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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1911 Vol. 53 N. 3 - Page 46

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THE MUSIC TRADE
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Bay," "Who Are You With To-night" and "Sugar
Moon." He plays in the public parks on contract
with the city and furnishes the music the populace
calls for, and he writes that he has more call for
those three numbers than for any other popular
music.
J. H. Remick was in Detroit a few days this
week looking after matters of personal business.
Before the week-end he left again for his summer
home in Bass Rock. Mass.
REVIEW
LEHAR COMING TO CONDUCT OPERETTA.
A dispatch from Berlin says it is announced
that Franz Lehar, the creator of "The Merry
Widow," is to go to New York next autumn to
conduct the American premiere of his new operetta,
"Gipsy Love."
WHAT THEY THINK OF US.
FEATURES CENTURY EDITIONS OF MUSIC.
The Old Colony Piano Co., Brockton, Mass., who
for years have fea'ured sheet music successfully
and profitably, recently attracted the attention of
the public by devoting an entire window to the
THE
H. P. NELSON
Adam Schaaf
PIANO
Grand and Upright
Manufacturer of
Established 1873
Offices and Salesrooms
Embodies rare values—
values which should not
be overlooked by dealers
who are desirous of hand-
ling profit creating pianos.
700-702 West Madison Street
CHICAGO
famous Century edition of music. The arrange-
ment was most original and effective, a small or-
gan made out of Century publications being the
central figure. The display was in the window for
about two weeks, and never failed to win favorable
commendation from all who saw it.
A certain foreign singer is repor!ed to have said
of New York opera-goers: "The Americans are,
perhaps, quite unmusical. But they are so accus-
tomed to the very best that they are instinctively
aware of something that is not quiie first class."
They certainly were in the case of this very singer.
As Addie Funk has sagely observed: "Perhaps
the best gage for a singer's success in this country
is the manner it is spoken of afterwards."
Prof. John P>. Jones, a well known composer of
music and choral society director, died Wednesday
of last week at his residence in Chicago. He was
88 years old and was born in Wales.
The Wilkinson Piano Co., of Joliet, 111., have
recently moved to new headquarters at 318 North
Chicago street, that city. They are featuring the
piano in this establishment, as well as in four
branch stores which they conduct throughout the
Slates.
THE HOME OF
NEWMAN BROS. CO.'S
PIANOS
They excel in tone, touch and finish.
H. P. NELSON CO.
Newman Bros. Co.
816 N. KEDZIE AVENUE
Chicago Aye. near Halatead
CHICAGO
CHICAGO
THE WRIGHT PIANO
THE STYLES FOR 1911
EXCEL ALL PREVIOUS
CREATIONS.
OF THE RIBHT QUALITY AND PRICE
WRIGHT PIANO CO.
483-489 Cresnwloh
Krakauer
FACTORIES
* Cypress Avenue,
Represent in
their construc-
tion the niftiest
mechanical a n d
artistic Ideals.
Pianos
136th and 137th Streets
New York
KRAKAUER
The Weser Piano Is The Best
Proposition La The
Market To-Day A n d We
Are Ready To
WESER BROS
BROS., Makers
Prove It By Sending A S ample
On Approval To Any
R e s p o n s i b l e Dealer I n
The T r a d e
NEW TORK
H^^^
I
Is The BE5t Player-Piano Mechanism Made
The Autn Pneumatic: Action Co. 615 fa BZ3 W. 5D 5t. N.Y. City-
W. J . KEELEY
St., N*w York
'Phone, 9292 Spring
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