The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-09
OUT AND ABOUT.

In the Musical Record for November,
Lieut.. Samuel Hathaway and the Wor-
cester music festival, with somewhat
amusing results. He says:
Music festivals generally lead to pro-
family and debt; the managers are then
regarded as a fair and easy mark for
the winged arrows OF the disconnected
and the scoffer; they that sit in the
gate speak against them; and they are
the song of the drunkards.
1t is not so at Worcester, Massachu-
sets.
/ make this statement boldly-as
though l were repeating the law OF
gravitation-for l have seen and read
1.-The spirit of the music festival and a
poem on music; dedicated, by permits
sion to the Worcester County Musical
association" The author is S. Hath
away, Esq, and the book was published
last month.
Mr. Hathaway is anthropologist, soci-
ologist, as well as poet, and he has
studied the Worcester festival in all it's
phases. When on the hilltops,' says
Mr. Hathaway, or in the valleys, a
God-gifted child Of song is born, its am
bition is fired to become a soloist of this
festival, and the world cries 'howdey'
% the Howe girl Of the northern hills
and he gifted sisters Of song" And
the poet at once bursts into song:
Music is the voice of love, all things else
But love dieth never
But keeps the soul alive forever and for
ever.
From pun and verse, Mr. Hathaway
dfl int
the inner eye the glory of celestial
vision. when soloists and chorus shall
join the choir round the throne with
their beloved founder. the festival of
nature will continue its musicale
Of singing birds and lowing herds,
And voice Of the melody of murmuring
stream
Fastening to the sea, and the hum of the
Gathering honey from flower and tree.
Oh holy week of song!
The festival of love divine,
That unites kindred souls
In the harmonies of immortality.
And now Mr. Hathaway by his rare
descriptive power, causes the most pas
Sionate press agent to turn green with
envy Miss Voigt stood like a queen
TO the pleading voices of Williams, Da-
vies and Miles, pouring into her ear
their loVe-pleading strains, TILL fired
with PASSIONS song she bade them fol-
low while she scared into the blue
ether, a bright star in the galaxy of
song
! make room for a glowing tribute to
the orchestra, chorus and conductor:
THE chorus, the upper four hundred
poured their torrent of melody like the
pillows of the rolling sea. The orches-
trial family of four and twenty viols,
with four and twenty masters behind
them with the great grandfather VOL
double bass, yet true to duty the cell
los sons, mellow harmony; the flutes
bird voice; the trombone blare, and
voice OF horns, as mellow as the old
time eleven o'clock horns'-fill all
hearts with floods Of harmony, while the
great leader, George w. Chadwick,
threw the powers of his soul into every
soul to unite them in the grand jubl-
lee of the forty-second anniversary Of
the Worcester County Musical Festival
association"
The poem Music was written some
years before the first of these festivals,
and is of no special application. What
do I say? Hathaway should be a name
held in honor by all newspaper men
who attend singing conventions. A few
years ago prominent officer of the
Worcester County Musical association