Music Trade Review
Issue: 1910 Vol. 50 N. 23 - Page 48
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48
THE
EDWARD LYMANB1LL - Editor and Proprietor
J. I . SPILLANE, Managing Editor
R.W.SIMMONS, Editor Music Section
P«bUthc4 Every Saturday at 1 Ma4lMa Avenac, New Ytrk
IUISCBIPTION, (Including portage), United Btatea and
Mexico, $2.00 per year; Canada, 11-50; all ether coon-
trlea, $4.00.
Tclcpboaea-Nnmbers 4677 and 4«78 Gramercy
Connecting •!* Departments
NEW
YORK, JUNE 4 , l » 1 0
All matter of every nature intended
for this department should be addressed
The Editor Music Section Music Trade
Review, 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
„ COMMENTS B Y - „
M1\ION
*"*
Municipal opera for New York has so far ad-
vanced as a project that corporation papers have
been applied for in Albany and a season of two
weeks in next January has been arranged. Ales-
sandro Bonci, of the Metropolitan Opera Co., is
one of the most interested in the scheme, and, it
is announced, will sing gratis at one or two of
the performances. The Board of Estimate has
partly subsidized the project and a number of
rich women have furnished the rest of the money.
Thus we get the impression that altruism is
behind the plan. It is all for the good of the
city, it would seem, and of struggling singers
who lack opportunity to have their talents recog-
nized. Further, it is for the discovery of embryo
Carusos and Farrars and these, for some reason,
prevail in greatest profusion in the ranks of de-
partment store workers. Public spirit and phil-
anthropy do seem to exist in old New York, after
all, if we may judge from the seeming marvel
of the proposition for municipal opera.
There seems to be, in fact, a general disposition
MUSIC
TRADE
REIVIEIW
on the part of the public to rush into denial of
the by no means recent adage that the world is
cold and cynical. But why get excited? There is
plenty of time to elapse before we shall hear the
leading roles in "Faust" or "Tosca" or "Lohen-
grin" sung by erstwhile ribbon-counter or hall-
room girls and boys. Mr. Albert Mildenberg is
discovering the singers. Let us wait for his de-
cision. He has been hearing voices at the Car-
negie Studios. He says that two singers whom he
has found could already demand $300 per week,
although they are now drawing somewhat less in
department stores. Incidentally, it has been
learned that the two young ladies whose names
have thus been mentioned in the $300-a-week class
are pupils of Mr. Mildenberg. Why, then, should
the world be cynical?
A New Description of What Music Is.
To describe music so that one may know just
what music is has been the task of savants for
centuries. Philosophical, rhetorical, or poetical
have been the learned attempts at description.
In modern times few have had the hardihood
to try to put into words their ideas of what is
connoted by the word "music." Most unex-
pected, then, comes to hand a remarkable descrip-
tive passage on music which we stumble upon in
a speech made by W. L. Bush at the banquet of
the National Piano Dealers' Association, which
recently held its annual convention in Richmond.
Humor mingles with ornate description in a de-
cidedly original presentation of the subject and
we have extracted the passage from the rest of
the speech for the benefit of all connected with
the music business:
"Language is neither subtle nor tender enough
to express all that we feel, and when language
fails the highest and deepest longings are trans-
lated into music. Music is the very sunshine,
the climate, of the soul and floods the heart with
delight and is like unto a perfect June. All
music has some significance and expresses some
form of emotion, but really great music has no
community with mirth, for great music is always
more or less sad, seems to inspire awe, depict
grandeur, to idolize perfection, and such is the
difference between what we are and what great
music suggests that even in the vase of joy we
find some tears.
"Music seems to be a universal language of
expression. It applies not alone to set composi-
tion for voice or instrument, but recall if you
wish to sweet music of the rustling leaves, or
the frou-frou of a silken skirt, the sighing of
the wind in the tree tops, the sweetheart folded
in loving embrace, the booming of the surf upon
the beach where majestic ocean rolls, the boom-
ing of stocks in Wall Street, the clink of the ice
in the pitcher, or the drip, drip, drip as it melts
upon fevered brow or possibly swelled head; the
toll of the old church bell, the sound of the cur-
few which does not ring to-night, the deafening
thunder from darkest skies, the awful crash of
the cannon on the battleship or field, or giving
welcome salute to conquering hero; the singing
of joyous birds, the crooning of a barbarian
mother to her child, or the rumbling of the mid-
night express.
