Music Trade Review

Issue: 1927 Vol. 84 N. 9

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IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC PUBLISHING
Conducted By V. D. Walsh
Sam Fox Musikverlag, Berlin, Organized
to Cover Central Europe and the Balkans
New Representation for American Publisher Under the Sponsorship of Bote & Bock,
One of the Leading Music Firms of the Continent
DERUN,
GERMANY, February
15.—The
From the headquarters of the Sam Fox Musik-
Sain Fox publishing companies for various verlag, 37 Leipziger Stt isse, Berlin, the whole
nations and territories in Europe have been of central Europe is cov :red. This arrangement
completed through the organization of the Sam includes Germany, Cz ;cho-Slovakia, Poland,
Fax. Musikverlag, headquarters Berlin, Ger- Lithuania, Latvia and Danzig. Through this
many. This new Fox organization, which is one Berlin organization representation has been ar-
of»the most extensive of all of the new Fox ranged by Sam Fox for the appointment of
European outlets, is under the sponsorship and Figaro Yerlag, Vienna, who will act as a branch
direction of Ed. Bote & G. Bock, one of the
oldest established publishing firms of Europe,
operating wholesale and retail music establish-
ments.
The firm of Ed. Bote & G. Bock was estab-
lished in 1838 and is still under the direction
of the same families. The heads are of the
younger generation and both the Bote & Bock
firm and the Sam Fox Musikverlag have as
executive directors Anton Bock and Gustav
Bock. Each of these officials has spent prac-
tically all of their business years in the music
industry and contemplate these new activities
Songs that Sell
Blue Skies
Irving Berlin
Here or There (As Long as I'm
With You)
Carolina Mine
Swanee River Trail
Rags
What Does It Matter
Irving Berlin
I Never See Maggie Alone
That's My Hap-Hap-Happiness
My Sunday Girl
My Baby Knows How
Yankee Rose
C'est Vous
Some Day
Just a Little Longer—l'rving Berlin
When the Red, Red Robin Comes
Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along
Put Your Arms Where
They Belong
Always
Remember
I'm on My Way Home—
Irving Berlin
That's a Good Girl Irving Berlin
Interior of Bote & Bock
as the most important business arrangements in
their history.
The confidence of Sam Fox, who recently left
here for home, in the arrangements for the
Sam Fox Musikverlag, are indicated by the
sweeping but minutely covered territory which
will be under the sponsorship of the new or-
ganization.
Two Better Melodies
Emmy Jo, and Her Beau
A Sweet, Pleading Fox Trot Hit
With Wonderful Dance Rhythm
Give Me An Hour For Tomorrow
The Popular Waltz Ballad
With a Heart Throb
Piano Copies and Orchestrations
From Your Jobber or Direct
VOR-EEN MUSIC PUBLISHERS
29 So. Green St.
-
Wichita, Kans.J
Exterior of Bote & Bock
of the Sain Fox Berlin Co. and will cover the
countries of Austria, Hungary and Balkan
States—Roumania, Bulgaria, Jugoslavia and
Greece, with independent distribution in the
capitals of these countries.
Simultaneously the appointment lias been
made of Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen, as an-
other important factor in the distribution of
Sam Fox Musikverlag prints in Denmark, Nor-
way, Sweden and Finland. Through this latter
arrangement the Hansen branches at Oslow,
Norway and Stockholm, Sweden, will directly
distribute Sam Fox publications.
With the continuation of G. Alsbach & Co.,
Amsterdam, Holland, as an agency for Sam
Fox publications and the re-arrangement with
Keith-Prowse & Co., Ltd., who sponsor and
direct Sam Fox Publications, Ltd., London, and
the more recently announced Editions Musicales
Sam Fox Paris, under the direction of Coues-
non & Cie, the American firm of Sam Fox Pub-
lishing Co., is catering to the music lovers of
the world. Australia, New Zealand, Japan,
South America are covered.
Messrs. Bote & Bock have obtained the serv-
ices of Joan Fresco as the directing head of the
Sam Fox Musikverlag. Mr. Fresco has excep-
tional qualifications for his new activities. Long
an experienced member of the publishing fra-
ternity he has a wide acquaintance in all other
branches of the industry, thus enabling him to
direct successfully the wide activities necessary
for the furtherance of this Sam Fox business.
Besides its music publishing activities Bote &
Bock are very active in all other musical activi-
ties. They have a booking exchange for con-
cert artists, carry on a tremendous sale in thea-
tre tickets and operate two retail establishments.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review.
