Music Trade Review
Issue: 1912 Vol. 54 N. 4 - Page 67
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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
Beginning with the new year, Hinds, Noble &
Eldredge have redoubled their efforts to prevent
Metropolitan Premiere of New Musical Comedy, price-cutting in connection with their series of
with Jefferson de Angelis as Star, Takes "Most Popular" music folios, and their campaign
Place at New York Theater on Monday in that direction has been waged against the large
as well as the small dealers and the jobbers who
Night—Makes Most Favorable Impression.
supply them. In a recent letter to the trade the
minimum price at which the various books might
"The Pearl Maiden," a pretty musical comedy
be sold was reduced 1 cent, making the new rate
in three acts, libretto by Earle C. Anthony and
28 and 38 cents, etc., and dealers were strongly
Arthur F. Kales and music by Harry Auracher,
cautioned to observe that price under penalty of
was given its metropolitan premiere at the New
having their supply of "Most Popular" books cut
York Theater on Monday night, January 22.
off. When action is taken the jobber who supplies
According to the reception it received from a
the offending dealer is also warned and must suffer
large and well-pleased audience, the comedy struck
if he continues to supply that dealer.
a popular chord and will be numbered among the
Several additions to the present large catalog ot
favorite musical plays of the season.
'Most
Popular" books are now in course of prepa-
"The Pearl Maiden" deals with the usual num-
ration, and the titles and lists of contents will be
ber of romances to be found in musical comedy.
The locale occurs about two South Sea islands. announced in due time.
Naturally, scenery and costumes play an important
part in this production.
HIGH PRAISE FOR MME. CAPPIANI.
Jefferson de Angelis is the star and is just as
Writer of Excellent Treatise on New Singing
funny as ever. He took advantage of every bit of
Method, Published by Feist, Gains Recog-
dialogue to touch the risibilities of the audience.
nition in Italy.
The music of the piece is especially interesting
The House of Feist recently received the follow-
and received more attention from the critics than
did the other features of the production. "If One ing clipping from Madame Cappiani which ap-
peared in a newspaper of Nice called "Le
Little Girl Loved Me," sung by Elsa Ryan and
:
Burrell Barbaretto, was undoubtedly the hit of the Eclaireur." The dipping, translated, reads: "Mad-
ame Luisa Cappiani is coming from New York.
show, while the other fetching numbers include
"That Typical, Topical, Tropical Tune," "Coral
Islle," "I Am Lonely for You" (the story of the
pearl), "Nothing So Soft Ever Happened to Me,"
"The Cruise of the Boozemobile," "Cloudland,"
"Davy Jones," "Salvation," and "The Pearl
Maiden." M. Witmark & Sons publish the music.
"THE PEARL MAIDEN" IN NEW YORK.
This great artist is professor of a method of sing-
ing without effort of the throat, like the system
found in the Aeolian Harp, and under which a poor
voice becomes good and a mediocre voice becomes
devine. Madame Cappiani will pass the winter with
us and will go back to her villa at Rodi Piesso on
St. Gothard, in Switzerland, in the summer, where
she will join her family.''
The clipping and the praise of Madame Cap-
piani is especially interesting, in view of the fact
that the House of Feist publishes the successful
treatise on singing by that able authority, entitled
"Practical Hints and Helps for Perfection in Sing-
ing," which has found much favor with both stu-
dents and teachers.
SIGNS WITH WHITNEY-WARNER CO.
Marie Louka, the prominent composer of music
especially adapted to teaching purposes, has signed
a contract to write exclusively for the Whitney-
Warner Co., the organization of which, as a sub-
sidiary to J. H. Remick & Co., was recently noted
in The Review.
SOUNDS FAMILIAR.
She had a voice like a siren, and when she sang
" 'Mid play sure, sand palaces, tho heam a rome.
Be it averse oh wum bull there, snow play sly
comb," and so on to the conclusion, there wasn't
a dry eye in the room.
Tfi? Musicians Library
OVER ONE BUKDRED THOUSAND COPIES PRINTED AND SOLD
WHEN RAGTIME IS NOT RAGTIME.
Critics Condemn Syncopated Music of Ameri-
can Origin, but Enthuse Over Hungarian
Rhapsodies of the Same Class, Says Chicago
Writer—Some Pertinent Conclusions.
