CoHSL-list July 2018

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Re: [Cohsl-list] [MGSA-L] Greek American music publishers

by Paganelis, George I

June, We have most of the scores published by Apollo Music Company, though no information about the company itself. Perhaps it was profiled at some point during its existence in the National Herald or Atlantis, or another New York-area newspaper. I would look to those newspapers too for possible information about the composers and musicians. We also have several specimens of sheet music published by the National Herald, though none of them are dated. I imagine that Atlantis and other Greek-American publishing houses also published scores. For example, the 1938-1939 catalog of Atlas News Corp. has a section with listings of musical scores (in addition to records and even piano rolls). Best, George ----------------------- George I. Paganelis Curator, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection University Library California State University, Sacramento 2000 State University Drive Sacramento, CA 95819-6039 Ph: (916) 278-4361 * (916) 278-6877 Fax: (916) 278-5917 paganelis(a)csus.edu<mailto:paganelis@csus.edu> http://www.library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos From: June Samaras [mailto:june.samaras@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2018 9:48 PM To: Apostolis <apostpap(a)gmail.com>; MGSA List <mgsa-l(a)uci.edu> Subject: Re: [MGSA-L] Greek American music publishers Apostoli I have the book by Butterworth a well as the one by Gail Holst The scores I have are mostly of Greek folks songs and popular music. For example one item was published in New York in 1945 by the Apollo Music Company, On the back page is a long list of the other Greek scores that they had published ( catalogue numbers 524- 761) Many are for dance music - Tangos, Waltzes Foxtrots etc' I like the Discogs site,but the entries reflect recorded performances. What I am looking for is information about the music publishers and composers. Most of them seem to be Greek-American, but only a few of their names show up in the Library of Congress or other archives. Someone called George Buyukas seems to have been associated with the Apollo Music Co. Their publication # 702 published in 1943 is an arrangement of the "Ethnikos Hymnos" but added to the usual words of Solomos there is an English verse by Mr Buyukas ... A "Liberty Song"or "Hymn to the United Nations [However I rather doubt that this verse ever really caught on in Athens at that time!] Unfortunately it seems that there is very little known about the Apollo Music Company The MGSA archives have a link to an article by Steve Frangos "The Lost Apollo Music Company." The National Herald, March 8-9, 2003 [?], pp. 1, 5.<http://www.mgsa.org/Resources/SteveFrangosMusic/The_Lost_Apollo_Music_Compa…> http://www.mgsa.org/Resources/Frangos.html#Music On 1 June 2018 at 19:44, Apostolis <apostpap(a)gmail.com<mailto:apostpap@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear June, You may use YOUTUBE to search for the music you are trying catalogue. There are a few studies concerning the period 1930 - 1940 which I have not any close information. Concerning Rebetiko music : https://www.discogs.com/Various-%CE%95%CE%BB%CE%BA%CF%85%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%… Gail Holst from Cornell wrote a study 40 years ago the "Road to rebetika". There are some more I do not remember. I will search for more books or articles if I have a closer info of the material available. Best, Apostolis 2018-06-01 5:19 GMT+03:00 June Samaras <june.samaras(a)gmail.com<mailto:june.samaras@gmail.com>>: I just came across a handful of vintage Greek music scores published in NY that I am trying to catalogue. The easy one is the score of Never on a Sunday c.1960 The others are not so familiar Is there any good reference source to use for more for information on Greek music publishers in the USA (some c 1930-1940's) - or on some of the composers Evcharisto Para Poli June S ---------------------------- June Samaras 2020 Old Station Rd<https://maps.google.com/?q=2020+Old+Station+Rd+Streetsville,Ontario+Canada+…> Streetsville,Ontario<https://maps.google.com/?q=2020+Old+Station+Rd+Streetsville,Ontario+Canada+…> Canada L5M 2V1<https://maps.google.com/?q=2020+Old+Station+Rd+Streetsville,Ontario+Canada+…> Tel : 905-542-1877 E-mail : june.samaras(a)gmail.com<mailto:june.samaras@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ List-Info: https://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/mgsa-l -- June Samaras 2020 Old Station Rd Streetsville,Ontario Canada L5M 2V1 Tel : 905-542-1877 E-mail : june.samaras(a)gmail.com<mailto:june.samaras@gmail.com>

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