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THE MUSIC TRADE
42
REVIEW
AUGUST 20, 1921
CONDEMNS SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS
H. W. SAVAGE RETURNS
PRYOR PRAISES "ILO"
Practice of Various Orchestras in Using Indi-
vidual Arrangements of Music Has Bad Effect
in Many Instances, I t Is Declared
Producer Back From European Trip With Scores
of Two New Productions
Noted Band Leader Endorses Broadway Music
Corp.'s Recent Release
Henry W. Savage, who recently returned from
a two months' trip to Europe on the "Olympic,"
brought with him rearrangements for the score
of "The Merry Widow" made by Composer
Franz Lehar for the new production of that
operetta this Fall; also the complete score of
Lehar's new opera comique, "The Blue Ma-
zurka," whose European success rivals that of
"The Merry Widow."
Mr. Savage attended the 300th performance
of "The Blue Mazurka" in Vienna, and saw it
also in several of the twenty-odd European capi-
tals where it is the reigning success. Accord-
ing to Mr. Savage's arrangements with Lehar,
American audiences will see "The Blue Mazurka"
before London, and the composer has expressed
his hope of coming to New York to conduct the
opening performance.
Several new numbers for the "Mazurka" have
been especially written by Lehar for the Ameri-
can production, which Mr. Savage expects to
present on Broadway soon after "The Merry
Widow," with an elaborate production and an
all-star cast, has had its premiere.
Ted Barron, manager of the band and orches-
tra department of the Broadway Music Corp.,
recently received the following letter from Ar-
thur Pryor, the well-known band leader:
"I am highly pleased to be able to write you
that 'Ilo,' the new Oriental intermezzo pub-
lished by the Broadway Music Corp., which I
have been playing since I received the first
manuscript copy, has developed into the most
popular number I have in my repertoire. In
fact, I use it frequently as an encore number,
even when not programmed, and it never fails
to enthuse our audiences."
For some time it has been recognized in pub-
lishing circles that many of the orchestras are
rendering selections with their own individual
arrangements, which, it is said, do anything but
put over the melody in the way it was written.
It is the opinion of many in the trade that the
publicity received from orchestras which play
such arrangements is of little or no value to
the publisher.
Apropos of the discussion now being waged.
Tim Bryran, member of the board of directors of
the Clef Club, a well-known colored musicians'
organization, delivered a lecture last Friday at
the club to more than 500 musicians and made a
plea for the different orchestras to follow their
orchestrations more closely and not try so much
of the "ad lib." stuff.
Mr. Brymn said that there was a growing ten-
dency on the part of the musicians to make dif-
ferent breaks and discords, which made a lot
of noise and jumbled up the melody until it was
almost impossible to recognize it. White musi-
cians excelled the colored in many instances
because they were willing to supply novelty
music and let it be done by the publisher's ar-
ranger, who knows how to do it. "If you find it
necessary to improve on an orchestration," Mr.
Brymn told them, "have it done on paper so that
the improved way of playing will be uniform and
always the same."
A half-dozen bands were at the club re-
hearsing at the time and Mr. Brymn asked them
to play "Stop! Rest Awhile," which he and
Wolfe Gilbert had written. No two bands played
it alike. He then led one of the bands him-
self, giving an illustration of how he thought
it should be played. He closed his address
warning his hearers that white musicians would
continue to outplay them if they weren't care-
ful to play with a little more regularity and
pass up the tendency to play "ad lib." too often.
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