New-York tribune., 1919-10-26
Music Notes

MUSIC I\OIcS
The Orchestral Society of New York.
Max Jacobs, conductor, will give its
three subscription concerts this season
at Aeolian Hall on the Sunday after
moons Of November 23, January 18 and
February 20. Prominent soloists, whose
names are to be announced later. have
been engaged.
Josiah EURO, director of the New
School Of Opera and Ensemble. at the
Rlvoli Theatre, has arranged with
julius Hopp, manager of the New York
Music and Drama Bureau, to present
the grand opera performances and con-
certs being organized and to be given
by the artists of the Opera School.
Grand opera and concerts will be given
in various sections of the city Fur
ther details will De announced shortly.
In the Newark Armory on Monday
evening the New York Philharmonic
Society, with Percy Granger as solost,
Will give its first concert of the season.
This will be the second concert in the
World Famous Artists Series of eight
concerts arranged by Director Joseph
A. Fuerstman.
feature of the Philadelphia Or
chestra concert in Carnegie Hall on
Tuesday evening, November II, the
first In the series of five planned for
this season, will be the first performane
in New York of an orchestral work by
Michel Dvorsky entitled "The Haunted
Castle" Dvorsky is the young Polish
composer whose works have been in
troduced into this country by Josef
Hofmann and whose "Chromaticon" for
piano and orchestra was played here
by Hofmann and the Philadelphia Or
chestra several seasons ago. "The
Haunted Castle" had it's premier at
one Of the Philadelphia Orchestra con-
certs last season and was repeated at
the Baltimore and Washington concerts
OF this organization.
The concert on November IL will be
given without a soloist The complete
program will be announced later.
Tamaki Miura, the Japanese prima
donna, will appear here this season
with the Chicago Opera Company in
mime. Chrysantheme," Messengers
opera based on Lofts story.
A feature of the first matinee to be
given at Carnegie Hall on November
by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Will be an orchestral suite from Stra-
vinsky's Fire Bird.
City Chamberlain and Mrs. Berolz-
hcimer have given six free scholar
ships for the coming season to the
students in the Guilmant Organ School,
of which DR.. William C. Carl is d.
rector.
The successful candidates are Ralph
Arthur Harris, Novia Scotia; Guy A.
Normandin, Rochester, N. Y; Andrew
G. Clemmer, Warren, Ohio; Douglas
Ellegood Fowler, New York; f. Lois
Birchard, Mount Vernon, N. Y; Flor
ence |. Lee, Bayonne, N. j.
The Music School Settlement of New
York, Melzar Chaffee, director, opened
its doors for it's twenty-sixth season
on October IA. The successful among
its many applicants for admission are
now hard at work in the numerous
classrooms, busily acquiring the knowl-
edge of music they were so desirous
of getting. Already the orchestras are
rehearsing for the first monthly con-
cert on December 7.
The school offers a definite course
of orchestra study. AS soon as pupil
can play his violin or cello mod derately
NOit HC may DcNOHlS Il ilcIIIUcI OIL LNe
elementary orchestra; when he is ready
for advancement he is asked to join
the Junior orchestra, while the more
advanced pupils and some of the teach
ers comprise the senior orchestra Of
the school. This is part Of the train
ing which goes hand in hand with the
regular instrumental instruction.
At the monthly concerts this winter
the senior orchestra will play new
works by Edmund Stillman Kelley,
Victor Herbert and an arrangement of
an Indian love song by Carl Busch.
Advanced string players who are not
pupils of the school but who would
| like the orchestra routine are invited
TO join the senior orchestra, which re-
hearses every Sunday morning at II
o'clock
Mrs. |. n. Seligman has presented to
the Institute of Musical Art prize of
5000, to be called the Isaac Newton
Sehgman Prize, to be awarded every
year to the student who offers the best
symphonic or chamber music compost
ton.
A free scholarship is available for
a talented student of bassoon, one for
French horn and one for double bass
Candidates for these scholarships
should apply in person to the director
for examination.
The Peoples Liberty Chorus will
give Thanksgiving festival at the