Presto
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Other festivals will be the WSAU Music Festival, Wau-
sau, Wis., July 16; Central Illinois Music Festival, Urbana-
Champaign, 111., July 20 and 21; Egyptian Music Festival, West
Frankfort, 111., July 27; Illinois Valley Music Festival, Peru,
111., Aug. 3; Mississippi Valley Music Festival, East Moline, 111.,
Aug. 4; Greater South Side Music Festival, Chicago, Aug. 10;
Greater West Side Music Festival, also in Chicago, Aug. 11.
Victors from these preliminary contests will enter the
finals in Chicago. Persons living in territories not covered by
a preliminary festival will be heard in Chicago on the festival
day.
THE GOOD WILL AMBASSADORS OF THE
AMMARILLO ROTARY CLUB ARE MAKING HISTORY
ON A RECENT TRIP they put on eight programs including one
at Estes Park; one at the Rotary Club at Greely, Colorado;
one at Denver, Colorado, broadcasted over KLZ, Denver;
Rotary Club at Colorado Springs, broadcasted over KVOR at
Colorado Springs; a program for the underprivileged boys at
Colorado Springs; and also at a hockey game between Tulsa,
Oklahoma and Colorado Springs.
The following information comes from Mr. I. O. Tolzien of
the Tolzien Music Store of Amarillo:
The group pictured below are from left to right:
Gib Howard, singer, guitar player and known as a second
Will Rogers;
Floy Howard, his sister, very unusual personality as you
can see and a real show girl. She and her brother sing har-
mony songs that will take in anybody's town or with any
audience;
Cal Farley, a very outstanding citizen, live wire, the best
Goodrich Tire dealer in the United States, sponsor of the
Maverick Club of Amarillo (over 1000 under his supervision),
Boys Ranch (similar to Father Flanagan's institution) 16 boys
in this, sponsors a program every week with his Mavericks
and gives the PTA associations all the money which they can
raise by charging for his shows. Raised over $5000 the last
several years. Yours truly who gives a little support;
Vesta O'Dell, a wonderful pianist and the best example of
perfect pitch it has been my experience to know. A wonder-
ful kid. One of the piano team.
Julian Dean, teacher of music in the Jr. High School and
a great piano player entertainer and live wire. The other mem-
ber of the piano team.
A prime supporter of this good work is Irving Tolzien of
the Tolzien Music Store of Amarillo.
Mr. E. P. Williams of Gulbransen Company just told us
that two weeks ago Mr. Tolzien placed an order for a solid
carload of Gulbransen pianos.
L. to R. Gib Howard, Floy Howard, Cal Farley,
I. O. Tolzien, Vesta O'Dell, Julia Dean
APRIL, NINETEEN FORTY
Melville
Clark
Artist
and
Music
Historian
MELVILLE CLARK—MUSIC HISTORIAN AND ARTIST
Music Dealer Musician Personally Promotes New Instruments
During the last concert season, Melville Clark, President
of the Clark Music Co. in Syracuse, has appeared before many
fine audiences as an artist on the concert harp and his own
Clark Irish Harp, playing and lecturing before scores of audi-
ences, including Service Clubs, Schools and Colleges, and
private and school organizations. Mr. Clark not only plays
to these groups, but gives them historic sketches on the evolu-
tion of sound and tone production. Being the possessor of one
of the finest private collections of antique and medieval in-
struments, which includes many rare specimens of foreign
made harps, he uses them to excellent advantage in his ap-
pearances to illustrate the various points in his historical dis-
course. He is today a pre-eminent musical historian. To him
belongs the distinction of bringing to musical prominence, the
Irish Harp in this country. His new book, "Singing Strings"
is the most complete volume of facts concerning the harp.
The Post Standard of Onondaga recently described one
of Mr. Clark's concerts as follows:
"A stream of minute particles of negative electricity whip-
ped thru 161 vacuum tubes at the Technology Club meeting
last night, and the audience of more than 200 sat enthralled
as the crashing chords of Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C sharp
minor* resounded thruout the ballroom of the Onondaga. In
a program prepared and presented by Melville Clark. "The
Music of Tomorrow" and the music of yesterday became the
music of today."
* Played on Hammond Novachord
GOOD LUCK TO THIS BOY
A YOUNG MAN who is supporting himself during his musical
education by working as a janitor and a waiter in a tearoom
was the guest artist on Musical Americana, the program of the
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., on Thursday,
April 4, from 8: 00 to 8: 30 P. M., EST.
The guest, announced by Kenneth L. Watt, director and
producer of Musical Americana, was Harry Best Herforth,
student of the trumpet at the New England Conservatory of
Music in Boston. His appearance was one of a series by stu-
dents of orchestral instruments of the outstanding music
schools of the country.
