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JANUARY 28, 1922
THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
PLAN SCHUBERT CELEBRATION
Elaborate Program Being Prepared in Com-
memoration of 125th Anniversary of the Birth
of Franz Schubert Throughout America
The entire musical world of America is pre-
paring to pay tribute to the memory of Franz
Schubert during the week beginning January 29.
The one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary
of the birth of Schubert, whose character and
melodies arc embodied in "Blossom Time," the
operetta at the Ambassador Theatre, falls on
CENTURY is again stepping out
January 31, and a nation-wide celebration is
into new fields for more CENTURY
customers for you.
to be planned to honor the genius of the man
To the already large
who has been called "the greatest songwriter
list of host magazine*
who ever lived."
that carry our Arts, there
has been enrolled sev-
A meeting of the Franz Schubert memorial
eral new one« that
reach a new and fer-
committee was held Thursday morning of last
tile Held.
week at the Ambassador Theatre, and reports
Our
Winter Cam-
of various sub-comm.ttees were read, in which
paign will have a tre-
mendous pulling power
the co-operation of the musical world was of-
and with your old time loyal
fered. Among the prominent organizations who
backing it can be put across
with the same big success as all
will pay homage to the memory of Schubert
tlie rest.
are: The Music Publishers' Association of the
We are again banking on your
United States, which will hold a special Schu-
support. Do you need any hook-
ups?
bert banquet at Delmonico's on January 31; the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, com-
prising the most important musical instrument
235 We.t 40th St.
New York
manufacturers and merchants in this country;
the Talking Machine Men, Inc.; the Evening
Mail, which is arranging, through its musical
"LITTLE BIT OFJIEAVEN" A HIT
editor, Charles D. Isaacson, to give twelve con-
certs of Schubert music during the week of
John Steele, the well-known tenor who is now
January 29; the Q R S Co., the largest manu-
appearing in vaudeville, has been programming,
facturer of music rolls, is planning a notable
with success, the old-time favorite, "A Little Bit
tribute to Schubert, and the Aeolian Co., An-
of Heaven," which will be remembered as the
tonio Sawyer, R. E. Johnston and Charles L.
work of Ernest R. Ball and J. Kern Brennan.
Wagner, managers of musical artists, have of-
The number has been enthusiastically received
fered their co-operation and that of the vocal-
and Mr. Steele has decided to continue pro-
ists and instrumentalists under their direction.
gramming it. M. Witmark & Sons, by the way,
Special Schubert selections will be played in
publish two songs of which John Steele is the
theatres throughout the United States, under the
writer, "Love Will Return in the Spring," and
direction of the Messrs. Lee and J. J. Shubert.
"Rose of My Soul."
Other organizations preparing to honor
Schubert in one way or another are: The Na-
DEATH OF W^A. SPRINGER
tional Bureau for the Advancement of Music,
the Caruso Memorial Foundation, the Park
William A. Springer, who was prominent in
choral society and church choir work in the Community Symphony Orchestra, of which
New England States, and who was the com- Jacques Gottlieb is conductor; the Westing-
poser of "Rest, Comrade, Rest," and other num- house Electric & Mfg. Co., through the medium
of the radiophone. Such prominent artists as
bers, died on January 12 at Marlboro, Mass.
Josef Wolf, leading basso of the Chicago Opera
Co., and Christine Langenham, of the Ham-
burg Opera, will give all Schubert recitals dur-
ing the anniversary week. The orchestras of
the Hotel McAlpin. under the direction of
Xahau Franko, and the Hotel St. Regis, under
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LEO. FEIST, Inc., FEIST Bid*., New York
the direction of John Rochetti, will feature
Schubert songs.
In addition, there will be elaborate recitals of
Schubert music at the Ambassador Theatre on
Sunday afternoons, January 29 and February 5.
The winning prizes in the Schubert essay con-
test, now in progress among high school stu-
dents, will be awarded on Saturday morning,
February 4, at the Ambassador Theatre and a
special program for children will be given.
"WHICH HAZEL^_V1A WIRELESS
Al Howard, Detroit representative of M. Wit-
mark & Sons, has been carrying on an intensive
campaign in his territory on the successful nov-
elty, "Which Hazel." Recently this number was
sent by wireless over a radius of 150 miles. Dan
Russo, the leader of Finzel's Orchestra, one of
the leading orchestras of Detroit, through the
courtesy of the Detroit News, under whose aus-
pices weekly wireless programs are carried out,
selected the music of the program in this in-
stance.
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of the new optimistic song entitled "'Hello, Pros-
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