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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
telegraph, by telephone, or in person, at al-
most any hour of the day or night; for the
Proctor box offices are now kept open from
9:30 in the forenoon until 10:30 at night.
Better than all, one is invariably certain
of courteous treatment in ordering his
seats. And this is a great treat, when one
bears in mind that incivility is too often
met with in the box office of many metro-
politan play houses.
SOME OLIVER DITSON CO. SUCCESSES.
table presentations will be Verdi's brilliant
masterpiece, "Othello" and Puccini's great
lyric drama of "Tosca," both of which are
to be sung in English for the first time in
New York. Other works selected include
Bizet's "Carmen," Gounod's "Faust,"
Wagner's "Lohengrin" and "Tannhauser,'"
Verdi's "Aida" and "II Trovatore," and re-
vivals of two famous old operas dear to all
music lovers, Flotow's "Martha" and
Balfe's "Bohemian Girl."
CHAT FROM HERE AND THERE.
[Special to The Review.]
Boston, Mass., Dec. 15, 1903.
A song which every singer should know,
ideally adapted in words, music and length
for that rare treasure, a good encore song,
is "The Moon's Lullaby," published by the
Oliver Ditson Co. The words are "cute," the
melody simple and taking, giving the singer
every opportunity to make the text "tell."
Originally for low voice, it is published also
in a medium key, convenient for nearly every
one.
Miss Marion Littlefield, the American con-
tralto, after a very successful concert tour
through the West, where she has been sing-
ing "Love's Avail," Clark; "My Heart is
Singing," Sans Souci, and "Sweet Is Tip-
perary," Fisher, will open at the Temple
Theatre, Detroit, Mich., on Monday, Dec. 21,
for one week, and will sing "Sweet Land of
Dreams," Ashford; "I'll Always Think of
You," Stults, and "Love's Dilemma," Rich-
ardson. All of Miss Littlefield's songs are
published by the Oliver Ditson Co.
This concern reports a brisk Christmas
trade. The new Ditson building, on Tremont
street, is rapidly nearing completion and,
when finished, will be one of Boston's princi-
pal commercial teatures.
GRAND OPERA IN ENGLISH.
The most pretentious season of Grand
Opera ever offered in Harlem will be that
arranged for the West End Theatre by
Henry W. Savage's famous English Grand
Opera Company. The engagement, which
begins Christmas week, is to continue for
five weeks with a repertoire of the greatest
masterpieces of all schools of opera.
These will include selections from the
works of Wagner, Verdi, Gounod, Puccini,
Bizet, Flotow and Balfe. Among the most no-
y, ivtti send you any of thnt books sub-
t to approval. Enclose thisadrsrtisetnent
Song» of Att the College. - .
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New Songs for Glee «u*» i
The Dowling-Sutton Music Publishing
Co. are doing remarkably well for a new
concern. A few of their very satisfactory
sellers and latest hits include "Down on the
Amazon," by Billy Johnson; "My Star of
Zanzibar," by Dowling
& Sutton;
"Chipeta," (Indian song), by Dowling &
Marion. The firm recently dispensed with
the services of C. Cohen, a staff attache,
who felt aggrieved to the extent of bringing
suit for breach of contract. The papers
were served last Thursday.
"Bidelia" signs of unusual size—facsimiles
of the song's title page—ornament the en-
tire front of Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.'s
building, so that he who runs may know to
whom the really "big hit" of the year may
be credited.
Edward Harrigan is to manage a theatre
in The Irish Industrial Exposition at St.
Louis, World's Fair, in which he will make
productions of nothing but Irish dramas,
liberally sprinkled with the kind of songs
for which he is famous. The opening at-
traction will be "Lorgaire," a play written
by Mr. Harrigan some fifteen years ago.
Mr. Harrigan will play all the old roles
which have made him famous, possibly in-
cluding his latest part in "Under Cover."
the Lambs Club after the performance:
"Oh, 1 sa-ay," he remarked, "that was a
jolly good song of Daniels' about riding on
the sprinkling cart, wasn't it?"
