The herald., 1897-01-10
! MUSICAL COLUMN
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A week of opera and at popular prices!
What vista OF enjoyment that opens
to the music lover There was time
when fair knowledge of opera was
regarded as essential TO q polite eou-
cation, but to be able to prattle lightly
of the cutest song from the latest bur-
lesque or to be able to hum or strum
the very newest two-step has sup
planted all that. Operas outside of the
great metropolis of the world, are gen.
orally failures because, chiefly, the
payment OF stars-and many Will not
go to an opera unless there is star
has grown eXorbtant and preposterous.
But there are those who love an opera
for it's own sake, and when rendered by
a good, all-rounG and even company,
sucn as Grau's is said to be, the old ia
vorites should always draw full houses.
The Feast of the Epiphany occurred
last Wednesday, but the ceremonies will
be duly solemnized this morning at ST.
Vincents church. when solemn high
mass viii be sung at 1030 o'clock. Herr
Josef Rubo has prepared an excellent
program for this service, and the choir
will render Haydn's Sixteenth Mass in
its entirety. Before the sermon Mill
lard's beautiful Veni Creator for solo
tenor and quartet, will be sung-solo by
Joseph f. Nuelle. quartet by Mines.
Collette and Rubo, Messrs. Nuelle and
Rubo. For the offertory the lively
Christmas canticle, Adeste Fideles, will
be sung--solo parts by Nine. Rubo and
Miss Dora HoveL The soloists in, the
mass will be Herr and Nine. Rubo Mrs.
l.. P. Collette, Miss Winston, Miss Dora
Hovel, Mrs. ]. Schallert, Messrs. Joseph
+. Nuelle, w. d. Defty and Il. NJ. Kill
liam. Prof. T. W. Wilde. the accom-
plished organist. viii preside at the or
gan.
Mathew Lock. born in Exeter, Eng
land. in 1885, was the first composer of
music for the English stage. He was in
structed in the elements of music as a.
chorister in Exeter cathedral under
Wake, the organist, and completed his
studies with Edward Gibbons, brother
of the illustrious Orlando Gibbons Lock
was employed to write the music for the
public entry of Charles II, shortly after
which he was appointed composer in or
dinary to that king.
His first publication was under the
title of A Little Consort of Three Parts,
for viols, or Violins, consisting of pa
vans, ayres and sarabands, the first
twenty of which were for two violS and
a bass. In Playford's Catch That
Catch Can are to be found glees by Lock
He set the instrumental music for
Shakespeare's Tempest, as performed
in 1913, and in the same year composed
the overtures and airs to Shadwelrs
Psyche, which he published two years
after
Lock contributed much to the music
Of his day. His sacred compo sitions,
some of which appear in the Harmonic
Sacra, and in BoYce's Collections of Ca
thedral Music, are exceedingly quaint,
while showing he was master of har-
mony. His music to Macbeth il that on
which his fame is built. ard which will
carry his name down the stream of time
It is, says The HarmoniCor. of his day
"a lasting monument of the authors
creative power and of his Judgment"
If the age in which it was produced,
and the infantine state OF dramatic
music at that period. be duly taken into
consideration, his work may be describ-
ed in the language of Dr. Burney as "a
blaze OF genius" Lock- died In 1877.
Saint-Saens new ballet d'action, ia
Vote, has been most enthusiastically
received at the Grand theater of Lyons.
The score is said to be full of charm and
vivacity. and the story, although simple,
is effective. JaVotte is young peasant,
who is so passionately fond of dancing
that she escapes through a window to
attend the village dance her parents
have forbidden her to see. There she
meets a lover and in a competition for
the best dancer he wins the prize, that of
being allowed to select a bride. He