Presto

March 26, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
ADDS TO PROGRAM FOR
PIANO PLAYING CONTEST
Two Big Piano Manufacturing Companies
Join Forces of Industry Encouraging Events
—Other Important Promotional Facts.
The Straube Piano Co., Hammond, Ind., and the
H. C. Bay Company, Chicago, have joined the group
of houses and individuals connected with the music
business in Greater Chicago and vicinity who are con-
tributing to the support of the Annual Greater Chi-
cago Children's Piano Playing Tournament. This
brings the total number of contributors up to 54 and
the total sum subscribed to exactly $17,000.
An official button and an identification card for con-
testants in the tournament have been prepared by the
promoters. The emblem is a neat design in black
and blue on a white ground and shows a grand
piano with the legend, "Chicago Piano Tournament,
1927.' The identification card is perfected when
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signed by the tournament director and executive sec-
retary-
Members of the Musicians' Federation of Chicago
have offered to act as judges in the preliminaries of
the Annual Greater Chicago Children's Piano Playing
Tournament.
It is the intention of the judges' committee, headed
by PVederick Stock, Glen Dillard Gunn and Herman
Devries, that the judges should be made up of leaders
of orchestras and their members.
The preliminary tests will begin about April 1 and
will continue throughout the entire month. These
piano tests will be held in the auditorium of the vari-
ous parochial and public schools as well as in neigh-
borhood halls.
DARIUS MILHAUD MAKES
WELTE-MIGNON RECORDS
Pianist Who Originally Was a Violinist Was
Greatly Influenced by Interesting In-
cidents in His Busy Career.
A recent addition to the list of world-famed artists
recording for Welte-Mignon Licensee is Darius Mil-
haud, whose career interests all musical people.
Darius Milhaud was born in Aix-En-Provence in
that part of France called the "Midi." Like many
cultured French families, the Milhauds were not pro-
fessional musicians, although they amused themselves
and their friends with chamber music, young Darius
participating in the capacity of violinist or violist.
When he finished school, he entered the Paris Con-
servatory
where he won several prizes for violin play-
Suggestion That the Period Is a Good One for Men
ing and also for composition and counterpoint. In
of Music to Remember.
1917 he was sent to Rio de Janeiro as attache of the
French Legation there. During this period he con-
The Salon de la Musique at the Paris Fair has be-
ceived or wrote most of his principal works.
come a classical manifestation which groups together
the great names of musical instrument manufacturers
In 1917 he returned to Paris and there met Arthur
as well as the great music publishing firms. It brings
Honegger, George Auric, Francis Poulenc, Louis
together every year, in May, the merchants, whole-
Durey, Germaine Tailleferro, artists, literateurs; Coc-
salers, agents and retailers, not only of France but
teau, essayist and poet; Duffy, the painter, and Golsch-
of all countries of the world.
mann, conductor, young spirits, who despite their
Wi'thin two years the Salon de la Musique has classical tendencies, cast their arguments against tra-
become international and amongst the exhibitors en- dition and conservatism.
gaged for the 1927 salon are to be found British,
In the capacity of lecturer, composer, conductor and
American, German, Italian, Czechoslovakian, etc., pianist, he has traveled extensively and in 1923 came
firms.
to America as guest conductor of the Philadelphia
Orchestra and the City Symphony Orchestra in New
The duration of the Salon de la Musique is sixteen
days, from the 14th to the 29th of May. The dates York, playing his own compositions with those or-
named are good ones for all merchants in the music ganizations and lecturing at the principal univer-
field who intend to visit the continent to remember. sities of the East.
In Europe he has played his Ballads for piano and
orchestra, under Molinari at the Augusteo, in Rome,
and with the Concertgebouw under Mengelberg in
Amsterdam. He also conducted his ballets in Ger-
many, England, France, Belgium and other countries.
The Welte-Mignon Licensee recordings of Darius
Facts of All Kinds Required by Those Seeking For-
Milhaud reflect the romantic thoroughness of his
eign Markets, Free for the Asking.
training. They are veritable first editions of a new
All phases of information for American exporters master. After Milhaud heard his first record on the
is included in 'the service perfected by the Bureau of
Welte-Mignon Licensee Reproducing Piano he said:
Foreign and Domestic Commerce at Washington.
"A lake on which no breezes play reflects the sur-
The rates of duty on products, freight rates, shipping rounding landscape; a mirror portrays the face bend-
charges and preferential duties are subjects on which ing above; and so the Welte-Mignon Licensee repro-
the Division of Foreign Tariffs can now instruct the duces with the same accuracy the most minute de-
exporter. In an announcement .the exporter is ad- tails and nuances of the artist. The rendering of a
vised by the bureau:
musician, his personal interpretation, cease to be
"If you are planning" to circularize prospective for- fleeting moments and remain fixed forever—thanks
eign customers with your advertising material or to to the absolute technical perfection of the Welte-
send them samples of your products you should be
Mignon Licensee."
advised of the conditions set by the different coun-
itries upon such shipments, what documents and
J. W. Fondren and G. Robinson are proprietors
charges are involved, whether the parcel post can of the F. & R. Music Store, Goose Creek, Tex.
well be used and what may be the best manner of
sending your particular catalogs or samples so that
their delivery may not be costly or annoying to the
recipient."
THIS YEAR'S MUSIC SALON AT
PARIS, FRANCE, FAIR IN MAY
MORE INFORMATION FOR
AMERICAN EXPORTERS
The Baldwin Piano Co. has issued an illustrated
circular containing the first of a series of newspaper
advertisements which the house is running in the
Indianapolis newspapers to help the piano teachers.
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