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that opera given in this way can have
Qualities of its own, and, apart from
the fine work of Mr. Rosing himself,
who is always at his best on the stage.
we have seen two young singers,
Tudor Davis and Mostyn Thomas,
make very promising operate debuts.
1t is the misfortune of our English mu-
steal life that there is no apparatus by
which young singers can learn their
business in opera step by step; they
are generally put on the stage with
practically no experience of it, and ex-
pected to be Tristans Or Paglacci or
Figaros or Wotans at five minutes no.
tlce. But there are worse ways of
learning to swim than being thrown
into the water; and our drastic English
methods with our young operate sing
ers often lead to surprisingly good
results.
II have written so much in these
columns during the last year ebou.
the Beecham opera and the possibili-
ties of its revival that I need do no
more than make bare mention of the
serious effort now being made to re-
construct it as a cooperative common
wealth, under the title of the British
National Opera Company, Limited. The
singers, the orchestra, and, indeed,
practically all those who were asso-
ciated with it under Sir Thomas
Beecham, have come together, have
taken shares in the new company, and
are determined to do everything in
their power to preserve the Beecham
organization and the Beecham ideal
for the nation. AS the directors point
out, the Beecham company should Of
itself have been a paying proposition:
it was the attempt to run English
opera and foreign opera and ballet
together last season that brought dis
aster, just when Sir Thomas Beecham
looked like winning the fight he had
SO gallantly begun and maintained in
period of incredible difficulties. The
new company proposes to run spring
and autumn seasons in London and to
tour the country in the intervals, with
total of at least forty weeks of
opera each year.
"Ballet has rushed in this summer
where opera feared to tread. M. dag
hileff is still at the Princes Theater;
he revived the Pergolesi-Stravinsky
ballet-opera "Pulcinella." 1t goes mer-
rly enough for the first half Of the
time, and then becomes repetitive, con-
fused and not little dull. At the
Kings Thenter, Hammersmith, Cecil
Sharp's people gave a week of English
folk song and folk-dancing. At Queens
Hall, in spite of the utter unfitness of
the place for the purpose, Nine. Paw
lova's ballet has large following"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31
Association of Organists
Meeting in Philadelphia

The National Association of Organ
lists held its fourteenth annual conven-
ton in Philadelphia last week. Dele
gates represented nearly every state
in the union, Canada, Hawaii and Cuba.
More than 1875 delegates from New
York, 1870 from New Jersey and sew
eral hundred from Pennsylvania were
present.
At the opening session Henry S.
Fry, organist of St. Clements Church
and president of the national associa-
ton, presided. The speakers included
DR.. John M. E. Ward, president of the
American Organ Players Club; George
Alexander West, dean of the Pennsyl-
vania chapter of the American Guild
of Organists, and President Henry S.
Fry. A conference was conducted fol-
lowing a paper by Herbert Brown, on
Experiences with the Organ Playing
Public" Later the program included
round table conference led by Her
bert S. Sammond, on "The American
Program of the Association"
Tuesday evening a recital was given
by Albert Remenschneider, of Cleye.
land. The Wednesday session, at which
r. L. McAll presided, included paper
by Dr.. Herbert j. Tilly on "How to Pro-
mote the Interest of ORGANISMS; a
private recital by the American Organ
Players Club and demonstration by
William E. Haskell on Original De-
velopments in Organ Tone"
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Folksong Concert and Lecture
AT New York University

