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Issue: 1912 Vol. 54 N. 4

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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
Beginning with the new year, Hinds, Noble &
Eldredge have redoubled their efforts to prevent
Metropolitan Premiere of New Musical Comedy, price-cutting in connection with their series of
with Jefferson de Angelis as Star, Takes "Most Popular" music folios, and their campaign
Place at New York Theater on Monday in that direction has been waged against the large
as well as the small dealers and the jobbers who
Night—Makes Most Favorable Impression.
supply them. In a recent letter to the trade the
minimum price at which the various books might
"The Pearl Maiden," a pretty musical comedy
be sold was reduced 1 cent, making the new rate
in three acts, libretto by Earle C. Anthony and
28 and 38 cents, etc., and dealers were strongly
Arthur F. Kales and music by Harry Auracher,
cautioned to observe that price under penalty of
was given its metropolitan premiere at the New
having their supply of "Most Popular" books cut
York Theater on Monday night, January 22.
off. When action is taken the jobber who supplies
According to the reception it received from a
the offending dealer is also warned and must suffer
large and well-pleased audience, the comedy struck
if he continues to supply that dealer.
a popular chord and will be numbered among the
Several additions to the present large catalog ot
favorite musical plays of the season.
'Most
Popular" books are now in course of prepa-
"The Pearl Maiden" deals with the usual num-
ration, and the titles and lists of contents will be
ber of romances to be found in musical comedy.
The locale occurs about two South Sea islands. announced in due time.
Naturally, scenery and costumes play an important
part in this production.
HIGH PRAISE FOR MME. CAPPIANI.
Jefferson de Angelis is the star and is just as
Writer of Excellent Treatise on New Singing
funny as ever. He took advantage of every bit of
Method, Published by Feist, Gains Recog-
dialogue to touch the risibilities of the audience.
nition in Italy.
The music of the piece is especially interesting
The House of Feist recently received the follow-
and received more attention from the critics than
did the other features of the production. "If One ing clipping from Madame Cappiani which ap-
peared in a newspaper of Nice called "Le
Little Girl Loved Me," sung by Elsa Ryan and
:
Burrell Barbaretto, was undoubtedly the hit of the Eclaireur." The dipping, translated, reads: "Mad-
ame Luisa Cappiani is coming from New York.
show, while the other fetching numbers include
"That Typical, Topical, Tropical Tune," "Coral
Islle," "I Am Lonely for You" (the story of the
pearl), "Nothing So Soft Ever Happened to Me,"
"The Cruise of the Boozemobile," "Cloudland,"
"Davy Jones," "Salvation," and "The Pearl
Maiden." M. Witmark & Sons publish the music.
"THE PEARL MAIDEN" IN NEW YORK.
This great artist is professor of a method of sing-
ing without effort of the throat, like the system
found in the Aeolian Harp, and under which a poor
voice becomes good and a mediocre voice becomes
devine. Madame Cappiani will pass the winter with
us and will go back to her villa at Rodi Piesso on
St. Gothard, in Switzerland, in the summer, where
she will join her family.''
The clipping and the praise of Madame Cap-
piani is especially interesting, in view of the fact
that the House of Feist publishes the successful
treatise on singing by that able authority, entitled
"Practical Hints and Helps for Perfection in Sing-
ing," which has found much favor with both stu-
dents and teachers.
SIGNS WITH WHITNEY-WARNER CO.
Marie Louka, the prominent composer of music
especially adapted to teaching purposes, has signed
a contract to write exclusively for the Whitney-
Warner Co., the organization of which, as a sub-
sidiary to J. H. Remick & Co., was recently noted
in The Review.
SOUNDS FAMILIAR.
She had a voice like a siren, and when she sang
" 'Mid play sure, sand palaces, tho heam a rome.
Be it averse oh wum bull there, snow play sly
comb," and so on to the conclusion, there wasn't
a dry eye in the room.
Tfi? Musicians Library
OVER ONE BUKDRED THOUSAND COPIES PRINTED AND SOLD
WHEN RAGTIME IS NOT RAGTIME.
Critics Condemn Syncopated Music of Ameri-
can Origin, but Enthuse Over Hungarian
Rhapsodies of the Same Class, Says Chicago
Writer—Some Pertinent Conclusions.
