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Musical Courier 1927-04-07: Vol 94 Iss 14, 1927
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1April 7, 1927
3Moscow's Elaborate Plans for Beethoven Festival
5Moscow.—The Russian government has been preparing an elaborate celebration of the Beethoven Centenary which will be in charge of a special commission, headed by Lunacharsky, minister of education. The plans center around a public meeting held in honor of Beethoven's memory in the State Opera House. There will also be a series of free concerts, devoted to the master's symphonic and chamber music, given in various parts of the city. Further, a special play has been written typifying the composer's lonely, tragic life. It is called The Moonlight Sonata and excerpts from his works have been arranged as incidental music. Elinson, a young Russian pianist, has already played all the thirty-two piano sonatas in a series of five recitals and the orchestra without a conductor will devote five of its concerts to the performance of all the symphonies. Also an official delegation of six, including Alexander Glazounoff and Nikolai Miaskovsky, will be sent to the musical historical congress to be held in Vienna in connection with the Beethoven Festival there.
7Beethoven Hour in New York
9The Beethoven Hour was one of the features during the Beethoven Week which was elaborately held in New York. This particular tribute to the memory of the great Bonn master was held on the evenings of March 19 and 26. On both occasions Walter Damrosch gave explanatory talks. The first evening was devoted to the Fifth Symphony, the Musical Art Quartet assisting followed by the Allegretto and Presto from the quartet op. 59, No. 2. At the second meeting Mr. Damrosch lectured on the Ninth Symphony, assisted by a vocal quartet for the choral passages. The quartet included Olive Marshall, soprano; Grace Leslie, contralto; Charles Stratton, tenor, and Frederick Baer, baritone.
11William J. Reichard Active as Manager
13Reading, Pa., has a concert manager whose motto is "Do more for others than you would have them do for you." His name is William J. Reichard, and according to report he lives up to his slogan and has gained for himself countless friends. Although he has not had the use of his legs since he was three years old, Mr. Reichard is a busy business man, having under his management various vaudeville acts, artists, entertainers and the Colonial Serenaders Dance Orchestra. He is particularly proud of his dance orchestra, and well he might be, for it is unusually fine for an organization of its kind in a city the size of Reading.
15Mr. Reichard is interested in many other things besides music, scenario writing, aeroplaning, automobiling, etc., being among the activities he enjoys. Always ready with a smile, despite the trials of a career as a concert manager, Mr. Reichard is well liked by his friends and business associates.
17Hellerau School Re-Engaged for Italy
19VIENNA.—Following the great success achieved by the dance group of the Hellerau School of Rhythmic Culture at the 1924 Classic Festival, given in the wonderful old Greek open-air theater at Syracuse (Italy), the dancers of this school have been re-engaged this year to appear in the same locality. The dance group of the school has this season toured Germany, Poland, Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia with signal success. The 1927 summer courses of the school, held at the beautiful old ex-Imperial Castle of Laxenburg (near Vienna), will be from July 7 to August 3, and from August 7 to September 3, respectively. R. P.
21W. Otto Miessner Engaged for Chicago Musical College
23The Chicago Musical College will have many important guest teachers during its 1927 summer master school, and one of the most important engagements is that of W. Otto Miessner, who is justly regarded as one of the remarkable ones among American musicians who are applying themselves to the development of public school music. In 1910
25MUSICAL COURIER
27PROGRAM OF THE BONN BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL
29BONN.—The Beethoven Festival which is to take place here in May and which has the official sanction of President Hindenburg, has published the following program:
31May 22, 11:30 a.m.—Celebration on Münster Place before the Beethoven monument. The music will be under the direction of Heinrich Sauer. 7:30 p.m.—Missa Solemnis conducted by T. Max Anton.
32May 23, 7:15 p.m.—First Symphony, E flat major piano concerto, third symphony. Conductor, Siegmund von Hausegger.
33May 24, 7:15 p.m.—String Quartet in E minor (op. 59, m. 2), Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello in B major (op. 11), String Quartet in A minor (op. 132).
34May 25, 7:00 p.m.—Violin Concerto and Ninth Symphony, conductor Fritz Busch.
35May 26 (Ascension Day), 11:00 a.m.—Septet in E flat major (op. 20), Piano Sonata (op. 111) and the Song Cycle, An die ferne Geliebte.
36The soloists for the festival include Elly Ney, Karl Erb, Adolf Busch and Edwin Fischer.
38Mr. Miessner's ever growing reputation led to his appointment as supervisor of music at Oak Park, Ill. In 1914 he became director of the School of Music at the Milwaukee State Normal School. In 1923-24 Mr. Miessner was president of the National Music Supervisors' Conference. As a composer, particularly of music for his own special field, Mr. Miessner has been active. He has written Art Song Cycles for children and has made numerous contributions to the ten volumes of the Progressive Music Series of which he, together with others, was editor. In the larger forms Mr. Miessner has composed an overture and a sonata for piano. He will give no private lessons.
