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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
1913 A GOOD YEAR FOR THE BOSTON MUSIC PUBLISHERS.
Active Fall Does Much to Increase Average—Numerous Orders for Christmas Music—Walter
Jacobs Buys Orchestra Catalog—What Other Publishers Are Offering—Publishers' Asso-
ciation Dinner December 9—Success of the National Anthem March—Other News.
BOSTON,
(Special to The Review.)
MASS., December 1.—The year
just
drawing to a close has been a particularly good
one from the standpoint of the local music pub-
lishers. Although the business during some months
dropped below previous averages, the great im-
provement noted in the fall has done much to bal-
ance matters. According to the managers of the
leading houses, there is an apparent tendency
toward improvement in the general taste for music,
with the result that the higher grade of prints are
becoming in greater demand steadily. At the pres-
ent time the publishers are filling rush orders for
Christmas music and the sales of this class of music
for the coming season promise to equal, if they do
not surpass, the sales of previous years.
Walter Jacobs Takes Over New Catalog.
By taking over the entire Jean Missud orchestra
catalog, Walter Jacobs has come into possession of
"Our Director" march, by F. E. Bigelow, which
long has been one of the most popular pieces with
Harvard students. Under the heading of "Har-
vard's Favorite March," Mr. Jacobs has given the
number a new dress, and in the present issue one
sees a crimson H the full size of the front cover,
which is not only attractive but makes a clever bit
of advertising. It is issued at a most opportune
time, as crimson has just been seen everywhere
because of the big football game between Harvard
and Yale which was played at Cambridge on No-
vember 22, and which was won by the crimson
team.
Mr. Jacobs is having a tremendous call for "The
National Emblem" march, which, curiously enough,
was lately redemanded when it was played as an
encore by a band of 300 musicians, and which led
a well-known musician to remark at the time that
it was not often that an encore is so persistenly re-
demanded. So popular has Jacobs' Orchestra
Monthly become that the December issue is carry-
ing twenty-four additional pages. Mr. Jacobs has
been under the necessity of considerably enlarging
his office staff, owing to the growth of his business.
Holding Back on New Issues.
The B. F. Wood Music Co. is doing no publish-
ing of new music for the present, owing to the
enormous sale of its previous publications, but
will begin anew after the advent of the new year.
The year closing on December 31 promises to show
a surprisingly large increase over the previous
year's business.
Next Association Dinner.
The next dinner of the Boston Music Publishers'
Association will be held probably on the evening
of December 9 at the Parker House. The guest
of the occasion will be Mr. Cutting, of the Sheldon
Correspondence School, who will give an address
and will tell of the part that this school plays in
commercial houses.
White-Smith Music for Christmas.
The White-Smith Music Co. is issuing some
splendid music for Christmas. One, a new song
by H. J. Stewart, of San Francisco, is entitled "The
Manger of Bethlehem," and for those who wish it
there is an edition with violin obligate There is
also an anthem by Frederick Mason and another
by C. P. Scott, and all of these are getting a wide
call. William Lester, the new composer, whose
picture was published in The Review a month ago,
is represented in the new White-Smith publication
with two new songs. Mr. Davison has issued, as
he has done for several seasons past, a list of help-
ful suggestions for Christmas choosing that is in
considerable demand.
New College Clef Club Songs.
Among the sacred compositions by Robert A.
Foss issued by C. W. Thompson & Co. is a Christ-
mas anthem called "There Were Shepherds."
There are several other new compositions appro-
priate to the holidays. Among them are "Brightest
and Best" with piano accompaniment, words by
Bishop Heber, music by H. J. Stewart; "It Came
Upon the Midnight Clear" with piano accompani-
ment by Frederick N. Shackley, and a group of
Smith College Clef Club songs has just been is-
sued, two of which are especially attractive. These
are "My Dream Child," words and music by
Phyllis Fergus, and "Peter Pan," words by Henri-
etta Sperry and music by Ruth Leonard. All these
publications are in considerable demand, and Mr.
