Fifty Years of Music
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FIFTY YEARS OF MUSIC by WILLIAM BOOSEY. First printed in 1931. Contents include: FOREWORD ...... 9 PART I The House of Boosey CHAP. I. BOOSEY COMPANY AND THEIR BALLAD CONCERTS 13 II. ROYALTIES TO COMPOSERS AND SINGERS 23 III. EARLY LAWSUITS .... 31 IV. GRAND OPERA AND SOME PRIMA DONNAS 39 V. OPERETTAS AND LIGHT OPERAS . . 46 VI. AMERICAN MEMORIES ... 54 VII. PARIS FIFTY YEARS AGO ... 59 VIII. GRAVE AND GAY IN THE MUSICAL WORLD 65 PART II The House of Chappell IX. CHAPPELL COMPANY AND THEIR POPULAR CONCERTS ... 77 X. WILLIAM AKERMAN . . . .83 XI. MY CONCERT EXPERIENCES . . 89 xn. QUEENS HALL . . . . . 102 XIII. MUSIC PIRACIES .... 112 KANSAS CITY MO. PUBLIC LIBRARY 6 CONTENTS XIV. GEORGE EDWARDES . . . .122 XV. COMPOSERS WHOM I HAVE KNOWN . 136 XVI. THE COPYRIGHT ACT OF 1911 . . 145 XVII. LIGHT OPERA THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH SCHOOLS . . . .158 XVIII. LIGHT OPERA THE VIENNESE AND AMERICAN SCHOOLS . . . 165 XIX. THE PERFORMING RIGHT SOCIETY AND BROADCASTING .... 174 XX. SOME PIANISTS .... 180 XXI. FURTHER PERSONAL MEMORIES . . 186 XXII. AMERICA REVISITED , , , 191 EPILOGUE MY GALLERY OF GHOSTS . . 194 INDEX 197 ILLUSTRATIONS THE AUTHOR Frontispiece FRIEDA HEMPEL, THE PRIM A DONNA, AND A LITTLE FRIEND OF HERS . . facing page 38 THE AUTHOR, EXCHANGING A WORD WITH MARY GARDEN ON THE FIELD OF WATERLOO 46 THOMAS PATEY CHAPPELL, WHO FOR MANY YEARS DIRECTED THE DESTINIES OF CHAPPELL CO. ..... 82 F. PAOLO TOSTI, THE COMPOSER OF GOOD BYE AND COUNTLESS BEAUTIFUL AND POPULAR SONGS 88 FRITZ KREISLER, THE EMINENT VIOLINIST . 102 FRANZ LEHAR, THE COMPOSER OF THE MERRY WIDOW AND OTHER FAMOUS LIGHT OPERAS 166 THE AUTHOR, WHO PUT UP AS A NATIONAL CANDIDATE, ADDRESSING A POLITICAL MEET ING AT THE BYE-ELECTION AT TEWKESBURY DURING THE WAR . . . . .190. FOREWORD: THIS year, next year, some time, never. These are the few little words that have recently been causing me considerable perplexity. To be as brief as possible, I have been asked to collect and publish my musical reminiscences, the
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