Music Trade Review
Issue: 1911 Vol. 52 N. 1 - Page 44
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
pression, however, has become feebler during the
last thirty years."
Should the Students "Sing" Classic^?
Everything that President Lowell said is true—
especially as regards organized cheering. And as
to the taste of the cultivated persons of to-day,
there is no doubt but that it inclines more to the
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Editor and Proprietor so-called popular music than it did thirty years ago.
One reason is that there is much more popular
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
music to tempt them with its tuneful charm than
R.W.SIMMONS, Editor Music S«ctloa
there was at that time. Another reason is that
Avsnne. New T«rk
Every Satartojr at 1
life has become more strenuous and nerve-racking,
with the result that when college men (whom
SUBSCRIPTION. (Including portage), United State* and
Mexico, |2.00 per year; Caaada, $1.60; all ether coun-
President Lowell refers to in his remarks) get into
trles, $4.00.
the rush of business, many of the alumni are in-
Telephones—Numbers 4S77 and 4678 Gramerejr
volved in the thickest of the fight, where lives are
Connecting all Departments
shortest or, at least, nerves collapse quickest. We
do not concern ourselves with the organized
NEW YORK, JANUARY 7, 1911
cheering, although it is evident that several thou-
sands of graduates and undergraduates, watching
a football match, must give vent to their enthu-
All matter o n every nature intended
siasm in shouts, and not in set speeches. At a
for this department should be addressed
class reunion the graduates are prone to smoke
The Editor Music Section Music Trade
and drink beer. After relating old college expe-
Review, 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
riences, men of affairs who have cast aside all
cares for the nonce naturally turn a kindly ear to
the strains of a popular song, even if this be in
"ragtime." As for the students, after they have
shouted themselves hoarse, properly celebrated the
victory in the "city," and then gathered in some
hall for further jollification, would they sound
well trying to sing in unison, not to mention the
ludicrous but maudlin attempts at harmony, the
President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard Uni- celebrated "Evening Star," say, from "Tannhau-
versity—no less a personage—in the course of a ser." Such of them as afterwards take up the
speech the other day before the Music Teachers' study of music, or grow to love only good music,
National Association, in session at Boston Univer- will help to maintain the high standard which such
sity, said: "One of the saddest things is to go to a music always has had in this and other countries,
gathering of educated men, say college men, in- and which it will always have, despite the wide-
cluding alumni, and note the kind of music given at spreading vogue of popular music.
their dinners. It is ragtime, and ragtime of a
May Be American Music "Some Day."
very poor quality. These men seem to care very
Engelbert Humperdinck, the composer of "Koe-
little for good music. What they want is a catchy
song after they have exhausted their voices in or- nigskinder," which had its first production on any
ganized cheering. Of all the processes of express- stage at the Metropolitan Opera House last week,
ing emotions, organized cheering is from every point was asked recently as to what he thought of Amer-
of view the worst. In some ways it expresses the ican music. "I think you are going to have some,
direction of the taste of the cultivated people to- some day," he replied ingenuously, or as the result
day. Our people seem wholly deficient in express- of caustic reflection, as the case may be. "You
ing in common any of the finer emotions. One can have already one great composer, Arthur Nevin.
hardly fail to note the progressive degeneration of
He has not been recognized or acclaimed as being a
the popular taste in music. A gathering of edu-
cated persons should naturally have a fine expres-
sion for their emotions through music. Such ex-
COMMENTS B Y -
great composer as yet, but he surely will be in the
near future. I heard Mr. Nevin's Indian opera,
'Poia,' in Berlin last summer, and I have no hesi-
tation in saying that it is a superb composition in
every respect, and worthy to be a companion piece
to any of the great operas in the Metropolitan
repertoire to-day. We were all tremendously im-
pressed in Berlin with the wealth of melodic ma-
terial in the Indian music on which Mr. Nevin's
opera is based. You Americans have been com-
plaining that you have no store of folk-songs on
which to build a national school of music. I think
that your Indian melodies are fully as rich a mu-
sical treasure house as any European country has
in its folk songs. I will not go so far as to say
that American music of the future will be built
up from the aboriginal Indian chants. It will be a
combination of European and Indian eventually, I
think. Indian music is giving you a start and an
opportunity to develop some great composers along
distinctly national lines. Within a few years I
have no doubt that American grand opera will be
well started on its career. Mr. Nevin's 'Poia' is
enough to found a national school of music upon
if given a chance here."
Words of Hope Appreciated.
It was most kind of Professor Humperdinck, as-
suredly, to be so indulgent over America's short-
comings as to music, and so condescending in his
expressions of the hope for us that lies in the
future. His words are the more to be appreciated
because eminent American critics have intimated
that his own latest opera was little short of a
failure, even in this new America. It was pretty,
they said, but by no means great. American com-
posers, however, may some day deserve recogni-
tion, even as Arthur Nevin gained it in Berlin, we
are now told, after reading Associated Press des-
patches which asserted that the opera "Poia" was
hissed by half of those who saw it. Furthermore,
there are a number of eminent Americans, who
seem to us great, who have composed symphonies,
grand operas and so on, but although they have
not yet met favor with Professor Humperdinck
they will rejoice to know that they may do so in
time if they will make a careful study of the works
of Arthur Nevin.
