June 28, 1923 MUSICAL COURIER 20 SUMMER SCHOOLS East, West, North and South, in the cities, in country districts, in summer resorts, on the shore and in the mountains, summer schools of music have opened their hospitable doors, offering education of the best sort to pupils who, for one reason or another, wish to embrace this opportunity and take advantage of all that the most skilled of teachers can give them. The pupils are of all sorts and of all ages. Many of them are teachers who are too occupied or too far away from centers of education during the winter to find it possible to study with great teachers. Some are ambitious students who wish to continue their work during the summer months. Others are students who live in isolated communities and take back with them to their homes the courage and inspiration which this touch with the world’s masters gives them. Few of us realize how important and far-reaching the movement has become and how far-reaching its effects. It is not to be idly dismissed as just so much more teaching, just so many more lessons. Its effect is rather that of an art-pilgrimage, especially for those thirsty souls whose walk in life prevents them from ever coming into personal touch with the great apostles of art. Those of us who live in the cities find it scarcely possible to realize how great can become the longing of these music lovers for a touch of sympathy, a word of complete understanding. To be able for once in a lifetime to talk shop to one’s heart’s content, to find every longing and every ideal fully understood and appreciated, is, indeed, a boon to those to whom it is normally denied. And they are many—far more numerous than most of us have any conception of. Even in the smaller cities there are such musicians, musicians who hide their art, who never dare speak of it, or who speak of it jokingly, as one does speak of a mere pleasure, but never permit themselves to show the depth of their love for it or the emotion it arouses. 1 o the average man and the average woman such talk would appear to be either the most laughable affectation or a sort of insanity or emotionalism that is not indulged in by normal human beings. First of all it deals with things that are hard to express, and then again we Anglo-Saxons have learned to hide all of our deepest feelings, and find it embarrassing to talk about them. Coming from an unfriendly and unsympathetic environment, the student at the summer school finds himself or herself suddenly cast into an atmosphere of music. Everybody is interested in some phase of the one great thing, the thing we call art. It may be playing or singing, composing or teaching. It may be more or less just listening and dreaming. There may be ambitions of a great career, or the certainty that the summer will end with a return to familiar surroundings and familiar drudgery, but, for the time at least, the spell will hold complete, and even if failure comes in the end, even if the daily grind goes on year after year to the end, the inspiration of the summer school will always remain fresh and potent, a satisfying memory. In America the materialism of current thought is the sternest barrier that rears itself before the art lover. It is hard to live lonely in a world of thought and sentiment which one cannot share even with those nearest and dearest to us. And it is doubly hard for the small-town teacher to carry the whole burden of the town’s musical development against the incomprehension and careless indifference of young and old alike. To such as these the summer school is a tremendous aid and benefit, and it is no less so to the serious student who finds in it the only opportunity for advancement. It is a great movement, greatly conceived and maintained, and is becoming one of America’s most valued musical assets. Musica, the well known Italian musical journal, announces a competition in which prizes will be given for a one-act opera, a string quartet, a trio for female voices, and a piece for two harps. This is illustrative of the development of music in Italy. Ten years ago prizes would have been offered only for operatic compositions. having a most picturesque career, one that appeals to the imagination of the public as her art appeals to its ears. She is taking a well earned rest in the Catskills this summer and will be as heartily welcomed next season as she always has been. ------------- Philip Berolzheimer, Chamberlain of the City of New York, never ceases his good work in the cause of music. He it was who was responsible for the many musical activities that accompanied the celebration of New York’s Silver Jubilee. And now comes the annual announcement of his gift of four free scholarships to the Guilmant Organ School, -----®----- It is with gratification that the Musical Courier learns of the appointment of Earl Vincent Moore as director of the University School of Music, Ann Arbor, Mich., and professor of music in the university, the dual position held for so many years by Dr. Albert A. Stanley. Mr. Moore’s appointment has met with an enthusiastic wave of approval not only locally but throughout the country. -----<•»--- That veteran English organization, the Carl Rosa Opera Company, which has been in existence for half a century, went into bankruptcy early in May owing around £15,000, most