The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31

and filed me with unutterable rap
J ture and all could do was to weeI
With emotion. But this German bust
ness tired me aRfully and slept right
| good at times. / can sleep bolt upright
and never move. When the music
was soft and sweet enjoyed IL, but
couldn't see anything hardly. Sieg-
sword and liked that old-time black
man In front of me with a'big black
ostrich feather in her hat and she
bObbed 1t around so didn't even see
the anvil cut in two. It's an outrage.
The lady behind me had no such OBJ
stacles. There are no feathers on my
head. The Slink of the hammer ar d
and the screech of the file were good
and the mnsic chimed with both de-
lightfully. Siegfried is q good black
smith and ought to follow the trade In
my opinion. wish they would sing
In English. I'll bet there were not
ten In hundred of that audience who
who understood word that was sung.
They go there because 1t is conside red
the thing to do. 1t Is fashionable. OF
course there was sweet music and 80
there is in church or in the parlor
or In o minstrel. show and it don't
drag along for hours. Siegfried had
to kill q dragon and 1t took him a half
an hour. 1t was drag on sure
enough. L could have killed him in o
minute with that magic sword. But
the birds did sing most sweetly and
that lady that was hidden up in the
trees-ah, that was delicious. / liked
that. The drums and horns all hushed
for that. Sometimes when the whole
orchestra was In full blast fiddling and
blowing and drum beating for dear
life AMI stopped all of sudden it
scared me. / thought something had
bursted or the boiler had collapsed or
the air brake come uncoupled. The
suddenness' always awaked me and
once | jumped so my wife noticed it
and asked what was the matter.
told her had Il slight palpitation and
was threatened with heart failure,
which | am. At times it seemed to
me the musicians were trying to drown
the voice of that woman that Sieg-
fried found asleep or dead in the woods
and sang uher to life agaip, but they
vioce in my life, but was sorry that
she was lame. She couldn't walk at
all hardly. My wife says she was just
tangled up In her shroud or maybe she
had been dead so long she had lost the
use of her extremities. She was the
star-one OF the great singers of tho
world they say, but she couldn't do
ustice to herself with all those horns q
blowing. Siegfried had found her
asleep In the woods reclining on q
mossy bank, and as he had never
before seen a woman he thought she
was an augel and wanted to wake her
but was afraid. For a long time he
,iptoed and clrcled and at last ven-
tured to touch her and his plaintive
voice seemed to plead with her to |
awake, but she didn't
BY and by he got bolder and leaning
over pressed his lips to hers and drew |
back as IL he had committed the un-
DardOnable sin. Well, of course, that
~aked her--of course it did and after
,hehad come to herself she looked low
ngly toward him and began to sing
Ind oh, such notes. = don't know
Hn@. she said and I don't care,
,ut there vas love "a it-lots of love
md he caught :ie malady and sang
rack at her and just such melody I
wake her up, though. / think I would
nave walked her In half the time.
But all operas have an end some
where, and this one finally closed just
n time for us to lose our train end we
lad to wait nearly three hours for the
lext one. This vexed me and con-
'idered myself the injured person, but
didn't complain mo never complain.
My wife and daughter say that it was
grand, and as l went there to please
,hem it is all right with me. 1t was
grand, gloomy and peculiar. They
lad read the opera before and
snew what the singing was about, and
hey told me how Tannhauser and Lo-
lengrin were composed nearly fifty
,ears ago and were introduced in Paris |
md Vienna and nobody liked them, I
Ind they went dead and slept for
thirty years until List took hold of |
hem and received them out of his
great regard for Wagner. He educat-
I'd the musical world up to Wagner's
and now they are played by
The week in Baireuth, the greatest
center in the world. BY the |
week Is meant that it takes whole
week to go through one opera, for 1t is |
not cut or abridged like it is overhere.
The company will play all the morn
ng and have q recess for dinner and |
in the afternoon and again at |
night and the next day and so on until |
the whole thing is finished. Merciful |
would become OF me If I |
nad to endure the like OF that
BILL ARP.
q. A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT O. WIN
TIJROP Al the lateat maatipo of the