E. R. Ball is on the committee planning a benefit
for the widow of F. C. Stanley, singer for talking
machine records, to be held at a local theater.
1
i
SOME OF OUR REAL HITS
CHAS. DILLINGHAM
PRESENTS
ELSIE JANIS
IN
"THE SLIM
PRINCESS"
BOOK BY HENRY BLOSSOM
MUSIC BY
LESLIE STUART
CHAPPELL <& CO., Ltd.
NEW YORK
THE Y U M Y U M TREE "
" 1 LOVE I T "
" W H E N MAR 10 LA DO T H E C U B A H O L A "
"LOVIEJOE"
" I T ' S GOT TO BE S O M E O N E 1 L O V E "
" 1 DON'T B E L I E V E Y O U "
HARRY VON TILZER MUSIC PUBLISHING COMPANY
* D H D !B S Y 8 oR!i L oTSi« TO
The Most Beautiful Child Song Written
In Years.
"I WANT TO BUY A
LITTLE BIT OF
LOVE"
By Chas. K. Harris
PUBLISHED BY
LONDON
" UNDER
MELBOURNE
PUAS H IIARRK- Columbia Theatre Bldg.
bllA». K. llAnnid, Broadway and 47lh St.
MEYER COHEN, Mgr.
125 West 43d Street, New York City
They are all here, from
"Hey, Diddle, Diddle," to
"Here We Go 'Round the
Mulberry Bush!"—And the
quieter, sweeter songs like
Emmett's "Lullaby" have a
place in the book, too.
These songs are the ones
that children the world over
have loved, and the ones that
older people with young
hearts have delighted in, as
well. This collection is the
most complete collection of
children's songs published,—
and yet its price, attractively
bound, is but 50 cents.
HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE, 31-35 West 15th Street, New York
c SHEET MUSIC
DEPARTMENT
WILL ATTRACT MORE CUSTOMERS TO YOUR STORE
ANY OTHER MEDIUM YOU COULD EMPLOY THAN
Write for catalogue and particulars as to how to
make a sheet music department a money-maker
Address nearest office
McKINLEY MUSIC CO., 185 Harrison St., Chicago, III.
NO. SO FIFTH AVENUE, NEVfc YORK, N. Y.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
pression, however, has become feebler during the
last thirty years."
Should the Students "Sing" Classic^?
Everything that President Lowell said is true—
especially as regards organized cheering. And as
to the taste of the cultivated persons of to-day,
there is no doubt but that it inclines more to the
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Editor and Proprietor so-called popular music than it did thirty years ago.
One reason is that there is much more popular
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
music to tempt them with its tuneful charm than
R.W.SIMMONS, Editor Music S«ctloa
there was at that time. Another reason is that
Avsnne. New T«rk
Every Satartojr at 1
life has become more strenuous and nerve-racking,
with the result that when college men (whom
SUBSCRIPTION. (Including portage), United State* and
Mexico, |2.00 per year; Caaada, $1.60; all ether coun-
President Lowell refers to in his remarks) get into
trles, $4.00.
the rush of business, many of the alumni are in-
Telephones—Numbers 4S77 and 4678 Gramerejr
volved in the thickest of the fight, where lives are
Connecting all Departments
shortest or, at least, nerves collapse quickest. We
do not concern ourselves with the organized
NEW YORK, JANUARY 7, 1911
cheering, although it is evident that several thou-
sands of graduates and undergraduates, watching
a football match, must give vent to their enthu-
All matter o n every nature intended
siasm in shouts, and not in set speeches. At a
for this department should be addressed
class reunion the graduates are prone to smoke
The Editor Music Section Music Trade
and drink beer. After relating old college expe-
Review, 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
riences, men of affairs who have cast aside all
cares for the nonce naturally turn a kindly ear to
the strains of a popular song, even if this be in
"ragtime." As for the students, after they have
shouted themselves hoarse, properly celebrated the
victory in the "city," and then gathered in some
hall for further jollification, would they sound
well trying to sing in unison, not to mention the
ludicrous but maudlin attempts at harmony, the
President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard Uni- celebrated "Evening Star," say, from "Tannhau-
versity—no less a personage—in the course of a ser." Such of them as afterwards take up the
speech the other day before the Music Teachers' study of music, or grow to love only good music,
National Association, in session at Boston Univer- will help to maintain the high standard which such
sity, said: "One of the saddest things is to go to a music always has had in this and other countries,
gathering of educated men, say college men, in- and which it will always have, despite the wide-
cluding alumni, and note the kind of music given at spreading vogue of popular music.
their dinners. It is ragtime, and ragtime of a
May Be American Music "Some Day."