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sau, Wis., July 16; Central Illinois Music Festival, Urbana-
Champaign, 111., July 20 and 21; Egyptian Music Festival, West
Frankfort, 111., July 27; Illinois Valley Music Festival, Peru,
111., Aug. 3; Mississippi Valley Music Festival, East Moline, 111.,
Aug. 4; Greater South Side Music Festival, Chicago, Aug. 10;
Greater West Side Music Festival, also in Chicago, Aug. 11.
Victors from these preliminary contests will enter the
finals in Chicago. Persons living in territories not covered by
a preliminary festival will be heard in Chicago on the festival
day.
THE GOOD WILL AMBASSADORS OF THE
AMMARILLO ROTARY CLUB ARE MAKING HISTORY
ON A RECENT TRIP they put on eight programs including one
at Estes Park; one at the Rotary Club at Greely, Colorado;
one at Denver, Colorado, broadcasted over KLZ, Denver;
Rotary Club at Colorado Springs, broadcasted over KVOR at
Colorado Springs; a program for the underprivileged boys at
Colorado Springs; and also at a hockey game between Tulsa,
Oklahoma and Colorado Springs.
The following information comes from Mr. I. O. Tolzien of
the Tolzien Music Store of Amarillo:
The group pictured below are from left to right:
Gib Howard, singer, guitar player and known as a second
Will Rogers;
Floy Howard, his sister, very unusual personality as you
can see and a real show girl. She and her brother sing har-
mony songs that will take in anybody's town or with any
audience;
Cal Farley, a very outstanding citizen, live wire, the best
Goodrich Tire dealer in the United States, sponsor of the
Maverick Club of Amarillo (over 1000 under his supervision),
Boys Ranch (similar to Father Flanagan's institution) 16 boys
in this, sponsors a program every week with his Mavericks
and gives the PTA associations all the money which they can
raise by charging for his shows. Raised over $5000 the last
several years. Yours truly who gives a little support;
Vesta O'Dell, a wonderful pianist and the best example of
perfect pitch it has been my experience to know. A wonder-
ful kid. One of the piano team.
Julian Dean, teacher of music in the Jr. High School and
a great piano player entertainer and live wire. The other mem-
ber of the piano team.
A prime supporter of this good work is Irving Tolzien of
the Tolzien Music Store of Amarillo.
Mr. E. P. Williams of Gulbransen Company just told us
that two weeks ago Mr. Tolzien placed an order for a solid
carload of Gulbransen pianos.
L. to R. Gib Howard, Floy Howard, Cal Farley,
I. O. Tolzien, Vesta O'Dell, Julia Dean
APRIL, NINETEEN FORTY
Melville
Clark
Artist
and
Music
Historian
MELVILLE CLARK—MUSIC HISTORIAN AND ARTIST
Music Dealer Musician Personally Promotes New Instruments
During the last concert season, Melville Clark, President
of the Clark Music Co. in Syracuse, has appeared before many
fine audiences as an artist on the concert harp and his own
Clark Irish Harp, playing and lecturing before scores of audi-
ences, including Service Clubs, Schools and Colleges, and
private and school organizations. Mr. Clark not only plays
to these groups, but gives them historic sketches on the evolu-
tion of sound and tone production. Being the possessor of one
of the finest private collections of antique and medieval in-
struments, which includes many rare specimens of foreign
made harps, he uses them to excellent advantage in his ap-
pearances to illustrate the various points in his historical dis-
course. He is today a pre-eminent musical historian. To him
belongs the distinction of bringing to musical prominence, the
Irish Harp in this country. His new book, "Singing Strings"
is the most complete volume of facts concerning the harp.
The Post Standard of Onondaga recently described one
of Mr. Clark's concerts as follows:
"A stream of minute particles of negative electricity whip-
ped thru 161 vacuum tubes at the Technology Club meeting
last night, and the audience of more than 200 sat enthralled
as the crashing chords of Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C sharp
minor* resounded thruout the ballroom of the Onondaga. In
a program prepared and presented by Melville Clark. "The
Music of Tomorrow" and the music of yesterday became the
music of today."
* Played on Hammond Novachord
GOOD LUCK TO THIS BOY
A YOUNG MAN who is supporting himself during his musical
education by working as a janitor and a waiter in a tearoom
was the guest artist on Musical Americana, the program of the
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., on Thursday,
April 4, from 8: 00 to 8: 30 P. M., EST.
The guest, announced by Kenneth L. Watt, director and
producer of Musical Americana, was Harry Best Herforth,
student of the trumpet at the New England Conservatory of
Music in Boston. His appearance was one of a series by stu-
dents of orchestral instruments of the outstanding music
schools of the country.
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TWENTY-SEVEN
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