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THE: MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
49
WITH THE TRADE IN BOSTON.
SUPREME
IN ITS FIELD ! ! !
Dealers are satisfied with Cen-
tury Edition Ten Cent Sheet
Music, because the sales tell the
story of the high esteem in which
it is held by those who buy it.
The Besf—Because If Is!
Ctntury Music Pub. Co., 1! ! 7N 7 8 8 .° ° r ^ w a
CENTURY EDITION
Mission Bells
The Latest Instrumental
Novelty
BY
MARIE LOUKA
A Descriptive Tone Poem for Piano
A New Favorite with Teacher and Pupil
Whitney Warner Co.
131 West 41st Street
NEW YORK
THE EUROPEAN SUCCESS
MOONLIGHT
OJURDLIIINE
k HERMAN FINCK
OiAPPUl ti CO UT>
Played by Leading Orchestras Everywhere.
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St., New York.
General Feeling of Optimism Prevails—Move-
ments of Publishers and Happenings in the
Trade Field Worthy of Specific Mention.
D' jer ever see the "PIANG-
PHIENDS,"
that wonderful
(Special to The Review.)
Boston, Mass., March 30, 1912.
Jesse Lasky invention? A
B. Frank Wood, head of the B. F. Wood Music stage full of pianos, with
Co., who has been on the Pacific Coast for the real singing and playing!
past six weeks, is about reaching home after one
of the pleasantest trips he ever has taken. En No wonder managers pay big
route East he stopped at Denver, Salt Lake, Col- money for the act! It's
orado Springs and Kansas City. The Wood Com- worth it!
pany has been having quite a season of prosperity.
There's one big good-na-
Among the most recent publications of the house tured fellow in the act
are two for piano and two for voice. An "In-
kind of "Taft-like" in size
dian Dance" for piano is by Robert W. Wilkes,
and is" an especially pleasihg number. "In the and overflowing good humor!
Moonlight" is the name of another piano piece, As a solo he sings that
*• descnb&T as a fantasy, and is also by Robert W. unique success,
]• YY'ilkes.** "T
', words and music"by Walter Rolfe; and "Bende-
in a manner so amusing, so
meer's • Stream" is quickly recognized as an old
Irish melody from "Lalla 'Rookh," by Thomas intensely interesting, that
Moore, with the present music arranged by d'Au- the audiences simply go
wild over it!
. vergne Barnard.
There is much. local regret over the loss sus-
The artist and the song
tained by the White-Smith Music Publishing Co. fit together like a glove!
in the almost total destruction by fire of its Chi-
Both are great! Both are
cago quarters, which was fully covered in The
One creates a
Review. Today there was a conference of the successful!
sale for tickets at the
officers who heard the report that W. M. Bacon,
the treasurer of the company, had to make fol- theatre and the other sells
lowing his inspection of the burnt premises, Mr. sheet music!
Bacon having just returned from Chicago.
"The Scherzo," which the White-Smith Co. put
out for the first time last fall, to be issued quar-
terly, has proved a valuable publication. The iuiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:
forthcoming number is to be enlarged to thirty-
two pages, and the circulation increased to 52,000
copies.
C. W. Thompson & Co. are enjoying their usual
spring rush, and orders are coming in most satis-
factorily from all sections where the company does
business. The company's latest composition to
catch the public fancy is "Dream of the Naiads"
for the piano, by Marie Johnston, which is an ex-
ceedingly pretty piece. "Venetian Nights," the bar-
carolle, also for the piano, by John A. O'Shea, and 5 which means
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referred to last month, is still a great favorite.
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A REAL SQUARE DEAL
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"The Cadenza" for May, which Walter Jacobs S
JEROME & SCHWARTZ PUB. CO. =
puts out, is going to be increased by sixteen pages, S
1445 Broadway, New York City
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and Mr. Jacobs says he is going to give his ad- a Ted S. Barron, Gen'l Manager, B'way Theatre BIdg. a
vertisers their full value, for the layout indicates Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiii?
a musical magazine that will be quite above the
previous issues of this publication. Business in all
Another After The Ball Hit.
departments continues good, and Jacobs' Orchestra
Monthly continues to find great favor with its own
clientele. Mr. Jacobs is one of the Boston pub-
lishers who is planning to go to Chicago the latter
part of April for the annual convention of the
By CHAS. K. HARRIS
American Guild of Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar
You can order it from your nearest
Clubs.
jobber or direct from the Publisher.
In the April number of "The Musician," pub-
lished by the Oliver Ditson Co., there are a num-
CHAS. K. HARRIS
ber of articles of more than usual interest. The
Broadway and 47th St., New York
leading one is devoted to Elena Gerhardt, pre-
MEYER COHEN, Mgr.
pared by William Armstrong, and those who had
the pleasure of hearing this talented musician here
This collection of 29
in Boston this past winter will be especially in-
pieces for Violin, is re-
garded by violin teachers
terested in reading carefuly th's article. There is
and students, as being
universally
popular.
an Easter song and several other pieces of high
While it is an admirable
merit. "Tapper's Graded Piano Course," edited
solo collection for any
violinist, it has been
by Thomas Tapper, the will known instructor of
made specially inviting to
those whose musical at-
music at the Institute of Musical Art in New
tainments are moderate'
•by the fact that the violin
York, and lecturer at the New York University,
part is written entirely in
is being offered by the Oliver Ditson Co. in lots
the first position. The
entire collection is care-
of 1
fully bowed and fingered.
Violin with Piano Accom.
one intended for young beginners is called "The
75 cents. Violin, 'Cello
First Piano Book."
and Piano, $1.00. Violin,
Flute and Piano, $1.00.
In some recent correspondence reference to the
Violin, Flute, 'Cello and
Piano, $1.25.
Oliver Ditson Co. spoke of a new valuable hand-
book called "English Diction," as just put out. HINDS, NOBLE « ELDREDGE. 31-35 West 15tta Street. New Y.rk
This was an error. The "English Diction" was
ROBERT TELLER SONS ft D0RNER
issued several years ago, and has been a pro-
nounced success from the start; but the new one
Mnalc Engravers and Printers
is "French Diction," a companion to the English
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OP TITLB
volume, by Arnold William Harkness, and which
FOR ESTIMATE
though not quite ready for distribution should be
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"That Swaying Harmony"