New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
Music Notes

The free scholarships offered annu-
ally to talented students at the Gull
mant Organ School by City Chamber
lain and Mrs. Philip Berolzheimer have
been awarded by DR.. William c. Carl
for 1922-'23 to Robert Rudolf, Newark,
N. j.; Helen Weber, Youngstown, Ohio;
Warren w. Foley, New York City, and
Edith F. Mcintosh, Rockville Cen
tire, N. Y.
A quartet by Vitezslav Novak will
be played for the first time in New
York by the New York String Quartet
in Aeolian Hall on Thursday evening.
Concerning Vitezslav Novak, whose
compositions are little known In this
country, the following note has. been
written by Ludvik Schwab, violist of
the quartet, who has played frequently
with the composer:
Vitezslav Novak was born in 1870
in little Bohemian town, Kamenicc.
He began his studies with Antonin
Dvorak, but soon turned away from the
tendencies of his master. This hap
pened chiefly through his discovery of
distinct national element in Moravian
and Slovak folksong in which he found
4 new expression for his creative work.
He has written many works, among
which the most important are two
string quartets, piano quintet, piano
trio, a symphonic poem, Pam for
piano; song cycles and songs for
choruses; Storm for soil, chorus and
orchestra, and three operas.
"One simple theme forms founda-
tion for his quartet, Opus So, which
will be played Thursday, and the work
is in two movements. The first is a
slow fugue Cento misterioso), the sec
ond a buoyant fantasia, with con-
trasting scherzo between, with the
fugue again as epilogue, ending with
the same high chords as the first move
ments in the mood Of clouds passing
over; not dangerous storm clouds nor
red clouds Of passion, but heavy and
high clouds of longing"
Dicie Howell, soprano, will give her
third New York recital in Aeolian Hall
on Tuesday afternoon, October 81, at
o'clock.
Miss Jeanne Gordon, mezzo-soprano
of the Metropolitan Opera Company,
will sing Carmen at special per-
formance of the Bizet opera at Hous-
ton, Tex, on October 23 Miss Gordon
studied the part in Paris during the
summer with the Marquis Trabadello.
Alexander siloti, Russian pianist, has
sailed from Antwerp on the steamship
Kroonland for his American season,
which begins at Worcester, October 81,
with the New York Philharmonic Or
chestra, under Stransky.
Nine. Clara Clemens, o-soprano,
will give her first New York recital
since her return from brilliant sue
cess in Europe, Tuesday, November I.
Her accompanist will be Coenraad Bos
and the program will be divided into
four parts. A complete group of Grieg
will be sung in conclusion. During the
summer Nine. Clemens gave her first
cycle Of seven song recitals, showing
the development Of song from the folk
song to the modern art song, at Dres-
den, and this will be given for the first
time in the United States at Detroit
on November Is and thereafter.
Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist, will
commence his American tour with the
New York Symphony at Washington
October "a.
Elsa Stralia. Australian soprano, will
be heard first in Carnegie Hall in Dam
rosch's Beethoven Wagner program
November and 10.
Walter Damrosch, conductor OF the
New York Symphony Orchestra, will
play the first piano part in Saint
Saans's ''Le Carnaval des Animaux.n
which will be given its New York
premier at the frst concert Of the SYM
phony Society in Aeolian Hall Sunday
afternoon, October 20.
Ethel Frank, the American soprano,
who appeared in London this summer
with Richard Strauss, Henry Wood and
Sir Thomas Beecham, will be heard in'
recital in Carnegie Hall ON Wednesday
evening, November i.
Brahms's Trio in, g minor will be the
principal number at the next Adolphi
Lewisohn Free Chamber Music Con-
cert, 20 take place Thursdny evening,
October 2s, al $3.50, in Hunter College
Chapel, Park Avenue and sixty,e eighth
Street. Other numbers will be hys