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MUSICAL CHRONICLE

Guild depends upon the interest and aid of competent singers and instrumentalists. It earnestly hopes for the support of the musical public.

"Last season the Guild gave three concerts in New York, at the Greenwich Village Theater. In these concerts the twenty-seven composers represented were of nine nationalities. The series was undertaken without guarantees and was carried through without a deficit.

"The International Composers' Guild, Inc., announces its second series of concerts in New York. They will be given in the Klaw Theater, in 45th Street on the evenings of December 17th, 1922, January 21 and March 4, 1923. The members and subscribers are invited to attend a series of lectures on 'The Music of To-day,' which will be given under the auspices of the International Composers' Guild.


"1st program—December 17, 1922: works by Busoni, Honegger, Lourié, Ruggles, Turini. Madame Maeterlinck, soloist.

"2nd program—January 21, 1923: Schoenberg—'Pierrot Lunaire'—first time in America. Eva Gauthier, soloist.

"3rd program—to be announced.

"The following composers have contributed for the Guild programs:

"Bela Bartok, Arnold Bax, Alban Berg, Alfredo Casella, Acario Cotapos, Carl Engel, Louis Gruenberg, Eugene Goossens, Arthur Honegger, D. E. Ingelbrecht, Zoltan Kodaly, Walter Kramer, Ethel Leginska, G. Francesco Malipiero, Roland Manuel, Darius Milhaud, Vitezlav Novak, François Poulenc, Serge Prokofieff, D. Rudhyar, Carlos Salzedo, Lazare Saminsky, Erik Satie, Florent Schmitt, Arnold Schoenberg, Albert Stoessel, Igor Stravinsky, Karol Szymanowsky, Edgar Varèse, Anton von Webern, Vaclaz Stepan, Ch. Koechlin, Turini, Ruggles, Lourié, Busoni."