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BOSTON PUBLISHERS ACTIVE*
General Satisfaction Expressed with the
Manner in Which the Business of the Year
Has Opened Up—Jacob's Orchestra Monthly
Gaining Steadily—Some Interesting Fea-
tures—B. Frank Wood in Southern Cali-
fornia—Some Recent Ditson Publications.
(Special to The Review.)
MUSIC
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is in iLself worth a great deal because of its very
informing character. There is a new album of
songs by Charles Wakefield Cadman; "Thou Art
So Like a Flower," by Heinrich Heine, set to
music by Stephen S. Townsend; "Where the
Misty Shadows Glide," by John A. Carpenter; a
song for Easter, "He Is Risen," with text by J.
M. Neale and C. F. Alexander and music by Ar-
thur E. Fisher; "Be Comforted, Ye That Mourn,"
by William Arms Fisher; "Dost Thou Regret?" by
T. Carlton. Some piano pieces include "Corals," a
caprice, by H. Engelmann; "My Regiment," by
Carl Wilhelm Kern; "Evening Prayer and Dance
of the Angels," by Engelbert Humperdinck, and
''Moment of Rapture," by Jean Antiga.
The Ditson house also has just issued a very
valuable handbook called "English Diction for
Singers and Speakers," by Louis Arthur Russell.
This is a companion book to "French Diction,"
issued earlier, which was a great success. Another
valuable volume is "Sound and Its Relation to
Music," by Clarence G. Hamilton, which is dedi-
cated to "My Very Dear Friend, Professor Ham-
ilton C. MacDougall. The February bulletin of
new music by the house is full of choice things
which will be reviewed with pleasure by music
lovers.
Joseph M. Daly reports that the business of his
company has been very large this month, and as
a proof of the size of the output of muse by his
firm he called attention to the fact that additional
room had been taken on the same floor of the
Gaiety Building, where his front suite of offices
are located. "And we would take the entire floor
if we could get it,' he added. About everything
that "Joe" writes these days makes good, and his
"Turkey Trot" has just been put into an instru-
mental score and is going to be a great favorite,
judging by the orders that are coming for it. "I've
Got You, Steve," of which Mr. Daly's company
ii the fortunate publisher, beats anything that has
been put out in a long time. There's a winner also
in the college piece, the "Good Fellowship March,"
which all the higher institutions of learning are
playing and which is whistled on the campus,
in the corridors and on the streets.
Boston, Mass., March 5, 1912.
The local music publishers are, as a rule, well
satisfied with the manner in which the business for
the year has developed, and state that their busi-
ness for the month of January was of a volume
that exceeded expectations. The various concerns
have been active in publishing large quantities of
new music and are pushing it in no uncertain man-
ner. On the whole, a healthy condition prevails,
and the prospects are that it will continue to pre-
vail throughout the year.
Walter Jacobs continues to meet with great
success with his enlarged issues of Jacobs' Orches-
tra Monthly. A new feature is a Boston resume
of the musical events of each month, which is being
widely read. A new piece that Mr. Jacobs is put-
ting out for the piano is "Four Little Pipers,"
which is a companion piece to "Four Lit+le Black-
berries." Like the latter, the "Four Little Pipers"
is by Lawrence B. O'Connor, a well known local
composer, who is coming to the fore fast with his
work. The cover of the score is to be a combina-
tion of plaids with a group of young Highlanders
in the center.
B. Frank Wood, head of the B. F. Wood Music
Co., is enjoying the delights of Southern Califor-
nia, and his stay there will not be concluded for
four or five weeks yet. The Wood company had
as a guest a few days ago Robert W. Staton, of the
house of Staton Bros., of Philadelphia, who was
in town for several days, accompanied by his wife.
The Wood company has been doing a splendid
business for the past few weeks, and the traveling
men are sending in large orders for the company's
most popular successes.
Business with the Oliver Ditson Co. has been
all that could be desired during February, and there
is every prospect for a good spring trade.. Mr.
THE MOVEMENTTFOR THE UPLIFT.
Desmond, of the traveling force of the company,
is at present in the Middle West and Mr. Furness Some Sharp Comments in the New York Sun
is still on the Coast, and both are sending home
Upon the Organizations Composed of "High-
large orders. The house, as usual, has a numbei
brows" Who Charitably Tell Us What We
of new publications. One of the large and ambi-
Should and Should Not Enjoy, Appreciate
tious publications of which mention was made a
and Support in the World of Art and Music.
month ago is the "One Hundred Folksongs of All
Nations," by Granville Bantock, being a part of the
One hears the wail of the highbrow through the
Musicians' Library. The text relative to the songs land, and from all sides comes the cry, "Give us
something for the intelligent public." So far the
intelligent public has been more entertained by
"The Pink Lady" than any dramatic production
which has been seen in years. The New Theater
languished. Drama players here and elsewhere
may struggle against indifference, but the receipts
ot "The Pink Lady" continue to mount. There is
no possible criticism of this musical farce, which
is most diverting and an admirable specimen of
its kind. Only the kind is not primarily devised
for the intelligent above all else. It appeals un-
deniably to the public that goes to be entertained.
It looks to-day as if the contest between the
drama leagues and similar organizations which
exist for the purpose of telling people, other people
at. that, what they should go to see, had as little
influence in directing public taste as the written
word of comment. There is one other awful alter-
native to explain the fate of so many plays which
start on their careers with a degree of praise which
ought to carry them to assured prosperity. Is it
possible that of all the purveyors of public enter-
tainment Flo Ziegfeld has come nearer to finding
the public taste? It might be possible to decide
this if the drama leagues over the country would
get the receipts of his various performances and
compare them with what the enterprises which they
so warmly encourage are able to earn every week."
A JOKE ON PUCCINI.
Theme of "Girl of the Golden West
Popular Ragtime Song.
Same as
The musical joke of the century is on Sig.
Puccini, who a year ago declared that America
has never produced a note of real music. Now
comes the declaration from Felix Weingartner, the
famous Viennese conductor engaged by Director
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