The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04

1aVOrlGe Win great professional singers
and with ordinary vocalists also.
HOW ''HoME, SWEET HOME" BROUGHT BITTER
NESS.
The late Nine. Anna Bishop sang it from
st. Petersburg to Hong Kong. from Cuba
to Cape Colony-sang it the world over.
Pattl, Nilsson, Lucca, Albaui and other
celebrated artists sang and played it every
where. With the late Mile. Titjens it wasg
piece dc resistance, and Thereby hangs a
tale" When this latter famous soprano
and the distinguished pionist, Nine Ara
Della GODDARD, were once singing and play
ing together in Steinway Hall under the
MANAGEMENT OF Mr.: Max Strakosch, the
well known impressario, Nine. Goddard
played, perhaps Intentionally, Home.
Sweet Home" for an encore, although the
song was down on the programme for Tit
jens' very next number.
There was no love between the two
artists, and as the great vocalist knew the
pianist was French woman, and not Eng
llsh, as she was generally supposed to be.
she made wry faces at the reUanchc bier
which Nine. Goddard compelled her to
swallow After the concert there was a
scene in the dressing room, during which
Titiens belabored Goddard numerically in
her broken English.
The pianist, although devoured with rage.
managed to maintain a cool, envenomed ex-
terror, ana to further irritate her sister in
crotchets and quavers by slowly observing:
You are quite mistaken, Mile. Titiens-
quite, l assure you. Our numbers did not
interfere with each other in any degree: in
TACT, were not Identical, for played" Home
Sweet Home, and you sang, 'Whoam
Sweet Whoam.'n
1t was enough. They never spoke to each
other afterward.
Nor is this the only anecdote connected
with the performance of this song, the
music of which is Sicilian, and not the com
position of the late Sir Henry Bishop, as it
Is sometimes said to be.
''UMs SHEET UMs"
When Nine. Bishop was singing in China
she made herself popular with the ladies of
Hong Kong because of her having learned
SUFFICIENT of their language to enable her to
sing this melody in it, She was surprised,
however, that the song per Sc made no i'm
preston whatever on them beyond that of
causing sort of humorous expression of
countenance, by which; indeed, most of her
performances were met. This astonished
her the more as she knew that privately
many of the ladies really loved her. While
thus perplexed she applied special favor
tie of hers for some light on the subject,
when she was told contidentially that al
though she was greatly beloved as an ling
lish," everybody had found out that she
knew nothing whatever of music, and that
she rendered herself perfectly ridiculous
whenever she sang that foolish little thing,
Gums Smeet Ums."
That the national airs of all countries are
calculated to arouse and foster sentiments
of pride and patriotism in the breasts of
those to whom they especially appeal is
true; but these sentiments are widely diff
ferent from those evoked by this plaintiye
song, and more particularly when it falls on
the ear OF some exile from home'' on far
of shore, who still cherishes the recollec-
tons OF his youth and OF that early paradise
which had 80 soon begun to fade from his
view. A man to have written this great
song Of the heart must have suffered long
and to intensity-must have been broken
on the wheel thousand times.-Nep York
Herald.
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