Music Trade Review
Issue: 1881 Vol. 5 N. 4 - Page 6
September
20th, 1881.
MUSICAL
CRITIC AND TRADE
REVIEW.
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40 Music Trade Review THE
time had a remarkabie success. "Weeping, Sad
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS, No. I.
We wish to be particularly emphatic in our statement and Lonely," had a sale of upward of 300,000.
to the public that subscriptions for the MUSICAL CRITIC " When Johnny Comes Marching Home," " Tent-
AND TRADE REVIEW must invariably be paid in ad- ing on the Old Camp Ground " (sung by the
vance.
Hutchinson family), " John Brown's Body Lies a-
In future NO NAMES WILL BE ENTERED ON OUR Mouldering in the Grave," each had a very largo
SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS UNTIL THE PRICE FOR THE sale and enriched their publishers, and in one or
AND
FULL PERIOD OF SUBSCRIPTION HAS BEEN RECEIVED two cases their authors. But only one of these
BY US. Tfiis rule will not be deviated from in any case. has remained from oblivion—"Tenting on the Old
Camp Ground"—which is being sung by the
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS, No. II.
daughters of those whose memories go back to the
We sometimes receive complaints from subscribers that
sad scenes when they "tented on the old camp
With which is incorporated THE MUSIC TRADE JOURNAL. the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW does not ground."
come to them regularly.
To these ice must reply that thefauli can hardly lie at
THE ORGAN
STORIES OF BERLIOZ.
this end of the line, as our wrapping and mailing depart
ments are very carefully supervised.
URING his stay in Vienna Berlioz conducted
In most cases we have found that papers have been
three concerts with marked success. The
AND THE MUSIC TRADES OF AMERICA. removed from their wrappers bg parties to whom they public applauded him, the press praised him, his
were not addressed.
friends gave him a supper, together with a baton,
PUBLISHED on THE 5th & 20th OF EACH MONTH
Whenever copies of the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE and the emperor sent him 1,100 francs and a mes-
REVIEW fail to reach subscribers regularly, we trust sage— "Tell Berlioz that I have been much
At 853 Broadway, Cor. 14th St.
they will promptly notify its.
amused." This the master styles a " singular com-
pliment." Of course there were quaint episodes
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
in the Viennese experience. One day, in a public
We need a few more experienced parties to furnish garden, a little man accosted Berlioz:
Editor and Proprietor.
musical and trade correspondence from all parts of the
" Monsieur, you are a Frenchman, I am an Irish-
All communications should be addressed to the editor,
world.
CHARLES AVERY WELLES, 853 Broadway, N. Y. City.
Forward applications immediately, and when our de man; there is, consequently, no national amour
Checks and Post-Office Orders should be made payable to
propre in my sentiments, and (seizing the master's
cision is made credentials will at once be given.
CHARLES AVEKY WELLES, Proprietor.
left hand) I ask permission to shake the hand that
We are not responsible for the return of rejected manu-
script.
NOTE WELL.
wrote the ' Romeo ' Symphony. You understand
Correspondence must always be accompanied by the name
This is the ONLY INDEPENDENT PAPER published in Shakespeare."
and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but;
as a guarantee of good faith.
"In that case, sir, you have mistaken the hand;
America DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY to MUSIC, MUSICIANS
Trade reports, items and communications, relating to the and the MUSIC TRADES.
I write always with this."
music trade, are solicited from all parts of the world.
Here the Irishman dropped the wrong member,
The MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE
grasped and shook the right one, and went away
NEW YOKK, SEPTEMBER 20, 1881. REVIEW is sold by principal news saying,
" O these Frenchmen—these Frenchmen
agencies and may be bad at leading
news stands and music stores through- They must laugh at everything and everybody
even at their admirers ! "
»
out the world.
ADVERTISING RATES.
By the way, the reputation of Berlioz as a quiz
The following is the schedule of advertising rales for
made him somewhat formidable to his Viennese
the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TBADE REVIEW :
POPULAR SONGS.
friends, and he tells, with admirable gravity, how
COVER PAGES.
BEAUTIFUL OLD BALLADS THAT HAVE BEEN SUNG BY Dessauer wished to convert him to some new mu-
THE THOUSANDS.
The four pages of the cover are divided into two col-
sical doctrine, but could never get to the point of
umns to a page.
