New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-30
Week of Music
Means Rest for
Jazz Addicts
3. 900 Events Planned by
Committee to Drive Tin
Pan Dervislles to Cover:
Churches TO Take Big Part
Tone Will Be Elevating
Concerts Out in the Open
Part of Great Scheme to
Bring Public to Normally

New York is to take up music in a
serious way beginning tomorrow,
when Music Week starts. OF course,
to which the town is normally addicted
get no share Of the homage. 1t is q
week of devotion to good music, and
to prove the seriousness of that it will
be started off with sermons preached in
hundreds Of churches throughout the
city in which the congregations will
be exhorted to musical salvation.
Nearly three thousand musical
events have been initiated by COM
mittee which has Otto II. Kahn for
honorary chairman and c. Nj. Tremaine
for chairman. and which includes.
among many other celebrated names,
those of DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler,
Thomas A. Edison, Felix Warburg, Mrs.
Harry Hardness Flagler, Rodman Wan
amaker, Father Duffy, Nine. Marcella
Sembrich, Mrs, Henry Fairfield Osborn
and Mrs. z. H, Hartman.
The "Y's' and the Sunday schools
will take prominent part in the eff
fort to hcave the town ND to a higher
musical mark. This afternoon will
witness programs of choral singing by
the Sunday school children and stu
dents of religious schools both in the
Mall at Central Park and in the Long
Meadow of Prospect Park The United
States Navy and United States Army
bands also will perform for the public
in both parks.
The black belt of Harlem, which
probably needs the call to grace less
its share enthusiastically under the
direction of Miss Laura Sedgwick Col
Inns, in q concert to be given tonight
in the church at 195th Street and
Seventh Avenue. Two Of the citv's
departments, the Fire and the Police
departments. will give monster con-
certs in armories making use Of their
own musical organizations.
The Society of Theatcr Organists
viii show how, in their opinion, the in
cidentol music for motion pictures
may be improved by putting forward
a typical program with actually ap-
propriate music in the Wanamakcr
auditorium on Friday afternoon. The
MINIS selected arc "Dr. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde scenic and Sarg comedy.
singing, will be given by the Oratorio
Society of New York, Albert Stocsscl
conducting, at City College next
thursday, evening. Thursday after
noon and evening will sec an inter
racial festival, the programs fur
nshcd by thirty organizations of the
foreign born in New York, at the
American Museum of Natural History.
An organ festival by the Catholic
Guild Of Organists at Wanamakcr
auditorium on Wednesday. a pageant
IN the Meadow OF Central Park with
the Peoples Music League for the
chorales. divers lectures, concerts and
community sings at the Bowery, at
the Seaman's Home, and at Salvation
Army headquarters, will all aid TO
New York's musical appreciation.
me week will eliminate on Saturday
with .presentation of prizes to high
school children competing in orchos-
trail harmones at the Capitol Thcatcr
at lo:3o a, m; The prize is copy If
"Grove's Dictionary of Music"
And then, having handsomely 1e
ssponded to the evangelical work, New
York will feel that it has earned the
right to go on undsturbed for an
other year in its sinful endowment of
jazz, the blues and the vctrola.