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MONUMENT FOR NEVIN'S GRAVE.
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
WANTS WORKERS TO S1NQ.
SCHOOL OF^HURCH MUSIC
Subscription and Benefit Concert to Furnish
Memorial to American Composer.
French Financier Says Their Efficiency Is
Greatly Increased.
By means of funds raised by subscriptions and
through a public concert which will be given some
time during the coming winter, a committee of
men and women prominent in Sewickley Valley
music circles are planning the erection of a memo-
rial monument over the grave of Ethelbert Wood-
Ibridge Nevin, the composer, in the Sewickley
Cemetery, Pennsylvania.
At present no monument marks Nevin's resting
place, which overlooks the Sewickley Valley, where
he was born, says the Pittsburgh Times. He died
in New Haven, Conn., in 1901, and was buried in
the family lot beside the graves of his father,
Robert P. Nevin; his mother, Elizabeth Oliphant
Nevin, and three brothers and sisters.
Just where the concert will be given has not yet
been decided upon, but it is planned to have musi-
cians of national reputation render the program.
The large Presbyterian Church in Sewickley, where
Nevin was organist in his earlier years, has been
suggested as an appropriate scene. A magnificent
new organ has been recently installed, which would
lend splendid aid to vocal and orchestral features.
The church itself, which had great sentimental
value in Nevin's time, seats about 1,000. The Car-
negie Music Hall in Pittsburgh is also under con-
sideration.
A movement to increase the efficiency of work-
ers by inducing them to sing while working has
been set on foot by Jacques Vernes, the well-
known French financier.
M. Vernes argues that France's industrial de-
cline, as compared with other nations, is largely
attributable to the fact that modern Frenchmen
have neglected the arts of song and dance. This
theory has aroused lively discussion in the artistic
as well as the industrial circles of Paris.
"What is chiefly needed in the industrial pur-
suits," said M. Vernes, "is a knowledge of rhythmi-
cal movement. As rhythm is the principal base of
music, I have decided to introduce music in all the
industrial enterprises with which I am connected.
I tried it in the Pyrenees, where we have built
roads and bridges. The result is simply amazing.
I do not mean ragtime music or tango dancing. I
want to revive the times when every workman sang
at his bench.
"The spirit of commercialism as exemplified in
Paris by American methods has had a depressing
influence in France. While it has taught us much,
it is in direct conflict with our nature. A counter-
acting influence is necessary, and I believe that I
have found it in songs for workers.'"
To Be Established in New York Under the
Auspices of Trinity Church of Which the
Organist and Choir Masters Will Form the
Main Staff of Instructors.
THE UNGRATEFUL "DEADHEAD."
When Oscar Hammcrstein was solving grand
opera problems at the Manhattan Opera House a
few years ago, he was greatly annoyed by one per-
sistent deadhead. Finally, after he had enjoyed
courtesies for months, there came a night when the
supply of seats was exhausted by the paying pub-
lic, but this did not affect Mr. D. H., who pre-
sented himself at the box office and asked for seats.
Oscar .=pied the D. H. from a rear office and
quickly phoned the treasurer to inform "the pest"
that he had expired suddenly.
"Mr. Hammerstein died this morning," the
tieasurer said, sadly.
"Vat! He died und he leave me no seats for
to-night? I vill refuse to go to his funeral."
And the D. H. purchased two gallery tickets.
The Manhattan Distributing Corporation, Chi-
cago, 111., has been incorporated, with capital stock
of $2,500, for the purpose of buying and selling
books, magazines, sheet music, etc. The incor-
porators are: Otto Denkewaitr, -Anna K. Alex-
ander and Mabel Torerson.
Another Ballad by Ernest R. Ball
I'll Change The Shadows
To Sunshine
Lyric by
George Graff, Jr.
Writers of "Till
the Sands of the
D e s e r t Grow
Cold," "Goodbye,
My Love, Good-
bye," " H e r e ' s
Love and Suc-
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ing of the Sea," "When Irish Eyes Are
Smiling," "Lost Melody," "Where Is the
Love of Yesterday?" etc.
The demand for this beautiful song is
growing steadily.
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RAGTIME LIKE PIMPLES.
Frank Damrosch on Sailing, Explains
Vogue in Europe.
Its
Frank Damrosch, director of the Institute of
Musical Arts, sailed for Europe last week on the
"Kaiser Wilhelm II." With regard to the present
craze in Europe for American ragtime, Mr. Dam-
rosch said that if Europe adopts ragtime it will
deserve all the injury it will receive. "Ragtime
tunes," he said, -"are like pimples. They come and
go. They are impurities in the musical system
which must be got rid of before it can be consid-
ered clean."
Mr. Damrosch said that the advance in musical
culture in America had been so rapid in the past
few years that he believed the musical average in
this country to-day is above the same as that in
Europe.
ROYALTY AND^ RAGTIME.
A dispatch from London to the New York
American says: "There is a distinct lull in the
popularity of ragtime, largely due to royal influ-
ence.
Yet ragtime keeps creeping in at court and mili-
tary functions. King George was so worked up
about it that at a recent function he had the bands
play in advance every single item on the program
in the gardens of Buckingham Palace, including
"Abide With Me" and Tschaikowsky's famous
Overture of 1812. .
The latter nearly came under the royal ban, his
Majesty being with some difficalty persuaded that
the Russian folk air which crops up in it was not
ragtime.
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BOSTON, MASS
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Plans have been completed to establish in New
York the Trinity School of Church Music. Trinity
parish, after which it is named, makes it possible
by giving lecture rooms and furnishing in its nine
chapels facilities for instruction on some of the
greatest organs, including the one in old Trinity
Church at the head of Wall street, and in Inter-
cession Chapel in upper Broadway, which is to be
opened in' October. Lectures will be given in
Trinity School in Church street.
Trinity organists and choir masters will form
the main staff of instructors. These will include
Dr. Victor Baier, choirmaster of Trinity; Moritz
E. Schwartz, the present Trinity organist; F. T.
Harratt, Intercession Chapel organist; Robert J.
Winterbottom, St. Luke's organist, and at the head
of all, Dr. Felix Lamond, of Trinity Chapel. In
the list also is Edmund Jacques, the organist of
St. Paul's Chapel in lower Broadway, who has
made famous the noonday cantatas there. Other
instructors are John Carrington, a veteran vocal
teacher, who comes from England; A. M. Richard-
son, late of Southwark Cathedral, London, and
Mark Andrews.
The new school, which will open in the fall, will
have a course of thirty weeks for three years.
The tuition has been fixed at $250 a year, and it is
expected the students will be attracted from all
sections of the country. Lectures will be given
daily and practice will be afforded in all of the
nine chapels of Trinity, besides Trinity Church
itself. Both instrumental and vocal training will
be given.
A JOLLY LOT OF TUNES.
"I always did dislike men who have no ear for
music," said" one girl, "and now I dislike them
more than ever. Charley Nevergo called to see
me yesterday evening. At 11 o'clock I went to the
piano."
"And played Home, Sweet Home?'" said the
other girl.
"Yes. First I played it as a ballad. He didn't
move. Then I played it as a waltz, a polka, and
then a ragtime."
"And what did he do?"
"He said, 'Gracious, Miss Jones, what a jolly
lot of tunes you know! And all so different!'"
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