Billboard advertising (Jan 1921)

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The Billboard JANUARY 1, 1921 a ‘ Ky KS HE, AMERICAN CONCERT and American Endeavor in Grand Opera, Symphony and Cham! and Classic DancingBY IZETTA MAY MCHENRY | _ ERIC DE LAMARTER ‘Advocates Organizing More Small Orchestras— _ Accords Merited Praise to Movie Orchestra ‘ for Creating Wider Interest in Sym e "ph peavag? iit rr erre sly a e (PARE af l Graw repertory. With slight adjustment as mouch more might be added. And the justification of tampering with 2 score is in the fact that ‘works for small orchestra of necessity must drop Jeanne Gorden, reat: cuccesn This Is ber scoond. year wi ‘Such praise for her exceliext singing. the contralto, 1s an American singer who, fm Bot ttle over ber ith the Metropolitan Opera ‘are teaching in the school. Altho the price of ‘has bad to be raised. this income DANIEL GREGORY MASON To Lecture In Cincinnati Association of the Cincinnati ‘Musle will present Daniel ‘The Alumat year’s time, bas achieved ‘Company, and sbe is again wintlog Photo by Alfred Over Hohen, New York. at the total loss.of thelr intrinsic color values. ‘Therefore it is suggested that a-dainty master work Uke Haydn's ‘Midi’ symphony should be Kept alive by readjustment to the condition obtaining “today. a “Zo sum Up we suggest that the small orchestra is a worthy instrument, with = com‘mercial place, with an artistic place—and only the future cam say a8 to how great an artistic place—with possibilities of development for the ‘wedlum sized city which, from = cultural angie, ‘cannot be overestimated. It needs and merits the services of expert musicians, as conductors and 5 composers. It has its great opportunity of community service. ‘The ‘movies’ gave it its ‘first home, and it is capable of greater assistince to the Jiggy drama than it has given. Bat be‘Yond that is the opportunity of carrying to the ‘city which cannot afford an orchestra of ‘100 —count ‘em—100’ a remarkably large treasure from the cholcest pages our art possesses.” SOUTH END MUSIC SCHOOL Doing Splendid Work in Boston ‘The South End Music School, of Boston, is ‘now fn its tenth season, having grown from = class of twenty pupils ‘to three hundred. Not ‘only does the school support two quartets and Gregory Mason at the Conservatory on January 37, when he will deliver his lecture, “The Listener's Share in Music." Dr. Mason is in charge of the Music Department of Columbia University dnd one of Ametica's most noted composers. The Alumni Association is endeaycoring to establish a scholarship fund to, be Known as the “Clara. Baur Memorial Scholarship."* and the proceeds of ‘the lecture will be devoted to this purpose. -. PAVLOWA te Hy FIELD Noted Contralto, Has Won Success in a Remarkably Short Time ‘Not: to many singers docs success come quickly as to Jeanne Gorton, contralto, of Metropolitan Opera Company. , Mise Gordon, who is a Canadian by birth, ‘commenced ber career by singing in a church cholr in the city of Detroit. Upon coming to New York City abe obtained an engagement with the Creatore Grand Opera Company, and so great was her success. with that organization that it resulted fn a contract for the spring’ and fall tour of & member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and she appeared for the Grst time, at the ‘Metropolitan Opera House the latter part of November, 1919, and was recognized as an artAst of whom much could be expected. During the season she won grekt success in “‘Aids,”* ‘“Trovatore” and.‘‘Bive Bird." and this season when the appeared in “Tristan. and Isolde” her performance added one more to her list of triomphs. As a concert singer Miss Gordon is much ia demand and ber manager, test, reports a long Ust of engagements to ‘fulfilled in 1922. i EIGHT AMERICAN COMPOSERS: PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA " To Give One Afternoon Concert in New York Git js City Of twofold interest in musical circles is the announcement that one afternoon concert will afforded to those who were unable tickets for the evening concerts, which ‘ways sold out weeks in ddvance, s FRIENDS OF MUSIC Announce Third Goncert Will Be Given January 16 siven, under the direction of Artur Bodansky, ‘with ‘the chorus of the Friends of Music. ‘TO AID MT. SINAI ‘Cricago, Dec. 25.—Mra, Witllam~ Schwarts, now of San Francisco, bas returned to Chicago to amlst Mt. Sina! Hospital workers in: thelr Plans for thelr operatic night in Orchestra Tall January 11. The program will be given D7 Mme. Rosa Ratsa, Giacomo Rimint and Aler~ ander Zulcoveky. ‘with Atty members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. = *