Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-19

M celebrated week from
H Wednesday, June %, at
4 v Willow Grove Park, Phila-
delphia, when the National Fedora
ton of Music Clubs sponsors a festi-
val in honor of the great American
composer. This festival will be the
climax of the drive all over the coun-
try among the. school children to
raise a fund through school organi-
cations and junior clubs to preserve
the log cabin studio and last resting
place of Edward Mcdowell.
To any one who has had the good
fortune to visit the famous Mac
.Dowell colony at Peterboro, N. H,
and actually stand on the porch OF
the tiny cabin and look off above the
groves of plume-tipped, pencillike
young pine trees, toward the nscru-.
table mountains, this workshop OF
the genial genius becomes a real
shrine to be held in the memory for
ever. There is, intangible, in the air
something of the spirit Of a man who
has worked diligently and with in
spiration to pass on to the observer
a like enthusiasm and desire tor &C
conplishment. No finer purpose
could have been chosen as the OBJ
iect of a children's crusade than
that of preserving for pilgrimages
by future generations this simple, ar
tistic little studio of Edward Mac
Dowell's.
At the big biennial convention in
Chicago in April, Mrs. Edgar Still
man Kelley, charming president OF
the National Federation of Music
Clubs. introduced Mrs. Edward Mac
Dowell. the brilliant woman who is
carrying on so bravely i'll keeping
the colony where poet. painter, play
wright, composer and sculptor may
work III sympathetic surroundings,
and presented her with $1,000 OF
the total $4,000 pledged to be raised
within the year by children of the
United States. This $4,000 repre-
sents contributions from about one
third the total membership of Junior
clubs OF this country. From Wash
ington, D. c., the National Capital,
only S3S.35 will be the contribution
to be presented at the festival in
Willow Grove Park. This sum, how
ever, represents the contributions OF
four Junior clubs and half OF the
profits from the Junior Club second
annual concert given i'll Washington
early in the Winter. The total pro-
ceeds of this concert were sou. ANY
additional contributions to this tund
to 60 from Washington that may
De made before next "Wednesday
week will be deeply appreciated by
local federation headquarters.
During the past Summer there
were IS American composers among
the list of colonists at Peterboro's
Mcdowell colony. One Washingto-
man was in the list-Mary Howe
Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe). The
II others include Mrs. H.. H. A.
Beach. dean of woman composers,
who is a popular guest in Washing
ton whenever she comes to this city
to visit or appear III a program;
Henry F. Gilbert, Francesca de
Leone, Roy Harris, Charles ID. Mack
lin. Nathan Novick, Marx Obern-
dorfer. Marion Ralston. Helen Sears.
Charles Sanford Skilton, Raymond
Vickers and Powell Weaver.
Among special honors awarded
members Of the colony was music
award made to Louise Ayres Car
nett, who was given half of the
$1,000 offered by the Sesquicenten-
NAL EXPOSITION for the best choral
work submitted. Her libretto to the
cantata. "Mirtil in Arcadia" by
Henry Hadley, was the prize work.
Members of the colony who pro-
duced works in music during the
wear included Stanley R. Avery,
Edward Bafiantitle, Mabel w. Dan
iels, Fannie Charles Dillon, Ferdinand
lDunkiey, Ethel Glenn HER, Mary
Howe, Tadeusz Iarecki, Charles S.
Skiiton, Lazare Saminsky, Helen
Sears. Powell Weaver and Marion
Bauer.
THE list of awards being offered
L for musical compositions seem
ever ON the increase. Among the
current material of such announce.
ments that have come over the
writer's desk within the past few
weeks is announcement of prize
of 500 offered by the Chateau de
Bures, an American school for boys
in France, for the words and music
of a school song The competition
closes September !, 1927. The school
is located within an hours distance
of Paris and close to historic Yer
sailles. The aim of the school is
to give American boys a new world
outlook, yet to prepare them for
American colleges and American life.
There will be students there from all