very poor quality. These men seem to care very
Engelbert Humperdinck, the composer of "Koe-
little for good music. What they want is a catchy
song after they have exhausted their voices in or- nigskinder," which had its first production on any
ganized cheering. Of all the processes of express- stage at the Metropolitan Opera House last week,
ing emotions, organized cheering is from every point was asked recently as to what he thought of Amer-
of view the worst. In some ways it expresses the ican music. "I think you are going to have some,
direction of the taste of the cultivated people to- some day," he replied ingenuously, or as the result
day. Our people seem wholly deficient in express- of caustic reflection, as the case may be. "You
ing in common any of the finer emotions. One can have already one great composer, Arthur Nevin.
hardly fail to note the progressive degeneration of
He has not been recognized or acclaimed as being a
the popular taste in music. A gathering of edu-
cated persons should naturally have a fine expres-
sion for their emotions through music. Such ex-
COMMENTS B Y -
great composer as yet, but he surely will be in the
near future. I heard Mr. Nevin's Indian opera,
'Poia,' in Berlin last summer, and I have no hesi-
tation in saying that it is a superb composition in
every respect, and worthy to be a companion piece
to any of the great operas in the Metropolitan
repertoire to-day. We were all tremendously im-
pressed in Berlin with the wealth of melodic ma-
terial in the Indian music on which Mr. Nevin's
opera is based. You Americans have been com-
plaining that you have no store of folk-songs on
which to build a national school of music. I think
that your Indian melodies are fully as rich a mu-
sical treasure house as any European country has
in its folk songs. I will not go so far as to say
that American music of the future will be built
up from the aboriginal Indian chants. It will be a
combination of European and Indian eventually, I
think. Indian music is giving you a start and an
opportunity to develop some great composers along
distinctly national lines. Within a few years I
have no doubt that American grand opera will be
well started on its career. Mr. Nevin's 'Poia' is
enough to found a national school of music upon
if given a chance here."
Words of Hope Appreciated.
It was most kind of Professor Humperdinck, as-
suredly, to be so indulgent over America's short-
comings as to music, and so condescending in his
expressions of the hope for us that lies in the
future. His words are the more to be appreciated
because eminent American critics have intimated
that his own latest opera was little short of a
failure, even in this new America. It was pretty,
they said, but by no means great. American com-
posers, however, may some day deserve recogni-
tion, even as Arthur Nevin gained it in Berlin, we
are now told, after reading Associated Press des-
patches which asserted that the opera "Poia" was
hissed by half of those who saw it. Furthermore,
there are a number of eminent Americans, who
seem to us great, who have composed symphonies,
grand operas and so on, but although they have
not yet met favor with Professor Humperdinck
they will rejoice to know that they may do so in
time if they will make a careful study of the works
of Arthur Nevin.
E. R. Ball is on the committee planning a benefit
for the widow of F. C. Stanley, singer for talking
machine records, to be held at a local theater.
1
i
SOME OF OUR REAL HITS
CHAS. DILLINGHAM
PRESENTS
ELSIE JANIS
IN
"THE SLIM
PRINCESS"
BOOK BY HENRY BLOSSOM
MUSIC BY
LESLIE STUART
CHAPPELL <& CO., Ltd.
NEW YORK
THE Y U M Y U M TREE "
" 1 LOVE I T "
" W H E N MAR 10 LA DO T H E C U B A H O L A "
"LOVIEJOE"
" I T ' S GOT TO BE S O M E O N E 1 L O V E "
" 1 DON'T B E L I E V E Y O U "
HARRY VON TILZER MUSIC PUBLISHING COMPANY
* D H D !B S Y 8 oR!i L oTSi« TO
The Most Beautiful Child Song Written
In Years.
"I WANT TO BUY A
LITTLE BIT OF
LOVE"
By Chas. K. Harris
PUBLISHED BY
LONDON
" UNDER
MELBOURNE
PUAS H IIARRK- Columbia Theatre Bldg.
bllA». K. llAnnid, Broadway and 47lh St.
MEYER COHEN, Mgr.
125 West 43d Street, New York City
They are all here, from
"Hey, Diddle, Diddle," to
"Here We Go 'Round the
Mulberry Bush!"—And the
quieter, sweeter songs like
Emmett's "Lullaby" have a
place in the book, too.
These songs are the ones
that children the world over
have loved, and the ones that
older people with young
hearts have delighted in, as
well. This collection is the
most complete collection of
children's songs published,—
and yet its price, attractively
bound, is but 50 cents.
HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE, 31-35 West 15th Street, New York
c SHEET MUSIC
DEPARTMENT
WILL ATTRACT MORE CUSTOMERS TO YOUR STORE
ANY OTHER MEDIUM YOU COULD EMPLOY THAN
Write for catalogue and particulars as to how to
make a sheet music department a money-maker
Address nearest office
McKINLEY MUSIC CO., 185 Harrison St., Chicago, III.
NO. SO FIFTH AVENUE, NEVfc YORK, N. Y.
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