Midway Plaisance (cover)

An Afternoon in MIdway Plaisance. Fantasie for Piano. (cover)
subject: Sheet music cover
creator: Gustav Luders [inside Lueders]
source: Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University
publisher: Henry Detmer Music House, 103-109 Randolph St.
date: 1893

The Streets of Cairo, or, The Poor Little Country Maid (cover)
subject: Sheet music cover image
description: Cover image of sheet music for "The Streets of Cairo, or, The Poor Little Country Maid," by James Thornton. James Thornton was an Irish-born comedian and songwriter who achieved moderate success on the vaudeville stage around the turn of the century; his most famous song was “When You Were Sweet Sixteen.” He found even greater success when he teamed up with the singer Lizzie Cox, whom he married. According to her biographer, “part of her job was to keep her husband from spending all his money on drink.” This song makes significant use of the “hoochie koochie” melody (here called “kutchy-kutchy”), and is credited with bringing the tune into popular currency. It was supposedly written by the entrepreneur Sol Bloom, who was the chief organizer of the Midway, but he borrowed the famous melody from a French song from the 1700s, which in turn can be traced to an earlier Algerian tune. This little melody would have a long life, partly because it went immediately into the public domain and was used liberally by cartoon and movie composers, usually to comic effect. We will hear it again on this album. Lizzie (who used the stage name Bonnie Thornton) performed “The Streets of Cairo” on vaudeville, and it was apparently a hit. The song was published in 1895, and makes reference to a popular novel just coming into circulation at that time, George de Maurier’s Trilby, which featured a beautiful young woman captured under the spell of a hypnotist named Svengali. Even though one goal of the Columbian Exposition was to promulgate a more positive image of the urban environment, this song presents a commonplace nineteenth-century narrative of an innocent young woman corrupted by the temptations of the city. In this regard, it was influenced by Trilby and other novels and plays of the era. Lyrics: I will sing you a song, and it won’t take very long, ‘Bout a maiden sweet, and she never would do wrong, Ev’ryone said she was pretty, she was not long in the city, All alone, oh what a pity…
creator: Thornton, James
source: Johns Hopkins University, The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box 144, Item 23. http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:144.023a
publisher: Frank Hardings Music House
date: 1895
rights: Image courtesy of the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University
language: English

The Viking March (sheet music cover)
description: Cover image of sheet music for "The Viking March," by H. C. Verner
creator: Verner, H. C.
source: 32278009993068: The Viking March, Charles H. Templeton, Sr. sheet music collection. Special Collections, Mississippi State University Libraries. http://digital.library.msstate.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SheetMusic/id/11841
publisher: S. Brainard Sons Co., Eldred, N.Y.
date: 1921
contributor: Emily Mace
language: English
type: Musical score

The Ferris Wheel March and Two Step (cover)
description: Cover image and audio recording of "The Ferris Wheel March and Two Step, by Samuel Lapin. Cover image includes a photo by J.B. Quirk Cut Co. of decorated ferris wheels and an unattributed photo of Lapin
creator: Lapin, Samuel. Reinhart, C. W., arranger.
source: The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University, Box 170, Item 141. http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:170.141
publisher: Shoneman Bro's Music Department, Philadelphia, PA.
date: 1899
contributor: Emily Mace
rights: Courtesy of the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University.
format: Sheet music
language: English
type: Cover image of sheet music

Chicago Day Waltz (cover)
description: Cover image for sheet music, "Chicago Day Waltz," by George Valisi
creator: Valisi, George
source: The Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs, Special Collections Research Center, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno. Item no. EXP893.6m http://cdmweb.lib.csufresno.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/worldsfair/id/6935/rec/18
publisher: Valisi Bros., Chicago, IL
date: 1893
contributor: Mace, Emily
rights: Image courtesy of the Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs, Special Collections Research Center, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno.
language: English

Reja Dorada (The Golden Gate) Polka (cover)
subject: Sheet music cover image
description: Sheet music cover image for "Reja Dorada. (The Golden Gate.) Polka"
creator: Hernandez, I. E.
source: The Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs, Special Collections Research Center, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno. Item no. EXP893.13m http://cdmweb.lib.csufresno.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/worldsfair/id/6996/rec/19
publisher: Eduardo Gariel, Saltillo, Mexico
date: 1893
rights: Image courtesy of the Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs, Special Collections Research Center, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno.
language: Spanish English

