NEW YORK, THURSDAY, June 21, 1923
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VOL. LXXXVI—No. 25 Whole No. 2254
All-American Biennial of the National Federation of Music Clubs Attracts Delegates from the Entire Country to Asheville, N. C.
Thirteenth Biennial Proves Brilliant in Many Respects—Festivities Extend from June 9 to June 16—Prize Winners of Young Artists’ Contest Announced—Mrs. John F. Lyons Re-elected National President—Remarkable Growth of Organization—Performance of Prize Winning Dance-Drama, Pan in America, a Feature—Henry Hadley Conducts Orchestral Programs and Wins Ovation—MacMillen Plays Blatchford Prize Work—
Capitalists Tender Huge Tract for Pauline MacArthur’s Apocalypse in 1924
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in the history of the Federation has been so replete with scholarly oratory. Every session was marked by the words of some personage who has rendered distinctive service in the world of art.
Notable among these speakers were Peter C. Lutkin, Dean of Music, Northwestern University, whose subject _ was The Responsibility (Continued on page 8)
RAVINIA’S OPENING WEEK
President Louis Eckstein announces the following repertory for the opening week of his Ravinia season:
Saturday, June 23, Traviata, with Gra-ziella Pareto, Tito Schipa, Giuseppe Datiise, Anna Correnti, Louis D’Angelo, Paolo Ananian, Giordano Paltrinieri, Philine Falco, Louis Derman, Max Toft, and Gen-naro Papi, conductor.
Sunday, June 24, Lohengrin, with Florence Easton, Morgan Kingston, Marion Telva, Desire Defrere, Mark Oster, Louis D’Angelo, and Louis Hasselmans, conductor.
Monday, June 25, concert, with Jacques Gordon, Marion Telva, and Armand Tokat-yan, soloists, and Louis Hasselmans, conductor.
Tuesday, June 26, La Boheme, with Thalia Sabanieva, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Margery Maxwell, Vicente Ballester, Louis D’Angelo, Leon Rothier, Paolo Ananian, Giordano Paltrinieri, Louis Derman, Max Toft, and Gennaro Papi, conductor.
Wednesday, June 27, Lucia, with Gra-ziella Pareto, Tito Schipa, Giuseppe Danise, Virgilio Lazzari, Giordano Paltrinieri, Philine Falco, Louis Derman, and Gennaro Papi, conductor.
Thursday, June 28, Carmen, with Ina Bourskaya, Josephine Lucchese, Morgan Kingston, Margery Maxwell, Vicente Ball-ester, Virgilio Lazzari, Paolo Ananian, Giordano Paltrinieri, Philine Falco, and Louis Hasselmans, conductor.
Friday, June 29, Madame Butterfly, with Florence Easton, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Marion Telva, Vicente Ballester, Louis D'Angelo, Paolo Ananian, Giordano Paltrinieri, Philine Falco, Max Toft, and Gennaro Papi, conductor.
Saturday, June 30, Manon, with Margery Maxwell, Thalia Sabanieva, Tito Schipa, Marion Telva, Desire Defrere, Louis D’Angelo, Leon Rothier, Paola Ananian, Giordano Paltrinieri, Philine Falco, Louis Derman, Max Toft, and Louis Hasselmans, conductor.
Sunday, July 1, Lucia, with Josephine Lucchese, Armand Tokatyan, Giuseppe Danise, Virgilio Lazzari, Giordano Paltrinieri, Philine Falco, Louis Derman, and Gennaro Papi, conductor.
CHICAGO ORCHESTRA
INHERITS $1,000,000
In the Musical Courier of June 14, in the obituary column, was published the announcement of the death of Clyde Mitchell Carr, president and trustee of the Chicago Orchestral Association. On the opening of his will last week in Chicago it was revealed that he had left gifts of approximately $1,000,000 to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; $500,-000 to the Art Institute; $5,000 to Frederick A. Stock, conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; $1,500 to Frederick J. Wessels, manager of the association, and $1,000 to Henry E. Voegeli, assistant manager. These last three bequests were given as a slight token of his appreciation of their faithfulness and loyalty to the Orchestral Association of Chicago and of their services to Chicago. None of the gifts are to be made until after the death of the widow who is to receive the interest from the residuary estate during her lifetime. Mr. Carr leaves one-half of the residuary estate to the orchestra, the entire income to be used by its trustees without restrictions.
Men such as Clyde M. Carr—a business man, a music-lover, and a patron of art—are one of the biggest assets of any city. Mr. Carr’s fortune was estimated in all at $2,000,000, and more than half of the money he accumulated in the steel industries he bequeathed to music and paintings —a fittine memorial to a well scent life.
