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Wintter Watts Wins Pulitzer Prize
Among the 1922 Pulitzer prize awards just announced, Wintter Watts, composer, is the only musician to receive any recognition. Mr. Watts carries off an annual scholarship having the value of $1,500, awarded "to the student of music in America who may be deemed, the most talented and deserving, in order that he may continue his studies with the advantage of European instruction.” The jury making the award consisted of members of the teaching staff of the department of music of Columbia University and of the teaching staff of the Institute of Musical Art— Daniel Gregory Mason, Walter Henry Hall and Frank Damrosch. The jury recommends the award for a suite for orchestra, entitled Etchings, and for a dramatic batlau for voice and orchestra, entitled The Vinegar Man.
The selection of Mr. Watts as recipient of this award will receive universal approval. He has proved himself to be a composer who possesses both technical facility and real invention—not merely a clever technician like so many prize winners. His music is being used by artists regularly at recitals because it is good music. It is not the sort that is played once and thrown aside because it lacks public and popular appeal, but the sort to which it is a real pleasure to listen. Nor is Mr. Watts the sort of man who will be spoiled by Europe. Though young in years he has the maturity of experience, and will not be easily led to adopt the style of whatever country he may elect to study in.
It is a good award, and.the Musical Courier most heartily congratulates the winner.
Mr. Watts sails for London, May 19, to be present at the rendition of some of his compositions. His further steps have not yet been determined upon.
Harold Land’s Many Engagements
Harold Land, baritone, will sing Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha at Hartford, Conn., May 18, and at Yonkers, N. Y., May 21. He has been engaged to sing Gaul's Holy City at the big service in connection with the laying of the cornerstone at the new St. John’s Church, Richmond Hill, May 27.
Monday, May 28, Mr. Land will sing in concert at Tarry-town, N. Y. May 30 he will sing at the unveiling of the monument in memory of the world war veterans in City Hall Park, Yonkers, N. Y.; the monument is the work of Isadore Konti, friend and neighbor of Harold Land. June 8 he will sing patriotic airs at a big memorial service at St. Thomas’ Church, Fifth Avenue, New York.
Music Week Recital at American Institute
May 4, the 114th sonata recital was given at the American Institute of Applied Music, Kate S. Chittenden dean, beginning with Beethoven’s sonata, op. 10, No. 1, played by Edna Oster; then followed a Music Week address, by Dr. J. Lawrence Erb, managing director, and this was followed by Reger’s sonata for piano and violin, op. 139, played by George Raudenbush, violin, and Miriam Steeves, piano. The Euphonic Trio, consisting of Em Smith, violin; C’Zelma Crosby, cello, and Gladys Shailer, piano, played Haydn’s trio in E flat, and closed the program. As usual there was a fine attendance and much interest in the varied offerings.
Friedman Off for Europe
Ignaz Friedman left for Europe on the Olympic to return in late December for his fourth American tour.
bers'o'f Trinity Choir with a minimum service of one year are eligible to membership.
A special service will be held; in Trinity Church on the afternoon of Whitsunday each year, in which all members of the Association shall take part. A reunion dinner in the evening will follow the service.
Ethel Pyne in Recital
Ethel Pyne, soprano, assisted by Grace Elliott, pianist, gave a recital on April 28 at the MacDowell Gallery on West Fifty-fifth street. Miss Pyne was in excellent voice, which, with her excellent diction and charming personality, made the evening a very enjoyable musical event. Her program was interesting, including selections by Delbruck,
ETHEL PYNE, soprano.
Hahn, Bizet, Leoncavallo, D’Hardelot, Rile, and other well known composers. One of the most popular numbers proved to be Springtime of Love, by Clarence Wainwright MacMurphey, who was present. This offering was so enthusiastically applauded as to bring forth another of this same composer’s works, Today, which also met with success. Besides this, there were five other encores added to her program.
Miss Elliott’s playing, both in the concert numbers and accompaniments, showed rare ability, and the enthusiastic audience requested her to give an additional selection after each of her offerings.
