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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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Conducted by B. B. Wilson
MUSIC TO HAVE PROMINENT PLACE AT COMING EXPOSITION.
"HER LITTLE HIGHNESS" SCORES.
Musical Instruments and Music Itself to Be Well Provided for at Panama-Pacific Interna-
tional Exposition to Be Held in San Francisco—Chorus of 20,000 Voices a Feature.
De Koven's New Musical Play Shows Com-
poser at His Best—Mizzi Hajos Wins Special
Approval of Boston Theatergoers.
Music, musicians and all things pertaining to
the universal art will be catered to in an excep-
tional manner at the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition which will open at San Francisco on
February 20, 191o. One of the gorgeous courts
that connect the exhibit buildings in the main sec-
tion of the exposition will be devoted especially
to musical productions. It will be known as the
Court of Festival, and will be especially equipped
with a view to choral singing and dramatic pro-
ductions upon an elaborate scale. In the huge
tower of the court there will be a great organ with
echo organs in the smaller towers. Not far from
the great inner Festival Court will be Festival
Hall, with a seating capacity of 3,000 persons.
Festival Hall will also be provided with a great
pipe organ.
The Court of Festival, which has been designed
by Louis C. Mullgardt, will be set in a garden of
continuous blooms, where pageants will be con-
ducted throughout the year.
Bohemia and Switzerland for the promotion ot
their national song.
It is expected that a large prize will be offered
by the exposition for the best grand opera com-
posed in honor of the great event which the
World's Fair of 1915 is to celebrate—the comple-
tion of the Panama Canal. Such a prize will be
open for competition to all the world, and there
is every possibility that a work might be produced
of the magnitude of Verdi's "Aida," which was
composed to celebrate the opening of the Suez
Canal.
BOSTON,
I Special to The Review.)
MASS., September 22.—"Her
Little
Highness," musical play in three acts, received its
first presentation on any stage at the Tremont
Theater last Tuesday and scored a decided hit. The
piece served to introduce a new comer in the per-
son 6i Mizzi Hajos, who took the role which Miss
Elsie Ferguson played when the piece in its dra-
matic version was given several years ago under
the title of "Such a Little Queen," the present one
being based on that play. The comedy has fur-
nished an interesting libretto, which is the joint
Musical Instruments Represented.
Other departments of the musical world will be work of Charming Pollock (who wrote the origi-
represented in the Liberal Arts Building, where nal play) and Rennolii Wolf. The music by Regi-
nald De Koven is of a most tuneful quality and
there will be on exhibit the materials, processes
shows the composer at his best, both in the solo
and products relating to the manufacture of musi-
numbers and the concerted pieces. '
cal instruments. • These are classified in ten divi-
Considerable interest centered in Miss Hajos 1
sions, including all kinds of metal or wood instru-
appearance, as this little woman has been widely
ments, stringed, wind and with or without key-
heralded because of the beauty of her voice, her
board. There will also be in this section exhibits
of instruments played automatically, such as phon- winsome, girlish and altogether natural acting.
George W. Stewart, Musical Director.
Such a woman as Miss Hajos would carry any
With the appointment of George W. Stewart as ographs, talking-machines, graphophones* and sim-
musical piece, which is not to say that "Her Little
ilar devices, as well as a complete display of every
musical director of the exposition a wonderful
Highness" cannot easily stand on its own merits.
kind of musical appliance in use from the earliest
series of musical festivals is assured for the year
The entire company of principals is of unusually
of the world's fair. Mr. Stewart, who founded the time to the present day.
famous Boston Band, and who was musical direc-
In the Education Building one group will be de- high excellence and the chorus is both effective and
well trained.
tor to the Chicago and St. Louis expositions, is voted to special education in the fine arts, which
"Her Little Highness," without doubt, is destined
making arrangements to secure some of the most
will include schools and departments" of music,
for a most prosperous career. The music is pub-
famous bands and choirs in the world to partici- conservatories, methods of instruction and general
lished by Jerome H. Remick & Co. '
pate in the exposition.
statistics and literature.