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I'm Tellin' the Birds—
Tellin' the Bees
( H o w I Love Y o u )
I'd Climb t h e H i g h e s t Moutain (If
I Knew I d Find You)
That's What I Call a Pal
So Will 1
In the Middle of the Night
Because I Love You
Irving Berlin
At Peace With the World—
l'rving Berlin
How Many Times Irving Berlin
I Never Knew What the Moonlight
Could Do
BOOKS THAT SELL
New Universal Dance Folio No. 12
Peterson's Ukulele Method
World's Favorite Songs
Tiddle De Ukes
Strum It With Crumit (Comic Uku-
lele Song Book)
IRVING BERLIN!
1607Broadway New York City
Williams Sisters Here
The Williams Sisters, who won wide fame
in Chicago territory entertaining in cabarets
and night clubs, have been brought to New
York by Roger Wolfe Kahn, owner of I-e
Perroquet de Paris, 146 West Forty-seventh
street, New York City. Mr. Kahn, who directs
the Roger Wolfe Kahn Orchestra at this, his
own club, discovered the Williams Sisters dur-
ing one of his trips West. This team offers
an original style of song interpretation and is
proving a rare find.
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"You Can't Go Wrong-
With Any FEIST'Safcf
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SUNDAY
A Mid-Vest Sensatiorv
Sweeping The Country!
MILLER,
COHN
KRUEGEH
H Hilt
FEBRUARY 26, 1927
"King's Henchman" Scores
Hit at Metropolitan Opera
Deems Taylor's Work, Published by J. Fischer
& Bro., Hailed Both by Press and Public at
Its Premiere
The eagerly awaited Deems Taylor opera,
"The King's Henchman," had its first public
performance in the Metropolitan Opera House,
New York, on Thursday, February 17. The
opera, hailed as an immediate success and the
best of American productions, was played to a
brilliant audience who greeted it with extraor-
dinary enthusiasm.
The book is by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the
score by Mr. Taylor and the leading parts were
played by Americans. The setting is Anglo-
Saxon, based upon history and legend which
tells of Eadger, of Wessex, King of England, in
the early part of the tenth century, thus giving
the basis for the proper operatic atmosphere
and the use of historical costumes.
There is a brief and brilliant orchestral pre-
lude which announces the knightly music of the
King before the curtain rises on the opening
scene of Eadger's court at Winchester.
Throughout the whole opera Mr. Taylor's score
shows his melodic gifts and he makes much of
the atmosphere that is provided in the libretto
through mystery and climaxes. There is a folk
song of Cornwall which Mr. Taylor is particu-
larly qualified to utilize, due to his long experi-
ence in choral writing.
Among the artists who took leading parts
were Lawrence Tibbett, Edward Johnson,
Florence Easton, Merle Alcock, George Meader,
William Gustafson and Louis d'Angelo. The
conductor was Tullio Serafin and the chorus
master was Giulio Setti.
Deems Taylor and Edna St. Vincent Millay
were sought out at the close of each act and
at the conclusion of the performance and es-
corted to the stage to take curtain calls. They
were presented with two huge laurel wreaths
tied with red, white and blue ribbons with their
opera's name, "The King's Henchman," and its
date, February 17, 1927, "with the compliments
of and congratulations of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Metropolitan Opera Co." To Mr.
Taylor was also presented a large cigarette cab-
inet from thirty American singers of the com-
pany, half of whom had taken part in the eve-
ning's performance. The performance, accord-
ing to Mr. Gatti, was for the first time in the
premiere of a native work sold out.
J. Fischer & Bro., 119 West Fortieth street,
New York City, publish the score.
Since the above reception of Deems Taylor's
work the Metropolitan Opera Co. has arranged
with him for another American operatic work
to be finished within the next two years and to
be used at the opening of the new Metropolitan
Opera House or before, if completed.
ANIMATE
THE,
Keys
WITH
New Fischer Songs
L£O. FEIST.Inc,
FEtST BLDG.,
231-235 W. 40 t h ST.,
iV^Hr YOFUHL
A fine list of new songs has just come from
the J. Fischer & B o., music publishing house,
New York. "Stirrings in the Earth" is the
strange title of a short song by J. Bertram Fox
to poem by James Joyce, which on examina-
tion proves to be a charming and very sincere
little song for high voice, with delightfully fan-
tastic and charming verse.
The list includes others of Mr. Fox's songs,
and every one seems a perfect little gem, their
titles being: "Evening," (John Milton), high;
"A Ballad," (Baring), high; "Tears" and "Sad-
ness," (Cramer-Byng), high-medium; "Even-
tide," (Bronte), high-medum; "O Inexpressible
as Sweet," (Woodbcrry) high-low; "Wonder,"
(Towne), high; "Dusk," high-low; "Falling
Snow," (Amy Lowell), high, and "Starlight,"
(Van Dyke), high.
ALL WHO LIKED'NO IA"
WILL IVANT
SamFox^PubCo
CLLVELAND
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review.
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