New-York tribune., 1896-10-25

American music means tire music Of the street band
end variety hall The Tribune believes that II has
shown that devotion TO the loftest Ideals In music
may be congorted with q patriotism which shall
exact for the American artist as sincere measure
Of appreciation and as full a o: encourage
ment as those which are given TO the artist OF The
Old World. 1t believes that there Is nothing incon-
s,sens in sush position II has not s put me & DfS TSs
best compositions produced by Europe. pui a. Aas
heard here V and judged on its merits il has me; the
american composer IN tns spirit because II oelieyes
cause /, thinks he ought 10 be codded 1t has had
no hypocrilcal praise for pre;enous medocriy ana
ing the conceii Of small men. who would fain
fsy asys .e ' DnR 0esf' a Hsn has o. glad
special gladness when composition by an amer,
70 bear "Si"si the marks iU sens Was occasion q
real rejoicing when Mr.. Thomas instead OF sending
te e ESxSRs openns C5 ., as. hs FAIR
had dene for the Centennial Exp9siS3n; gavf me ne
snd esrse W. rst Of whom
Sofs q nes Re5sA s g si d the Of
their art in Germany but both OF tnem nave siSen @
ASHAMED 10 be ACCOUNTED American musicians They
cause GO se' is an prodac but neither they
shrink from the native Iaoel
Mr. Chadwick is perhaps to-day the most indus
tyous as he is Of the most effective. OF Amer
ican composers. He is American TO the backbone.
one Of his ancestors having fought in the ranks OF
tho patriots at Bunker Hill. He has wondered at
times to places distant from his birthplace but
feels himself most at homo In New-England'
though the manner Of his music and the manner
Of his intercourse with his fellow-men disclose tho
eeniality and the broad liberalism OF the cosmopo-
lite He lives In Boston, where he laborr as o.
ganist Of the Rev. DR.. Miners church, as composer
and az teacher. and he is tho conductor OF choral
society in Springfield. Mass. where every year hs
directs the festival of tho Hampdcn County Musl-
cal Association. His childhood home was Lowell
where he was born OIL November l3. lSA TheTe
was music in his fathers family and an eldef
brother gave him his first planoforte lessons Then
he became a pupil on the organ Of Eugene Thayer.
Whom about twenty years old he went West as a
teacher Of music, and gave the labors o. year 10
modest lea ao e.ef N in eSandon to
enter upon course Of the advanced training which
epsie Gnd during 1879 Tndsr Khsin6sTssr sr az az
American M susjec It It was an Overture entitled
rip Van Winkle." which had performance at
s'Ss's S as
sfstss % and dS was Invited BY tho festival manage:
nsnt 70 conduct II ne elected Boston .as,,n az his
Tssrss.i9n @ r the sumner on Marisas XneyaSTd
os s sy @ IS
tS %sgne han can ps be fsen oa TneH Mp anG
and ar. and Mrs Arthur Whiting are together
the ladies devoted to their husbands: the hus-
bands sincerely Interested , In each % o.hers sue
Yale was q pupil OF Mr. Chadwick before going 10
Munich where hs and Mr.. Whiting now "a resi-
dent OF w-YorD wero fellow-students.
Mr.. Chadwick has composed in nearly all forms.
largo and small In New-York we have heard more
Of his songs than anything else In public concerts
within ten years recall "Nocturne and Before
the Dawn" sung by Theodore j. Toedt on Decern-
ber & 1886: Good Night" sung by Miss Louise Roll
wagen March 30. 1887; 'She Loves Me- and Sweet
Wind that Blows" sung by Frederick jameson on
November 10. 1857: Before the Dawn" and "she
Loves No." again. sung by Miss Hallenbock on
April e. 1884, and "Lullaby" sung by Miss Helen
Dudley Campbell. February IS. 1890. or mis- choral
works New-York has heard THE Song of the
Viking" for mems voices December q 1886: 'Tha
Lovely Rosabella." cantata for solos. chorus OF
mixed voices and orchestra (November 81 lsso,;
'Phoenix Expirans" December Is. 1892 and "The
LILY Nymph" December Z. 1880. string quartet
IN d major was played at an american concert in
Chickering Hall on November %. ISL; tho Ale
gretso scherzando Of hls second symphony In B-hat
Mt Tho Tribune's sem-centennial celebration on
c6icsrt Of the Arion Society on April Il. 1883. ana
SGaln by the Philharmonic Society last season.
3 HIS comic OPERA "Tabasco," was given here for q
oSSSea bsginning May II 1874 Hut this y an In