Three Italian Songs by George Valisi (cover)
description: Cover image of sheet music for "Santa Lucia," "Finiculi-Finicula," and "L’addio a Napoli" ("Adieu to Naples")
creator: Valisi, George, arranger Braga, G., composer of "Santa Lucia" Denza, L., composer of "Finiculi-Finicula" Cottovan, C., composer of "L’addio a Napoli" ("Adieu to Naples")
source: The Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs, Special Collections Research Center, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno. Item no. EXP893.11m http://cdmweb.lib.csufresno.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/worldsfair/id/6981/rec/14
publisher: Valisi & Giorgi, Chicago, IL.
date: 1893
rights: Image courtesy of the Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs, Special Collections Research Center, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno.
language: English

The Ferris Wheel Souvenir Waltz-Polka (cover)
description: Cover image of sheet music for "The Ferris Wheel Waltz and Polka," with lithographic image by Orcutt Co., Chicago.
creator: Valisi, George, composer Clyde, Harry C., lyrics
source: The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University, Box 170, Item 42. http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:170.142
publisher: Valisi & Giorgi, Chicago, IL
date: 1893
rights: Image used courtesy of the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University.
language: English

The Song of the Ferris Wheel (cover)
description: Cover image of sheet music for "The Song of the Ferris Wheel" by George Schleiffarth.
creator: Schleiffarth, George, composer Struges, M. A., lyricist
source: https://openmusiclibrary.org/links/cb7541cd-2e70-49c5-85c5-58110d5fb4d0/
publisher: Chicago Music Co. (Chicago)
rights: Library of Congress, Music Division.
language: English
identifier: Library of Congress, ihas.100008815 (LOC)

The Song of the Ferris Wheel (cropped) (cover)
description: Cover image of sheet music for "The Song of the Ferris Wheel" by George Schleiffarth.
creator: Schleiffarth, George, composer Struges, M. A., lyricist
source: https://openmusiclibrary.org/links/cb7541cd-2e70-49c5-85c5-58110d5fb4d0/
publisher: Chicago Music Co. (Chicago)
rights: Library of Congress, Music Division.
language: English
identifier: Library of Congress, ihas.100008815 (LOC)

Album Cover for "Souvenir Music from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893" (cover)
description: CD album Cover for "Souvenir Music from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893"
creator: O'Hagan, Emma Meyer, Don
publisher: Lake Forest College Press
date: 2017
language: English

Midway Plaisance (cover)
description: Cover image from sheet music for "Midway Plaisance" by Dennis Mackin and W.T. Jefferson
creator: Mackin, Dennis Jefferson, W.T.
source: Sheet music cover image courtesy of the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University, Box 142, Item 61. http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:142.061
publisher: M. Witmark & Sons, 51 West 28th Street, New York
date: 1893
language: English

Columbian Polka (cover)
description: Cover image for sheet music "Columbian Polka" by Lillian Beatrice Mathewson, with an inscription in cursive reading, "Dedicated by permission to Mrs. Potter Palmer, President, board of Lady Managers at the World's Columbian Exposition"--Cover
creator: Mathewson, Lillian B.
source: Oregon Digital, Music ShColl 025488: https://oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:2227mp670#page/3/mode/1up
date: 1893
rights: Public domain.

Chicago World's Exposition Grand March (cover)
description: Cover image of sheet music for "Chicago World's Exposition Grand March" by Victor Vogel
creator: Vogel, Victor
source: Courtesy of the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University, Box 170, Item 61. http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:170.061
publisher: National Music Co., Chicago
date: 1890
language: English

Columbus, or World's Fair Grand March (cover)
description: Cover image of sheet music for "Columbus, or World's Fair Grand March," by Frank Drayton
creator: Drayton, Frank (composer)
source: Library of Congress, ihas ihas.100001318 https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100001318/
publisher: James C. Beckel, Lawrenceburg, IN
date: 1892
rights: Library of Congress, Music Division
language: English

The World's Fair, or, Chicago Dudes' March (cover)
description: Cover image of sheet music for "The World's Fair, or, Chicago Dudes' March" by Adam Geibel
creator: Geibel, Adam
source: 32278009993118: The World's Fair, or, Chicago Dudes' March, Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Sheet Music Collection. Special Collections, Mississippi State University Libraries.
publisher: Newport, NY : Edward C. Wendt & Co.
date: 1892

