The New York herald., 1922-12-03

Mrs Vincent Astor,- Mrs. Benjamin
Stern, Mrs. Sidney Webster Fish, Mrs.
Winchester Fitch, Mrs. Peter Larson,
Mrs. J. Philip Bernhard, Mrs. I. Chaun-
cey McKeever, Mrs. Henry Schnie-
wind, Mrs. Robert Low Bacon. Mrs
Louis G.. Kaufman. Miss Mary Hoyt
Wiborg, Miss Alice A. De Lamar. Mrs.
Henry NJ 1ilford, Mrs. Reginald de
Koven, Mrs. George Maxwell, Mrs.
Lawrence Lewis Gillespie. Mrs. Charles
Z. Mitchell, Mrs. Herbert M. Straus,
Mrs. Monroe Douglas Robinson. Miss
Georgine Iseiin, Mrs. Paul NJ. War
burg, Mrs. Charles T. Mathews. Mrs.
Elbert H. Gary. Mrs. Dudley Olcott,
Mrs. j. Frederic Tams. Mrs. Henry
Anderson Conan. Mrs George Eustis
Corcoran, Mrs. William II. Hirst and
Mrs. Dom Barber.
The hour for the opening Of each
musicale, quarter after o'clock. will
allow of a leisurely dinner as a preface
to an evening of elevating informally
amid ONES discriminating friends. The
launching and developing of the
scheme of the "intime musicales" will
be watched with interest by persons
concerned in social developments in
New York.
Unite Education and Diversion.
In combining education with diver
sion the annual lecture -musicales by
the Schola Cantorum OF New York, Of
which Kurt SCHNEIDER is the conductor,
in the homes of music lovers have be-
come institutions. that have formed
the basis for many limitations. This
branch of the curricula of educational
amusement for the season of 1922-23
was started last Tuesday afternoon in
the home.of Mrs. Harold I. Pratt with
an illustrated discussion Of Ancient
and Modern Violin Music" with Illus
trations by Mr.. SCHNEIDER and Paul
Kochanski. The subscribers con-
sidered rare violin classics from the
works Of Couperin. Lulli and Rameau,
a/rarely heard violin suite of Vivaldis
(1650) discovered by Respighi and a
movement from Pizzetti's new sonata.
At the next episode In this musical
course in the home Of Mrs. Arthur
Curtiss James on the afternoon OF De-
cember II the subscribers will be
treateQ 10 ulSCuSSiou VI Oiitutdi
Music and Dancing" by DR.. Amanda
Coomararaswami OF the Boston Mu-
scum of Fine Arts with Javanese
dancing by Miss Stella Block. A small
string orchestra and stereopticon Illus
trations will enter into this program.
On the afternoon Of January is John
Powell will trace the origin Of the
American folksong at the home Of
Mrs. Reginald deKoven. At the Feb
ruary session william j. Henderson.
musical critic for THE NEW YORK
HERALD, will discuss "what Is Good
Singing with vocal illustrations, in
the home of Mrs. William Woodward,
and at the final meeting a talk by Dr..
Archibald Dawson of Harvard Univer-
sity on Significant Periods In the
History of Choral Music" in the home
of Mrs. Otto II. Kahn Is to have musi-
cal illustrations by the Harvard Glee
Club.
Such educational diversions as these
are not costly. The Schola Cantorum
series costs each subscriber SIS. This
season the directing committee COM
prises Mines. Winthrop Chanier, New
hold lie Rov Edsar. George Eustis
Corcoran, Reginald Fincke, Allan
Forbes, Otto II. Kahn. Horatio Nelson
Slater and J. Frederic Tams and the
Misses Lucille Thornton and Alice
Preston, with the latter as chairman
and with Mrs. Frank w. Frueauff as
treasurer