The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-29
Some Points
About Music
in Hous ton
and Elsewhere

/ Z" McDowcH's songs. He IS musician for
OH Americans TO love and bc proud OF.
tie Is undoubtedly geulus--'not' ms Philip
Hale once remarked. "a Boston gcuius.
but real genius"
re has the faculty OF evoklng tears
70 me listener with a single chord or mo1u-
iallon; He never writes unless he has
something new and Interesting 10 say, and
When iSn he has said Il he stops;
lhe most pOpu ar of the Mcdowell songs
Is probably Thy Beaming Eyes, aud q
iuliy deserves its vogue
/ mere Is special charm IN all the songs
/ comprised In the collection entitled Eight
songs tonus 49,. For three of thcnl-Songs
ol trees and birds aud brown eyes aud
!eSr Mcdowell has written llts own poems,
which have the sune Imaginative. roman
II character as his music. The Robin
Sings IN The Apple Tree IS. It's suhdued
NOE OF Woe, is~one OF the dearest OF mod
rooms tn the Cedar Trees hears on every
bar The stamp ~ Mcpowclrs personal
charm. But the greatest OF these eight
songs Is "Thc Sea" which James Huncker
has ca lcd the strongest song Of tue sen
since ,Schuhcrts Am Nicer" Mr. Finck
( saws, Of it, III is not only the best Of all
but II is one Of the best hundred songs
/ ever written, the world over"
! II Is lucky for the cause OF American
\ music thai Mcdowell dccided-it was mere
ly question Of choiec-to income a com
poser instead nf a professional poet
We have had several great poets but
the poetic quality IN our music had hccn
As thought travels along these lines about
combined musicnl and poetic genius, the
memory of our Southern poet musician,
sidney lantcr, comes With rush OF ten
/ dcrue,s gthat sets the hcnrt aElo~
I Let Ms talk Of him some sunday before
/ long
In this part Of Chrstendom, by the law
/ Of loug.tsnnllshcd custom, tho birth of chc
/ Prince Of Peace is celebrated With almost
| every sort Of noise And noise is the oppo
Site Of music
! Even those musical events which had
been appointed to come on during rnrist
mas week have been postponed until Jan.
uary. -
rhe Ladies' Friday Musicale win hold its
ncNt meeting with Mrs. LIlard during tue
first week Of the New Year.
The Creation" choruses to be sung In
celebration of the erection of the organ IN
the synagogue on Crawford street Will
probably he heard this coming week.
The only concert set for Christmas week
which held It's date was that OF the Richard
WAGNER Concert company, given at Saeng ~
hnnd hll last night
What halo Of tradition aud glamor of
romance excite the associative memory nt
Tue suggestion of Christmas carols being
Dcccn'hSr "a
So man, descriptions in old English nov.
els of the waits singing Christmas carols
like
God bless you, merry gentlemen;
MAY nothing you dismay,
! etc, our own washington lrNlng NNuN
pictures VI yuletidc scchos at English conn
Try homes ph' most vi ~ 'h' no c11 , nlgSS
+ N"ti ~" -. - -, ry,,F -, "a
B.css U.s. Every one.
II was : sweet 'houenu uluPHS MICA
Il"Wt''u tn' ~" Nh dist N,,ao,
.nuI'n .,"t, ~" ~ 'oa,,,ifr} Tb,istnoe ~, o
iahc 10 revive lnts au''l"u ~ s'i'!"s ,t W.
custom mere ana lheN crprl'eu "u' KY IL
l,An NOS tInt, l., r,n,nors Most ahi
' '"N' w ~ Ts,il. No io, vi"it"d tb
MONIES az i Ir fricnds ma IN rerr roynliy vol
ron.od everywhere
They sang 'Hars, ne HeralG AnEesl1
Shg nl ~ i-iiiig sSI -, Cs,nc M, H.
Midnirhj clear" 49,
Many of af chG IF h. pg1p nS. y wban naT T
pCNcr used to tske the choir bows ont "a
sing '"'"lN q" CHRISTMAS WV
Nus, n., w"s au hn hor1av nrogrom en,c..
CIV.
The musical part of the High scnool pro
gram WAS exceptionally inc, Miss Bcssi
iiughcs sang .'1hc Hcralds OF Heaven, by
Sg %oaiifn IG D noHcd 'T by Master Mood,
Dawson. A.. r,r,
( 'lEf 'hHstmho 'hIVh uus,' gHut, c
cokc, was 'AquiNi''iA ~ Y,mIS s" iSroddis