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ANNOUNCE CONDITIONS FOR BOOTT MUSIC PRIZE CONTEST

Award of $100 to Be Made for Best Choral Composition Submitted

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Specific conditions which must be fulfilled to win the Boott Prize in Music, a $100 award for the best choral composition submitted by any student in the University before April 15, 1928, have just been announced.

The Boott Prize is given in accordance with the bequest of Francis Boott, 1831, who preferred that the style of music, of the compositions submitted should be in the school of Mozart and Cherubini. The composition is to be a chorus of four or more voices, with or without solovoices, and with or without accompaniment.

The title page of each manuscript must be signed with an assumed name, which is also to be placed on the envelope of a sealed letter containing the real name, the address, and the department of the University, of the competitor. All manuscripts are to be sent to Arthur Foote. New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, by April 15, 1928.

The prize will not be awarded unless a composition is submitted which is worthy of the prize in the opinion of the judges.

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