory Orchestra, Wallace Goodrich conductor, at a concert for the society’s benefit in Jordan Hall Friday evening, May 4.
Chicago Critics Praise Raymond Havens.
The exacting critics of the Chicago press praised the playing of Raymond Havens, the admirable young pianist, very highly when he played in the Windy City recently. “Raymond Havens is an excellent pianist,” wrote Karleton Hackett in the Evening Post, “and esterday afternoon he appeared to be in fine form. His tone was good, his technic clean and there was vigor in the interpretative thought. It was impossible for me to remain long, but what I heard was well played.”
“In the Playhouse,” said Glenn Dillard Gunn in the Herald-Examiner, “Raymond Havens played three preludes on Gregorian melodies by Respighi, which proved to be among the most interesting of modern works for piano— a Hill Tune, by Arnold Bax, equally attractive and unusual. I missed his reading of the first two movements of the Appassionata sonata, but found the finale was for him a medium for the display of an entirely virtuoso command of his instrument and an equally complete comprehension of the Beethoven spirit and tradition. He made the F sharp nocturne as fine a bit of Chopin playing as the season has brought forth.”
Edward Moore in the Tribune said: “Raymond Havens, a Boston pianist and a good one, was heard at the Playhouse in Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata, which he played with an excellent idea of its architecture, a firm, resonant tone, and much enthusiasm. His fingers would seem to be directed by smoothly functioning brains.”
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Chadwick was presented, with a painting by his friend, Dwight Blaney, and Mr. Goodrich with a handsome silver cigarette case. A speech of presentation was made by Charles A. White, representing a committee of the faculty composed of Timothee Adamowski, Joseph Adamowski, Frederick S. Converse and himself.' This presentation was a sequel to the Symphony Hall concert of February 28 last, which was given in recognition of the quarter-century services of these men.
New England Conservatory Notes.
A recital of original compositions by students of composition at the New England Conservatory of Music, which was given in Recital Hall, Monday evening, April 9, served to call attention to creative work which has been greatly stimulated at the Conservatory since the foundation of the H. Wendell Endicott prizes in composition. Five students are this year candidates for graduation in composition, and several others will be candidates in 1924.
The April 9 program began with a movement of a string quartet by Frithjof- Eid, violinist, of the Conservatory orchestra. It was followed by Joseph Wagner’s quintet for pianoforte, two violins, viola, and cello (first movement). Jesus M. Sanroma’s prelude and fugue for pianoforte was played by the composer.
Grace Stutsman, ’22, who won an Endicott prize last June, presented three songs for baritone which were sung by Benjamin Russell with the composer at the piano. By Bertram H. Currier were two pieces for cello and pianoforte, Mystic Chant and The Brooklet, performed by the composer and Olga Currier. Margaret Mason, an Endicott prize winner in 1922, contributed a movement for string quartet. Rita Bowers’s Fugue for string quartet and Margaret McLain’s sonata for pianoforte and violoncello completed the program.
A program of American compositions was given by Alpha Chapter, Phi Mu Alpha, Sinfonia Fraternity of America, in its chapter rooms at the New England Conservatory of Music on Wednesday evening, April 4.
The program included a sonata for cello and pianoforte by Frederick S. Converse, played by George Brown and Mary Madden; Harvey Worthington Loomis’ Romance from the sonata in C minor, and Lyric Finale, played by Stuart Hoppin, with the composer at the piano; songs, a Japanese Night Song, by Charles Bennett, Where Blooms the Rose, Clayton Johns, and Allah, George W. Chadwick, sung by Benjamin Russell, with Mr. Bennett at the piano; Arthur Foote’s, sonata for violin and pianoforte, presented by Mr. Hoppin and the composer; three pianoforte works, The Night Winds, of Charles Grilles; The Aspen, Mr. Chadwick, and the first movement of the MacDowell Sonata Eroica, Howard Goding.
Dorothy Francis, leading woman of the Merry Widow company, sang with the New England Conservatory orchestra, Wallace Goodrich conductor, in Jordan Hall Tuesday
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