A concert reminiscent Of the old
fashioned country "singin' school" will
be given at the New York University,
University Heights, next Thursday
evening, August 4. The program will
be made up of American folksongs,
principally those of Stephen Foster,
and will be given by quartet COM
posed of Ellis E. Doyle, Willard Sekt-
berg, William Lyndon Wright and By
ron Fink. When such favorites as
cold Folks at Home" "My Old Ken
lucky Home" and "Old Black Joe" are
reached, however, the audience will be
asked to take hand. The audience
will have to depend upon it's memory
for the words of the songs, however
Professor Wright, under whose direc-
ton the concerts at New York Univer-
sity are given, decided against printing
the words in the program, or the
ground that no American audience
could be gathered together that did not
know these songs "by heart"
Between the numbers Professor
Wright will discuss briefly the songs
of Foster and American folksongs in
general. The Foster songs to be sung
will include "Old Black joe" ooh, Su-
sannah," cold Kentucky Home" Come
Where My Love Dreaming" "Massa's
in de Cold, Cold Ground" "Uncle
Ned" "Camptown Races" "Nelly Was
a Lady" and "Old Folks at Home"
Two negro spirituals, "Hard Trials
and "Deep River" will be included
and as examples of truly typical
American folksongs, "The Bedtime
Song" found in the Kentucky noun
tains, and "The Lone Prairee," cow
boy song.
Three songs after the manner of
Foster will be given, II. c. Works
Kingdom COMM" James BANDS
Garry Me Back to Old Virginia" and
Dan Emmet's "Di1ie Land"
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Summing Up Season Just
Drawing to Close In England

The musical season in England is
coming to and end, signs Ernest New
man, of The Manchester Guardian. At
about this time, he remarks, the tired
music critic is able to say with Keats
Heard melodies are sweet, but those
unheard are sweeter."
He continues:
Rash young men and maidens peg
sist in giving piano and violin and
song recitals, but no one is particularly
anxious to hear them. They are most
ly of the usual Representations
students whose teachers and parents
and friends have no idea of proportion.
There is every good reason why these
students should work at music; there
is no good reason why the majority of
them should appear in public They
would stand a better chance if they
would perform nothing but unknown
or unfamiliar music. u nave never been
able to fathom the psychology of the
young lady from the provinces who de-
THINKS to impress London audience
including the critics-by her playing
of Chopin and Schumann and Bach and
Franck and List. If she only had the
sense to play things that none of us had
ever heard before, no one could say
whether she was playing we'll or badly
and with their usual caution and kind
illness the critics would assume the for
mer.
Zone pianist of the first rank has re-
NAMED with us almost to the end of
the season-Mr. Gabrilowitsch We all
have our personal tastes in these mat
ters, and no doubt Mr.. Gabrilowitschs
playing does not appeal to every one as
it does to me. / like it because it re-
veals a mind and temperament that
have mellowed with the years. There
seems to be q ripe philosophy of ex-
perience in all he does. Nothing has
given me such pleasure for long time
as his playing the other evening of
some of the latest piano works of
Brahms. Here again We have to admit
that this is not every ones music, but
to those who are in tune with it it
comes with all the wisdom of a fine
spirits maturity. For one listener, at
any rate, Mr.. Gabrilowitsch's playing
of this music had the ripeness, the
mingled sweetness and gravity of the
music itself.
"Mr. Rosing's season Of opera intime
ended with performances of 81 Pagli-
acci" and Mozart's boyish little "Bas-
ten and Bastienne." One hopes that
this summers experiment in small
scale opera will not be the last. The
defects of the performances have been
obvious one could have predicted
them all, indeed. But it has been shown
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31
Chicago Sponsors
International Art

At the beginning of this year num-
Der of Chicago artists began to lay the
foundation of new international
artists organization which, now brought
to completion, bears the name of Cor
Ardens. Stimulus was provided by the
Russian painter Roerich, who as Wis
itor in Chicago lent his advice and CO.
operation. Those eligible for member
ship are architects, composers, writer's
and poets, as we'll as painters, sculptors
and graphic artists.
The aims Of the organization as set
forth in the constitution are: To form
brotherhood of artists which is in
ternational; to hold exhibitions without
juries, without prizes and without
sales; to create centers where art and
artists Of all countries will be well
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Pollain Conducting New York


