Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
44
THE MU3IC TRADE REVIEW
dance or a patter song like Casey Jones, and then
the mob jumps in to improve on the idea. Then
another new idea crops up, and the rush is re-
newed in another direction. The present demand
for popular music, good, bad and indifferent, and
the hot competition between song writers and
publishers to meet that demand, is the charitable
explanation of the lack of originality. There is
no time for careful thought.
composer write a song celebrating the joy of the
domestic arts; let him call it "The Dear Old
Kitchen Range," and have a verse about the trans-
cendent happiness of baking bread in a fourteen-
foot sweltering kitchen on a July morning. Then
if the harassed housewives are overrun with cooks
and second girls and laundresses, the presence of
EDWAKD LYMAN BILL - Editor u d Proprietor
the musical work germ will be clearly established.
J. B. SFILLANE, Muaglig Editor
To locate, to capture and then to cultivate it will
be a matter of no scientific embarrassment. And
B. B. WILSON. Editor Music Section
The Work Germ in Music.
once in use work, as well as life, "will be one
We
have
many
accounts
in
history
of
music
r i M t o k * Itery Satartay at 1 Madteea Ararat. New York
stirring up worn-out and discouraged and ap- grand sweet song."
S0HCUPT10N, (Including postage), United •tatea and
parently defeated armies to a new life and vigor,
Mexico, $2.00 per year; C&mada, $t.SO; all •tmer COUB-
trUa. $4.00.
and making them victors; of music bringing hope
NEW MUSIC IN FAVOR.
and courage and enthusiasm. In the olden days
Telephones—Numbers M77 and 4678 Gramercy
Selections from New Operetta by Anatol
Connecting all Departments
slaves were taught and made to sing at their work
Friedland and Edgar Allan Woolf Promise
so they would work faster, and forget their mis-
NEW YORK. AUGUST 12, l t l l
Much for Scccess of Full Score When Piece
ery. Only the other day the Mississippi steamboat
Is Produced.
men raised a howl to high heaven over the scarcity
of roustabouts. They couldn't handle freight.
All matter of every nature intended
At the various little opera parties held in their
Now, these same captains are crying over a plague
for this department should be addressed
of them. Incidentally they are cursing the popu- homes by the members of the social set it is be-
The Editor Music Section Music Trade
coming quite the thing to include in a program
lar song, "Steamboat Bill," as the cause of their
Review, 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
troubles. Since that song came out, the river selections from such successes as "Gipsy Love,"
men have been besieged by negro applicants for "Baron Trenck," "The Count of Luxembourg," and
jobs. They don't care where the boats go. They several of the fetching numbers from the new
have no objection to the kind of work, and they operetta by Anatol Friedland and Edgar Allen
profess indifference to the pay. All they want is Woolf, despite the fact that the production has yet
to be steamboat men and have the adoration, es- to pass th escrutiny of the firstnighter. As a man
well up in things in the operatic and musical com-
pecially feminine, which follows such jobs.
There's a deeper side to the matter, however, edy field said after hearing part of the music of
With things beginning to happen in the amuse- than the river men have found. Music has abun- the newest operetta:
ment world, with the musical comedy and bur- dantly inspired love and patriotism and courage,
'"I suppose with Straus and Lehar ringing in
lesque companies preparing to win the favor of
but this is the first time it has been propulsive to one's ears it is blasphemy pure and simple to
the public, the publishers of popular music are free labor. Science will say that the germ of
praise an unknown American, but, believe me, Mr.
keeping a sharp lookout to see just how their work work lies in the song. The indications point that Friedland has written a waltz and a couple of
during the spring and summer months will pan way, but not conclusively enough to satisfy any lay
ringing, rollicking finales that will give the authors
out before the critical first-nighters and the slightly mind. A mightier demonstration is needed. The of 'The Merry Widow' and 'Gipsy Love' some-
less critical' who follow. From the present pros- element of romance enters into the "Steamboat thing to do to eclipse when the Woolf-Friendland
pects the songs for the coming season will show Bill" problem; the question of sex admiration piece is heard on Broadway. As the custodian of
few revolutionary tendencies, with the possible ex- still further complicates it. If this work germ can quite all the musical intelligence at present en-
ception that, always with the desire to be up to be located in some other song, praising a prosaic lightening the universe, I predict that you are
the minute, the song writers have given their at- occupation, then science can make out its case.
going to sit up and gasp with surprise and delight
tention to aviating instead of automobiling for
The opportunity lies right at hand, says the if the whole score of the new American operetta
subject matter for their songs. It would appear Scranton, Pa., Times. Never before has the ser- rises to the level of the fragments that are already
to the unprejudiced that styles in songs depended vant girl question been so pressing; never before, being sung in New York."
to a large extent upon what the other fellow does. as proved by the statistics of the Hearth and Home
Of course, Leo Feist will publish the new oper-
Once in a long, long while a song writer gets a Association, have there been so many distracted etta, and will have something interesting to an-
really new and original idea for a song, a style matrons seeking for help. Now let some inspired nounce in that connection at an early date.
that is different and not merely a new series of
words or notes that are expected to bring about
a hit because a similar song by another writer has
made good. Someone comes along with a ragtime
THE
COMMENTS B Y - „
I
"ALL ALONE"
"ALL ABOARD FOR BLANKET B A Y "
HIT)
IT'S GOT TO BE SOMEONE THAT I LOVE"
We are publishers of the following
Successful Productions
"THE COUNT of LUXEMBOURG"
"THE QUAKER GIRL"
"GIPSY LOVE"
"THE PINK LADY"
"MARRIAGE A LA CARTE"
"THE SLIM PRINCESS"
"THE ARCADIANS"
"THE BALKAN PRINCESS"
"HAVANA"
"THE CLIMAX"
C H A P P E L L & CO,, L t d .
41 East 34th St., New York
"UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE"
HARRY VON TILZER MUSIC PUBLISHING COMPANY
ADDRESS ALL MAIL TO
NEW YORK OFFICE
Most Beautiful Child Ballad Written
In Years.
"Will The Roses
Bloom In Heaven?"
By Chas. K. Harris
Columbia Theatre Bldg.
Broadway and 47th St.
If
MEYER COHEN, M fl r.
125 West 43d Strati, New York City
This is a collection
of twenty-eight beautiful
compositions, especially
adapted and arranged for
cornet solo with piano ac-
companiment by W. Paris
Chambers. The very fact
that Mr. Chambers, fa-
mous as a virtuoso and
musician, has arranged
the music, will be a suffi-
cient guarantee to any
cornetist, of the excel-
lence of this folio. Par-
ticular attention is drawn
to the infinitely great va-
riety of the contents,
making the collection one
that will be useful on
every occasion. Price
(Cornet with Piano Accom.), 75 cents.
THE MOST POPULAR
CORNET SOLOS
HINDS. NOBLE & ELDREDGE, 31-35 West 15th Street. New York
Just
Just
Published
THE ROOT EDITION
Published
BEAUTIFUL
Trade Supplied by the McKlnley IVlusio Co., Chicago and New York
The Root Edition Beautiful is bring adrertiaed in erery mueicftl magazine ia tkU country. 100,000 murie tetekere arc being supplied with catalog! containing tlematie and d*
aariation *f «*eh pi«c«. If yon do not supply th« ^demands you wiU hurt for the edition itia because you lack interest in the ncweat publication! and that meana you art not up-to-date.
WriU for samples.
JVU>KHVL,BY MU8IC
COMPANY
CHICAQO
A N D N B W YORK