{"id":4065,"date":"2012-03-07T19:44:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2018-09-18T11:44:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T09:44:05","slug":"abe-holzmann-blaze-away-smoky-mokes-and-hunky-dory-cakewalk-und-ragtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=4065","title":{"rendered":"Abe Holzmann &#8211; Blaze-away \/ Smoky-Mokes \/ Hunky Dory &#8211; Cakewalk &#038; Ragtime with Banjo and Mandolin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"watch-headline-title\">Recently I have found the sheet music for mandolin of a famous march composed by <strong>Abe Holzmann<\/strong>: <strong>Blaze-Away<\/strong>. This march has been composed in the year 1901 and has remained popular until today.<\/p>\n<p>From Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Abe Holzmann<\/strong> (19 August 1874 \u2013 16 January 1939) was a German\/American composer, who is most famous today for his march <em>Blaze-Away!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A review originally published by the New York Herald on Sunday, 13t January 1901 entitled <em>German Composer who Writes American Cakewalk Music<\/em> describes &#8220;[h]is knowledge of bass and counterpoint is thorough, and his standard compositions bear the stamp of harmonic lore, which makes his proclivity for the writing of the popular style of music the more remarkable.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\">[3]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Abe married Isabelle Fishblatt around 1908, and he became the manager of the Orchestra Department at Jerome Remick &amp; Company, music publisher in New York.<sup id=\"cite_ref-guide_0-1\">[1]<\/sup> He was an early member (1923) of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). He earned his livelihood as composer\/arranger for Tin Pan Alley publishers, including Leo Feist. He later was advertising manager for the American Federation of Musicians publication, International Musician. He was a member of Freemasonry, the Elks, and Knights of Pythias, all in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Holzmann died in East Orange, New Jersey at age 64. He was survived by his widow, a daughter Natalie Holzmann, three half-brothers, and four sisters. His music was especially revered by ragtime enthusiasts, although he composed marches, waltzes, and other light music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have found a great video with a performance of <strong>Blaze-Away<\/strong> by a great banjo band, recorded in the year 1936 &#8211; this has been taken from the British Pathe archive:<\/p>\n<h4>Blaze Away &#8211; Raymonde and his Banjo Band (1936)<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blaze Away\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dv171G3cfrI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The fact that Blaze-Away is popular until today can be seen in the following two videos with violinis Andr\u00e9 Rieu &#8211; and a very enthusiastic audience from Vienna and a complete football stadium in Kerkrade:<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"watch-headline-title\">Andre Rieu &#8211; Blaze away 2011<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Andre Rieu - Blaze away 2011\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HafJUfdwujY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>If you like to add another popular march to your mandolin orchestra&#8217;s repertoir you might be interested in the sheet music of <strong>Blaze-Away<\/strong> by Abe Holzmann. The sheet music is available on my website.<\/p>\n<p>The title pages of works by Abe Holzmann show the fact that Holzmann&#8217;s music has been arranged for mandolin, guitar, zither or banjo in the early days already.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.de\/weblogbilder2012\/abe_holzmann_ausschnitt01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"434\" \/><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 2px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.de\/weblogbilder2012\/abe_holzmann_ausschnitt2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"511\" \/><\/pre>\n<p>Another popular composition by Abe Holzmann is <strong>Smoky Mokes<\/strong>. Ihave selected two videos, the first with banjo-mandolin and guitar:<\/p>\n<h4>Smoky Mokes &#8212; played by Dennis Pash and Meredith Axelrod<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Smoky Mokes -- played by Dennis Pash and Meredith Axelrod\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xJ82pDuMBVI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>Playliste Smoky Mokes &#8211; Abe Holzmann<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Smoky Mokes - Abe Holzmann\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLC878J8mcBo_tDZNfeMZTntD2kK4vcc6w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Additional Information<\/h4>\n<p>Wikipedia about Abe Holzmann: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abe_Holzmann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abe_Holzmann<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sheet music by <strong>Abe Holzmann<\/strong> can be found in several archives with digitized sheet music. I have collected the best links in the following link collection:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinboard.in\/u:mandoisland\/t:abe_holzmann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pinboard.in\/u:mandoisland\/t:abe_holzmann\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sheet music of <strong>Blaze-Away<\/strong> for mandolin orchestra can be found on my website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.mandoisland.de<\/a> and on the <a href=\"https:\/\/imslp.org\/wiki\/Category:Holzmann,_Abe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMSLP site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Historical recordings of works by <strong>Abe Holzmann<\/strong> in the National Jukebox of the Library of Congress (Playlist), including banjo versions of Blaze-Away and Hunky-Dory:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/media.loc.gov\/playlist\/view\/BA4838AC79C9019CE0438C93F116019C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/media.loc.gov\/playlist\/view\/BA4838AC79C9019CE0438C93F116019C<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/78rpm?and%5B%5D=holzmann&amp;sin=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Historical recordings of works by Abe Holzmann in the Internet Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I have found the sheet music for mandolin of a famous march composed by Abe Holzmann: Blaze-Away. This march has been composed in the year 1901 and has remained popular until today. From Wikipedia: Abe Holzmann (19 August 1874 \u2013 16 January 1939) was a German\/American composer, who is most famous today for his 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