ASSOCIATION OF PAST PRESIDENTS OF N. F. OF M. C. FORMED
Mrs. William Arms Fisher, of Boston, first vice president of the National Federation, has been chosen head of the association of past presidents of the Federation. Mrs. Fred Abbott, of Philadelphia, is vice chairman of this newly formed organization, which is planned to have a far reaching influence in the work of Americanizing the concert stage of the country. The executive committee of the organization is composed of Mrs. Lillian Birmingham, San Francisco, and Mrs. W. D. Nichols, of Kansas City, together with the officers. The formation of this organization is one of the most important events of the convention.	G. R.
Asheville, N. C., June 14.—In flinging her doors wide open to the delegates and visitors to the thirteenth biennial of the National Federation of Music Clubs, Asheville has for this week been doubly happy. She rejoices in the privilege of welcoming this pleasing company because they are visitors with the powerful claim which the guest always has upon Southern hospitality, a claim which is always keenly felt in Asheville and fulfilled with a completeness as unique as it is satisfying. The city also welcomes the attendants of this convention with unusual cordiality because of the particular segment of culture which they personify. Asheville and Western North Carolina, indeed the whole territory of the South Atlantic States, join with the entire Southland in the joyous pride of entertaining this brilliant group of ambassadors from the realm of music.
And surely these guardians of the divine art could have found in the whole world no more fitting scene for their deliberations than Asheville in June-time, the time of sapphire skies, softly outlined green mountains, _ and blossoming woodlands. Truly this biennial was held in one of the world’s high places.
And the aims of the Federation as announced at this biennial are ideally high.
The members of tlw federated music clubs of America with this, the thirteenth biennial convention, celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary and shaped their future policy toward the accomplishment of three aims:
1.	To make America the music center of the world.
2.	To make music useful in the civic life of America.
3.	To promote and develop American musical art.
The key-note of the biennial, the support of an all-American musical art, was sounded by the president, Mrs. John F. Lyons, of Fort Worth, Texas, in the concise, beautifully phrased salutatory address by which she declared the thirteenth biennial in formal session.
The thirteenth biennial of the N. F. of M. C., is distinguished by many epochal characteristics. Never before in the history of the federation has a biennial brought together such an aggregation of celebrities of the musical world. Never before have so nearly all of the United States been represented. Never have the delegations been so large. And never have the various departments of the Federation shown achievements of such really gigantic proportions as those revealed in reports for the two-year period now closing.
Particularly is this true of the Extension Department under the chairmanship of Mrs. Cecil Frankel of Los Angeles, Cal.
Mrs. Frankel’s report pointed out that two years ago the National Federation had 873 clubs, and in May of this year it had grown to the extent that 1,903 clubs are on the roll. In 1921 there were 227 junior music clubs. Today there are 697. One of the outstanding features of the growth in the last two years is the enthusiasm and seriousness with which all officers and members of the incoming clubs have accepted their duties and responsibilities. This enthusiasm was reflected in the reports of district and State presidents.
Texas received the prize for most consistent growth since the last biennial. This award is made possible by the endowment for this purpose by Mrs. Frankel, director of the Extension Department of the Federation.
In making her report Mrs. Frankel recommended the holding of training classes in at least six sections of the United States for the purpose of teaching more efficient methods for general extension work. This training would not only equip leaders for the work, but it would also create a closer relation between the executive department of the Federation and all branches of the organization. And in the Federation campaign for an America musical this coordination of departments becomes essential.
The report of Ella May Smith, director of the Department of American Music, was a stirring plea for the Americanization of the concert and opera stage of the United States. As a means of popularizing all foreign operas
sung on the American stage the Federation went on record as recommending that all affiliated clubs appoint chairmen of opera and orchestra to undertake definitely the betterment of these forms of music in the communities in which the clubs function.
The report of the Department of Finance and Legislation, of which Mrs. F. A. Seiberling, of Akron, Ohio, is director, was enlivened by the pledging of forty-two new life memberships. In outlining her recommendations for the financing of the Federation during the next two years, the director stated that two years hence the activities of the Federation would call for a budget of one hundred thousand dollars
as compared with the few hundred required a decade ago. This department also aims for an endowment fund to be used for educational purposes of twenty thousand dollars.
Reports of all departments of the Federation were replete with enthusiasm and filled with concrete achievement. And each national director’s address sounded a clarion call to service in the cause of American music.
Indeed this call sounded through every single lecture delivered during the convention. And possibly no convention
Winners of Young Artists’ Contest
Winers in the young artists’ contest held under the direction of Mrs. Charles A. McDonald of Canton, Ohio, national chairman of contests, follow;
Piano
First prize, Nellie M. Miller, Oklahoma City, Okla. Second prize, Marian H. Roberts, Oak Park, 111. Violin
First prize, Alma Borneman, Columbus, Ohio. Second prize, Buela Marty, Kansas City, Mo. Voice
First prize (Women)—Gladys Burns Strahaman, Newark, N. J.
First prize (Men—Cooper Lawley, Chicago, 111. Second prize (Men)—George Kirk, Pennsylvania.