Curious what errors the uninitiated will fall
into. After one of the Brahms Hungarian Dances,
which Mr. Stock gave with the true Czech feeling,
somebody near us whispered, in an awed tone:
"Why, that is just like ragtime." Of course the
peculiar, syncopated rhythm of the Hungarians,
one of the distinctive characteristics of their music,
has the same basis as our own ragtime, but do not
people know that the Hungarian syncopation is
racial, spontaneous, full of meaning and charm,
the expression of musical people, while the same
rhythmic accent when written by an American be-
comes everything low and injurious to refined
taste? Why this is so we cannot pretend to say, it
being one of those high mysteries of art revealed
only to the illuminated few, but it must be so,
because we have been told it times enough, says
Karleton Hackett in the Chicago Post. Is it not
strange, though, when you come to think of it,
that the same peculiarities of rhythm, when the
expression of a nation a long way off, are very
fine, yet, if home-grown, are altogether bad? How-
ever, far be it from us to dispute the dictates of
the censors of the art of music.
SALE OF "MOST POPULAR" BOOKS.
Shows Increase—New Traveler Makes Good—
War on Price Cutters Continued.
J. T. Mearns, representing the music department
of Hinds, Noble. & Eldredgc, of which J. Tatian
Roach is manager, returned recently from a suc-
cessful trip through Nsw England territory, during
which he booked an unexpected volume of orders
in view of the season of the year. Mr. Mearns
will leave on a Western trip in the course of a
week or two.
This notable series lias been planned to embrace all the masterpieces of
song and piano literature; to gather Into superbly made volumes of uni-
form size and binding- the best work of the best composers, edited by men
of authority. Each volume is independent, complete in itself, and sold
by itself.
SIXTY VOLUMES ISSUED
SONGS FROM THE OPERAS FOR TENOR.
Edited by H. E. Krehbiel.
SONGS FROM THE OPERA FOR BARITONE
AND BASS. Edited by H. E. Krehbiel.
PIANO VOLUMES
BACH PIANO ALBUM. Vol. I. Shorter Com-
positions. Edited by Dr. Ebenezer Prout.
BACH PIANO ALBUM. Vol. II. Larger Com-
positions. Edited by Dr. Ebenezer Prout.
BEETHOVEN, L. VAN. Vol. I. Piano Composi-
tions. Edited by Eugen d'Albert.
BEETHOVEN, L. VAN. Vol. II. Piano Composi-
tions. Edited by Eugen d'Albert.
BRAHMS, JOHANNES. Selected Piano Com-
positions. Edited by Raphael Joseffy.
CHOPIN, FREDERIC. Forty Piano Composi-
tions. Edited by James Huneker.
CHOPIN, FREDERIC. The Greater Chopin.
Edited by James Huneker.
GRIEG, EDVARD. Larger Piano Compositions.
Edited by Kertha Feiring Tapper.
GRIEG, EDVARD. Piano Lyrics and Shorter
Compositions. Edited by liertha Feiring
Tapper.
HAYDN, FRANZ JOSEF. Twenty Piano Com-
positions. Edited by Xaver Scharwenka.
LISZT, FRANZ. Ten Hungarian Rhapsodies.
Edited by August Spanuth and John Ortli.
LISZT, FRANZ. Twenty Original Piano Com-
positions. Edited by August Spanuth.
LISZT, FRANZ. Twenty Piano Transcriptions.
Edited by August Spanuth.
FIFTY MASTERSONGS. High Voice. Low
Voice. Edited by Henry T. Finck.
MENDELSSOHN, FELIX. Thirty Piano Com-
FIFTY SHAKESFERE SONGS. High Voice.
positions. Edited by Percy Goetschius,
Low Voice. Edited by Charles Vincent,
Mus. Doc. With a Preface by Daniel
Mus. Doc.
Gregory Mason.
MODERN FRENCH SONGS. High Voice. Low
MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Twenty
Voice. Vol. I. Bembergr to Franck. Vol. II.
Piano Compositions. Edited by Carl Rei-
Georges to Widor Edited by Philip Hale.
necke.
ONE HUNDRED FOLK-SONGS OF ALL NA- SCHUMANN, ROBERT. Fifty Piano Composi-
TIONS. Medium Voice. Edited by Gran-
tions. Edited by Xaver Scharwenka.
ville Bantock.
WAGNER, RICHARD. Selections from the
SEVENTY SCOTTISH SONGS. High Voice
Music Dramas. Edited by Otto Singer.
Low Voice. Edited by Helen Hopekirk.
Preface by Richard Aldrich.
SONGS BY THIRTY AMERICANS. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by Rupert Hughes.
ANTHOLOGY OF FRENCH PIANO MUSIC.
Vol. I. Early Composers. Vol. II. Modern
SONGS FROM THE OPERAS FOR SOPRANO.
Composers. Edited by I si dor Philipp.
Edited by H. E. KrelibieJ.
SONGS FROM THE OPERAS FOR MEZZO- EARLY ITALIAN PIANO MUSIC
SOPRANO. Edited by H. E. Krehbiel.
Edited by M. Esposito.
