Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-12-12
GRAND TESTIMONIAL


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Concert by Dorscht Lodge In Honor
of Professor m. Steinert.
A grand testimonial concert was given
Professor III. Steinert yesterday afternoon
in Harugari hall by Dorecht lodge, No. 2,
of which Professor Steinert is an honory
member. The concert was in honor of
safe arrival home from his six months
absence in Europe. The hall was hand
somsly decorated for the occasion. The
following was the first part of the pro-
gram:
| overture-aJubel". ......................we Weber
o. J"wiegen Lied :" .Latann
Streich-O Dorchester.
Zug der Frauen aus Lohengrin. Wagner
| Czardas-"Danse Styrienne" ............ Michaels
After the last number had been played
Mr.. Charles a. Holten in few words well
coined Professor Steinert. In reply he
said in part as follows:
Mr.. President, Members of Doescht Lodge
and Friends
A gentleman here just remarked to me:
''This appears to me like regular love
feast" and / feel almost inclined to choose
this as my 'Leitmotive." 1 am very much
pleased to meet my friends here this after
noon after my absence from home. think
love grows stronger by separation.
Though you consider me an honorary
member, claim a most intimate relation
with you, as our friendship has been based
upon my connection with your orchestra
for the past twenty-five years in playing
the violincello. Therefore you cannot &C.
cuse me of playing fiddle.
When gave up playing that instrument
my soul and heart rested still in the divine
art of music, and the idea struck me to do
the next best thing, to dsbble in old broken
down spinets and clavichords. When
began to deal in these securities was well
aware that Gould's speculations, 30 differ
emit from mine, would pan out more add
vantageously to him, but In the long run
I was mistaken, as kind Providence took
him away and left me with my old instru-
ment behind as collateral security.
AS look upon this circle of SO many
kind friends to day 1 even do not begrudge
Mr.. Gould, when he gave his millions to
his own family and even did not have
single friend left to whom he could leave
a dollar or two.
The occasion to-day calls for an orator
who could in sympathetic words express
the kind feelings that exist between
Dorscht lodge and myself. But greater
forces are at your command to express the
sentiments in music in the language of mu-
sic, in the various tone colors of this in
strument in the hands of you, my musical
comrades, they speak of love and kind
ness. Whenever the world ceases to ex-
press the deepest emotions that rest in the
human heart, music appears welded to po-
etry and the lyric song enters deep into
our hearts. thank you, my good friends,
for the rare and sweet music which you |
have selected in honor of me, and 1 |
feel that every stroke and breath upon |
your instruments comes from q pure and |
noble heart, and the harmony You produce |
cannot fail to inspire your hearerA Ny |
work in Europe is well known to you, and |
1t would be useless to repeat 1t here. Any |
body who Is acquainted with the study of |
the fine arts must know that music is the
youngest member in the links of these |
arts. When she was resting as an infant |
in her cradle architecture could boast of |
Its great pyramids thousands of years be-
fore. Sculpture and painting could also |
boast of their great antiquity, and who can |
deny the soul-stirring poetrp of the psalms |
and that of the Greek writersi
The first stages in music consisted in |
the simple cong that moved in q radius of |
three or four tones. 1t was followed dur |
ing the middle ages by the FIVE church |
son by the organ. When music began to |
assume a more significant bssis, harmony |
and the consonsnts of tune began to ap- |
pear, which were called early rudiments of /
The instruments outside /
the church were the lutte and viola. Musi /
clans were learning for a stringsd instru-
ment that could also bs played by means |
of the keyboard, similar to the organ. |
This instrument enables the performer to
produce both melody and harmony. The
instrument was called the clsyichord and |
was invented by Guido d'Arero, an
Italian monk, in the eleventh century. The |
musicians of the sixteenth, seventeenth |
and eights enth centuries considered this |
the fsvorite instrument, and Sebastian /
Bach composed and wrote those great COM |
positions for these instruments. The COM |
positions of Bach still exist, but the in |
strument for which they were intended is |
cure q olavichord to learn its construction |
and its musical capacity. / was successful |
in this and my work was approved by both |
the musicians of Europe and America. |
Since I have heard you play this afternoon |
1t remains for me to say that you my friends |
have not been idle during my ak months |
stay in Europe, and If you continue to |
play such music in good taste and pre- |
cision, l can see no reason why New Haven |
should not feel proud of as good an Or |
chestra as l have heard this afternoon.
Other speeches were responded to by |
ex-Chief Bollman and Professor Siegwsrt |
Spier.
The afternoon program was closed |
with the following selections:
Church scene-Lola's Song, and Intermezzo
Sinfonico, from Cavalleria husticana....
hassagni
Stretch Dorchester.
Serenade-"Heart to Heart" ....,......T horne |