Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-02-09
1T Is NOT TYPICAL
EXCEPT TIE NEGRO mEloDlEs


land Conservatory Il Mueio. Ronfen.
was guest at The Mortnn yesterday.
Mr.. Elson i knoun ovey two conhnenss
- the author of ssverai histories Of
music aud the growth Of musical con~
poeitlou. and he's probably made .
moro thorough h,storicsl study ot tha
divine art Of Orpheus and Cecilia than
any other man now living. While
chatting yesterday aftsrnoon With .
reporter for THE HERALD. Mr.. Kison
said: America has never yet pro-
duced = great composer who wrote
music that was distinctIy original in Il
character. II any such : thing ever is
produced, it will come from the south.
II 10 impossible 70 bring stack ex-
changes. WOODEN miiis. foundeFaes
and factories into an opera. although
You can bring IA plantation scenes. The
north has become 90 thoroughly cosmo-
politan that II has no peculiar traits
that would affect = style Of musicai
composition. The only distsnctiy
American music that has sser bscn
written are the folk eongs and the
plantation melodies of the south. They
are - peculiar TO the people - the
dialect in which they are sung. They
remain as the one purely American
type.
music peculiar to our country. Inc
English no longer have one, nor the
French, Germans, nor Italiane. About
tho only modern national lyrics are
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t;on % thst h i M yood a. nns,c 80 IRE
grandest music that can oe produced
and the erandest literature that can be
produced are tnose That appeal 20 the
people O. All cI'mes, AND which nave 20
nss ss.-s;.o =. 1870. 'ss' - :"
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: s..ss,f;cns ever vrisfn,, iithon~h -
4 : 80 nc nre-en,inentlv great com no.ers
ro. ,o vst ve have so,ne 81 the ~rrstsss
: artists and interpreters in the world.
It i only step from great performers
to great composers. There are not
moro than two orchestras in tho world
that surpass in technical execution
those of NIklsch OF Boston and DAM
rosch OF New YORK. PANE OF Boston u
. great composer TOO, and IN = lew
years they VIII % numpcrsd py the
score.
speaK'nE VI ns..onaI muMc, 90 You
knew now nov 10y ~ ons nns.u.a .u..u s.ss'. su.s'
are c1' ss s.cs.:,., I'D o c .e..S sI S.ns
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= % : old Id Ena,;sh I drinking sonr. in honor
IF xn.crse, ~ T have The original sons
!, nv cni,sct;on. Yankee DOODLE Is
another old English melody. Glory
HnileIuiah' il An old Methodist hymn.
Hail Columbia, however. il strictly
original and merits unusual considera-
ton on that account"
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