Music Trade Review
Issue: 1928 Vol. 86 N. 20 - Page 3
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News Number
THE
RE™
fflJJIC TIRADE
VOL. 86. No. 20
Published Weekly.
Federated Business Publications, Inc., 420 Lexington Aye., New York, N. Y., May 19,1928
8ln
10 Cents
*J|.& o g lea
er Tear
San Francisco Piano Contest
Eighth Annual Music Week There Culminates in Finals of the
Annual Piano-Playing Contest in Auditorium Before
Enthusiastic Audience of Over 5,000 People
AN FRANCISCO, CAL., May 10.—The finals of the piano-playing contest, held in connec-
tion with the city's eighth annual Music Week, took place yesterday evening in the Munici-
pal Auditorium. An audience of between 5,000 and 0,000 people stayed till the last note had
been played, which was about fifteen minutes after midnight. The people had been asked by
Chester Rosekrans, director of the contest, and of Music Week activities, not to applaud, and
the audience tried to comply with this request, but the applause was too spontaneous. Again
and again they hushed it, only to have it break
-
•_
and other music firms which have mven time
out again.
Winners of the three principal prizes offered and money.
When the daily newspaper that last year
were: first, Piroska Pinter who won the first
award, a $300 cash prize, donated by Sherman, sponsored the piano-playing tournament of San
Francisco's Municipal Music Week found that
Clay & Co.; second, Mary Steiner, a prize of
$100, donated by Kohler & Chase; third, Irene this year it would take more time and moncv
than the paper felt it could afford, there was a
Heindl, a winner of the silver cup, donated by
time when it looked as if the city would have
the Baldwin Piano Co.; Piroska Pinter was in
to forego this event. The California Teachers'
the ten to fourteen-year group; Mary Steiner
Association, however, urged that this feature
in the fourteen to eighteen-year group, and
of Music Week be not abandoned, so Chester
Irene Heindl is the six to ten-years of age-
Rosekrans took general direction of the piano-
group.
playing contest, with leading musicians as
About 848 students registered for the piano-
judges.
playing contest. Preliminary contests reduced
Formulating Plans For Next Year
this number to fifty-four, and further elimina-
The success of the piano-playing contest, the
tion reduced the contestants to the twenty who
appeared in the Auditorium yesterday evening. choral contest and the widespread interest in
There were three groups, according to age and the school band contests have all contributed
two were selected from each group as a result to the formulation of plans for added contests
of last night's tests. Of these six, one was during the 1929 Music Week in tlii^ city.
selected from each group and the final grading
of the remaining three players was made
according to promise of future success, taking
age into account. Piroska Pinter was consid-
I Properly Approached
ered to give most promise and was awarded
the grand prize.
5 the Public wilt buy
Public Interest is Outstanding Feature
i
Speaking of the piano playing contest, Chester
Rosekrans said today that the most interesting
feature of Music Week, in his opinion, is the
increased attendance throughout the week at
the Civic Auditorium. Never have the citizens
*
Attend the
followed Music Week activities so closely as
this year. Another outstanding feature has been
the interest taken by the children themselves
and their willingness to take part in the vari-
ous Music Week contests. From the first to
HOTEL COMMODORE
the present eighth annual Music Week, Chester
JUNE 4 TO 7
Rosekrans, of the San Francisco Civic Associa-
tion, and Mrs. H. Roy Stovel, Music Week
NEW YORK CITY
secretary, have been in charge for the city.
They also recall the loyal help Music Week has
had from Sherman, Clay & Co., Wiley B. Allen
Co., Kohler & Chase, the Baldwin Piano Co.,
S
I
MUSICAL
!INSTRUMENTS
I
]
1928
j CONVENTION
Chester W. Rosekrans and Mrs. H. Roy Stovel
said today that plans call for additional state-
wide contests for 1929 in the following sub-
jects: voice, flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, saxo-
phone, trumpet or cornet, trombone, French
horn, baritone, tuba, harp, xylophone, violin,
and violoncello. The finals of the school band
contest take place in the Civic Auditorium on
Saturday evening. Twenty school bands are
already here for the preliminary contests. Mem-
bers of the music trades on the band contest
committee are Chairman E. J. Delano, Sher-
man, Clay & Co.; Daniel Miller, Conn San
Francisco Co.; William Ringen, H. C. Hanson
Music House, and Dewey C. Waters, of Waters
& Ross.
