The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-27

phrase tho genial doctor thus:
know it is a sin tcT Ib one to 9o: Il: and sri"
But th.ir music Is so thin That It's scarcely worth .
oh. tho denrsi
.Aftor which, II this. poetic blow has not Quit?
stunned the reader. | may venture to remind
s D,jH AMI Ia ,he Re, TTssPTe.si Lon Army ~ fem Or ", IS my % snmSo so n.
is BIZ no mo ms n now one. A Mile. Qhcrel1e u
think II wasl was so. successful at chamber
day Of r.nown that Chorlcy assures us The great
operTt writer, actually. treniblcd ON ,his throne
TO TO sSmsIiS nym y s%s,N Women mts cpBHR ns Where Us. s 20
their worksi Who plays them Yet they must
h.ve had rriends.
very faulty when strictly Judged: 'Clnrabel'
and Cccilc Chtmin idc and the late Mime. Clara
biti"nsi. / mty he an i-nortmus. hut / know OF
no others whose compositions arc above the
thinnest OF mcdiocriiy., Nine. Care Q has
reflective and not original. 4 Miss Emma
Steiner gave u whole con ort in New York some
chosira. too, hut tho dear woman only en- ioyed
n Jusco d'cstimc las LisEt would have called III
az among %,rSr ssh1 IlnT RS Gnl 60 inD' o e Ri:,o a Mt; ,s o6Se
called Robinson crasoc,s but, 9 ye gods and
b @nfi aia p the III ' sSaPss" not 81 PETIT 5o % ssisS
ssS Shnmsnn's f rcspc e%Gn ius sns FG so ie ,rned It %na
woiEpad' ed, one may s'arrely find a truly
melO lie subject or counter subject equal TO the
eternSilyo !orusG,tiye jno. Sch. .Hath, such as;
Tor eSomP'c, tn It Of N9s s Z a1t a. in the scson 4
chord. " the org IN. fugues G IN nor and f minor,
H. main theme Of t. r,er md p in, SIh't divine
memory. being out OF re 'ch o. my hooks.)
Now why, q it that nnassisteh women cannot
literature r. as some ask, but | would deny that
they cnn 20 y in literature, and ! ass nme that II
1t we're possible to get a female novel Or ESSAY or
sermon eviscerated from all m scuiine rciec-
tions, echoes. and assisting agencies. that the
resultant tangible hon at and unauthorized
feminin'ty would be a very etheritl and impon.
der ,ble entity and might 10 likoned 10 some
chemical solutions passed through a Swedish
al Ter.
Do you ask why women cannot accomplish
this ~ hieveme nt-not why they cannot compose
",arti klors," tut valuable music can an
TITO highest base OF music is moi 'he mclo 'ic
nor the harmonic. not the ecclesiastical nor tho
not the insirum, ntal nor tn vocal, not tho solo
nor the ronc rted. not the monophonic nor tho
polyphoniG' hSt The losirali THIS !; VII t yop
THE three Immortal Bs. as Won Bulow criled
tn m iBr h. Beethoven and Br hmsl. incontesti-
bly, owe their unspe,k he greatness and ever
increasing ~cffnlSent r nown to that one quality.
logical sequence TO anteceden's and postu-
latts. separate members OF expressed inquiry
anil sntis, %octory response. connected" las John
Stuart Min woul, have said, according to the
u w 81 rules una WITH inc lVlSl luTsiulIy.
in woman is her logical vacnity. Few women
can give a re ,son for anything IN the higher
rcLions OF intellectual research unless they are
pc ingognei an 90 che by a man.
MY darling Dolly, why 10 YOU persist in so
and so r asks the we.ried swain married or
olhcrwis /
q tec,use."
because VIII t r he persistA
"Oh. be nuse.' she persists
Now here g the whole story in a peanut shell.
