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DECEMBER 6,
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
1919
ELABORATE MUSIC PROGRAM PLANNED FOR SHOW WEEK
Committee Discusses Ways and*Means for Arousing Public Interest and Decides on a Pro-
gram of Unusual Scope—Prominent Men and Women Placed in Charge of Various Details
At a well-attended meeting of the festival
committee of the forthcoming Music Show held
in the offices of the National Bureau for the
Advancement of Music last week a definite pro-
gram was shaped up for the many musical fea-
tures to be developed during the Show Week.
At the meeting, which was presided over by
Berthold Neuer, the chairman, with C. M. Tre-
maine as secretary, many suggestions were re-
ceived from committee members relative to
ways and means for arousing the interest of
the public, and all the details of the proposed
program were discussed at length before being
finally decided upon.
A program for the various musical activi-
ties of the city was finally reduced to concrete
form, action on which is to be secured through
various sub-committees, under the chairmanship
of the member of the general committee in
whose field he is best qualified to serve. This
work was divided as follows: Neighborhood
Orchestras, C. M. Tremaine, chairman; Music
League, Mrs. Arthur M. Reis, chairman; Music
Settlements, Mrs. Gertrude Borchard, chairman;
Public Schools, George H. Gartlan, Director
of Music, N. Y. Public Schools; Churches, Dr.
Parkhurst, chairman, with a sub-committee un-
der Dr. Parkhurst, relating to organists and
choirs with William C. Carl, a noted organist
in New York City, as chairman; Women's Clubs,
Mrs. Julian Edwards, chairman; Music Clubs
and Music Societies, Rubin Goldmark, chair-
man; Community Chorus, Harry Barnhart, chair-
man; Industrial Plants, C. M. Tremaine, chair-
man; Department Stores, Alexander Russell,
chairman; War Camp Community Service, Wm.
McGuffey, chairman; Moving Pictures, Hugo
Riesenfeld, chairman; Theatres, Daniel Froh-
man, chairman; National Music Show, Herman
Irion, chairman.
The general plan, as outlined, is to feature
music throughout these various points of con-
tact during the entire week.
The Festival will be opened by a Chorus of
Chimes, to be rendered by every church having
chimes, from 10 to 11 o'clock, Sunday morning,
February 1.
The churches, through Dr. Parkhurst's com-
mittee, will be asked to render a special music
service on Sunday, February 1, to initiate the
musical feature of the week. The clergy of
the city, in its 7,500 churches, will be asked to
preach a special sermon on the value of music
in the home, and a fitting musical program will
be arranged through the distinguished organist,
William C. Carl, and his committee.
A special musical program will also be given
to open the "Week of Music" at Sunday after-
noon concerts at both the Hippodrome and Met-
ropolitan Opera House, at which many of Amer-
ica's biggest artists will appear.
One of the unique and interesting features dis-
cussed by the committee, to be carried out
through the efforts and co-operation of Mr.
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Gartlan, Director of Music of New York Public
Schools, is to have 15,000 children, from the
various public schools of greater New York,
assemble one afternoon during the week at Mad-
ison Square Garden and sing in concert to the
accompaniment of the New York Symphony
Orchestra, under the leadership of Walter Dam-
rosch. The children will be brought to Madison
Square Garden in buses, properly placarded to
indicate their contribution to the festival, and
it is planned to have them sing as they go and
come from the Garden so that the attention of
the man in the street will be directed to them
and ask the meaning of the singing of these
thousands of children.
The meeting of the committee was probably
the largest and most enthusiastic of its kind
ever held in New York City, every member
pledging the fullest co-operation of the various
activities in which he or she is interested and
is an acknowledged leader. And it was generally
conceded at the breaking up of the meeting
that if the large and ambitious program which
i? contemplated by the committee is carried
out it will result in creating a wider inter-
est and appreciation for music than any similar
effort that has been made in the history of the
development of American music.
The full committee having in charge the fes-
tival features of the forthcoming New York's
Music Week is as follows: Berthold Neuer,
chairman; C. M. Tremaine, secretary; Rev. Dr.
C. H. Parkhurst, Walter Damrosch, Philip
Berolzheimer, Alexander Lambert, David Man-
nes, Harry Barnhart, Chas. D. Isaacson, Samuel
Finkelstein, Edward Ziegler, C. L. Wagner,
Julian Edwards, Alexander Russell, Marius Mc-
Guffey, Paul B. Klugh, Herman Irion, J. M.
Priaulx, Rodman Wanamaker, Arthur Bod-
ansky, Daniel Frohman, George H. Gartlan, Wil-
liam* C. Carl, Rubin Goldmark, Hugo Riesenfeld,
Oscar Saenger, Irving Berlin, Mrs. Arthur M.
Reis, Mrs. J. C. Lanier, O. C. Stone, H. 13.
Tremaine, Leonard Liebling, C. G. Child, E.
Paul Hamilton and Chas. H. Green.
4NNA CASE USES BRAMBACH GRAND
Baby Grand Accompanies Opera Star in Con-
cert—One Placed in Her Apartment
The Brambach baby grand again received a
very favorable mention in a recent newspaper
ad inserted by Chas. E. Roat Music Co., of
Battle Creek, Mich. This advertisement ap-
peared just previous to the concert given by
Anna Case at the Post theatre in that city,
and announced by special arrangement that the
Brambach baby grand piano would be used
throughout the concert. Also one of these very
popular little instruments was placed in her
apartment at the Post Tavern during her stay.
The Brambach baby grand has a decided merit
which finds an appeal with both the distinguished
artist and the student. Anna Case is one of the
many soloists of note who have rendered con-
certs in which the Brambach baby grand was
used as the accompaniment.
TRADE ACCEPTANCE BOOK READY
The American Acceptance Council announces
that it now has ready for distribution a booklet
by Robert H. Treman, formerly Deputy Gov-
ernor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, which deals in a fundamental way with
the meaning and use of trade acceptances. This
work, entitled "Trade Acceptances," was origin-
ally published two years ago, but has now un-
dergone revision in important particulars by the
author and by a committee of bankers and
business men acting in co-operation with him.
In its original form the book attained a large
circulation, and its popularity will undoubtedly
be increased in its present issue
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