Lynn Udall, writer of "Just as the Sun
Went Down," "Just One Girl," and the
novelty "Zizy Ze Zum Zum," which has
been adopted into every college glee book
in the land, as a composer is not only pro-
lific in his output, but remarkably versatile,
seeming to cover the entire field in popular
work, from the ragtime coon song and the
little "girl" ditty to lullaby and the home
ballad.
A partial list of new music recently pub-
lished by M. Witmark & Sons, follows:
Vocal—"Girls Will Be Girls," by Joseph
Hart and R. Melville Baker; "Miss Dinah,"
darkey love son, by Harry Armstrong; "In
the Land of Make Believe," ballad and re-
frain, by Geo. Edwards; "I Don't Care to
go Back There," comic coon song, by
Harry C. Shunk, "Oh, Miss Josie," coon
luve song, by Edward S. Jolly; "Guess,
Little Girlie, Who Loves You," story bal-
lad and refrain, by Ernest R. Ball; "If I
Should," conversation ballad and refrain,
by Geo. Fredmain (from "The Runa-
ways") ; "Rose, Rose, Rose," ballad and re-
frain, by Collin Davis. Instrumental: The
Fairest of the Fair," by F. W. Bent; "At
the Post," march and two-step, by Walter
Hawley, "Facing the Music," bv Franz
Soncoup; "San Domingo," intermezzo, by
A. G. Rolyn (from the "Yankee Consul") ;
"Laughing Eyes," caprice characteristic,
by J. A. Silberburg.
LIGHT FROM LONDON
On Musical Publications in That Country—A Schu-
bert Manuscript Acquired.
Young composers often wonder why
publishers do not want their pieces, and
why, even when printed, they attract no
attention. An item regarding the British
Museum Library may throw light on the
subject. In the year ending March 31,
1903, no fewer than 8,803 musical publica-
tions were added to the collection. That
means twenty-four new pieces of music
every day in the year, Sundays included;
Arthur A. Penn, manager of Sol Bloom's and as 8,198 of these publications were re-
Chicago office, will spend the Christmas holi- ceived under the provisions of the copy-
days with his brother, William H. Penn, man- right act, it is obvious that this figure re-
fers chiefly to new English music only.
ager of the home house.
Among the manuscripts acquired by the
Charles K. Harris, who has been in Mil- British Museum last year is Schubert's so-
waukee and Chicago for a fortnight, returned called Fantasie Sonata. On the first page
to New York Tuesday night, with several the composer wrote: "IV. Sonate fur d.
Pianoforte allein.
Oct. 1826.
Franz
good things up his sleeve. "The Last Fare- Schubert." This title was, however, arbi-
well" is being well received everywhere, and trarily altered by the Viennese publisher,
sales have greatly improved during the past Haslinger, to Fantasie, Andante, Menuetto,
und Allegretto, and thus the composition
week.
got its title of Fantasie Sonata, for which
It is said that in "Mile. Napoleon" there is Schubert is not responsible. Like many
one song called "The A la Mode Girl" which other MSS., this one disproves the legend
that Schubert never revised what he had
has been given the most expensive produc- written. In the andante a page is can
tion ever known to the theatrical profession. celled. The sonata is dedicated to Spaun,
In it Miss Held is accompanied by sixteen to whom we owe the most vivid account
show girls, no one of whom wears a gown of the personality and the habits of one
who now ranks not only as the greatest of
which cost less than four hundred dollars.
song writers, but who wrote more idiomati-
They are telling a good story about a cally for the pianoforte than his great con-
certain celebrated English actor now play- temporary Beethoven, and initiated the
ing in America, who heard Frank Daniels modern romantic school—not with his so-
natas, however, but with his short pieces.
sing, "I'm on the Water Wagon Now," and These, once considered as mere pleasing
who was much pleased with it. He ex- bagatelles, are now known to have been
patiated on the excellence of the song at epoch-making.
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