The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-10
WSIC AND MUSICIANS.
Tht 2 Student Of the Conservatory Of
Music Hears and Sees.

charm and Voices That Have No In
.,iration r. A Number OF Things Of
General and Special Interest.
N E. conservatory, Boston. Mass. Jan.
rrs christmas holidays have vanished
.-. q. dream. as usual The tired shop-
iris had d little time TO brace up before
s .rnp-scedented January mark-down
.f.-~ and now the great multitudes sally
.,-r -1 see how they can best invest the
.,~sv dimes left over from the season Of
ro-.
The observatory dining hall has not
.s-1 on its holiday finery yet. and the
,msrous slender pillars are ringed and
thed with greenery. festoons Of which
sr swung from one end of the long room
+, fns other from post to post. and around
,t walls. The effect. especially when the
8 electric lights are on. is charming. But
,r YuIptide and the New Year are not
-fs occasions for universal rejoicing, as
with ms of the south. The Puritan hor-
rar real or affected, of the gorgeous
church DAYS. robs Santa Claus of his pres
t.r- us "a patron saint, and ! suppose the
New Year brings so much prosaic business
in IT'S train that people almost forget to
hone il viii be a happy one. ] went about
making generous gifts of my good wishes,
s though / had a monopoly of the good
fairy business, for everybody seemed a
#lr-ls surprised al the offers.
TIE Handel and Haydn Society gave the
qz hundred and ninety-siNth concert of
4 -heir eightieth season on Sunday evening,
q n " he al
: is the custom with the society, it was
-e3aated on Christmas night The players
were from the Symphony orchestra Mr..
C3rl Zerrahn conducted, while Mr. b. j.
Lang presided at the organ. / had for
gotten there was an organ in music hall,
when suddenly some deep reverberating
r.fa- sounded through the Violins and
vo1d-uiud Instruments
SAID ] to myself those are assuredly
or-an tones; and my eyes Travelled around
'r. vast. usly building in search OF their
o.-u Perched way up to the left Of the
Stage fay above the balconies, / observed
.-i50us something Ike d bow-window,
#ing with palanquin curtains Of dingy
raI Some of these We're drawn a little
apart and ] could catch a PARKWAY
.mn-e Of q music-page, before which
Sir Lang was doubtless sitting. What
objection there could be to drawing the
curtains entirely aside l cannot imagine.
There must be some tradition, some un-
written symphonic law which translated
would read. "Organists must be heard
aul uot seen" it must be very eerie to
81, mid-air Ike that with only one ray of
.lat falling upon the music page; the
great organ. like monster in the dark
before one. and fathoms below the play
't-. and singers shouting in the light
before au audience of thousands.
Music Hall is hideous it looks like an
architectural nightmare of the Puritan
Fathers, and devoted to the droning of
ti Seven Penitenual Psalms Perhaps
.that and the fact of its nintieth perform
lance, made the oratOr!o a keen disap-
luHtWaut 10 me There We're six hundred
-he chorus, and expected to be thrilled
ui overwhelmed with the grandure of
sound. But on the contrary, / felt the
BAH with the feeling that l had heard
g masterpiece of another era Of music,
rendered in a calm, cool and correct man.
rer on The part of the chorus, and a more
or Jess pleasing style on the part of the
sol1 singers. The bass, Mr.. Watkins
N'liS who is an Englishman,' was far
ud away the best of all. His enunciation
"aS clear as crystal, his voice fine, his
q }le of singing delightful; correct yet
lHI-Fidual, and not too precise, as was the
lse with the tenor, who made me think
q ot good, but slightly worn music-boX.
The much belauded alto, Miss Clary, was
distinct disappointment. Her voice
curious sombreness. without being a
I deep in register or quality, and she
& ans without inspiration. on Easter sun
oay evening April IA. the society will sing
oratorio, The Life of Man composed
them by Mr. J. c. d. Parker.
Who is one of the faculty of
be observatory. l was told that he has
been working on the composition for the
past two years and a half. and feels at
9ss for evening occupation since complet-
ing H. But of course he will receive an
oIAer musical Inspiration and will ply
rs busy pen again and again. He looks
me an oratorio composer with his thin
Ae lace in an lrOn-graY setting of hair,
q II7 4alh eyes at once kindly and satirical
Harkling behind his glasses. Mr.. Elsons
lectures ON orchestral instruments which
nave been interrupted by the holidays and
'a or two special occasions were re-
a ir"ed Yesterday. Mr.. Guentel of
w symphony orchestra, brought his bas-
4 soon and Mr.. Elson gave us a delightful
,"lh On that queer instrument, called in
any the Fagotto because it resembles d
'unale of fagots tied together. 1 had
ever thought much about it and never
..s looked closely at one before my ideas
u Delns chiefly in connection with Ten
I5son's
al LlSul nave the roses neaFd
ne flute, violin, bassoon'
7ha the sound of the name always sug-
,ss-el 10 me the booming of a sleepy
1iAu'e-bae in a flower garden on hot
-he day Truth to tell. my magma
In was not far wrong. This clown of
u o'cnes tra' has A deep booming lower
=-s,-r' and a singularly dry and fiat
'Ae one which was used with great
Mr. Elson told us, in Robert the
IN" 70 represent the rising of the nuns
Z" men graves When the bassoon is
~ employed for weird and gruesome eff
5 Il IS the instrument composers play
80 lcaI jokes with; both Beethoven
- Aendelssohn, great as they
-55-hoVen and Mendelsohn, great as they
W. 2 condescended to this use of it; nota-
+ NY III me PASTORAL Symphony of the for
aAd IN the latters Midsummer Nights
IAN where the 'fair-eared" Bottoms
7s Is depicted on the bassoon
"5 mis- drunken shores on the ophi-
On Christmas day a
-, composed by Signor Augusta
vas performed a St James church
5H'f Rotoli is a member of the Con-
,olY faculty. one of the best voice
-e's IN Boston, a fine singer himself
'Hposer of lovely songs. an accompa-
mat would inspire a wooden image
sung, and withal man of the world