Rene Pollain will take charge of the
New York Symphony Orchestra, now at
Chautauqua, on August /, taking over
the baton and conducting the orchestra
for the final three weeks of the season.
During the first week Mr.. Pollain
will direct the five concerts to be given
on the evenings of Monday, Saturday
and Sunday and the afternoons of
Wednesday and Friday. The program
for the Monday evening concert will
include Massenet's "Phedre" overture,
the fantasy from Samson and Deli
lah," by Saint-Sasns, and Bizet's sec
ond "L'Arlesienne" suite, the minuet
movement of which will present George
Barrere, fiutist, a. soloist.
Among other composers chosen by
Mr.. Pollain for representation during
the week are Mendelssohn, Offenbach,
Moskowski, Lalo, Delibes, Grieg, DON
izetti and Brahms.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31
Concerts of Business Builders
Now Open to the Public

Weekly concerts at the Engineering
Societies Building, 20 West Thirty
ninth Street, held every Thursday even
ing by the Business Builders, will be
open to the public, it was announced
to-day. The concerts are under the d.
rection Of Ashley Nagle. Next Thurs
days program will include numbers by
Louis Shenk, barytone; Lester Testut
barytone, and Arthur Clough, tenor.
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Goldman Band TO Take
Rest Week of August s

The ninth week of concerts by the
Goldman Concert Band, under the
direction Of Edwin Frankie Goldman,
promises to be interesting. On Friday
evening the program will consist en-
tirely of request numbers. According
to the original schedule there will be
no band concerts during the week of
August s. During this week Mr..
Goldman and his men will have much
deserved rest.
: The band concerts will be resumed
On August Is and will continue there
after five nights each week (Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, until September 2. Free sea.
son tickets for the remaining concerts
are still available and may be had
by addressing requests to Summer
Concerts" Columbia University, New
York City, the only requirement being
that self addressed, stamped enve-
lope be inclosed Programs for the
week follow:
MONDAY
Overture, Mauritania" .............W Wallace
Largo from The New World Sym
phony" .............. Dvorak
Hungarian Rhapsody No. List
Dance Bacchanale. from Samson and
lama ....'... SAINT -Saens
Cornet Solo. ........ BY Ernest S. Williams
Intermezzo. from "Cavalleria Rusti-
cana" ............... ........ Mascagni
Excerpts from THE Bohemian Girl"
Baife
WEDNESDAY
March and Chorus from Judas Mac
cabaeus' NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Handel
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Walter Damrosch Resting
At St. Jean de Luz. Franc

Walter Damrosch, conductor of the
New York Symphony Orchestra, is row
resting at St. Jean de Luz, France. He
writes that before going to Lake Como,
Italy. where he plans to remain six
weeks, he will spend a few days at the
Golf Hotel at st. Jean de Luz With
the exception of a short visit to Lon
don, Mr.. Damrosch has made Paris his
headquarters since his arrival in Eu-
rope last April.
While the conductor is in Italy he
will probably exchange visits with AL
bert Coates, the British conductor,
who will return to this country next
season as guest conductor of the New
York Symphony Orchestra. Mr.. Coates
is staying at Lake Maggiore.
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A Piece by Eight
Russian Composers

"A set Of variations on popular
Russian air, produced by the joint eff
forts of no fewer than eight different
Russian composers, was a feature
of Mile. Marie-Antoinette Aussenac's
pianoforte recital at the Steinway Hall
recently, and the work proved quite
interesting" says the Westminster
Gazette. "The Russians seem to have
rather a fondness for doing this kind
of thing.
"Of the eight composers concerned
in the Russian example, Rimsky-Kor-
sakoff, Liadoff and Glazounoff are the
best known, but the work of some of
the others was quite as good. Three
small pieces by Gabriel Faure-pre-
Jude, fileuse and valse were also
marked first performance in London"
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Singer Marries His Pupil

