Self-promotion/Tito Schipa
Self-promotion….self-promotion for artists….a very difficult function of our career journey with networking, making sure our names are associated with our talent and performances, conversing about ourselves and always creating a personal narrative that will sell, sell, sell. From afar we admire artists who fly through this process without self-doubt. We try to imitate them or learn to do what they seem to do with ease. Yet, we all come to acknowledge that self-promotion, though it is a necessary part of our business, is a challenge. November 14, 1926, a letter from Gena Branscombe to Mr. Austin at Arthur P. Schmidt Company in Boston: “I’ve an appointment with Mr. Schipa – this Wednesday – am showing him a manuscript song – and if you will send me on the following songs (as I’ve none here) I’ll take them in also. “There’s a Woman like a Dewdrop” “Hail Ye Tyme of Holiedayes” “Three Mystic Ships” “At the Postern Gate” and “Happine...