New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
Professor Lamond and Party
Now Travelling Through Europe
The Musical Department of the American Academy
i'm Rome Will Attend Festivals at
*.. Salzburg and Leeds


director is could make a personal
request in writing to him." Mr..
4 Coates began laughing and said: "I
must confess that am going to direct
the festival, so must now insist on
your coming" These rchearsnls for
the Leeds festival will take place in
London, possibly at the Royal Albert
Hall
IN November Professor Lam ond re-
turns to Rome with three instead Of
two Prix de Rome men, as the new
fellow of music will arrive in England
for the Leeds festival. According to
Director Lamond every one who has
the interest of the musical department
at heart may feel assured that all is
going wonderfully well with what has
by some been called musical expert
mentn
"Our six months in Rome" said
Professor Lamond to me, "has been a
very busy one. The two composers
and | arrived in Rome and started IN
on the busy work of getting settled. We
found our headquarters, the Villa CHI
aravigho, a new, pleasant house, quite
empty, so our first effort was toward
getting some furniture and pianos and,
in other words, getting things straight.
We had to fit out not only the living
and bed rooms, but also the music
room and library. This consists of 500
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they were purchased, and about ton
Of music, consisting Of many valuable
scores. We got the music because,
first of all, they formed part of the
various Libraries which we purchased.
BY judicious buying we have in a short
time collected many treasures in the
way Of musical scores.
For instance, we have the first edi-
tion of Handel's water music, pub
lished in England about the early
eighteenth century; also a complete
set of Handel's overtures and original
scores of his operas published by J..
Walsh. What we lack in scores are
modern ones by Tschaikowsky Rimsky
posers. This is due not only to the
fact that composers now only have
about six copies of their works printed,
in order that the publishers can con-
troll the royalties, as these six copies
are rented out to orchestras who de-
sire to play the music, but also be-
cause, in Soviet Russia, all these scores
have been lost or burned. For instance,
when the private Libraries in Russia
were destroyed, valuable manuscripts
were also wantonly thrown away. This
year, for instance, l was anxious to
get copy Of Respighi's symphony, but
he only had six copies, all of which
were in the hands of his publishers.
"My hope of getting Russian copies
lies in the idea that probably some one
has in their possession a private copy
which was secured before the war. To
return to our work Of the first half
"once we were settled I decided that
bi-monthly concerts would be given
which should start in January.
"Our first concert, which was at
tended not only by the Prefect and the
director of the Santa Cecilia Academy
out also by Italian composers and by
| Mime. Nina Boulanger, one of the
Paris Conservatory, consisted in music
\ composed by Leo Sowerby, one of the
Fellows Of Music, a quintette, as yet
1 unpublished for wind instruments and
| transcriptions for the piano. This
music was composed before Sowerby
:. came to Rome. I feel that only after
the Fellows leave Rome at the end Of
their three years will they collect i'm.
pressions and reproduce them when
they return home, ss, to my mind, it
would be an impossibility for any brain
to register or the composer to write
in a certain place. The more SO as
= here I should like to correct an impress
sion which some critics seem to have
got that the Fellows of the musical de
partment have come to Italy to learn
how to compose Italian music The de-
partment was not founded for this OBJ.
f, jcct, but for broadening, not a graft.
ing, effect. Italian composers in Rome
understand our point of view, and
many are agreed that the American
symphonic music Of the future will be
broader but always essentially diff
ferent from the Italian of the same
period. These concerts were held BIZ
monthly, and consisted not only of the
music of Mr.. Hanson and Sowerby bu,
also of some new compositions by 1tal-
ians. The greatest interest was taken
in our experiment by Count Sammar-
! tino, Of the Santa Cecilia Academy (the
: governmental musical academy, and
ali the professors who not only at
tended but also gave in honor of the
academy fine reception at the St
Cecilia Hall, at which Italian com
posers and musicians welcomed the
Fellows of music and their director to
Rome.
Among those composers was
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