Music Trade Review
Issue: 1912 Vol. 55 N. 18 - Page 51
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THE:
MUSIC
TRADE:
RE:VIE:W
class—"The Merry Widow" and "The Chocolate
Soldier" for example, has driven away the tin-
pan offerings of the musical play that once flour-
Reginald De Koven, in Recent Interview, Makes
ished so rankly, to the nation's discredit. These
Strong Plea for Musical Productions That
have paved the way for the American composer
Amuse—Time Is Here When the Capable
and the American librettist.
American Composer Will Have an Opportun-
ity—Present Conditions Summarized.
There's a big chance for a man to write as pretty
a thing as the De Koven work and there's even a
Reginald de Koven is practical enough to be a better business opening for the manager who will
pupil of Mr. Squeers. Having learned, at least give opera in English, as the Boston Ideals did
symbolically, that "winder" spells window he has it a quarter of a century ago. The time is here;
gone to work to clean it after the approved Squeers where is the man?
formula. That is to say, cutting out the parable,
he believes that operettas should be written in
English because he has written successful ones.
What De Koven has done is nothing unique,
he declares, for a land which is so promising
musically as this country. All that is necessary
is to make the demand and the supply will follow.
And" that demand is. here, he told a Boston re-
porter the other day. "Let the highbrows rave
about grand opera," he went on blithely, "but you
and T and the next man want to be amused when
we go to the theater; we want something pleasant,
even humorous. You and I know a little some-
thing about music well sung. Give us some light
opera, as artistically presented as even grand opera.
"Here in this country are any number of com-
posers who can write good music and therefore
should be given a chance to be heard. Give the
singers a chance, too, and they'll make good in
I 1 'ght opera. Not every girl with a voice who goes
to Europe to study can be a diva, but she can sing
well, at that, and oftentimes can act. Once we have
a fair amount of light opera in English some of
these girls will justify their European education."
What Mr. -De Koven says is true and timely.
KirrnaivQ.
) Erie » Curtis,
It is growing truer and more timely every day.
I - A ^ I U K I I ^ . ) and Morgan
The success of the foreign operettas of the better
VERDI'S MONUMENT.
TIME RIPE FORj\MERICAN OPERA.
Verdi conceived most of his melodies while he
was taking a walk, either in the city or in the
country. On such occasions he was usually bare-
headed, with this hands at his back. In this
attitude the sculptor, Enrico Butti, has chiseled
the great composer in the monument (eleven
meters in height) which is to be placed in Milan
next year. Other cities, among them Rome,
Parma, and his birthplace, Busseto, will celebrate
the centenary of his birth by erecting statues.
SCHULZ
SINCERITY
You find it all through the product of
this company
M. SCHULZ CO.
3 Great Pianos
Ohio and Carpenter Streets
and Superior Streets
Office and Wareroom, 711 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, 111.
N. W. Sales Department, 901-903 First Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn.
South Atlantic Sales Department, Room 730 Candler Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
With 3 sounding boards
in each (Patented) have the
greatest talking points in
the trade.
GRANDS,
UPRIGHTS
HIGH GRADE
LEADER
For the
DEALER
K eceived the HIGHEST A W ARD
World's Columbian Exposition
Chicago. 1893
T H E KRCLL P I A N O C O . , CINCINNATI, O.
We fix " o n e p r i c e " —
wholesale and retail.
The Heppe Piano Co.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The Stylet For 1912
Excel All Previous
Creations
Factories
Cypress Avenue
136th and 137th Street
New York
Krakauer
Pianos
Represent in
their construction
the highest
mechanical and
artistic ideals.
KRAKAUER BROS., Makers
©
The Weser Piano Is The Best
Proposition In The
Market To-Day A n d We
Are Ready To
WESER BROS
^
-* T 2 ~
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
NEWTORK
THE:
MUSIC
TRADE:
RE:VIE:W
class—"The Merry Widow" and "The Chocolate
Soldier" for example, has driven away the tin-
pan offerings of the musical play that once flour-
Reginald De Koven, in Recent Interview, Makes
ished so rankly, to the nation's discredit. These
Strong Plea for Musical Productions That
have paved the way for the American composer
Amuse—Time Is Here When the Capable
and the American librettist.
American Composer Will Have an Opportun-
ity—Present Conditions Summarized.
There's a big chance for a man to write as pretty
a thing as the De Koven work and there's even a
Reginald de Koven is practical enough to be a better business opening for the manager who will
pupil of Mr. Squeers. Having learned, at least give opera in English, as the Boston Ideals did
symbolically, that "winder" spells window he has it a quarter of a century ago. The time is here;
gone to work to clean it after the approved Squeers where is the man?
formula. That is to say, cutting out the parable,
he believes that operettas should be written in
English because he has written successful ones.
What De Koven has done is nothing unique,
he declares, for a land which is so promising
musically as this country. All that is necessary
is to make the demand and the supply will follow.
And" that demand is. here, he told a Boston re-
porter the other day. "Let the highbrows rave
about grand opera," he went on blithely, "but you
and T and the next man want to be amused when
we go to the theater; we want something pleasant,
even humorous. You and I know a little some-
thing about music well sung. Give us some light
opera, as artistically presented as even grand opera.
"Here in this country are any number of com-
posers who can write good music and therefore
should be given a chance to be heard. Give the
singers a chance, too, and they'll make good in
I 1 'ght opera. Not every girl with a voice who goes
to Europe to study can be a diva, but she can sing
well, at that, and oftentimes can act. Once we have
a fair amount of light opera in English some of
these girls will justify their European education."
What Mr. -De Koven says is true and timely.
KirrnaivQ.
) Erie » Curtis,
It is growing truer and more timely every day.
I - A ^ I U K I I ^ . ) and Morgan
The success of the foreign operettas of the better
VERDI'S MONUMENT.
TIME RIPE FORj\MERICAN OPERA.
Verdi conceived most of his melodies while he
was taking a walk, either in the city or in the
country. On such occasions he was usually bare-
headed, with this hands at his back. In this
attitude the sculptor, Enrico Butti, has chiseled
the great composer in the monument (eleven
meters in height) which is to be placed in Milan
next year. Other cities, among them Rome,
Parma, and his birthplace, Busseto, will celebrate
the centenary of his birth by erecting statues.
SCHULZ
SINCERITY
You find it all through the product of
this company
M. SCHULZ CO.
3 Great Pianos
Ohio and Carpenter Streets
and Superior Streets
Office and Wareroom, 711 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, 111.
N. W. Sales Department, 901-903 First Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn.
South Atlantic Sales Department, Room 730 Candler Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
With 3 sounding boards
in each (Patented) have the
greatest talking points in
the trade.
GRANDS,
UPRIGHTS
HIGH GRADE
LEADER
For the
DEALER
K eceived the HIGHEST A W ARD
World's Columbian Exposition
Chicago. 1893
T H E KRCLL P I A N O C O . , CINCINNATI, O.
We fix " o n e p r i c e " —
wholesale and retail.
The Heppe Piano Co.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The Stylet For 1912
Excel All Previous
Creations
Factories
Cypress Avenue
136th and 137th Street
New York
Krakauer
Pianos
Represent in
their construction
the highest
mechanical and
artistic ideals.
KRAKAUER BROS., Makers
©
The Weser Piano Is The Best
Proposition In The
Market To-Day A n d We
Are Ready To
WESER BROS
^
-* T 2 ~
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
NEWTORK
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