Miss Louise Voccoli, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Michel voccoli, of Spring
Valley, N. Y. and Professor Julius
Shumsky- Mario, of the Metropolitan
Opera House Studios, 1,425 Broadway,
were married on last Thursday morn
ing. Only members of the immediate
family were present at the ceremony,
which was followed by lunch at the
Brevoort Restaurant. The bride is q
concert soprano and pupil of Mr.. Shum-
sky-Mario, we'll known tenor and sing
ing teacher. She sang with remark
able success in many concerts here in
New York and other cities. In Septem-
Der they will return from their honey
moon trip.
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conccrtmaster is Isidor Berger, com,
poser and concert violinist and pre-
viously concertmaster of the CHICAGO
Opera Company. MIR. Dubinsky leads
the second violins. The first violinist
is Samuel Below, member of the
Eastman Orchestra, of Rochester, N.
Y, and previously of the Philadelphia
Orchestra. Among the 'cellists are
Arthur Heinickel and Carl Klann-
steiner, both of the Chicago Opera Com
psny, and Arthur Hadley, of Boston.
brother of Henry Hadley, who con-
Quoted the first three weeks of the con-
ccrts. Chief of the first basses is An
ton Torello, of the Philadelphia Or
chestra.
Another member of the Stadium Or
chestra is Oscar Schwartz, tympanist,
of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Among
the horns are Antonio and Joseph
Aorner, brothers and first and second
horns of the Philadelphia Orchestra,
and Richard Lindenhahn, first horn of
the Minneapolis Orchestra and pre-
viously in the orchestra of the Metro
politan Opera Company. William Hebs,
first trumpeter was brought from the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
In the woodwinds are Marcel Tabu-
teau, first oboe player of the Philadel-
phia Orchestra and years ago resi-
dent of this city; Fortunate Covone,
fire Huticf nf tbo
pany; Julius Furman piccolo player of
the Chicago Symphony; Daniel Bonade,
first clarinetist Of the PHILADELPHIA
Orchestra; Henry Cunnington, of the
Minneapolis Orchestra, first bassoon:
Powell Kruse, of the Chicago Opera,
second bassoon and contrafagotto play
er. Others in the ensemble are All
Clarke, of the Cleveland Symphony, and
William Zeller, of the Chicago Opera,
trombone players. The harpist is Mar
garet Jskra, wife of Wenzel Jiskra,
first bass of the Chicago Symphony, in
which she also plays.
! follow:
SUNDAY
Solost, Oliver Denton pianist
overture, lie Roi d'Ys". ............La lu
Hymn to st. Cecilia. .......... Gounod
concerto for piano and orchestra in
II nat ................... List
Habanera, Dagger Dance, The Va
- queros, from "Natoma" ...... Herbert
kemennoi 1,ostrow, {orchestrated by
Ballet suite from .'syivia'-The Hunt ''
ers; Slow Waltz; Pizzicato; Festi-
val Procession .............. Delibes
La Bamboula ......... Colerid ge Taylor
MONDAY
Russian Night
Soloist, Nine. Nina Koshetz, soprano
FESTIVAL Profession from "Feramors"
Rubinstein
ta) Pfzzacato estimate. (b) Allegero
con Fuoco.. :............ Tschaikovsky
Letter Scene from "Eugen onegin'
Nine. Koshetz Ts'ha'k0vsky
Ballet Music from 'Prince Igor. Borodin
Entrance Of the sirdar, from Caucasian
Arioso, from THE cars Bride iVSn0w
Rimsky- Korsakofr
Nine Koshetz
Two Preludes ........,.....R achmaninoff
IurKlsh March... Moussorgsky
TUESDAY
Victor Herbert Night
Festival March Introducing AUD Lang
Syne").
Prelude to Act III, "Natoma,"
| From Suite Romantique," (aO Aubade.
Irish Rhapsody, Erin, o Erin"
Overture. Mile Modiste."
when You're Away" from THE Only
! Girl"
Cello solo.
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Indian Summer Can American 1dyD.
Fantasy from the Irish Opera "Eieen."
WEDNESDAY
Soloist, Henri Scott. barytone
symphony No: in minor. TschailsowslSy
Andante; Allegro con ANNA; Andante
cantabile con alcuna licenza; valse.
allegro moderate; Finale. andante
Solo by MFR. Scott
RaNoczy March ................B erloz
Overture, "Carnaval" ............ Dvorals
Suite "L'Ariesienne'' Mop; Pastorale;
1ntermez2o; Minuet; Farandole =. Bzet
Rhapsody No. Observation-Disclosures. List
THURSDAY
All~wagner Night
Overture "Rienzi"
Prelude to Act III, Dance of the APP
prentices, from The Master Singers"
Prelude to "Lohengrin."
Spinning Song and Sailors Chorus, from
THE Flying Dutchman'
Prelude to "Parsifal."
Siegfried's Rhine Journey from "The
Dusk of the Gods"
Quintet from 1.-THE Master Singers"
Overture, "Tannhauser."
FRIDAY
soloist, Winston Wilkinson, violinist
Symphony No. 7-lntroduction, POGO
sostenuto- vivace; Allegretto; Scherzo.
l presto; Trio, Assai memo presto;
One movement from Symphonic Espag
nole--Allegro moderate. ............L alo
Mr. WILKINSON.
Symphonic Poem. "Phaeton" List
Solemn March. ............. .Tschaikovsky
Dream Pantomime, from "Haenscl and
Gretel' .................. .Humperdinck
Capriccio Espagnol. Rimsky Korsakoff
SATURDAY
Overture. ola Gazza Ladra". .... .Rossini
(a) The Angels Serenade (orchestrated
by Victor Herbert .............. Braga
(b} Chinoiserie (new) ........... Swimmer
Love Scene, from "Esclarmonde" ..Massenet
Kermesse ................... GODDARD
Overture, Lies Dragons de Villars''
Mallart
Neapoutan Scenes .............. Massenet
(al Devotion, CO. Neapolitan Street
Song, from Naughty Marietta. Herbert
A Southern Rhapsody Hosmer
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Overture. "Il Guarany" ..........G Gomez
Minuet ................... .Paderewski
Tone Poem, "Finlandia" ......... Sbelius
Pilgrims Chorus" and Song to the
Evening Star" from "Tannhauser''
Wagner
Aria, "Depus lie Jour-" from Louise"
Charpentier
Helen Slower, soprano.
Slavonic Dance. ............ Dvoral1
Excerpts from "Ruddigor ....,. Sullivan
FRIDAY
Triumphal March and Hymn from
<Alud d. V erul
Overture. William Tell" .Rossini
iIitSo IlaHUel
Second Polonaise ...................L List
Three Marches (Sunapee, Cherokee and
Sagamore) .......... ......... Goldman
Cornet Solo, IA Soldiers Dream Rogers
Ernest $. Williams.
Procession of the Knights, from Par
Dance of the Hours, from La Gia-
conda' ........-........... Ponchielli
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In the Realms Of Music and Art