One of the principal features of the musical de-
So complete has been the classification in regard
CARYLL AND MACLELLAN SPLIT.
partment of the exposition will be international
to music that no single phase of the great art has
singing contests, in which choirs from all countries been left without its place in the plan of exhibits. Librettist Joins Forces with Emmerich Kalman
will compete for valuable prizes which are being
In addition to the festivals and musical exhibits
for Future Productions—Caryll's Plan Not
subscribed to by various singing societies all over
there will be a further attraction at the exposition
Announced.
the world.
for the music lover. A number of conventions and
It is announced that Ivan Caryll, the composer,
It is proposed to have a massed chorus congresses relating to the teaching of music, its
and C. M. S. MacLellan, the author, who have col-
progress and its possibilities in the promotion of
of 20,000 voices selected from the trained singers
laborated in many notable operetta successes,
universal peace will be held during the year, either
of the world's leading choirs to render folksongs
among them being "The Pink Lady" and
of the nations. This will be one of the most at- in some of the many halls in the exposition grounds
"Marriage a la Carte," have dissolved partnership
or in the vast auditorium which is to be erected by
tractive features of the festival and will bring
and that Mr. MacLellan has taken as his new
hundreds of thousands of choristers from every the exposition in the San Francisco Civic Center
partner Emmerich Kalman, the Viennese com-
at a cost of $1,000,000.
country in the world.
poser who wrote the music for "The Gay Hussar"
The National Eisteddford of Wales is collect-
The Municipal Opera House will be used for
and "The Gypsy Leader." Mr. Caryll, who is at
ing $50,000 to be devoted to the interests of Welsh
the production of grand opera, in which the most
present in the United State, has not yet an-
competitive singing, and rather large sums are be- eminent artists in the world will appear at differ-
nounced his new librettist.
ing raised by singing organizations from the Tyrol, ent times during the year of the fair.
BROTHER OF J _ H . REMICK DIES.
George B. Remick Was Prominent in Lumber
Business—Once Member of Michigan Legis-
lature— Was III for Several Months.
(Special to The Review.)
DETROIT, MICH., September 22.—George Brad-
ford Remick, a brother of Jerome H. Remick, the
music publisher, died here last Tuesday at his
residence on Jefferson avenue, aged sixty-eight.
He never recovered from aji operation which he
underwent last July. He had been ill since May,
but it was thought until late Monday evening that
he was recovering.
Mr. Remick was born in Lincoln, Me., but came
to Detroit when eight years old. He graduated
from the University of Michigan literary depart-
ment in 1866 and the law department two years
later, and practised law in Detroit. He was ac-
tively interested in several Western lumber firms.
GOES TO PARIS FOR MUSIC.
St. Louis Men Try for Record on Round Trip
to France for Purpose of Getting Music for
Symphony Orchestra.
Wooster Lambert, Drummond Jones, of tennis
fame, and Knox Taussig, of St. Louis, are now
en route to Paris.
"OH, I SAY," IN REHEARSAL.
Lambert is going over to get a few pieces of
The next musical offering to open under the di- music for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra,
rection of the Messrs. Shuberts will be "Oh, I whose concerts are his special pets. He could
Say." The book of this piece is from a farce get the music just as well by mail, but they will
which ran all last season in London and the music try to make a record over and back. And then they
have the money to spend!
is by Jerome Kern.
CHARLES FROHMAN Presents DONALD BRIAN in the New Musical Play
THE MARRIAGE MARKET
Lyrics by Arthur Anderson and Adrian Ross
Music by Victor Jacobi—Arr. by H. M. Higgs
The One I Love—The Waltz Song
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American Courtship
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Come, Nestle in My Arms
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All the Little Ladies Love a Sailor Man
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Song Interpolation, Composed and Sung by Percival Knight, "Patience"..
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Waltz
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The Golden Day of Love
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Love of Mine (Oh, How Near and Yet So Far) . . .00
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The Middy's March
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