The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-03
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OF He SINGERS
Captain Cunningham Tells Of His
Choice.
SANG FOR FATED c /. RI
Popular Richmond Yocaltsts Speak
of the Music and Verses That
Appeal Most to
Til M.
Gantain Cunningham Tells Of His
SANG FOR FATED CLUVERlUS.


n,anv n,iblic occasions should, OF All
the songs and hymns they slns' nase
some favorites. Some that they cas-
ure above all others, songs thal ndse
appealed to them, and hymns That ave
touched them.
This is true of all singers, ana e Is
certainly true Of all hearers someone's e
the singer and the hearer are La apai :
in their choice, but still there aie .he
favorites, and there will always NC 70
vorites.
Can't Frank W. Cunningham has prob
ably appeared before the pubic moro
frequently than any other local singer.
He has been Richmond's favor1te vocal
list for years, and it is quite ilkely thae
he has sung more songs and hymns l1ah
any other single person in the CITY.
NV favorite hymn he said. is
"rhe Home of the Soul that old hymn
that has been in the Moody ana sanhey
hymnaIs and in the Sunday-scnool
books for years.
..Everv time L hear it the words in
enira me and the music goes into my
very soul. used to sing 1t 1or CluVe-
RUS. the young man who was hanged
some years ago for murder, ana now
/ when hear the hymn, the face OF
that wretched man comes up before me-
He used to hang on to every Woro OIL IT,
and never tired of hearing 1t. The hrst
verse Is:
will sing you song Of that land.
The far away home of the soul;
Where no storms ever burst on the gilt
tering strand
While the years of eternity roll
"GENEvIEvE" HIS F'AVORITE.
'eMv favorite song is "Genevieve, the
song that was so popular several years
ago. 1t caught me the first time ever
heard it. Miss Jessie Bartlett DaVls'
the famous comic opera prlma oonna'
sang it then
..It is hard to pick popular favorites,
though, for so many people differ IN
TASTE
| Capt Charles H Phillips is another
equally as popular singer, who has sung
many pieces of music. Capt Phillips
is now tenor singer at st. johns Evan
eelical Church, at Eighth and Marshall
Streets.
..The hymn that touches me more than
any other" he said, is Nearer My
God, to Thee sung to the music by
Pierre Bernard. think that music IS
he sweetest for sacred words l ever
heard. nor do believe it viii ever be
equalled.
The Holy City, by Adams, is my
fayorite song, both in words and mu-
| sic. The first words are:
| "Iast night as lay sleeping.
! There came dream to me
I I sat in old Jerusalem
| Beside the Crystal sea-.
| "I think that music is perfectly heav-
! enly, and when the chorus. comes IN, IL
/! almost carries me into raptures.
| Mr. Moses May, the tenor IN Beth
how, M
| who has his favorites. His sweet voice
/ has been heard at many social and pub
! lie functions, but while he has faVorites,
| he does not thrust them upon his TRENDS
! and SO it is seldom he sings them
CHOICE OF MIR. MAY.
.oThe music of Campana's Fountain
] of Love Eternal, set to a hymn that
we frequently sing in our choir he SAID
! sis my fayorite, and combined with the
! words I think it makes one OF the pref
| test HYMNS ever put together. The first
| verse is:
(; we pray thee. Father, hide US
! Beneath Thy mercy's shade;
! And in thy pathway guide us.
[ Withhold not, Lord. thine aid!
| GAS for my favorite song, I should
| pick Always by Bowers, as my IA
! yorite. The music is perfectly lovely,
/. and it carries one off into fairy dells,
! with sweetest-throat songsters utterlnS
! tones. of sublime beauty all around.
| Nothing, to me, is SO lovely as Al
| ways"
Mr.. H Thurston Cardozo whose
name as a popular vocalist is almost a
household word in Richmond, and who
| now sings in the choir at the First
| Baptist Church. has no special faVorlte
among the hymns.
81 am passionately fond of sacred mu-
Sic" he said, "and out of so much good
| I am afraid that if I ventured to select
| a favorite I might ind another mo-
ment later.
But have favorite song" he con-
/, tinued, The Palms, by Faure. strikes
! my fancy, and I'd rather hear that once
{! a month than almost any other SONG
I twice a week. The music is not fal
! from the sacred. and is not such as tc
! bar it from choir offertories."
The famous festivals of 1.-THE Three
/ Chors." Hereford. Gloucester and Wor
cester, will be held this year in the first
| named place For the first time the com
n1ittee of the Three Choirs has given &
commission for an original work to az
American, Horatio Porter, whose "Hors
/ Novissima.'' is much admired in England
The new Hereford cantata is called by The
composer can extended work Tor choru: