Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
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sA BY HELEN FETTER.
BY HELEN FETTER.

/ with it no further benefit except thu
prestige of winning. The total o
cash prizes in this contest is $l0OOO
The amount of the award Offered
by the Caruso American Memoria
Foundation in the current Oper'
attic Fellowship Contest will bt
81 200 for one year and free trans
portation to and from Italy. Con-
testants must be trained sufficiently
to be able to sing the entire roles
of three or more standard operas and
must have had preliminary stage
training or experience. The sum OF
the award must be spent for further
training along specified lines:
Candidates who qualify for par
ticipation in the annual contests tor
the John Simon Guggenheim Memo
rial Foundation for Advanced Study
Abroad may elect, as winners, to
study voice, but the contests are
for advanced students and not for
unframed aspirants, The fellowships
carry with them approximately
$500 a year. more or less, depend
ing on lii dividual need and conditions.
Other prizes offered for musical
excellence during the last few years
have been in sums ranging down.
ward from $500 and $1,000, and i'll
some cases have included periods of
schooling in a chosen line of art. but
virtually all opportunities opened by
such contests have been for men and
women at least partly trained and
educated in the particular art for
which the contest was proposed as
encouragement.
OFF and on there is talk of ma
~ tional conservatory of music in
the Capital City. and then in-between
times we Just plug along at the usual
routine. Thursday noon a telephone
call announced a Miss Ferdinand
Jacobsen. organizing secretary of the
Scottish National Academy of Music,
Glasgow. Scotland. 1t seems that
this is the first conservatory that
Scotland has ever established in the
cause of music. Hitherto it has been
necessary for those who wanted ad-
vanced musical training to go to Lon
don, England, for it. In 1925 the
group was organized for the found
ing of this Scottish National Acad-
envy of Music and Chair at Glasgow
University. AS recently as last
month the plans were consummated
and buildings purchased to house the
conservatory. The Carnegie Trust in
Scotland gave $4,000 toward the
establishment of this institution,
and the Scotch people have raised
100000 in their own landau
amount that, taken in consideration
with their worldwide acknowledged
traits of thrift. seems quite impress
sive-and now Miss Jacobsen is tour
ing "the States" and Canada to ap-
peal to Scotch folk on this continent
to help them accumulate the other
$l25,000 they feel is essential. Ac-
cording to a statement in a pamphlet
issued by the organization, but for
the seven-month strike of last year,
by which the leading industries of
the west of Scotland, particularly
iron, steel and shipbuiiding, were
very hard hit. all the money re-
quired would have been readily found
locally" The total capital desired
amounts in American money to
Si,075,000. Miss Jacobsen even car
ried her message direct to President
Coolidge in a short interview which
she was granted, and when she told
him that Ns,4aoxy 1An0IA 80 Coo&fa,.J
are hoping that you will stand
again" he is reported to have smiled.
He said that he personally wished
the conservatory plan success.
Among prominent individual con-
tributors are Sir Daniel M. Steven
son, former lord provost of Glas-
gov, who gave $l50.000 to the fund.
His brother, John Stevenson, jr., of
Sharon, Pa. is stated to have made
the first American contribution, Civ
ing $500.
Another interesting angle to this
plan is the fact that the academy of
music is to be essentially national
Sir Daniel Stevenson is quoted in an
interview in the Scots Observer to
have said:
What use of bringing people back
from England and the continent to
attend this institution il it is not to
be NATIONAL? Of course, it will be
national and Scottish art and music
of the future will be firmly based
upon Scottish (which includes High
iand) folks melody. Scottish music
is such a great thing. and has
counted for so much in European
music, that no academy of music can
be too good and too we'll equipped
for Scotland"
Which reminds US that we. too
have a crusade on in the interest
of Mac" bat it is the brave widow
of our American, Edward Mac
Dowell, that we are trying to assist
in her worthy crusade to keep Mae