MUSICAL COURIER
50
FROM YAKIMA, WASHINGTON, TO NEW YORK
What One Young Man Desired and What He Accomplished
June 21, 1923
"Do what?” he counter-questioned in some surprise, evidently wondering with what I was going to accuse him.
“Why, come to New York to make your way, as Mr. La Forge has just been telling me you did.”
“Oh, it didn’t take any particular courage to do that. I really tyas anxious to start a career but I did not know exactly what I did want and when I heard Mr. La Forge I knew that was the answer to my unrest.”,
“And had you been studying music out there?”
“Of course, and I had been doing some teaching also. But have you never reached the place where people said ‘You seem to be doing very nicely’ and apparently you were and yet down deep in your heart you knew that you were, not reaching any place, and worse than that you did not even know where your goal was ?”
I nodded understanding^.
“That was my difficulty,” he continued, “and when I saw a solution I naturally just started for it.”
“And how do you like New York?” I queried.
“I love it,” and he spoke with an earnestness that was convincing. “I love its hustle and bustle. It’s great to live where things are doing. Just now I do not feel that I would ever be happy to live anywhere else.”
“And what do your folks think about it, for I suppose they live out in Washington?”
“Well, of course; being my folks they do not like to have me so far away, but they have been jolly good sports about the whole matter, and I hope to induce them to come East to live some time before long.”
“They may not like the hustle and bustle as well as you do,” I remarked.
“That is true, but they would not have to live right in New York City for us to be a little nearer to each other than we are now.”
“Quite right, and I hope for your sake you may be able to persuade them,” I returned as I rose to go, having discovered to my horror that I was in imminent danger of missing another appointment.	H. R. F.
In Canterbury Square, a New Scott Song
A new secular song. In Canterbury Square, by John Prin-dle Scott, will shortly be issued by the Theodore Presser Company. It is of the ballad type and has been sung in manuscript during the past season by Thor Brecke, baritone, in his vaudeville act, It will, be issued for high and low voices.
Metropolitan Artists for Winthrop College
Hugh R. Newsom, of the Metropolitan Musical Bureau, has booked the following course at Winthrop College. Rock Hill, S. C.: Giovanni Martinelli, Louis Graveure, Harold Bauer, Duncan Dancers, Francis Macmillen, and Alberto Salvi.
Haywood Artist-Pupils Active
Marjorie Suiter, soprano, gave a program on May IS for the Columbian Club at its May Breakfast, East Orange, N. J. Mrs. Jose Holden, soprano, was the soloist for the psychology lecture at the City Hall, Montpelier, Vermont.
not help but be delighted with his confidence and his grit. Still, for his own good, I felt I could not show him how much I liked his determination, and even yet I feel called upon to scold him for going on such a great adventure with so little knowledge of the city and its inhabitants.
Now an. Assistant at Studios.
“But now he can laugh at me for he has shown such evidence of talent and applied himself so conscientiously that we are making him our assistant. The fact is—”
Just then a knock interrupted and upon Mr. La Forge’s invitation to enter, there stepped into the room the young man who had aroused my interest at that almost forgotten concert.
“Come right in,_Mr. Coy,” called Mr. La Forge, as he hesitated upon seeing a visitor. “We were just speaking of you.”
As we were being introduced I looked curiously at the young man who, having the courage of his convictions,
DWIGHT COY
dared to do anything to carry them out. There was nothing startling about him. One would have passed him by on the street without even suspecting that the spirit of great adventurers was his and the determination that wins through all difficulties.
“How did you dare to do it?” I asked, my curiosity getting the better of my manners.
A young man was playing the Theme and Variations of Paderewski. He was such a modest young man and played so unusually well that one could not help but be interested. It is so seldom these qualities are to be found in the same person. I glanced surreptitiously at my neighbor’s program, the supply having been exhausted apparently before I put in a rather late appearance, so that the usher could hand me nothing but regrets on that score. The player’s name was Dwight Coy, but that told me very little. I made up my mind I must find out more about him. But other numbers on a crowded program and many other programs in the course of a fortnight intervened and by the end of the month I had forgotten the incident entirely.
And then one day as I was having a social chat with Frank La Forge, he happened to mention the name of Dwight Coy in the course of conversation.
“Wait ׳a minute,” I said. “I have heard that name before, but where and when?”
In vain I racked my scattered brains. I knew the name but that was all.
“I am very proud of Mr. Coy,” continued Mr. La Forge, “for he has proven himself to be possessed of all those qualities which make the heart of a teacher rejoice. He has talent; he is very much in earnest and he is most industrious. He is one of those who are more apt to suffer from over-doing than from a lack of it. He is bound to succeed and when I tell you how he came to me you will understand why I say that with such emphasis.
Travels 3,000 Miles to Study With La Forge.
“Several seasons ago when I was on tour with Mme. Schumann Heink, she gave a concert in a town in the State of Washington called Yakima. You may not have been there, but it is a very nice town, nevertheless. I enjoyed the concert, but that was all. It meant nothing more to me than any of the other places we visited on the Pacific Coast.
“Soon after I returned to New York, I came into the studio one day to find a young man waiting to see me.
“‘Well, young man, what can I do for you?’ I asked, fully expecting him to respond with the usual request to hear him play or sing and then perhaps discuss lessons.
“ ‘My name is Dwight Coy,’ he returned, ‘and I came from Yakima, Wash.’
“I’m afraid I looked rather unimpressed at this piece of news for he hurriedly continued, ‘You don’t remember me, of course, but I was at the recital when you played for Mme. Schumann Heink in our town and i Knew at once that you were the man I wanted to study with. So I came 3,000 miles to do it.’
“And come he did, with the boundless faith of the great West that all his needs would be taken care of.”
Mr. La Forge smiled reminiscently, then continued: “Rather nonplussed, I endeavored to dissuade him, telling him that lessons were high and that life in New York was more expensive than at Yakima. It was all in vain. He had made up his mind to study in New York with me and that was all there was to it. Of course, secretly I could
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