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IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC PUBLISHING
Conducted by Fred B. Diehl
Third Annual Exposition of School
Music Materials Held at Aeolian Hall
Large Number of Publishers Make Special Exhibits at Event, Which Ran from July
17 to July 20—Program for Visiting Educators
n p H E third annual exposition of school music
•*• materials was held in Aeolian Hall, 689
Fifth avenue, New York, from July 17 to 20,
inclusive, under the auspices of the educa-
tional department of the Aeolian Co. The
exposition was held in the foyer just outside
the Aeolian little salon on the second floor of
the building and was open for inspection be-
tween the hours of 6 and 10 p. m. Several
hundred music supervisors attending Summer
courses at Columbia University, City College
and New York University availed themselves
of the opportunity to inspect the new school
music publications which about seventeen music
and book publishers placed on display.
Short lectures on music appreciation and
kindred subjects were given each evening in the
little salon by music educators of note. The
lecture program was as follows: Tuesday,
July 17, topic for discussion, "The Approach to
the Study of Music." The speakers were Mrs.
Harriet Seymour, director, Seymour School of
Music Re-education; Alice Bivens, assistant
professor of music, Teachers' College, Columbia
University; Clara Sanford, assistant professor
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of music education, New York. University.
Wednesday, July 18, topic of discussion, "The
Administration of School Music." The speakers
were George H. Gartlan, director of music, New
York City Schools; Russell Morgan, director
of music, Cleveland, O.; Leta Kitts, director of
music, Birmingham, Ala. Thursday, July 19,
topic of discussion, "A Program for the Teach-
ing of Music Appreciation." The speakers
were Gordon Bailey, instructor in music edu-
cation, New York University; Alice Keith,
director of educational department, Radio Corp.
of America; Franklin Dunham, educational
director, Aeolian Co., New York. Friday, July
20, topic of discussion, "A New Music Con-
sciousness." The speakers were Dr. W. G.
Whittaker, professor of music, University of
Durham, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England; Earle
Newton, professor of music, New Jersey State
College for Women, New Brunswick, N. J.;
W. W. Norton, director of music, Flint, Mich.
The publishers exhibiting were as follows:
M. Witmark & Sons, New York, showing nu-
merous choruses, cantatas, collection of two-,
three- and four-part songs, etc.; Silver, Burdette
& Co., Boston, Mass.; displaying operettas; the
Progressive Music Series, Inc. etc.; Arthur P.
Schmidt Co., Boston and New York, showing
octavo and piano music; G. Schirmer, Inc.,
New York, exhibiting a wide variety of books
on musical theory, musical biography, glee club
collections and miscellaneous Schirmer teach-
ing editions; Oxford University Press, showing
the new Oxford piano course for class and in-
dividual instruction, a collection of books on
musical theory, etc.; Hinds, Hayden & El-
dredge, Inc., New York, displaying their Uni-
versal School Music Series, Assembly Songs,
collected by George H. Gartlan, high school
songs, Mother Goose songs, etc.; Ginn & Co.,
New York, showing music education series, col-
lection of music stories for boys and girls; the
Caxton Institute, New York, displaying its
publication, "Fundamentals of Musical Art,"
and other texts; Harold Flammer, Inc., New
York, showing its Blue Octavo Series and Edu-
cational Piano Series; J. Fischer & Bro., New
York, showing numerous operas, including
"The King's Henchman," by Deems Taylor and
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Music Corp. of America
Enters Publishing Field
George D. Lottman Appointed Manager of
New Division—First Two Numbers Are by
Donald Heywood
The Music Corp. of America, located in the
Paramount Building, New York, which has un-
der its management many of the leading dance
orchestras of the country, has just created in
its organization a music department to be
devoted to the publication and exploitation of
popular music. George D. Lottman, former
manager for Roger Wolfe Kahn and for many
years identified with various branches of the
music industry, has been placed in charge of the
new enterprise.
The first two M. C. A. offerings are "Morn-
ing," a semi-symphonic fox-trot, and "I Can't
Get Along Without You," a rhythmic novelty
for singing orchestras. Both numbers are com-
positions of Donald Heywood, who wrote "I'm
Coming, Virginia," "Smile," "I Never Knew"
and other hits, and the orchestrations were
made, respectively, by Frank Skinner and Ar-
thur B. McKay. An intensive campaign of
exploitation has been started by the firm with
the result that the M. C. A. publications are
new being featured by such prominent dance
orchestra leaders as Ray Miller, Ted Weems,
Ted Fiorito, Coon-Sanders, Guy Lombardo,
Joseph Knecht and others.
Mills Named Receiver
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Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mortimer Wilson's
textbook on "Orchestral Training"; Carl
Fischer, Inc., New York, exhibiting its pro-
gressive orchestra folio, miscellaneous books
on musical theory, etudes, marches and smaller
orchestral groups, etc.; Oliver Ditson Co., Bos-
ton and New York, showing its Philharmonic
Orchestra Series, children's pieces, music stu-
dents' piano course, various texts on theory and
music history, etc.; C. C. Birchard & Co., Bos-
ton and New York, exhibiting school song
books, operettas and books on theory; H. W.
Gray & Co., New York, sole agents for Novello
& Co., Ltd., showing; collections of standard
part songs, folk songs and musical theory; Sam
Fox Publishing Co., New York and Cleveland,
exhibiting the Fox Library Orchestra Folio,
Favorite Orchestra Folio, Concert Orchestra
Folio, Recreation Orchestra Folio, collection of
semi-classics for orchestra, etc.; American Book
Co., New York, displaying Myer's School
Music Reader, part songs, glee and chorus
books, children's books, Hollis Dann Music
Course, etc.
Exhibits were also made by such music
publications as Music & Youth, published by
G. Schirmer, Inc., New York; Musical Digest,
Inc., New York, and Musical Observer Co., Inc.,
New York, showing copies of recent issues.
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The Crown Music Co., New York, jobbers
in sheet music, orchestrations, folios and other
musical accessories, was placed in receivership
recently, following a recent voluntary petition
in bankruptcy in which its liabilities were listed
at $215,000 and assets at about $75,000. E. C.
Mills, chairman of the Music Publishers' Pro-
tective Association, was named as receiver
under $10,000 bond by Judge Mack. The Crown
concern has been operating for the past twenty-
eight years under the management of Herman
Snyder, its founder.