Evening star., 1924-08-03
ST, 900 for Orchestral
Composition.

THE Chicago North Shore Festival
Association has just announced a
! contest, open to composers of the
United States, for a prize of $1,000
| which will be awarded by a board OF
| judges to tho best work for orchestra
/ submitted by the contestants, the
| winning composition to be played at
| the final concert Of the 1925 North
| Shore music festival One Of these
nve works selected by the judges
as being the best, and which will be
played at the public rehearsal fol
the purpose Of awarding the prize
also will be produced by Fred
| erick Stock at the regular concerts
| Of the Chicago symphony Orchestra
| in Orchestra Hall: Chicago, during
| the season 1925-1s26.
| The rules Of the contest include:
"a All contestants shall be either
Of American birth or naturalized
| American citizens
orchestra score legibly written in
| ink.
(3) Each score must be without
the name Of the contestant and must
| bear only a motto. The score mus,
! be accompanied by sealed envelope
| having inside the name and address
Of the contestant and the motto on
| the outside.
(4) No work may exceed Is minutes
| duration in performance.
| mitted. the five considered best by
| the judges will be selected for per-
| formance at an evening public re-
| hearsal. From these Ave the winning
composition will be selected by the
1SS The term "oreh>stral corno.
sition" under the provision Of this
| contest will signify work for or
| chestra alone. not a concerto foI
piano or violin, or composition foI
a solo voice, or for voices with or
chestra. It Is open to the composer
however, to use the piano as purely
orchestral instrument, II he sc
| desires.
works that will be selected by the
lie rehearsal will be notified Of the
| decision of the judges, and they will
be required to furnish orchestra
parts, legibly written in ink, not later
than z month before the date Of the
| public rehearsal.
The orchestral parts of the five
works selected for performance must
| comprise, in addition to copies for the
wind instruments and percussion
! (kettledrum, cymbals. etc.) the fol-
/
| first violins, 8 second violins, S violas,
S vfoloncellos. s double basses.
(S) The five compositions selected
for performance at the public re-
| hearsal will be played without iden-
ttity of the composers being made
| known to the judges or the public,
IL after the prize-winninG work has
been announced ut the public re-
hearsal, 1t Ia desired to reveal the
| Identity Of tho four other contestants
whose compositions had been per-
formed, such announcement will b
l made only after the consent of each
contestant has been obtained.
| CO. The five compositions selected
for performance at the public re-
hearsal will be directed by the or
chestral conductor Of the Festival Al.
| ISOLATION.
(i0) The winning contestant will
receive q prize Of $1,000 and his com.
| position will be performed at a con-
cert of the 1925 festival under the
direction of the orchestral conductor
of the Festival Association. II in the
opinion OF the festival orchestral ccn-
ductor the successful contestant q
capable of directing his own work
that contestant may do SO II he de-
| sirea.
I nd No work may be submitted
that has previously been performed
or published or which has been en-
tered at the same time In another
competition. Compositions that have
been submitted IN a previous COM
petion Of the North Shore musiea