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Qrie of-the moat important steps for tUtic-, tievelopment in America. havs i$eq^ takeiv by' a group of .devoted me'd' in Ne,w: York, wlio nave proposed /the} ^erection 'of a municipal musical "'' ''draraatic institute, financed ^partly .the city arid 'partly by-private >nSj The ideals beyond the theoretical --stage-, -in \that the:mayor hai^approved .the�>pjan and it was ; tje^ided that the city acquire the >p|i^>erty;ion\which] the building-will �-erected:
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;i:Without being at all' vainglorious "'^bout it, we can tell you, with partdon-�atle pride', that-the men who origin-Med the plan and were most active ih its propagation belong to us.. The
� 'leaders/ from the evidence at hand, .ia're' Philip Berolzheimer and Otto H.
Kahn.
� Mr*. Berolzheimer is one of the greatest music lovers that New York possesses. He is officially the City Chamberlain, a post that his business experience as one of the owners of the Eagle Pencil Company, has welf fitted him. But Mr. Berolzheimer goes out of the borders of his official duties in his service' to New York. It is due to him that municipal band concerts in the parks have been increased, and many are the concerts for the people that are held entirely at the expense of the chamberlain, although it would
-hardly be politic for t-he city rulers to . say so. These wise rulers, who are at present engaged in bitterly censoring the McMonmes statue, "Civic Virtue," becaus^ they conceive a couple of allegorical Loreleis to be a slur upon womanhood, have as deep .an insight intb'music as they have into sculpture, Hut'they say: "Here is Beroizheimer, a fan of music. .If he wants to spend hjs- money on it, we should worry," and they let Mr. Borolzheimer have hip own way with his music schemes. Besides his municipal music activities, �Mr. Berolzheimer is the donor of rpany scholarships for music students, mainly for students of the organ. He is himself a good organist, and has installed in his home.a fine pipe-organ. - vMr. Kahn's career, when he is not in his office at Kuhn, Tx>eb Co., is rather well known. There are few artistic enterprises in this country wjth which his name is not connected in .one capacity or ^another. He is also a finished tactician. In arguing for the furtherance of the institute plan, he impressed upon Mayor Hylan the fact that music soothes the savage
breast; this beihg in connection with the present crime wave that is deluging' the- ci.ty. -And Mr. Leonard Lier> lingT, the editor of the "Musical Courier," helped out nobly. "A piano in every criminal's home," quoth Mr. Liebling,. ''is a joy and peace forever," This Iogic~~was evidently irresistible to his Honor, for after asking for assurance on the subject of music versus crime, '.he agreed to the proposition.
The funds'-for-'the; erection of the institute .'and for its maintenance will be derived from an amalgamation of the moneys .collected for a war memorial, .which has now been abandoned,, with various other collections and presumably also with the Julliard Foundation. The balance will be asked "of 'the people. And if the latter is Hone, the success of the project is assured. For the sooner the proponents of public institutions get away from rich men's donations and appeal directly for the dollars and cents of the common mortal, the sooner will their -plans be realized. It is easier to ,get a million dimes than a hundred thousand-dollar checks.
The aim of the institution will be to create a center where a music conservatory and a dramatic school will be combined, with auditoriums for the presentation of opera and drama and various lectures, thus forming a most vital instrument for artistic culture. * * *
One musical turn leads to another, so .we will mention, the fact that we were much impressed with a p^age in a recent issue of "Musical America," where, in A. Walter Kramer's review section, the pictures of three members faced us all in a row. They were Samuel Gardner, Lazar S. \Yiener, and Harold Eisenberg. Gardner is the celebrated violinist; Wiener is a new arrival among our composers, and Eisenberg is a violinist and teacher.
Mr. Kramer has nothing but praise for the work? of each of these gentlemen. Gardner's piece under � discussion is a new composition, "Slovak," published by Carl Fischer, for the violin, which Mr. Kramer recommends that , Heifet/, Zimbalist and' EJman take up. Wiener wrote three songs, "Lament," "I Would Tell How I Love Thee," and "The Star," published -by G. Schirmer, the first of these songs being subtitled "Hebrew Melody," and Mr. Eisenberg (whom we suspect of being someone else)
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:--on -the works, - The -scheme would benefit -" Jews and Arabs alike. It would be the duty of the government to maintain public order and to protect these and.all important public works. ' vLord Raglan the'n asked whether the ' unemployed Jewish immigrants in Palestine were being formed into labor ., 'battalions; if so, how these battalions ,. were being employed, at what rates, apd from what funds they were being :-� paid. The Duke of Sutherland, in V replying to this question, said^that
- ' ia "July last y^ar xt was decMed, as
far as' possible, to replace Egyptian labor by Palestine labor on army work ' ia, Palestine. The Palestiniansv had, therefore, taken the place of the Egypt-. iin labor corps. -No "additional 'cost-- -vras involved. The High Commissioner and tiife Palestine Government .were fully alive to the possible economic ' ^dsujrers of unrestricted Jewish immigration. The present mtrictions were
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Lnbffeauied by a. recent decision under
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which all applications from intending immigrants, of what might be called laboring classes, had to be referred to .the . Palestine Government in the first place. Thejatter would decide whether the proposed immigrant could be admitted' without danger of unemployment.
On Sunday last, Mr. Frank I. Lyons presided at the -consecration of the new classrooms attached to the Hamp-stead Syrjagog. The Revs. A. A. Green arid VV. Stoloff conducted a brief religious service. Mr. Lyons, in the course "of his address, expressed the hope that, with the better accommodations now available, the classes would meet^ more frequently, and that the children of a larger number of merflbefs would attend. He also made �an appeal for a-fund for the beautifying of the synagog. The chief rabbi said that the new building was the finest of th� kind in the metropolis. He emphasized the teaching of religious discipline as the mam function of the passes., �
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