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Khám phá sheet piano của Theodore A. Metz trên Zen Virtual Piano. Metz was born in Hanover, where as a child he studied violin at the city's Conservatory. According to The New Yorker, he came with a Guarnerius he would never sell, studied with Joachim and meanwhile played in a saloon at three dollars a night. His first jobs after emigrating to the United States were in a Brooklyn pharmacy and then as a gymnastics and swimming instructor in Indianapolis, a city where he also took orchestration lessons. A violin pupil who ended up selling pills and teaching swimming suggests how winding the road from conservatory to bandstand could be for an immigrant musician, and how little a violinist's training guaranteed a musical living. Chicago became his home in 1886; by day he worked on building projects, and by night he conducted local bands in ragtime treatments of familiar tunes. A spell of mining in Colorado earned him fifteen thousand dollars, yet before long he returned to musical circles, leading a women's orchestra. The McIntyre and Heath Minstrels, a touring company, made him their conductor, and he took out the copyright on There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight. A man who combined construction work by day with band work by night hints at a musician who kept returning to music whatever else he tried, and who moved between trades as readily as between ensembles. The tune became his company's signature piece in its street parades, and one of its singers, Joe Hayden, added words. Metz recalled that the title had the ring a good title ought to have, so he jotted it on the top of an envelope on which he was writing the notes of a new march for a parade in New Orleans, and the march became the song. Time wrote that his rousing ragtime tune became the theme song of the Spanish-American War a dozen years later. A title scribbled on an envelope that turned into a war-time theme suggests how quickly a casual note could become something widely sung, and how much a tune's later life can depend on the moment it meets. Other popular tunes of his include When the Roses Are in Bloom and Never Do Nothin' for Nobody, and he also wrote the operetta Poketa to words by Monroe Rosenfeld. A music publishing company he founded in Stamford, Connecticut, later moved with him to New York City, where he stopped working after World War I. The band's playing of There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight at Madison Square Garden in 1935 brought him a standing ovation. A ragtime historian's list gives fourteen works by him, with a note that it does not claim to be complete. A standing ovation late in life for a tune from his touring years hints at how long a single piece can follow its composer, well past the years when he led the bands that played it.
Khám phá sheet piano của Theodore A. Metz trên Zen Virtual Piano.
Metz was born in Hanover, where as a child he studied violin at the city's Conservatory. According to The New Yorker, he came with a Guarnerius he would never sell, studied with Joachim and meanwhile played in a saloon at three dollars a night. His first jobs after emigrating to the United States were in a Brooklyn pharmacy and then as a gymnastics and swimming instructor in Indianapolis, a city where he also took orchestration lessons. A violin pupil who ended up selling pills and teaching swimming suggests how winding the road from conservatory to bandstand could be for an immigrant musician, and how little a violinist's training guaranteed a musical living.
Chicago became his home in 1886; by day he worked on building projects, and by night he conducted local bands in ragtime treatments of familiar tunes. A spell of mining in Colorado earned him fifteen thousand dollars, yet before long he returned to musical circles, leading a women's orchestra. The McIntyre and Heath Minstrels, a touring company, made him their conductor, and he took out the copyright on There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight. A man who combined construction work by day with band work by night hints at a musician who kept returning to music whatever else he tried, and who moved between trades as readily as between ensembles.
The tune became his company's signature piece in its street parades, and one of its singers, Joe Hayden, added words. Metz recalled that the title had the ring a good title ought to have, so he jotted it on the top of an envelope on which he was writing the notes of a new march for a parade in New Orleans, and the march became the song. Time wrote that his rousing ragtime tune became the theme song of the Spanish-American War a dozen years later. A title scribbled on an envelope that turned into a war-time theme suggests how quickly a casual note could become something widely sung, and how much a tune's later life can depend on the moment it meets.
Other popular tunes of his include When the Roses Are in Bloom and Never Do Nothin' for Nobody, and he also wrote the operetta Poketa to words by Monroe Rosenfeld. A music publishing company he founded in Stamford, Connecticut, later moved with him to New York City, where he stopped working after World War I. The band's playing of There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight at Madison Square Garden in 1935 brought him a standing ovation. A ragtime historian's list gives fourteen works by him, with a note that it does not claim to be complete. A standing ovation late in life for a tune from his touring years hints at how long a single piece can follow its composer, well past the years when he led the bands that played it.
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