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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MUSICAL PROGRAM FOR PANAMA PACIFIC EXPOSITION
Present Plans Include Musical Features of a High and Artistic Character—Europe to Be Well
Represented—Organ Recitals to Play Prominent Part in Program.
(Special to The Review.)
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., February 7.—While it is
yet too early to announce with finality the musical
plans of the Panama-Pacitic International Expo-
sition, the directorate has formulated a scheme
of entertainment the working out of which prom-
ises to place music on a footing of artistic im-
portance and interest equal to that of any of the
other departments of its inclusive activities.
The program embraces a series of symphony
concerts, to be directed by the ablest conductors
of this country and Europe; a season of organ
recitals to be coterminus with the Exposition;
that is to say, lasting from February to Decem-
ber, 1915; innumerable band concerts—the flourish
of military music being designed to be continuous
throughout the Exposition term and in many dif-
ferent sections of the t>25 acres of Exposition
domain; choral contests in which notable musical
organizations will participate; the Eisteddford, in
v/hich will be assembled many Welsh singing
societies, and it is likely that the National Mu-
sic Teachers' Association will convene in San
Francisco in 1915.
Special importance is attached to the series of
organ recitals which will be given in Festival
Hall, for which it is proposed to obtain as the
climacteric feature the presence and playing of
an organist of international fame. Interpreters
of national and local reputation will be heard
also in the recitals that will be given daily in
Festival 11 all, the main auditorium of which will
seat 3,000 persons. The organ that will be in-
stalled will be worthy of the fingers of a Guil-
mant.
George W. Stewart, chief of the department of
music, is now in Boston, but is expected to ar-
rive in San Francisco within a few weeks, when
he will lay his plans before the directors, and,
with an ample appropriation from the capacious
funds of the Exposition, will proceed to Europe,
there to close contracts now pending with inter-
nationally famous artists.
Mr. Stewart was engaged for the Panamas-Pa-
cific International Exposition after a careful con-
sideration of the impressive claims of a host of
applicants for the honor. J. B. Levison, an
amateur musician of unusual gifts, coupled with
business sagacity demonstrated in a highly suc-
cessful commercial career, is chairman of the
committee on music, and as though with deliberate
intent to set at rest forever the ancient tradition
that musicianship and business ability are impos-
sible yokemates, he Selected Mr. Stewart because
of the latter's success in executive musicianship,
his satisfactory management of the musical af-
fairs of the St. Louis Exposition being deemed
evidence of his talents as manager and musician.
The reluctance of the department of music of
the Exposition to divulge its plans relative to the
music for the celebration in which the world will
join in 1915, is found to arise from the very
magnitude of its projects and a very proper hesi-
tancy to discuss them publicly until the ends,
which compass the entrr: world of music, have
been measurably attained.
A NEW HERMANN LOHR CYCLE.
with 'longing and an echo of sadness underneath.
"When Spring Comes to the Islands" is redolent
of the poetry of May. The "Songs of the South-
ern Isles" affords the music loving public another
reason for admiring Hermann Lohr as a composer
of great talent.
'Songs of the Southern Isles" Include Four
Numbers of Fascinating Quality That Should
Add Materially to the Popularity of That
Gifted and Successful Composer.
Hermann Lohr, one of the most eminently suc-
cessful composers of English songs, has written
nnihing more melodious than these "Songs of
the Southern Isles." The reason of his immense
popularity is not difficult to find, for it is seldom
that a composer who writes so well and so cor-
rectly can also make his music attractive to the
general public.
The melody of "Star of the South" is as natural
and ingenuous as a folksong. "I Dream of a
Garden of Sunshine" is a beautiful reverie in
which the voice part, a simple and tender melody,
floats above the piano accompaniment.
"Cyprian Night Song" lias a tinge of languorous
Southern passion; tranquil on the surface but
Another "BALL" Triumph
Ernest R. Ball has written many successes,
but none that will achieve a greater popu-
larity than his latest
"WHILE THE RIVERS
OF LOVE FLOW ON"
WHILETHE l^ivERsy LOVE
FLOW O N
LYRIC BY
GEORGE GRAFF
ALREADY
HUN-
D R E D S OF T H E
B E S T SI NG I N G
ACTS ARE U S I N G
IT.
MAKING THE PROFESSIONAL PAY.
Western Music Publishers Introduce Plan That
Could Well Be Adopted by Other Popular
Publishers—No Free Copies but Wholesale
Price to Legitimate Performers.
