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...America's Declaration of Musical Independence", is the light in which Mr. Max Rabinoff, views his Stony Point School of American Opera. According to Mr. Rabinoff who spoke in the Music Building yesterday, the time has arrived for the country to develop a distinctively American type of operatic music, and he proposes to assist materially in its production at his school at Stony Point on the Hudson...
...This is the psychological moment for the development of American Music," said Mr. Rabinoff. "The chaos in Europe has made available in this country for the first time men of first class musical talents." He spoke particularly of one man, a famous Russian conductor, whom he had offered $3500 a week before the war in a vain effort to get him to come to this country. This same man is now living from hand to mouth in Berlin, willing to offer his immense talents to anyone who will give him enough to live...
...Rabinoff, the well-known musician will speak this afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Glee Club Room of the Music Building. He will talk informally on "The Founding and the Aims of the Stony Point School of American Opera." All members of the University are invited...
...Rabinoff is known the country over for his liberal efforts in behalf of American music. He is the founder and developer of the American Operatic School at Stony Point, on the Hudson, and will discuss its purposes and results at the meeting this afternoon. The school was founded for the study of American Folk Songs, in an endeavor to secure some basis for a distinctly American opera. A number of musicians live at the school and conduct original and special researches in these subjects...
...Rabinoff has been connected with the musical life of the University for some time. Last year he was instrumental in bringing the Ukranian National Chorus to Sanders Theatre...