The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10
In THE FIELD OF MUSIC
CLUB TO WORK IN
sECLUsION THIS WINTER.
winners of Prizes offered by Pader-
ewski for encouragement of
American Composers.

world this winter. Its benefit concert was
not so profitable that the proceeds equaled
the clubs debts. A committee has been
appointed TO raise a fund to pay these
debts, and then the club will be r~eorganized
on a sound basis. 1t will have about six
teen members, and they will work hard
under Mr.. Ernestinoff until they attain the
precision of a prize drill team. If this pro-
iciency be gained by spring a concert may
be given then.
Sara Anderson, who will be the soloist
at the indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's
concert on Nov. %. began her public career
three years ago. She had been studying in
London and Paris. Her first appearance
was in 1898 at the Worcester festival. Pop
ularity was hers Immediately, and she soon
had all the engagements she could fill with
the principal orchestras and at festivals
in various parts of the country. Though
her voice enables her to sing the heavy
Oratorios, operate arias and masses, she
has lately turned her attention principally
to song r%ecitals. Last summer she sang
at Bayreuth at the request of Nine WaS-
ner. She will devote this winter to recltals.
She SANG in this city on the night OF May /,
1893, with the Boston Festival orchestra,
and aroused great enthusiasm with her
rendition of RELATIONSHIPS Les Adieux de
Jeanne dare"
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The winners of the Paderewski prizes,
limited TO American composers and con-
sisting of $500 each, for "a piece for full
orchestra" "a piece for chorus with or
chestral accompaniment, with or without
solo voice parts" and "a piece of chamber
music for any combinations of Instrument, "
were:
F1rst-Symphony entitled 9TH -Four Sea-
sons" composer, Henry X Hadley, Garden
City, l.. l..
~Second-Piece for chorus, "A Star Song
composer, HOratio w. Parker, New Haven.
T~hird-Piece of chamber music for any
combination of instruments, Serenade for
wind instruments; composer, Arthur Bird,
Of Berlin.
H. E. Krehbiel, who is one of the judges,
points out in the New York Tribune that
the competition thus ended excited extend
ed interest, the generosity of the prizes ex-
citing considerable comment abroad. No
less than sixty-eight compositions were en-
tered, of which thirty were for orchestra,
twenty-eight for chorus and orchestra and
nine for combinations of instruments de-
signed for m music. There were
seven symphonies, three symphonic poems,
seven overtures and thirteen fantasias,
pieces in the variation form, romances, etc.
OF the choral works seven were In the large
c~antata form with parts for solo voices:
The prize winners are widely separated
now, SO far as their fields of activity are
concerned, but by a coincidence they are all
AAAN 90 - cAEA ~ NNAN@N2
Of two of them was had to a great extent
under like auspices.
Mr.. Hadley was born at Somerville in
1871. His father was a musician and gave
early care to his education, sending him 10
Boston, where he studied harmony with
stephen Emery, counterpoint with George
w. Chadwick, violin with Henry Helndl
and Charles Allen. He afterwards went TO
Vienna, where he studied composition with
Eusebius Mandyczewski, archivist of the
'GeSellschaft der Musikfreunde.' In 1896 he
was put in charge of the music in st.
Pauls Cathedral school. in Garden City,
Long Island, a position which he still holds.
A ballet suite of his composition was per-
formed at a concert of the American Sym
phony Orchestra, Sam Frankie, conductor,
at Chickering Hall, on March "A, 1897, and Il
c~antata, In Music's Praise at the last
concord of the Peoples Choral Union, in
Carnegie Hall, last April, under Mr.. Frank
DamroSch. In January, 1900, he gave a
concert consisting almost exclusively or
music of his own composition at the Wal
dorf-Astoria.
THE winner of the prize for the choral
composition. Horatio w. Parker, is Bat
Yale University and the composer of the
o~ratorio 'Hora Novissima' and the Greek
commemorative hymn, which were per-
formed at the b-icentennial exercises at
New Haven last week. He is the most
widely known and admired of American
musicians at the present time, and is
rapidly becoming as popular in England
as he is In the United States. He is
just now enjoying his first sabbatical year,
but was called back from Munich to con-
duct his works in connection with Yale's
bicentenary. He sailed for Europe on Tues
day before the result of the competition
had been made known by the trustees. He
was born in Auburndale, Mass, on Sept. 10,
1868, studied theory with Stephen Emery,
composition with George w. Chadwick
and pianoforte with j. Orth in Boston;
then went to the Hochschule fuer Musk
in Munich, where, from 1852 to 1885, he was
a pupil OF Rheinberger and Abel. After
his return and before his call to the
Battell chair OF music at Yale he was
organist and musical director of the Ca
thedral School in Garden City, organist
at st. Andrews Church In Harlem, Church
Of the Holy Trinity at Madison avenue
and Forty-second street, and Of Trinity
Church, Boston.
Though a native American. and there
fore qualified to enter the lists, Mr.. Arthur
Bird Is a resident of Berlin, where he has
spent nearly all of his professional life.
He was born IN Cambridge, Mass, on July
%. 1856. In 1S75-T7 he studied in Berlin un-
der Haupt, L~oeschhorn and Rhode. On re-
turning to America he became organist and
teacher at Halifax. where he founded the
first chorus of mems voices in Nova Scotia.
In 1881 he went back to Berlin and studied
composition and orchestration with II. Ur-
ban. In the summer OF 1885 he was with
LisZt in Weimar and in 1886 he made his
last visit TO America. He has composed in
many forms, and New York, besides small
er pieces. has heard a symphony in A and
a carnival piece of his composition"
Pupils OF the Metropolitan School of
Music will give a recital tomorrow night
at the Propylaeum. They will be assisted
by Miss Mary Igelmann, soprano. Nathan
Davis. violinist, and Miss Jeanette Grouse,
pianist. The programmes:
Concerto-C minor, for two pianos....B Bach
Miss Estella Hall, Miss Grouse.
Sonata-G major. for piano and vio-
IN Grleg
Miss Grouse. Mr.. Davis.
Landscape Picture" ............ Mcszkowski
Duet MoszkOwski
1.-The Juggleress" Moszkowski
Miss Anna Trindle.
Ave Marie" Battle-Ground
Miss Igclmann.
Violin obligato, Mr.. Davis.
Concert Allegro, Opus 4......... Schumanr
Miss Bertha Jasper.
Album .Wagner-Wilhelm1
Mr.. Davis.
Cantilene-F sharp Schytte
Aubade-F .Schytte