Show r e f CLUBS ACCEPT OFFER OF LOS ANGELES I I I I Prize of OO to 10 Be Given I Ifor for Best American Opera at Meeting in 1 1915 9 15 Chicago April 23 Los 5 ros Los Angeles was selected today as tho the place of or tho the 1913 convention of at the tho National Federation of or Musical Clubs and Mrs William Jamison who presented the tho offer after of ot tho the California city was assured as- as that tho the federation would hold all Its biennial gatherings there if It the Inducements for tho the 1915 convention wore repeated The Tho Los Angeles Opera association has offered a prize for tor tho the best American opera to bo be pr presented at tho the 1915 meeting and promised to spend at least In tho the entertainment entertainment entertain entertain- ment of ot delegates Mrs Jamison said the tho offer probably would bo be repeated every four years ears provided pro the tho federation federa fedora tion lion does docs not offer oCtor any other prize for American operatic composition The Tho I le Je Musical club of ot Chicago of ol- bred a prize of or for tho best 11 lie llo- D- D for tor tho opera selected as aa winner of or tho the Los Angeles prize Delegates Deles generally were ore ere enthusiastic after these announcements and said eald the Induce Induct ments to American composers and wrIters writ wrIt- ers ens would contribute Incalculably to the Improvement of or American musical l art Mrs r Julius E. E Kinne Kinney of oC Denver Demer Cola Jolo olo was elected president and the entire ticket of the nominating com corn waH as name named at the tho annual election elec- elec Lion ion toda today Prophecies that ton years cars would eo co the ho extinction of or ragtime and that If ia-If that time would witness is music Installed as tho the most Influential sub sub- oct taught taus-ht in the public schools vero mC o by Miss Constance Constano Barlow Smith University of or Illinois Through th the school children tho the naIon nation na- na Ion tion will wIil return to the old folk tolk and nature aturo songs sho she said Today we stand upon tho threshold of or a new flew music n usi c. c |