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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
TRADE NEWSJ-ROM BOSTON.
Boston Music Publishers to Hold Outing in
Early Fall—B. F. Wood Rusticating—Ho-
meyer in Europe—Jacobs Augments Force—
Frank Lynes, the Composer, Dead.
(Specia. to The Review.)
BOSTON, MASS., June 30, 1913.—The Boston Mu-
sic Publishers' Association will probably not
have its regular mid-summer outing this year,
but the occasion will not be altogether over-
looked, and it is simply postponed until either
the late summer or early fall. The comm'ttee of
arrangements did not have time enough to find a
suitable place at which to hold the outing, and in
the meantime many of the members will be going
away on their vacations.
B. F. Wood Enjoying Farm Life.
The B. F. Wood Music Co. will be beginning
its busy season in a fortnight, when preparations
will be actively begun for the fall campaign.
The company has about closed quite the best sea-
son in its history, and there is general enthusiasm
over the prospects ahead. Mr. Wood is enjoying
the many attractions of his big apple farm at
Sherborn, where on 1,200 acres eighty-five of
them are given over to the cultivation of this
fruit, and will remain there until fall.
Charles W. Homeyer Visiting Europe.
Charles W. Homeyer, the music publisher of
Boylston street, has gone abroad and will be away
until August. He sailed a week ago on one of
the North German Lloyd liners, and he will visit
England, Germany, France and Italy before com-
ing home.
Kemble with Walter Jacobs.-
Walter Jacobs has added John Kemble to his
office force, who will be recalled to the trade as a
partner of the firm of Keith & Kemble, a famous
team of music composers, who wrote a number of
songs, one of which, "Hey, Mister Joshua," is one
of the popular hits of the clay. Business with the
Jacobs establishment continues good. The Cadenza
for June contains a full account of the delibera-
tions of the twelfth annual guild convention held
in New York last month.
lishers who wanted to bring out his works. Among
his best-remembered works are: "He Was a
Prince," "My King," " 'Twas My Heart," "A Bed-
time Song," "The Fishermaiden," "Baby Dear,"
"Sweetheart," "The Sleep of Peace," "Th Earth
Is the Lord's" and "The Night Has a Thousand
Eyes."
NEW AMERICAN SYMPHONY
Written by Edgar Stillman Kelley, Which Had
Its First Performance Recently at Norfolk,
Va., Was Conducted by the Composer.
A new American symphony, by Edgar Stillman
Kelley, had its first performance last week at Carl
Stoeckel's Norfolk Music Festival. It was con-
ducted by Henry P. Schmitt and played by
musicians selected from the best New York or-
chestras. The composer himself conducted the
novelty, and when he walked to the conductor's
stand the chorus and orchestra rose to receive him.
The symphony is entitled "New England," and
the composer writes in regard to it: "I endeavored
to express one phase—and certainly an important
one—of American thought, the Puritan pioneer's
ideal. Of course, each American must give voice
to the sentiment of his own branch, racial, re-
ligious, etc., and mine being thoroughly of the New
England cast, on both sides of the house, I have
sought to embody in this work something of the
experiences, ambitions and aspirations of my an-
cestors. The four movements are preceded by
mottoes from the log book of the Mayflower, and
some of the material is as American as one could
wish. The slow movements consist of variations
on a grand old choral written in New England a
century ago; the number corresponding to a
scherzo is built upon themes of New England
birds treated symphonically."
MUSIC CALMS PRISONERS.
Warden of Iowa Penitentiary Introduces Band
for Prisoners Among a Number of Other
Radical Reforms in Prison Management.
Death of Frank Lynes.
(Special to The Review.)
Boston music publ : shers have learned with re-
DES MOINES, IOWA, June 30, 1913.—"I wouldn't
gret of the death of Frank Lynes, the composer,
run a dog fight without music," says James C.
which occurred at his country home at Bristol, N. Sanders, warden of the Iowa penitentiary at Fort
H., on ]um 24. He was a native of Cambridge,
Madison.
where he had long lived, and before studying
Sanders was the first to introduce music in a
abroad he was a pupil of B. J. Lang, of this city.
penitentiary in this country and has attracted at-
Abroad he had studied under Richter, Reinecke,
tention all over the United States because of his
Jadassohn and other composers. At a concert
new methods of handling convicts.
which he gave on his return from Europe he so
"Men, after all, are largely like animals," says
astonished the public with his own compositions
the warden, "and they are crossest when eating.
that he was immediately approached by music pul>-
Trouble in penitentiaries and asylums of the coun-
try, you will find on careful investigation, always
starts in the dining room or the kitchen.