SONGS FROM THE OPERAS FOR ALTO.
TWENTY-FOUR NEGRO MELODIES. Tran-
Edited by H. E. Krehbiel.
scribed for Piano by S. Coleridge-Taylor.
SONG VOLUMES
BEAHMS, JOHANNES. Forty Song's. High
Voice. Low Voice. Edited by James Huneker.
FRANZ, ROBERT. Fifty Song*. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by William Foster
Apthorp.
GRIEG, EDTABD. Fifty Song's. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by Henry T. Finck.
HANDEL, GEORGE FREDERIC. Vol. I. Songs
and Airs. High Voice. Vol. II. Song* and
Airs. Low Voice. Edited by Dr. Ebenezer
Prout.
LISZT, FRANZ. Thirty Song's. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by Carl Armbruster.
SCHUBERT, FRANZ. Fifty Song's. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by Henry T. Finck.
SCHUMANN, ROBERT. Fifty Song's. High
Voice. Low Voice. Edited by W. J. Hen-
derson.
STRAUSS, RICHARD. Forty Song's. High
Voice. Low Voice. Edited by James
Huneker.
WAGNER, RICHARD. Lyrics for Soprano.
Edited by Carl Armbruster.
WAGNER, RICHARD. Lyrics for Tenor.
Edited by Carl Armbruster.
WAGNER, RICHARD. Lyrics for Baritone and
Bass. Edited by Carl Armbruster.
WOLF, HUGO. Fifty Song's. High Voice. Low
Voice. Edited by Ernest Newman.
Each Volume in HcavyiPaperTciloth Back, $1.50; in FulTcioHi, Gilt, $2.50
Copies mailed post-paid
Other volumes in preparation
Send for Free Booklets giving- full particulars, with contents of each volume. Mailed free upon request
OLIVER D1TSON COMPANY, Boston
CHAS. H. DITSON & CO., New York
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
TWO NEW DITSON VOLUMES.
Recent Additions to the Musicians' Library
Bearing on "Folk Songs" and "Songs from
the Operas" Are Valuable Publications.
The latest addition to the Musician's Library,
published by the Oliver Ditson Co., of Boston,
Ma^s., are "One Hundred Folk Songs of All Na-
tions," edited by Granville Bantock, and "Songs
from the Operas," for baritone and bass, edited by
H. E. Krehbiel.
As nvght be expectel from the names of the
compilers, these volumes are carefully edited and
admirably produced. The latter volume, apart from
the merits of the songs themselves, is most valuable
and interesting because of its bibliography. It is
most convenient for reference and of value regard-
ing the origin of the folk songs of various coun-
tries of the world. There are few volumes pub-
lished anywhere that equal this remarkable collec-
tion of folk songs, interest in which is so keenly
stimulated by Mr. Bantock's introductory remarks.
The volume devoted to "Songs from the Operas"
presents the most famous arias from operas of
every school with the original text and English
verges. The volume has illuminating descriptive
notes accompanying each song, and portraits of
some of the leading operatic composers are a nota-
ble feature of the volume.
From the publisher's viewpoint these volume3
are beyond criticism. The printing is high class,
the paper of fine quality, and the binding both in
cloth and paper, of that excellent finish that dis-
tinguishes all the volumes embraced in the Musi-
cian's Library.
ers are thoroughly familiar with their prints, never-
theless the novel method of introduction through
the medium of the car is depended upon to have
a stimulating effect.
WIN SUCCESS IN VAUDEVILLE.
Courtney Sisters Prove Hit at Hammerstein's
—Featuring the Latest Feist Success in
Their Act.
What is considered to be one of the quickest
successes in the vaudeville field is that of the
Courtney Sisters, who only a short time ago en
M. Roussel, of the Schola Cantorum, the fa-
mous Paris academy of singing, also owes his in-
debtedness to the drug, declaring at the s:.me tim<-
that a few pipes of opium a day do no more harm
than a few cigarettes. He describes an extra-
ordinary composition, a "Patagonian Ballet," writ-
ten by a friend from Brittany while under the in-
fluence of opium.
"Each time I hear it,'' he adds, "[ experience
again the exquisite impressions I felt when I was
an np'um smoker."
SCHUBERT AND HIS PUBLISHERS.
What Troubles the Great Composer Experienced
in Getting Fair Prices for His Work.
In his admirable life of Schubert, Edmunds-
toune Duncan gives the following interesting ac-
count of the dealings of Schubert with his pub-
lishers. When it is remembered that many of
these songs are masterpieces which have passed
forever into the world-literature of music, it is
amazing that such conditions should have existed.