Publishers, professional manager and writers
have been busily engaged for some time past in dis-
cussing ways and means for cutting down or elimi-
nating entirely the professional copy evil and the
suggestions to that desirable end have been coming
thick and fast. The publishers who arc really
anxious to cut down their losses through tie distri-
bution of professional copies should take a leaf
from the book of a western music publishing con-
cern, who. in their latest catalog, designed for the
use of professionals, include the following interest-
ing paragraph : "To the Theatrical Profession—
Our offerings will grace any bill, act or program—
they are at your disposal—but we are not impressed
with the wholesale distribution of 'professional
copies' therefore we issue none. The regular
'store' copies may be had upon proper application,
at a special professional price."
We are not so optimistic as to believe that the
scheme, under the present conditions prevailing in
(he music trade, will meet with startling succe s
immediately, but it is a most commendable break-
ing away from what are practically established
traditions among the popular publishers and de
serving of success. The rate for tmtsx, to legiti-
mate professional singers, is approximately the
wholesale price. With the same rule prevailing in
New York and Chicago, what a difference it woiiM
make in the publishers' expense accounts.
AUTHOR OF SONG "INTERNATIONALE"
SLOGAN : STOCK U P
M. WITMARK & SONS
Witmark Blclg., 144-146 West 37th St.
NEW YORK CITY
Chicico
San Francisco
London
Paris
Melbourne
After a hearing lasting several years, the Paris
courts last week decided the authorship of the
Socialist song, the "Internationale." Two brothers,
Pierre and Adolphe de Triter, the former a carter
and the latter a blacksmith, claimed the authorship.
The courts decided in favor of Adolphe.
TO
PUT OUT FIRES WITH SONG.
If the Claims of
Into Effect the
Require Vocal
ing—Details of
a California Genius Are Put
Fireman of the Future W«ll
Instead of Physical Train-
the Theory.
If the novel idea advanced by a Californian, who
styles himself a "nature singer," should prove to
be correct our system of fighting tires is entirely
wrong. Instead of training our firemen to climb
ladders and handle hose we should instruct them
in the scientific production of sound waves, which
it is claimed will put out llames more quickly than
water.
(.'bark's Kellogg is the man responsible for this
novel idea, lie declares that you can put out a
flame simply by singing the right song at it. He.
claims that he can extinguish a gas flame by sing-
ing at it or even by drawing a how similar to a
violin bow across pieces of metal.
Mr. Kellogg can make a whistling noise like
the singing of a bird, lie says he does not whistle
this noise, but sings it in the same manner that a
bird sings. It is this song which affects the rlame.
He made a short, sharp noise and the flame
bobbed down as if some one had blown down on
it. He stood ten or twelve feet away and made
'his in quick succession. The flame bobbed down
mch time in accompaniment with his song. Then
lie uttered a long cry and the flame shortened to
four or live inches, quivered there for a moment,
and then died out.
Then he took his bow and a piece of aluminum.
He stood fifty teet away from the flame, and,
drawing the bow across ihe metal and singing his
bird song, the flame acted in the same way. finally
going out.
He explains this as follows:
"The human voice cannot produce more than
4,000 sound vibrations a second. This is not
enough to affect a flame. These different pieces
of metal 1 have arranged to produce different
numbers of vibrations. One is tuned to give forth
7,000 vibrations a second, another 14,000 vibra-
tions, another 21,000 and another 32,000 vibrations.
That last one makes the air pulse just eight times
as rapidly as any human voice can.
"A whistle cannot produce a large number of vi-
brations; a violin produces fewer than 14,00''
vibrations. My bird voice has been measured, and
at its top pitch produces 4!),5(>0 vibrations a
second."
OPERA THENAND NOW.
A Story of the Aborns When Money Was 3
Scarce and Much Desired Factor.
The Aborns—present managers of the Century
Theater—though now associated with millionaires
and, figuratively speaking, on "Easy Street," have
in their day .seen many "ups and downs." Years
ago, when about to receive a comic opera which
had two seasons previous run thirty weeks or
more, one of the brothers was standing on the
stage engaged in earnest conversation with a mem-
ber of the company when the stage carpenter ap-
proached and, taking Ahorn aside, said: "Mr.
Aborn, I must have 5o rents." Aborn. all up in a
minute, wanted to know "What, by all that's holy?
What do you want with 50 cents?"
"Well," replied the carpenter, "if you must know
the truth, 1 want the 50 cents to buy nails with."
"Nails! Nails!" shrieked Aborn. "If T knew
this opera would cost that much coin T never would
have revived it."
We Arc the Publishers o the Waltz Song
Success
"Just Because It's You"
From Ivan Caryll's New Musical Comedy
Success
"The Little Cafe"
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St., - NEW YORK
TORONTO
347 Yonge St.,