Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1875 — Interesting to Musicians. [ARTICLE]

Interesting to Musicians.

Among the musicians *of the United States the name of the old music firm of Root & Uady was as familiar as household words. In 1858 they were established at 67 Clark street, Chicago, but in 1862 were occupants of the finest music store in the country, in Crosby’s Opera House, where-the great fire of 1871 swept over them. From this calamity resulted two firms, that of George F. Root & Sons, and Root k Lewis; these are now consolidated with the publishing firm of Chandler & Curtis, and have become the Root <fc Sons Music Company. The new firm inherits the very valuable connections of the mother house of Root & Cady with the European manufacturers, which enabled them to purchase so favorably in foreign markets. Their new location is at Nd. 156 State St., Chicago, where they have every facility for doing an immense business. They send us copies of the following pieces of their new publications of sheet music; “I know a Maiden Fair to See,” by H. K. Palmer; Lenore March, by Oscar Meyo; Normandy Waltz, by C. T. Root; and Prairie Belle Waltz, by F. W. Root; the Meseenger, a very sprightly Musical Monthly, published by them; and the Album of the Chicago Musical College, which contains a rare collection of vocal and instrumental music.