It is no less amazing to realize the enormous
change which has come over the musical publish-
ing business in modern times. No composer of
great merit need starve nowadays, as no doubt
Richard Strauss could testify. Lehar has made a
fortune out of his "Merry Widow" and Mascagni
has derived a satisfactory income for many years
from the proceeds of his one successful opera,
"Cavalleria Rusticana."
tered vaudeville after a prolonged career in
"Throughout the final periods of Schubert's life
burlesque. Among the first engagements of the
Courtney Sisters was at Hammerstein's, where there is every indication that he was in constant
their act so pleased the management and the public need of money. Most of the prices paid to him by
that they were carried over for the second week. the publishers were little short of ridiculous, an I
TO START NEW CAMPAIGN.
though many of their proposals were flattering
They have been booked for a return engagement
enough on paper their practical issue was trifling.
Novel Plan Adopted by J. H. Remick & Co. for at the Victoria Theater for the week of February 5,
the Exposition of Their Latest Prints in
which means three weeks at that popular playhouse 'Be good enough to fix your own terms,' wrote
Nearby States.
in the short space of two months or so. The Schott & Son on Feb. 9, 1828. But by October 30
they object to pay 60 florins as a 'too extravagant
Courtney Sisters are using as their feature song
J. H. Remick & Co, New York, have closed a the latest Feist success, "If Every Star Was a L'ttle price' for the Quintet (Op. 114), and they offer and
contract whereby they will be the so!e publishers
Pickaninny and There Was a Little Chicken in the enclose only half the sum asked—namely, $0. We
have already seen that Probst bought the splend'd
whose music will be exploited upon a spec'al sales
Moon," which brings them back many times at
trio in E flat (Op. 100) for 17s. 6d. (about $4),
and advertising campaign to be conducted by the every performance.
and in this same year Franz Lachner—at Schu-
Coast-to-Coast Advertising & Sales Car Co. Under
bert's request—took half a dozen of the Winter-
the new arrangement a Pullman car has been fitted
OPIUM FOR INSPIRATION.
up as a sample and salesroom in which not more
than fifty concerns in non-competitive lines will be
Not a Hit that w i l l die but a seller that w i l l live.
French Composer Claims That Drug Influences
supplied with space. The car will leave Jersey
Composers to Give Best That Is in T h e m —
City on February 15 and will stop at every city
Theory Strongly Combated.
of from 5,000 to 75.0G0 inhabitants in the States
of Pennsylvania and Ohio, where a special corps
"Opium as a Source of Musical Inspiration" is
of salesmen, as well as regular salesmen of the
the title of a daring article by the well-known com
concerns represented, if desired, will call upon the
poser, Jean Laporte, which is attracting a great
various wholesalers and retailers in the c ty, ex-
deal of attention in Paris at the present time. The
hibit the goods, take orders and distribute circu-
writer affirms positively that the drug can and does
lars. Remick & Co. expect great results from the
act in this way, and quotes the conversations of
venture, for though the great majority of the deal-
some leading French musicians, who confess their
indebtedness to its use for some of their best ideas
To begin with, M. Laporte declares that opium
smoking,
if practised in moderation, is no more
We are the publishers of
harmful to the system than wine or tobacco; only
its abuse is injurious. He protests against the vig-
orous campaign against the importation of opium
row in progress in France.
A professor of music at the Conservatoire at
Lyons, M. Mariotte, is quoted as declaring that his
ROGER LEWIS F. HENRI KLICKMAN
musical career was largely shaped in its early
stages by opium smoking. He recounts that when
Frank K.Root 8 Co.
CHICAGO
NEWTORK
under the influence of opium he used to see vis-
Published
by
McXinley
Music Co., Chicag-o.
ually "processions of musical phrases."
I WILL LOVE YOU WHEN
THESLLVERTHREADS ARE
SHINING AMONG THE GOLD
THE GREAT CONTINENTAL
SUCCESS
Moonlight"
DANCE
By Herman Finck
Most Beautiful Child Ballad Written
(Composer of "In the Shadows")
In Years.
Being Played by Leading
Orchestras Everywhere
"Will The Roses
Bloom In Heaven?"
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St., New York
This collection of 17
pieces has been published
to supply a lonff-felt want
experienced by many vio-
linists. The pieces in this
book are mainly arrange-
ments of famous piano
compositions by celebrated
composers, although there
are three entirely new and
original compositions con-
tained in same. Both the
Violin and Piano parts
are moderately difficult,
but will be found within
the range of every ad-
vanced player. Violin with
Piano Accom,. 75 cents.
By Chas. K. Harris
If
Columbia Th«atr« Bldo.
Broadway and 4 7 « i St.
MEYER COHEN, Mar.
HINDS, NOBLE * ELDREDGE.
31-3S West 15th Street. New York

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