One Phonograph Fills Vast Store
The music department of the Emporium took
what is believed to be an original way of fill-
ing the vast building with music twice a day
during music week. A power amplifier was sus-
pended under the great central dome and this
was connected with a Brunswick Panatrope,
model P-13. For twenty minutes in the morn-
ing, just before the store opens at 9 a. m., the
employes have a concert, and for twenty
minutes in the noon hour the public enjoys a
concert. Hearing what sounds like a band,
people look up to the dome in astonishment.
However, members of the public now seem to
know, and many people come in for the noon-
day concert, made by one phonograph and an
amplifier.
The Concord Piano Co., dealer in Starr pianos
and other lines, has opened a piano school
which is using what is known as the Concord
Method of Piano Playing. George Braun, op-
crating manager for the company, states that
the system was evolved by an English lady
who is here now and is teaching in the school
which is on Mission street, but will shortly be
moved to a location adjoining the Concord
Piano Co. in the Marshall Square Building. The
Concord Piano Co. has just sold a Hazelton
grand piano to the Hayes street church of the
Latter Day Saints, in competition with other
pianos.
C. H. Hurlbut, formerly with the H. C. Han-
son Music Co., has joined the Union Music Co.,
taking the place of Ralph Stine who is still
busy developing his gold mine in Trinity
County. D. A. Hennessey, proprietor of the
Union Music Co., says that the piano business
is fair at present.
The J. K. Ward Music Shop, adjoining the
Oakford Theatre, Main street, Clarksburg, W.
Va., was a heavy loser in a recent fire originat-
ing in the theatre building.
News Number
THE
RE™
fflJJIC TIRADE
VOL. 86. No. 20
Published Weekly.
Federated Business Publications, Inc., 420 Lexington Aye., New York, N. Y., May 19,1928
8ln
10 Cents
*J|.& o g lea
er Tear
San Francisco Piano Contest
Eighth Annual Music Week There Culminates in Finals of the
Annual Piano-Playing Contest in Auditorium Before
Enthusiastic Audience of Over 5,000 People
AN FRANCISCO, CAL., May 10.—The finals of the piano-playing contest, held in connec-
tion with the city's eighth annual Music Week, took place yesterday evening in the Munici-
pal Auditorium. An audience of between 5,000 and 0,000 people stayed till the last note had
been played, which was about fifteen minutes after midnight. The people had been asked by
Chester Rosekrans, director of the contest, and of Music Week activities, not to applaud, and
the audience tried to comply with this request, but the applause was too spontaneous. Again
and again they hushed it, only to have it break
-
•_
and other music firms which have mven time
out again.
Winners of the three principal prizes offered and money.
When the daily newspaper that last year
were: first, Piroska Pinter who won the first
award, a $300 cash prize, donated by Sherman, sponsored the piano-playing tournament of San
Francisco's Municipal Music Week found that
Clay & Co.; second, Mary Steiner, a prize of
$100, donated by Kohler & Chase; third, Irene this year it would take more time and moncv
than the paper felt it could afford, there was a
Heindl, a winner of the silver cup, donated by
time when it looked as if the city would have
the Baldwin Piano Co.; Piroska Pinter was in
to forego this event. The California Teachers'
the ten to fourteen-year group; Mary Steiner
Association, however, urged that this feature
in the fourteen to eighteen-year group, and
of Music Week be not abandoned, so Chester
Irene Heindl is the six to ten-years of age-
Rosekrans took general direction of the piano-
group.
playing contest, with leading musicians as
About 848 students registered for the piano-
judges.