QOME one has said that it mattered little who unfolding it. " Every time the opportunity offered,
IN THE WIDTH OF A SINGLE COLUMN ON THESE O
made the laws for a people to be govern- for us to causer a fond, as he said, if I looked him
COVER PAGES THE RATE IS
ed by, but he who wrote the popular songs exer- full in the face with my most serious air, at the
$UO PER INCH for one quarter (3 months.)
cised the greatest influence over the minds and moment of beginning his homily, he fancied that
actions of a community. A writer of English I was laughing at him, and, relapsing into silence,
INSIDE PAGES.
The inside, pages are divided into three columns to a history in speaking of the British Navy of Nelson's put off my conversion till a better time."
page.
From Vienna the master went to Pesth, taking
time, attributed to the songs of Charles Dibdin,
IN THE WIDTH OF A SINGLE COLUMN ON THESE author of "Poor Jack," and hundreds of other with him the Hungarian March now conspicuous
INSIDE PAGES THE RATE 19 "
famous songs, a value that should have secured to in " L a Damnation de Faust." This he had writ-
$ 1 4 : PER INCH for one quarter (3 months).
their author a national recognition of a statue by ten at the suggestion of a Viennese amateur, who'
said, " If you would please the Hungarians, com-
his countrymen.
DIRECTORY
A good many different persons, says the Boston pose a piece upon one of their national themes;
In the ''Directory of the MUSICAL PROFESSION AND
THE Music TRADES," a tpace of THREE LINES, Transcript, have written the popular songs of the they will be charmed with it, and you can give me,
NEITHER MORE NOR LESS, IS ALLOWED FOR A SINGLE last fifty years, and in nearly every case they have on your return, news of their ' Eljen ' and their
CARD. These cards will not be taken for a shorter time lived to see their songs quickly forgotten by the applause." A great sensation attended the an-
than one year, and their wording cannot be altered after fickle public. With only a few exceptions, the nouncement ot the march, and the editor of one
the first insertion, except in the case of a change of ad- songs that have had the widest success lived but a paper was so moved by curiosity as to find out the
dress, or something equally necessary. Payment for few years at the most. Of course there are some songs residence of the copyist and go carefully through
these cards MUST INVARIABLY BE MADE IN AD- that will be sung by generation after generation, as the manuscript. The next day he met Berlioz.
VANCE. They will not be inserted until paid for.
"Home, Sweet Home," "Old Folks at Home,"
" R. I have seen the score of your Ilakoczy
THE RATE FOR A SINGLE CARD IS
" Sweet By and By," and a few others that have March.
$ 1 2 , THREE LINES, ONE YEAR, INVARIABLY IN
become household melodies. Yet there are hund-
" 7 i . Well!
••-:»••.-.•<
ADVANCE.
reds of others of equal merit that won universal
" E. Well! I am afraid.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, No. I.
popularity and passed away with the people who
"7?. Bah!
We particularly desire to call attention to the fact that sang them. Some songs of the slightest merit have
" E. Yon hav.e announced your theme piano,.
we carry NO " DEAD WOOD," OR UNPAID ADVERTISE- had undeserved popularity, made their authors or and wo, on the contrary, are used to hearing i t
MENTS IN THIS PAPER. All our afivextisements are publishers rich and quietly dropped into oblivion. played fortissimo.
properly contracted for.
" Shoo Fly," sung ten years ago from one end " B. Yes, by your gipsies. Be easy; you will
It would be an act of the GROSSEST INJUSTICE TO of the Union to the other, had a sale of 80,000 have such & forte as you never heard in your life.
ADVERTISERS WHO PAY TO INSERT THE ADVERTISE copies, and is now forgotten. It was certainly the You have not read it well. In any case, it is need-
MENTS OF OTHER PARTIES WHO PAY NOTHING, OR most worthless musical absurdity ever written, and ful to look after the end."
NEXT TO NOTHING.
its success was largely owing to its being alluded
Of the performance, Berlioz says:
to by Gen, Butler in Congress in the course of a '' After a trumpet passage based upon the'
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, No. II.
We do not take pianos, organs, or any description of political wrangle with a fellow member. It netted rhythm of the opening bars of the melody, the
the fortunate publishers several thousand dollars. theme appeared, played piano by the flutes and
musical merchandise, in payment for advertisements in
the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
We are. " Old Folks at Home " was written by Stephen clarinets, and accompanied by the strings pizzi-
not engaged in renting out musical instruments, nor in C. Foster thirty years ago, who sold it to Christy, cati. The public remained calm and silent at thig
selling them upon the installment plan.
of minstrel fame, for $5, and received a bonus of unexpected announcement, but when, on a long
Neither do we pay our printer s or other bills in pianos $5 more for the privilege of having his (Christy's) crescendo, fugal fragments of the theme reappeared
or organs taken for advertising.
