PRESTO-TIMES
January 19, 1929
MUSIC ROLL MARCHES
This Collection from the Gulbransen Roll List
Is One that Interests the Trade and
Pleases Customers.
popular in Chicago. The building is so constructed
that acoustics are splendid, giving a resonance that
is indeed very pleasing to the ear. Raphael's Per-
sians are not only a group of talented musicians but
they are an intelligent group of young men that are
full of pep so distinctly a part of a successful
orchestra.
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NOTES FROM PORTLAND
Interesting Item from Busy Oregon City Tells
of Activities in Various Phases of
the Music Business.
The Portland, Ore., branch of the Victor Talking
WALTER DAMROSCH'S VISION.
Machine Company will be in new quarters, at 554
Here is a winning collection of marches from the
list of rolls of the Gulbransen Company, Chicago.
Within the next three years, Walter Damrosch ex- Irving street, on April 1, where they are erecting a
Gulbransen music rolls are recorded in a style that
pects that America will be "the most musical coun- one-story concrete warehouse, with a ground space
wins new customers and keeps the old ones:
try in the world." The radio is the influence that he of 100 by 100 feet, at a cost of $17,500.
H. P. Harrison, manager of the radio and phono-
General Pershing (key F), Vandersloot; America relies upon to bring prosperity to the musical pro-
Forever, Paull; American Patrol, Meacham; Ben Hur fession. His ideas on the subject are given at length graph department of the J. K. Gill Company of Port-
land, Ore., and president of the Portland Radio
Chariot Race, Paull; Black Opal March, Brenner; by Graham McNamee in the forthcoming issue of
Boy Scouts Parade, Johnson; The Burning of Rome, The American Magazine. Graham McNamee, now Trades Association, says that the business prospects
Paull; Clayton's Grand March, Op. 100, Blake; El best-known as a radio announcer, is himself a con- for 1929 are "very promising," due to no radical
Capitan March, Sousa; General Grant's Grand March, cert recitalist and a sincere student of the problems change in set construction.
Mack; Hands Across the Sea, Lincoln; Heaven's of the musical field. He speaks sympathetically of
The teachers of the state of Oregon held a conven-
Artillery, Lincoln; The High School Cadents' March, the aspirations and aims of Mr. Damrosch's plans to tion in Portland, Ore., during Christmas week, at
Sousa; The Invincible Eagle (key D), Sousa; King build up a bigger and better audience for music of
which time they were addressed by Willem von Hoog-
Cotton, Sousa; The Manhattan Beach, Sousa; Mid- the better class.
straten, conductor of the Portland Symphony Orches-
night Fire Alarm, Lincoln; National Emblem March,
"Mr. Damrosch has come to see in radio the most tra, who in his remarks stressed the importance of
Bagley; The Nation's Awakening, Denni; On the potent force for advancing the musical culture of
teaching music in the public schools in order to cul-
Square, Panella; Repasz Band, Sweeley; Rotary America," says Mr. McNamee. "The vision kindled tivate a taste for the beautiful things in life and to
March, Hahn; Seventh Regiment March, White; Sons in his mind by that realization has opened up before elevate their taste for something different than jazz,
of Uncle Sam, McCoy; Stars and Stripes Forever, him a new country."
which, said the noted conductor, "is a constant
Sousa; Thunder and Blazes (Entry of Gladiators),
poisoning of the soul, and an appeal to the sex."
Fucik; Under the Double Eagle. Wagner; U. S. Field
Louis Mack, sheet music dealer at 363 Morrison
PIONEER BROADCASTER DIES.
Artillery, Sousa; Sesqui-Centennial March, Sousa;
street, Portland, Ore., is back at his store after a
C.
B.
Popenoe,
treasurer
of
the
National
Broad-
Hilo March (Hawaiian), Lake.
casting Company and a pioneer radio broadcaster three weeks' illness. Mr. Mack is one of the best
when broadcasting was considered rather a joke, known sheet music dealers on the Pacific Coast.
died on January 10 in Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Popenoe,
SCREENED MUSICAL COMEDY.
who lived in Glen Ridge, N. J., had been visiting-
With the cautious secrecy that customarily sur-
relatives in Dayton, but became ill of influenza and
The Chicago Piano and Organ Association will had to remain there. When he set up an experi- rounds talking photoplay production in this pioneer-
hold its thirtieth annual dinner on Thursday eve- mental station in Newark, artists laughed at him, but ing era, what is described as the first complete musi-
ning, January 24, at the Union League Club, Chi- finally Mr. Popenoe persuaded a few singers to go cal comedy revue of the screen, has just been filmed
on the air. But he never knew when WJZ would go and recorded at the Metro-Goldwin-Mayer Sound
cago. The reception at six o'clock will be informal.
Studio, 127th street and 2nd avenue, New York. The
out. The piano was only rented, the other equipment
was sketchy and the whirr of the motor generator three-reel revue will be shown to the public under the
THE ZELLER ORCHESTRA.
The musical features are among the attractions of downstairs was said to be always audible. When the title, "Ship Ahoy." About thirty-five performers
Raphael's restaurant, Stony Island avenue, at 79th Radio Corporation of America took over WJZ in took part, with Phil Spitalny's Pennsylvania Hotel
street, Chicago, where an 11-piece orchestra under 1923, Mr. Popenoe was appointed manager of the Orchestra featured. As at other sound studios here,
the management of Herby Zeller, has been installed. broadcast division, and studios were established in only performers and workers were allowed on the set
Every one of the eleven is an exceptional artist and Aeolian Hall. He became treasurer of the National for fear some of the new technical developments
might be carried to competitors.
the orchestra is destined to become one of the most Broadcasting Company in 1926.
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