Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-01

Thomas Concert.

II we were to attempt for a week to get
up good notice of this monster musical
organization, we don't think that we could
equal that which follows by
MozIs ADDUMs ON THE ToMMUs KoNsEpTs.
Mr.. Editor-Deer Sir: I've heerd Blind
Billy play on the fife. Also PvA heerd the
Scots from Charlottesville play. And l
knowd old Joe Swinny so well that knowd
even bis dogs. Besides that I've heerd the
tubacker horns and the packit horns at
night coming to lock. And Wunst a full
brass band cum doun from Lynchburg to
the Buckingham Femil Institute; two
trombones, gittar and corjum, and
thought knOwd sumthing bout music; but
/ didn't.
When l was a boy, studdyii Parley's
jogrefy, saw pickcher Nv Jermany, sum
men with specifics huggin big tiddels be-
tween their legs, and Numbered what kind
ovpeople them Germans wuz. But I've
lived to see that day. I've been to Tom
muses. Konserts.
l set in the hardest cheer perhaps ever
invented. Sune they come pilin in. 90
real Jermuns with the identikle big Parley's
jogrefy fiddels, and menny more inster-
ments. 1t dun me good to see 'em arfter
so long waitin for 'em. Then Tommus
he cum out, made me low bow, tapped
his music stand with his little ruler. faced
roun, shoed his men to silence with both
hands, faced sideways, tapped his ruler
agin, and the thing begun.
The papers talk bout Ann Dante and
Addie Geo. l don't know either Nv them
girls; nor don't know Roudo, nor Cresen-
do, nor Minnyendo, nor Shertso, nor Draw
so, nor large Factotom, nor emmy NV EN-;
but l got plain, honist, up and down Fom-
vii feelins, and jist tell you that the music
The. TOmmus beat out Nv them 90 Jer-
nuns with that ar little ruler banged out
and layed over all the music that ever l
heerd or expect to heer. l felt sorry for
Blind Billy, altho he's dead aud his fife
b'longs to nuther man.
When the bowyers begun to bow with
thar bows, the horners to horn on thar
horns, and the uthers to do thar best on
thar respective doinses (it don't matter
bout names) all at the same time, like one
man, and the music stealed up and up, and
spread and spread all over the house, clean
thrOO you, all around you, and inside Nv
you, in your he'd and in that part of you
that you didn't know you had till you
heard that music, and you felt you dunno
what and thought you dunno what, and
you had you dunno what, and you wanted
you dunno what, as if heyen was opened
and more were a comm, and you couldn't
bar what you had alreddy, and the thing
wouldn't stop but kept a gettin sweeter and
sweeter and more Nv it, oh! my soul and
body, oh. my poor stutterin and stammerin
tung, my miserbul, wuthless, melted-up
brain, what shell say, and how kin l say
1t? 1t carnt be done. Nobody caTnt say
it.
A man told me, he says:
"The composer Nv that piece beat Hoven."
"Well," says, am glad Nv it. l wish
he had beat Hoven to death and then cum
arfter me, for l don't want to live no long
er. l got plenty"
kin compare them sweet pieces to no |
thin but peeches and yung wimmin mkt
peeches on top and the yuhg Wimmin GER
tinly cumin, and you a KNOWN that when |
they cum it'll be too much for you; coz you |
can't stan it, but got to give up the COST. |
As for them loud pieces, they bothers you
in nuther way. When they ar at thar !
very lOudest, and when it peers like heven !
and earth, and thunder and lightning, pesti- !
lence, earthquakes, and nutmegs, were pit |
chin headfOremost into one nurther, you |
amt satisfied, but want more, louder and |
louder, till it can't be no louder. Nothin' /
wouldn't satisfy you Onless 'twuz two brass |
universes clasht together; wharas them soft |
pieces Statistic you over and over agin, and
eff you could jest carry two inches Nv the
sweetest part Nv one Nv 'em hom with you
and keep it, it would be enuf for you.
1t was a relief to me when Miss Krebs
NOrna IN Cba yolava tho o.tfvrooTroroI Y,ia,,
ner mighty well, and makes such a nice
curchy. Got plump arms and light har;
which l admire light har and that specie Nv
arm. She impressed US favebly and we all
liked her.
These here Germans is a wunde rful Pc
pul. Eff there is enything they can't do,
I'd like to know it. With one hand on
logger beer and the other on Tommus's
music, il seems to Inc they've got sort Ov
4 kind Nv a all-under holt on creashun.
l will say this much for Tommuss kOn-
cert: 1t is the motist pleasure for the leest-
st mummy, the biggist pork for the smallest
,hillin, in the whole world. l am a 1000
lines Obleeged to Mr.. Tommus for a COM
min here. l amt got no money to give
him, I'm sorry to say. l done funded long
lgo. But promise, on the honor of a
Virginian, to give him a one-third surtiffillt
" my ortogratf, DRAWN 3 per cent intruss
Jemi-onsartinly, after the meetin Nv the mex
egislacher, before DRAWN, and payable one
hundred years from date in registered Rich
nOnd Wings, without kewpOns. I'd do
more eff could, but am bankruptured so
Dad that l can't pay my taxes.
Very respectfully,
MOZIS ADDUMs,