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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
48
CONDUCTED BY B. B. WILSON
DEALERS' ASSOCIATION MEETS
Report Made on Work of Past Year and Plans
Laid for Future Activit.es—Membership In-
creasing Steadily—Argue Against Price Raise
One of the questions the dealers are working
on and hope to solve in the near future is the
elimination of all undesirable dealers from the
sheet music field, as it is believed the business
never will be in a healthy state until that end
is achieved.
Several new members were taken into the
association, among them being Chandler & Abel,
of Brooklyn, N. Y., one of the largest music
houses in the Greater City.
The Music Dealers' Association of New York,
the organization of local sheet music dealers,
held a meeting on Friday, June 29, at 107 West
116th street. The meeting was called specially
for the purpose of making further progress
in gaining members for the association—to re-
OUTING OF LOCAL ASSOCIATION
view the accomplishments of the organization
during the past season—and also to map out a Greater New York Music Publishers' and Deal-
plan of action to 'be followed during the bal-
ers' Association to Hold Annual Summer Af-
ance of the year.
fair at Massapequa Inn on August 14
Over seventy-five dealers are now members
of the body, and these comprise the most rep-
The annual outing of the Greater New York
resentative and progressive sheet music houses Music Publishers' and Dealers' Association will
in the Metropolitan district.
be held on Tuesday, August 14, at Massapequa
After the first annual report was read Inn. Arrangements for the trip are now under
the questions of immediate importance were way and the time of leaving and the method
taken up, including the proposed raise of 50 of transportation are to be decided later. The
per cent, in the price of music. The discus- inn is situated about thirty miles out on the
sion on this matter was at times quite heated, south shore of Long Island and is an ideal
and it was the general opinion among those spot for a day's entertainment.
present that such a sweeping increase was un-
Arrangements have been made to care for
timely, inasmuch that there is a probability of about sixty members and their guests and the
publishers being able to procure paper cheaper. party will proceed in ample time to arrive at
It was also the opinion of many that the public the inn for luncheon, immediately following
had not yet become used to the increases which which baseball, golf, swimming and other sports
were put in force last year and is still object- will be indulged in. The baseball game will be
ing to the prices now agreed upon. The whole the continuation of the last year's affair owing
idea of a raise at the present time, it was to the fact that neither side at that time made
thought, shoul.d be laid over for future develop- the minimum amount of runs, which was placed
ments, as any change at this time would do at fifty.
more harm than good.
An elaborate shore dinner will be served in
The association urged that the publishers the evening and entertainment by a jazz or-
adopt the recommendation which appeared in chestra will also be provided for those who
the association's annual report, which also was wish to dance.
printed in last week's Review, and in addition
a further recommendation was made that the NEW BALLAD STRONGLY FEATURED
publishers should not open new accounts in ter-
ritory where they are already represented. The "If You Had All the World and Its Gold" Sub-
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who attended and will probably lead to some
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WAR WILL BRING AMERICAN MUSIC
Authority Declares That Europe Will Cease to
Be a Model for Music of This Country and
Native Composers Will Get Their Chance
CLEVELAND, O., July 2.—One speaker before the
convention of the Ohio Music Teachers' Asso-
ciation here Wednesday night prophesied that a
music typically American will be born in this
country as a result of the world war.
"Heretofore we have taken Europe as our
musical model," he said. "It is a good model,
I'll admit, but we could make music ourselves
if we only knew it. The war will force it home
to us that a man doesn't have to have a 'ski'
on the end of his name, a foreign accent or a
ribbon tie to be a composer or musician.
"Just now we are flooded with trashy, patriotic
songs. They are poor because the writers are
inspired with commercial rather than patriotic
motives. There is room, though, for the good,
light patriotic song. The soldier likes it. It
takes his mind off the serious business of war-
fare.
"In London, Paris and Berlin good music
hasn't suffered as a result of the war. Sym-
phony concerts and grand operas have had a
large patronage. From advance signs it looks
as though this would hold true in this country
next season."
Among the well-known musicians attending
the teachers' convention sessions were Raoul
Laparra, of Paris, composer of "La Habanera,"
Theo. Bohlman, pianist; Ernest Kroeger, com-
poser, St. Louis, and Louis Victor Saar, com-
poser, of Cincinnati.
"LET'S RALLY" PROVING A SUCCESS
Karczag Co.'s Patriotic Number Being Featured
in Training Camps
Felix Meyer, head of the Karczag Publishing
Co., Inc., left late last week on a fishing trip
and will return the latter part of this week.
While away Mr. Meyer will visit his son Her-
bert, who is a member of the Officers' Reserve
Corps, now in training at Plattsburg. Recently
the Karczag Co. received the news from Platts-
burg, as well as some other training camps, that
their new patriotic number, "Let's Rally," was
becoming one of the most popular songs now
being used by the troops in training. It is the
opinion of several critics that the above song is
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