Evening star., 1927-10-02
NJ i SIC
BY HELEN FETTER.

a chance for a free expression
through whistling and singing.
We aim to interest the organlst
in the spirit OF this educational
movement. that special effort be
made on his part to play quiet mu-
sic before the picture goes on, and
70 play national air while the flag
is carried and put in place, We plan
to ask cooperation OF the various
parent teacher associations, women-s
clubs and nearby schools, and shall
send music lists to the same, urging
that this is a common interest. and
that all must work together to at
tain the good, the true. and the beau
tiful"
WHILE on the subject OF special
w music for children the following
news note is passed along from the
New York Press. which gave the
item much publicity:
The concert season of the SYM
phony Society of New York for ITS
Younger generation of music lovers
is scheduled to open October %,
week following the beginning of the
regular concerts. This is the th'r-
tieth such season.
Walter Damrosch is to be con-
ductor OF both the series OF con-
certs for young people and concerts
for children. There will be six con-
certs for young people in Carnegie
Hall Saturday afternoons at $50
o'clock on November 5, December ).
December 81, January p, February
IL and February 25. Five concerts
for children will be held in Carnegie
Hall Saturday mornings at II o'clock
October %, November Il and 20. De-
cember 10 and January 7. Assisting
artists for the young peoples con-
certs will include Albert Spaldlng.
Ossip GabrilowitscR. Emilio de Go
gorza, Rudolph Laubenthal and
Rachel Morton.
The idea of the symphony con-
certs for children was originated by
Walter Damrosch IL years ago, when
it became apparent that he could not
accommodate all who wished to
come to his young peoples concerts:
The children's concerts are designed
for those between 6 and IL years.
In this series, Mr.. Damrosch FIRST
teaches the children to distinguish
the instruments of the orchestra.
Supplementing the playing OF the or
chestra with explanatory comments
about the great composers and their
works, he makes the children famil-
lar with Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn,
Weber and the other great masters.
After two or three years attend
ance, the children have sufficient
knowledge and appreciation OF music
to enjoy the more advanced concerts
for young people"
A GAIN serving youth, and Ameri-
"A can youth, but in a different
way and for a different objective,
Henry Cowell issues statement
about a new music publication
about to be launched. The details
are as follows:
The New Music Society of Cali
fornia will publish, beginning Octo-
ber /, 1927. a quarterly periodical
called New Music, containing not ar
ticlcs on music, but music itself.
New Music will be the only maga-
zine in the world devoted to the pub
lication of modern music.
There are very few opportunities
at present for the modern American
composer to publish his works, as
publishers are unwilling to risk losing
money in such publications. When
modern works are published in Amer
ica. almost no copies are sold. The
work is, therefore. not distributed
and the composer gains no financial
profit.
New Music will afford a means of
publication of ultra-modern works,
and also insure their distribution
among a number OF subscribers. IT
any profits are made they will be di-
vided among the contributing COM
posers.
1t is now difficult to secure copies
OF modern works without waiting for
them to be sent from Europe, and
they are usually expensive. New
Music offers such work without
waiting for Importation. at nomi
nal sum, and will. therefore, be OF
advantage to the subscribers as well
as to its composers. 1t will publish
works for piano. violin, orchestra,
songs, chamber music. etc. .
New Music will specialize on the
wor'-7 OF Americans. but will publish
occasional European works as well.
Those who are interested>are asked
to aid the cause OF modern compost
ton by subscribing now to New
Music, at S2 per year. Address,
Henry Cowell. 1850 Jones street. San
Francisco, Calf.
The October, 1927. issue OF New
Music will contain the full orchestral
score OF Carl Ruggles' symphonic
suite, Men and Mountains, i'll
three movements.
The January, 1923, issue will con,
tain Dane Rudhyar's Three Paeans,
for piano solo.