Appreciation of Mirthful Compositions.
"All of these and thousands more are sounds
that by poet and bard, by sage and writer have
been likened unto music. To the great composers
of music the world can never discharge its debt
of gratitude, but almost equally do we owe such
debt to the vast army of those who compose
popular mirth-inspiring, dance-inviting, soul-de-
lighting melodies of every form and tempo, the
music for the multitudes. Truly, ragtime has its
calumniators, but let the band or orchestra start
up, among us who live on music and a little food
and raiment, a syncopated ragtime melody and
there will be more feet keeping time and shuffling
beneath this festive board, and maybe a few on
the festive board, than could be put in motion
or started patting time by all the classics of this
or all the ages, and more real mirth than could
ue expected from all the sonatas or Bach fugues
that ever distracted ambitious students; so to
those men and women let us also give due honor."
PAULINE CHASE FOR "MISS GIBBS."
Announcement is made that the title role in
"Our Miss Gibbs," when that English musical
success is produced in New York by Charles
Frohman next September, will be played by Miss
Pauline Chase. Miss Chase has won popular
favor in London through her appealing work in
"Peter Pan," but has yet to establish herself
among the leading stage personalities as far as
New York is concerned. The music of "Our Miss
Gibbs" is published by Chappell & Co., Ltd.
SOME OF OUR REAL HITS
MESSRS. CHAPPELL & CO., L t d .
are the publishers of
THE REIGNING MUSICAL SUCCESS
THE ARCADIANS
Music by Talbot and Monckton
(Produced by Mr. Charles Frohman)
FRANZ LEHAR'S NEW OPERA
THE MAN WITH THREE WIVES
" T i H n E t * .
t P U I I B R H B N H U O L I H B
C
l i I n U t t * "
b L
i V Instrumental
Song and
"MY
SOUTHERN
R O S E "
Y I D D I S H A R A G " ( ln ftL am :SLi)
"HIP-HIP-HYPNOTIZE
M E " son 0
" G I V E M Y R E G A R D S T O M A B E L "
AD D R S S
N E w Y o5k L o"F.cE TO
1 2 5 West 4 3 d Street, New York City
(To be produced shortly by Messrs. Shubert)
IVAN CARYLL AND LIONEL MONCKTON'S
SUCCESSFUL MUSICAL PLAY
OUR MISS GIBBS
(To be pioduced shortly by Mr. Charles Frohman)
LONDONS LATEST CRAZE
THE BALKAN PRINCESS
A Musical Play by Paul A. Rubens
(To be produced by Mr. W. A. Brady)
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
37 W. 17lh St.
NEW YORK
THE MOST POPULAR PIANO DANCE FOLIO
THEODORE MORSE'S NEW HITS !
"MOLLY LEE"
"KITTY CRAY"
"HE'S A COLLEGE BOY"
"RED CLOVER" (Song and Intermezzo)
"BLUE FEATHER" (Song and Intermezzo)
You could have had these once for 5 cents. Take
our new issues and you'll get better ones.
j a ^ f PHONOGRAPH RECORDS ARE < ^ m
l^V
MADE FOR ALL OUR SONGS ^ R S
Theodore Morse Music Co.
1367 Broadway, New York
This collection will fill
a niche quite of its own
in musical literature as
jeing the only folio of
standard dance m u s i c
ich can lay claim to
ng complete. An even
ual glance at the con-
nts cannot fail to con-
ince the lover of piano
music in the lighter vein,
that it is the ideal collec-
tion of piano dance music,
including every known
style of dance, in each
case represented by a
composition from the pen
of soir.e past master of
dance music composition.
Price 75 cents.
Published by
HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE, 31-35 West 15th Street, New York
c SHEET MUSIC
DEPARTMENT
WILL ATTRACT MORE CUSTOMERS TO YOUR STORE THAN
ANY OTHER MEDIUM YOU COULD EMPLOY
Write for catalogue and particulars as to how to
make a sheet music department a money-maker
McKINLEY MUSIC CO., 185 Harrison St., Chicago, III.
