March 5, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
STARRS FOR BIRMINGHAM HOTEL
Brilliant American Composer of Jazz Concerto
to Record for that Instrument Alone,
According to Announcement.
INTERIOR OF BANKHEAD HOTEL, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.
The accompanying cut shows the interior of the
Bankhead Hotel in Birmingham, Ala., in which the
Birmingham branch of the Starr Piano Co. recently
placed a Princess Starr Grand and a Starr Style 80
Upright.
This hotel is one of the most modern in the South,
having over four hundred rooms, a splendid roof
garden, a radio broadcasting station and magnificent
ball rooms. It is the latest of the three leading hotels
of Birmingham to be equipped with Starr made
pianos. The other two are the Tutwiler and Red-
mont.
The deal was made .through Martin Ringleberg and
MASCOT
W. E. Johnson of the Birmingham branch of The
Starr Piano Company who have been complimented
very highly on their activity in placing the instru-
ments in this modern hostelry not only by the execu-
tives of 'the hotel but by many prominent citizens.
Several other sales have been made as a direct result
of their action.
The Birmingham branch of the Starr Piano Co.
also reports that it has just sold six Starr Style D
pianos to the First Baptist church. These are the
Minum Uprights which the company is finishing in
a special flat mahogany.
Story & Clark Piano Co. Activities Increase
as the Orders Come from Every Part
of the Music Loving World.
TAKES UP SMALL SPACE
MAKES LARGE EARNINGS
A Grand Haven, Michigan, newspaper says that in
the morning at seven o'clock the whistle of the big
Story & Clark piano factory breaks the stillness with
a welcome sound. It is the call to activity and the
signal of prosperity to the workers. The factory
whistles are happy notes in the community life almost
everywhere. And the Story & Clark factory is the
scene of energy that means more than in most other
lines of daily work.
The Story & Clark pianos are familiar in all music
loving communities and music stores the world over
display them. They are the means of a fine order of
advertising for the beautiful little'city from which
they come.
Recently the Story & Clark factory increased the
working forces, and the demand for Story & Clark
pianos has started in earnest, for. the year promises to
become more and more prosperous as it proceeds.
Reports at the headquarters, in Chicago, are that
business is assuming its old-time activities and orders
are coming in satisfactory volume.
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At the recent Carnegie Hall concert of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra the Jazz Concerto for piano and
orchestra of Aaron Copland, played by the composer
himself, was an .interesting feature. The concerto
was written at the request of Mr. Koussevitsky, the
conductor of the orchestra, whose band lavished all
its powers upon its presentation and it "went over
big." That part of the audience which was outraged
by this fresh attempt of jazz to move into symphonic
circles and appear to be at home there, was at least
hit between the eyes and had to realize that some-
thing was happening.
Mr. Copland, who is to record his playing exclu-
sively for the Ampico as announced by Mr. Delcamp
of the Ampico Corporation, had already achieved
fame as a composer before the advent of his con-
certo, which has set his name buzzing in musical
circles. His concerto for organ and orchestra and
his music for the theater have both received hearings
with the Boston Symphony. Other works have met
with a brilliant reception in Paris and London.
Not only as a composer has Mr. Copland a right to
a place in the annals of fame, his pianistic gifts, too,
are remarkable, as was evidenced by his dazzling per-
formance of his own concerto in its memorable pres-
entation in Carnegie Hall.
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E, A. FRANCIS TO TEXAS.
E. A. Francis of Galesburg, 111., who has been very
ill for the past two months leaves this week for
Texas, stopping over for a week or ten days at Ex-
celsior Springs, Mo. Mr. Francis intends opening
a piano store at Corpus Christi, and will spend the
winters there and the summers in Galesburg. Mrs.
Francis will have charge of the business at this end
of the line. E. A. and Mrs. Ida Francis opened a
piano store in Galesburg known as the Francis Piano
Company, May 19, 1923, and made a success of it.
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