The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-19
BOSTON VIEWS.
.,os LIFE AT The NEW ENG
IN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.

L. LIFE AT The NEW ENG
EyD CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.
Of the Ways the students Are
E-.rtsined-The Distinguished Peo-
rnev Meet-Missionery Life and
- is Needed to be a Missionary.
T. Matters of More Than Pass ng
Interest.
B,sroy. May 9.-This past week has been
l. full Of pleasures for the conservatory
isnts. On Monday night the usual re-
bv the advanced pupils was given in
mar hall, and Tuesday evening the by
i, Club had the pleasure Of listening to
Louise Chandler Moulton, as she read
h. Impressions Of England" on her
visi. there, and after that clever and
~ paper she read two Of her most
.iv poems. She is a woman of much
-ssopce. . is decidedly inclined to embon-
n and has blue, near-sighted eyes and
hair that is rapidly turning white. She
[nored the occasion by handsome dress
bssvy brocade and plush, and wore some
.rtiful diamonds. Her voice is clear and
at and the delicate wit of her paper was
.siyed with frequent ripples of laughter.
rar tie reading she stood in the front
sEing-room and received very gra-
rslv any of the girls who wanted an
-oduction. On Wednesday morning at
o'cI OK the Benedcent Society held a
sting in Sleeper hall and were addressed
no less a parsonage than Mrs. Julia
ard Howe. The students were permitted
attend the meeting and saw the woman
had lolg wanted to sea dear old lady
M A big head and little body; appar-
tiv very feeble until she rose to speak,
then, so interested il what she had to
\. her feebleness disappeared in the most
traordinary way. Her face was very
6llow. and her hair combed smoothly
vav from her high and broad forehead and
pcked under close-itting black bonnet.
be looked as though she had never given
D wearing dress waists under her arms,
Ee body OF her dress was so very short;
nd besides the white shawl she drew about
er while sitting on the stage, some one put
black one over her shoulders. She took
hem both off as she rose to speak, and for
Iearly an hour she read and talked OF
6reece-modern as compared with the
incient Hellss; of the debt that art and
literature and all Saxon language owe to
hat mother of nations; and better still, of
Ter visits to Greece, and of the reverent
memory Of her husbands name in Crete
! nd the city of the violet crown.
THE FIVE CRETAN WARRIORS.
The Cretans sent an embassy to her on
her last visit to tell her of their love for
their American benefactor, Of their desire
No erect to his memory a statue, and to
kreet her for all Crete as the wife and
widow of the noble man to whom they owed
be greater part of their independence. Her
Recount of the five Cretan warriors who
came to see her bearing their country's
message, Of her reply to their inspiring
bpeeches of the dinner she and her daughter
and their Greek friend, 1.-THE Man Friday"
BIS they called him lin free American trans
charming. She met DIR. Schliemann and
his Greek wife, also, and had most anus
ing experience with little Agamemnon
the heir Of the house. She
first met him in the arms of his nurse, and
be kicked and screamed most vigorously
when she attempted to speak to him. Visit
ing his mamma few days later, he was
brought in to see her, and again he howled
and kicked and squalled.
Poor little Agamemnonp said Mrs.
Howe
NO." replied Agamemnon's mother, look
ing at the squalling infant, II say nasty
llttle Agamemnonp
After Mrs. Howe's reading, resolutions
were adopted with regard to DIR. Tourjee's
death, and then Mrs. Julia Houston West,
3 superb looking old lady, sang Gounods
There is green hill far away" in voice
and style that many a younger woman
might have envied.
If the walls of Sleeper hall could speak,
in what variety of language would thos5
voices be- This year they have resounded
to the playing Of Scharwenka and Fried
helm, the latter called since his masters
death 1.-The greatest living pianist" He
was in the city giving recitals, and at Mr..
Faelten's invitation scame with his beauti-
full wife to pay the conservatory a visit. 1t
was his own kind suggestion that he play
for the students. and you may be sure there
was a scampering to the hall and great, if
subdued, excitement, and such roar Of
claps as the great man came on the little
stage. He is young-only 81, very
young to be SO famous, but
then even art is no longer
"long" in this age of excitement aud
electricity. He is short and is getting fat,
and his cheeks hang down on his putting
neck. His hair looks like Beethoven's, and
also as if it had been plastered in place from
his infancy. But you forget his appearance
when DE sits before the piano, and you hold
your breath when he strikes a grand and
powerful chord and begins, except when he
grows excited and losses bis long locks, but
they fly gently up and then down again,
eacn hair in its proper place. His playing
Is powerful, wonderful and almost deafen-
Ing. In fact, it is the perfectiOn-of Ger
man playing.
SATISFYING MUSIC.
preferred Scharwenka. Nothing can be
more beautiful and satisfying than his per-
formance. He is not lacking in power,
either, hut he never let's power degenerate
into mere tremendous humping of the
Keys, as Friedheim so often does. Friedhelm
ought to play on a cornet, as Levy
does, so that he could give
Tree vent to his over-charged musical
feelings. When Levy plays you wonder
when that inevitable moment must come
when he will fly into a million pieces,
trumpet and all, and go of like blaze Of
skYrockets IN one last, tremendous, soul
splitting tootl So when Friedheim plays
you wonder when that moment will arrive
When the long suffering. much-pounded
ano hammered piano will burst, and piano
ana player will also fly off in all directions
III one last, stupendous, frightful chord
marked MI! You want to know when this
Is gong TO happen, as you are not anxious
70 Dc on the scene of the catastrophe. Such
lears as these do not disturb you
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