PRESTO
September IS, 1923
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THE
DANIEL WOLF TO MAKE
EXCLUSIVE RECORDS
BRADBURY PIANO
Prominent Young American Composer Signs
Up on Staff of Welte-Mignon (Licensee)
Recording Studios, New York.
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Manufacturers of
STEGER Pianos and Player Pianos
REED & Sons Pianos and Player Pianos
SINGER Pianos and Player Pianos
THOMPSON Pianos and Player Pianos
ARTEMIS Pianos and Player Pianos
STEGER Stools, Benches, Music Cabinets
STEGER Phonographs
STEGER Polish
General Offices and Salesrooms: Steger Build-
ing, Wabash and Jackson, Chicago.
Factories: Steger, Illinois, where the "Lincoln"
and "Dixie" Highways Meet.
WORK
INTENSELY
AMERICAN
Native Spirit Permeates Compositions to Be Repro-
duced for Welte-Mignon Library.
The Welte-Mignon (Licensee) Recording Studios
announce that Daniel Wolf has recently agreed to re-
cord exclusively for the Welte-Mignon (Licensee)
library of reproducing records. Two of Mr. Wolf's
own compositions have already been recorded and
released, "Waterfall" and "The Whistling Boy."
Daniel W r olf is among the most notable of con-
temporary young American composers.
His in-
tensely American spirit permeates his compositions,
among which are "The Lake," "Indian Dance,"
"Waterfall," and a "Spanish-American Rhapsody."
Mr. Wolf is characteristically American, but in his
own individual way. His works are as unmistakable
in their authorship, as are those of MacDowell.. Musi-
cal authorities entertain great expectations for the
future of this remarkable young musician who is still
in his mid-twenties.
Daniel Wolf, pianist and composer, was born in
Baltimore, Md., on May 12, 1899. His general edu-
cation was received entirely in the United States.
His First teacher in piano was Mae Langfeld Adels-
dort. Later he attended the Peabody Conservatory
of Music, Baltimore, studying the piano with Ernest
Hutcheson and later, in the same institution, with
George Siemonn and Gustave Strube. After a four
year's course at the Peabody Institute he came to
New York, where he completed his piano studies
under Rudolph Ganz.
Mr. W r olf made his public debut in a recital at
Aeolian Hall, New York, on March 17, 1921. He
has since appeared in joint recital with such artists as
Lydia Lipkowska and Frieda Hempel, and has been
soloist with the National Symphony under Walter
Henry Rothwell at the City College Stadium con-
certs.
Besides those mentioned above, the compositions
of Mr. Wolf include four encore songs, "Star,"
"Slumber Town," "Circus," and "Jack-in-the-Box,"
which have been featured by Lydia Lipkowska at
Carnegie Hall and elsewhere. Mr. W 7 olf is sched-
uled to appear in the piano department of Boggs &
Buhl, Pittsburgh, on October 3rd, to give a recital in
comparison with the Welte-Mignon (Licensee).
PRETTY INVITATION OF
PASADENA MUSIC STORE
Hancock Music Co. Beckons the Passers By With
Poetic Sentiment Inside the Door.
The Hancock Music Company, of Pasadena, Cal.,
has a framed and illustrated verse upon a stand that
faces the window and can be read from without.
It stands upon a bit of rippling, rainbow tinted silk,
with a beautiful candle and candle stick beside it. It
reads:
"Here in the realm of music's gentle art,
Are strains to soothe and rest the tired heart,
And lull the spirit with their tones so clear
And waken olden memories, fond and dear;>
Come in, dear friend, and list awhile, I pray.
And let sweet music drive dull care away."
This certainly is a pretty way to extend an invita-
tion to enter the store.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
Hudson Music Co., Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y.;
$10,000; A. Barchas, R. Luri and P. Block.
The Criterion Products Co.. Cleveland, C : $1,000;
Frank and Max L. Meckel. Nathaniel Boswell,
George N. Papcke and Walter J. Hamilton.
Suffern Stores Co., Decatur, 111.: $75,000; Frank L.
Suffern and others.
Abbott-Troyer Music Co., St. Joseph. Mo.: $50,000;
VV. W. Abbott, H. C. Troyer, Lillian Walters, H. W.
Yeater, Leo Dattilo and R. A. Burgess.
