American Sheet Music Conference VII, October 7 - 9, 2011
Ward Irish Music Archives, 1532 Wauwatosa Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53213 414-476-8999.
Join the nation's top antique sheet music dealers and collectors in a weekend of enjoyable and educational conference sessions.
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Bring your favorite piece of music or a story on your favorite song for a Friday evening "Show and Tell."
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Pick through thousands of pieces of old sheet music for sale to find that special song you've always wanted.
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Meet and talk with music industry experts on diverse sheet music themes: blues/jazz/ragtime; 19th century music; vaudeville, patriotic/military; comic/cartoon; post WWII, Broadway shows/ movies; silent movies; Radio/TV; rock n' roll; African American; ethnic; western; Native American etc.
Admission: $5.00 each day
Sales Table (2 ft x 8ft): $30.00
Preliminary Schedule:
Friday, October 7
4 p.m. Sales area opens
6 p.m. Informal Show and Tell
Saturday, October 8
8 a.m. Sales area opens
9:30 a.m. Welcome and introduction
9:45 - 11:00 a.m. Cover Artists – Visual and informative on the art, methodologies and lives of artists responsible for the continued success of sheet music sales - Starmer Bros, DeTakacs, Clare Dwiggins, Joseph Rosenthal, A Hoen (E.T. Paull’s main house), Bert Cobb, F. Manning, E. Pfeiffer.
Presented by Bill Edwards.
11:15 a.m. From Ear, to Note, To Score – Jazz and Blues in Published Music – Pieces from Joe’s elclectic and extensive holdings of ragtime, blues and jazz
Presented by Joe Cavalier
12:30 p.m. Lunch – Sales area open
1:30 - 2:45. p.m. Song Sheets With a Purpose – “Purposeful” but less plentiful song sheets published with a specific goal in mind such as political issues, cold war patriotism, anti-war efforts, female rights, charities, missing children from the 19th century through today. Presented by Robert Groves
3:00 p.m. Mr. E. T. Paull (incarnated) talks about this upbringing, publishing and song writing career, the art work that was on his covers, Tin Pan Alley, a meeting with the Kaiser and demonstrates the methodology of writing a descriptive march.
5 p.m. Sales area closes
Sunday , October 9
10:00 a.m. Sales area opens
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Sunday Cabaret with Bill Edwards - ragtime entertainment including a discussion of the art of song-hawking as done by publishers in the early years of popular songs.
11:30 a.m. Wrap-Up
Special Hotel Rates:
$84.00 Courtyard Marriott Brookfield, 16865 W. Bluemound Road. Brookfield, WI
53005. (8 miles from the Irish Fest Center) 262-821-1800. Rooms are listed under American Sheet Music Conference.
2011 Presenters:
Joe Cavalier, of Chicago, Illinois is a professor emeritus at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, former coronet player with the Red Rose Ragtime Band and other Chicago traditional ragtime groups. He is a sculptor, occasional writer and dealer of sheet music, antique photographs and books. Joe is a lifelong collector of sheet music, books, photos, postcards and ephemera who claims that whatever he does not collect, his wife Maureen does. His sheet music collection is eclectic and large. Its largest and most extensive holdings are ragtime, blues and jazz related categories. Another significant area of the collection focuses on social, economic, and political struggles for human rights including such topics as women’s suffrage, race, gender, labor issues and the political left.
Bob Groves is a professor at North Dakota State University whose teaching specialties are studio piano, music history, chamber music and piano pedagogy. Bob is an active performer, adjudicator, clinician and author. Among his many interests is Tin Pan Alley song sheet literature. He has a large sheet music collection but concentrates on music which has historical and social significance and song sheets that relate to television. Bob incorporates a broad knowledge of 20th century American popular music and culture in his published articles, in the numerous song sheet related presentations he has given at national and regional meetings and is a past research fellow for the North Dakota Humanities Council. Bob is a popular presenter at the American Sheet Music Conference having presented in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2009.
Bill Edwards, also known for his musical alter ego “Perfessor Bill” currently resides in Ashburn, Virginia, a suburb of Washington D.C. Bill is a well known scholar of Ragtime and a performing preservationist of Ragtime and Old-Time music. With his “Enlightenment through Entertainment” goal, he seeks to stimulate continued interest in Ragtime and its many lingering influences, both musical and non-musical and has brought his Ragtime, Old-Time Blues, stride piano performances, workshops and seminars all around the U.S. Bill has regularly competed in the World Championship of Old-Time Piano Playing, won the competition in 1991 and has consistently placed in the top five. In addition to writing his own tunes, he continues his search for interesting sheet music from the ragtime era and also restores scanned covers to their original state.