A new note in the design of war
monuments is to be embodied in the
Royal Artillery Memorial soon to be
erected in London. 1t is the conception
of c. s. Jaggers, a young soldier
sculptor, who believes that yosterity
should be saved from a plague OF
pretty, conventional and meaningless
monuments. In it he is seen IL rebel
lion against the tradition that a war
memorial should suggest everything
except war. The sculptor has aimed at
what he believes is more real beauty
the beauty of truth. Instead of
avoiding the suggestion Of wars cold
fact he makes this his central impress
sion.
Mr.. Jaggers took as his model for
the main part of the monument 90
howitzer gun, known in army circles
as "The Mother" Reproduced in stone
this ominous piece of ordnance occu-
pies the center of rectangular base,
the sides of which are set with relief
figures representing the British
Tommy not in parade dress but as
he was known to those in the trenches
The idea was to give an impression of
relentless power-the power of the gun
or machine over man, who crouched
beneath it's sinister shadow.
The mem orial is the first to be de-
signed by soldier and selected by a
committee of soldiers. 1t will occupy
position at Hyde Park Corner, Lon
don.
Immortalizing the
Great God Gun"
The London Daily News has this to
say in an editorial regarding the Jag
gers memorial:
eve understand the enthusiasm with
which Keen artillerymen are reported
to regard Mr.. Jaggers's war memorial.
| 1t is real and full of meaning in its
hunched grimness, and that is more
than can be said for some war memo
rlais. But there is another view of this
reality, forcibly expressed in the ac-
ton of certain villagers ex-
soldiers--who have entertained them
| selves at various times ard places in
throwing captured German guns, set
up as memorials, into rivers or other
natural dustbins. The question is how
far realism on such subject is desir-
able or tolerable. The home public
made great cutlery during the war
because an official film taken at the
front showed ,one man being shot If
Mr.. Jaggers's undoubtedly fine piece
of workmanship means anything it
means that during the war the gun
was far more important than the in
dividual soldier grouped beneath its
shadow. That may have been true;
but is it truth that we desire to pro-
claim apparently with triumph from
the housetops? We can imagine q
statue Of the Great Plague, which
would fall inevitably very far short OF
the reality, and which would yet be SC
horrible that the ordinary man would
turn away as he passed it. The reign
of the Great God Gun may have been
an undeniable and shameful fact, but
need we immortalize it in stone? Ever
the Roman Senate declined to make
gods of their worst emperors- once
they were we'll dead"
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Second Week of
Starligh t Park
Symphony Concerts

