Music Trade Review
Issue: 1920 Vol. 70 N. 10 - Page 49
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MARCH 6, 1920
CONDUCTED BY V. D. WALSH
NEWS OF THE TWIN CITIES' TRADE
Just Watch It Grow!
Metropolitan Music Co. to Enlarge Department
—New Numbers From W. J. Dyer & Bro.
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL, MINN., March 1.—
Sheet music is turned over more quickly than
anything else in the Minneapolis marts.
"Patches," "Peggy," "Oh, What a Pal Was
Mary," "Hawaiian Moonlight," and, above all,
"Dardanella," keep the sheet music clerks at
the Hurley-Moren Frank Co. on the keen jump.
The Metropolitan Music Co. will double its
sheet music counters from eighty feet to 150
feet, and will double the player roll department,
according to J. A. Simon, department manager.
Mr. Simon has a plan for popularizing the player
roll section which he will introduce in the new
quarters. It is an adaptation of the cafeteria
restaurant. He will have a big rack appro-
priately labeled which the player roll customers
may browse over at will and make their own
selections. Traveling salesmen are curious to
learn how his contrivance will work in actual
practice. "Dardanella" is the great favorite in
Minneapolis, says Mr. Simon, with "Peggy" and
"Venetian Moonlight" following, but at some
distance.
Two new compositions will be issued by W. J.
Dyer & Bro. early in March, a ballad entitled
"My Little Sweetie's Gone," by Sarah Talbert
Keelan, and a fox-trot, "The Dance They Call
'Tres Bien' Rag," by Harry E. Wessel. Both
composers have established reputations and it
is expected that their latest efforts will touch
the public taste.
PADEREWSKI TO BE A COMPOSER
Former Polish Premier Renounces Politics
and the Concert Stage to Compose Music
LONDON, ENG., March 1.—Ignace Jan Paderewski,
former Polish Premier, will never again appear
on the concert platform, nor is he likely to re-
enter politics, according to the Vevey, Switzer-
land, correspondent of the Daily Mail. Dur-
ing an interview with M. Paderewski the corre-
spondent asked him if it were true he would
accept the nomination as President of Poland.
"I don't think I shall be invited to become
President," the pianist replied. "I hope to de-
vote the rest of my life to composing music. I
am convinced an era of peace and prosperity
for Poland has begun, and feel my political mis-
sion is finished."
He is still active in affairs of state, for he has
gone to London for the purpose of laying be-
fore the Supreme Allied Council Polish views
concerning peace negotiations with the Rus-
sian Soviet government.
On
Music by
VICTOR JACOBI
Words by
WILLIAM LE BARON
CHAPPELL & CO., LTD., New York, London, Toronto, Melbourne
DISAGREES WITH VICTOR HERBERT
Arthur J. Lamb Challenges Some of the Recent
Statements Credited to That Prominent Com-
poser—Public Takes What Is Offered
Arthur J. Lamb, prominent lyric writer, is
one of those who take issue with Victor Her-
bert in his recently published statement re-
garding the inferiority of the majority of pres-
ent-day musical comedy and operetta scores
and the reasons therefor.
In a letter to the New York Evening World
last week Mr. Lamb sums up his idea of Mr.
Herbert's views in part as follows:
"Mr. Herbert attributes to the greed of music
publishers the condition of the modern musical
comedy, with its popular song. The public, as
ever, has to take what is offered to it, and Mr.
Herbert has long since been in a position to
give the public what he wishes to and not
what anybody tells him to. It has been and
still is up to Victor Herbert what he shall or
shall not write, and I claim that since Mr. Her-
bert turns out three or four scores a season set
to what are often indifferent books, then Mr.
Herbert does so because he pleases to do so.
"We have on the New York stage this sea-
son two modern and highly artistic products,
viz.: 'Apple Bloss-oms' and 'Monsieur Beau-
caire.' If the composers of these two delight-
ful scores had been content to adorn with their
music anything and everything then it is a
question whether the operas named would ever
have been written so well. Victor Herbert
leads all the light music writers in this country
and is certainly second to no foreign composer;
therefore, when Mr. Herbert continues to pro-
duce nothing of note and to produce a great
deal at that, 1 am compelled to believe that
he is a victim of financial greed and conse-
quently artistically insincere.
