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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
attempt has been made to make each number
peculiarly suitable to the mood or situation of
Music Supervisors' Conference Interests Local a picture. Already the catalog contains some
Publishers—Walter Jacobs on Trip—Cadman excellent compositions which have been writ-
ten by Cobb, Leigh, Rolfe, Hildreth, Allen,
Numbers in Demand—Other Items
Hoffman, Friedman, Lerman and Clements.
Banks M. Davison, president of the Boston
BOSTON, MASS., May 20.—The music publishers
of the city have been interested in the sessions Music Publishers' Association, was one of the
of the Eastern Music Supervisors' Conference, guests at the dinner of the Boston Vocal Teach-
which was held for several days at the Hotel ers' Club at the Boston City Club* a few eve-
Brunswick and Jacob Sleeper Hall. Many of nings ago. Other guests were Louis C. Elson,
the local publishers individually and collectively the music critic, and John W. Chadwick, of the
had part in the entertainment of single and New England Conservatory of Music.
Banks M. Davison, of the White-Smith Music
groups of visiting supervisors. The topic dis-
cussed at both the open meetings and the round Co., states that Cadman, the composer, has
tables had primarily to do with music so far reached his home in Los Angeles, Cal., after a
as it concerns the schools and the training good season during which he was in New York
given the growing boy and girl during their for the premiere of his one-act opera, "The
days of school instruction. Among those who Robin Woman" or "Shanewis" in the Indian
spoke during the conference were Hollis Dann, tongue. A contract has been renewed, he says,
director of music at Cornell University; Ralph whereby this opera will be done again next
L. Baldwin, of Hartford, Conn.; Howard Clark winter by the Metropolitan Opera Co. and prob-
Davis, of Yonkers, N. Y.; Albert E. Brown, of ably in Boston and other places where the com-
Lowell; William J. Short, of Northampton; pany may visit at the conclusion of its New
Esther H. Green, of Keene, N. H.; S. W. Cole, of . York season.
Mr. Davison had a call the other day from
Brookline; Percy Graham, of Lynn; Hon. Pay-
son Smith, Commissioner of Education of this Frederick Dunster, the young tenor, who is
making quite a success with some of the Cad-
State, and George O. Bowen, of Flint, Mich.
A feature of the conference was the visits man songs. Another caller was Howard White,
paid by the supervisors to the various public the singer, husband of Mine. Scotney, who has
schools in and around "the city. Another fea- arranged to sing some of the White-Smith
ture was the visit that the supervisors paid one compositions next season.
"The School Credit Piano Course," which,
evening to the pop concerts in Symphony Hall,
when a chorus of 400 supervisors sang in a mass the Oliver Ditson Co. put out during the win-
ter, has quickly found popular favor. The
on the platform.
Walter Jacobs has started on a business trip course is edited by Professor Hamilton, of
which will keep him away for at least three Wellesley College; Professor John P. Marshall,
weeks. He went first to Albany and thence to Director Will Earhart, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and
Buffalo, and before returning he will get as far William Arms Fisher, of Boston.
Some of the recent publications by the Oliver
as Kansas City. He will attend the conven-
Ditson Co. are "What Is There Hid in the Heart
tion in New York on his way home.
An innovation undertaken by Jacobs is the of a Rose?" by Daniel Protheroe, words by
publication of music suitable for accompani- Alfred Noyes; and '"Pirate Dreams," "My
ments to motion pictures, the series being Wish," by Charles Huerter; "Laurels," by Eu-
known as "Photo Play Music of Merit." An gene Cowles; three Russian songs, "The Brook,"
NEWS FROM THE BOSTON PUBLISHERS
MAY
by J. Bleichmann; "Little Star, Where Art
Thou?" by Modest Moussorgsky, and "The
Snowdrop," by A. Gretchaninoff; and two piano
pieces, "Summer Breezes," by Cedric L. Lemont,
and "June Caprice," by L. Leslie Loth.
All the employes of the Ditson Co. are look-
ing forward eagerly to the midsummer outing of
the old Get-Together Club, which has had no
"time" this winter.
WAR STARTS ON GERMAN MUSIC
Chairman of Committee for the Suppression of
All Things German Planning Campaign
Against Works of German Composers—What
Pittsburgh Talking Machine Dealers Did
War has been declared against German music
by Mrs. Oliver Cromwell Field, chairman of the
committee for the suppression of all things
German. Mrs. Field has announced that she
will shortly wage an active fight against per-
mitting any German music to be played publicly
in this country, and has criticized several recent
high-class programs on which appeared num-
bers of Wagner, Bach and other German com-
posers. She declares that a New York house
has sent out a letter calling the music publishers'
attention to a copy of the German song "The
Watch on the Rhine," and suggesting that it
be learned sufficiently well to be played by ear.
In this connection it is interesting to note that
the Talking Machine Dealers' Association of
Pittsburgh has recommended that all records of
German music and records by German and Aus-
trian artists be "interned" for the duration of
the war. In other words, they are to be taken
off the shelves and not advertised or sold while
hostilities are on. Nearly one thousand records
in the Victor, Columbia and Edison catalogs
have been listed as being of German flavor,
among them being Nevin's "Mighty Lak a Rose,"
because it happens to be sung by a German ar-
tist. "Kathleen Mavourneen," also sung by a
German artist, likewise comes under the ban.
DO YOU REMEMBER
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Chicago
25, 1918
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