The second week of symphony con-
certs at popular" prices by the Rus
sian Symphony Orchestra, Modest Alt
schiller conductor, with his eighty
men, begins tomorrow at the athletic
grounds Of the Starlight Amusement
Park, adjacent to the 177th Street SUBJ
way station, with Russian night, the
solosist being HERNIA Menth, with the
full orchestra in Rubenstein's piano
concerto in D minor.
The Musical Art Bureau, under the
direction of Jennie Karp, has arranged
a group of new soloists who are yet to
be announced. Piastro- Borissoff, D.
Apollon, Cantor Bernard Steinberg,
Vladimir Graffman, Sol Marks, Chain
Kotylansky, Eric Zardo, Helen Adler,
William Dorian and others are to be
later assigned to their respective
evenings.
The program for this week follows !:
MONDAY EVE.
Russian Night
symphony In G minor. KalliniISoff
PIANO Concert, D minor. ...... Rubinstein
HERNIA Menth and Orchestra
(a) Hymn to Free Russia. .Gretchanlnoff
\o( Topah $500. ........ Musorgsky
Ac' AoZatchock ............ Dargo mtjsky
Procession Of the Sardars. .Ippoltin- Ivanoff
TUESDAY EVE
Puccini-Verdi Night.
Excerpts from "Boheme, "Tosca,"
Butterfly" Girl of the Golden West.
Aida" "Rigoletto," "Traviata."
Solosists. William Dorian, tenor
WEDNESDAY
Popular program.
French Military March. ....... Saint Saens
Overture. "Fingars Cave" .Mendelssohn
Excerpts "Mikado" Sullivan
Waltz, Summer Nights. ...... .Waldteufel
Fantasia, "Cavallera Rusticana". Mascagni
Overture. "Semiramide" .........,.. Rossini
(a} Boatmen Song ........-......G lazunoff
w 1Teluue ......... .Hacnmanlno OH
CorteBe oe 6acchus. Oellebo1
THURSDAY
Tschaikowsky Wagner Night.
Overture. ''Voyevoda."
Canzonetta and Finale from Symphony
No. 4.
Fantastic Romeo and Juliet"
1872"
Wagner excerpts from the Nibelung
Ring-Rhefngold, Walkure, Siegfried, The
Dusk OF the Gods.
FRIDAY