Curious what errors the uninitiated will fall
into. After one of the Brahms Hungarian Dances,
which Mr. Stock gave with the true Czech feeling,
somebody near us whispered, in an awed tone:
"Why, that is just like ragtime." Of course the
peculiar, syncopated rhythm of the Hungarians,
one of the distinctive characteristics of their music,
has the same basis as our own ragtime, but do not
people know that the Hungarian syncopation is
racial, spontaneous, full of meaning and charm,
the expression of musical people, while the same
rhythmic accent when written by an American be-
comes everything low and injurious to refined
taste? Why this is so we cannot pretend to say, it
being one of those high mysteries of art revealed
only to the illuminated few, but it must be so,
because we have been told it times enough, says
Karleton Hackett in the Chicago Post. Is it not
strange, though, when you come to think of it,
that the same peculiarities of rhythm, when the
expression of a nation a long way off, are very
fine, yet, if home-grown, are altogether bad? How-
ever, far be it from us to dispute the dictates of
the censors of the art of music.
SALE OF "MOST POPULAR" BOOKS.
Shows Increase—New Traveler Makes Good—
War on Price Cutters Continued.
J. T. Mearns, representing the music department
of Hinds, Noble. & Eldredgc, of which J. Tatian
Roach is manager, returned recently from a suc-
cessful trip through Nsw England territory, during
which he booked an unexpected volume of orders
in view of the season of the year. Mr. Mearns
will leave on a Western trip in the course of a
week or two.
This notable series lias been planned to embrace all the masterpieces of
song and piano literature; to gather Into superbly made volumes of uni-
form size and binding- the best work of the best composers, edited by men
of authority. Each volume is independent, complete in itself, and sold
by itself.
SIXTY VOLUMES ISSUED
SONGS FROM THE OPERAS FOR TENOR.
Edited by H. E. Krehbiel.
SONGS FROM THE OPERA FOR BARITONE
AND BASS. Edited by H. E. Krehbiel.
PIANO VOLUMES
BACH PIANO ALBUM. Vol. I. Shorter Com-
positions. Edited by Dr. Ebenezer Prout.
BACH PIANO ALBUM. Vol. II. Larger Com-
positions. Edited by Dr. Ebenezer Prout.
BEETHOVEN, L. VAN. Vol. I. Piano Composi-
tions. Edited by Eugen d'Albert.
BEETHOVEN, L. VAN. Vol. II. Piano Composi-
tions. Edited by Eugen d'Albert.
BRAHMS, JOHANNES. Selected Piano Com-
positions. Edited by Raphael Joseffy.
CHOPIN, FREDERIC. Forty Piano Composi-
tions. Edited by James Huneker.
CHOPIN, FREDERIC. The Greater Chopin.
Edited by James Huneker.
GRIEG, EDVARD. Larger Piano Compositions.
Edited by Kertha Feiring Tapper.
GRIEG, EDVARD. Piano Lyrics and Shorter
Compositions. Edited by liertha Feiring
Tapper.
HAYDN, FRANZ JOSEF. Twenty Piano Com-
positions. Edited by Xaver Scharwenka.
LISZT, FRANZ. Ten Hungarian Rhapsodies.
Edited by August Spanuth and John Ortli.
LISZT, FRANZ. Twenty Original Piano Com-
positions. Edited by August Spanuth.
LISZT, FRANZ. Twenty Piano Transcriptions.
Edited by August Spanuth.
FIFTY MASTERSONGS. High Voice. Low
Voice. Edited by Henry T. Finck.
MENDELSSOHN, FELIX. Thirty Piano Com-
FIFTY SHAKESFERE SONGS. High Voice.
positions. Edited by Percy Goetschius,
Low Voice. Edited by Charles Vincent,
Mus. Doc. With a Preface by Daniel
Mus. Doc.
Gregory Mason.
MODERN FRENCH SONGS. High Voice. Low
MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Twenty
Voice. Vol. I. Bembergr to Franck. Vol. II.
Piano Compositions. Edited by Carl Rei-
Georges to Widor Edited by Philip Hale.
necke.
ONE HUNDRED FOLK-SONGS OF ALL NA- SCHUMANN, ROBERT. Fifty Piano Composi-
TIONS. Medium Voice. Edited by Gran-
tions. Edited by Xaver Scharwenka.
ville Bantock.
WAGNER, RICHARD. Selections from the
SEVENTY SCOTTISH SONGS. High Voice
Music Dramas. Edited by Otto Singer.
Low Voice. Edited by Helen Hopekirk.
Preface by Richard Aldrich.
SONGS BY THIRTY AMERICANS. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by Rupert Hughes.
ANTHOLOGY OF FRENCH PIANO MUSIC.