Thompson's clerks are experiencing busy days.
INTERESTING DITSON FEATURES.
"Opera Singers" One of the Notable Publica-
tions Just Issued by the Prominent Boston
House—A Handsome and Valuable Volume
of Songs of the Eighteenth Century—A Book
of Solos for Christian Science Services.
(Special to The Review.)
BOSTON, MASS., December 1.—Opera
Singers,
by Gustav Kobbe, is one of the newest publications
issued by the Oliver Ditson Co., and this publica-
tion easily will take its place with other notable
issues of this well-known house. In fact, the
publication is in many respects an unusual one.
The volume is called a pictorial souvenir with
biographies of some of the most noted famous
singers of the day, and that in brief describes it.
Kobbe, the compiler, states in a foreword that
this is the sixth edition of the book, and among
the biographies that appear here for the first time
are those of Geraldine Farrar, Olive Fremstad,
Gadski and Mary Garden, and the Caruso biog-
raphy has been extended. The letter press of the
volume is well nigh perfect, and those who are
fond of grand opera will thoroughly enjoy the
many illustrations, which include about every man
and woman who have enjoyed any operatic fame
during the past ten or fifteen years.
"Bergerettes" is the title of a new volume issued
by the Oliver Ditson Co., being romances and
songs of the eighteenth century. The collection
is assembled and transcribed with accompaniments
for the piano by J. B. Wekerlin, with introduc-
tion and English by Frederick H. Martens. There
are twenty numbers in the volume, and they repre-
sent the vocal music of their period in its lighter
aspect, that gay and charmingly sentimental type
of air among whose partisans were Campra,
Charpentier, Marais, Destouches and Jean-Jacques
Rousseau. The volume is handsomely printed.
A third of the newer publications of this same
house is a volume of solos for Christian Science
services compiled by Helen Allen Hunt, who is
the soloist of the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, of this city. Mrs. Hunt is widely-known
in and around Boston as a singer of high distinc-
tion. In the collection are numbers from the
classical composers, such as Mendelssohn, Frey,
Gounod, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Abt, and that late-
lamented Boston composer, Frederic Field Bullard.
This volume is sure to prove popular with Chris-
tian Science churches throughout the country.
Mr. Furness, of the Ditson traveling staff, was
back home in time to eat his Thanksgiving turkey
with his family. All of the other travelers for the
house will be in some time during the week.
MUSIC STTMULATED^BISMARCK.
Rismarck should perhaps be numbered among
those who have found in music a stimulant of
work. Herr von Kendell's "Reminiscences" at-
tribute to him a deep interest in music, and it was
commonly believed that Kendell's piano was to Bis-
marck as David's harp to Saul. The story goes that
one evening in I860 Bismarck was unusually moody.
The piano was called upon, and after a time he
said: "Thank you, my dear Kendell; you have
soothed me and done me so much good. My mind
is made up—we shall declare war against Austria."
The Clevenger Music Co., Portland, Ore., has
been incorporated with $2,000 capital by E. E.
Clevenger and others.
THE SONG SUCCESS OF A CENTURY
The House
of Chappell
has been
established
for over 100
years, and
the sale of
"Little Grey
Home
in the West"
This Song is the most striking and sensational success iha' we have ever published, over one hun-
dred thousand copies having already been sold in Great Britain ana Culuiues The ieasoa is apparent—
the MELODY is appealing and the words of human interest.
LITTLE GREY HOME IN THE WEST
Song.
Moderato
When the gold-en sun sinks in the hills,
has beaten
all records in
the history
of the house.
Featured in
Charles
Frahman's
production of
"The Marriage.
Market."
Sung by Sarah
Bernhardt's
protege, Betty
Callish, at all
engagements.
Music by
HERMANN LOHR
Words by
D. EARDLEY- WILMOT
toil of a
long day is o'er,
. And the
Tho' the road maybe long, in the
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