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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
ORLDO
VBLISHIN©
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
PRIZE FORJ^EACE HYMN.
"TIPPERARY" IN ENGLAND.
HOW THE WAR HELPS PUBLISHERS.
Commercial Tercentenary Commission Offers a
Medal for Best—Will Be Sung by a Choir
of 1,000 Children at Inaugural Concert.
New Marching Song Frequently Mentioned in
Dispatches from the Front.
Cutting Off of Foreign Editions Has Increased
Sales of American Editions of Music—Large
Stock of Foreign Music on Hand—Enforced
Presence of Students Will Help Trade.
The musical festival committee of the commis-
sion which is arranging the celebration of the
Commercial Tercentenary of New York City has
offered a prize for a peace hymn to be composed
for a choir of 1,000 children. Teachers in the
city's college and school system will be eligible to
compete in the contest. The prize will be a silver
medal.
Walter Damrosch, Leo Schultz, the musical con-
ductor of the commission, and Prof. Henry T.
Fleck, of Hunter College, will be the judges. Prof.
Fleck will direct the orchestra of seventy-five
pieces which will accompany the children's choir.
The tercentenary celebration will begin with re-
ligious services in all of the churches of the city
on October 25, and the hymn will be sung at the
inaugural concert in the great hall of the College
of the City of New York on the following day.
PUBLISHING HOUSE A FORT?
London Police Raid Quarters of Roeder, Ltd.,
and Find Some Surprising Conditions—Con-
crete Roof Three and One-Half Feet Thick
Fine for Gun Mounting.
According to a despatch to the New York Sun
from London, the police raided the building oc-
cupied by the prominent German publishing house
of Roeder, Ltd., in Willesten, a London suburb,
and arrested twenty-two German employes. It
was stated that the factory, which is at the junction
of three important railway systems, had specially
strong foundations and a concrete roof 3% feet
thick on which guns could be mounted to command
several reservoirs, power houses and similar im-
portant points. The Paris factory of the same
company was blown up by French authorities some
time ago.
The manner in which the English press and pub-
lic regard the new march and song, "It's a Long,
Long Way to Tipperary" is indicated in no uncer-
tain manner in the despatches from the front and
the comments of the writers who stayed home.
That the song was not forgotten even in the ex-
citement at the front is proven in the story of a
British soldier who was sent home wounded, and
who, in describing a battle, said: "We fired as we
charged and many of our men fell in shallow
trenches which had been dug by the Germans, but
most of them were soon up again, and as we
charged we sang 'It's a Long, Long Way to Tip-
perary.' That song will go down to posterity."
London Opinion, in a recent issue, says: "By
the way, speaking of songs, what a proud and
happy man the composer of 'It's a Long, Long
Way to Tipperary' must be. He never thought
that spirited air would become the marching an-
them of the battlefields of Europe."
The North Star, another London paper, reports
that "Tipperary" is heard so much in the war zone
in. France that the villagers have come to regard it
as the national anthem of the British.
"Tipperary" is being used especially in this coun-
try by prominent vaudeville performers, and is also
featured in the new Winter Garden show and in
"Chin-Chin."
(Special to The Review.)
BOSTON, MASS., October 19.—The
theory of
getting along with what you have when you can':
get what you think you ought to have is working
out quite well in the music publishing business,
says one of the local publishers. This is one of
the results of the war. There have been many
foreign editions of music that have found a ready
sale in this country, says this publisher, and the
trade and the public have got into the way of
thinking they have to have them. But now that
their importation, especially German editions, have
ceased, there is an increased call for American
editions and the Boston publishers are really find-
ing a pretty good business, one that it is thought
will show an increase as time goes on. Another
publisher, looking at the subject somewhat differ-
ently, says that there is a large stock of German
publications on hand in this country, and that any
scarcity will not be felt for a long time. This
man holds that where the publishing business is to
benefit from the continental situation is through
the enforced presence in this country of so man_y
music students who, whatever else they do, must
keep up their technique, and this will mean the
purchase of much music.
