SCHUBERT CENTENARY

Evening Star, Issue 19918, 14 July 1928, Page 17

SCHUBERT CENTENARY

THE 1 UNFINISHED SYMPHONY ' COMPETITION

700 MANUSCRIPTS RECEIVED.

Fivo hundred manuscripts have boon received by tho directors of tho Columbia Gramophone Company for the competition they have been organising in lionour of Schubert’s Centenary. Competitors were asked either to finish the

I.iifinislied Symphony’ or to compose a work in the Schubert tradition, £-1.000 being offered in prizes. Tho works submitted include overtures, symphonies, suites, tono poems, and variations on Schubert themes. England. Scotland. Ireland, and the dominions have sent in sixty-six manuscripts; Franco heads tho list with .seventy-two; America sent seventy-une. Germany sixty-nine, Scandinavia sixtyfour, Austria sixty-two, Italy forty-five, Russia and Poland twenty-nine each. The English entries are now being judged by Sir Thomas Bcecham, who is spending his AVhitsim holiday with tho manuscripts. 'The other members of tho British jury are Sir Hugh Allen. Sir Walford Davies, Sir Alexander Mackenzie. and Professor Donald F. Tovey. 'The names of the winners in each zone will bo announced shortly. The winning competitions will bo .sent to Vienna, where they will bo voted upon by a grand jury consisting of olio, juror from each of tho ten zones.

“The- competition has been an astounding success.” a director of the Schubert Centenary Committee said. “Frankly, wo expected at tho most 100 manuscripts from all over the world, but tho enthusiastic response by musicians and tho amazing quality of some of tho entries have more than justified tho competition. Tho task of tho English adjudicators is a .particularly onerous one, lint wo hope to announce the winner in this zone in a few days.”