The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-06-17

In the matter of "True Scientific Melody"
as contradistinguished from the representa-
tions of the eminent ssexecutioners" of the
emusic" now generally in vogue, the writer
of pregnant crit,gue in the New Orleans
Delta, says:
Next came a sfantasia' from Norma. inv
left hand neighbor inquired Of me where that
town was situsted,) by the miraculous Thai
berg, who sat down to the piano as IL he had
made up his mind to polish of Norma to it's
hearts content; which he proceeded to do,
and did do. 1t Was thrashed out Of that nj
ano till the instrument quivered with rage !;
it was banged into it, jerked through it, and
dragged over it, rs it were, by the hair Of the
head, until the very wires groaned again.
After being thus brayed in mortar, $50 to
speak," Norma Was taken gently, and led
trippingly up the scale, as if walking on eggs,
and there made to dance and frisk about like
fairy spirit, while a deep rumbling down
among the bass notes showed vivid remem-
brance Of the violence which had just been
done to their feelings.
The sparkling melody then subsidized into
sadness, into mellowness, into melting sweet
ness, and then into almost an s'echo OF soft
silence" at which time you might have heard
pin drop, Ca rolling pin, for example. -
Suddenly recovering itself, the piece started
of afrssh, this time into Mysteries, warbling
incoherently like an insane cuckatoo, the
notes trembling over one another like boys
let out OF school, each out-screaming the 9TH
or, when finally gathering up all his energies,
the performer suddenly finished bv q stun
ming blow at all the keys together, which
closed the business at once for that place,
and settled Mr.. Norma forever.
"The performance by Vieuxtemps OF Lucia
was so cnthusiasticallyapp as to bring
him out again, and the audience fairly ex.
ploded when he commenced the national al,
OF Yankee Doodle;' but silence was impos
, ed at once BY the ravishing notes with which
that inspiring tune WAS rendered. 1t is diff
hcult to conceive how this slender melod,
could have been arrayed in such an ampl,
garb OF splendor. Ingenuity must have beer
exhausted IN devising the variations perform
cd by this king Of violinists. He played it slov
: down., and then shigh up on the + string
with all four parts at once-with the bow Vi
: against the bridge-without any bow ct ell
I be played it backward and forward, and
I believe sideways and crossways; began q
the end and left of at the beginning -begar
{ ut the middle and left Of at both ends the,
. commenced at both ends and finished ia til
middle; twanged it like a guitar, growled i
. like bass-viol, ga base violation Of tn
time quoth my neighbour squeaked it lik
sse, -a-h!ea !. Ike !. au:s, and 4pioSoii. i
out like banjo. Ii was Yankee Doodle
: all the time, however; sometimes sous lik,
boy whistiing; anon as duet, like pal
OF harmonious oats then again with oil th
, variations all OF which displayed and Sc
of the original air as q multitudinous ARA,
OF jewels sdorns ant. enhances the beauty q
, the fair wearer."
J The FoRREsr CASE AGAIS.--The ev rlastin,
J Forrest case is again before the Courts, OF
an application for commission to Califor
, min, to take evidence as to Mrs. Forrest
character and conduct there, which Forres
alleges was very bad. The Judge has no
yet rendered his decision on the application
ca Hon. Edward Stanley, formerly O
North Carolina, was married at Sacramento
on the 10th of May, to Miss Cornela Bald
win, sister Of Judge Baldwin, Of the Suprem,
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