The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-10-14
VOTING BEGINS FOR
70 BEST MUSICIANS
Wilt Choose Greatest American
Artists for Music Hall
Of Fame

The voting to select the twenty
creates. living American musicians
was begun this week by the North
Dakota Federation OF Music clubs. ac-
cording to Mrs. ]. A. Popplcr. Grand
Forks. president Of the state fedora
ton. who is distributing the ballots.
The contest is sponsored by the Ma
tiOnal Federation. Artists selected
will have tablets OF honor in the new
forty story music and art center nov
being built in New York City. a part
OF which will be set aside for tho
American Music Hall Of Fame
1t is expected that more than n
million votes will be cast. Forty ten
tative nominations have been made by
the judges of tho national committee.
who estimate that 1t will take several
months to complete the total Of votes.
The bronze tablets will be erected III
tho main auditorium of the new S12,-
COO, 900 music and art center in New
York. located on Central Park South
at Sixth Avenue, and close to the new
opera center where the new Metropol.
ltan Opera House is to be built.
xllC lCCO Id w SOllLllIVIkiOl 1tCs
they are alive. the artists, conductors
and instrumcntalists who have made
very definite contributions to Amer
teas musical history. The tablets will
stand as permanent reminders TO the
coming musical generations. Of the
art Of the selected musicians.
The nominations on the ballot.
which also provides blank spaces for
any other preferable nominations, arc
as follows:
Vocalists: Louise Homer. Geraldine
Farrar. Rosa Ponscllc. Mary Garden
naturalized citizen. Lawrence lib
rctt. John Mccormack m~aturali2ed
citizen. Charles EacEett. Reginald
Wcrrcnrath. Richard Bonclli, John
Charles Thomas.
Composers: John Philip Sousa.
Charles Wakefield Cadman. John Al
den Carpenter. George Ge:shwin,
Deems Taylor. Edgar Stillman Kelley.
N. FRANKIE Harling. Frank Patterson.
and John Adams Hugo.
The instrumentalistS nominated i'll
cludc: Albert Spalding. Percy Grazing
er. Ernest Schelling. George Anthicl.
Harold Bauer. Francis MacMillen,
Olga Samaroff. Ruth Breton, Leopold
Godowsky and GIFTS Gradova. The
conductors include: Sousa. Henry
Hadley, Ernest Scnelling. Chalmers
Clifton. David Mendoza, Edwin
Fyanxo Goldman. Howard Hanson,
Isaac Van Grove. Albert Ssoesscl, and
Walter Damrosc:l.
Commenting upon the idea II Of
our state presidents said: The idea
of voting on these distinguished
American musicians serves a good
purpose by calling to the public's at
tention the fact that we actually have
so many fine and internationally not
ed musicians here. The attitude has
been that only the foreign artists were
worthy OF consideration and III the
nominations Of even the forty names
selected for the ballo. itself. the
judges were impressed by the fact that
there were so many, rather thar sc
few, American musicians 0 alive
who had won recognition and are on
a par with the finest III the world.
The voting. and the attendant notice
given by the press. will serve to bring
this fact home to the public and
probably will advance the interest III
the cause of the young and struggling
American artist. II IS time VIC
acknowledged and accepted our own
artists for what they are