NEWSLETTER
MUSIC PUBLISHERS OF AMERICA, LLC
VITAK-ELSNIC MUSIC COMPANY
March 2014
NEW WEBSITE UNDER DEVELOPMENT!
We’ve engaged a web designer to set up an attractive and easy-to-use website for MPA, and she is well underway! Although the site is under construction, you can take a look at what our home page will look like by going to the site: www.musicpublishersofamerica.com.
Once the new site is operational, you’ll be able to order all the music easily and pay for it online for instant download. Or, if it is one of our archived pieces, you’ll be able to special order that hard-to-find piece you’ve been looking for. We’re adding other features, too, including access to company news and a special section for composers and arrangers looking for a publisher.
The initial inventory available for purchase will be from our core Vitak-Elsnic collection of polka music, but we also have plans underway to expand into other genres.
We expect the website to be operational within the next few months and will send out an announcement to everyone on our mailing list once that happens.
NEW ARRANGEMENTS BEING ADDED TO INVENTORY
In our last newsletter, we introduced you to Ernie Broeniman, who had done a fresh arrangement of 13 Vitak-Elsnic classics for concert band. Ernie’s Old Time Band Folio Volume 1 was released late in 2012. Good news! Ernie has completed new concert band arrangements of other great Vitak-Elsnic tunes. We’ll be adding Ernie’s new work – Ernie’s Old Time Band Folio Volume 2 - to our website once it is up, as well as individual charts for some of the songs in both the folios. We’re also in discussions with several other arrangers who will also be providing new arrangements for today’s bands.
IT’S THE WEDDING SEASON
One of my nieces is getting married soon, and the band will play at the couple’s reception. We’ll pick up some of the old standards, but wanted to find that special music, just right for the occasion. We scoured the Vitak-Elsnic collection and came up with a surprising number of wedding and love-based possibilities. If you’re looking for music for wedding receptions, especially for that special dance between daughter and father, consider the following, all of which are in our inventory at the Vitak-Elsnic site (www.vitak-elsnic.com) (O = orchestra or band arrangement; A = accordion):
Wedding Bells Waltz (O) Wedding Ring Waltz (A,O)
Farmer’s Wedding Waltz (A, O) Silver Wedding Oberek (O)
Polish Wedding March (O) First Love Waltz (O)
Lover’s Waltz (A, O) Our Love Waltz (A)
My Dream Boat Waltz (A, O)
Wedding Dance – in Polish Dance Collection # 7 (O)
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL!
We’ve got a wide selection of folios containing collections of music for every band or orchestra. We’ve selected some of our most popular folios and pulled together 10 parts you will need for most bands. Choose from these folios:
Ernie’s Old Time Favorites Volume 1
Vitak-Elsnic Polka Book
Whoopee John Band Book
Bohemian Dance Collection # 1
Little German Band Book
International Polkas # 1
International Polkas # 2
Buy any of the sets of 10 parts and order before May 31, 2014 to save 25% off our regular price! To order, open up the attached two files to obtain a full description of each folio and to print out the order form. We’re doing this special outside of the normal Vitak-Elsnic site, so to take advantage of this offer, you’ll need to print out, complete and send your order form by email or snail mail. We’ll process from there. (We will accept checks for orders sent by snail mail.) Supply is limited, and this offer is subject to availability.
MPA CONTACT INFORMATION
While the MPA website is under development, we are continuing to use the V-E website. Visit us at www.vitak-elsnic.com or call 855-NUMUSIC (toll-free in the United States). Except for the early bird special noted above, all orders now can only be placed through the website.
Snail mail can be sent to: Steve Harris, Music Publishers of America, PO Box 696, White Stone, Virginia 22578.
Email inquiries may be sent to steve@musicpublishersofamerica.com.
We welcome your suggestions and appreciate your commitment with us to preserving this beautiful music. And we hope you’ll support us by purchasing some of these classics from the V-E music library.
