No Award

No Award

No Pulitzer prize in Music was awarded this year. Usually $1,500 is handed to "the student of music in America, who may be deemed the most talented and deserving, in order that he may continue his studies with the advantage of European instruction." Possible winners handed in original compositions. These manuscripts were duly examined by a committee, consisting of Daniel Gregory Mason (Chairman), Professor Walter Henry Hall and Dr. Walter Damrosch. The result, just announced by Mr. Mason: "None of the contestants showed sufficient promise to warrant his receiving the reward." So there will be no young American Pulitzer scholar in music who will sail this Summer. This is a blow to native pride. But hundred percenters may point out that our young musicians may receive just as good--or better--training by patronizing American teachers, than by journeying across the Atlantic and squandering $1,500 in Paris, Munich or Vienna.