40UNSURPASSED OPPORTUNITY for the MUSICALLY GIFTED
42In The Curtis Institute of Music, an unparalleled opportunity is afforded young men and women with the talent and will to succeed, to bring their musical gifts to the highest pitch of development.
44The Curtis Institute is endowed as a non-commercial school of instruction in the higher branches of music.
46In this wholly novel institution, artists who are the world's acknowledged music-masters offer individual instruction in voice, piano, forte, violin, cello, harp, wood-wind, brass and percussion instruments, vocal repertoire and opera, orchestral technique and routine, and composition.
48Mere wealth cannot open the doors to instruction from a faculty of such surpassing distinction; yet regardless of means or the lack of them, every one of these distinguished teachers is eager to serve positive talent regardless of whence it springs.
50For those who can pay, the tuition fees are very moderate. To those of exceptional talent who cannot pay, financial exemption is granted.
52For further information address
53THE CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
54402 RITTENHOUSE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
56The various Departments of The Curtis Institute of Music are under the personal direction and supervision of the following members of the faculty:
57Marcella Sembrich, Voice; Josef Hofmann, Piano; Carl Flesch, Violin; Louis Billy, Viola; Felix Salmond, Violoncello; Carlo Salzeto, Harp; Leopold Stokowski, Orchestra; Reginald O. Morris, Composition, Theory, etc.
59PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
61[The Musical Courier will endeavor to keep this department up to date and to that end requests that all notices and prospectuses of musical prize contests be sent to the Musical Courier so as to be included in this department. It will be found that in each contest the name and address are given, to which intending candidates may apply directly for further information. Manuscripts are submitted at the risk of the composer.—Editor's Note.]
63The Society for the Publication of American Music—Manuscripts (Chamber and Orchestra Music) should be sent under nom de plume to William B. Tuthill, 185 Madison Ave., New York.
65Hot Springs Centennial Celebration Club—$1,000 for best historical scenario concerning Hot Springs, around which pageant may be built. For further information address F. Leslie Body, Chamber of Commerce, Hot Springs, Ark.
67Musical Fund Society (Philadelphia)—$10,000 in prizes for chamber music compositions of from three to six instruments—first prize, $5,000; second $3,000; third, $2,000. Compositions must be submitted before December 31, 1927, to J. H. Ingham, 1213 Locust St., Philadelphia, Pa.
69Infantry Journal—$1,500 for marching song, expressing spirit of the Doughboy. Contest closes July 1. For further information address Infantry Journal, Washington, D. C.
71International Society for Contemporary Music, American Section—Modern chamber and orchestra music by American composer wanted for annual European Festival. Write to the Chairman of the Music Committee, Frank Patterson, 437 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.
73Chicago Musical College.—Free fellowships for Summer Master School offered by Auer, Grainger, Boguslawski, Witherspoon, Amato, Hageman, Samentini, Courboin, Parks, Demorest and Mme. Hinkle. For application blanks write Chicago Musical College, 70 East Van Buren St., Chicago, Ill.
75National Opera Club—$1,000 for trained woman singer ready for concert or opera. Before April 15. Address Baroness Katherine Evans Von Klenner, 1730 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
77National Federation of Music Clubs—Four first prizes of $500 each and four seconds of $150 each in Young Artists' Contests for male and female voices, violin and piano. Contests held at National Biennial, Chicago, Ill., April 18-25. For details address E. H. Wilcox, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Ia.
79Estey Organ Co.—Scholarship offered to American organist for study next summer at the School of Music, Fontainebleau, France. Address Frank Wright, 46 Grace Court, Brooklyn, N. Y.
81Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for Advanced Study Abroad—Fellowship of about $2,500 per year, open to men and women of unusual talent in any branch of Art. Address Foundation, at 2300 Pershing Square Bldg., New York, N. Y.
83Associated Glee Clubs of America.—$500 cash to composer of best male chorus composition submitted prior to December 1, 1927. Address Associated Glee Clubs of America, 113 West 57th Street, N. Y.
85Associated Glee Clubs of America.—$100 for the best song-poem submitted before December 1, 1927. Address: 113 West 57th Street, N. Y.
87Fontainebleau School of Music.—Two vocal scholarships of $300 each, one for baritone or bass and one for tenor. Address School Office, 119 East Nineteenth Street, New York.
89Society of Friends of Music—$1,000 for an original cantata. Address: Richard Copley, 10 East 43rd Street, New York.
91Chicago Musical College.—Preliminary competitions in Central Theater, April 11-20, inclusive. Prizes offered at these preliminaries are a Mason & Hamlin grand piano, Conover grand piano, Vose & Sons grand piano, and a valuable old violin. Final competition in Orchestra Hall, May 7, evening.
93Music Branch of the Combined Arts Association of Santa Barbara, Cal.—International competition open to composers of the world, offering a prize of $1,000 for string quartet. Manuscripts to be sent in not later than February 15, 1928, to George W. MacLellan, manager, 914, Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, Cal.
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