Show Native Composers T To Have Have- Outlet F For or Music Works V Noncommercial P Pre r C s s Formed to to Publish Compositions by Americans I NEWT NEW YORK bel Much l has been done clone li-i li timis country for time the American interpretative artist Time young singers fiddlers ers pianists etc ete are arc not without aid In their long uphill SI s The rhe creative cre- cre musician on the other hand han with the thc exception of occasional prize offers and amI sporadic single has had to 10 work wont single handed and unaided Now ow however time the first practical step toward the encouragement and support of the composer has been een taken by Alma M. M daughter of former Ambassador l l 1 Mrs s. s a musical enthusiast and patron of time the arts has decided to help out the situation by founding a press noncommercial non non- commercial In Its purpose to publish pub pub- lish works of contemporary ican composers It is called tIme the Cos COb Press after Mrs Wert- Wert helms helm's country home where so many many compositions havo hall had their birth in an atmosphere of interest and enthusiasm for the modern musical musical mu- mu idiom Time rhe Cos Cob Press says Is foun ed for the pur purpose pose ot of furthering American music by printing and andI I promoting works of If native com coin which ate are not of commercial value There is a growIng tion tiomi that American composition Is becoming independent authentic and truly of this continent and that American com composers particularly those who are ale writing music in the larger forms find it difficult to have theIr works published and anI almost al- al most equally difficult to have them performed We Ve wish to give the ti-ic American the pr support which is necessary for fOl him to lo unction function effectively Under the informal sponsorship of the following conductors time the press is assured the personal Interest interest Inter Inter- est of leaders will bo be a direct medium through which new music will find its Serge Kour- Kour sc of th time Boston Symphony Leopold of tIme the PI ladelphia ladel- ladel phia orchestra Ossip of time the Detroit Symphony Fritz Rei- Rei ncr nel of the Cincinnati Nikolai of time the Cleveland hertz of the San Flancisco Symphony C Georges Schnee of oC Los Ic William van Hoog- Hoog straten of the Portland Sandol Harmati of the tho Omaha Symphony Sym Sym- phony and Karl Kail Krueger of time the Seattle Symphony men Illen have shown their interest in the idea and id have offered their With the coop tation of publish publish- lug ing houses musical organizations arid and conductors itt ill Europe the Cos Cob Press hopes to open the conti- conti nent l field to American composers a field whIch In iii the past has been closed closel to their efforts It plans to tomake make not only this country but Europe as well well- conscious ot of time the current creative movement In American Amerlean Amer- Amer lean ican music |