Music Trade Review
Issue: 1928 Vol. 86 N. 5 - Page 13
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FEBRUARY 4, 1928
13
The Music Trade Review
Plans Announced for the
Chicago Piano Tournament
Hardman Agents in Uruguay
Occupy New Building
The piano house of Gioscia Hermanos, Hard-
man representatives in Montevideo, Uruguay,
has recently celebrated the formal opening of
Herald & Examiner, of That City, Gives First Information Re-
garding the Second Annual Greater Chicago Piano Playing
Tournament — $5,000 in Awards Offered
HE second Annual Greater Chicago Children's Piano-Playing Tournament, which is being
sponsored by the local piano trade in co-operation with the Chicago Herald & Examiner,
was announced to the public through its Sunday edition this week.
The selection of the winner will be made by contests similar in nature to those conducted
last year. Five thousand dollars in awards will be given to the boys and girls who are selected.
Rules for the 1928 tournament will be similar to those of the previous year, with such changes
as new selections of music and a better dis-
"
tribution of prizes. Any boy or girl of school "I'm Cryin' 'Cause I Know I'm Losing You."
age living in Chicago or its suburbs can take Mr. Edwards is at present on a twenty-six-week
part in the tournament except those who won tour of the Orpheum Circuit on the Pacific
Coast.
cash awards in the 1927 event.
The contestants will be divided into three
divisions to insure every participant a fair New York Conditional Sales
chance in the competition; first is the elementary
Law Reprinted for Dealers
division, which includes pupils from the first to
the sixth school grades, inclusive, with the first
prize of $300; second prize $200, and third New York State Music Merchants' Association
Issues Copy of Measure in Convenient Form
prize $100.
—Making Plans for Convention
The second division is the intermediate for
boys and girls in the seventh, eighth and ninth
The New York State Music Merchants' Asso-
school grades. In this division there will be
a first prize of $400; a second prize of $300 and ciation, through the secretary, Glenn L. Chesbro,
of Syracuse, has had printed and distributed to
the third $200.
Those in- the tenth, eleventh and twelfth its membership a special booklet containing the
grades of school will be included in the high Uniform Conditional Sales Law of the State of
division. The first prize in this division will New York as revised in 1927. The presentation
be $500; the second prize $400, and the- third of the law in booklet form will prove of great
convenience to dealers, who of necessity must be
prize $300.
The pianist who, in the opinion of the judges, acquainted with its various provisions for their
is the best of the three first-prize division win- own protection.
Plans are now being made for the next State
ners, will be given an additional award of $500
and the title of "Champion Amateur Junior convention, which will be held somewhere in the
Pianist of Greater Chicago, and Grand Prize central part of the State toward the end of April.
Winner of the Annual Greater Chicago Chil- A program of the meeting, together with dates,
will be announced in the near future, states
dren's Piano-Playing Tournament for 1928."
Gold certificates will be given every entrant the Association.
participating in the tournament; silver medals
will be presented to the winners of prelimi-
naries; gold medals to the winners of district
tests, and diamond medals for semi-final win-
ners. Silver loving cups will be awarded to the
teachers of prize-winning contestants to be
selected in the grand finals.
All contestants will be required to play two
compositions, one which they will select and
another which every pupil in the various classi-
fications will be required to play. The rules and
regulations were compiled by an advisory com-
mittee consisting of Frederick Stock, conductor
of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Marx E.
Moran and
Oberndorfer, president of the Society of Ameri-
Mack With
can Musicians, and Howard Wells, director of
contests for the Society of American Musicians.
Other Artists in
None of these men will serve as a judge during
a Recent Gala
the tournament; they will merely act in an ad-
visory capacity because of their ability as mu-
Broadcast
sicians.
In the new arrangement of rules the advisory
committee plans to have all judges screened so
that they cannot see the contestants. Interna-
tionally known pianists from outside Chicago
will judge the grand finals.
T
I
Gioscia Hermanos
|
its new building at Avenido de 18 de Julio 958.
Gioscia Hermanos have been handling the Hard-
man line for some time and are very enthu-
siastic over the new Hardman and Harrington
period models.
Featuring Columbia Viva-
Tonal in Vaudeville Act
Dale Wimbrow, Columbia artist, is featuring
the Viva-tonal Columbia phonograph as an ac-
tive stage property in a tour of the Keith vaude-
ville circuit. The popular comedian, who is ap-
pearing with Blanche Franklin, song-writer and
singer, has a new act for which he needs a
phonograph. What happens to him, and how
Columbia saves the day, is Dale's own story.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review.
Moran and Mack With Other Columbia
Stars Broadcast From Station WOR
Cliff Edwards Makes
First Columbia Record
Cliff Edwards ("Ukulele Ike") well known
and popular for his crooning of sentimental bal-
lads with ukulele accompaniment in vaudeville
and musical comedy circles, has been added to
the list of artists recording exclusively for Co-
lumbia, his first release on Columbia records
being: "After My Laughter Came Tears," and
/^vNE of the most successful of the programs
^--' broadcast by the Columbia Phonograph Co.
through Station WOR and the Columbia chain
of stations was that presenting the popular, and
it might be said famous, "Two Black Crows,"
Moran and Mack, who were on the air for an
hour in company with Leo Reisman and His
Watch Ludwig
Orchestra, and James Melton, tenor, all ex-
clusive Columbia artists. That the program
made a particular hit was evident from the re-
sponse of listeners-in, who were generous in
their praise. At the conclusion of the program
the artists were photographed as in the above
illustration.
