The age-herald., 1901-10-20
1.-The World of Music....
BY WILLIAM RYAN.

AM RYAN.
 music to be sung in the churches. except on occasions. But could any music pc more elevating, more churchly or more divtnely moving than Gounad's SI Ceciia which was heard at St Pauls last sun day and which will be heard there agalh today? I could name hundred masses that are infinitely more spirituaLzlng than any music outside of the Cathonc church.
 Those persons who speak of the ceie- brated masses to which l al1ude as op- cratic are devoid of knowledge. taste and musical feeling. And they are inconsist- ent, too, for they listen without protest to vaudeville melodies sung in ther choirs and to marches from wagner music dramas played on the organ. UT if they be Episcopalians they some times hear Te Deum music transcrioed rom Lohengrin and other works or wagner Most of this Wagner music IS pagan Tn spirit, but artistically considerea N ID supremeiy great, and therefore peionss to the true and the beautiful. but so Is Plato great literature, ana tne xSnes of Milo great sculpture. yet neither wss- ner, nor Plato nor the Venus Is suIeo ior the church.
 By and by when more people come to have an intelligent idea of music ana ,', something like spiritual insight there VII be less inconsistent and ignorant discus- sion touching church music. , It is a noteworthy fact that or the iour large chorus works which Theooore Thomas has selected for the Cincinnau festival next spring two of them are masses, Bach's B minor and Bernozs Requiem.
 The Birmingham Choral Society will have regular weekly rehearsals, begin l,,4,, T%,,>e ,foht festival in April. They will study Horo Novissima,' the Skeleton in Armour and the "Consecration of music for the festival, but in addition to festival work they will rehearse the Meistersinger music for the Evan Williams concert, which Is to take place at the Jenerson Theatre, November H, under Choral So- ciety auspices.
 As Nordica is to sing in Birmingham in January next James Huneler's remarks about her triumph in Munich last month on the occasion of the opening or the Wagner Theatre will be read with in- ferest.
 "Nordica rather startled the natives by her artistic singing" writes Huneker. ''Her Isolde is a familiar assumption to us, but for Munich 1t seemed revela- ton. I suppose the fact that a woman could sing the music without bowling
 
 enthusiasm. She wore some gorgeous costumes and wore them bravely. As there were no excisions made In the score the American soprano had mucn more to sing with Brangaf1e in the first and second acts and over Trstan's body in the last. I have heard her give the Liebestod with more volume. though never with such sorrowfut tenderness"
 
 | Paderewslki will land in New York in February and will proceed to. make a | three months tournee of the United | States. He will give seventy-five piano l recitals which will net him over $100. GOO. | He has not been booked in Birmingham,
 but as he played to over 5000 here the last time he made an American tour he l is almost sure to call again.
 and who are receiving a hearty welcome, 1 are MT. and Mrs. verdaree and family, and Dr. and Mrs. Bishop of Brunswick, | Into the lumber business. They have rented the Dorgan house in. Dauphin | Way and moved in this week.
 A Mobile wedding of the week was that
 of Miss Sara Wilkinson and MT. Hiran,
 Griffing, which took place on Wednesday
 morning at 12:45 at the St. Frances street
 Methodist church. MT. W. P. Dickinson
 officiating. The matron of honor was
 Mrs. William Wright of Meridian, Miss, | and Mir. E. T. Horton was best man. The
 ushers were Messrs. W. E. Kennedy, | John Moufton, Amos Buck and J. s. Barret An orchestra and fine choir rem | dered beautiful music several solos be- | ing sung. The church was eiaborately decorated with palms and pink and white | out flowers. The bride, who is beauti- | ful young woman, was gowned in a cas- tor colored cloth suit with picture hat to match and carried Bride roses while the matron of honor wore pastel blue cloth | gown and carried Bridesmaid roses. MT. | Griffing Is chief clerk to Mir. W. p. Ken nedy of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and Is highly esteemed by the road which | presented him with chest of silver and | furnished his room completely. Miss | Wilkinson is a niece of Mrs. Barret, and has many friends in this city. MT. and Mrs Grifing left after the ceremony for an extended trip through the East. | MT. and Mrs A. J. Riddle and daughter, Mary Dean. are at home again and are stopping at Mrs. Harry Randalls. 1 MT. Hannis Taylor expects to go to
 Dublin next summer to have the cap and | gown of the University of Dublin con | fered upon him. AS this is an honor
 that has fallen to only four other Amer jeans Mobile is justly proud of her dis