Show I CARNEGIE AIDS BRITISH MUSIC GIVES ORGANS Philanthropist Provides for Issuing of Tudor and Modern i. Works That Andrew Carnegie Carnerie has spent much money for tho improvement of or orthe the masses in n England nn and Scotland I Is well known but what he lie has done to promote British music has been re reported reported reported re- re ported less widely Cecil Forsyth the famous En English lIsh composer who sho is now in America gives an account in a recent number of ot Musical America of oC what Mr Carnegie Car- Car negie nc-ie has has done to foster fosler British music Mr 11 Carnegie believes that music is isan isan isan an elevating ele and con consoling influence He has thus thins far Installed Pod lOG organs In as many man British churches He Tic is also a patron patron of the Association of at Musical Competition Festivals and a abig abig big bl- contributor to th the Ro Royal al Normal college and Academy of Music for or the Blind one of or the the- best schools of or music music mu- mu sic sc in n the world Tudor Music Published 11 Besides all this ho he has expended much in the publication of oC Tudor and Elizabethan music Great numbers of oC manuscripts of oC this period were ly lying Ir- Ir ing ng in various libraries throughout En England land but through his hits funds a popular popular popular pop pop- ular of or this work is now be beInS' beInS being being be- be ing InS prepared by the Clarendon Press at Ox Oxford Cord I Of OC all Mr Carne Carnegie's ics ic's musical ac activities c ac- that of or most promise for Cor the future is probably his musical composition composition com corn position publication scheme This scheme provides pro for the tho annual publication publication pub pub- by the Carnegie trustees s oCon of oC one on or more but In no case more than six works wor's of outstanding merit Tho The judges are British musicians of oC the thc highest standing whose whoso names are kept secret but who will be varied from time to time tim so that different schools of oC musical thought may find expression Competitors must bo ho of oC British parentage and nationality and their compositions must bo original and heretofore unpublished The Tho work works work selected are aro published at al tho expense of oC the trustees who also safeguard safeguard safeguard safe safe- guard the copyrights and ro royalties of the composers Choirs Choir to Co Get Money Grunt For the future the Carnegie trustees trustees trus trus- tees arc are considering a lending library of music a bureau of musical advice and small smail grants rants o of mone money to lo loor orchestras or orchestras or- or an and choirs of or a a. deserving nat na na- na t ture turc ii re Mr MiS For Forsyth fth In his article points out how praiseworthy are arc Mr Carnegie's Carnegie's Car Car- negie's efforts to bring British music before beCore the world and asks this question question ques ques- tion If uH all this Is lone done for the United Kingdom wh why should It not be done dono for the United States It Is to be hoped that Mr MiS Ir Carne Carnegie Carnegie- le will answer this question a as satisfactorily sans satis factor l for Cor the land lantI of his adoption as ns he has done for the land of or his birth |