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THE
MUSIC TRADE
RE1VIEIW
iishfers and experienced composers will agree audience for prestige and salary, so that they
with the following excerpt:
are willing to take the risk. It is pleasant to
Difficult to Pick a Popular Winner.
reflect that practically never does an American
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is the time of the birds and flowers, audience "throw down" a singer in the manner
to some poet who may have written related above. Audiences here might retrain
tongs himself. (He might have done from either singing or applauding, but allow the
things.) 'Harmony Belt' recognizes the singer to stand or fall by her own work. On
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Edltir H i
conffeU truth of this saying, and spring is the the other hand, even in England a singer is a
J. I . SPILLANE, Htuglftg UUtr
tittle 1 whbn tailors of lyrics take the measure rare exception who adopts the role of a virago
of
itife public's current taste, and fit their prod- when some lout in the audience makes himself
R.W.SIMMONS, Editor Music 9*611*1
uct* kceOrdingly. Naturally, every outsider who a part of the show by audible protests.
l»«ry Safari** at 1 «• wanders llito the precincts of 'Tin Pan Alley' or
A Compliment from the Shuberts.
luitctmiott, (including pottfc**), tniUfl Bute* and 'Harmony Belt' wants to know how the 'hits' are
We note with interest that the New York
lUxIco, $2.00 per year; Canada, $1.50; all ether coun
composed and identified as 'winners.' Let them Review, the weekly publication of the Shuberts,
trlea, $4.00.
beware of the men who try to explain, for all recently adopted for its editorial page a depart-
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Connecting all Departments
honest publishers will admit that you can no ment headed "It Is Denied," followed by numer-
more pick a popular winner with certainty than ous paragraphs each headed by the word "that."
NEW YORK, APRIL 23, 1*10
you can Bafely assert that a race horse will win The publication is undoubtedly a clever one,
simply because the odds on him are one to five. wholly irrespective of theatrical politics. Part of
All matter of every nature intended
A composer who has gained something of a Its cleverness, we feel, is shown by its apprecia-
for this department should be addressed
vogue and whose style has become known is tion of our own department, "The Review Hears."
The Editor Music Section Music Trade
usually certain of at least a profitable sale, but Thus the Shubert paper: "It Is Denied—That
Review, 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
you can never be sure whether his songs will be Nora Bayes will leave Jack Norworth," and so
the great money-making successes, or whether on through half a long column or so. Far be it
such will be those of some novice who has just from us to object to so polite a perversion of
turned out his maiden effort. It is a game of our own ideas, especially in these days of actual
chances—a game In which past performances piracy and note-for-note copies of music and
undoubtedly play a prominent role, but which word-for-word "lifting" of anything that savors
depends, in the final analysis, on luck alone. of first-hand news, with a strange forgetfulness
One could cite countless cases of songs that were to give credit for originality.
. The "Tin Pan Alley" man is back again. This regarded by their writers and publishers as
time, however, he has not made such a bungling mediocre, and that sold half a million copies.
KOCH BUYS CONSOLIDATED CO.
excursion as usual. In fact, three out of five One such song made $100,000 for its authors, and
of bis statements in a recent issue of the New will be popular ten years from now. Other Former President of Milwaukee Music House
York Evening 1*o*t are quite correct, and do not, fongs that were expected to win fell quite flat."
Purchases Assets at Receiver's Sale.
How "Audience" Singers Take Risks.
as heretofore, make those who really know
An incident that should be of Interest to sing-
something of what the denizens of the district
(Special to The Review.)
Milwaukee, Wis., April 18, 1910.
are doing wish that some guardian would keep ers and writers and publishers of "audience"
At the postponed receiver's sale of the assets
the pen and ink out of the child's reach. A songs took place in London recently. One "Vic-
Jtopeful sign in the prodigy is that now, in re- toria Monks took exception to a remark made of the Milwaukee Consolidated Music Co., held
ferring to the section of the city where most of by someone in the audience at the Holborn The- April 15, Henry A. Koch was the highest bidder
the publishers of popular music are located he is ater and sailed into the offender verbally. A and purchased the entire assets of the company.
Just as much inclined to indite "Harmony Belt" battle of words ensued, and during the volleys The purchase price has been withheld by Re-
as he is to spring the old "Tin Pan Alley" on us the curtain was lowered. Miss Monks "rested" ceiver R. P. Niemann until the court approves
again. The two terms are not synonymous, but during the remaining days of the week. There of the sale. Mr. Koch was president and held a
as he uses them as if they were we will accept is some, though little, excuse for the singer, for controlling interest in the concern and it was ex-
his literary paroxysms as symptoms of throes a public performer's work should not be checked pected that 'he would bid in the business. As
endured in the struggle to evolve a compliment. because one person in the audience dislikes It. soon as the court has passed upon the sale the
We cheerfully present herewith a brief view of The interesting point of it all is that any "audi- management of the business will be decided
the child of his brain, where those "in the ence" singer is really taking some risk when- upon.
know" will see it, so that his travail of writing ever the audience is asked to join in the refrain.
The sale was held according to an order from
may not have been wholly in vain. Most pub- The singers depend upon their reception by the the Circuit Court as a result of the suit brought
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