Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-04-15
] Grand r1asIcaI solree.

.GE Grand Musical Soiree.ss
Correspondence of the Ohio Statesman.l
All, friend Spivins, again you've missed
it! Missed what? when where? how
Stop, stop; don't submerge me in such q
} shower of Inquiries, and l will tell you
plainly wherein. e-ft-
Prof. Worley, of Boston, has been among
us for afew months with the Harp OF Or
pheous, and so skillfully has he played
sweetly sung, and successfully taught, thai
our entire town of Washington and sur
rounding community have had feast o.
charming music.
~ To miss, as you did, his grand concert In
this place on last Friday evening, should
= he to Won a matter of no small regret.
His pupils numbered over one hundred
5 and were all seated on a stage in magnifi-
cent array. Their discipline was perfect;
their music exquisite; the soiree through
out complete triumph; the whole audi
-ence were more than pleased-they were
delighted; and so listened for three hours
to "the concord of sweet sounds" that arose
from san hundred voices in harmony
blending" as long programme of solos,
duettes, quartettes and oinnetts was sung
through from top to bottom. Sacred pieces
in hymn and anthem form, glees, responses,
echoes, choruses, patriotic songs in great
variety, were all executed in style that
moved the large and appreciative audience
rapture. - qs H. E.q-. .,t. - ss..-, %
All, Spiv, say again, you missed 1t by
not being here. Had you been, am sure
even your savage breast" would have been
"soothed' with the melody OF song. And
home to Columbus you would have gone.
and for months after your department. OF
the STATESMAN would have echoed the re-
frains OF this great concert as do the con-
volutions of a conch-shell the solemn moan
of the sea. 1 think so, because you have
music in yourself, nor are the motions OF
your spirit dull as night, nor are you
Fit for treasons. stratagems and spoils."
You can be trusted, and therefore pleased
with ''the dulcet notes of harmony com
plete.'
L have said Prof. Worley is from Boston.
The celebrated Lowell Mason was, for
many years, his preceptor. OF all the mu-
sic teachers who have come this way, Prof.
w. is the most expert in this science or art,
whichever it be. He composes music with
great facility, and plays upon all kinds OF
key and stringed instruments with an
highly accomplished touch. He aims at a
reform in the present mode of teaching
vocal music. A class of hundred or more
is formed in village. A lesson or two per
week III severe drill on the elementary
principles of voice and book are given.
Permanent officers are elected. An organ
ization formed called an Institute. The
same is done in other neighboring towns.
There is daily and nightly drill for
weeks and months. Then a convention OF
all in some central point-theD grand vo-
cal concert under his direction, and then
the best musical exhibition ever
witnessed in the favored community where
all this occurs, comes off with great eclat.
All, Spivins, indeed you missed much by
not being with us here in Washington,
Guernsey county. (where you have so
frio 1c y on, hn ein m q ofnrnsQin
and you would have had "fiow OF soul
and feast of music that would have done
your heart good, as it did mine
We had gifted singers and singists here
from the regions round about, in addition
to our own native talent, which is pro-
nounced By musical critiques an fat in all
that pertains to the science of music.
1t might seem invidious to particularize,
but 1 fearlessly affirm that in the Judgment
of all, the following come in for high
need of praise:
The Misses Caldwell, Clark and Craig,
and Mrs. S. B. Lawrence, among the ladies.
And Messrs. Burns, (Delta.) Matthews, the
Sproats, S. B. Lawrence, Black, and others
among the gentlemen. But where all did
SO we'll we find it difficult to discriminate; ;
but if there are four ladies' in eastern Ohio
who can sing more sweetly than the four
named above, we know not where they are.
Who does? l banter any one to say.
Now, MIR. Splvins, you smile at all this,
and think me boasting; calling to mind,
perhaps, the Operas, Musical Festivals,
M8nnerchor Concerts, &C., with which you
in the great city of Columbus have been
from time to time favored; you suppose
that in my unsophisticated, rustic simplic-
ity have given undue Importance to the
effects of this late Guernsey Soiree, and far
over-rated the degree of domestic talent
around us. No, sir, no; not whit of this
banter will l abate, and if you or others
regard it au exaggeration, ask that you
attend our next concert and see. And fiat
the close you do not frankly exclaim:
LET the muses. of Guernsey take the
palm, for they have honestly won it )"
then will L yield to superior force"
Prepare, then, Spiv, to be our umpire in
our next musical contest. To it you shall
receive a polite note of invitation, signed
by a bevy of beautiful ladies, and sub, sign
ed by SIG.
z 1.-THE above is all right, we suppose; but
we do hate to have one tell us of the good
things he had at feast to which we were
not invited, and then say "Oh, but you
missed it." Was it our fault that we miss
ed it? We didn't do nothing to nobody,
did we? Then why poke fun at US this
way ?-SPIvINs.l