Show American Composers Concert WASHINGTON March 2tLThIs morning at Lincoln music hal in the presence of a distinguished distin-guished and critical audience an important step tvas talen in the work of placing American 6ic on a plane with other branches of American talent by the rendition for the first tie of a lonccrt programme selected wholly from compositions com-positions of America The idea of distinctively American concerts Attracted considerable attention among music 4v loving persons throughout the country and r v suited In directing notice to the rapid progress 1 Jnadc in the United States within a cornpara k lively recent period not only in the performance perform-ance but in the study and composition of music The entertainment tonight which was under Ihc auspices of the National Conservatory of Music is intended to be the inaugural of I series of strictly American concerts which Mrs Thurber toprojcctor of the jichcme hopes will embrace the leading cities Jf the country the object being more fully to apprise the American people of the works pf nativeborn citizens and stimulate the increasing increas-ing interest in music of a high grade The iiih soloists at these concerts lh also be Americans Ameri-cans and in many instances the scion Lions 1 be personally conducted by the composers The concerts will conclude with X grand American composers festival the llrst ipi the kind ever held to take place at Omaha Kovember 27 28 and > The pro amme presented sented tonight represented a native group of merican composers The selections tonight consisted of short pieces adapted to illustrate and contrast the diversity and originality of thought adeptness i adept-ness at orchestration and typical characteristics ito of the composers Each number the programme was well and arcfully rendered and the American composers son cert was very successfully inaugurated |