Vol. I. Early Composers. Vol. II. Modern
SONGS FROM THE OPERAS FOR SOPRANO.
Composers. Edited by I si dor Philipp.
Edited by H. E. KrelibieJ.
SONGS FROM THE OPERAS FOR MEZZO- EARLY ITALIAN PIANO MUSIC
SOPRANO. Edited by H. E. Krehbiel.
Edited by M. Esposito.
SONGS FROM THE OPERAS FOR ALTO.
TWENTY-FOUR NEGRO MELODIES. Tran-
Edited by H. E. Krehbiel.
scribed for Piano by S. Coleridge-Taylor.
SONG VOLUMES
BEAHMS, JOHANNES. Forty Song's. High
Voice. Low Voice. Edited by James Huneker.
FRANZ, ROBERT. Fifty Song*. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by William Foster
Apthorp.
GRIEG, EDTABD. Fifty Song's. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by Henry T. Finck.
HANDEL, GEORGE FREDERIC. Vol. I. Songs
and Airs. High Voice. Vol. II. Song* and
Airs. Low Voice. Edited by Dr. Ebenezer
Prout.
LISZT, FRANZ. Thirty Song's. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by Carl Armbruster.
SCHUBERT, FRANZ. Fifty Song's. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by Henry T. Finck.
SCHUMANN, ROBERT. Fifty Song's. High
Voice. Low Voice. Edited by W. J. Hen-
derson.
STRAUSS, RICHARD. Forty Song's. High
Voice. Low Voice. Edited by James
Huneker.
WAGNER, RICHARD. Lyrics for Soprano.
Edited by Carl Armbruster.
WAGNER, RICHARD. Lyrics for Tenor.
Edited by Carl Armbruster.
WAGNER, RICHARD. Lyrics for Baritone and
Bass. Edited by Carl Armbruster.
WOLF, HUGO. Fifty Song's. High Voice. Low
Voice. Edited by Ernest Newman.
Each Volume in HcavyiPaperTciloth Back, $1.50; in FulTcioHi, Gilt, $2.50
Copies mailed post-paid
Other volumes in preparation
Send for Free Booklets giving- full particulars, with contents of each volume. Mailed free upon request
OLIVER D1TSON COMPANY, Boston
CHAS. H. DITSON & CO., New York
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
Beginning with the new year, Hinds, Noble &
Eldredge have redoubled their efforts to prevent
Metropolitan Premiere of New Musical Comedy, price-cutting in connection with their series of
with Jefferson de Angelis as Star, Takes "Most Popular" music folios, and their campaign
Place at New York Theater on Monday in that direction has been waged against the large
as well as the small dealers and the jobbers who
Night—Makes Most Favorable Impression.
supply them. In a recent letter to the trade the
minimum price at which the various books might
"The Pearl Maiden," a pretty musical comedy
be sold was reduced 1 cent, making the new rate
in three acts, libretto by Earle C. Anthony and
28 and 38 cents, etc., and dealers were strongly
Arthur F. Kales and music by Harry Auracher,
cautioned to observe that price under penalty of
was given its metropolitan premiere at the New
having their supply of "Most Popular" books cut
York Theater on Monday night, January 22.
off. When action is taken the jobber who supplies
According to the reception it received from a
the offending dealer is also warned and must suffer
large and well-pleased audience, the comedy struck
if he continues to supply that dealer.
a popular chord and will be numbered among the
Several additions to the present large catalog ot
favorite musical plays of the season.
'Most
Popular" books are now in course of prepa-
"The Pearl Maiden" deals with the usual num-
ration, and the titles and lists of contents will be
ber of romances to be found in musical comedy.
The locale occurs about two South Sea islands. announced in due time.
Naturally, scenery and costumes play an important
part in this production.
HIGH PRAISE FOR MME. CAPPIANI.
Jefferson de Angelis is the star and is just as
Writer of Excellent Treatise on New Singing
funny as ever. He took advantage of every bit of
Method, Published by Feist, Gains Recog-
dialogue to touch the risibilities of the audience.
nition in Italy.
The music of the piece is especially interesting
The House of Feist recently received the follow-
and received more attention from the critics than
did the other features of the production. "If One ing clipping from Madame Cappiani which ap-
peared in a newspaper of Nice called "Le
Little Girl Loved Me," sung by Elsa Ryan and
:
Burrell Barbaretto, was undoubtedly the hit of the Eclaireur." The dipping, translated, reads: "Mad-
ame Luisa Cappiani is coming from New York.
show, while the other fetching numbers include
"That Typical, Topical, Tropical Tune," "Coral
Islle," "I Am Lonely for You" (the story of the
pearl), "Nothing So Soft Ever Happened to Me,"
"The Cruise of the Boozemobile," "Cloudland,"
"Davy Jones," "Salvation," and "The Pearl
Maiden." M. Witmark & Sons publish the music.
