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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MARCH 1, 1924
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Roland Hayes, Tenor, Sings Ditson Publication
"Goin' Home" at Recital at Symphony Hall,
Boston
At his recital on Sunday afternoon following
the death of ex-President Wilson, the great
negro tenor, Roland Hayes, stepped to the front
of the platform at Symphony Hall, Boston,
Mass., and holding up his hand for silence, said
simply: "I have just learned of the passing
of a great soul and am going to sing something
you will find appropriate." In the profound
played in Carnegie Hall, New York, thirty years
ago, this same haunting melody moved the
audience to tears. That it should have spon-
taneously suggested to Mr. Fisher, Dvorak's
pupil, the words "Goin' home" in the form of
a negro spiritual was only natural, and its sing-
ing on Sunday by the greatest of negro singers
made the occasion unforgettable to all present.
Herewith is an Oliver Ditson Co. window
dressed during the week of Mr. Hayes'
appearance.
Stasny Exploiting Winn
The A. J. Stasny Music Co., Inc., 56 West
Forty-fifth street, New York City, which re-
SYMPHONY HALL
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Ditson Display Featuring Roland Hayes
silence which followed Mr. Hayes sang Dvorak's cently took over the European distribution for
plaintive melody with the words of William Winn's Ragtime Books, is exploiting these pub-
Arms Fisher. Before Mr. Hayes finished many lications on a wide scale in the British Isles
of the audience that packed the hall were in through its London office, its branches and rep-
tears. For a long moment after the song was resentatives. The British public has shown con-
finished there was silence while Mr. Hayes siderable favor to the Winn publications, which
include "Winn's How to Play Popular Music,"
stood with bowed head. When the largo of
Dvorak's "New World Symphony" was first and other similar publications.
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Ohio Federation Offers
Prizes for Composers
Competitions Include Anthem, Piano Composi-
tion, Violin Solo With Piano Accompaniment
and Secular Song
Ohio has 5,721 men and women who are
organized for the advancement of music in all
its higher forms, according to the 1924 Year
Book of the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs,
just from the press.
Aside from the general activities of the or-
ganization the book is concerned with the State
convention of the federation, which will be held
in Toledo, this year, April 28 to May 2.
Mrs. Edgar Stillman Kelley, faculty member
of both the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
and Western College for Women, Oxford, O.,
is the president of the Ohio Federation.
In her message to members, Mrs. Kelley ad-
vises that another strong musical body, the
Association of Presidents of State Music Teach-
ers' Associations, will hold its meeting with the
Ohio Federation of Music Clubs. "This will
bring to the sessions of our State organizations
a national body which we will indeed be happy
and proud to welcome," states Mrs. Kelley.
Prizes for compositions by American con^r
posers are also mentioned in the Year Bqofcl
Four contests are now in progress. Thes^iJjf
elude competitions for an anthem, a piano com?
position, a violin solo with piano accompani*
tnent and a secular song. Miss Bertha Baur,
director of the Cincinnati Conservatory of
Music, offers $50 to the composer of the best
secular song; Mrs. Mary Willing Megley, To-
ledo, offers $50 for the best anthem. The sum of
$50 is Mrs. A. H. Honefanger's offer for the best
violin solo with piano accompaniment. For the
best piano composition, the Baldwin Piano Co.
is giving $100. All manuscripts must be in the
hands of Mrs. Walter Crebs, 71 Oxford avenue,
Dayton, by March 15, 1924.
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