Music Trade Review

Issue: 1912 Vol. 55 N. 8

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MUSIC TRADE REVlE V
PROVING A STRONG FEATURE.
MREVIEWflEARS
THAT, according to a vaudeville comedian, the
coming of the "wrestling cheese" to Hammer-
stein's will prove quite a relief from the many
singing and dancing "cheeses'' that have ap-
peared on Broadway for some time past.
THAT the jealousies of these professional peo-
ple are heartrending at times.
THAT Will Von Tiber is still very much on
the job as general manager of the business of
the Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co.
THAT this house is pushing several new and
promising numbers which are developing rapidly
and of which much is expected during the season
just opening.
THAT the professional managers and their as-
sistants are very busy these days attending the
rehearsals of the various new musical produc-
tions and endeavoring to squeeze the'r prize num-
bers in.
THAT "The Pink Lady" (Chappell & Co., pub-
lishers) will reopen at the New Amsterdam The-
ater on August 2li for its second season in New
York.
THAT the tour of "The Million" is producing
a heavy demand for Caruso's ballad "Dreams
of Long Ago" (Feist), which is one of the fea-
tures of the production.
THAT Franz Molnar is .writing the book for a
new three-act musical comedy composed by Oscar
Strauss.
THAT a writer in a daily paper inquires as to
whether the term "comic opera" is really correct.
THAT, judging from some of the leo-called
comic operas we have witnessed during the past
few seasons, the term is a misnomer, so far as
the comic part goes.
THAT the New York police are said to be show-
ing deep appreciation of some of the lines in
(lilbert and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance."
THAT according to the various confessions of
the gunmen it should be something like '"Wake me
early, mother, I've a date to kill a guy."
THAT many of the publishers are rather enthu-
siastic regarding the number of tabloid musical
comedies that are now being prepared for vaude-
ville.
THAT for the publisher the half-hour sketch
has numerous advantages over the big produc-
tion_^n^*- - J-J;p.Icc.st ui which is the fact that the
percentages of successes is greater.
MILLION COPY
HIT
Down By The Old Millsfream
Schubert Quartette a Special Attraction at
Philadelphia Park—Their Excellent Reper-
toire of High Class Numbers.
- The Schubert Quartette, one of the finest singing
organizations of its kind in America, comprising
all so'oists specially selected from the choirs in
some of the best churches in New York, are at
present filling a four weeks' engagement at Wood-
side Park, Philadelphia, Pa., where they are the
added attraction with Shannon's 22d Regiment
Band.
Among numbers that they are particularly fea-
turing with great success at every concert can be
WHEN WE WERE SWEETHEARTS New
UNDER THE OLD OAK TREE New
WAY DOWN SOUTH
New
RAO RAG RAG
New
THAT SUBWAY RAG
New
FRANKIE AND JOHNNY
New
TELL TAYLOR, MUSIC PUBLISHER
NEW YORK
CHICAGO
mentioned: "Who Knows?" "Sun Blest Are You,
() Golden Land," "Till the Sands of the Desert
Grow Cold," "In the Garden of My Heart," "Lady
Ange'ine," "Baby Rose," "Mocking Bird Rag,"
Thou Art So Dear to Me," "On a Good Old Time
Straw Ride," etc., etc.
A word of praise must be given for their ren-
dering of several operatic arias, which has won
much approbation from the public. The Schubert
Quartette is engaged to appear with many im-
portant musical clubs during the forthcoming sea-
son.
All the numbers mentioned above are published
by M. Witmark & So.ns.
EMMA CARUS' CLEVER SONGS.
Featuring New Jerome & Schwartz Number
Upon Return from Europe.
Miss Emma Carus, the well-known vaudeville
star, who has recently returned from London, is
introducing a new song by Jerome & Schwartz,
with the sparkling title of "Ragtime Eyes." While
in London Miss Carus created a sensation with
English audiences with her rendition of "That
Coontown Quartette" and "Rum-Tum-Tiddle,'
both Jerome & Schwartz songs, that will also re-
main in her American repertoire.
ORIGIN OF THE MARSEILLAISE.
