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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1performance of Genevieve in the city hall of Keene, New Hampshire, with the Germania Orchestra and some soloists from Boston to take part.
3In September 1886 Mr. Stratton gave some lectures on Europe and recitals of classical pianoforte music.
5In 1892 Mr. Stratton again took up composing and published seven more operettas, namely—
7The Sleeping Beauty
8The Minstrel of Capri
9Isadore
10The Mountain Nymphs
11Dobbs' Farm
12Lady Bountiful's Heiress
13Edelweiss
15In 1893 W. S. B. Mathews of Chicago in the monthly educational musical magazine Music commented favorably upon Isadore and The Sleeping Beauty.52
17The popularity of Mr. Stratton's operettas is shown by the fact that Laila and Genevieve were issued in England by a London publisher in exactly the same form as the American edition. Later Curwen & Sons issued the operettas in a simplified, abridged and altered form with the substitution of what Mr. Stratton considered cheap music for some of his best pieces. As there was no international copyright treaty between America and England at that time the only way he could defend himself was to send circulars about his operettas to teachers, professors and conductors of music and to supply copies of his own edition, owned by the large French firm of J. Thibouville-Lamy Cie., to their London branch for sale for several years at a reduced price.
19During Mr. Stratton's prolonged absences in Europe Howard Barnes was manager of the company which carried mostly the finest quality of new instruments, bows, strings and trimmings, as Mr. Stratton bought them direct from the makers. For example, he bought violins from Vuillame for around fifty dollars, which now would bring one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars.52
21About 1890 Mr. Barnes apparently took over the business under his own name, as a dealer, continuing at [address hidden] He moved about 1893 to [address hidden], where he remained until
2351 Exact reference not given in A Sketch of the Life of G. W. Stratton.
2452 Statement of A. J. Oettinger, formerly with Geo. W. Stratton & Co.
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