An Afternoon in Midway Plaisance (cover image)
description: Gustav Luders (sometimes spelled “Lueders”, 1865–1913) was a minor composer of operettas in the late nineteenth century. Born and trained in Germany, he immigrated first to Milwaukee in 1888 and then became a musical theater director and composer in Chicago the following year. At the time of the Fair, his star was on the rise, and he a number of his operettas appeared on Broadway in the early 1900s before his popularity waned. While this piece was clearly written for piano, the music’s cover announces it was played with “phenomenal success” by the Schiller Theater Orchestra, indicating that this is most likely an arrangement. The music describes a typical journey through the Midway and in some ways anticipates the character of silent movie music written in the 19-teens and 1920s.
description: Cover image for sheet music to "An Afternoon in Midway Plaisance" by Gustav Luders
creator: Luders, Gustave [inside Lueders]
source: The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University, Box 170, Item 4. http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:170.004
publisher: Henry Detmer Music House, 103-109 Randolph St.
date: 1893
rights: Courtesy of the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University, Box 170, Item 4.
language: English

Echoes from the White City - Waltz (cover)
description: Cover image of sheet music for "Echoes from the White City," by Edward Holst.
creator: Holst, Edward, composer.
source: The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University, Box 170, Item 126. http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:170.126
publisher: S. Brainard's Sons Co.
date: 1893
rights: Courtesy of the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University.

The Last Day of the Fair (cover)
description: Cover image for sheet music to "The Last Day of the Fair" by Frank Swain
creator: Swain, Frank (composer)
source: Library of Congress, ihas.100003528 https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100003528/
publisher: Thompson Music Co., [S.l.]
date: 1893
rights: Music Division, Library of Congress
language: English

Streets of Cairo (mp3)
description: An MP3 recording of the song "Streets of Cairo" lasting 2 min. and 46 secs. long.
creator: Thornton, James
date: Year recorded: 2017
contributor: White, Chris (piano) Jungwirth, Brad (voice)

Chicago Day Waltz (mp3)
description: An MP3 recording of the song "The Chicago Day Waltz" lasting 3 mins. and 57 secs. long.
creator: Valisi, Giuseppe
date: Year Recorded: 2017
contributor: White, Chris (piano)

The Viking March (mp3)
description: An MP3 recording of the song "The Viking March" lasting 2 mins. and 23 secs long.
creator: Verner, H.C.
date: Year recorded: 2017
contributor: White, Chris (piano)

Reja Dorada (The Golden Gate Polka) (mp3)
description: An MP3 recording of the song "Reja Dorada" lasting 3 mins. and 8 secs. long.
creator: Hernandez, I.E.
date: Year recorded: 2017
contributor: White, Chris (piano)

Finiculi-Finicula (mp3)
description: An MP3 recording of the song "Finiculi-Finicula" lasting 1 min. and 47 secs. long.
creator: Denza, Luigi
date: Year recorded: 2017
contributor: White, Chris (piano) Carter, Kate (violin)

L'Addio a Napoli (Farewell to Naples) (mp3)
description: An MP3 recording of the song "L'Addio a Napoli" lasting 1 min. and 55 secs. long.
creator: Cottrau, Teodoro
date: Year recorded: 2017
contributor: White, Chris (piano) Carter, Kate (violin)

Santa Lucia (mp3)
description: An MP3 recording of the song of "Santa Lucia" lasting 2 mins. and 34 secs. long.
creator: Valisi, Giuseppe
date: Year recorded: 2017
contributor: White, Chris (piano) Carter, Kate (violin)

The Ferris Wheel March and Two-Step (mp3)
description: An MP3 recording of the song "The Ferris Wheel March and Two-Step" lasting 2 mins. and 16 secs. long.
creator: Lapin, Samuel
date: Year recorded: 2017
contributor: White, Chris (piano)

The Ferris Wheel Souvenir Waltz-Polka (mp3)
description: An MP3 recording of the song "The Ferris Wheel Waltz" lasting 4 mins. and 19 secs. long.
creator: Valisi, Giuseppe
date: Year recorded: 2017
contributor: White, Chris (piano) Jungwirth, Brad (vocals)

The Song of the Ferris Wheel (mp3)
description: An MP3 recording of the song "The Song of the Ferris Wheel" lasting 4 mins. and 17 secs. long.
creator: Schlieffarth, George
date: Year recorded: 2017
contributor: White, Chris (piano) Jungwirth, Brad (vocals)