TO
TO
TO
"Appreciating this fact, I applied the soothing
effect of music by organizing an orchestra and
having it play during the meal hour. We have
had no trouble in the dining room since the music
Ernest R. Ball's Latest Ballad Success
was introduced.
"Music appeals to the better side of men. I
The title page itself if dis-
found the prisoners willing to learn to play musi-
played should make it sell.
cal instruments and to participate in the band and
It is a beautiful picture of
orchestra. We now have an orchestni of twelve
pieces and a band of seventeen.
Mr. E. H. Sothern
HAVE, HOLD, LOVE
and
Miss Julia Marlowe
as
"ROMEO and JULIET"
We do not hesitate to recommend this song
most highly, and, according to present indications,
feel certain that it will prove even a greater seller
than Mr. nail's famous successes, "Till the Sands
of the Desert Grow Cold," ''Love Me and the
World Is Mine," " I n the Garden of My Heait,"
"My Dear," "My Heart Has Learned to Love
You," "Now, Do Not Say Good-bye," " W h o
Knows?" Etc., Etc.
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"We have instrumental music at our Sunday
services. We've created an interest in vocal music,
too, and the penitentiary has a fine choir of many
voices."
Most of the instruments in the orchestra and
band are owned by the prisoners themselves, hav-
ing been purchased with money they have saved
from the meager pittance allowed them by the
State for luxuries. They have been bought in-
stead of tobacco, fruit or sweets.
GATHER FOR E1STEDFODD.
Advance Guard of 40,000 Welshmen Arrive in
Pittsburgh to Attend International Gathering.
(Special to The Review.)
PITTSBURGH, PA., July 2, 1913.—Soloists and choirs
from every land are included among the 40,000
Welshmen visiting Pittsburgh this week to attend
the International Eistedfodd, their literary and
musical festival, the opening session being held
to-day.
Prominent Welshmen from all parts of the
world will be present at the Eistedfodd, some hav-
ing already arrived from Australia, New Zealand
and countries of Europe.
AN APPROPRIATE SELECTION.
George
Hamlin
in Role of Collector
Musical Route.
by the
Once when George Hamlin was tenor soloist in
a large Chicago church it was announced from
the desk that all who had subscribed to the church
fund were urged to complete their payments as
soon as possible, so that the books could be bal-
anced at the beginning of the new year—only a
few weeks distant.
At the conclusion of the announcement came the
solo. Mr. Hamlin had chosen a sacred song by
Wade, and when he began singing "Then, Lord,
shall I fully know. Not till then, how much 1
owe," the entire appropriateness of the selection
struck everyone, and a wave of amusement, al-
most resembling a titter, marred the solemnity of
the occasion.
RAGTIME IN GREAT BRITAIN.
Here are some samples of rag-time titles as
given by Musical Opinion of London: "Crabs'
Crawl," "Tortoise Patrol," "Spooks' Parade,"
"Chicken Reel," "Turkey Trot," "Top Dog,"
"Shoe Tickler Rag" and "Baibylops." To these are
added some of the cake-walk names: "Ma Gum-
e'astic Girl," "Merry Monkeys," 'Pumpkin Coon."
"Hot Stuff/' "Gin and Bitters" and "She Had Her
Fpats On."
Don't fail to order these Songs
My Dixie Rose
Who shall Wear them
You or I. Love?
Gasoline
My Old Girl
My Caroline
Only one Story the
Roses Tell
'Mid the Purple Tint-
ed Hills of Tennessee
You Can't Repay the
Debt You Owe your Mother
Meet Me in the Twilight
MCKINLEY MUSIC CO.
CHICAGO
NEW YORK