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The Music Trade Review
APRIL 16, 1927
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asking their sixty million monthly
readers to go to their dealer and buy
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That should be you—
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W. 40th Music
St.
Century
New York
Pub.
Go.
Fred Fischer Threatens to
Sue Orchestra Directors
Claims New Association a Monopoly and States
They Play His Numbers or Be Sued
The formation of the National Association of
Orchestra Directors with Julian T. Abeles, the
well-known attorney, as executive director, was
recently announced. The members are Paul
VVhiteman, Vincent Lopez, Ben Bernie, Ernie
Golden, Sam Lanin, Roger Wolfe Kahn, George
Olsen, B. A. Rolfe and Fred Rich. The purpose
of the new association was said to be to raise
the standard of the type of music played by its
members, eliminating cheap and vulgar com-
positions, and to arbitrate differences in the
personnel of orchestras.
Already a committee has been appointed to
visit hotels, night clubs and dance halls to ob-
serve and to instruct other orchestra leaders as
to correct renditions, etc. It is said the mem-
bers "were determined to get at the root of the
so-called bad jazz which, they felt, brought all
jazz into disrepute." The committee will make
its first report shortly.
In the meantime, Fred Fischer, the music
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j It All Depends on You
I Wonder How 1 Look When I'm
Asleep
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publisher, has publicly threatened suit to dis-
solve the National Association of Orchestra
Directors, alleging that it operates as a
monopoly in the popular music field. Fischer
has notified Julian T. Abeles that he is about to
sue for $100,000 damages charging violation of
the Sherman anti-trust law. On the other
hand, Mr. Abeles says he is willing to go into
court to prove that no monopoly exists and that
orchestra directors have banded together merely
to insure high-class music. Fischer has two
numbers which he would like to see played and
gives the association the choice of playing one
or both of these at a charity concert at the
Hotel Astor, New York, on Easter Sunday
night, or face suit.
Much space has been given this controversy
in the daily press, but orchestra leaders and
competitive publishers have not been stirred
by the furore. As a matter of fact, the asso-
ciation only has about forty musical combina-
tions in its organization. There are probably
several hundred other orchestras, large and
small, that are non-members and if a publisher's
numbers are so good he should have no trouble
having them rendered elsewhere. There is an
old saying "if a man wants to talk let him hire
a hall." A composer-publisher ought to be able
to organize his own orchestra and thus with
his alluring melodies break the monopoly if
there be such.
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(..-. Hugo Grimm, young Cincinnati composer symphonic composition submitted to its judges.
and organist, won the $1,000 prize of tin- Na- I'he work is entitled "Exotic Poem," and is
based on Edgar Allan Poe's "Lenore." It will
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