Music Trade Review
Issue: 1926 Vol. 82 N. 26 - Page 8
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The Music Trade Review
Southern California Association Hears
Report on City Music Memory Contest
Children's Musical Knowledge So Advanced That More Than Two Errors Barred Participants
From Receiving Gold Button—Fitzgerald Presents Knabe Ampico in Concert
T OS ANGELES, CAL., June 18.—A very suc-
*^- J cessful meeting of the Music Trades Asso-
ciation of Southern California took place this
week and was attended by representatives from
practically every Los Angeles music house.
Katheryn Stone, supervisor of music for the
public schools, gave a comprehensive report of
the Music Memory Contest which was held last
week for the seventh and eighth grades from
about fifty schools. Miss Stone declared that
the standard had improved to such an extent
that it had been found necessary to mark the
examination papers very carefully and to judge
only those who made a maximum of two errors
as entitled to receive gold buttons, while the
silver buttons went only to those whose an-
swers contained no more than sixteen errors.
The test consisted of thirty selections of more
or less classical music which were played in
parts to the children and which they had to
name, together with that of the author or com-
poser. Perfect answers, both in correctness
and spelling, entitled the contestant in each case
to the marking of four credits, so that if each of
the thirty selections were correctly named and
properly spelled, it would be possible to receive
120 credits—100 per cent.
When it was taken into consideration that
among the pupils there was a very fair sprin-
kling of foreign children — or rather children
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whose parents were foreign and who had con-
sequently taught them to speak in a foreign
language at first—it was truly remarkable to
find that so many had turned in practically per-
fect answers. Miss Stone declared that the gen-
eral benefits derived from these music memory
contests are very great from every standpoint
and tend very much to the sowing of good
American citizenship. Seventy-five gold medals
were awarded and 120 silver, all being a gift
from the Music Trades Association of Southern
California.
A very interesting address was given subse-
quently by William Benton on "Character
Analysis" and its application to sales.
Los Angeles Proud at Convention Recognition
Los Angeles and southern California members
of the music trades were gratified to receive
notice that at the national convention the elec-
tion of officers and directors of the National
Association of Music Merchants for the ensuing
year contained the names of three from this
city out of a total of sixteen. Ed. H. Uhl,
president of the Southern California Music Co.
and chairman of the Advisory Board of the
Music Trades Association of Southern Califor-
nia, was elected president of the national asso-
ciation; Ed. A. Geissler, vice-president and
general manager of the P>irkel Music Co. and
past president at different t : rnes of the Western
Music Trades Association and of the Music
Trades Association of Southern California, was
elected a director for three years of the national
association; and J. W. Boothe, general man-
ager of the music department of Barker Bros,
and past president of the Music Trades Asso-
ciation of Southern California, was elected sec-
retary of the national association.
Fitzgerald Music Co. Sponsors Concert
A very remarkable concert was given at the
Philharmonic Auditorium last week by the Fitz-
gerald Music Co. and was attended by a ca-
pacity house of nearly three thousand persons
who responded to the program with the greatest
enthusiasm. The artists included famous and
well-known vocalists and instrumentalists, such
as Charles Wakefield Cadman, Claire Mellonino,
the Optimists Male Quartet, Keaumoku Louis,
Gita Rayeva, Margaret Messer Morris, Calmon
Luboviski, the Orpheus Club. The Knabe piano
was, of course, used and in almost every case
the Ampico demonstrated its ability as an ac-
companist or, as in the case of the Grieg Con-
certo, performed the part of the second piano.
Expressions of appreciation for the concert
were voiced on every side and great admiration
for the enterprise of the Fitzgerald Music Co.
in undertaking such an ambitious project as
filling a great auditorium for the advancement
of music.
Pays Tribute to Hardman
Quality Product
Wales Ave. and 142d St.
Lytton Building
JUNE 26, 1926
New York
Chicago
John Barnes Wells, prominent tenor and
vocal teacher of New York, recently appeared
in concert in Utica, N. Y., for which he had
been provided with a Hardman grand piano by
the Buckingham & Moak Co., Hardman repre-
sentative in that city. Mr. Wells was greatly
pleased with the piano sent him and expressed
his thanks by letter to the Utica music house
as follows: "It was with great pleasure that I
learned that Buckingham & Moak Co. had pro-
vided a Hardman grand for my concert here as
the beautiful, rich, tonal qualities of this instru-
ment have earned it the just commendation of
all music lovers."
Knabe Grands for Theatre
H. B. Wood, of. the Knabe Warerooms at
Norfolk, Va., reports the sale of two Knabe
grands to the million-dollar Dixie Theatre in
that city, one of Loew's theatres and the finest
in the State.
Among other equipment is a hundred-thou-
sand-dollar cooling system and a sixty-thousand-
dollar organ. The two Knabe grands, delivered
to the theatre, are for use on the stage.
