The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
WORLD
 OF MUSIC

CeueI IdIlOIl Ot MUSIC ClllDS mas dIl- nounced radio appearances as ad- ditional awards for the three win- ners of its 1945 Young Artists audi tions, to be held on May p, 23 and 24 in New York.
 The three winners in violin, piano and voice, in addition to the usual $1,000 cash award to further their studies, will be given the privilege of appearing as soloists with the National Broadcasting Company Symphony Orchestra dur ing its summer series of concerts under Dr. Frank Black.
 The radio appearances will be conditioned. however, on discovery in the finals of talent which justi- fies 8 solo performance with one of the country's major symphonies.
 Color Hamony," an original 40-tone musical system developed by Louis GesensWay, Philadelphia composer, will have its New York premiere at the Museum of Mod- ern Art on Jan. 29, under the auspices of the Alumni Association of the Curtis Institute of Music.
 A program of GesenSWay'S com positions in the new medium will be presented by 20 members of the Philadelphia Orchestra The under writers of the concert are Dimi- tri Mitropoulos, conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, and Frederic Mann, Philadelphia music patron.
 One of the New Years gifts pre- sented to Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York was a por- trait of Puccini, as tribute to the mayors many achievements in fur thering the musical life of the city.
 AS far as could be aScertained, no portrait or bust of the author of "Boheme" and other favorite operas existed in New York. The picture given to the mayor was drawn on commission by Nina Barska, Polish portrait painter, from photograph of Puccini in private collection in the metropolis.
 IS SllO WCiso DJ h 6lOtIJ oA Metropolitan Opera artists, Rose Hampton, Helen Jepson, Charles Kullman, Bidu Sayao and Leonard Warren.
 In their New York Town Hall recital on Jan. 26, Pierre Lubo- shutz and Genia Nemenoff, duo pianistS, will give the first per- formance of "Sonatina for Two Pianos written for them by Boris Koutzen, and the following group of works arranged for them: Largo al Factotum," by Rossini, arranged for two pianos by Stephan Kovacs: "BerceuSe" and "Le Jeu de la Ba- guette," written and arranged by Gretchaninoff, and New Dance" by Wallingford Riegger. Works by Brahms, Schubert, Prokofleff and Mendelssohn will make up the re- mainder of the program.
 Edmund Kurtz, 'cellist, will make his first New York concert appear ance on Jan. 19 at Town Hall, prior to a performance as soloist with Artur Toscanini and the NEG Sym phony Orchestra on January 28. Kurtz, who is well-known in Europe and Australia, has previously ap peared in this country with the Chicago and other Mid-Western symphony orchestra
 Robert Gross, young American violinist, will play the Hindemith violin concerto with the New York City Symphony under Leopold Sto- kowski at the opening concerts of it's new winter series at City Center on Jan. 15 and 16.
 Carlos ChaVer, composer conductor will appear as guest conductor with the San Francisco Symphony Or cheStra on Jan. 19 and 20, follow ing a similar appearance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conduct ing, among other works, his own suite from the ballet symphony HIP" and Zarbanda for Strings.
 ROBERT LAWRENCE, formerly on the music staff of the New York Herald-Tribune and now a corporal in the United States Army, has been receiving high praise from the music loving Italian public for his work as conductor in Rome and Naples. according to an overseas dispatch of the Office of War Information.
 Lawrence recently conducted Puc- cini's La Tosca" at two perform ances in the Royal Opera House of Rome and achieved great success Later he conducted the Berlioz Fantastic Symphony" at the Teatro Reale. All the performances were while on brief leave from Army duty
 MISCHA ELMAN, who played for the patients of the Denver Sanator ium hile in this city as soloist with the Denver Symphony Orchestra this week, will give his second New York recital of the season at Car negie Hall on Jan, 2l for the bene- fit of the Sanatorium. !