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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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TO OCCUPY NEW DITSON BUILDING
PLAN MUSIC_FOR FIGHTERS
NEW WAR BALLAD PUBLISHED
Oliver Ditson Co. Now Making Preparations to
Move Into Handsome New Structure on Tre-
mont Street, Boston—Will Be Quite an Event
in the Music World Generally
Standard Song Book to Be Issued for Army and
Navy Under Auspices of Executive Commit-
tee for Supervision of Music
Sovereign Publishing Co. Featuring "Go! My
Son, God Bless You"
BOSTON, MASS., September 2.—In a week or so
formal announcement probably will be made of
the occupancy of the new Oliver Ditson Co.'s
handsome marble front ten-story building in
Tremont street, near Boylston street. The oc-
casion promises to be quite an event in music
publishing circles, and invitations are now be-
ing sent out for the event. It is expected that
several members of the Ditson houses in New
York and in other cities will come to Boston
for the opening.
Meantime the company continues to issue new
music which is both singable and playable and
which, as usual, pleasantly reflects on the me-
chanical facilities of the company's printing es-
tablishment.
There are songs by Charles
Huerter, the latest being "My Wish"; one by
William Lester, entitled "I'll Love You, Love,
When Roses Blow" (words by Frederick H.
Martens); a group by Edward Manning, one of
which is "Home Song"; still another, "Don't
You Care," words and music by Leonore von
der Lieth; one by Cecil Forsyth, "Oh, Red Is
the English Rose." Frances Tileston Breese
and Bruno Huhn are responsible for one called
"My Boy/' which is a martial hit.
A piece which the house is pushing is called
"Marching Song of Freedom," music by Henry
Clay Work, and words by Louise Ayres Gar-
nett. One must not forget the "Khaki Song
Book," which has a most attractive cover, with
a soldier at one side and a sailor at the other.
The book includes as a preface a liberal extract
from President Wilson's War Message. The
pieces include popular secular and sacred num-
bers, which are known to everyone.
Mention, too, must be made of The Musician's
September issue, which is full of good things.
The leading article is "Individualism in Music,"
by Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
Plans for standardizing military music were
practically completed at a meeting of the execu-
tive committee for the supervision of music in
the Army and Navy, which was held recently
in the Civic Club with W. Kirkpatrick Brice,
treasurer of the New York Community Chorus,
presiding. It was decided to issue by October
1 a standard song book to be used in all
branches of the service and to contain such
songs, patriotic and popular, as will be most
suitable for singing both in camp and at the
front. The book will be bound in olive drab
linen, and will be just large enough to fit into
the pocket of the khaki blouse. It will be pur-
chasable for a nominal sum at all post ex-
changes.
In all the larger training camps there will be
a leader to conduct mass singing. These leaders
will work under the supervision of Harry Barn-
hart, leader of the Community Chorus in New
York, who will be stationed at Yaphank. John
Alden Carpenter, the Chicago composer, will
devote himself to standardizing the music cur-
riculum of the army and navy bands. Max Mor-
genthau, nephew of Henry Morgenthau, for-
mer United States Ambassador to Turkey and a
member of the executive committee, said the ob-
ject of the committee was not to censor mili-
tary music but to stimulate it. Original songs
will be encouraged, and there will be room in
the book for new airs produced during the war.
One of the latest ballads inspired by wartime
conditions is "Go! My Son, God Bless You,"
published by the Sovereign Publishing Co., of
Buffalo, N. Y. The song is equally adaptable
as a march or a quick step, and is already being
featured by military bands. The lyric is pleas-
ing, and echoes a sentiment which should find
a responsive chord wherever it is sung. The
Sovereign Publishing Co. have several impor-
tant numbers in their latest list, among which
are "My Love Is for You," a waltz ballad of
merit, and "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia's
Shore."
NEW BOOK ON "THE ART OF MUSIC"
Shortly to Be Published by National Society of
Music—Some Notable Contributors
The National Society of Music announces that
it has ready for publication the comprehensive
work on "The Art of Music," which it has had
under preparation for the last four years. The
work is in fourteen volumes and has been under
the general supervision of Professor Daniel
Gregory Mason, of Columbia University, as edi-
tor in chief. He has been assisted by Profes-
sors Edward Burlingame Hill, of Harvard Uni-
versity, and Leland Hall, late of the University
of Wisconsin. It has been planned and exe-
cuted under the supervision of Dr. Caesar
Seachinger as managing editor. Among those
who have contributed important sections of the
work are David Bispham, Anna Pavlowa, Frank
TWO NEW FEIST NUMBERS
Damrosch, Richard Strauss, Sir C. Hubert H.
Leo Feist, Inc., will shortly publish two new Parry, Ernest Newman, Arthur Farwell, Alfred
numbers, "Liberty Lads," a new instrumental Hertz, and Professor Rosseter C. Cole. The
march, and a song, "Homeward Bound." The purpose of the work is to provide a standard
latter has an entirely new theme, and is full American reference work on music that will
of all that makes for a song that is appreciated also be international in scope and in point of
in the home.
The lyrics of "Homeward view in order to supply the student of music
Bound" are by Howard Johnson, and the music with a handy volume library of supplemental
reading on the subject of music.
is by Milton Ager.
SONGS THEY SING AS THEY MARCH ALONG
KEEP THE HOME-FIRES
BURNING
(Till the Boys Come Home)
Pack Up Your Troubles in Your
Old Kit-Bag and Smile,
Smile, Smile
WORDS BY LENA GUILBERT FORD
MUSIC BY IVOR NOVELLO
WRITTEN BY GEORGE A8AF
MUSIC BY FELIX POWELL,
MUSIC BY M. F. KELLY
Keep the home-tires burning
While your hearts are yearning:;
Though your lads are far away
They dream of home.
There's a silver lining
Through the dark cloud shining;
Turn the dark cloud inside out
Till the boys come home.
Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag
And smile, smile, smile;
While you've a lucifer to light your fag,
Smile, boys; that's the style.
What's the use of worrying,
It never was worth while,
So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag
And smile, smile, smile.
We'll never let our old Hag fall,
For we love it the best of all;
We don't want to fight to show our might,
But when we start we'll fight, fight, fight.
In peace or war our voices ring,
"My country, 'tis of thee" we sing;
At the sound of her call we'll show them all,
We'll never let our old flag fall.
Copyright 1915 by Ascherberg, Hopwood &
Crew, Ltd.
WE'LL NEVERLET OUR
OLD FLAG FALL
LYRIC BY ALBERT E. MAC NIITT
Copyright 1915 in all countries by Francis, Day
& Hunter. Published by special arrangement
with Messrs. T. B. Harms & Francis, Day &
Hunter. •
Copyright 1915 by John Hiinna
and the Phenomenal English Ballad Success in March Time
"When The Great Red Dawn Is Shining"
Words by EDWARD LOCKTON
REFRAIN
When the great red dawn is shining,
When the waiting hours are past,
When the tears of night are ended
And I see the day at last;
I shall come down the road of sunshine
To a heart that is fond and true;
When the great red dawn is shining,
Back to home, back to love, and you!
Music by EVELYN SHARPE
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