"Mr. Herbert speaks disparagingly of W. S.
Gilbert. Could Mr. Herbert find a book that
in any way approaches a Gilbert classic then
every producing manager of musical shows in
New York would be bidding for it. And here
I may say that the producing managers are
not so dominated by commercialism as the
alarmists would claim. It is men like A. L.
Erlanger and Charles Dillingham that have
made possible the presentation in New York of
musical masterpieces.
"In brief, Victor Herbert has wasted his mar-
velous melodic gifts and consequently leaves
nothing to posterity to join the enchanting
'Mikado,' 'Iolanthe,' 'Gondoliers,' etc., of Sulli-
van, the 'Chimes of Normandy' of Planquette,
the 'Robin Hood' of De Koven and 'Prince of
Pilsen' of Luders."
SOME RECENT DITSON PUBLICATIONS
Recent publications of the Oliver Ditson Co.
in book or booklet form include a Teacher's
Manual for the Fourth Year in the School Credit
Piano Course; a Choral Fantasia from "Car-
men" for mixed voices, by George Bizet and N.
Clifford Page; a Choral Fantasia from "Faust,"
by Charles Gounod and N. Clifford Page; "The
Landing of the Pilgrims," a cantata for mixed
voices, by Louis A. Coerne; the Public School
Class Method for the Slide Trombone, by Al-
bert G. Mitchell, assistant director of music in
the Boston public schools, and "The Art of
jazzing for the Trombone," by Fortunato Sor-
dillo, first trombone of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra.
SELLERS
SONG ONE-STEP
OFTHE
A WALTZ OF RARE
MD HAUNTING C
BETTER, TYPE
LYRIC • BY
BENNY DAVIS
MELODY
BY
JIMMY MORGAN
PRICE 10 CENTS
CRKHMOND PUBLISHER,
145 WEST45 ST.. NEWTORK CITY •
GpyryGt MCWUX tfM&npj&dimnJnme Co he
^RICHMOND PUBUSHER,
145 WEST 45™ ST.. NEW>ORK a n
RICHMOND PUBLISHER,
45
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MARCH 6, 1920
CONDUCTED BY V. D. WALSH
NEWS OF THE TWIN CITIES' TRADE
Just Watch It Grow!
Metropolitan Music Co. to Enlarge Department
—New Numbers From W. J. Dyer & Bro.
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL, MINN., March 1.—
Sheet music is turned over more quickly than
anything else in the Minneapolis marts.
"Patches," "Peggy," "Oh, What a Pal Was
Mary," "Hawaiian Moonlight," and, above all,
"Dardanella," keep the sheet music clerks at
the Hurley-Moren Frank Co. on the keen jump.
The Metropolitan Music Co. will double its
sheet music counters from eighty feet to 150
feet, and will double the player roll department,
according to J. A. Simon, department manager.
Mr. Simon has a plan for popularizing the player
roll section which he will introduce in the new
quarters. It is an adaptation of the cafeteria
restaurant. He will have a big rack appro-
priately labeled which the player roll customers
may browse over at will and make their own
selections. Traveling salesmen are curious to
learn how his contrivance will work in actual
practice. "Dardanella" is the great favorite in
Minneapolis, says Mr. Simon, with "Peggy" and
"Venetian Moonlight" following, but at some
distance.
Two new compositions will be issued by W. J.
Dyer & Bro. early in March, a ballad entitled
"My Little Sweetie's Gone," by Sarah Talbert
Keelan, and a fox-trot, "The Dance They Call
'Tres Bien' Rag," by Harry E. Wessel. Both
composers have established reputations and it
is expected that their latest efforts will touch
the public taste.
PADEREWSKI TO BE A COMPOSER
Former Polish Premier Renounces Politics
and the Concert Stage to Compose Music
LONDON, ENG., March 1.—Ignace Jan Paderewski,
former Polish Premier, will never again appear
on the concert platform, nor is he likely to re-
enter politics, according to the Vevey, Switzer-
land, correspondent of the Daily Mail. Dur-
ing an interview with M. Paderewski the corre-
spondent asked him if it were true he would
accept the nomination as President of Poland.
