Music Trade Review
Issue: 1911 Vol. 53 N. 25 - Page 48
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THE
EDWAID LYMAN BILL - Editor u d Proprietor
J. B. SPILLANE, Mnagiig Edttar
B. B. WILSON. Editor Music Section
P«Mfch«d Every Saturday at 1 Madtem l * « c , Ntw Tark
IDBSCmiPTIOIt. (including portage), Cnltcd States and
Mexico. 12.00 per yaax; Cimada, IS.6O; all «tk«r ooam-
l . $4.00.
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Connecting all Departments
N E W YORK,DECEMBER 23, 1911
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 -
Further light is being shed upon the methods
and demands of the French Society of Authors,
Composers and Publishers of Music, attention to
which was called in The Review recently. The
society is now after no less distinguished an artist
than M,me. Schumann-Heink, because she sang
at the Metropolitan Opera House, one Sunday
night recently, an aria "Mon cceur's'ouvre a ta
voix" from Saint-Saens's "Samson et Dalila." If
Mme. Schumann-Heink had paid $-5 every time in
the course of her professional career that she has
sung this aria M. Saint-Saens would now possess
a substantial capital fortune derived from this
source alone. If Ovide Robillard, counsel for the
society in this country, succeeds in collecting this
amount from every contralto who sings this popu-
lar cheval de bataille from the deep voiced reper-
toire, that eminent Gallic composer will retire
with a large estate indeed.
"Mme. Schumann-Heink will pay," M. Robil-
lard remarked to a newspaper man, "just as the
other singers have paid. Mary Garden, for in-
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
stance, after her concert tour last spring paid the
society $300 for the use of the copyrighted songs
of French composers. Maggie Teyte paid the
other day for using our songs. Mme. Schumann-
Heink's manager has assured us that she will
pay"
M. Robillard said that the criticism that the so-
ciety interfered always at the last minute was not
true, since it was often impossible for the society
to learn what works were to be performed until
just before the concert. He added: "The great-
est mistake that exists concerning the Society of
Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music is
that its object is exclusively to protect the works
of French composers. Now as a matter of fact
Engelbert Humperdinck, Gustav Mahler, Grieg,
Mascagni and many composers of all nations are
represented among our clients. This society has
existed for sixty years, and it is quite as ready
to protect American composers in Europe as it is
to look after the rights Of foreigners here.
"Last year we collected in Europe for John
Philip Sousa within four months $2,800 in royal-
ties for the performing rights of his music. If
the composers of the ragtime music which is pro-
duced so much in Paris were members of* this so-
ciety they would find out that their rights for per-
formance in Europe would amount to a consider-
able share of their profits.
"Composers are protected in France without
any formality to secure copyright when they are
foreigners. One theater in Paris produces practi-
cally nothing but music by American composers,
and had they anybody to look after their rights
they would get their royalties without trouble.
The society guarantees lo collect royalties on copy-
Anyone Can
Write Songs
righted music for a lifetime and fifty years after-
ward.
"Any composer knows that it is the performing
rights that last. After a piece of music is pub-
lished the sale continues for a short time. If the
work is liked, however, it will constantly be per-
formed. That may go on for many years, so the
royalty for performance for profit is in a measure
a species of life insurance.
"We ask only $5 a work, which is half what
the law allows. When there are more than two
copyright numbers on a program we ask only
$10. The royalties are never more than that sum.
We expect to have agents in every part of the
country. The society has had its branch in this
country for a year and we have not begun a suit
as yet, for the justice of the claims of the com-
posers has been recognized."
M. Robillard was asked if he did not fear that
singers would drop the copyrighted songs if they
were compelled to pay $5 for the pleasure of sing-
ing them. He said.
"Singers do not select songs because they re-
spect the composer or for any other reason than
that they are suited to their voices and style. The
same is true in a lesser degree of other music.
They will always be willing to pay the fee when
they are told that they must. The royalty is of
course claimed only when the music is performed
for a profit."
One New York publisher, in discussing the mat-
ter, said: "Can you imagine one of the vaude-
ville or concert hall singers using our songs, and
doing two or three turns per day, paying $5 a
performance or even $5 per week for the privi
lege? Huh!"
HARRY VON TILZER
I WANT A GIRL
Writes
Hi!
