J.A. Parks Compositions (Other Publishers / Distributors).

• CHICAGO:

  Some pieces show J.A. PARKS COMPANY, 223 W. Lake St. Chicago 6, ILL as the company address. Other music companies have shared this address over the years including Schilke Music, Lyons Band Instrument Company, and Neil A. Kjos.
  Some of the “J.A. PARKS COMPANY/ Chicago” books appear to be re-formatted from older J.A. Parks titles, with the contents edited to fit the demands of “saddle stitch” where page counts must be devisable by four, eight or sixteen.

• J. CURWEN & SONS, LTD:

  A late summer 2009 google/books search turned up an 1898 Christmas anthem by J.A. Parks published by J. Curwen & Sons, Ltd. of London:   Calm on The Night  (Church Choralist No. 173).

• JACKMAN MUSIC:

  In 2008, the Jackman Music Company catalog has Parks’ The King of Glory (S.A.T.B.) as performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Musically, it is identical to the 1897 version appearing in Imperial Anthems No. 2.

• NEIL A. KJOS:

  In November 2006, the Neil A. Kjos Music Company (www.kjos.com) catalog lists The Story of A Tack by J.A. Parks.

• LORENZ & CO.

  J.A. Parks had a working arrangement with Lorenz & Co. of Dayton, Ohio early in his career.   In spring 2007 Kilgore Memorial Library acquired a copy of Parks’ Sacred Quartets .. for Male Voices   ©1896 with a Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz & Co, Publishers imprint on the title page.   An early printing of   Imperial Anthems No. 2 shows Lorenz and Co. as “Eastern Agents” on the cover.   Some of Parks’ compositions in his early books are marked “Permission E.S. Lorenz Co.”.

  An advertisement on the inside cover of  Santa Claus and Uncle Sam   notes J.A. Parks composed music for some of the songs included in ♥ Riches of Grace, a Sunday School hymnal Lorenz published in 1897. A Feb. 2010 google/books search revealed two J.A. Parks songs in Voice of Melody, an 1899 hymnal edited by E. S. Lorenz.

  Parks was also an early associate editor for The Choir Leader, a Lorenz publication launched in 1894.

  The following Lorenz titles are included in the J.A. Parks display at the   Anna Bemis Palmer Museum   ¦   York Community Center   ¦   211 E. 7th   ¦   York, Nebraska:

  The Counterfeit Santa Claus   (Christmas Cantata),   Text by Harriet D. Castle, Music by J.A. Parks.   New York;   Dayton, Ohio, Lorenz Publishing Company, ©1897, by E.S. Lorenz.   This copy has advertisements for The Christmas Treasury No. 17   for 1906, With Heart and Voice  [Published in 1905] , and Songs of Praise; A Collection of Gospel Songs for Men’s Voices  [Published in 1906]  on the back page.
  Santa Claus and Uncle Sam   (Christmas Cantata),   Text by Harriet D. Castle, Music by J.A. Parks.   Dayton, O., Lorenz & Co., ©1895 by E.S. Lorenz
  Santa’s Surprise Party   (A Children’s Christmas Cantata),   Text by Harriet D. Castle, Music by J.A. Parks.   Dayton, Ohio, Lorenz & Company, ©1896 by E.S. Lorenz

  A google/books search in February 2010 turned up two more Lorenz “Christmas cantatas” in the catalog of copyright entries: Christmas Armies; a Christmas Exercise For Aggressive Sunday Schools. Text by E. E. Hewitt. Music by E. S. Lorenz, J. A. Tenney, Chas. H. Gabriel, and J.A. Parks. (Dayton, Ohio, E. S. Lorenz, ©1898).
  General Santa Claus; A Christmas Cantata. Words by Harriet Castle. Music by J.A. Parks. (Dayton, Ohio, E. S. Lorenz, ©1898).

• THEODORE PRESSER

  According to the staff of the Polley Music Library at Bennett Martin Library, Lincoln, Nebraska, the Theodore Presser Company distributed Parks’ music and may have kept some in print for a while after his death. Some J.A. PARKS books in the library’s collection were originally sold by THEO PRESSER, Philadelphia, PA.