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The Music Trade Review
Southern California Association Hears
Report on City Music Memory Contest
Children's Musical Knowledge So Advanced That More Than Two Errors Barred Participants
From Receiving Gold Button—Fitzgerald Presents Knabe Ampico in Concert
T OS ANGELES, CAL., June 18.—A very suc-
*^- J cessful meeting of the Music Trades Asso-
ciation of Southern California took place this
week and was attended by representatives from
practically every Los Angeles music house.
Katheryn Stone, supervisor of music for the
public schools, gave a comprehensive report of
the Music Memory Contest which was held last
week for the seventh and eighth grades from
about fifty schools. Miss Stone declared that
the standard had improved to such an extent
that it had been found necessary to mark the
examination papers very carefully and to judge
only those who made a maximum of two errors
as entitled to receive gold buttons, while the
silver buttons went only to those whose an-
swers contained no more than sixteen errors.
The test consisted of thirty selections of more
or less classical music which were played in
parts to the children and which they had to
name, together with that of the author or com-
poser. Perfect answers, both in correctness
and spelling, entitled the contestant in each case
to the marking of four credits, so that if each of
the thirty selections were correctly named and
properly spelled, it would be possible to receive
120 credits—100 per cent.
When it was taken into consideration that
among the pupils there was a very fair sprin-
kling of foreign children — or rather children
Look
For This Label
It Guarantees
Quality
One Look at a
PFRIEMER
HAMMER
is convincing that
it is a
Through and Through
©rfgfnatottf of t^e
fte*cnfotcct> Cone producing jammer
GHAS. PFRIEMER, Inc.
(EST. 1870)
whose parents were foreign and who had con-
sequently taught them to speak in a foreign
language at first—it was truly remarkable to
find that so many had turned in practically per-
fect answers. Miss Stone declared that the gen-
eral benefits derived from these music memory
contests are very great from every standpoint
and tend very much to the sowing of good
American citizenship. Seventy-five gold medals
were awarded and 120 silver, all being a gift
from the Music Trades Association of Southern
California.
A very interesting address was given subse-
quently by William Benton on "Character
Analysis" and its application to sales.
Los Angeles Proud at Convention Recognition
Los Angeles and southern California members
of the music trades were gratified to receive
notice that at the national convention the elec-
tion of officers and directors of the National
Association of Music Merchants for the ensuing
year contained the names of three from this
city out of a total of sixteen. Ed. H. Uhl,
president of the Southern California Music Co.
and chairman of the Advisory Board of the
Music Trades Association of Southern Califor-
nia, was elected president of the national asso-
ciation; Ed. A. Geissler, vice-president and
general manager of the P>irkel Music Co. and
past president at different t : rnes of the Western
Music Trades Association and of the Music
Trades Association of Southern California, was
elected a director for three years of the national
association; and J. W. Boothe, general man-
ager of the music department of Barker Bros,
and past president of the Music Trades Asso-
ciation of Southern California, was elected sec-
retary of the national association.
Fitzgerald Music Co. Sponsors Concert
A very remarkable concert was given at the
Philharmonic Auditorium last week by the Fitz-
gerald Music Co. and was attended by a ca-
pacity house of nearly three thousand persons
who responded to the program with the greatest
enthusiasm. The artists included famous and
well-known vocalists and instrumentalists, such
as Charles Wakefield Cadman, Claire Mellonino,
the Optimists Male Quartet, Keaumoku Louis,
Gita Rayeva, Margaret Messer Morris, Calmon
Luboviski, the Orpheus Club. The Knabe piano
was, of course, used and in almost every case
the Ampico demonstrated its ability as an ac-
companist or, as in the case of the Grieg Con-
certo, performed the part of the second piano.
Expressions of appreciation for the concert
were voiced on every side and great admiration
for the enterprise of the Fitzgerald Music Co.
in undertaking such an ambitious project as
filling a great auditorium for the advancement
of music.
Pays Tribute to Hardman
Quality Product
Wales Ave. and 142d St.
Lytton Building
JUNE 26, 1926
New York
Chicago
John Barnes Wells, prominent tenor and
vocal teacher of New York, recently appeared
in concert in Utica, N. Y., for which he had
been provided with a Hardman grand piano by
the Buckingham & Moak Co., Hardman repre-
sentative in that city. Mr. Wells was greatly
pleased with the piano sent him and expressed
his thanks by letter to the Utica music house
as follows: "It was with great pleasure that I
learned that Buckingham & Moak Co. had pro-
vided a Hardman grand for my concert here as
the beautiful, rich, tonal qualities of this instru-
ment have earned it the just commendation of
all music lovers."
Knabe Grands for Theatre
H. B. Wood, of. the Knabe Warerooms at
Norfolk, Va., reports the sale of two Knabe
grands to the million-dollar Dixie Theatre in
that city, one of Loew's theatres and the finest
in the State.
Among other equipment is a hundred-thou-
sand-dollar cooling system and a sixty-thousand-
dollar organ. The two Knabe grands, delivered
to the theatre, are for use on the stage.
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