THE HIT OF
191119
KNOCK WOOD ,..\.'
THEY ALWAYS PICK 0 1 ME
FEATURED IN
IN FOUR " 'GIRL IN THE TAXI"
COMPANI
COMPANIES
ALL ALONE
We are publishers of the following
Successful Productions
YOU'RE ACQUAINTED
WITH THIS ONE
ALL ABOARD FOR BLANKET BAY
KEEP YOUR EYE ONITHISlONE
" THE COUNT of LUXEMBOURG"
"THE QUAKER GIRL"
"GIPSY LOVE"
"THE PINK LADY"
"PEGGY"
"THE SLIM PRINCESS"
"THE ARCADIANS"
"THE BALKAN PRINCESS"
"HAVANA"
"THE CLIMAX"
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
HARRY VON TILZER MUSIC PUBLISHING C 'M O New
. , 1 York
^ ^ City
?^
41 East 34th St., New York
ADDRESS ALL
MAIL TO NEW YORK OFFICE
This high-class collec-
tion of standard pieces
has been especially ar-
ranged and adapted for
the use of first and sec-
ond grade students.
The teacher will find
this book of invaluable
aid in the instruction of
young students, as ex-
treme care has been
used in the selection and
arrangement of each
composition,
attracting
the child and developing
his
technique
being
kept in mind, as well as
cultivating his appre-
ciation for good music.
Price 76 cents.
Most Beautiful Child Ballad Written
In Years.
"Will The Roses
Bloom In Heaven?"
By Chas. K. Harris
Columbia Theatre Blda.
MEYER COHEN, Mar.
HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE.
Just Published
31-35 West 15th Street, New York
Just Published
THE ROOT EDITION BEAUTIFUL,
Trod© Supplied by the iVlcKinley Muslt Co., Chicago and IVew York
The Root Edition Beautiful is being advertised in every musical magazine in this country. 200,000 music teachers are being supplied with catalogs containing thematic and de-
leription of each piece. If you do not supply the demands y ou will have for the edition it is because you lack interest in the newest publications and that means you are not up-to-date
Write for samples.
MUSIC
COMPANY,
CHICAGO
AISD
N E W YORK
THE
EDWAID LYMAN BILL - Editor u d Proprietor
J. B. SPILLANE, Mnagiig Edttar
B. B. WILSON. Editor Music Section
P«Mfch«d Every Saturday at 1 Madtem l * « c , Ntw Tark
IDBSCmiPTIOIt. (including portage), Cnltcd States and
Mexico. 12.00 per yaax; Cimada, IS.6O; all «tk«r ooam-
l . $4.00.
f •lapboacs-Nambcra 4«77 n l 467« Gramcrcjr
Connecting all Departments
N E W YORK,DECEMBER 23, 1911
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 -
Further light is being shed upon the methods
and demands of the French Society of Authors,
Composers and Publishers of Music, attention to
which was called in The Review recently. The
society is now after no less distinguished an artist
than M,me. Schumann-Heink, because she sang
at the Metropolitan Opera House, one Sunday
night recently, an aria "Mon cceur's'ouvre a ta
voix" from Saint-Saens's "Samson et Dalila." If
Mme. Schumann-Heink had paid $-5 every time in
the course of her professional career that she has
sung this aria M. Saint-Saens would now possess
a substantial capital fortune derived from this
source alone. If Ovide Robillard, counsel for the
society in this country, succeeds in collecting this
amount from every contralto who sings this popu-
lar cheval de bataille from the deep voiced reper-
toire, that eminent Gallic composer will retire
with a large estate indeed.
"Mme. Schumann-Heink will pay," M. Robil-
lard remarked to a newspaper man, "just as the
other singers have paid. Mary Garden, for in-
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
stance, after her concert tour last spring paid the
society $300 for the use of the copyrighted songs
of French composers. Maggie Teyte paid the
other day for using our songs. Mme. Schumann-
Heink's manager has assured us that she will
pay"
M. Robillard said that the criticism that the so-
ciety interfered always at the last minute was not
true, since it was often impossible for the society
to learn what works were to be performed until
just before the concert. He added: "The great-
est mistake that exists concerning the Society of
Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music is
that its object is exclusively to protect the works
of French composers. Now as a matter of fact
Engelbert Humperdinck, Gustav Mahler, Grieg,
Mascagni and many composers of all nations are
represented among our clients. This society has
existed for sixty years, and it is quite as ready
to protect American composers in Europe as it is
to look after the rights Of foreigners here.
