The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-06
SECOND SACRED CONCERT
Given in College Hall Under the
Auspices Of Cathedral Choir.
REV. +. l.. MNALLY'S LECTURE
lie Paid an Eloquent Tribute to the
Genius OF Hay dn- Piano Solos by
Miss Lula Spieske. OF
Hartford. Conn.

The second sacred concert under the
auspices of Prof. w. p. Schilling and
St. Peters cathedral choir was held last
evening in college hall. and the attend
ance was large Notwithstanding the
zero weather. The exercises began
promptly at O'Clock.
a programme of ten numbers was
rendered. those who took part were the
members of the choir, Miss Lulu
Spieske. concert pianist of Hartford.
CCnn.: Alfred Wooler, tenor soloist at the
Elm Park church: the choir of st. Mary's
church. Dunmore: the Scranton Saen-
gerrunde, of the South Side; Miss Sadie
Dougherty. of Dunmore: Miss Lillian
G.. a. Hammett. accompanist, and John
II. Watkins. who kindly consented to
appear instead of Il. j. Thomas, bass
soloist at the Elm Park church. Mr..
Thomas is i'll and could not be present.
The first number on the programme
was rendered by Mrs. W. =. Schilling.
soloist, and the cathedral choir: the
piece they sang was "'The Marv'lOus
Work" from Haydn's Creation" This
was given with Il brilliancy that won
merited applause and prepared the au-
dlence for what was to follow.
Rev. F. Z. McNaliy. assistant priest
at St. Patrick's church. West Side, de-
livered a lecture on Haydn. The speaker
was grand master of the art OF instru-
mental music. Rev. Father McNally
did not wish to emerge as critic; he
felt that he is too great lover of music
and too earnest a devotee at the shrine
to become critic.
Music the " Whisper OF Angels.
The strain of music vibrates through
every human life. but it IL very often
rendered unharmoniOus through the
dlscord of human misery and wrong
and the discordant notes of mans inhu-
manity to man. Music is the whisper
of the angels and the universal language
OF every human heart. The public in
terest In Joseph Haydn centers in his
musical career. He had a very short
childhood: he lived only for music. cared
only for 1t and his last regret was that
he could not live longer He was born
March 81. 1882 and died May 81, 1909.
aged Il years.
His father was wheelwright. They
lived In the lower confines of Austria,
along the Danube river, and when Jo-
seph was six years of age friend came
to the house and saw the musical genius
OF the boy. An anecdote illustrative of
the orecocity of the youth at that ten
der age was related. This friend took
Joseph with him to town; the day they
arrived there was procession I'm honor
of the king. At the last moment 1t was
discovered that the drummer Of the
leading band had become Ill.
Young Haydn practiced a few hours
on tub with q meal sack drawn over
1t, and when the procession started he
took the drummer's pace and never
once did he get off time In his beating
Of the drum. He was so small that
hunchback had to be got to carry the
drum for him.
At the age of eight years he went to
st. Stephens cathedral at Vienna and
sang In the choir until he was eighteen.
when his voice gave way and there was
no further use for him. He was an out
cast. hungry and penniless on the strets
of Vienna after losing this position. A
friend came to his assistance and gave
him temporary relief. out Haydn made
up his mind that determination, perse-
verance and hard study would encom-
pass his success as composer.
beginning Of His Troubles.
His mother wanted TO see him study
for the priesthood, but his father was
onposed To a religious lIf,, for the vo,,nr
ppSeT man IN his twenty.sirbtb % M we wesr srus he
married and that was the saddest eni-
sode in his career: then all his troubies
began. He had fallen in love with a
things OF this world. She had begun to
prepare herself for the cloister and she
did enter 1t. Her father, not wishing
to lose such genius as Haydn for a
son-in-law. persuaded him to marry the
Oldest daughter of the family.
He did so and she turned out to he a
very unlovable wife: her ambition was
to squander all her husbands money.
They spent forty years of miserable exc
istence together and she died in 1900.
The oratorio, Creation" Is what
Haydn's fame rests upon. He wrote it
in eighteen months. Handel wrote his
Messiah" In twenty EIGHT days. Haydn
was sixty-fve years of age when he
started on his great work. The speaker
closed his lecture on the great COM
poser with q noble IT, ibute to his re-
ligious qualities. that in bis music
sparkles of devotion are always shin
ing.
The audience was next treated to two
delightful piano selections by Miss
Spieske. Her first was Chopin's "Noc-
turne:" op. 15, No g and the second
was Mozkowskis "Melodie;" Op 10,
No. !. Her playing evinced the touch
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