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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
" Mr. Janssen, how far have you been " I told
him. "Well, then, business here has been
rotten."
Wulchner.—"Unless matters improve, I'm
going at farming."
Rich & McVey.—"We don't expect much."
and he looked happy when he said it.
W. W. Bryant was selling a piano, so I fled.
I paled to see it. It was a genuine performance.
COLUMBUS.—Hockett Bros. & Puntenery.—
Mr. Hockett was very glad to talk about the
state of trade. He said : " Janssen, you are the
first man that has spoken to me in reference to
trade, and I'm glad to find some one that will
stand talking to, and then he went into details
which I will omit and simply give the synop-
sis. " Business is and has been rotten.''
Grubs said : " Hockett echos my sentiment."
Wolfram : '' Hockett has the same ideas for
this occasion that I have."
And there you are. I have been truthful,
strange as that fact may seem, and though
treating the condition of trade in a humorous
vein, yet it is all but that. I see nothing very
encouraging in the future, nothing to indicate a
return to the activity in the trade so noticeable
in years past, but instead, hard times, and that
for a long time to come. I may be wrong. I
know I honestly hope and pray that I am.
Yours, etc.,
B. H. JANSSEN.
DASHES MRt AND
THERE IN ST,
UOUIS,
frISS LETTIE CROWL is an applicant for
whistling honors. She resides in St.
Louis, and whistles for pastime. She set the
Exposition audience wild by her good work and
pleasant manner.
Mendelssohn Quintet Club under the name of
the St. Louis Quintet.
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THE HIGHEST TYPE."
STICK
HANDS
MANUFACTURED BY
171 AND 173 SO. CANAL STREET,
CHICAGO.
THE
Sterling Company
Bandmaster Sousa and Charles Klein will
furnish De Wolf Hopper with a new comic opera
for next season. The scenes will be laid in
Peru.
Leader Sousa's '' Salute of All Nations'' was
put on Monday at the Exposition and heard for
the first time. There are many catchy effects
in the execution of the great musical patch-
work. Such grand national airs as the
"Marseillaise," "Hail Columbia," "The
Star Spangled Banner, " " God Save the Queen, "
" Die Wacht Am Rhine, " and many others were
rendered by a grand chorus of thirty voices, with
accompaniments of fife and drum corps, mando-
lins, cornets and trombone quartets and bag-
pipe manipulators. The military effect neces-
sary was furnished by a company of the
National Guards. This same effect, with a few
changes, was executed by Leader Sousa in New
York, and for actual battle field effect he had the
discharge of guns by a battery of artillerymen.
Aleck Robertson and Peter Perry, both well-
known pipers, furnished the bag-pipe effect.
The growth of chamber music is a sure sign
of the musical advancement of a community.
There is encouragement in the fact that this
form of music has made rapid strides, locally,
within the past two years. The present season
opens well, with the reorganization if the old
In connection with this form of music, the
Cecilia Society, which last year had a remark-
ably successful season, from both an artistic and
financial standpoint, announce an even more
attractive program for the coming season. The
first of five concerts will be given early in
November by the Theodore Speering Quartet,
with Mrs. Katharine Fish as soloist. The
young St. Louis violinist has created quite a
furore in Chicago, and his quartet is quite a
popular organization. Mrs. Fish was the sen-
sation of the Hartford festival last week. The
other attractions will be Henri Marteau, the
famous French violinist, and his company,
with Mme. Rosa Lendh, soloist. They will ap-
pear in January. The Detroit Philharmonic
Club will appear in February, followed a month
later by the Bernard Listemann quartet. The
New York Philharmonic sextet, with Miss Mar-
ion S. Weed, soloist, will wind up the season in
April. The subscriptions so far has been en-
couraging.
ABBOTT VEATCH.
R£PU£T£ WITH GOOD
THINGS,
31?HE KEYNOTE for September, replete with
~c) good things that are sure to interest the
musician and the follower of the dramatic art,
is at hand. The matter it contains is all read-
able, bright and well arranged, and is brought
down to date. The editorial matter is especially
worthy of perusal, while the criticisms are writ-
ten nearly always with a view to fair dealing.
The foreign news is all of an interesting charac-
ter, and the special articles on musical and
dramatic topics contain much that is both help-
ful and entertaining. The personal matter is
well selected and there is a generous amount of
it. The music contained in this number is,
" Crossing the Bar," by E. R. Kroeger, words
by Alfred Lord Tennyson ; an arrangement of
a Schubert minuet by Rubinstein, and "Con-
stancy," a ballad, by Daniel Spillane, words by
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.—Minneapolis, Minn.,
Saturday Evening Spectator.
WHOLESOME AND
VIGOROUS,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Pianos and Organs,
DERBY, CONN.
It is admitted by all that no piano ever put upon th-
market has met with such success as THE SIEKLING
and thousands will testify to their superiority of work-
manship and durability. Why ? Because they are made
jusl as perfect as a piano can be made.
,,THE STERLING ORGAN has always taken the lead, and
the improvements made this year puts it far ahead of
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Hallet & Davis Pianos
•SjjjHE KEYNOTE is a monthly magazine
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dozen or more years of its existence. It was
founded, we believe, by Frederick Archer, and
was most excellent under his administration.
Of late years it has been obscured, but Mr. Ed-
ward Lynian Bill has rescued it, and in the
three numbers which have appeared since he
has had it, there is evidence that it is to be once
more a wholesome and vigorous musical period-
ical. It caters to a large class of people, not
only musical but general. The typographical
appearance must attract attention, and these
first numbers are as full of good reading as they
well can be. Success to The Keynote, Mr. Bill.
— The Vocalist, New York, October.
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