Ditson's $800,000

Eight institutions received $100,000 each for musical education last week under the terms of the will of Music Publisher Charles H. Ditson. Beneficiaries are: Harvard, Yale, Columbia. Princeton, New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Chicago Musical College, Cincinnati College of Music, Ann Arbor School of Music (University of Michigan). The terms of bequest are similar. The money may be used for one or more of these purposes outlined in the will: to maintain a chair or chairs of music, musical history, or musical esthetics; to maintain scholarships or fellowships in music; to give public performances; to do anything--musical.

Charles H. Ditson was president of Oliver Ditson Co. of Boston and of Charles H. Ditson & Co. of New York. His father, Oliver, was founder in 1835 of the music publishing house. With it the testator was associated from 1865 until last spring, when he died.

Do, Re, Mi

P: Old rumors that Manhattan's beloved Carnegie Hall would be sold and torn down were routed last week with the announcement that a new "Andrew Carnegie Memorial" organ has been purchased for the auditorium. Built by George Kilgen & Son. Inc., of St. Louis (organ architects for St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan), it will be one of the largest and most elaborate in the U. S.

P: Three Americans, three Hungarians, three Russians and an Italian will next year take seats left vacant by ten men in the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. One of them, First 'Cellist Alfred Wallenstein, descends from the famed militarist immortalized by Schiller.

P: Leopold Stokowski, nearest to the zenith among conductors, will direct only half the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts next season, and thereafter less and less.

P: In Berlin, last week, Maestro Arturo Toscanini announced after the Scala Company's festival performance that only once more--at the Bayreuth festival next summer--will he conduct opera. Thereafter his baton will wave only at symphony concerts.