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VOL. LXXXIV. No. 8 Published Every Saturday. Edward Lyman Bill, Inc., 383 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y., Feb. 19, 1927
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Bamberger & Go. Piano
Scholarship Contest
Newark Department Store Has 168 Entries for
Two Piano Scholarships Offered in Contest
—Event Proves to Be Outstanding Success
Preliminary Winners in Class A
ITH one hundred and sixty-eight young
amateur pianists participating in a con-
test limited to a section of a State, and
held under what might be termed private
auspices, there is af-
forded additional proof
of the interest of the
younger generation in
manual piano playing.
Perhaps the interest
is not as broad as we
should like to have it
for the purpose of
building up a piano-
buying clientele of the
future, but the nucleus
is certainly there for
the development of a
more general and ac-
tive interest in the
playing of the piano,
and instruction looking
to that end.
The local contest
referred to is that con-
ducted by L. Ram-
be r g e r & Co., big
department store of
Newark, N. J., and
formally announced to
the public in October
through the Musical
Festival Association of
Newark. The purpose
of the competition was to make possible the
awarding on a proper basis of two music
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scholarships offered by Bamberger & Co., one
for advanced piano students and the other for
junior aspirants. The competition was open to
residents in nine counties of New Jersey.
As a result of preliminary auditions held last
week at the Bamberger Music Salons, which
were in the nature of elimination contests, thir-
teen children of the one hundred and sixty-
eight enrolled were selected by the judges for
participation in the final audition held on Fri-
day evening of this week at Wallace Hall, where
Governor A. Harry Moore of New Jersey made
the final presentations. The thirteen young
pianists who participated in the finals were
Robert Kiss, Estelle Hoffman, Helen Krueger,
Adelaide Husserl, Cedric H. Dawson, Mildred
V. Johnson, Doris Toennies, Dorothy Bach-
man, Miriam Svet, Theodore A. Ullman, Pearl
Preliminary Winners in Class B
to advanced piano students between the ages of
seventeen and twenty-five years, inclusive. The
Ettman, Mary S. Lowandowski and Elizabeth
V. Ford.
The Bamberger awards will comprise a Class
A and Class B scholarship, the first to be open
winner of this contest will be entitled to receive
tuition in piano instruction and supplemental
studies in the regular course at the Institute of
Musical Art, in New York, subject to the rules
of the institute, if proper progress, in the opin-
ion of the awards committee, is being made
for a period of four years. The Class B scholar-
ship will be awarded to a less advanced student
between the ages of ten and sixteen years,
inclusive. The winner of the Class B competi-
tion will be entitled to four years of piano
instruction and preparation for advanced study.
Instruction will be given by some teacher or
institute in Newark.pr vicinity, to be designated
by the awards com-
mittee, which' will con-
sider any preference
expressed by the suc-
cessful c o n t e s t a nt.
Contestants in b o t h
classes having second!
third, fourth and fifth
highest rating will be
awarded certificates of
merit.
Terms of the Bam-
berger scholarship con-
tests require that all
contenders be enrolled
on or before November
16, 1926, and auditions
will begin immediately.
Winners will be an-
nounced by the awards
committee, composed
of competent musicians
and critics, in ample
time for the successful
students to take up
studies at the January
semester.
The scholarships nat-
urally aroused wide
interest not only in
New Jersey but elsewhere, even among those
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