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Where Music Soothes While Lobsters Broil
From April 24, 1910 WHERE MUSIC SOOTHES WHILE LOBSTERS BROIL: No Restaurant Is Now Complete Without an Orchestra to Serve Wagner, Bach or Chopin to Tempt the Appetite — Noted Musicians Draw Big Crowd...
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Can You Tell An Ear For Music By Looking At It?
From June 19, 1910 CAN YOU TELL AN EAR FOR MUSIC BY LOOKING AT IT? If Dr. J. J. Kinyoun’s Theory Is True the External Ear Dicsloses Whether You Have the Musical Gift or Not (PDF) For a minute in 2007,...
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Lure of Viennese Waltz Wins Wealth For Composers
From July 24, 1910 LURE OF VIENNESE WALTZ WINS WEALTH FOR COMPOSERS: The Vogue of the Music of Lehar, Strauss and Leo Fall Has Made Them Rich (PDF) An interesting look at the popularity of Viennese...
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How A Man With An Idea Made Millions In Twelve Years
From August 28, 1910 HOW A MAN WITH AN IDEA MADE MILLIONS IN TWELVE YEARS: A Little One Room Shop Earning Ten Dollars a Week Becomes Fifteen Acres of Industry Earning $30,000,000 a Year. (PDF) This is...
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Modern Woman Getting Nearer The Perfect Figure
From December 4, 1910 MODERN WOMAN GETTING NEARER THE PERFECT FIGURE: Dr. Dudley A. Sargent of Harvard Denies that She Is Getting Masculine, But She Is Getting More Sensible. (PDF) The woman pictured...
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Gives Up Royalties On Great Telephone Invention
From March 5, 1911 GIVES UP ROYALTIES ON GREAT TELEPHONE INVENTION: Major G. O. Squier of the Army Turns Over His Patent to the Government — His Multiplex Telephone May Revolutionize Long Distance...
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What Is The Difference Between Richard And Johann Strauss?
From March 26, 1911 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RICHARD AND JOHANN STRAUSS? The “Real Richard” and How He Expresses Himself in “Der Rosenkavalier.” (PDF) This is easy. One of them wrote music...
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Noises Of The Animal World Are Really Musical
From March 26, 1911 NOISES OF THE ANIMAL WORLD ARE REALLY MUSICAL: Properly Analyzed, the Mooing of a Cow or the Barking of a Dog Accord with the Rules of Composers. (PDF) In 1955, Don Charles put out...
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Harmonica Artist Who Toured With Jenny Lind
From April 9, 1911 HARMONICA ARTIST WHO TOURED WITH JENNY LIND: Barnum Discovered Him in His Early Days and He Proved to be a Novelty and Made a Hit. (PDF) This article tells the story of Chris...
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Ringing The Chimes Of St. Patrick’s On Easter Day
From April 9, 1911 RINGING THE CHIMES OF ST. PATRICK’S ON EASTER DAY (PDF) 100 years ago, the bells of St. Patrick’s Cathedral were played by a man who pulled various levers attached to clappers that...
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Some Birds Are Composers; Others Sing Popular Songs
From April 16, 1911 SOME BIRDS ARE COMPOSERS; OTHERS SING POPULAR SONGS: Studies of Their Music by a Government Official — Some Birds of a Species Better Musicans Than others — A Lark Which Plagiarized...
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New National Hymn To Be Sung Here On The Fourth
From July 2, 1911 NEW NATIONAL HYMN TO BE SUNG HERE ON THE FOURTH: Arthur Farwell, Director of Music in the Parks and Recreation Piers, Has Written and Composed “A Hymn to Liberty.” Chorus of United...
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“Most Of Our Music Teachers Incompetent”— Frank Damrosch
From September 3, 1911 MOST OF OUR MUSIC TEACHERS INCOMPETENT — FRANK DAMROSCH: Well Known Conductor Deplores the Condition of Musical Instruction in This Country and Tells Why It Is So Bad. (PDF)...
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Rich Men Who Have Organs Built In Their Homes
From September 17, 1911 RICH MEN WHO HAVE ORGANS BUILT IN THEIR HOMES: And Who Employ Organists by the Year to Give Them Music at Their Own Firesides — More Than $50,000 Has Been Paid for Some of These...
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City’s Summer Music Problem Solved at Last
From September 3, 1916 City’s Summer Music Problem Solved at Last: Success of Popular-Priced Concerts Which Filled Madison Square Garden Leads to Outdoor Opera at City College Stadium (PDF) An article...
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American Song Makers Seek War Tune of the ‘Tipperary’ Kind
No particularly notable or well-recognized patriotic songs had been composed in the months America’s involvement in World War I, lamented this June 1917 article. That problem was clearly rectified by...
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‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as Nation’s Anthem
The Francis Scott Key song, though written in 1814, was not fully recognized as the American national anthem until patriotic fervor struck upon involvement in World War I in 1917. The Star-Spangled...
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Teaching Uncle Sam’s Fighters to Sing
The War Department (later renamed the Defense Department) in 1916 placed “song leaders” in the training camps for the military. Why? “‘A songless army,’ says Major Gen. J. Franklin Bell, commander of...
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An International Anthem — Britain and America
This attempt for a joint anthem between the United Kingdom and the United States, written in 1913, never really caught on. Why not? Surely it wasn’t the music, because the tune was the same as “My...
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No German Music — Lest We Forget
Eleonora de Cisneros, a major opera singer in 1919, argued that April of that year was too soon to enjoy German music, coming so soon after WWI: There are 800,000 Germans in New York City who want...
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