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MUSIC TRADE
MUSIC AS MEDICINE
NEW SHOW BY CHARLES GEORGE
Charles George, author of "The Soldier Girl,"
which has been playing in the Middle West for
a number of seasons, is responsible for the new
musical show, "Listen to Me," which has just
been placed in rehearsal by the producers,
Flesh'er & Comte. Mr. George is directing re-
hearsals of the musical numbers.
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Several Important Compositions Listed in Lat-
Irving Berlin, Inc., has just released a new
est Schirmer Release
song, entitled "You're Just the Type for a Bun-
galow." This new timely number is by the
Among new publications of the house of G. writers of "My Mammy" and the Berlin organi-
Schirmer is found a concert paraphrase by Ed- zation looks for it to be one of the big songs of
win Hughes on the Johann Strauss "Wiener the Summer. An immediate campaign is planned
Blut Waltz"—a thoroughly modern concept, and a large force of singers will be added to the
brilliant but not too difficult for the player of staff for this particular publicity.
works of this class. Also John Alden Carpen-
ter's "Tango Americain," in which are combined
A BOASTFUL NUMBER
unusual technical and rhythmic effects with those
'"characteristicalities" peculiar to this particular
The Triangle Music Pub. Co. recently re-
dance type of Southern climes.
leased a new song called "I Ain't Afraid of
More sober, melodious and imaginative in its Nothin' Dat's Alive." It has been recorded by
setting, and suited to concert atmosphere, is a a number of the leading talking machine record
Nocturne by Gustave Ferrari, dedicated to Percy companies and is becoming quite popular.
Grainger. Constantine Sternberg contributes a
Sixth Etude in concert form, of the genus Mos-
A Small-town Song with a World-wide Appeal
kowski—of pedagogic value to the student in its
double notes—and an Arabesque of Mana Zucca
which holds wistful charm in melody and grace
in the technical treatment of shifting movement
and keys.
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JULY 30, 1921
Charley Straight and Roy Bargy have Written
an Unusually Attractive Fox Trot Ballad
John Dixwell, M.D., Tells of the Value of Music
as a Therapeutic
The following is the recent report of Dr. John
Dixwell, a graduate of the Harvard Medical
School, who served as a director for twenty
years in Boston hospitals carrying on experi-
ments as to the therapeutic value of music:
The study of the effect of good music on the
sick in hospitals and asylums has been followed
by me for the twenty-odd years up to the open-
ing of this last war, when it was ended, as sub-
scribers used their money for other purposes.
All amateur performers were found to be un-
reliable, so trained professionals only were em-
ployed and paid at the end of each concert.
Insane cases generally were interested, pleased,
quieted; surgical and medical cases past the dan-
ger line were benefited, and many cases of
hospitalism and homesickness brightened up for
speedy recovery. A considerable number of in-
dividuals, both sexes and all ages, many nation-
alities, were found to be more responsive to
music, but compared with the whole these were
exceptional.
The imposing on hospitals of irritating rag-
time, so-called music, ought to be forbidden.
Vocal and instrumental work alternating gave
variety such as was desired, and the selection of
what was to be performed was very carefully
attended to; nothing mournful, whether called
religious or otherwise, was used. The length of
time in any one ward was not longer than
twenty-five minutes, as to fatigue the patients,
of course, had to be guarded against.
All Greater Boston institutions thus were
given concerts through the season Sundays and
holidays, at a cost of about $2,500 per year;
complete records and accounts were kept, and
the conclusion reached was this: that good
music properly given at convenient times to
patients in hospitals certainly did good.
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