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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
MAY 8, 1920
CONDUCTED BY V. D. WALSH
MUSIC NOTES FROM PORTLAND
Herbert Marple to Have Two New Songs Pub-
lished Soon—Local Sheet Music Houses Pay-
ing Much Attention to Attractive Display
PORTLAND, ORE.,
May 3.—The sheet music
departments of the various music houses in this
city show great taste and originality in their
arrangement. This was specially noticeable at
Oregon Eilers last week, where some piano
Solos with beautiful and artistic title pages were
shown to advantage. Many copies of the "Love
Song " (Cadman) , "Kisses" (Zamecnic), "Mel-
ody of Spring" (Hngelmann) and other attrac-
tive publications were sold.
An interesting Portland visitor this week was
Herbert B. Marple, traveling representative of
Sherman, Clay & Co., of San Francisco. Mr.
Marple is an enthusiastic admirer of Portland
and is delighted with the very evident progress
made by all the music houses of the city, from
all of whom he is getting unusually big and satis-
factory orders. The biggest hit of the Sherman,
Clay catalog, according to Mr. Marple, is "Hold
Me," by Art Hickman. Mr. Marple is the com-
poser of a number of well-known songs. A
million copies of his "Hawaiian Dreams" have
been sold and "Roses at Twilight" is rapidly ap-
proaching the million mark, as 750,000 copies Society for the Publication of American Music Announces Two Editions to Be Placed on the
have already been sold and the Victor Co. has
Market—Society Is Seeking Further Compositions by American Composers
offered it in its March record list. In three
weeks two more of Mr. Marple's songs will be
Last year the society issued its invitation
Last November there was an account in The
published. One of them has not yet been named, Review of the plans of the Society for the Pub- for the submission of compositions in the form
but the other has the title of "When God Gave lication of American Music. These plans pro- of chamber music for publication. It has now
You to Me."
pose to help the American composer by provid- announced the compositions that have been
Arling Shaeffer, of Chicago, is in Portland ing him with an opportunity of getting his chosen for publication. They are quartet for
and introducing his "New Method for the works published. Music that is published, it is strings, four movements, Op. 13, Alois Reiser;
Ukulele" to the trade. Mr. Shaeffer has secured considered, and justly so, has a better chance sonata for clarinet (or violin) and piano (three
of' being performed than that which is sent movements), Op. 14, Daniel Gregory Mason.
a large number of orders from ukulele dealers.
around in manuscript copies. And, if the Ameri-
There were 111 compositions submitted 'for
can composer is to have his full chance an publication, but of these only thirty-two com-
SELLING MUSIC IN THEATRES
indispensable condition is that his music shall plied with the announced conditions in being
Toronto Dealers Complain of Abuse of This be performed, and to secure its most frequent of the class of compositions sought for; that
performance everything must be made as easy is, chamber music. Piano pieces, songs, or-
Practice in Local Productions
as possible for those who are likely to per- chestral numbers and others of the nature" of
According to recent reports from Toronto, form it. Thereby the handicap of being an occasional pieces were excluded. These were
Canada, sheet music dealers in that section have American composer may be partly, at least, over- first examined by an advisory board made up
of Georges Barrere, Harold Bauer, Adolfo Betti,
taken exception to the frequency with which come.
musical comedies playing in their city carry
So the Society for the Publication of Ameri- George W. Chadwick, Rubin Goldmark, Hugo
music salesmen who sell music in the lobby of can Music will do a real service to American Kortschak, Frederick A. Stock and Deems Tay-
the theatre before and after the show, and very composers by making their music easily ac- lor. Of these, six were selected. They were
often in the aisles between the acts. Following cessible and in the most convenient shape, and then played to a joint meeting of this board
the complaints of various dealers in the above will give it a wide dissemination as well as a with the board of directors and the final choice
city, who, among other things, state that the permanence in form that manuscript would bt was made, which would therefore s^em'to *have
method of selling music is unfair competition, less likely to attain. And if the directors of been arrived at by a combination of wise heads.
the Toronto Telegram had quite an item on the the society do their work with a proper ap*-
The two selected compositions will be pub-
so-called abuses of "hawkers of music," and preciation of their duty toward the art of music lished by the society "so far as the funds will
there is apparently quite a little feeling in that and the American public, as well as toward permit." The other four may be published
section against the methods of distribution in the American composer, there will be a distinct later. A new submission of compositions, al,so
question.
improvement of the latter's condition.
to be exclusively chamber music, will be re-
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