Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-06


Mssou ever had an inspiration 1t was
that beautiful melody IA the Silver
Spring. have arranged q church tune
from it. and my choir sings it with
never-failing delight. 1t will not do to
undervalue Mason's gift for melody,
when he produced piece like that.
Dudley Buck, also represented on
this afternoons programme, was born
in Hartford in 1889. He has written
with pronounced success in every form
of music. and while never departing
from the very highest style always
clothes it with a charm, which makes it
pleasing alike to the scholar and diet
tante. His long association with the
church, his admirable knowledge of
the voice. the manner 4 which he
mingles the words and melody of his
music make him a favorite with the
choir master, and he has unquestion-
ably done much to elevate and enrich
the service of the church. 1.-THE Golden
Legend" won for him the $1,000 prize
offered by the Cincinnati Musical Fes-
tival for the best choral work with
orchestral accompaniment.
Just as Dudley Buck dominates in
the composition of church music. so
Reginald De Koven. the well known
song writer on to-day's programme,
has dominated the operetta stage. De
Koven was born in Middletown. Conn,
in 1853, and studied for work to
which he has dedicated his talents with
Richard Genee in Vienna. Among his
popular operas heard in this city are
robin Hood" Rob Roy" and 1.-THE
Fencing Master"
Another composer on to-day's pro-
gramme who is an honor to American
art is Arthur William Foote, born in
Salem in 1858. His writings are of
high order, and the range and variety are
alike remarkable. He is distinguished
in the coterie of composers to which
he belongs by the fact that his training
is wholly American. W. w. Gilchrist
is another American taught composer
of note. He was born in Jersey City
in 1916, and his writings include vocal
and instrumental forms. Two years
after Dudley Buck received the Gin
cinnati award, Mr.. Gilchist was sim
ilarly complimented for q setting to
soprano solo, chorus and orchestra Oh
the Forty-siXth Psalm, making five
such honors to his credit. AS dis
tinguished mentor and examp'ar to
the younger composers and as q fore
most musician must be named John
Knowles Paine. He was born in Port
land in 1889. To his significance Us a
composer Mr.. Paine has added the
honor of the first incumbent OF chair
of music in a leading American uni
versity.
George W. Chadwick, author of the
70 hn Worlds
Fair in 1898, was born in Lowell in
1854. He is one of Americas best and
most effectie composers, showing a dis
tinct leaning toward what may be SAID
to be the melodic predictions OF the
American people.
Neidlinger and c. B. Hawley, both
writer's of exquisite songs, are musical
ly represented this afternoon. lime
prevents specific mention OF ali. but
historians of American music will have
a wide field for admiration, among
Horatio Parker, professor OF music at
Yale; j. c. D. Parker, S. B. Whitney,
George e. Whiting, Frederic Grant
Gleason, Henry Holden Huss, Wilson
G. Smith, Benjamin E. Woolf, Arthur
Bird, Silas G. Pratt. Bruno Oscar
Klein, Harry Rowe Shelley, Arthur
Thayer. Homer N. Bartlett, Willard
Durr, Jr., Frederic Billiard, Homer A.
Norris, Edgar S. Kelley, A. M. Foer-
ster, Johann H. Beck. w. c. E. See
boeck, Henry Schoenfelt, Clayton
Johns, Joshua Phippen, Victor Harris,
Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Miss Margaret
Ruthven Lang, Henry Krocger, William
Ethelbert Nevin and Edward
Alexander Mcdowell who had for his
first teacher, Theresa Carreno. Mac
Dowell stands, by general consent OF
music lovers and connoisseurs, as the
most finished and accomplished Ameri-
can writer. He was born in New York
in 1861, and is now professor of music
at Columbia College. His orchestral
and his two sonatas,
the "Tragica" and "Eroica," are at
the very head of American music to-
day. So far as the future is concerned,
the American composer will be the
joint creation of Americas freedom
from conventional methods and in
herent predictions and capacities,
says Henry Krehbeil. The reflective
German, the murcurial Frenchman, the
stolid Englishmen, the warm-hearted
Irishman, the impulsive Italian, the
caring RuSSidHs VIII edcn contribute
his factor to the sum of national taste.
The folk melodies of all nations will
yield up their individual charm and
disclose to the composer a hundred
avenues of emotional expression which
have not yet been explored.
THE Present holds thee not, for such
vast growth as thine
For such unparalleled flight as thine,
such brood as thine.
The Future only holds thee, and can
hold thee"