B. M. Davison, of the White-Smith Music
Co., Boston, reports that the Edition White-Smith
NEW FEIST SONGS FOR JOLSON.
has been in great demand and that in the pasr
Al Jolson, the star in "Dancing Around" at the two months more copies have been sold than ever
Winter Garden, is now featuring two new Feist before in the same length of time.
numbers, "I'm Glad My Wife's in Europe and
Can't Get Home," by Johnson, Goetz and Gottler,
NEW McKINLEY NUMBERS.
and "Dancing the Blues Away," by McCarthy,
The McKinley Music Co., of Chicago, with its
Fischer and Johnson. Both numbers were first usual enterprise, has recently brought out a num-
used last Sunday evening, and were decidedly ber of new songs in its ten-cent list, every one of
well received.
which is proving a splendid seller. Among them
may be mentioned "You Dear Old Mother of
Mine," "Floating Along Rag," "Everybody Tango,"
"Mamma
Can't Pray for Us Now," "Now I Lay
American composers will have a chance for a
Earl Carroll, who in the past has shown brightly hearing at the Little Theater this season. Its di- Me Down to Sleep," "Pauline Waltz." Big sellers
as a lyricist, has also branched out as a com- rector, Winthrop Ames, has decided to have all his on the Frank K. Root list are "Diana of the
poser, and is solely responsible for the only song musical programs made up of American pieces, and Green Van," "Alice of Old Vincennes," with its
to be featured in Marie Dressler's new produc-
Rudolph Schirmer declares he will be glad to con- remarkably artistic cover page; "The Dream
tion, "The Mix-Up," which will have its premiere
sider for publication the works that are selected. Waltz" from Tales of Hoffman and "One Wonder-
in Atlantic City shortly. The song is "Let Them
They must be arranged for Conductor Schenck's ful Night." "Uncle Sam Won't Go to War" is. of
Alone, They're Married," and will be sung by quartet, violin, 'cello, piano and organ. Manu- course, a timely number.
Miss Dressier herself.
scripts must be sent to Elliott Schenck at the Little
Theater, not later than November 15, 1914.
THE "BEST" IS ALWAYS THE "CHEAPEST"
BRANCHES OUT AS COMPOSER.
CHANCE FOR AMERICAN COMPOSERS.
SAVED ONE ITEM OF EXPENSE.
Several of the popular music publishers of New
York, and particularly two of them, have been quite
prominent figures in the real estate market recently
through having made large deals in the business
center of the city in the vicinity of Times Square.
One of the publishers in commenting upon his
action in taking profits from music publishing to
buy real estate said: "Real estate has at least
one advantage; you don't have to maintain a pro-
fessional department to make it salable or popu-
lar."
We are the publishers of
THE
SONG OF SONGS
(Chanson du coeur brise)
Music by Moya
Three keys: Ab, Bb and D
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CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St., - NEW YORK
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STILL 200% PROFIT!
INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
Nora Bayes, who appeared at Keith's Theater
in Washington, D. C, last week, proved the real
hit of the bill and sang "We Take Our Hats Off
to You, Mr. Wilson," by Blanche Merrill (Feist)
so effectively that she received an invitation to
call on the President at the White House.
RECENT DITSON PUBLICATIONS.
The Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, Mass., has just
issued a very handsomely prepared score of
"Faust" by Chas. Gounod. The English version
is by H. F. Corley, and the volume is revised and
extended by Chas. F. Manney. A feature of this
volume is the interesting introductory essay by
Philip Hale, the well known musical critic, and
the frontispiece is a very handsome portrait of
the celebrated French composer.
Two other Ditson publications are a Suite for
the piano entitled "Dream Pictures,!' by Wilmot
Lemont, and "Five Quatrains from The Rubaiyat
of Omar Khayyam," which is set to music by
James H. Rogers, His scoring is musicianly and
effective.
CHICAGO McKinley
Music Co. NEWYORK
Publishers of the
FAMOUS McKINLEY
10 CENT MUSIC
Announce the publication of new cata-
logs for 1915, containing
50 NEW NUMBERS
comprising 29 Piano Solos, 11 Songs and
10 Violin and Piano Duets (Humoresque,
Barcarolle, Etc.)
Better Music, Better Paper, Better
Titles but No Increase in Price.
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