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THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW,
41
February, 1931
MEN OF NATIONAL PROMINENCE
WHO TURN TO MUSIC AS A HOBBY
M
USIC merchants generally should be ficer, sculptor, one-time tennis champion of
able to dig up some mighty fine ar- Italy, and the authoT of sixteen books, has
guments for the musical training of
also found time to be an accomplished cellist,
children, not alone for professional careers,
and an authority on chamber music. Ethel
but for the purpose of developing an inter-
Barrymore needs—as the toastmasters always
esting and entertaining hobby for the re- take too long to say—no introduction. But
mainder of their lives in the article "Our you may know that she studied to become
Amateur Champions" by Deems Taylor, the a concert pianist, and is not yet quite certain
noted music critic, which appears in the De- how she came to go on the stage,
cember issue of McCall's Magazine. Mr.
Ethel Barrymore Colt, who made her stage
Taylor lists a scare or more of noted per- debut this season, playing with her mother
sonages, who, although engaged in other pub- in "Scarlet Sister Mary," was also destined
lie and private pursuits, nevertheless have
for the concert platform. At school and con-
sufficient musical ability and training to servatory she took all the piano prizes in
warrant their appearance on the concert or
sight, and is a particularly gifted Bach
recital stage. In his article Mr. Taylor says
player.
in part:
H. L. Mencken, given his choice, would
There is one concert that has not yet been
probably much rather be an orchestral con-
given. It probably never will be given—
ductor than the editor of the American
worse luck. It could be given, and if it Mercury. He plays in a mad sort of ama-
were, I will guarantee that anybody who teur orchestra that meets once a week in
bought a ticket would get his musical
Baltimore. The foundation of this organiza-
money's worth, even if he did not know the tion is a piano, a four-hand arrangement of
names of the performers. The program
some standard symphony, and a set of
would run about as follows.
orchestra parts. The piano, of course, fur-
I. Fantasia and Fugue in A minor,
nishes the nucleus of the music. The other
for piano
Bach
parts are played by whatever instrumental-
John Erskine
i s t s happen to be present. Some evenings
II. Aria "Celeste Aida"
Verdi
there will be two flutes, six violins, one
Robert Ringling
bass, two cellos and a trumpet. The fol-
At the Piano: Neysa McMein
lowing week may see a clarinet, two violins,
III. Double Concerto for Violin and
four violas and a bassoon. It all sounds
C e ll 0
Brahms
quite horrible (the description, I mean), but
the
Violin, Nicholas Longworth
players have a wonderful time.
Cello, Robert Haven Schauffler
The music critics seem to favor the piano.
At the Piano: Ethel Barrymore
Perhaps it is not quite fair to call them
IV. Concerto in G, Op 58 for piano
amateurs, but inasmuch as they play for
and orchestra
Beethoven
enjoyment, and not as a career, it seems
Piano, Ethel Barrymore Colt
permissible. The late James H. G. Huneker
w a s a fine
Orchestra under the direction of
pianist and taught the piano at
one
H. L. Mencken
time. Olin Downes, of the "New York
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Florida, and vice-president of the Lharles
Ringling Company, a real estate corporation;
but he is also one of the leading tenors of
the Chicago OpeTa Company. Neysa McMein
you undoubtedly know as the artist who
drew the cover of this month's McCall's.
Her friends know her equally well as an
indefatigable pianist and composer of
"blues."
Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House
of Representatives, could be a concert violin-
ist today if he chose to give up politics.
Robert Haven Schauffler, lecturer, army of-
President Dawes, who, as you probably know,
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PRIZES A W A R D E D FOR N E W
_ . _ . _ _ ADIKICT n L C i r k I C
K A U I U l^ADIINtl U t i l t 7 l N i
Winners of the first three prizes in the
$10,000 contest for ideas in the improve-
ment of radio cabinets received checks re-
cently from the Westinghouse Electric &
Mfg. Co., which conducted the competition,
Peter
Copeland,
twenty-seven-yeaT-old
architect of Newark, N. J., won the first
prize of $5,000, Mrs. Lucky K. Wilkes, of
Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, the second prize of
$2,000, and Charles Preston Bassett, of Pitts-
burgh, third place and $1,000.
The contest opened September 24 last and
closed December 24, 1930. More than
150,000 designs for improved cabinets were
submitted and the judges had to consider
models in both full size and miniature, to-
gether with finished drawings of the cabinets.
Fire Causes Small Loss
There was a slight fire in the lumber yard
of Winter & Co., New York, recently, which
destroyed a stock of shooks and the shed in
which they were stored. The fire fortunately
did not do any damage to the factory
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