"THE PEARL MAIDEN" IN NEW YORK.
This great artist is professor of a method of sing-
ing without effort of the throat, like the system
found in the Aeolian Harp, and under which a poor
voice becomes good and a mediocre voice becomes
devine. Madame Cappiani will pass the winter with
us and will go back to her villa at Rodi Piesso on
St. Gothard, in Switzerland, in the summer, where
she will join her family.''
The clipping and the praise of Madame Cap-
piani is especially interesting, in view of the fact
that the House of Feist publishes the successful
treatise on singing by that able authority, entitled
"Practical Hints and Helps for Perfection in Sing-
ing," which has found much favor with both stu-
dents and teachers.
SIGNS WITH WHITNEY-WARNER CO.
Marie Louka, the prominent composer of music
especially adapted to teaching purposes, has signed
a contract to write exclusively for the Whitney-
Warner Co., the organization of which, as a sub-
sidiary to J. H. Remick & Co., was recently noted
in The Review.
SOUNDS FAMILIAR.
She had a voice like a siren, and when she sang
" 'Mid play sure, sand palaces, tho heam a rome.
Be it averse oh wum bull there, snow play sly
comb," and so on to the conclusion, there wasn't
a dry eye in the room.
Tfi? Musicians Library
OVER ONE BUKDRED THOUSAND COPIES PRINTED AND SOLD
WHEN RAGTIME IS NOT RAGTIME.
Critics Condemn Syncopated Music of Ameri-
can Origin, but Enthuse Over Hungarian
Rhapsodies of the Same Class, Says Chicago
Writer—Some Pertinent Conclusions.
Curious what errors the uninitiated will fall
into. After one of the Brahms Hungarian Dances,
which Mr. Stock gave with the true Czech feeling,
somebody near us whispered, in an awed tone:
"Why, that is just like ragtime." Of course the
peculiar, syncopated rhythm of the Hungarians,
one of the distinctive characteristics of their music,
has the same basis as our own ragtime, but do not
people know that the Hungarian syncopation is
racial, spontaneous, full of meaning and charm,
the expression of musical people, while the same
rhythmic accent when written by an American be-
comes everything low and injurious to refined
taste? Why this is so we cannot pretend to say, it
being one of those high mysteries of art revealed
only to the illuminated few, but it must be so,
because we have been told it times enough, says
Karleton Hackett in the Chicago Post. Is it not
strange, though, when you come to think of it,
that the same peculiarities of rhythm, when the
expression of a nation a long way off, are very
fine, yet, if home-grown, are altogether bad? How-
ever, far be it from us to dispute the dictates of
the censors of the art of music.
SALE OF "MOST POPULAR" BOOKS.
Shows Increase—New Traveler Makes Good—
War on Price Cutters Continued.
J. T. Mearns, representing the music department
of Hinds, Noble. & Eldredgc, of which J. Tatian
Roach is manager, returned recently from a suc-
cessful trip through Nsw England territory, during
which he booked an unexpected volume of orders
in view of the season of the year. Mr. Mearns
will leave on a Western trip in the course of a
week or two.
This notable series lias been planned to embrace all the masterpieces of
song and piano literature; to gather Into superbly made volumes of uni-
form size and binding- the best work of the best composers, edited by men
of authority. Each volume is independent, complete in itself, and sold
by itself.
SIXTY VOLUMES ISSUED
SONGS FROM THE OPERAS FOR TENOR.
Edited by H. E. Krehbiel.
SONGS FROM THE OPERA FOR BARITONE
AND BASS. Edited by H. E. Krehbiel.
PIANO VOLUMES
BACH PIANO ALBUM. Vol. I. Shorter Com-
positions. Edited by Dr. Ebenezer Prout.
BACH PIANO ALBUM. Vol. II. Larger Com-
positions. Edited by Dr. Ebenezer Prout.
BEETHOVEN, L. VAN. Vol. I. Piano Composi-
tions. Edited by Eugen d'Albert.
BEETHOVEN, L. VAN. Vol. II. Piano Composi-
tions. Edited by Eugen d'Albert.
BRAHMS, JOHANNES. Selected Piano Com-
positions. Edited by Raphael Joseffy.