name on the title page as author, and after the interspersed with the heavy boom of the big drum
piece had made him rich he generously gave simulating the report of distant cannon, the hall
Foster $50 more, which was all he ever received began to ferment with an indescribable noise, and,
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
for the song. But it served to make the author at the moment when the orchestra, entering upon
famous and to sell all his other songs; yet he died a furious melee, gave out a long-continued fortissi-
UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
The rates for subscription to the MUSICAL CRITIC a poor man. For a while the piece waned in pub- mo, cries and stampings shook the hall; the con-
feeling of all those excited souls explod-
AND TRADE REVIEW in the United States and Canada lic favor, until it was sung by Mile. Nilsson at her centrated
concerts, when it took a new start, and at this pre- ed with accents which gave me a shiver of terror;
are:
I seemed to feel my hair stand up, and at the end
1 YEAR (including postage)
$2.OO sent time it is one of the best selling songs in the of that decisive section I was obliged to abandon
6 MOS.,
"
"
l . O O market.* The numerous transcriptions from its the
peroration of my piece, the tempest of the or-
3 MOS.,
"
"
5 O melody, by upward of twenty different composers, chestra
being unable to struggle against the blast
serve to keep it popular. It is really a worthy
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
companion to "Sweet Home," and will probably of a volcano, the violence of which nothing could
arrest. . . . I was greatly agitated, as may be sup-
In all foreign countries included in the Postal Union be sung for a hundred years or more.
the rates for subscription to this paper are :
posed, after a storm of this nature, and was wiping
1 YEAR (including postage)
$2.50 During the war several songs published at the my face in a little room at the back of the theatre,
« MOS.,
"
"
1.25
when . . . I saw enter, unannounced, a man poor-
* The editor of THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE ly dressed, and with a face lighted up in a strange
3 MOS.,
"
"
65
ALII THE ABOVE BATES MUST INVARIABLY BE PAID REVIEW remembers very well teaching the words manner. Seeing me, he threw himself towards me,
IN ADVANCE.
and melody of this song to Christine Nilsson, and embraced me with ardor, his eyes full of tears, and
it was b j hia advice that she first sang it in public.
MM4UUB oo*u»
1O ourm.
TRADE REVIEW.
Of the Musicians
CHARLES AVERY WELLES,
D
20th, 1881.
MUSICAL
CRITIC AND TRADE
REVIEW.
-- © mbsi.org,
arcade-museum.com
-- digitized
with support from
namm.org
40 Music Trade Review THE
time had a remarkabie success. "Weeping, Sad
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS, No. I.
We wish to be particularly emphatic in our statement and Lonely," had a sale of upward of 300,000.
to the public that subscriptions for the MUSICAL CRITIC " When Johnny Comes Marching Home," " Tent-
AND TRADE REVIEW must invariably be paid in ad- ing on the Old Camp Ground " (sung by the
vance.
Hutchinson family), " John Brown's Body Lies a-
In future NO NAMES WILL BE ENTERED ON OUR Mouldering in the Grave," each had a very largo
SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS UNTIL THE PRICE FOR THE sale and enriched their publishers, and in one or
AND
FULL PERIOD OF SUBSCRIPTION HAS BEEN RECEIVED two cases their authors. But only one of these
BY US. Tfiis rule will not be deviated from in any case. has remained from oblivion—"Tenting on the Old
Camp Ground"—which is being sung by the
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS, No. II.
daughters of those whose memories go back to the
We sometimes receive complaints from subscribers that
sad scenes when they "tented on the old camp
With which is incorporated THE MUSIC TRADE JOURNAL. the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW does not ground."
come to them regularly.
To these ice must reply that thefauli can hardly lie at
THE ORGAN
STORIES OF BERLIOZ.
this end of the line, as our wrapping and mailing depart
ments are very carefully supervised.
URING his stay in Vienna Berlioz conducted
In most cases we have found that papers have been
three concerts with marked success. The
AND THE MUSIC TRADES OF AMERICA. removed from their wrappers bg parties to whom they public applauded him, the press praised him, his
were not addressed.
friends gave him a supper, together with a baton,
PUBLISHED on THE 5th & 20th OF EACH MONTH
Whenever copies of the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE and the emperor sent him 1,100 francs and a mes-
REVIEW fail to reach subscribers regularly, we trust sage— "Tell Berlioz that I have been much
At 853 Broadway, Cor. 14th St.
they will promptly notify its.
amused." This the master styles a " singular com-
pliment." Of course there were quaint episodes
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
in the Viennese experience. One day, in a public
We need a few more experienced parties to furnish garden, a little man accosted Berlioz:
Editor and Proprietor.
musical and trade correspondence from all parts of the
" Monsieur, you are a Frenchman, I am an Irish-
All communications should be addressed to the editor,
world.
