, 1877-05-27

ancnt. While the Festival was ut It's he1Ya
there came up out OF one OF the rural district:
young man who had a beautiful tenor voice
which he was in the habit Of using, greatly t.
the delight OF his listeners and to his own en-
joy1lcut, in All oId~fashioned country church
choir, where Mozart and Handel were th'
fashion of the tunes. He had heard grea
deal, aud had read more, Of the great Wagner
Festival, and he had come up to hear It, and, a:
he thought, to enjoy it.
He WENT TO HEAR DIE wALKURE,
and this Is what he said OF it, and its effect upon
him;
"Whcn went into the theatre that night
thought knew what music was, mud thought
had pretty good car for melody as we'll a.
harmony. When ! came out OF the theatre
felt that It this was true music, then greater
idiot than was did not exist; but by aud By
came to the conclusion that the company Of i'd
lots according to this measure was very cred
table one, for it would include old Handel and
Mozart, as well rs Beethoven"
I will let Biondina tell story number two:
t'1was sitting rapt IN most heavenly musings
in m interval OF Beethoyeu's Filelio, in the
same seat where on Monday night had listened
and tried to understand Wayner's Die Walkure,
when all at oucc l heard q young mans voice
just behind, saying,
"tTo think OF these people applauding Fidclio
in this extravaganza fashion, and receiving that
magnificent Die Walkure in the undscrilniuat-
ing way they didn The tune Of disgust iu tnis
voice was intensified to the last degree. looked
around to see tue owner OF tue voice Of this high
| aud mighty taste, that could afford to snub
Beethoven and elevate Wagner above his head
I saw an august youth OF probably hre-and-
| twenty summers, who just at that moment,
! after the labor Of speaking, and while sadly
t thinking of these people, was solemnly suck
| ing the ivory top to his pretty little cane! r
regarded him with awe and reverence; here was
| q being who thought he understood Wagner
Here vas a superior soul to whom Beethoven
| WIS rs Wagner's hickey. Here was far-rearh-
ing spirit whose wings or whose ears were al-
I ready sprvuting to APPRECIATE .tbe music Of the
future,'"
"L1rr1E CAD,
| I haven't doubt but that he was one OF the
! ushers whose daily business was behind count
! cr," cried our Dom Pedro, Tor it vas at tie
/ Scran-Book Club tlat B1ondipa told her story
."Not necessarily returned Blondina to this
outburst. There Is great deal Of nonsense:
ind MI manner OF aiIectation out and beyond
the counter. There arc some yerr irreproacha-
bic young gentlemen OF this city,-eletsant md
critical West-Enlers. whn hove the Harvard
gloss upon theu,,-who are full of lust this kin,l
ul thing And there are plenty OF men and
women here In Boston, of various localities and
social circles, who are bttcn with the music
mania and who think that they appreciate high
nrt. They 20 to oll the costliest concerts, and
then 81 home and try to Interpret music that
was only meant for IN orchestra UPON their
UYes YES, 1 know ,em," interrunted Dom
Pedro,
'LoKD. HOW HATE PIANO IN THESE DAYS.
A piano was made for melody, pure and simple,
for tunes II you will, but never Tor those long'
involved chords aud slow transitions, which
were written for strings and VOLS Listen to
what Richard Grant White fcarlcssy says IN the
music article;' and Dom Pedro takes up from
the table the magazine in Question md mn
ceed sto read the following: F
II hrliev,. thai thrr. las ham M ,,,,-o r,a-
,.icious influence upon music taan the transtnr.
nation which the pianofortc has untler,one |
since BcctAoyen's time and fts t]Yusion nvrr iii
the world l do not refer to the crurlties
which it is daily the means Of intlirtiue uDon in
offensive families and true lovers of in,,si hnt
to the effect it has ho1 ,1nor '.ons
position aud upon performance. The
1ormcr 1t has helped to be ut once fashv
dull, intricate. and shallow; the latter it has led
sonority all without be.,,t2 of form " ~ e1n
rioual suegestiycness-this X the mus;e xrhIch
the modern Grand nianof,r4a hos I-on1bt ~
on u.s." '''t"
And listen here to what he says Of
"A1tcr Webcr's deatl, which 1anrrei tbo
world of the only nns;r;an Win nrnm;sa, ~ ~
follow Beethoven, came Sc,mhertp and Wen' ~
dclssohn, neither Of them very strong men: Tic
faculty; The former far mors fertile eAa nni
ssVhat do yon mean nv sthot ,poma,,s r,o,
prayf'' asked Brune1ta here with snn s;,[na -
II mean thr MN % IT,, ~ ~
Trlttcn the dreamy, vague comnlainings and
fittfc ,Ilris ttor ait ,ga,..s, ,o+ auu
they are doing great things in high art whsn
they finger them out soiemnly upon the
oiano. Those Songs Without 5vor1aI
IL gods! Songs yithnut soni a.
body, or any sequence whatever. And wnn " W
lote upon them. I never knew man. mnles.
lc was very womanish fellow, who cured for
he1n.'' ''10 ~A~A A'A
T nnito orroa ,r;+h ra,, , n,
lina auimateIly and uneInectnIlv M I hora r.oI H.
ways had tne same feeling for hfendrIssof,u -
hat you express, uad / haye notc,I his nnnn.
arity with most women. / remember mt tnpre
han mouth aso was visiting
PRETTY, BRIGHT WouAy. !
rho, after dinner, pluyed one after another NJ .
nese vague swecInesses. Presently in q In1l :
II sheer desperation, beered for snmathin1, Iu,,