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on, but I suspect that these nrelodies and words
were written by white men.
Elena Gerhardt, in Recent Interview, Claims
"Professor Loomis, of the Agricultural and
That a Great International Folk Song Festi-
Mechanical College of Texas, has done a great
val in San Francisco in 1915 Would Do
work in preserving the cowboy ballads.
Much to Revive Interest in That Music.
"Drummond has immortalized at least the words
of the Canadian voyageur songs, and, besides,
Elena Gerhardt, the well-known singer of Ger- Charles Wakefield Cadman, Natalie Curtis and
man lieder, has espoused the cause of the Ameri- Henry F. Gilbert, of Boston, have done great
can folk music.
work with North American Indian melodies, har-
monizing and arranging the 'compositions,' if such
"The way to bring into its own the wealth of
really beautiful spontaneous material here, now so these barbaric things can be called, from the
sadly neglected," said Miss Gerhardt in a recent phonographic records made among the Indians,
interview, "is to hold a great international folk Edward S. Curtis.
song festival at the San Francisco exposition in
"But what is all this work, fine and good and
1915. Let prizes be offered both for the collection praiseworthy though it be, compared with what is
and arrangement of American lyrics and melodies done for the folk song in Germany, Italy, France
and for singing and playing them.
and Russia?
"Surely some wealthy supporter of American
"The great festival at San Francisco which 1
art or music will come Torward to provide the suggest might do much to bring to light the hid-
prizes, if the directors of th-e San Francisco fair den treasures of our native music."
would not themselves offer the proper incentive
for the musicians, singers and composers.
METROPOLITAN MUSIC CO. MOVES.
"It will be very easy, of course, to find artists
to represent the continental^ countries. For Ger- The Metropolitan Music Publishing Co. has
many I would gladly volunteer my services if de- moved its offices from the New York Theater build-
sired.
ing to the Forty-fifth Street Exchange building,
"With a lamentably few exceptions your com- where the company will have the advantage of
posers, singers and musicians neglect their own more room and increased convenience. The com-
music. And why do you thus slight the melody pany will place several new songs on the market
of your soil? What real progress is being made during the coming month.
in preserving the songs of th-e darkies of the old
South? What is being done for the songs of the
PAUL A. RUBEN'S NEW OPERETTA.
old Maine woodsmen and their hardy cousins, the
Canadian voyageurs? And what is being done Much Interest Evidenced in Coming Successor
to ke-ep for posterity the wild words and melo-
to "The Sunshine Girl."
dies of the still existing Indian tribes of the
Northwest and Southwest?"
Tt has been learned with regret in this country
The study of folk songs is Miss Gerhardt's that the health of Paul A. Rubens has not been
hobby.
such as would permit him to work on the music
In Russia she fell in love with the native Slav
songs, from the "Song of the Volga Boatmen" to
"I danced with a Mosquito." In Italy she rejoiced
Ain't Yo' Comin' Back To
in "O Sole Mio," "Funiculi, FinicuH" and other
Me, Ma Dinah Lee ?
popular melodies.
"In France," went on Miss Gerhardt, "the folk
The greatest Southern song written since
song is part of the daily life of the p-eople, but in
"Down Upon the Suwanee River." A
your great and flourishing country I sought, and
quaint, pathetic song with beautiful har-
sought before I learned of the real native music.
mony of real Southern character, sweet
I know the compositions of Carrie Jacobs Bond,
and melodious. The Southern song "hit"
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Cadman, Harriet Ware and others, but the real
spontaneous music, the kind the words and music
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this country led the many followers of the operetta
to anticipate the success of that popular piece. Mr.
Rubens plans to complete the music for the new
operetta in time for a fall production.
Among the operettas for which INIr. Rubens sup-
plied the music, besides "The Sunshine Girl," are
"The Balkan Princess," which is still playing; "The
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"The Blue Moon,' 1 in collaboration with Howard
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