"I don't think I shall be invited to become
President," the pianist replied. "I hope to de-
vote the rest of my life to composing music. I
am convinced an era of peace and prosperity
for Poland has begun, and feel my political mis-
sion is finished."
He is still active in affairs of state, for he has
gone to London for the purpose of laying be-
fore the Supreme Allied Council Polish views
concerning peace negotiations with the Rus-
sian Soviet government.
On
Music by
VICTOR JACOBI
Words by
WILLIAM LE BARON
CHAPPELL & CO., LTD., New York, London, Toronto, Melbourne
DISAGREES WITH VICTOR HERBERT
Arthur J. Lamb Challenges Some of the Recent
Statements Credited to That Prominent Com-
poser—Public Takes What Is Offered
Arthur J. Lamb, prominent lyric writer, is
one of those who take issue with Victor Her-
bert in his recently published statement re-
garding the inferiority of the majority of pres-
ent-day musical comedy and operetta scores
and the reasons therefor.
In a letter to the New York Evening World
last week Mr. Lamb sums up his idea of Mr.
Herbert's views in part as follows:
"Mr. Herbert attributes to the greed of music
publishers the condition of the modern musical
comedy, with its popular song. The public, as
ever, has to take what is offered to it, and Mr.
Herbert has long since been in a position to
give the public what he wishes to and not
what anybody tells him to. It has been and
still is up to Victor Herbert what he shall or
shall not write, and I claim that since Mr. Her-
bert turns out three or four scores a season set
to what are often indifferent books, then Mr.
Herbert does so because he pleases to do so.
"We have on the New York stage this sea-
son two modern and highly artistic products,
viz.: 'Apple Bloss-oms' and 'Monsieur Beau-
caire.' If the composers of these two delight-
ful scores had been content to adorn with their
music anything and everything then it is a
question whether the operas named would ever
have been written so well. Victor Herbert
leads all the light music writers in this country
and is certainly second to no foreign composer;
therefore, when Mr. Herbert continues to pro-
duce nothing of note and to produce a great
deal at that, 1 am compelled to believe that
he is a victim of financial greed and conse-
quently artistically insincere.
"Mr. Herbert speaks disparagingly of W. S.
Gilbert. Could Mr. Herbert find a book that
in any way approaches a Gilbert classic then
every producing manager of musical shows in
New York would be bidding for it. And here
I may say that the producing managers are
not so dominated by commercialism as the
alarmists would claim. It is men like A. L.
Erlanger and Charles Dillingham that have
made possible the presentation in New York of
musical masterpieces.
"In brief, Victor Herbert has wasted his mar-
velous melodic gifts and consequently leaves
nothing to posterity to join the enchanting
'Mikado,' 'Iolanthe,' 'Gondoliers,' etc., of Sulli-
van, the 'Chimes of Normandy' of Planquette,
the 'Robin Hood' of De Koven and 'Prince of
Pilsen' of Luders."
SOME RECENT DITSON PUBLICATIONS
Recent publications of the Oliver Ditson Co.
in book or booklet form include a Teacher's
Manual for the Fourth Year in the School Credit
Piano Course; a Choral Fantasia from "Car-
men" for mixed voices, by George Bizet and N.
Clifford Page; a Choral Fantasia from "Faust,"
by Charles Gounod and N. Clifford Page; "The
Landing of the Pilgrims," a cantata for mixed
voices, by Louis A. Coerne; the Public School
Class Method for the Slide Trombone, by Al-
bert G. Mitchell, assistant director of music in
the Boston public schools, and "The Art of
jazzing for the Trombone," by Fortunato Sor-
dillo, first trombone of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra.
SELLERS
SONG ONE-STEP
OFTHE
A WALTZ OF RARE
MD HAUNTING C
BETTER, TYPE
LYRIC • BY
BENNY DAVIS
MELODY
BY
JIMMY MORGAN
PRICE 10 CENTS
CRKHMOND PUBLISHER,
145 WEST45 ST.. NEWTORK CITY •
GpyryGt MCWUX tfM&npj&dimnJnme Co he
^RICHMOND PUBUSHER,
145 WEST 45™ ST.. NEW>ORK a n
RICHMOND PUBLISHER,
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