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JANUARY 17, 1920
BUYS INTEREST IN PACIFIC CO.
W. E. Bailey and His Son Acquire Share in
Business of Pacific Music Co.—Management
Transferred to Russell Bailey
January 10.—Controlling in-
terest in the Pacific Music Co., S18 Sprague ave-
nue, has been purchased by Wil'iam Iv Bailey,
sales manager of the Spokane Drug Co., and
Russell T. Bailey, a sou. Tin: management of
llie concern was transferred to Russell Bailey
January 1. W. K. Bailey will continue his work
with'the Spokane Drug Co.
The business recently has been controlled
by Arthur Miller, under the management of his
father, J. W. Miller. Since the first of the year
"J W. Miller has divided his time between the
Spokane and Seattle branches of the company.
The Pacific Music Co. was organized in March,
1915, with offices and salesrooms in the Arthur
D. Jones Building. From March, 1916, to March,
1919, it operated in the Sherman, Clay & Co.
building, and since that date has been at the
present location.
The company has the largest band and small
instrument department in Spokane, and claims
the largest used band instrument department in
the Northwest.
SPOKANE, WASH.,
SOUSA PROPOSES BAND CIRCUITS
Famous Bandmaster Urges League of Cities to
Promote New Band Idea Which Should Meet
With Favor in Music Circles
The idea of co-operation among municipali-
ties for the advancement of band music has
just been brought forward by no less an au-
thority than John Philip Sousa. To the many
achievements of his famous career as band di-
rector and composer, Mr. Sousa, or rather Lieut.
Sousa, has now added the distinction of hav-
ing whipped into shape the mammoth 1500-piece
band of the Great Lakes, Illinois, Naval Train-
ing Station. His words relating to the future
of the American brass band are, therefore, of
more than passing importance.
"It has long been a dream of mine," says Mr.
Sousa, "and I sincerely hope its fulfillment is
near, that our various municipalities co-operate
and form band leagues, much on the order of
baseball leagues common to our country. These
leagues could be operated according to geo-
graphical position and size of population and
sustained by municipal appropriation during the
season of outdoor pleasures and entertainments.
each band making a circuit of its league cities,
playing, as the case may be. a week or two in
each city, town or village of its circuit. The
public, by this means, would have an oppor-
tunity to hear eight, ten or twelve bands, to
note the stimulating effect of novelty in music,
personality in conducting, and the best effort
in personnel."
.Vow that so many cities are establishing mu-
nicipal music commissions and civic music asso-
ciations, it is reasonable to believe that progress
will be made along the line of combinations
among them.
TRADE
NIGHT ENGINEER A VIOLIN MAKER
TALKS ON ORCHESTRA INSTRUMENTS
Chatham, N. Y., Man Has Made Several Violins
of Stradivarius Pattern
Metropolitan Museum of Art Conducting Series
of Discussions on Individual Instruments
Kvery man is said to have a hobby, and that
of Robert Westovcr of Chatham, N. Y., is the
making of violins, his first having been made
from a cigar box many years ago. Since that
time he has manufactured four, two of which
are now about to receive the finishing touches.
Mr. Westover is the night engineer in the
plant of the Chatham Electric Light, Heat &
Power Company, and the greater part of his
work on the instruments has been done in that
plant during his spare moments.
All of his violins are of the Stradivarius pat-
tern, the first having been made in 1914, the sec-
ond in 1915 and the other two in 1919. Those
made in 1914 and 1915 were made in Auster-
litz, where he formerly lived.
During this month the Metropolitan Museum
of Art will give on the regular days of its free
concerts a series of informal talks on the Or-
chestra. These will be given by Frances Mor-
ris, assistant curator of decorative arts, and will
call attention to the parts played by the indi-
vidual instruments in musical composition with
particular reference to the program of the eve-
ning. Miss Morris will be assisted by Mrs.
Henry L. de Forest at the piano, and the lec-
tures will be further illustrated by lantern slides
and instruments from the Crosby Brown collec-
tion of musical instruments.
One talk was already given on January 10,
and others will be on January 17, 24, and 31
in the lecture hall, beginning at 5 o'clock.
JAZZ AN INSTRUMENT OF GOD
FRITZ KREISLER'S FAMOUS VIOLINS
Philadelphia Clergyman Declares Jazz Epito-
Fritz Kreisler, the famous violinist and Victor
mizes the Spirit of the Age—God Can Use artist, is the proud possessor of three extraor-
Jazz to Work Out Salvation of Mankind
dinary violins. One is a rather small Stradi-
various, not large in tone, but of exquisite quality.
Americans are living in a jazz age, the Rev. The second is a Cagliano, the work of one of
Dr. John Allan Blair told a congregation at the the earliest and most famous of the Italian vio-
centennial exercises in the Tabernacle Presby- lin makers. The instrument, however, that he
terian Church, held recently in Philadelphia.
uses the most is one made by Josef Guarneri del
The clergyman intimated that the church was Jcsu, which was formerly the property of the
meeting with difficulties owing to the ragtime great Wilhelmj. It is a large instrument, with
proclivities of the present generation, but, he the big, mellow tone characteristic of its kind,
said, God can use even a jazz age to work out and Kreisler uses it almost entirely when he
the salvation of mankind.
plays concertos with orchestra.
"Some one has said that Americans are wor-
shipers of the great god Jazz," Dr. Blair
told his congregation, which included many Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania students. "It may be
true that we are living in a jazz age. We are
living in an age where everything goes. We
are impatient under restraints.
"In Bolshevism we have in extreme form the
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With jazz in the atmosphere, and even the
moral structure jazzing, Dr. Blair said the
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should "quit or go on." The clergyman did
not take a pessimistic view of the situation; on
the contrary, he said the church has its greatest
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