Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-23
MUSIC ROOM CHATS

MISS 1da Hickman, counsellor of the
Juvenile Music club, ably assisted by
Mrs. Harry Lusk, opened their first
meeting of the season Friday after
noon at the Parish house The follow
ing officers were elected: Wynette
Hoover, president; Ruth Mcdaniel,
vice president; Marjorie Russell, sec
retary and treasurer.
After a charming program, which
appeared in Thursday mornings paper,
the meeting adjourned to meet the
third Friday afternoon of each month.
Tuesday night of this week regis
tered the first evening rehearsal of
the high school operetta, Carrie Goes
to College" under the supervision of
Mrs. Louise eastman
Henry Cowell well-known composer,
is announcing a magazine, New
Music" to appear quarterly, first issue
in October in which modern music
may be published. American composers
will be featured
The Marine band of Washington,
d. c., known as "The Presidents
Own," will tour many states of the
east and middle-wes this fall under
the leadership of Capt. Taylor Bran
son.
The Orpheus club Of Los Angeles
sang "A Song of Fellowship" by Har-
vey B. Gaul, at their spring concert.
Among the renowned musicians who
are offering their services and CO.
operation in collaboration with the ma
tional federation in the conduct OF the
young artists contests the American
music department welcomes Mr.. Dud-
ley Buck, of New York.
The second annual national school
band contest, held at Council Bluffs,
Ia, May 81 and %, 1927, called forth
% bands from IA states, with the
Joliet, ILL.,, high school band the win
ner in class A; and Princeton, Calf,
band in class B. These contests, which
began in 1923 in small way, have
won the interest of schools and col
leges and are sponsored by the ma
tional bureau for the advancement of
music and the music supervisors ma
tional conference.
News is available that Deems .Tay-
lor's new opera will have a libretto
made from weli-known American
novel by a well-known American
author Mr. Taylor is keeping secret
the name of the novel, but he is not
so uncommunicative on the subject of
| the librettist, who iS-DeemS Taylor
himself. The unifie d collaboration
should prove to be highly interesting,
! for in addition to his musical gifts,
Mr.. Taylor possesses also fine and
| febrile literary talent, which had not
altogether full opportunity to flower
at it's best when he was confined
strictly to the musical subject during
his noteworthy career as the tonal re-
viewer for the New York World 1t is
understood that the forthcoming Tay-
lor opus is to have its premiere at the
metropolitan, where The Kings Heneh-
men made beginning SO auspicious
that it is TO be taken on a special
tour already largely booked for the
current season.
The comic paper, Judge, says that
some composers seem to draw lines on
fly paper, and then play the results.
The same journal declares that preach
Sers who sermonize against jazz, pre-
sumably take their texts from Do-Do-
Deuteronomy.
Enrica Clay Dillon, if memory serves
us right, is the only woman producing
director of opera in America. And
when we say producing director we
mean that she takes complete charge
of the lighting, scenery, staging of the
ensemble, and practically everything.
This season this remarkable woman
again will continue in that capacity
with the Washington Opera company
and also with the Philadelphia Oper-
attic society," She has to her credit
excellent performances OF Aida, Sam
son and Delilah, Madame Butterfly,
Carmen, Tales of Hofmann, Faust,
Barber of Seville, Traviata, Lakme,
Rigoletto, Manon, Mignon, Martha,
Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci and
the Immortal Hour, this season adding
to her list That's, Hansel and Gretel,
and Tie Pearl Fishers. Besides, Miss
Dillon is coaching in misen-scene some
of the most prominent artists of the
Metropolitanp Chicago Civic and San
Carlo opera companies.
The Poet Speaks
From "Americanus" comes this pa
triotic rhymlet:
"Breathes there q man with soul SO
dead,
Who never to himself hath said:
George Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue
This is our own, our native brew.
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Among the progressive movements
undertaken by the New Jersey State
Federation of Music clubs, none is ex-
citing more interest than activity in
the matter of credit for outside study
of music in the high schools and in
strumental instruction.
was slight. Both drivers climbed out