CHARLES AVERY WELLES, 853 Broadway, N. Y. City.
Forward applications immediately, and when our de man; there is, consequently, no national amour
Checks and Post-Office Orders should be made payable to
propre in my sentiments, and (seizing the master's
cision is made credentials will at once be given.
CHARLES AVEKY WELLES, Proprietor.
left hand) I ask permission to shake the hand that
We are not responsible for the return of rejected manu-
script.
NOTE WELL.
wrote the ' Romeo ' Symphony. You understand
Correspondence must always be accompanied by the name
This is the ONLY INDEPENDENT PAPER published in Shakespeare."
and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but;
as a guarantee of good faith.
"In that case, sir, you have mistaken the hand;
America DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY to MUSIC, MUSICIANS
Trade reports, items and communications, relating to the and the MUSIC TRADES.
I write always with this."
music trade, are solicited from all parts of the world.
Here the Irishman dropped the wrong member,
The MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE
grasped and shook the right one, and went away
NEW YOKK, SEPTEMBER 20, 1881. REVIEW is sold by principal news saying,
" O these Frenchmen—these Frenchmen
agencies and may be bad at leading
news stands and music stores through- They must laugh at everything and everybody
even at their admirers ! "
»
out the world.
ADVERTISING RATES.
By the way, the reputation of Berlioz as a quiz
The following is the schedule of advertising rales for
made him somewhat formidable to his Viennese
the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TBADE REVIEW :
POPULAR SONGS.
friends, and he tells, with admirable gravity, how
COVER PAGES.
BEAUTIFUL OLD BALLADS THAT HAVE BEEN SUNG BY Dessauer wished to convert him to some new mu-
THE THOUSANDS.
The four pages of the cover are divided into two col-
sical doctrine, but could never get to the point of
umns to a page.
QOME one has said that it mattered little who unfolding it. " Every time the opportunity offered,
IN THE WIDTH OF A SINGLE COLUMN ON THESE O
made the laws for a people to be govern- for us to causer a fond, as he said, if I looked him
COVER PAGES THE RATE IS
ed by, but he who wrote the popular songs exer- full in the face with my most serious air, at the
$UO PER INCH for one quarter (3 months.)
cised the greatest influence over the minds and moment of beginning his homily, he fancied that
actions of a community. A writer of English I was laughing at him, and, relapsing into silence,
INSIDE PAGES.
The inside, pages are divided into three columns to a history in speaking of the British Navy of Nelson's put off my conversion till a better time."
page.
From Vienna the master went to Pesth, taking
time, attributed to the songs of Charles Dibdin,
IN THE WIDTH OF A SINGLE COLUMN ON THESE author of "Poor Jack," and hundreds of other with him the Hungarian March now conspicuous
INSIDE PAGES THE RATE 19 "
famous songs, a value that should have secured to in " L a Damnation de Faust." This he had writ-
$ 1 4 : PER INCH for one quarter (3 months).
their author a national recognition of a statue by ten at the suggestion of a Viennese amateur, who'
said, " If you would please the Hungarians, com-
his countrymen.
DIRECTORY
A good many different persons, says the Boston pose a piece upon one of their national themes;
In the ''Directory of the MUSICAL PROFESSION AND
THE Music TRADES," a tpace of THREE LINES, Transcript, have written the popular songs of the they will be charmed with it, and you can give me,
NEITHER MORE NOR LESS, IS ALLOWED FOR A SINGLE last fifty years, and in nearly every case they have on your return, news of their ' Eljen ' and their
CARD. These cards will not be taken for a shorter time lived to see their songs quickly forgotten by the applause." A great sensation attended the an-
than one year, and their wording cannot be altered after fickle public. With only a few exceptions, the nouncement ot the march, and the editor of one
the first insertion, except in the case of a change of ad- songs that have had the widest success lived but a paper was so moved by curiosity as to find out the
dress, or something equally necessary. Payment for few years at the most. Of course there are some songs residence of the copyist and go carefully through
these cards MUST INVARIABLY BE MADE IN AD- that will be sung by generation after generation, as the manuscript. The next day he met Berlioz.
VANCE. They will not be inserted until paid for.
"Home, Sweet Home," "Old Folks at Home,"
" R. I have seen the score of your Ilakoczy
THE RATE FOR A SINGLE CARD IS
" Sweet By and By," and a few others that have March.
