The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-10

wrote. "The finances incident to such simple but valueable prof ect could be met jointly by the orchestral societies, the music pub fishers and the newspapers who would send their critics. All the foregoing would benefit by such an activity and the interest it would arouse"
 THE NATIONAL Federation of Music Clubs has offered to take over the job of furnishing musical equipment to all hospital ships which will bring back the wounded American fighting men from the battle fronts, it has been announced by Mrs. Guy Patterson Gannett president of the federation.
 Each ship will be provided with a guitar, banjo, ukulele, violin, F soprano ocarinoS, 12 alto ocarinos other small instruments, song books and portable photograph and records which may be played over the ships public address system.
 About 30 hospital ships will be equipped, at a cost of approxi- mately $125 per ship. The federation already has begun campaign for the funds, and money to outfit seven ships was forthcoming even before the public announcement was made.
 THE first performance anywhere of excerpts from Dimitri Shosta- kovich's version of Moussorgsky's opera. Boris Godounoff," will be given by the New York Philhar- monic-Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner on July g, and will be broadcast in the regular Sunday afternoon series of the orchestra by the Columbia Broadcasting syS- tenn.
 Alexander Kipnis, bass of the Metropolitan Opera. will be the vocal soloist, singing the mono- logue and hallucination scene from Act 2 and Boris farewell from the final scene. The usual version of Boris which is heard is that Of Rimsky-Korsakoff. The Shostako- vich one, it is reported, restores some of the original Moussorgsky treatment. It has not yet been pro- duced in Russia.
 JOHN GURNEY, leading bass baritone of the Metropolitan Opera, has started on busy sum- mer schedule. He is making an ex- tensive concert tour of Western sates this month and in August. He will demonstrate his versatility next by appearing in Dallas, Tex, in "The Bohemian Girl' for one week in August and in Grand Rapids, Mich, as Francois iViion in "The Vagabond Wing" from Aug, p to Sept. 4. Guerney will return to the Metropolitan in the fall.
 Angelo Canarutto, for the past tyc seasons an assistant conductor for the Metropolitan Opera, has re- signed for operatic and symphonic activities elsewhere. He will be a guest conductor with George l. Aa- dria's opera company in Los Angeles 0nAy dktA fAnBAob AtAA WAAA WI duct several performances during the San Francisco Opera season. Tn the fall he will be musical director of the Connecticut Grand Opera Company.
 AMONG artists appearing at the Hollywood Bowl during July are John Charles Thomas. Marian Anderson, Lotte Lehmann, Ezio Pima, Joseph 6zigeti. Hertha Glaz, Mario Berini, Vivian della Chiesa, Artur Rubinstein, Robert Stolz and The Ballet TheateF,
 JUDGING of the 29b string quar- tet compositions has begun for the selection of two winners Of sl 900 awards in the Western Hemisphere contest sponsored by the Chamber Music Guild of Washington, D, O., in cooperation with RCA-VictoT,
 Entries included l0S compositions from IS South and Central Amer. lean countries, seven from Canada and 8 states, the District of Columbia, Alaska and Puerto Rico, Men tH the armed forces contributed 2R Of the entries,