Do-Re-Mi

Alert music reporters recorded last week:

P: That some 400 high school students are to attend a national high school orchestra summer camp on Lake Interlochen, near Traverse City, Michigan. Director Joseph E. Maddy of the Public School Music Department of the University School of Music at Ann Arbor will be in command. All students of good standing are eligible.

P: That John Erskine, professor (English Literature, Columbia University), author ( The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve), pianist, has been elected president of the Juilliard School of Music, hitherto governed by committee.

P:That 70-year-old Giuseppe Agostini redeemed an evening of Philadelphia Grand Opera. He stepped from the audience to the stage to sing the last act of Faust when Tenor Ivan Velikanoff was taken suddenly with bronchitis.

P: That music lovers in Madison, Wis., have at last been afforded relief from the stench pervading recent concerts. Madison, it seems, having no adequate house for big musical events, is forced to use the agricultural school's stock pavilion where many a lowing cow has left behind a scent-trace of its blue-ribboned presence. Citizen C. H. L'Hommediue of the Floralo Incense Co. saved the situation last week by spraying the place with a special eucalyptus formula of his own so that an audience could sit in aesthetic repose through a concert by the Madison Civic Orchestra and Chorus.

P: That four U. S. premieres will be given next season at the Metropolitan Opera House: Richard Strauss' Aegyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen) the title role to be sung by Maria Jeritza for whom it was written, who also will sing it at the Vienna premiere on June 11, the birthday of the composer; Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf (Johnny Strikes Up) with a black-faced comedian for the leading character; Respighi's Campana Sommersa (The Sunken Bell) and Pizzetti's Fra Gherardo. . . . That the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Directors have abandoned the three-million-dollar site on Fifty-seventh Street acquired by Otto H. Kahn two years ago for the new Metropolitan Opera House. Absolute friendliness, Mr. Kahn insists, prevails on the Board. Plans for the new house will proceed.