That's All!!
FEBRUARY 4, 1928
13
The Music Trade Review
Plans Announced for the
Chicago Piano Tournament
Hardman Agents in Uruguay
Occupy New Building
The piano house of Gioscia Hermanos, Hard-
man representatives in Montevideo, Uruguay,
has recently celebrated the formal opening of
Herald & Examiner, of That City, Gives First Information Re-
garding the Second Annual Greater Chicago Piano Playing
Tournament — $5,000 in Awards Offered
HE second Annual Greater Chicago Children's Piano-Playing Tournament, which is being
sponsored by the local piano trade in co-operation with the Chicago Herald & Examiner,
was announced to the public through its Sunday edition this week.
The selection of the winner will be made by contests similar in nature to those conducted
last year. Five thousand dollars in awards will be given to the boys and girls who are selected.
Rules for the 1928 tournament will be similar to those of the previous year, with such changes
as new selections of music and a better dis-
"
tribution of prizes. Any boy or girl of school "I'm Cryin' 'Cause I Know I'm Losing You."
age living in Chicago or its suburbs can take Mr. Edwards is at present on a twenty-six-week
part in the tournament except those who won tour of the Orpheum Circuit on the Pacific
Coast.
cash awards in the 1927 event.
The contestants will be divided into three
divisions to insure every participant a fair New York Conditional Sales
chance in the competition; first is the elementary
Law Reprinted for Dealers
division, which includes pupils from the first to
the sixth school grades, inclusive, with the first
prize of $300; second prize $200, and third New York State Music Merchants' Association
Issues Copy of Measure in Convenient Form
prize $100.
—Making Plans for Convention
The second division is the intermediate for
boys and girls in the seventh, eighth and ninth
The New York State Music Merchants' Asso-
school grades. In this division there will be
a first prize of $400; a second prize of $300 and ciation, through the secretary, Glenn L. Chesbro,
of Syracuse, has had printed and distributed to
the third $200.
Those in- the tenth, eleventh and twelfth its membership a special booklet containing the
grades of school will be included in the high Uniform Conditional Sales Law of the State of
division. The first prize in this division will New York as revised in 1927. The presentation
be $500; the second prize $400, and the- third of the law in booklet form will prove of great
convenience to dealers, who of necessity must be
prize $300.
The pianist who, in the opinion of the judges, acquainted with its various provisions for their
is the best of the three first-prize division win- own protection.
Plans are now being made for the next State
ners, will be given an additional award of $500
and the title of "Champion Amateur Junior convention, which will be held somewhere in the
Pianist of Greater Chicago, and Grand Prize central part of the State toward the end of April.
Winner of the Annual Greater Chicago Chil- A program of the meeting, together with dates,
will be announced in the near future, states
dren's Piano-Playing Tournament for 1928."
Gold certificates will be given every entrant the Association.
participating in the tournament; silver medals
will be presented to the winners of prelimi-
naries; gold medals to the winners of district
tests, and diamond medals for semi-final win-
ners. Silver loving cups will be awarded to the
teachers of prize-winning contestants to be
selected in the grand finals.
All contestants will be required to play two
compositions, one which they will select and
another which every pupil in the various classi-
fications will be required to play. The rules and
regulations were compiled by an advisory com-
mittee consisting of Frederick Stock, conductor
of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Marx E.
Moran and
Oberndorfer, president of the Society of Ameri-
Mack With
can Musicians, and Howard Wells, director of
contests for the Society of American Musicians.
Other Artists in
None of these men will serve as a judge during
a Recent Gala
the tournament; they will merely act in an ad-
visory capacity because of their ability as mu-
Broadcast
sicians.
In the new arrangement of rules the advisory
committee plans to have all judges screened so
that they cannot see the contestants. Interna-
tionally known pianists from outside Chicago
will judge the grand finals.
T
I
Gioscia Hermanos
|
its new building at Avenido de 18 de Julio 958.
Gioscia Hermanos have been handling the Hard-
man line for some time and are very enthu-
siastic over the new Hardman and Harrington
period models.
Featuring Columbia Viva-
Tonal in Vaudeville Act
Dale Wimbrow, Columbia artist, is featuring
the Viva-tonal Columbia phonograph as an ac-
tive stage property in a tour of the Keith vaude-
ville circuit. The popular comedian, who is ap-
pearing with Blanche Franklin, song-writer and
singer, has a new act for which he needs a
phonograph. What happens to him, and how
Columbia saves the day, is Dale's own story.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review.
Moran and Mack With Other Columbia
Stars Broadcast From Station WOR
Cliff Edwards Makes
First Columbia Record
Cliff Edwards ("Ukulele Ike") well known
and popular for his crooning of sentimental bal-
lads with ukulele accompaniment in vaudeville
and musical comedy circles, has been added to
the list of artists recording exclusively for Co-
lumbia, his first release on Columbia records
being: "After My Laughter Came Tears," and
/^vNE of the most successful of the programs
^--' broadcast by the Columbia Phonograph Co.
through Station WOR and the Columbia chain
of stations was that presenting the popular, and
it might be said famous, "Two Black Crows,"
Moran and Mack, who were on the air for an
hour in company with Leo Reisman and His
Watch Ludwig
Orchestra, and James Melton, tenor, all ex-
clusive Columbia artists. That the program
made a particular hit was evident from the re-
sponse of listeners-in, who were generous in
their praise. At the conclusion of the program
the artists were photographed as in the above
illustration.
That's All!!
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