"Last year we collected in Europe for John
Philip Sousa within four months $2,800 in royal-
ties for the performing rights of his music. If
the composers of the ragtime music which is pro-
duced so much in Paris were members of* this so-
ciety they would find out that their rights for per-
formance in Europe would amount to a consider-
able share of their profits.
"Composers are protected in France without
any formality to secure copyright when they are
foreigners. One theater in Paris produces practi-
cally nothing but music by American composers,
and had they anybody to look after their rights
they would get their royalties without trouble.
The society guarantees lo collect royalties on copy-
Anyone Can
Write Songs
righted music for a lifetime and fifty years after-
ward.
"Any composer knows that it is the performing
rights that last. After a piece of music is pub-
lished the sale continues for a short time. If the
work is liked, however, it will constantly be per-
formed. That may go on for many years, so the
royalty for performance for profit is in a measure
a species of life insurance.
"We ask only $5 a work, which is half what
the law allows. When there are more than two
copyright numbers on a program we ask only
$10. The royalties are never more than that sum.
We expect to have agents in every part of the
country. The society has had its branch in this
country for a year and we have not begun a suit
as yet, for the justice of the claims of the com-
posers has been recognized."
M. Robillard was asked if he did not fear that
singers would drop the copyrighted songs if they
were compelled to pay $5 for the pleasure of sing-
ing them. He said.
"Singers do not select songs because they re-
spect the composer or for any other reason than
that they are suited to their voices and style. The
same is true in a lesser degree of other music.
They will always be willing to pay the fee when
they are told that they must. The royalty is of
course claimed only when the music is performed
for a profit."
One New York publisher, in discussing the mat-
ter, said: "Can you imagine one of the vaude-
ville or concert hall singers using our songs, and
doing two or three turns per day, paying $5 a
performance or even $5 per week for the privi
lege? Huh!"
HARRY VON TILZER
I WANT A GIRL
Writes
Hi!
THE HIT OF
191119
KNOCK WOOD ,..\.'
THEY ALWAYS PICK 0 1 ME
FEATURED IN
IN FOUR " 'GIRL IN THE TAXI"
COMPANI
COMPANIES
ALL ALONE
We are publishers of the following
Successful Productions
YOU'RE ACQUAINTED
WITH THIS ONE
ALL ABOARD FOR BLANKET BAY
KEEP YOUR EYE ONITHISlONE
" THE COUNT of LUXEMBOURG"
"THE QUAKER GIRL"
"GIPSY LOVE"
"THE PINK LADY"
"PEGGY"
"THE SLIM PRINCESS"
"THE ARCADIANS"
"THE BALKAN PRINCESS"
"HAVANA"
"THE CLIMAX"
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
HARRY VON TILZER MUSIC PUBLISHING C 'M O New
. , 1 York
^ ^ City
?^
41 East 34th St., New York
ADDRESS ALL
MAIL TO NEW YORK OFFICE
This high-class collec-
tion of standard pieces
has been especially ar-
ranged and adapted for
the use of first and sec-
ond grade students.
The teacher will find
this book of invaluable
aid in the instruction of
young students, as ex-
treme care has been
used in the selection and
arrangement of each
composition,
attracting
the child and developing
his
technique
being
kept in mind, as well as
cultivating his appre-
ciation for good music.
Price 76 cents.
Most Beautiful Child Ballad Written
In Years.
"Will The Roses
Bloom In Heaven?"
By Chas. K. Harris
Columbia Theatre Blda.
MEYER COHEN, Mar.
HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE.
Just Published
31-35 West 15th Street, New York
Just Published
THE ROOT EDITION BEAUTIFUL,
Trod© Supplied by the iVlcKinley Muslt Co., Chicago and IVew York
The Root Edition Beautiful is being advertised in every musical magazine in this country. 200,000 music teachers are being supplied with catalogs containing thematic and de-
leription of each piece. If you do not supply the demands y ou will have for the edition it is because you lack interest in the newest publications and that means you are not up-to-date
Write for samples.
MUSIC
COMPANY,
CHICAGO
AISD
N E W YORK
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