The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-29

Noiy lluCil' dulnlTe HeT. OuT AlilerlCdI
ushers are so much more expeditions
aud hospitable, 1t seems to me.
Dec. ID am just home from DIR.
Bridges second lecture, about which
cannot forbear telling you. You see
the other day was the anniversary OF
the death of Mozart and so the Doctor
seized this opportunity to give us a talk
on that composer Dr. Bridge is, as
said before, the organist at Westmins-
ter Abbey and is n collector of every.
thing interesting in the way of music
such as autographs, old manuscripts
and such things, besides old instru-
ments. / took coplous notes of his talk
1t was very instructive. One thing he
said that was new to me was that Mo-
7art was very fond of the minuet which
he danced beautifully. We all know
what an exquisite gentleman Mozart
was, but the interesting thing about
this was that a string quartette which
was then to illustrate some of the
music, played an unpublished minuet
which Mozart wrote for himself and tc
the music of which he danced more fire.
quently than to any other. This was In
manuscript, under glass cover but II
was played nevertheless. DR.. Bridge
was the favorite pupil of the late SiI
John Goss, who was, in his time, the
| pupil of old Thomas Atwood, and
| Thomas Atwood was, about 120 years
ago, the favorite pupil of Mozart him
self Now, all of Atwood's exercises in
the different kinds of composition were
corrected by Mozart, his teacher, who
also wrote frequent examples for his
pupil, and often composed little things
like the minuet of which / spoke, which
he presented to Atwood who preserved
them all, and brought them home to Eng
| land with him. Upon his death he be-
queathed these to his pupil, Sir John
Goss, who In turn gave them to Dr.
Bridge just before his death. The Doc
tor keeps them in two glass cases, but
we We're allowed to see them. Signol
Alberto Rardeggu, a professor at the
Academy, also brought ten pieces OF
Mozarts music, all of them unpublished
string quartette and double quartette
Ghings. These he would not let go out
of his hands, but 1t happened that had
the pleasure of holding them in mine
anyway. / was standing at his side
closely pressed up to the piano by the
crowd back of me- and / inadvertently
said, aloud, as he leafed them over
"Oh, / wish l could touch them" when
around he turned and grabbed my hand
In the funniest manner and laid it fiat
on the MSS! Then he took them and
put them between my thumb and first
finger, saying, Now, little girl are
you satished?" l was covered with
confusion that had made a goose OF
myself by thinking out loud. Every
body laughed at him, he is such a funny
little old man. His head is all bald
and shiny and as round as a ball, al
most. He only has few little white
curls near his collar. He is very old
and dreadfully eccentric, his pupils say.
Some Of Mozart's Manuscripts.
The MSS, were all written rather
daintily and neatly dated, some of them,
from 177G to 1855 and 1856, and had cor
rections to Atwood written in his own
writing besides some little notes to At
wood, as Wait for me until three and a
half, when 1 will return" with his
autograph. So l had the happiness of
seeing many things written by his own
hand; one of them, which / ought not
to mention, was a correction made by
him, of one of Atwood's exercises and
above it the trenchant, but uncompli-
mentary remark, You are an idiot"
He must have been out of patience with
his pupil. Teachers do get so some
times. | have an extensive experiment.
al knowledge of that fact.
have been very busy lately, and
have not had time to go about sight
seeing much at all. / shall begin soon,
however, to try ITO go to at least one
point of interest week, and so get
some little idea of the wonders of this
great place before my year in London
is gone, and with it its opportunities.
l have so many lectures and concerts
to which | want to go at night, be-
sides my studies, which / must try to
attend to during the day, that my time
Is full to the brim. And right here let
me say, too, that | am perfectly aware
THAT l make many a mistake, in thes :
hurried letters which l send to you, for
which errors please accept my apollo
gies now for every one which creeps in,
and then 1 won't have to keep apologize
ing. They are scrawled off very hur-
riedly and | never have the time either
to read them over or to correct them IL
| did, So lust take them IL Won taka
them at all, as very hurried, breathless
scatter-brained jottings down of some
of the many bewllderlng things that
happen to a young girl in the worlds
largest city.
Some Pictures Of Hades.