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DAVID STEVENS ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF BOSTON MUSIC PUBLISHERS' ASS'N
T
HE Boston Music Publishers' Association
held its annual meeting and dinner at the
Boston Art Club on February 11, with
Henry R. Austin, the vice-president, temporar-
ily occupying the chair. Following the dinner
new officers of the association were elected
as follows: President David Stevens; vice-
president, Charles W. Homeyer; and secre-
tary-treasurer, Arthur C. Morse.
David Stevens, the new president, is a man
of great prominence in the music world. He
is a native of Fitchburg and is a graduate
of Boston University Law School. In the
musical field he has done a great deal of
meritorious work. He contributed the li-
bretto for "The Green Bird," "The Sphinx,"
"The Madcap Duchess," and other operas.
At the present time he is editor-in-chief for
C. C. Birchard & Company, with head-
quarters at 221 Columbus avenue.
The special guest of the evening was
Professor Leo R. Lewis of the music depart-
ment of Tufts College. Another guest in-
vited was Francis Findlay, head of the pub-
lic school music department of the New
England Conservatory of Music; but having
met with an accident during the day, he was
not able to be present.
Professor Lewis focussed his attention on
the need of the music publishers so coordi-
nating their business that there may be a
minimum of overhead and creating a sort
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of central bureau which would be a head-
quarters for all the music published and
which should be under the direction of some
one or a group of men who would be thor-
oughly conversant with all the publications
and the needs musically of all occasions.
He told the publishers that they were face
to face with a striking and significant period
in the music publishing business and he ad-
vised them to get busy and meet the chang-
ing situation.
He drew a graphic picture of the present
torrent of automatism or as he put it the
revolution in the mechanical making of
music, and he said the eventual solution of
it all was that all these modern devices
will in the end create an honest desire for
the real thing in music, that is, the personal
performance of the musician. Finally, bring-
ing forward the rather happy and encourag-
ing thought that the future held great things
for the business, he said there is to be a
demand for real music beyond the dreams of
anyone at the moment.
The speaker questioned if the modern
business methods can be properly applied to
the music publishing business and it was
his belief that those concerns that have best
succeeded are those that have not yielded to
these modern methods.
A frank discussion of Professor Lewis's
address was engaged in by those present, re-
sulting in a worth-while fund of valuable
ideas.
"family" of such compositions as "Doll
Dance" and "Wedding Of The Painted
Doll." The lyric is completely different in
form and describes an interesting incident in
a toy shop.
CHARITY TRUST FUND
LEFT BY LEO FEIST
Leo Feist, music publisher, who died last
June 21, left a gross estate of $2,227,820 and
a net estate of $2,066,345, according to the
appraisal filed last month, which disclosed
that he left a fund of $100,000 to establish
the Leo Feist Charities Trust. His widow,
Mrs. Bessie Feist of Mount Vernon, and their
sons, Nathan, Leonard and Milton Feist, are
named trustees with authority to use the pro-
ceeds "for the prompt and temporary relief
of worthy needy persons and to provide shel-
ter, necessaries, education or such otheT fi-
nancial aid as may be needed, it being my
intention that the income of this fund shall
be devoted to the welfare of humanity."
Mrs. Feist gets the life use of the residence,
the income from the residuary estate,
$1,858,126, and the personal effects worth
$429. The three sons get an equal amount of
their father's personalty, and two of them,
Nathan and Leonard, also receive $5,000 a
year. Milton, the third son, gets the income
of a trust set up by Mr. Feist.
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"I Want You for Myself" is the title of
a new song by Irving Berlin.
MUSIC AND COURSE
FOR PIANO-ACCORDEON
In view of the growing popularity of the
piano accordeon it is interesting to learn that
the Edward B. Marks Music Co. has now
available seven arrangements of hits pub-
lished by the company and as played by
Pietro Deiro, the well-known piano accordeon
virtuoso. The selections include the "Glow-
Worm", "Peanut Vendor", "Ida, Sweet As
Apple Cider", "By Heck", "Luna Waltz",
"Toymaker's Dream" and "Espanita."
In addition the company has in press a
new "quick study" Elementary Piano Ac-
cordeon Method by El Vera Collins and
Frank Gaviani of the Pietro Deiro school.
"The instructions are greatly simplified and
are illustrated bv numerous charts.
ROBBINS BUYS ENGLISH
INSTRUMENTAL HIT
The Robbins Music Corp. has acquired the
American publishing rights to the big Eng-
lish instrumental hit, "Soldier On The Shelf,"
a publication of Cecil Lennox, Ltd., and
which is the combined work of Erell Reaves
who wrote the lyrics and Sherman Myers
who composed the music. The song is char-
acteristicallv instrumental and is in the same
REVIEW,
March, 1931
Good News!
Many dealers have told us if all the lines
they carried were as near depression-proof
as "CENTURY EDITION," they wouldn't
ask for better business.
Reasons tor It
There are many Musicians who know
Century only by name. Many of these
honestly believe that the Edition can't be
any good, because of its low price. But
need for economy has made many of them
delighted Century customers.
So this is a most opportune time for you
who sell Century—TO PUSH IT and for
you who don't—TO ORDER IT TODAY.
CENTURY MUSIC
PUBLISHING CO.
235 W. 4Oth St., N. Y. City
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