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AMERICAN COMPOSERS
Furnish Beautiful Music for the
Fortnightly M~usicales.

The nondescript bird on the first page
of the FortnightlY programme last night
might we'll have been an American eagle
Tapping its wings over the fact that two
out of three composers were American
born and bred. The fact that wick
aud Nevin are New Englanders as well,
was especially dear to the host and
hostess. Mr.. and Mrs. Hunter Brown.
of Clinton avenue, to whom the
Rhode Island clam is the
national flower. To begin with, there
were four numbers of List, the four
teenth Rhapsodie. by Mr.. Oscar Lang;
short studies by Mrs Frank Cavalli, and
a tarantelle by Mrs. Brown. As for the
"Loreley y" it goes Without saying that
one saw sunshine in the first strain, heard
cyclones in the second and felt desol ition
In the last, for Miss Nelson was making
the Loreley sing. Mrs. Cavalli played a
setting of a Christmas hymn, and a study
that proved der LEM ist gekommen,"
eve with snow six inches deep.
Mrs. Brown has surpassed herself late
~ in the wav OF technique. For z
thing, she has been giving tremendous
great compositions that show her capa-
btlities, such as the fiery Tarantelle that
she played last night. There were two
other Liszt compositions by Mr.. Gustav
L. Becker, who was present as the guest
of the club, and played the companion
piece to the tarantelle and "Ls Rossig-
MOL" In the first, perhaps the most at
tractive piece of work was the gradual
ebbing away OF the final strains; in the
second, it was the thoughtful phrasiug,
the delicate accuracy of the runs and the
precision with which the theme was sus-
tanned, that made it SO successful.
Chadwick and Nevin were introduced
by Mr.. w. Hunter Brown, who read a
short essay on the former and explained
extempore about the latter. after the
manner of a recesslonal, as he was get
ting to the door. Mr.. William F. Bro wn,
sang Chadwick's Good Night" an
earnest, straightforward melody with a
fine accompaniment, and Nevin's setting
of 80 That We Two Were Maying,"
which the present historian is rash
enough to consider superior to Gounod's,
with the single exception of the climax
in the older composers song. Mr.. Dress
Ter, who accompanied Mr.. Brown. played
u Nevin love song with a somewhat rem
iniscens tleme. and the humorous little
study called "Narcissus' that people
seem to fancy lately. Miss Katrina
Green began with the most beautiful of
cradle songs, BEAT Upon Mine, Little
Heart" that would in itself prove New
in's claim to eminence, and sang also W
of Chadwfck's ST. Nicholas songs Tine
Dandelion," and that familiar verse about
the little girl VINO wore her hair in an &C.
centric name and was subject to fits of
total depravity, adding that there was
a little boy and he had a fur cap that he
wore right down on his forehead; when
he was cold, he was very. very cold, u
when he was warm he was torrid." She
also sang The Minuet." Mr.. Hunter
Brown sang Chadwick's .Miller's Daugh-
ter aud a Nevin song with violin obli-
cato.
In the impromptu, the guests were
given the great pleasure of hearing Mr..
J. H. Harper, by 10 means unknown in
his city, who sang "Israfel." AT the risk
Of telling Mr.. Harper what he has been
told before, it may be said that one of his
most satisfactory traits is the power of
producing a round, full volume of tone
without the least apparent effort. Mr..
Edward Groeschel sang "The Hunter s
Dream" a forceful, dramatic COM
position, and Mrs. Brown played
by way of Doxology, the Twelfth.
Rhapsodie HongroiSe. A novel
feature was Mr.. Posts cornet solo, the
theme of the opening glee at the last
Schubert, Mr.. Post has the rare gift of
itting a cornet solo to the size OF the room
and the soft, flowing theme had nom Of
the blatant tone that can make the instru-
ment Objectionable.
fwo weeks from next Thursday, the
next Fortnigtly will be held at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Durrie on Glen wood ave-
nue., There will be al opportunity to
hear the new JankO piano, during an
Evening of German Song"