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Died. Paul Marie Theodore Vincent d'Indy, 80, French composer (Istar Wallenstein, Fervaal), pupil of the late Cesar Franck, co-founder (1894) and director since 1911 of the Paris Schola Cantorum; in Paris...
...organists discussed technical, mechanical organ-problems, heard Pianist-Author John Erskine tell them that "the best music of the future" would be composed by them. They elected him an honorary member of the Association. They listened to the Schola Cantorum sing old motets under Conductor Hugh Ross, made a tour of Manhattan's finest church-organs: at St. Patrick's, St. Bartholomew's, Riverside Church, Temple Emanuel, Trinity Church and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Inventor-Pianist Hans Barth played for them on his quarter-tone piano...
Judges of the contest are Arthur Bodansky, Conductor of the Metropolitan Orchestra. Kurt Schindler, Director of the Scola Cantorum; and Ralph Baldwin, Conductor of the Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York...
Besides the contest this evening there will be a lecture by Dr. A. T. Davison '06 tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock before the Schola Cantorum at the home of Mrs. Otto Kahn. Dr. Davison will lecture on "Significant Periods in the History of Choral Music". The Glee Club will also sing the following seventeenth century choral selections: Adoramus Te, Palestrina Now Let Every Tongue, Bach Adieu, Sweet Amarillis, Millbye Fire, Fire, My Heart, Morley Crucifix, Bach The Hunter's Farewell, Mendelssohn We Praise Thee, Schvedov Hallelujah, Amen Handel...