An opportunity was afforded the audience to meet the artists after the program at an informal reception, which was followed by dancing until a late hour.
May 17, 1923
Brooklyn Music School Settlement Faculty to Give Concert
On May 23 the faculty of the Brooklyn Music School Settlement will give an interesting program at Memorial Hall, Y. W. C. A., Schermerhorn street, Brooklyn. The artistic activities of this musical center have always attracted a great deal of attention in Greater New York and Brooklyn, and many distinguished persons attend these concerts. Owing to the success of these affairs, there is a proposal under way to build a small theater in the rear of the school and it is hoped that the plans will be put into execution in a short time. The following is the program:
Concerto D minor (Bach) for three pianos and string quartet— (.pianists) Henrietta Gammeyer, head of piano department, pupil of Edward MacDowell and Dr. William Mason; Mrs. Charles J. McDermott, theory department, and Wellington Sloane, head of harmony department; (string players)—John King Rossa, head of violin department, graduate pupil ot Sevcik; Robert Thrane, head of cello department; feadie Walker, violin department, and Jenning Butterfield, violin department. My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land (Elgar), and quartet from Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast (Coleridge-Taylor), tor double quartet —Misses Gauthier, Whittiey, Florence B. Potter and Jessie L. Hark-rader, of the vocal department; Messrs. Charles A. May, Instruction tor the Blind, theory; Jones; Leslie Arnold, vocal department, and Lyman Wells Clary, head of the theory department; Elliot Griffis, of the piano department, at the piano. Str״ng quartet in D major (Mendelssohn), Allegro molto vivace—Miss Walker, and Messrs. Roosa, Thrane and Butterheid. The Nutcracker Suite (Tschaikowsky), arranged tor eigtit hands by Mrs. Pierson—Mrs. T. G. Reynolds Pierson, Marguerite Porter, Josephine Carpenter and Bonar Cramer, ot the piano department. Tne Angel (Rubinstein), A Lover’s Duet (Bononcini), It Was a Lover and His Lass (Wathew), sung by Alice Godillot, assistant head of vocal department, and Mr. Clary; Elliott Griffis at the piano. Arabesque (Debussy)—Misses Walker and Kemper, violin department; Messrs. Clary, Thrane, Roosa, Butterfield; and J. F. McMahon, Franz Baltrusch, k. S. Reichel, Mann, and Adam Schirra, of the wind instrument department.
Cosmopolitan Choral Ends Season
The Cosmopolitan Choral Club gave its second and last concert of the season at Delmonico’s on April 27. Harry Gilbert, conductor, has done good work with the newly organized chorus—remarkable work, in fact, for an organization only in its first season. Among the principal works on the program were Laudate Pueri (Mendelssohn), Shadow March (T. Frederick H. Candlyn), and The Water Fay (Horatio W. Parker). The assisting artists—Helen Leve-son, soprano, and Knight ‘MacGregor, baritone, sang two groups of songs, and two of the club’s members, Mrs. Al-veda Lofgren and Margaret McKinney-McAllister, sang incidental solos.
Thursday, May 3, the club gave an informal luncheon at Delmonico’s, at which the president, Mrs. Margaret McKinney-McAllister, presided. Knight MacGregor sang. The club offered two numbers from its recent program, Charles Hanson Towne read an original poem, and Deems Taylor, of the World, and H. O. Osgood, of the Musical Courier, told the club how little they thought of choral singing in a few allegedly witty remarks.
Trinity Choir Alumni Association Formed
A new musical fraternity has recently been formed under the name of Trinity Choir Alumni Association. The officers are: honorary president, Rev. Caleb R. Stetson, rector of Trinity Church, New York; president, Channing Le-febvre, organist and choirmaster of Trinity Church; H. Norman Irvin״, secretary and treasurer, and John M. Knapp, ’65; Arthur Livingston, ’69; John M. Fulton, ’93; Edward L. Seip, *97; Henry L. Cox, ’98; Howard Knapp, ’82, executive committee.
The object of the organization is to maintain the spirit of good fellowship that has always existed among the members of the choir of “Old Trinity.” Past and present mem-
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