48
THE
EDWARD LYMANB1LL - Editor and Proprietor
J. I . SPILLANE, Managing Editor
R.W.SIMMONS, Editor Music Section
P«bUthc4 Every Saturday at 1 Ma4lMa Avenac, New Ytrk
IUISCBIPTION, (Including portage), United Btatea and
Mexico, $2.00 per year; Canada, 11-50; all ether coon-
trlea, $4.00.
Tclcpboaea-Nnmbers 4677 and 4«78 Gramercy
Connecting •!* Departments
NEW
YORK, JUNE 4 , l » 1 0
All matter of every nature intended
for this department should be addressed
The Editor Music Section Music Trade
Review, 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
„ COMMENTS B Y - „
M1\ION
*"*
Municipal opera for New York has so far ad-
vanced as a project that corporation papers have
been applied for in Albany and a season of two
weeks in next January has been arranged. Ales-
sandro Bonci, of the Metropolitan Opera Co., is
one of the most interested in the scheme, and, it
is announced, will sing gratis at one or two of
the performances. The Board of Estimate has
partly subsidized the project and a number of
rich women have furnished the rest of the money.
Thus we get the impression that altruism is
behind the plan. It is all for the good of the
city, it would seem, and of struggling singers
who lack opportunity to have their talents recog-
nized. Further, it is for the discovery of embryo
Carusos and Farrars and these, for some reason,
prevail in greatest profusion in the ranks of de-
partment store workers. Public spirit and phil-
anthropy do seem to exist in old New York, after
all, if we may judge from the seeming marvel
of the proposition for municipal opera.
There seems to be, in fact, a general disposition
MUSIC
TRADE
REIVIEIW
on the part of the public to rush into denial of
the by no means recent adage that the world is
cold and cynical. But why get excited? There is
plenty of time to elapse before we shall hear the
leading roles in "Faust" or "Tosca" or "Lohen-
grin" sung by erstwhile ribbon-counter or hall-
room girls and boys. Mr. Albert Mildenberg is
discovering the singers. Let us wait for his de-
cision. He has been hearing voices at the Car-
negie Studios. He says that two singers whom he
has found could already demand $300 per week,
although they are now drawing somewhat less in
department stores. Incidentally, it has been
learned that the two young ladies whose names
have thus been mentioned in the $300-a-week class
are pupils of Mr. Mildenberg. Why, then, should
the world be cynical?
A New Description of What Music Is.
To describe music so that one may know just
what music is has been the task of savants for
centuries. Philosophical, rhetorical, or poetical
have been the learned attempts at description.
In modern times few have had the hardihood
to try to put into words their ideas of what is
connoted by the word "music." Most unex-
pected, then, comes to hand a remarkable descrip-
tive passage on music which we stumble upon in
a speech made by W. L. Bush at the banquet of
the National Piano Dealers' Association, which
recently held its annual convention in Richmond.
Humor mingles with ornate description in a de-
cidedly original presentation of the subject and
we have extracted the passage from the rest of
the speech for the benefit of all connected with
the music business:
"Language is neither subtle nor tender enough
to express all that we feel, and when language
fails the highest and deepest longings are trans-
lated into music. Music is the very sunshine,
the climate, of the soul and floods the heart with
delight and is like unto a perfect June. All
music has some significance and expresses some
form of emotion, but really great music has no
community with mirth, for great music is always
more or less sad, seems to inspire awe, depict
grandeur, to idolize perfection, and such is the
difference between what we are and what great
music suggests that even in the vase of joy we
find some tears.
"Music seems to be a universal language of
expression. It applies not alone to set composi-
tion for voice or instrument, but recall if you
wish to sweet music of the rustling leaves, or
the frou-frou of a silken skirt, the sighing of
the wind in the tree tops, the sweetheart folded
in loving embrace, the booming of the surf upon
the beach where majestic ocean rolls, the boom-
ing of stocks in Wall Street, the clink of the ice
in the pitcher, or the drip, drip, drip as it melts
upon fevered brow or possibly swelled head; the
toll of the old church bell, the sound of the cur-
few which does not ring to-night, the deafening
thunder from darkest skies, the awful crash of
the cannon on the battleship or field, or giving
welcome salute to conquering hero; the singing
of joyous birds, the crooning of a barbarian
mother to her child, or the rumbling of the mid-
night express.