$ 1 2 , THREE LINES, ONE YEAR, INVARIABLY IN
become household melodies. Yet there are hund-
" 7 i . Well!
••-:»••.-.•<
ADVANCE.
reds of others of equal merit that won universal
" E. Well! I am afraid.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, No. I.
popularity and passed away with the people who
"7?. Bah!
We particularly desire to call attention to the fact that sang them. Some songs of the slightest merit have
" E. Yon hav.e announced your theme piano,.
we carry NO " DEAD WOOD," OR UNPAID ADVERTISE- had undeserved popularity, made their authors or and wo, on the contrary, are used to hearing i t
MENTS IN THIS PAPER. All our afivextisements are publishers rich and quietly dropped into oblivion. played fortissimo.
properly contracted for.
" Shoo Fly," sung ten years ago from one end " B. Yes, by your gipsies. Be easy; you will
It would be an act of the GROSSEST INJUSTICE TO of the Union to the other, had a sale of 80,000 have such & forte as you never heard in your life.
ADVERTISERS WHO PAY TO INSERT THE ADVERTISE copies, and is now forgotten. It was certainly the You have not read it well. In any case, it is need-
MENTS OF OTHER PARTIES WHO PAY NOTHING, OR most worthless musical absurdity ever written, and ful to look after the end."
NEXT TO NOTHING.
its success was largely owing to its being alluded
Of the performance, Berlioz says:
to by Gen, Butler in Congress in the course of a '' After a trumpet passage based upon the'
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, No. II.
We do not take pianos, organs, or any description of political wrangle with a fellow member. It netted rhythm of the opening bars of the melody, the
the fortunate publishers several thousand dollars. theme appeared, played piano by the flutes and
musical merchandise, in payment for advertisements in
the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
We are. " Old Folks at Home " was written by Stephen clarinets, and accompanied by the strings pizzi-
not engaged in renting out musical instruments, nor in C. Foster thirty years ago, who sold it to Christy, cati. The public remained calm and silent at thig
selling them upon the installment plan.
of minstrel fame, for $5, and received a bonus of unexpected announcement, but when, on a long
Neither do we pay our printer s or other bills in pianos $5 more for the privilege of having his (Christy's) crescendo, fugal fragments of the theme reappeared
or organs taken for advertising.
name on the title page as author, and after the interspersed with the heavy boom of the big drum
piece had made him rich he generously gave simulating the report of distant cannon, the hall
Foster $50 more, which was all he ever received began to ferment with an indescribable noise, and,
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
for the song. But it served to make the author at the moment when the orchestra, entering upon
famous and to sell all his other songs; yet he died a furious melee, gave out a long-continued fortissi-
UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
The rates for subscription to the MUSICAL CRITIC a poor man. For a while the piece waned in pub- mo, cries and stampings shook the hall; the con-
feeling of all those excited souls explod-
AND TRADE REVIEW in the United States and Canada lic favor, until it was sung by Mile. Nilsson at her centrated
concerts, when it took a new start, and at this pre- ed with accents which gave me a shiver of terror;
are:
I seemed to feel my hair stand up, and at the end
1 YEAR (including postage)
$2.OO sent time it is one of the best selling songs in the of that decisive section I was obliged to abandon
6 MOS.,
"
"
l . O O market.* The numerous transcriptions from its the
peroration of my piece, the tempest of the or-
3 MOS.,
"
"
5 O melody, by upward of twenty different composers, chestra
being unable to struggle against the blast
serve to keep it popular. It is really a worthy
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
companion to "Sweet Home," and will probably of a volcano, the violence of which nothing could
arrest. . . . I was greatly agitated, as may be sup-
In all foreign countries included in the Postal Union be sung for a hundred years or more.
the rates for subscription to this paper are :
posed, after a storm of this nature, and was wiping
1 YEAR (including postage)
$2.50 During the war several songs published at the my face in a little room at the back of the theatre,
« MOS.,
"
"
1.25
when . . . I saw enter, unannounced, a man poor-
* The editor of THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE ly dressed, and with a face lighted up in a strange
3 MOS.,
"
"
65
ALII THE ABOVE BATES MUST INVARIABLY BE PAID REVIEW remembers very well teaching the words manner. Seeing me, he threw himself towards me,
IN ADVANCE.
and melody of this song to Christine Nilsson, and embraced me with ardor, his eyes full of tears, and
it was b j hia advice that she first sang it in public.
MM4UUB oo*u»
1O ourm.
TRADE REVIEW.
Of the Musicians
CHARLES AVERY WELLES,
D
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