Cordially,
Steven D. Harris, President
Music Publishers of America, LLC
MUSIC PUBLISHERS OF AMERICA, LLC
VITAK-ELSNIC MUSIC COMPANY
March 2014
NEW WEBSITE UNDER DEVELOPMENT!
We’ve engaged a web designer to set up an attractive and easy-to-use website for MPA, and she is well underway! Although the site is under construction, you can take a look at what our home page will look like by going to the site: www.musicpublishersofamerica.com.
Once the new site is operational, you’ll be able to order all the music easily and pay for it online for instant download. Or, if it is one of our archived pieces, you’ll be able to special order that hard-to-find piece you’ve been looking for. We’re adding other features, too, including access to company news and a special section for composers and arrangers looking for a publisher.
The initial inventory available for purchase will be from our core Vitak-Elsnic collection of polka music, but we also have plans underway to expand into other genres.
We expect the website to be operational within the next few months and will send out an announcement to everyone on our mailing list once that happens.
NEW ARRANGEMENTS BEING ADDED TO INVENTORY
In our last newsletter, we introduced you to Ernie Broeniman, who had done a fresh arrangement of 13 Vitak-Elsnic classics for concert band. Ernie’s Old Time Band Folio Volume 1 was released late in 2012. Good news! Ernie has completed new concert band arrangements of other great Vitak-Elsnic tunes. We’ll be adding Ernie’s new work – Ernie’s Old Time Band Folio Volume 2 - to our website once it is up, as well as individual charts for some of the songs in both the folios. We’re also in discussions with several other arrangers who will also be providing new arrangements for today’s bands.
IT’S THE WEDDING SEASON
One of my nieces is getting married soon, and the band will play at the couple’s reception. We’ll pick up some of the old standards, but wanted to find that special music, just right for the occasion. We scoured the Vitak-Elsnic collection and came up with a surprising number of wedding and love-based possibilities. If you’re looking for music for wedding receptions, especially for that special dance between daughter and father, consider the following, all of which are in our inventory at the Vitak-Elsnic site (www.vitak-elsnic.com) (O = orchestra or band arrangement; A = accordion):
Wedding Bells Waltz (O) Wedding Ring Waltz (A,O)
Farmer’s Wedding Waltz (A, O) Silver Wedding Oberek (O)
Polish Wedding March (O) First Love Waltz (O)
Lover’s Waltz (A, O) Our Love Waltz (A)
My Dream Boat Waltz (A, O)
Wedding Dance – in Polish Dance Collection # 7 (O)
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL!
We’ve got a wide selection of folios containing collections of music for every band or orchestra. We’ve selected some of our most popular folios and pulled together 10 parts you will need for most bands. Choose from these folios:
Ernie’s Old Time Favorites Volume 1
Vitak-Elsnic Polka Book
Whoopee John Band Book
Bohemian Dance Collection # 1
Little German Band Book
International Polkas # 1
International Polkas # 2
Buy any of the sets of 10 parts and order before May 31, 2014 to save 25% off our regular price! To order, open up the attached two files to obtain a full description of each folio and to print out the order form. We’re doing this special outside of the normal Vitak-Elsnic site, so to take advantage of this offer, you’ll need to print out, complete and send your order form by email or snail mail. We’ll process from there. (We will accept checks for orders sent by snail mail.) Supply is limited, and this offer is subject to availability.
MPA CONTACT INFORMATION
While the MPA website is under development, we are continuing to use the V-E website. Visit us at www.vitak-elsnic.com or call 855-NUMUSIC (toll-free in the United States). Except for the early bird special noted above, all orders now can only be placed through the website.
Snail mail can be sent to: Steve Harris, Music Publishers of America, PO Box 696, White Stone, Virginia 22578.
Email inquiries may be sent to steve@musicpublishersofamerica.com.
We welcome your suggestions and appreciate your commitment with us to preserving this beautiful music. And we hope you’ll support us by purchasing some of these classics from the V-E music library.
Cordially,
Steven D. Harris, President
Music Publishers of America, LLC