The dear charmers are moi, logical. They
were not built in hat way" conseq uently In
music they are unable to write logical sequences.
which are the foundation stones OF dur bile,
valuable music; And the student will find h vt
no dura, le. valuable music can exist without
this 10 zeal %clement:, furthermore. that all
music thnt has prove to he the most y.lqab,e
inents OF III motto development, me o ic boz u
ty nd h,rmonic symmetry, corrc alive s :.
qpSnSe, and originality Of inception, some Of
even in iolk song. II may lie laid down as a
pretty general rnl" that a put"tively ttrst.class
senten.e is a hrst-class man or woman only
sent.d hythis afternoons programme I. suite
~ Ftsa.c!n- Aus der chc. ant he MT Willy per-
formed BY Miss Banks,., was IN illus,r lion OF
the IN sculine coaching through ears Of absorp-
tion. because neat, artistic. nj charming as it
certainly was, it was neverthe ess soaked
through and through with the atmosphere OF
The days VIII n %gnvottes and bourr6cs and sara
bGnds and ,our' mes were all the fashion.
r Erct n, tim. space. AMI locality prevent
VI "ih , oo " lAc % u II llIlI pIO
gr mme. viii. h, in spite OF the feeble attempts
o; MIR Towers little brochure. with It's amusin;
lille oanSy Mime, C Cara scRum mns1s cheek "s aR by
iowl with Bishop Littleiohn's dauGhtersD. has
failed to prove %nything more thin W all knew
dlsl ensnhle AMI rngeliC sex in It's right mf'icr,
but that that is neither in climbing trees. throw
Ing the discus. nor In wrestling with trombones.
Mr.. w. j: Hcndrrson's able and suggestive
paper on :" Music in Colleges claims a more cx-
tRufPf "a mi M naftf nj p ..ia y+ than ia hA-n n
sihlr. oMt my principal quarrel. with II is it's
Eeneralitiss and mErse,icahilitiss ms with Mr..
an unp-etentioi IL centlem n from a Western
town, 'EvHnston. n. II l 10 no crr.l stool up
and knox Mr.. Henderson's beautiful little
house %, pretty D int cards into a cock ed hat.
10y 8 mply stating that in 'cO ge. wher he W 8
prof ssor' the nvert.Ac mum er OF stu'ents. who
seven out OF a total o. 600. nj Of 70 h sexesi
some years ago Prot. J. h. Pain .. Harvard
Music that in Twelve years he had only found
four students OF harmony among the thousands
OF matriculants.
unknown in Grrm,n universities. and II letter
rom, Pro-. Oscar BrownlnH OF Kings Coil re.
ih% i il We're T" not for the ,s" SCh%r, h '" and s,ar es
condition Of thin, 5 over there those comlcal ex-
cGrese mes on classical, colleges called Pro.
|.Mg,. Do and Mus. BE" have Ions been
excepting old Father H,ydn, and he was
"tought up "a we AL know. by Solomon. II we
are 10 believe The biogrHphers.
All ngrce that IN prime difficulty Is to make
young FeOple like music. hut ! thought II strange
thai none o. thc speakers thai ! he I'd mentioned
decitm tory or O%pcraiiC music for children as The
only true way. Moreover. mono OF the wordy
contest .nts seemed to h We the slightest reAliza.
ton OF tho ftct tn t musical love ought 10 begin
long before youn : pcor,c Ket 20 be college stu
dents, nIih Schoo! o era" lsOmcthing yet
TO be learned ~ eirn q pr!agO ;ue-D l. destined
20 e the true -olycnt oil the present universally
knotty problem.
Taken hlto9 'ther tho Nineteenth meeting OF
the MAJ ion Music Teachers Association must
be considered AS having been a notable demon
strdiion OF an advancement o. musical interest
In certain qu rters. with the offensive shop.
kcepers, mountebnnks, an dcmagogic features
eliminate 1t can be- m o I powerful engin for
sold n tonnl progress In art in The future. The
apparent afhliatlon with tn Musical Manu-
script Society was a healthy sign. and too high
praise AN scarcely he given to the agencies that
br0,l. ut about such n h ply sympathy.
Tho hno singing o. Grace CIur,h Roy choir,
the. first sNmphony of Mr.. X. r. Shelley. the
highly schoN Il IL pi no vlrtu0sity OF Mr.. W. II.
SHERWOOD lone o. the great ~IlHnists OF the world
70 day, NJ ! esteem him TO bcl and Of Mr.. Paul
Hidden u hpi not the pleasure OF hearing The
others who z We r~ecitnls). ihr evident oneness
OF honorable effort 10. honor art on tho part of
the officers are worthy Of critical description
an certainly commanded my warmest graft
fuie N 4 ulthnnt Ia I do mt EnnIy ~ nj Jhnaa