of which is due A. Van Nordeen, director of the company for some time past. The company was advertised for sale immediately, in the hope that some friend of music with sufficient capital will take it over and carry on the long established tradition. ---------- The Chicago Civic Opera deficit last season was a trifle over $350,000, as shown by the statement in another column of this issue, but the trustees, at their annual meeting, “described it as the most successful, financially, in the history of operation in Chicago.” We can see where a certain gentleman named G—l-o G-tt—C-saz-a, will laugh a long, narrow and quiet laugh when this news reaches him at the little table in front of Biffi’s. -----S’------ Lazare Saminsky has just been giving a pair of orchestra concerts in Paris in which he included a number of American compositions, among them Emerson Whithorne’s New York Days and Nights, Frederick Jacobi’s St. Agnes’ Eve, and Deems Taylor’s Through the Looking Glass. There were also songs by Charles M. Loeffler, John Alden Carpenter, A. Walter Kramer and Carl Engel. The soloists were Raymonde Delaunois, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, and Helen Teschner Tas, violinist. -----®------- The Musical Courier published last week, under the heading of International Composers’ Guild Enlarges Advisory Committee, some press matter received from the I. C. G. in which the name of Arthur Bliss was included in the list of the advisory committee. This has brought a statement from Mr. Bliss who informs the Musical Courier that he is net on any advisory, executive, or other board connected with the International Composers’ Guild, and will not be as long as he is serving on the board of the League of Composers. He states that the International Composers’ Guild has no right to use his name. -----®----- The A Cappella Choir of the College of Pacific, San Jose, Cal., under the direction of C. M. Dennis, gave its sixth annual concert recently presenting an entire program of unaccompanied choral music.. It is said that this is the only choral organization on the Pacific Coast that confines itself strictly to unaccompanied choral music, and the caliber of its singing is a great impetus in the musical development of California. The program offered was interesting, never lagging or becoming monotonous, and the audience did not hesitate to show its appreciation of the choir’s work. -----<8>--- Says Alfredo Casella in La Critica Musicale: “Among all American orchestras, the first place today belongs to the marvelous Philadelphia Orchestra, directed by Leopold Stokowski. It is impossible to convey in single words an idea of the wonderful perfection, the keen musical understanding, the incredible cohesion and artistic policy of that organization. The director, likewise, is exceptional —a most sympathetic youth, whom I jestingly christened one day ‘the Anglo-Slavonic Apollo’ (because his origin is such). The most modern musical compositions find in him an ardent defender. Especially does he favor our (Italian) younger school, which he considers the־ first in Europe. To him our profound gratitude is due.” JV\vsical(5urier Weekly Revieu/ f TUB Worlds Music Published every Thursday by the MUSICAL COURIER COMPANY, INC ERNEST F. EILERT.................................................President WILLIAM GEPPERT............................................Vice• *,resident ALVIN L. SCHMOEGER.........................................Sec. and Treas. 437 Fifth Avenue, S E. Corner 39th Street, New York Telephone to all Departments: 4292, 4293, 4294, Murray Hill Cable address: Musicurier, New York Member of Merchants' Association of New York, National Publishers' Association, The Fifth Avenue Association of New York, Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, The New York Rotary Club, Honorary Member American Optimists. ALVIN L. SCHMOEGER LEONARD LIEBLING IT. O. OSGOOD 'j WILLIAM GEPPERT l CLARENCE LUCAS J RENE DEVRIES 1 J. 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The word rhymes with pass. --------- Welcome word comes that Maria Jeritza, the Metropolitan favorite, who was operated on for appendicitis on June 11, is already back on the road to health, her recovery having been quick and thorough. -----®------ One hears that we are to have a distinguished visitor next season in the person of Igor Stravinsky, who, it is said, will come over to hear some of his works performed by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. -----<•>---- In no metropolis will the outdoor night be more melodious than in New York this summer, for the Stadium concerts start July 5 and what with the Goldman music filling Central, Park at the same time, our fellow citizens have many tonal treats in store. -----<8>---- The record of Mme. Galli-Curci’s seventh season in America, given in brief on another page of this issue, is well worth reading. Ninety-one performances in a period of rather less than eight months without a single postponement or cancellation is a record of which any artist may well be proud. Nothing is more interesting than the story of the smaller towns included in her tour, some of them with no more than 2,000 population, which turned out en masse to hear her at prices necessarily increased. The prima• donna is a picturesque artist and she is