Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
MUSIC ROOM CHATS

A communication from Charles F.
Rogers, director of music at the Uni
versity of Arizona at Tucson, gives
the welcome information that a re-
cent organizaU1on formed there has
for its objective, accrediting of music
for all students and raising the STAN
dard of music for the state. Mr.. Ro-
gers recently addressed students and
interested musicians upon the subject
at the Phoenix high school.
The same movement was agitated
eight years ago through the music de-
partment of the Federated Women'S
Clubs in this state Parents of chill
dren studying music should be keenly
interested in this and give Mr.. Rogers
and the board of directors their heart
lest support. If it is successful it will
mean that students will get college
credit for time spent on their music.
Songs composed by a local musician,
C. H. Parks, have been sung in this
city a good deal recently. They are
appealing harmony and very inter
esting.
the Juvenile Music club Friday at the
Parish house. The cast was as fol-
lows: Mary Russell, Mary Ann Pig
got, Betty Cole, Christmas spirits;
Evelyn Porter, angel; Maurine Tardy,
Mary Belle Posten, katherine Russell
and Jean Lusk as Red spirits; Ruth
Cole, Peggy Downs, Green spirits;
Lois Leahy, Betty Ann Irwin and
Verna Lusk as White spirits.
To Mr.. Fortune Gallo, founder, and,
for SO many years, director OF the
well known San Carlo Opera company,
belongs the credit of having just COM
pleted in New york City a novel and
attractive theater- Gallo theater
ON Broadway at 54th street, which
adds materially to the number OF bet
ter concert halls in the metropolis
Here will be given concerts, opera,
operettas, musical comedy, etc., in ad-
dition to its use by the San Carlo
Opera company in its New York ap-
pearances, the first of which opens
the season at the theater this win
ter.
Here, too, on january 9th, the
American Society for Opera in Eng
lish will introduce the new American
Opera company, with Vladimir Rosing,
director, beginning subscription sea-
son of seven weeks with repertoire OF
eight operas all to be given in Eng
Iish and only American singers en-
ployed This project is in keeping
with Mr. Gallo's deep interest in opera
in English, as demonstrated in his
own opera company which is now on
it's regular annual tour.
The American Opera company is the
organization of which the national
president, Mrs. Kelley, spoke so feel
ingly in the October issue hereof as
having so successfully given it's first
performance last summer at the beau
tiful Stillington Hall, Gloucester,
Mass, the home of Mr.. Leslie Bus
well, patron of the arts. The forma-
ton of the company is the sequel of
the visit of the Rochester Opera COM
pany to New York last winter under
the auspices of the Thaater G Guild.
With the Rochester organization as a
nucleus the American Opera company
has been launched
Naturally, the National Federation
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this signal undertaking opera OF, for
and by Americans, given in a specially
designed American opera house,
the cooperation of all music clubs is
desired to make this movement sue
cessful. The aims of the society fol-
low:
To establish permanently an Amer
ican Opera company of American
singers, chorus and orchestra.
To present opera as real music
drama, sung in English, artistically
produced with a fine ensemble OF
American singing actors.
To enhance the popular enjoyment
of opera by using improved transla-
tons and by careful attention to die
ton.
To bring opera withon the means
of the general public.
To produce American works and
promote the development of national
opera in the United States.
The company will give it's first per-
in Washington on December
18th. 1927, at the Poll theater, with
the president and Mrs. Coolidge pre-
sent. Public spirited men and women
in New York, Chicago, Boston and
Washington are sponsoring this move
ment and season in alls these cities
has been arranged with musical, cul-
tural and educational organizations
giving their heartiest endorsement.
The operas to be produced are:
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