Appreciation of Mirthful Compositions.
"All of these and thousands more are sounds
that by poet and bard, by sage and writer have
been likened unto music. To the great composers
of music the world can never discharge its debt
of gratitude, but almost equally do we owe such
debt to the vast army of those who compose
popular mirth-inspiring, dance-inviting, soul-de-
lighting melodies of every form and tempo, the
music for the multitudes. Truly, ragtime has its
calumniators, but let the band or orchestra start
up, among us who live on music and a little food
and raiment, a syncopated ragtime melody and
there will be more feet keeping time and shuffling
beneath this festive board, and maybe a few on
the festive board, than could be put in motion
or started patting time by all the classics of this
or all the ages, and more real mirth than could
ue expected from all the sonatas or Bach fugues
that ever distracted ambitious students; so to
those men and women let us also give due honor."
PAULINE CHASE FOR "MISS GIBBS."
Announcement is made that the title role in
"Our Miss Gibbs," when that English musical
success is produced in New York by Charles
Frohman next September, will be played by Miss
Pauline Chase. Miss Chase has won popular
favor in London through her appealing work in
"Peter Pan," but has yet to establish herself
among the leading stage personalities as far as
New York is concerned. The music of "Our Miss
Gibbs" is published by Chappell & Co., Ltd.
SOME OF OUR REAL HITS
MESSRS. CHAPPELL & CO., L t d .
are the publishers of
THE REIGNING MUSICAL SUCCESS
THE ARCADIANS
Music by Talbot and Monckton
(Produced by Mr. Charles Frohman)
FRANZ LEHAR'S NEW OPERA
THE MAN WITH THREE WIVES
" T i H n E t * .
t P U I I B R H B N H U O L I H B
C
l i I n U t t * "
b L
i V Instrumental
Song and
"MY
SOUTHERN
R O S E "
Y I D D I S H A R A G " ( ln ftL am :SLi)
"HIP-HIP-HYPNOTIZE
M E " son 0
" G I V E M Y R E G A R D S T O M A B E L "
AD D R S S
N E w Y o5k L o"F.cE TO
1 2 5 West 4 3 d Street, New York City
(To be produced shortly by Messrs. Shubert)
IVAN CARYLL AND LIONEL MONCKTON'S
SUCCESSFUL MUSICAL PLAY
OUR MISS GIBBS
(To be pioduced shortly by Mr. Charles Frohman)
LONDONS LATEST CRAZE
THE BALKAN PRINCESS
A Musical Play by Paul A. Rubens
(To be produced by Mr. W. A. Brady)
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
37 W. 17lh St.
NEW YORK
THE MOST POPULAR PIANO DANCE FOLIO
THEODORE MORSE'S NEW HITS !
"MOLLY LEE"
"KITTY CRAY"
"HE'S A COLLEGE BOY"
"RED CLOVER" (Song and Intermezzo)
"BLUE FEATHER" (Song and Intermezzo)
You could have had these once for 5 cents. Take
our new issues and you'll get better ones.
j a ^ f PHONOGRAPH RECORDS ARE < ^ m
l^V
MADE FOR ALL OUR SONGS ^ R S
Theodore Morse Music Co.
1367 Broadway, New York
This collection will fill
a niche quite of its own
in musical literature as
jeing the only folio of
standard dance m u s i c
ich can lay claim to
ng complete. An even
ual glance at the con-
nts cannot fail to con-
ince the lover of piano
music in the lighter vein,
that it is the ideal collec-
tion of piano dance music,
including every known
style of dance, in each
case represented by a
composition from the pen
of soir.e past master of
dance music composition.
Price 75 cents.
Published by
HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE, 31-35 West 15th Street, New York
c SHEET MUSIC
DEPARTMENT
WILL ATTRACT MORE CUSTOMERS TO YOUR STORE THAN
ANY OTHER MEDIUM YOU COULD EMPLOY
Write for catalogue and particulars as to how to
make a sheet music department a money-maker
McKINLEY MUSIC CO., 185 Harrison St., Chicago, III.
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