New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-11
SHE SANG FOR THE QUEEN
NINE. ANNIE GREY TELLS OF HER AUDI
ENCE WITH VICTORIA.
HER MAJESTY WAS WE'LL PLEASED WITH THE
SCOTCH LAssIE's INTERPRETATIONS OF THE

HER MAJESTY WAS WELL PLEASED WITH lhH
SCOTCH LAssIE's INTERPRETATIONS OF THE
SONGS or HER NATIVE LAND.
chor,auoua circles have been regaled the past
summer by a unique novelty. which is about to be
received at fashionable houses at Lenox and later
Z, New-York This latest foreign diversion Is
woman trJubodour who revvihes In song ana
story Scotand's golden age-the lays ana LEGENDS
inseparable from Walter Scott and Robert Burns
zone must spend the vacation somewhere
said Mime Annie Grey, In rccounting to
Tribune reporter her Interesting career as Uou-
badour In the British Isles. Come TO America. see
the country meet the people was suggested, ana
an I came | expected to return before TINS Dut
Scotch songs seem to have struck responsive
chord wherever they have been heard ana NY en-
Cagcments in England, which were mace UP ~
March have all been cancelled and nope ~ ''"
and sing nv way into the hearts Of the American
ueople especially the women. Such "o"u''iu
women never met anywhere My mother anu
r,,rvel at their energy intelligence and enter
prise" " ,,,.
AT Saratoga Nine Grey gave one OF her uh'p"e
entertainments for Red Cross benefit
"scotland's heart and soul have been with Amer
tea in this war" she said. An the officers eNe'F
,crson Of distinction in the American Army ana
NAVY are as we'll known 10 us "a 10 AH""o"''''
Tho war worked an innovation unheard or IN SEQ
land before We observe you know the 9aoo'''
mos, RICHLY. rarely cooH. ride. DO any serVIe "o'N
ON that day But Glasgow stood aghaSt 'n' Sun
1ay America won her great victory. us leauinR
newspaper issued four extra editions Never oe'V''
u,s a Scotch Sabbath desecrated
uno Grey was trained FOR orntorio and graho
,ro,, a, the ROYAL Academy OF London. She In
hori,s her musical gifts from her mother, hlsny
occomplishcd pianist and yOlinist Her mo'h'I i
nor accompanies in her song-iecture recitdls'
what turned YOU from the opera 10 the song
lecture neld?" WAS asked this v.vacion' ",'Ie
woman whose bonny presence smacks of native
heather
"protessor John Stuart Blacke." VAS the reply
go, nv ,oturn 20 Scotland shortly after had won
the gold medal at the Royal Academy ne' 'ne
professor VINO was giving his famous lectures OH
the Scottish hards A. his request ] travelled Win
him and Illustrated his lectures by singing tne o'd
songs. . -
Abandon oratorio and opera he urged 'Inere
,r hundreds who can Sing q we'll as. II not bot
ter than YOU but there * no one living VINO sur
passes You IN interpreting the soul OF our Ola oc''
,sh lays
Before his dcath-hs was then an old man. past
l cIghty-he called me 70 him and said he wanted me
TO continue hls work | prepared the manuscript OF
my first lecture entitled The Lays. Lifts and Leg
ends NJ Scotland. ana submitted it to him. Since
then | have added Sir Walter Scott AMI Robert
Burns and have gone deeper into their history I
,nInk than dii Professor Blacke. All the songs
sing have been arranged by myself and my mother
They cannot be- bought BEFORE coming 10 America
I was alwnvs accompanied by The piano Now
these old songs Of the troubddours which antedate
the bagpp- always sung TO the harp. Why
not get A harp. | thought and let Scotch lovers In
America hear them rs did their remote ancestry
had a harp made. perfect fac-simile Of the an
ciept scotch harp In the collection Of the Duke OF
Argyll II WAS tuned in r Hat. All chimes are
tuned In + Nat. q told that the musical in
In, tf, pyr fbl a lSc I'm
the same key.
"'I can't sing everything in fiat said to the
harpmakor. who ingeniously inserted series OF
stops by which IL can be- tuned 10 any key. While
he was making 1t practiSed on an Irish harp X
will be a surprise TO England and Scotland when
they hear the harp. but America gets the nrst
strains OF the ancient instrument.
Nine Grey has Il picturesque wardrobe OF the
typical Highland dress. Five years ago she sang to
Queen Victoria This priced experience Is not with
out Interest to Jeffersonian democracy familiar with
White House informalitcs.
1T vas altogether unusual. am told by profess
sional artists who have been received at Ba.mora
said Nine Grey 1T came about In this WAY: was
visiting AT the country of the Earl OF Hadding
ton one wet day which Kept everybody Indoors,
the Dowager Duchess OF RoSbursh drove over In
her carriage The Earl asked To sing some
Scottish songs for the Dovaser. She much
pleased.
" How they would interest Her Majesty she
said Wouldn't you like to sing for the Queen"
"Of course. | assured her nothing would give
greater pleasure. and said that would 20 TO any
part OF the kingdom for the honor the privilege
sing before Her Majesty.
RECEIVED BY THE QUEEN.
six weeks later received Il cordial letter from
the Dowager who of the Queens brides
maids and OF her closest friends. saying Her
Majesty would be pleased TO receive An official
invitation followed. The Queen was at the time at
Balmoral Castle November 10 the date named.
That night at 10 o'clock drove with my mother TO
the castle Two lades-in- waiting received us In a
palatial bedroom A wood fire cracked. and d table
laden with refreshments-fruts. champagne
and every delicacy Imaginable I critically IN
spected by the ladies waiting. Thanks TO fire.
quent consultations with Lady iIaddington and
acquainted, my toilet confoimed to the require
ments. II there had been the slightest deviation
the ladies' would have rectiied IL before my
[ entrance the drawlng-r)om. The corsage must
be decollete. Had mine been too low the ladies
would have covered II; too high they would nave
lowered II That ~ their business. Her Majesty
objects TO suede gloves. Only glaze kid Is toler
ated she dislikes artificial flowers in the hir or
on the gown. Happily. my couture and train
loaded with white pumeS, which she greatly adj
mireS.
AT 1890 preceded by usher In scarlet coat
knee brooches and powdered wig, and followed by