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$:/.• lif .•â- W,>V.".; THE LAKE SHORE NEW^ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 192fr ,; Ration Interested in Develop- IZnient of American Music; Emphasized in Schools â- ;.-"â-  INTEREST IS UNIVERSAL American Compositions Now Demanded by Opera Patrons BY MRS. CHARLES L. BYRON &It is because "Music maketh glad Itfee hfiftrt" tiâ„¢* Amftrlna cRlphratea her Seventh Annual National Week ot Song during the week of Wash- ington's birthday. / Several events propitious to the fu- ture of music in American have hap- pened lately. r At a meeting called oy the mayor of Philadelphia, Edward Bok assisted in launching a new music organizer tion whose aim la to work to bring. time the judges will choose the prise work. It will be played the last day of Festival and also at a regular Sym- phony concert next season. - â- â- â- wr.'- American Composers "Here" Percy Grainger comments: "we need not wait longer for the Ameri- cas composer;â€"He is hererâ€"Some of his compositions are as striking as skyscrapers and as American as base- ball-" The Festival program includejsJMu- ratore, Margaret Matzenauer, Famakl Miara, the Japanese soprano, and Luella Melins, an American coloratura soprano, whom Jean de Reske called "the American Patti." There is a general increase in mu- sicalactivities ~in the; length and breadth of this land. New, sym- phonies, choruses, music schools and clubs are springing up every where. The West coast, particularly Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles, shows a musical strength that is attracting musicians. The World's Fair in 1925, scheduled for Portland, Oregon, contemplates plans for musical offerings of which any nation might be Justly proud. While speaking to thirteen hundred guests at the Chicago Chamber of Commerce last week, Harry Lauder said, "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind;, flight to the Imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to every- thing. Music with, a wee touch of friendship in it, or just a wee spark of love in it. Aye! It just makes you bubble over!"----- about a National Conservatory of music In this country, one which will put its stamp of approval upon na- tive trained artists and thus eliminate the necessity of going to Europe for recognition. Another ambition of the organiza- tion is to arouse public opinion gen- _«£?£^f*to"Ltt». as!ls^n^Sh^Jft attending -ficTaTsJh high places tA ^tab^^th-Mrs^ Portfolio of Fne Arts in the Presi dent's cabinet; The movemem gaining momentum. t&m&r ^Teaeherft-StaKiy.JWock ,-. . _ ^ laasl summer 6,000 public school teachers in Pennsylvania toot special summer courses for nine weeks in music, and next summer it is estimat- ed that there will be 10,000 enrolled. The primary object, the director of ~Putti«r^nstructidn~po1nfs ou£ is to bring good^m^ 'V'masMsi.^SWSf" "v:S^:'H> ; ;T~^; â-  ".'â- .' â-  ^f :'"Z.:.Z Musical Composition is being stimu- lated in our land. The"^ederaTid^S^ just awarded a cash prize for the best composition for the organ. It was gratifying to note that "The Scanc^mW^WWi^^^^^W^^^x I *€BJchoM by Frank Patterson, "Castle* l Agrazant" by Ralph Lyford. To Produce American Operas ^lt is romored that if the Chicago I-jCivio opera company does not produce. Ntoenr^hatrthere ls1^m-J*Ainerieah-Op^ era Company" in the musical atmos- | phere of .Chicago a^Cto^ | .tog tO/be^born.':"liii:|.v'; '••â- . ---WB'^^M^M^ I The North Sbtofi Festlvat aiSc>tfa- I tten offered-^liOOOjziorLJtt^ best opl "SKestea composition in a prize con )sed January I. aeventy- ipts came from American in all parts of the coun- judges, Rubin Goldwack, composers try, •^^Judges^Jt^ select the five comnosittons which i they deem have-greatest merit and on May tL the Chicago Bymphony will play them at a pqbMc hearing "•----â€"-'â€"â€"^ Hot Water Bottle Ice Bags Atomizers l^opcineMln is a^|vitc^mg 'aloi^f^ Wilmette Women to Observe Day of Prayer For Missions "Women of all churches in Wilmette included in the Wilmette Church Union have been cordially invited to participate in the observance of the Annual Day of Prayer for Missions ____ „ services to-be-beld at -the-^rs^^^ngrega^ional-church F^ - ty, March -8f-4t"2 Ha^dockr Mrs. George P. 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