Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-09-10

ment to try and answer all questions sent TO rs
relating TO music Questions should he sent in
panied by the full names of the writers.l
"Thero comes an hour in every daily life
| When, worn with labor of the head or hands
We need n restful calm from fretful strife,-
time to knit anew the ravoled strands.
" Al such time let music bring relief
~, 10 sootii, to comfort. to dispel nll pain
That we may rice refreshed from ov'ry grief
To bear the burdens of our life again"
Music was FIRST reduced to rules by Jubal
800 n. C.
Joseiiy, the pianist, is in San Francisco.
Adeina Patti, the Queen of Song, will
visit America next month.
Verdi, the composer, is great lover of
country life, and Of farming. His music is
often played by our excellent band.
Music is a kind and gentle sort of dis.
cipliue; it reiinos the passions and improves
the understanding.
Show us the family where good music is
cultivated, where tho parents and children
are accustomed often TO minglo their voices
together i'll song, and we will show you
one - in almost every instance - where
peace, harmony, and love prevail, and
where the grosser vices have no dwelling.
His Majesty tho King, when in London,
expressed wish to hear Faust" 1t was
given at Covont Garden Theatcr, with
Adelina Patti MS Margheurte.
The new pipe-organ for the English
temporary Cathedral is on board the bark
Ceyion from Boston, duo hero October 9Th
to 10th. 1t has twenty.eight draw stops
and will show two fronts, one of metal and
the other wood pipes.
The Amateur Musical Society of this
city was organized 1851, and rc.organzed
1873. 1t has Mt the present time about
forty-eght members, and meets for practice
Friday evenings in the Lycenn,. Tho
officers are: President, Hon. A. +. Judd;
Vice-President, Mr. a. II. Atkinson; Treas.
urer, Mr.. G. p. Castle; Secretary, Mr.. G.
II. Scarborough; Musical Director, Mr.. II.
! Berger.
The nfioh52Iia9l,s Cleo Club meets every
Tuesday evening for tho prese1t at the
residence of Mrs. Robertson, Emma Square.
1t has membership of about twenty-five,
and intends shortly to give n concert. Mr..
A. Marquee is Musical Director.
1t has been quite treat to hear our ex
cellent band since they returned home from
Hawaii. 1t needs no eulogy from us: its
reputation is well known not only here.
but in other parts of the world wo hear it
spoken of. In Mr.. Berger we have mn
excellent and faithful bandmastcr. The
past week has given us two moonlight con.
certs, with good programmes, and especial
mention must be made of the playing of
selections" Boccaccio" and " Pirates of
Penzance."
The San Francisco correspondent of the
New York Dramatic NocS says "W. C.
Crosbie appears to have relinquished his
Eastern meditatiuns, as he is trying to get
up musical comedy company for trip to
Honolulu" Our readers will no doubt re-
member Mr.. Crosbie rs the leading come.
dian of tie troupe brought here by Mr.
Charles b. Wells, which opened tho new
Music Hall, but was obliged to cancel their
engagement owing to tho serious outbreak
of smallpox. We shall hail with salts.
faction the advent OF a "good" company.
The Zenton,Ha arrived Sunday morning,
thus destroying all hopes of concert by
the Mendelssohn Quintetto Club. Aftcr
completing their tour in the Colonies they
may possibly 60 to India; if not, we shall
certainly have the pleasure of hearing them
in n series of concerts.
The New York Musical Courier thus
speaks of Miss Cora Miller, who passed
through here on the ZeulanoGa with the
Mendelssohn Quintette Club: "Miss
Miller is thought to be one of the coming
great singers of America by birth and cdu.
cation, about whom, when the enterprisinc
manager writes her biography, there will
DO some element of romance lacking.
She has simply by hard work and faithful
study attained position in tho profession,
which is the first step in n career that bids
fair to be ono of great brilliancy and sue
cess. Her voice is purely dramatic
soprano that, if once heard, can never DO
forgotten"
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
G. NJ. H.-What is to DO done when
passage is over an octave, aud tho right
hand cannot reach it /? Ans.-If notes be.
You'd the grasp of tho hand occur in piano
forte music, rs chords, they must usually
he broken; in organ music, tho other hand
may take one note of such chord. Those
passages in pianolorte works require
jndicious use Of tho damper.pedal, to pro.
long the whole chord.
+. N.-Onght one to study music, unless
it DO real pleasure Ans.-Vcry often,
yes. A real love for music is not always
accompanied by real love for the study
and hard work indispensable to becoming
good musician. Like many other studies,
that Of music must often DO pursued as
matter of duty against the natural incli.
nation. Few children even amono thoso
who really delight in music, would volun.
tari'y devote two, three, or four hours q
day to practice, woro it not made dnty.
Yet, If they have n love for music, they are
afiorwards grateful for tho parental care
that saw that they praoticed regularly"
But when, as wo heard n short time ago
a young lady remark, with emphuss, II
hate music ! take ii only because my
mother wants mo To-" then it is time to
stop lessons.
RULES FOR MUSICIANS.
BY RuBkHT scurMASS.