E. Blout, Manhattan; talking machines; $500,000;
F. and E. Blout, E. R. Rye. Attorney, S. M. Kron-
heimcr, 49 Chambers street. New York.
Harry J. KHer Co.. Watertowu. Wis.; $10,000;
Harry J. Krier, Edward C. Wolfgram and T. E.
McAdams.
St. Louis Music Co., St. Louis, Mo.; $30,000; Ray
C. Layer, W. C. Layer and A. M. Conroy.
The Davistone Co., 848 Noble street, Chicago; to
make and sell talking machines; $10,000.
Petersburg Music Store, Petersburg, Va.; $5,000 to
$50,000; George B. Carter, president, and others.
North Avenue Music Shop, Inc., Milwaukee, Wis.;
to sell music goods; $10,000; Hugo Hoencher, Ralph
Strauss and- A. H. Nemitz.
Columbia Phonograph Company, $5,000. (Corpo-
ration Trust Co., of America). Incorporated at Dover,
Del. Address care last named company.
PLAN NEW BUILDING FOR
CALIFORNIA BRANCH STORE
New Structure to Be Provided for Stockton Branch
of Sherman, Clay & Co.
Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, has leased
temporary quarters for its Stockton branch which
was burned out recently with a loss of $50,000. The
temporary warerooms are on the top floor of the
store of the M. Levy & Bro. Co., which is in a new
building excellently located.
When the branch is moved to permanent quarters
again it is possible it will be located advantageously
in a building owned by the company and plans for
the erection of which are now under consideration.
The lines of music goods, too, will be expanded in
the new building, and made to include musical mer-
chandise and sheet music departments. The sheet
music department will be made specially important,
according to Edward P. Little, head of the sheet
music department interests of the company.
Other activities of Sherman, Clay & Co., are seen
in the remodeled store of the Modesto branch of the
company, and in the work of enlarging the Sacra-
mento branch on which about $40,000 will be spent.
CARL FISCHER MUSIC HOUSE
OCCUPIES NEW BUILDING
Twelve-Story Modern Structure Occupied of Old
New York Firm in Cooper Square.
The opening of the new home of the Carl Fischer
Music House in Cooper Square, New York, took
place on Tuesday, September 4. The need for much
larger quarters caused the firm to erect the modern
twelve-story building, a fitting monument to the close
of its fiftieth year in the music business, founded by
the late Carl Fischer.
Although the Carl Fischer business is nation-wide
in its scope and is wholesale as well as retail, special
attention has been given to the planning of the new
retail music and musical instrument store, which will
be made the largest and most completely stocked in
Greater New York.
One of-the cornerstones in the success of the Carl
Fischer house is its ability to live up to the slogan
"Everything in Music," and this service to the public
will be broadened greatly by the tremendously in-
creased facilities.
Musicians and music lovers in
search of foreign or domestic publications need go no
further. Connoisseurs will find Stradivarius, Gua-
dagnini, and Storioni violins, pupils will see complete
violin outfits at amazingly low prices, and prep, school
pupils will be dazzled by all sorts of ukes, saxo-
phones, tenor banjos, kazoos and harmonicas. A fea-
ture of the retail store will be the piano, talking ma-
chine and record departments that have been estab-
lished in a sumptuous setting on the mezzanine.
NEW WELTE-MIGNON ARTIST.
Silvio Scionti, Chicago pianist, has been added to
the list of those who make up the famed De Luxe
Welte-Mignon (Licensee) library of reproducing rec-
ords. Mr. Scionti has appeared in concert in prac-
tically every large music center of the United States.
His particular achievements revolve around his many
appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
under the direction of Frederick Stock and with the
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra under Emil Ober-
hofifer. Mr. Scionti has made numerous recordings
for the De Luxe Welte-Mignon Library of Music, the
first of which, "Girl with the Flaxen Hair." by De-
bussy, is listed in the September bulletin.
LEASES BIG BUILDING.
The Virginia Building, Columbia, Mo., has been
leased by the Taylor Music House for a period of
ten years. The company already occupies a large
portion of the building and eventually all of the space
there will be used by this growing music house.
This progressive firm has built up a trade in pianos
and other music goods that extends over a wide area.
L. T. Ralstone is president and J. B. Ralstone and
D. L. Gribble vice-presidents.
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