playing contest. Preliminary contests reduced
Formulating Plans For Next Year
this number to fifty-four, and further elimina-
The success of the piano-playing contest, the
tion reduced the contestants to the twenty who
appeared in the Auditorium yesterday evening. choral contest and the widespread interest in
There were three groups, according to age and the school band contests have all contributed
two were selected from each group as a result to the formulation of plans for added contests
of last night's tests. Of these six, one was during the 1929 Music Week in tlii^ city.
selected from each group and the final grading
of the remaining three players was made
according to promise of future success, taking
age into account. Piroska Pinter was consid-
I Properly Approached
ered to give most promise and was awarded
the grand prize.
5 the Public wilt buy
Public Interest is Outstanding Feature
i
Speaking of the piano playing contest, Chester
Rosekrans said today that the most interesting
feature of Music Week, in his opinion, is the
increased attendance throughout the week at
the Civic Auditorium. Never have the citizens
*
Attend the
followed Music Week activities so closely as
this year. Another outstanding feature has been
the interest taken by the children themselves
and their willingness to take part in the vari-
ous Music Week contests. From the first to
HOTEL COMMODORE
the present eighth annual Music Week, Chester
JUNE 4 TO 7
Rosekrans, of the San Francisco Civic Associa-
tion, and Mrs. H. Roy Stovel, Music Week
NEW YORK CITY
secretary, have been in charge for the city.
They also recall the loyal help Music Week has
had from Sherman, Clay & Co., Wiley B. Allen
Co., Kohler & Chase, the Baldwin Piano Co.,
S
I
MUSICAL
!INSTRUMENTS
I
]
1928
j CONVENTION
Chester W. Rosekrans and Mrs. H. Roy Stovel
said today that plans call for additional state-
wide contests for 1929 in the following sub-
jects: voice, flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, saxo-
phone, trumpet or cornet, trombone, French
horn, baritone, tuba, harp, xylophone, violin,
and violoncello. The finals of the school band
contest take place in the Civic Auditorium on
Saturday evening. Twenty school bands are
already here for the preliminary contests. Mem-
bers of the music trades on the band contest
committee are Chairman E. J. Delano, Sher-
man, Clay & Co.; Daniel Miller, Conn San
Francisco Co.; William Ringen, H. C. Hanson
Music House, and Dewey C. Waters, of Waters
& Ross.
One Phonograph Fills Vast Store
The music department of the Emporium took
what is believed to be an original way of fill-
ing the vast building with music twice a day
during music week. A power amplifier was sus-
pended under the great central dome and this
was connected with a Brunswick Panatrope,
model P-13. For twenty minutes in the morn-
ing, just before the store opens at 9 a. m., the
employes have a concert, and for twenty
minutes in the noon hour the public enjoys a
concert. Hearing what sounds like a band,
people look up to the dome in astonishment.
However, members of the public now seem to
know, and many people come in for the noon-
day concert, made by one phonograph and an
amplifier.
The Concord Piano Co., dealer in Starr pianos
and other lines, has opened a piano school
which is using what is known as the Concord
Method of Piano Playing. George Braun, op-
crating manager for the company, states that
the system was evolved by an English lady
who is here now and is teaching in the school
which is on Mission street, but will shortly be
moved to a location adjoining the Concord
Piano Co. in the Marshall Square Building. The
Concord Piano Co. has just sold a Hazelton
grand piano to the Hayes street church of the
Latter Day Saints, in competition with other
pianos.
C. H. Hurlbut, formerly with the H. C. Han-
son Music Co., has joined the Union Music Co.,
taking the place of Ralph Stine who is still
busy developing his gold mine in Trinity
County. D. A. Hennessey, proprietor of the
Union Music Co., says that the piano business
is fair at present.
The J. K. Ward Music Shop, adjoining the
Oakford Theatre, Main street, Clarksburg, W.
Va., was a heavy loser in a recent fire originat-
ing in the theatre building.
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