BUY YOUR
MJUSIC
BOSTON
FROM
Publishers
WALTER JACOBS
107 Tremont S t ,
BOSTON. MASS.
Publisher of
'Kist *f Spring." "Somt Day Whtn Drsams Com* Trut."
And Some Others World Famous
OLIVER
DITSON
COMPANY
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and Supply Every Requirement of Music Dealer*
WHITE-SMITH MUSIC PUB. CO.
PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS ft ENGRAVERS OF MUSIC
Main Office*: to-H Stanhope S t . Boston
:
Branch Homes: New York and CUeaaa
M. W I T M A R K & SONS,
144, West 37th Street. New York.
INSTRUMENTAL.
Cherry Blossoms, waltz for piano (Geo. L. Spaulding)$0.30
Convent Echoes, piano solo (Henri Berti)
50
Little Brook's Fairy Tale, The, piano solo (Marie Seuel-
Ilolst)
50
Little Tease waltz for piano, four hands (Walter
Rolfe)
r>0
Mamma's Darling, march for piano (Geo. L. Spaulding) .30
Marigold, barn dance for piano (Paul Lawson)
50
l'apa's Darling, waltz for piano (Geo. L. Spaulding).. .30
l'retty Ringlets, ma.rch for piano (Paul Lawson)
30
Sweet Smile, waltz for piano (Paul Lawson)
50
Young Recruits, march for piano (Walter Rolfe)
50
J E R O M E H. REMICK & CO.,
131 West 41st Street, New York.
VOCAL.
At the Gate of the Palace of Dreams (Baer & Schmid)$0.50
Root-te-Too-Toot (Williams and Van Alstyne)
50
What Made the Boys Like Rosie (Brown, Ayer and
Grant)
50
I Just Came Back from Dear Old Dixie Land (David
Stamper)
. . .:
50
In the Cool of the Evening When de Lovin' Am
Good (Buck and Stamper)
50
Don't Drop a Quarter in the Meter (Ford and Atkin-
son)
50
Towsee Mongalay (Good-bye, Good Luck) (Graham
Jones)
30
INSTRUMENTAL.
The Rig-ajig Rag (Nat. D. Ayer)
;,0
SONG WRITERSJN VAUDEVILLE.
Also New Hiti
New
Now
New
New
New
New
MUSICA F EMONJH
A French paper says that a manuscript discov-
ered in Strassburg proves that the national hymn
called the "Marseillaise" has scant resemblance to
the tune written down (not composed) by Rouget
de 1'Isle. The air was itself a revival of the old
war song of the Army of the Rhine, sung by the
soldiers of Louis XIV.
AUSTRIA'S MANY DANCE TUNES.
Probably no other country has so large a num-
ber of popular dance tunes as Austria. Lower
Austria alone will be represented by 7,000 such
tunes in the monumental work, "Das Volkslied in
Oesterreich," now being issued under the auspiecs
of' the Austrian Kulturministerrum, and which is
attracting great attention.
The latest of the song writers to seek honors
and incidentally the dollars in vaudeville are Leo
Edwards, of the Chas. K. Harris staff, and •-a Miss
Parker, who have secured a number of weeks on
the big time and will sing the various song suc-
cesses written and composed by Leo Edwards and
Blanche Merrill, including "Bring Back My Bon-
nie to Me" and "Bye and Bye."
Joseph Howard, who with Mabel McCann has
been winning success in vaudeville in the East,
opened in Winnipeg on Monday.and will tour the
coast over the Orpheum circuit. He is singing
his own songs, all of which are published by
Chas. K. Harris.
WORKING ON NEW PRODUCTION.
Earl Carroll, who furnished the English ver-
sion for Caruso's ballad hit, "Dreams of Long
Ago," is collaborating with Lee Orean Smith in
furnishing the words and music for a new musi-
cal comedy entitled "Diori O'Dare," which will
be sent over the Weber circuit. The production
will open in Kansas City on September 2 with
Bernard Daly 'in the principal role.
If you desire a man for any department of
your service, either for your factory or for
your selling department, forward your adver-
tisement to us and it will be inserted free of
charge.
