The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-10-22

| A large and representative audience
| composed Of members Of the Pswtueket
| woman's club, together with number
| Of Providence club women. assembled in
Hutchinson hall, in Masonic building,
| yesterday afternoon TO enjoy papers and
music illustrative of the life and works of
| Robert Schumann.
In club parlance the meeting was char
| acterized as members afternoon
but the talent represented I'm the pro-
| gram. even though IL was the work or
/ members of the club, was OF distinctly
high order and the afternoon was In
deed "a feast OF reason and now or
SOUL
| The president. Mrs George NJ. Thorton,
presided over the gathering ana called
the meeting TO order shortly after
| o'clock The program was prepared un-
der the direction of the chairman OF the
music department. Mrs. Samuel Morris
| Conant and the assistant chairman. Mrs
| Marion T.. Mason.
The first paper, by Mrs. Edward l..
Johnson Of the Rhode Island Womans
club and past president OF the Pawtucket
club. gave brief account OF the life OF
the great composer and entered into
| description Of the characteristics and va
riety or his instrumental compositions. In
| this connection an interesting description
was given OF Schumanns orchestral
work and the more notable OF his SYM
phonies.
The paper was admirably illustrated.
| on the piano by Miss Margaret Kent
| Goodwin, whose selections were those
| four gems from Schumann, viz: In der
| Nacht" "Grillen," "Warum, 'Rufsch-
| wung"
| Miss Goodwin's Interpretation Of Schu-
| mann was simply exquisite will be
/ hN Nkh
| privileged 10 hear her at the Providence
| Art club and at private recitais In this
| city.
| The second paper OF the afternoon was
| BY Miss Marion Mason, the well known
4 music teacher of this city. Miss Mason
4 dwelt upon Schumann as a song writer
| Her paper was "A charming and particu-
| larly refined story of Schumann as
\ writer of songs. The paper was presented
| I'm delightful conversational way ana
| was interspersed with number OF Schu-
| mann's beautiful songs. The paper was
| In par.. as follows:
my paper. must be simply ribbon on
which to string a necklace of songs. II.
| ss Emerson SAYS An the world loves a
| lover, how deep and abiding must be
| the sentiment for such love as our
I hero whose Legacy of songs so valuable
| I'm the realm OF musical art, IL the spon-
taneous and irrepressible outcome OF his
eli Is found I'm the devotion OF Robert
Browning TO his gifted Elizabeth IL
has been said that Mozarts life was pan
oramic; Beethoven was volcanic; Mendel-
ssohn's was Kaleidoscope: Schumann's 3
| pa athletic, colorless and monotonous.
I'VE see him making his way through
| the cloud shadows, toiling upward over
the rugged path which brought him at
last to his mountain heights where lay
| repose' And IL 1t was his privilege To
. revel in the sunshine at the summit but
| n brief period IL was enjoyed with all
| tho fervor and intensity OF his being FIX
| tracts from letters To his mother show
! the romantic. emotional and occasionally
| the humorous side OF his nature.
"A journey to Heidelberg he lkens TO
a flight through hundreds of spring
skies lie calls nature that great wide
spread handkerchief of God embroidered
| with his eternal home. and serviceable
To man for wiping away his tears and
sorrows
"A pretty Englshman's speech is like
the whispering OF an angel, When ne
| heard Rossini sing IL was. so Schumann
wrote Frederick Wieck. as II God him
| self stood before him and let him look
| into his face.
Imagine one Of Schumanns tempera-
ment forced into the study Of law, which
he wrote his mother turns men into
grlstle and freezes men into ice, 80 that
no flower OF fancy can longer yearn for
the springtirne of the world
"schumsnn was early STEPPED In poetry
rather than music, the channels Of his
boyhood's influence being literary rather
| than musical. as his father was book
seller and pubisher--he had no musica
| ancestors, hut was graft on the tree.
He thought those so fortunate who drew
in music with their mothers milk there
| by consciously belonging to that grea
family of artists into which others like
. | himself make their way only by dint o.
| effort and sacrifice.
."schumann received IN verse and gave
, | out IN tones iiszt sums up Schumsnr
with the words. 'schumann is the creates
. music thinker since Beethoven
) III Mendelssohn was the very Tenny
| son and Wordsworth in music we find II
! schumann its Walt Whitman. The sonI
.. period of schumann's life was the tim
: OF his long courtshir ana marriage tn
majority Of his best songs heins writte'
the year when clara Week became nj
. | bride Perhaps a word cf his persona
appearance may he interesting
"schumann was rsther above medium
: height. ~ stately carriage and movement
: his features somewhat heavy hut re
deemed ~ = hish and well formed fore
head, HE eyes ana hair brown, While