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The Music Trade Review
JANUARY 29, 1927
"Peggy-Ann" New Musical
Pallma Ballad Featured
Schumann's Original Score
Comedy Opens in New York
in Lyon-Healy Window
in Library of Congress
Music by Richard Rodgers is of Particular In-
terest and Includes Several Excellent Song
Numbers—Score Published by Harms, Inc
"Peggy-Ann," a new musical comedy which
opened at the Vanderhilt Theatre, New York
City, recently, is already well on ihe road to
success. In it is featured Helen Ford with a
supporting cast of important figures, includ-
ing Lulu McConnell, Betty Starbuck, Jack
Thompson, Edith Mriser, Margaret Brecn and
others.
The production is sponsored by Lew Fields
and Lyle I). Andrews who, for the past two
seasons, lias presented several productions
which won more than normal popularity.
The book is by Herbert Fields and the lyrics
by Lorenz Hart, with music by Richard
Rodgers. The show has several outstanding
songs including "A Tree in the Park," "Where's
That Rainbow," "Maybe It's Me" and "A Little
Birdie Told Me So." Harms, Inc., publish the
Phil Moore With the
Richmond Supply Corp.
Former Representative of Joe Morris Music
Co., on Road for Well-known Sheet Music
Jobber
I'hil Moore, formerly with the Joe Mor-
ris Music Co. and a well-known traveling
representative, recently joined the sales staff of
the Richmond Music Supply Corp. Mr. Moore
started on his first trip early this year and has
met with a friendly and successful reception in
all the territory he has visited. He is con-
sidered one of the older school of traveling
salesmen and for that reason he can depend
upon his long acquaintance with retail mer-
chants to give him a hearty welcome.
New F. S. Chilton Number
The new publishing firm of Forrest S. Chil-
ton, headquarters in the Hilton Building, 1595
Broadway, New York City, is the publisher of
the successful gang song called "Down in the
Old Neighborhood." The number has been
taken up by a large number of the leading or-
chestras, including those who go in for singing.
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CHICAGO, III., January 22.—The beautiful new
ballad "Promise," published by the Pallma Music
Publishers, Chicago, which is being sung by
famous concert artists was featured in an at-
tractive window display recently at Lyon &
Featuring Pallma's "Promise"
Healy. A large placard showed photographs of
the well-known artists featuring the number,
including Claudia Muzio, Glenn Drake, Cyrena
Van Gordon, Edith Mason, Charles Marshall,
and Marie Morrisey. The words of the song
were written by Virginia Collier and the music
by Ward French.
Ten Years Old and Composes
When Ethyl Hayden, mezzo-soprano, re-
sponds to an encore at her second Carnegie
Hall recital on Feb. 2 she will sing Longfellow's
"Hiawatha," set to modernist music by David
Karjeon, ten years old. When the words did not
fit the musical meter, the composer confided
yesterday, he changed them until they did.
The soprano met the composer at a children's
party at the Tuckahoe home of Mrs. Winifred
S. Stoner. He is the son of Claribel Fontaine,
actress and Herbert Farjeon, actor, and the
grand-nephew of Joseph Jefferson. He played
several compositions for the party.
He also has composed "Rhapsody in Red,"
a number of dances, a caprice and a suite of
characteristics. They are all in the modern man-
ner, having dissonance and broken rhythm
throughout. He has been composing for two
years. He expects to study under some Ameri-
can master and then go to Europe.
Jim Durkin With Marks
A recent addition to the staff of the Edward
B. Marks Music Co., 223 West Forty-sixth
street, New York City, is Jim Durkin, who now
handles the band and orchestra department for
the above concern. Mr. Durkin was, for over
six years, in charge of the orchestra depart-
ment for Harms, Inc. Prior to that he was
connected with M. Witmark & Sons and in his
earlier days he was a violinist.
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CHAPPELL-HARMS, INC.
Manuscript Comprises Original Sketches and
Are Full Score of Composer's First Sym-
phony in B Flat
The original sketches and full score ol
Schumann's first symphony in B Flat (Opus 38),
in the famous composer's handwriting, has just
been received by the Library of Congress from
Berlin, where it was bought at the recent auc-
tion sale of part of the celebrated collection of
musical manuscripts of William Hever, of
Cologne. Purchase of the manuscripts, the first
of Schumann the library has been able to obtain,
was made possible through a gift of $1,000 from
the Beethoven Association of New York to en-
able the library to enlarge its collection of
chamber music and orchestra manuscripts in the
handwriting of classical composers.
The Schumann sketches and score are bound
together in the original boards. In all there
are 188 quarto pages in Schumann's writing.
Sixteen contain the first sketches of the entire
work, written mostly in pencil, and one two-
staves, after the fashion of a "piano reduction."
According to the dates on them by Schumann,
himself, these sketches were completed in the
incredibly short time of four days, Jan. 23 to
26, 1841. The orchestration was begun on the
following day, January 27, and finished on Feb-
ruary 20.
The whole, to which Schumann gave the
name of "Spring Symphony," was conceived,
sketched and orchestrated in less than a month
during the time of the composer's greatest ac-
tivity.
It was also Schumann's first large orchestral
work.
Numerous changes in the orchestra
score show that he was still unfamiliar with the
technique of some instruments, especially the
trumpet and French horn.
The largetto in this original version differs
considerably from the final printed edition of
the score, which was not published until 1853.
On the first two front fly leaves Schumann
kept a record of the dates and places of some
fifty performances of the symphony and the
names of the conductors, covering the eleven
years, before the printed version appeared. The
first performance took place on March 31, 1841,
at the Gewandhaus in Leipsic, under the direc-
tion of Mendelssohn, who conducted from the
transcript score the library has just recently
purchased.
New Orchestra Issues
Carl Fischer, Inc., recently added to its or-
chestra catalog. These new additions are par-
ticularly available for photoplay orchestras and
cover addenda to the "Drigo Cinema Classics,"
a loose-leaf collection issued for full orchestra
and piano solo, and for small orchestra as well.
Other additions include symphony orchestra
publications, works for string orchestra, "Carl
Fischer Progressive Orchestra Folio," and the
albums for "Carl Fischer Junior Orchestra."
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