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IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC PUBLISHING
Conducted By V. D. Walsh
The Rapid Advance Being Made Today
in the Field of Standard Publishing
Advance in Compositions of Type Composing Their Catalogs Best Evidence of the Country's
Progress in Music Appreciation—The Part the Composer's Contest Plays
SONGS THAT SELL
—
.lust a Kittle LUIIKIT (living Merlin)
Because I Love You (Irving Berlin)
How Many Times (Irving Berlin)
I F anyone doubts the progress that standard
music is making in this country or of the
encouragement that is given to American com-
posers, a scrutiny of the records will quickly
dissipate them. Standard music covering all
phases of musical taste is making steady
progress. That the better class of composers
are deriving benefits from this is shown by the
wealth of material issued by the various stand-
ard houses each month.
Not only is music appreciation an the in-
crease and decidedly so, but those that in the
future are to be responsible for contributing
the music of the nation and carrying on the
activities of the cause of better music are being
greatly encouraged. Hardly a week passes by
but what there is reported a prize for a song, a
cantata, a hymn or some special type of music.
Instrumental numbers as well, including cham-
ber music and symphonies and compositions
for the organ, are all included in these contests.
The prizes offered are generally sufficiently
large .to make the effort worth while on the
part of the studious composer, and many of
them, besides having a cash value, include a
program for further musical education of the
winner.
Such funds for bettering compositions of all
types and for encouraging the young musician
are constantly growing. Most of them are of
permanent character, that is, there are prizes
to be given over a period of years. That these
musical funds are carrying out constructive
work is not questioned and the number of com-
posers taking part in the competitions is proof
that such seeds are sown upon fertile ground
A list of the funds for the encouragement
of the young musician would cover several
columns. They are widely varied in character,
all of which lends itself to more universal en-
thusiasm on the part of the contestants.
Aside from the funds mentioned above, there
are numerous funds in this country that are a
distinct encouragement to the vocal student
and to the instrumental player. These two are
contributing their aid to the advancement of
the cause of music and to extending music ap-
preciation. Actually such funds are of wider
value than to the mere competitor or recipient
of the prizes. All musical associations, the
various clubs and the families and friends of
those taking part in these competitions are
imbued with the spirit and enthusiasm that is
aroused in musical circles in various com-
munities. There is no way of telling just how
much indirect value these competitions have,
but there is no little assurance that it is quite
large. They do disseminate much musical
knowledge and are a heavy contributing factor
in music appreciation in widely diversified
channels. Often community interest in music,
through having a competitor for one of these
prizes in its midst, results in arousing much
enthusiasm and gives to all interested parties
a further knowledge of musical structure and
advances musical taste.
All music merchants should show interest in
the different musical compositions when they
are announced, and particularly when they
have local significance, and should be in a
position to acquaint prospective competitors
with the opening and closing dates of such
competitions and the addresses of the secre-
taries of the contests.
"King Christmas" Child's
Irving Berlin Has Three
Opera, Offered by Schirmer
Simultaneous Hits
Particularly Interesting Story for Children With
Appropriate Music Represented in this Holi-
day Publication by New York House
"Because I Love You," "How Many Times"
and "I'm on My Way Home" Are the Three
Aces
A particularly appropriate children's opera
was recently announced by G. Schirmer, Inc.,
entitled "King Christmas." It is of a style that
will have typical appeal to the young. The
characters are New Year's Day, Valentine's Day,
V'Hshington's Birthday, May Day, Independence
Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving Day and Christ-
mas Day. Each of these characters appear in
a courtroom scene before a presiding judge, an
attorney general, court clerk, claimants, jury,
etc., and each give evidence to their fitness to
be crowned king of the holidays. Everything
ends happily, as after hearing all the evidence
the jury of children naturally decide in favor of
Christmas Day.
It is not often that a song writer is able to
give his publisher three successes simultane-
ously and there are doubtless only a few of
these present-day popular writers that have the
ability to perform such an action occasionally.
This happened recently, however, when Irving
Berlin placed with his own firm, Irving Ber-
lin, Inc., the ballad "Because I Love You" and
the songs "How Many Times" and "I'm On
My Way Home." These three Berlin offerings,
in a short space of time since their release, have
all taken a prominent position on the music
counters of the country. Each has been re-
corded by practically all of the records and
player rolls and from their popularity with
singers and the public are assured of sales ac-
tivities during the next few months.
White Ghost Shivers"
Joe Davis, head of the Triangle Music Pub-
lishing Co., song writer and the radio artist
known as "The Melody Man," has added to the
"Triangle Blues Series" a number entitled
"White Ghost Shivers." This was recently in-
troduced by Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra
and by several other Broadway musical com-
binations with good success from their numer-
ous audiences.
National Contest Winners
PHILADELPHIA, PA., November 6.—Denver, New
York and Philadelphia each won two first prizes
in the National Musical Contest of the Sesqui-
centennial Exposition for contestants between
the ages of ten and twenty-four years.
Miss Inda Rains, twenty-three, and Frank
Dinhaupt, nineteen, both of Denver, carried off
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When the Red, Red Robin Comes Boh, Hob,
Bobbin' Along:
—
—
I'm on My Way Home (Irving Berlin)
That's a Good Girl (Irving Berlin)
My Baby Knows How
(I'm Tellin' the Birds—Tellin'
How I Love You
the
Been)
Oh! How She Could Play a Ikulele
When I'm in Your Arms
Bags
Some Day
So Will I
Elsie Shultz-cn-Hcim
Susie's Feller
I Never Knew What the Moonlight Could Do
At Peac« With the World
—
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (If I Knew
I'd Find You)
I'd Love to Meet That Old Sweetheart of
Mine
Remember
Always
Let's Make Up
But I Do, You Know I Do
Who Wouldn't?
In the Middle of the Night
Blue Bonnet, You Make Me Feel Blue
Roses Remind Me of You
Tonight's My Night With Baby
—
Put Your Arms Where They Belong
Poor Papa
Gimme a Little Kiss—Will Ya? Huh?
If You Miss Me as I Miss Y'ou
And Then I Forget
Old-Fashioned Sal
Pretty Cinderella
BOOKS THAT SELL
X
New Universal Dance Folio
No. 12
Ready Oct. 20th to 25th
Peterson'* Ukulele Method
—
World's Favorite Songs
Tiddle De Ukes
Strum It With Crumit
Irving Berlin's Song Gems
From the Musical Comedy Sensation
"THE COCOANUTS"
Ting-aling the Bell'll Ring
Why Do You Want to Know Why?
Florida By the Sea
The Monkey Doodle Doo
Lucky Boy
We Should Care
IRVING BERLIN, Inc.
1607 Broadway, New York
the prizes for soprano and baritone singing, re-
spectively. Other winners were Virginia D.
Kendrick, Pittsburgh, contralto; Charles A.
Kline, Philadelphia, tenor; Irene Peckham, New
York, piano; Helen Berlin, Philadelphia, violin,
and James Kahn, New York, 'cello.
Winners of the first prizes each received $500.
The contest was under the auspices of the Na-
tional Federation of Music Clubs. Seventy-five
young men and women competed in the finals
to-night.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review.