An Unusual
Announcement
We have decided to place
ERNEST R. BALL a n d GEORGE GRAFF'S
Latest and Greatest Song Success
Til the Sands of the
Desert Grow Cold
In Our Popular Catalog
Already it is going big, but at the new
price it will become
The Greatest Ballad Hit
of the Present Time
M. WITMARK & SONS
Witrairk Bnildng, 144-146 West 37th St., New York
New York
London
Chicago
Paris
San Francisco
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MUSIC TRADE
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of preternatural memory. Most of the great vio-
linists—Kreutzer, Viotti, Rode, Corelli, Tartini,
Some of the Wonderful Feats Accomplished by
Baillot, Spohr, Paganini, De Beriot, Vieuxtemps,
Composers, Conductors and Soloists.
Sivon, Ernst, Kreisler and many. others—have
given evidence on countless occasions of the pos-
session of unusual powers of memory.
"It may be said without risk of contradiction
that the majority of the great musical virtuosi
"Here in New York may be heard one of the
disclose more or less remarkable powers of mem- great flute virtuosi of the world, George Barrere,
ory,"' writes Dr. J. Leonard Corning, of New whose repertoire, already large, increases continu-
York, in an article on "The Musical Memory," ally without manifest effort.
published in the Medical Record. "But even among
"Most wonderful are the illustrations of musical
this class there are some who loom so large as to memory afforded by certain conductors of the or-
dwarf even the exceptionally endowed among their
chestra. One of these, Chevjllard, conducted from
confreres. A typical example is that of the late memory nearly all the symphoires of Beethoven.
Hans von Bulow, who as the tradition goes, The same thing had previously been done by Wag-
played 'everything by heart.' He could play for ner. Here in New York we have been witnesses
hours at a time without consulting his notes; knew
during the past few winters of ,a still more as-
all the works of Wagner by heart, and thought ••t
tounding performance. Sitting in the conductor's
a hardship that the musicians of the orchestra were chair at the Metropolitan Opera may be seen Tos-
unable to play their indvidual parts in the same
canini directing, night after night almost every
way. When a composer brought him a new score
style of opera—Italian, French, German and what
he would excuse himself and, passing into an ad- not—without the aid of a single note.
joining apartment, take a hasty look at the manu-
"What is implied by an achievement of this sort
script. Returning thence in a few moments, he
can only be adequately appreciated by one who
would seat himself at the piano, and without a
has studied the huge score of one of the modern
glance at the notes, play the entire composition
lyric dramas.
to the great bewilderment, it may well be imag-
"It is worth noting that the productive artists—
ined, of the listening author.
the composers—do not always disclose the remark-
"Liszt, too, who is said to have played, among able powers of memory possessed by th? more
much else, most of the works of Beethoven from
memory, is another instance of prodigious memory.
"More extraordinary than the feats of musical
memory of either Liszt or von Bulow are those
told of Rubinstein, of whom it is said that, in a
protracted series of concerts, he played upon the
piano more than a thousand compositions, embrac-
ing about everything of value in the repertoire of
that instrument.
"The violinists, too, afford numerous examples
GREAT MEMORIES OF MUSICIANS.
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gifted among their reproductive colleagues. Of
some it is said that having composed them, they
were obliged to commit their own works to mem-
ory, precisely as though they had come from a
foreign pen. On the other hand, Mozart was able
to write out the whole of the 'Miserere' after
hearing it at the Sistine Chapel twice."'
WHERE MUSIC DOESN'T PAY.
Only 150 Out of 1,800 Concerts in Berlin
Yielded a Profit, According to Recent Figures.
That there are many brave men engaged in con-
cert work—for the man who w ; ll continue a ven-
ture when he knows beforehand that it is a losing
proposition is most certainly showing courage—is
evidenced from the recent report of a number of
public concerts given in Berlin between the first
of October and the last of April. The total num-
ber was about eighteen hundred—about five times
the number given •in New York.
After a careful examination of the situation, the
Berlin Tageblatt has come to the conclusion that,
of those 1,800 concerts, only 150 yielded a profit.
About 600 just about pay their expenses, while
the remaining thousand or more cost the musi-
cians who give them from $125 to $-350 each.
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