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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 25 Mar 1937, p. 42

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Strespr~ened ~ ew- Trier High fichool, the past thirteen years, under the spensorship.,of h Winnetka M4usk club. A survey of the singersz and: istrumefltàlists brought to the north shore for these music events discloses a long list of, national and international figures in 'the music Several of the figures, new and comparatively unknowfl at the, ti Me of their first appearance, here, bave since become top-ranking artists, cer- tain évidence of the djscrimiflatifg taste of the committees wbich hiave chosen and arranged t hge programs. Vladimiar Horowitz, Russian pianist. was littie kno wn when introduced for the first tim 1e by the Artist-Recital series. When 'Toscanini says of a voice âit is *the greatest to corne into the world -in the last 100 vears," that singer. can feel that ber future is assured. It was of Marian Anderson that Tos- cnini recently spoke, Marian Anderson, the cotralto who sag on the north short this sta- son in thé Artist Recital series. STe first àâto-ad' at New Trier High school ten years ago, at the outset of ber career, under the auspices of another miusic group. Other brilliant figures of past seasons were Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the great pianist and last of the romanticists, who died last year; John - , zà the hrtonenp d Edward John- Ossi> GarilowitsCh, thse greqt i sist, u oi" of >fo#Py intemaUtiotGI figures in the music world presented et NMew 1' rwlr 1jh Fshoo the I pa$' by the Artist Recital series of thse Winetka M,&sic clgb. A committee i s ow conducting the subscription compaign f or the 1937-38 A rtist Recital series. the leading musical event of the 9om feature wihnners of vocal and instrumflental con- tests -in the huge, arena- that Saturday night., Philip, MaxwellI of the editorial' staff of The Tribune, who bias been director of the past festi- vals, announced that Henry Weber, musical con- ductor of W-G-N,. will be the musical director ofthis year's festival. Noble Cain, eminent coin - poser and leader of the Chicago A Cappella choir. again will be general choral director. Others on the staff wiill be Fred Miller, field su-- pervisor; Captain Howard Stube, instrumental contest chairman; M.\rs. Edmund J. Tyler, chair-, man of! vocal competitioti- Edwiard Barry, Chicago Tribune music. critic. musical adviser., and NMisr. Peggy O'Neil, festival.secretary. Quite a 'number of Americani newspapers andi musical organizations atready have sent in their entries. M ore visual entertainment will be pro- vided this summer. There is no entry fee andi sefýsoýjýî is permissible. Again there wTil be cotittorbat1ds, eher*u.es, vocalists, druni corps, baton twirlers, cornet1stfz. %-ioAiis~tS. and harmonica players.- Hîs. Whitmore Sisugs on Music Socuety Program operanere ni in u k., Edward johnson, too, bas 1Coast to Coast. for his radio as egan bis carter has appeared in tan. presented twice mrof a twô-ytar Leoncavallo; "T Tree,". Edward 1 Bert Nevin, and r.atîL 55f.-~.WU5%' w-6 #wceeu ino>era, omd «sto t, nbmong; eA for a Mme a dwvoting ~s Ot US)> tDb ve cmc Iring the irteeii years al this concert series. 'was A>r1 by Anne

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