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separation, but whether it is due to 'him' or to
'her' the librettist does not make clear. Anyhow,
they loved each once, and he went away, or she
went away, or they both went away. They were
to meet when the next crop of hay was gathered,
but something happened. It is in waltz time.
"Children's songs are always good when they
are very, very good, but the public has become so
fastidious in such things that only a few little
children's songs make a 'hit.' One of the wonder-
ful ones this winter comes from Jerome H. Re-
mick & Co. 'Won't You Come Over to My House?'
is its title, and it is played much at public gath-
erings. It is a variation on the usual idea, for
in this case an adult tells it to a child. Songs
of the 'Bedelia' type are too popular to die,
and too much liked to be called novelties. There
are a half dozen of them popular this winter.
"Signs are not wanting to show that the mod-
ern Afro-American 'coon song' is not so popular
now as it was. However, there is still a demand
for the syncopated melodies, and there are a half
dozen or more in the market to-day that 'go.' M.
Witmark & Sons are still receiving loud calls for
'I've Got to Dance Till the Band Gets Through.'
'Bill Simmons/ which has a steady vogue. Of
the two newer ones are 'Moses Andrew Jackson,
Good-bye,' a work of Ben Shields, and 'Abraham
Jefferson Washington Lee.' They are farewell
songs in which certain domestic woes are recited.
The second stanza of the first named reads like
a complaint in a separation suit.
"Vesta Tilley is bringing from London what
Francis, Day & Hunter say is the logical succes-
sor to 'Waiting at the Church.' New York is tak-
ing more and more to English popular songs of
a lightsome kind, and 'Poor John' is thought to
be one that will win popular approval. 'Mollie
Malone'. is another importation that seems to
have struck the fancy, according to Francis, Day
& Hunter. They class a large number of the
'hits' to-day as 'Broadway walking songs.' The
kind very prevalent is in musical comedies, where
they stroll backwards and forwards in the good,
old sextette style. 'I Like Your Way' is one of
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them, from Stern & Co., while Francis, Day & tie Girl," "Isle of Ding-a-Ling," "Arrah Wanna,"
Hunter offer 'Wouldn't You Like to Learn to all by Drislane and Morse, who have in prepara-
tion a new dainty number, "Won't You Be My
Love Me?' and 'Little Girl, You'll Do.'"
Honey?"
The Bradfords are using "Arrah Wanna," and
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report great success with it. Published by F. B.
Seems to be the Fate of Composers Who Turn Haviland Publishing Co.
Out Choral Works, Oratorio or Cantata—
Mills and Norris have added "Loving Time"
Scores Are Hired and Sales Are Few and Far to their clever act. It's from Haviland's.
Between—How Present and Prospective
Jack Drislane and Theodore Morse have just
Copyright Laws Affect Matters.
returned from Philadelphia and Chicago, where
they have been introducing "Arrah Wanna" and
A letter to the New York Sun recently, tell- their other song hits.
ing of the difficulty a composer had experienced
in getting a hearing for his work, led another
VICTOR HERBERT, LIBRETTIST.
composer to point out one of the difficulties that
Victor
Herbert is an Irishman of large per-
follow after publication and production have been
sonality
and
ready sympathy, but he has not es-
accomplished, as follows:
caped, the usual fate of the composer in running
"The composer in question may have had a counter to the men who write the words to which
genuine grievance/' said he; "hut it is only he has to give a musical setting. At a large the-
when his work has been published that his real atrical dinner recently the autograph fiend was
troubles begin. If he has written a choral work, more than usually busy, and, while Mr. Herbert
oratorio or cantata, he naturally expects to get was engrossed in conversation with the man on
some return for his labor when his work is pub- his right, a mountain of menus accumulated un-
licly performed. The composer looks for money observed on his left, already scribbled over with
returns from the sale of his books to choral so- signatures. Finally his attention was called to
cieties precisely as a novelist looks to the sale them. At first he was aghast, but he finally bor-
from his stories to the public. What happens rowed a pencil and said: "Oh, well! I'll show
in the case of the composer is this: A few 'em I can write as well as those d
d libret-
choral organizations will buy his work from the tists."
publisher, but the vast majority hire them of a
The task cost him his dessert, and when he had
New York man who makes it his business to buy
a limited number of copies of successful can- finished the man on his right timidly held out a
tatas and rent them to societies all over the menu as yet blank. "If you will write me one
country. Royalties, of course, are paid to the of those songs without music," he said, "I prom-
composer on the copies bought by the man in the ise that it shall remain in solitary state." "A
lending business, but thereafter the man who song without music, is it?" Mr. Herbert said, in
made the music gets nothing. I could name good-natured self-satire. "Very well, then!" And
scores of examples like that of a man whose scoring five lines and a clef he wrote the most
cantata was produced about ten years ago. As charming airs of his two latest scores, "Made-
soon as it proved its popularity about 200 copies moiselle Modiste" and "The Red Mill."
were bought by the lender, and these copies have
That Quartette have included "Won't You
been traveling ever since from Maine to the Pa-
cific Coast, used now by one chorus and now by Come Over to My House" in their act, and Em-
another, the composer getting merely the satis- pire City Quartette, Pan-Americ^ni Four, and
faction of knowing that his music is in constant Empire Comedy Four have all claimed this song
use, which is pleasant but doesn't pay the the best in their acts.
grocer's bill."
The "New York man who makes it his # busi-
ness" to hire out musical works, thus cutting out
the publisher from further sales and the com-
poser entirely of his royalty, is so well known
to the trade that mention of his name is su-
perflous. Under the present copyright law, it is
held that every time a copy is "hired" it is tanta-
mount to a violation of the statute. The pub-
lishers handling music of the kind from which
this man and others of his stamp have built up a
large and profitable business, having refused to
sell them on trade terms, therefore a suit for
$250,000 damages was instituted, and in which
the prosecution were defeated. Then an at-
tempt was made to amend the copyright law to
legalize the nefarious practice, and which was
reported out of committee in the House. It
provided, however, that the public performance
of a musical work should not be for profit in
order to be exempt. Finally "the let for hire"
provision is incorporated in the pending bills
as the sole and exclusive right of the copyright
owner.
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