CHOPIN, FREDERIC. Forty Piano Composi-
tions. Edited by James Huneker.
CHOPIN, FREDERIC. The Greater Chopin.
Edited by James Huneker.
GRIEG, EDVARD. Larger Piano Compositions.
Edited by Kertha Feiring Tapper.
GRIEG, EDVARD. Piano Lyrics and Shorter
Compositions. Edited by liertha Feiring
Tapper.
HAYDN, FRANZ JOSEF. Twenty Piano Com-
positions. Edited by Xaver Scharwenka.
LISZT, FRANZ. Ten Hungarian Rhapsodies.
Edited by August Spanuth and John Ortli.
LISZT, FRANZ. Twenty Original Piano Com-
positions. Edited by August Spanuth.
LISZT, FRANZ. Twenty Piano Transcriptions.
Edited by August Spanuth.
FIFTY MASTERSONGS. High Voice. Low
Voice. Edited by Henry T. Finck.
MENDELSSOHN, FELIX. Thirty Piano Com-
FIFTY SHAKESFERE SONGS. High Voice.
positions. Edited by Percy Goetschius,
Low Voice. Edited by Charles Vincent,
Mus. Doc. With a Preface by Daniel
Mus. Doc.
Gregory Mason.
MODERN FRENCH SONGS. High Voice. Low
MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Twenty
Voice. Vol. I. Bembergr to Franck. Vol. II.
Piano Compositions. Edited by Carl Rei-
Georges to Widor Edited by Philip Hale.
necke.
ONE HUNDRED FOLK-SONGS OF ALL NA- SCHUMANN, ROBERT. Fifty Piano Composi-
TIONS. Medium Voice. Edited by Gran-
tions. Edited by Xaver Scharwenka.
ville Bantock.
WAGNER, RICHARD. Selections from the
SEVENTY SCOTTISH SONGS. High Voice
Music Dramas. Edited by Otto Singer.
Low Voice. Edited by Helen Hopekirk.
Preface by Richard Aldrich.
SONGS BY THIRTY AMERICANS. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by Rupert Hughes.
ANTHOLOGY OF FRENCH PIANO MUSIC.
Vol. I. Early Composers. Vol. II. Modern
SONGS FROM THE OPERAS FOR SOPRANO.
Composers. Edited by I si dor Philipp.
Edited by H. E. KrelibieJ.
SONGS FROM THE OPERAS FOR MEZZO- EARLY ITALIAN PIANO MUSIC
SOPRANO. Edited by H. E. Krehbiel.
Edited by M. Esposito.
SONGS FROM THE OPERAS FOR ALTO.
TWENTY-FOUR NEGRO MELODIES. Tran-
Edited by H. E. Krehbiel.
scribed for Piano by S. Coleridge-Taylor.
SONG VOLUMES
BEAHMS, JOHANNES. Forty Song's. High
Voice. Low Voice. Edited by James Huneker.
FRANZ, ROBERT. Fifty Song*. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by William Foster
Apthorp.
GRIEG, EDTABD. Fifty Song's. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by Henry T. Finck.
HANDEL, GEORGE FREDERIC. Vol. I. Songs
and Airs. High Voice. Vol. II. Song* and
Airs. Low Voice. Edited by Dr. Ebenezer
Prout.
LISZT, FRANZ. Thirty Song's. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by Carl Armbruster.
SCHUBERT, FRANZ. Fifty Song's. High Voice.
Low Voice. Edited by Henry T. Finck.
SCHUMANN, ROBERT. Fifty Song's. High
Voice. Low Voice. Edited by W. J. Hen-
derson.
STRAUSS, RICHARD. Forty Song's. High
Voice. Low Voice. Edited by James
Huneker.
WAGNER, RICHARD. Lyrics for Soprano.
Edited by Carl Armbruster.
WAGNER, RICHARD. Lyrics for Tenor.
Edited by Carl Armbruster.
WAGNER, RICHARD. Lyrics for Baritone and
Bass. Edited by Carl Armbruster.
WOLF, HUGO. Fifty Song's. High Voice. Low
Voice. Edited by Ernest Newman.
Each Volume in HcavyiPaperTciloth Back, $1.50; in FulTcioHi, Gilt, $2.50
Copies mailed post-paid
Other volumes in preparation
Send for Free Booklets giving- full particulars, with contents of each volume. Mailed free upon request
OLIVER D1TSON COMPANY, Boston
CHAS. H. DITSON & CO., New York
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