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MUSICAL COURIER
May 17, 1923
RESULTS OF INTERNATIONAL
OPERA DESIGN CONTEST
Americans Won Ail Prizes—Names of Winners
With the end of the artistic season in New York comes the announcement of the splendid results from the International Opera Design Contest, held by the Zuro Grand Opera Company, under the auspices of Corona Mundi, Inc., the international art center. The hall of the Master Institute of United Arts, in which the designs were hung, was filled with submitted settings for Aida, Faust, Carmen and Rigo-letto, the operas assigned. Although the designs came from eight countries, including America, England, France, Germany, Holland, Jugo-Slavia, Roumania and Austria, all the prizes were taken by Americans. On the jury were Nicholas Roerich, Josiah Zuro, Joseph Urban, Lee Simonson, Norman-Bel Geddes and Hugo Riesenfeld. Louis L. Horch, president of Corona Mundi, Inc., was also present.
The four prizes—amounting to $100, $75, $50, and $25— were awarded as follows: First prize to Robert M. Goode, of Brookline, Mass.; second prize to Emil Lowenstein, of New York City; third prize to Julian de Mirsky, of New York, and fourth prize to T. Hiram, of New York.
This international contest, the first of its kind, has met with such response that similar contests in various branches of arts have already been planned for next season by Corona Mundi. It was announced that three contests in different branches of arts would be held under the auspices of Corona Mundi, by the Master Institute of United Arts. The details of these contests are soon to be announced.
Estelle Liebling Pupil for Metropolitan Opera
Marcella Roeseler, dramatic soprano, a pupil of Estelle Liebling, has been engaged for leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera House. Miss Roeseler came to New York last winter with the German Opera Company.
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The piano score of a new ballet by Stravinsky is soon to be published by J. & W. Chester of London.
The building of Steinway Hall in New York was begun in 1863 and completed in 1865.
Carl Friedberg will be a regular member of the faculty at the Institute of Musical Art next season.
Frieda Hempel’s impersonation of Jenny Lind is a masterpiece, according to a recent interviewer.
Winston-Salem is to have a Civic Summer School of Music.
Ottokar Bartik has just completed his fifteenth consecutive year with the Metropolitan Opera Company.
Olga Samaroff made forty concert appearances during the 1922-23 season.
Toronto now has a symphony orchestra.
Estelle Wentworth and Albert Parr put on two religious pageants in Washington, D. C.
Louis Graveure will hold master classes in San Francisco for five weeks, beginning July 16.
There were 2,000 guests at the Mozart’s Society’s fourteenth annual breakfast and dance.
Claude Warford announces a summer session for teachers and singers.
Many people were unable to gain admittance to the auditorium when Erna Rubinstein played in Emporia.
F. W. Riesberg presented music by American composers at Summerfield Methodist Episcopal Church, April 29.
Charlotte Lund will broadcast Pagliacci on Monday evening, May 21, via radio WEAF.
Marcella Roeseler, pupil of Estelle Liebling, has been engaged for the Metropolitan.
The four prizes offered in the International Opera Design contest were won by Americans.
Cecil Arden sang on five different occasions during the past week.
One thousand clubwomen applauded Caryl Bensel at a recent appearance in Atlantic City.
Many prominent persons attended the reception given by-Frederic T. Steinway in honor of Fritz Reiner.
Charles D. Isaacson is resigning from the staff of the Evening Mail and will stop giving free concerts.
Katharine Goodson was given an overwhelming reception at her appearance in London on May 10.
Victor C. Winton and Harry W. Bell are now associated in business in Los Angeles, Cal.
The Swedish Ballet is scheduled for its first visit to America next winter.
Beulah Rosine is a promising young cellist.
Bruno Walter was acclaimed at his first concert in Berlin after returning from America.
Wintter Watts won the 1922 Pulitzer prize.
Gwyneth Hughes, pupil of Elizabeth Kelso Patterson, sang in four languages at her Rumford Hall recital.
Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi took Berlin by storm. G. N.
Max Reinhardt Seeking Divorce
Prague, April 21.—Max Reinhardt, through his counsel, has applied for divorce from his famous actress-wife, Else Heims. Although residing at Salzburg, Prof. Reinhardt is a citizen- of Czechoslovakia, and accordingly the application for divorce had to be filed in a Prague court. B. P.
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Ernest Schelling, composer and pianist, has received the Distinguished Service Medal.
Several of Theodore Spiering’s songs have been programmed in Iceland.
Vera Curtis made a record of Home, Sweet Home for the Aeolian Company for the Centennial celebration of the song.
Guy Maier and Mrs. Maier sailed on the Mauretania on May 8 for a belated honeymoon in Europe.
A. V. Broadhurst, general manager of Enoch & Sons, London publishing house, is in New York on business.
Frederick Gunster, the American tenor, is to be under the management of R. E. Johnston, beginning July 1.
The commencement exercises of the Guilmant Organ School will be held on the evening of May 28.
The Denishawn Dancers have fifty-eight reengagements in their list of bookings for next season.
Marcel Dupre will give all-Bach programs in Montreal.
The New York School of Music and Arts gave its 512th students’ concert on May 3.
Following a stay of several years in Berlin, Josephine Kirpal will return to America in June.
The engagement is announced of Frank H. Warren, music critic of the Evening World, and Mrs. Esther Morgan.
Sanford Schlaussel won the Mason and Hamlin prize offered at the Chicago Musical College on May 2.
Gustaf Holmquist, well known basso and vocal teacher of Chicago, died suddenly on May 12.
May Peterson has made a number of new records for the Aeolian Company.
Montreal held its first music festival on April 24.
The week of April 23 was annual medal week at the Ithaca Conservatory and Affiliated Schools.
Franco De Gregorio is forming a company to appear in opera, oratorio and concerts, in South America, Cuba and this country.
David Mannes has resigned from the executive directorship of the Music School of the East Side House.
The Harcum School at Bryn Mawr is to be enlarged.
Nellie and Sara Kouns will return from abroad for the 1923-24 season.
Guiomar Novaes has returned from a transcontinental tour.
Clementine De Vere-Sapio has resigned as vice-president of the National Opera Club of America.
Leo Sowerby’s new La Nata for two pianos and orchestra was performed in Rome on April 8׳.
Ignaz Friedman will return to America late in December for his fourth tour here.
Max Reinhardt has applied for divorce from his actress-wife, Else Heims.
Georgette Leblanc will make her first American concert tour next season.
Raisa and Rimini sailed for Italy on May 16.
The Stadium concerts begin on July 5.
St. Louis is to have a big municipal opera season.
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