St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-11-25
An Evening of Scottish Song.

A delightful entertainment has been
arranged for next Tuesday evening when
Miss Amy Murray OF New York appears
in Music Hall for the benefit of Sunset
Home. 1t is entitled "An Evening Of
Scottish Song" and it is a lecture song
recital one hour and half long. Twelve
or Is songs are chosen not only for their
melodic beauty, but for the illustration
OF various phases of Scottish life, charac-
ter and history. They are introduced
by such explanations of their origin and
historic association, and Of dialect, as
may render them easily understood. The
folk.songs and lyrics OF the Lowlands,
and the Border ballads, are accompanied
upon the piano. The songs of the
Highlands, in the original Gaelic, are
sung to harp.
1t might be said that Miss Murray's
authority was established at the recent
Highland Mod in Dundee-an annual
competition, presided over by His Grace
the Duke of Argyll, and instituted for the
purpose of preserving the Gaelic music.
language and literature. Here Miss
Murray entered into competition with
Highland singers, and was awarded
Lord Archibald Campbell's prize for the
best rendering of Gaelic song, to her
own accompaniment upon thesclarsach."
the ancient Celtic harp.
few names have been selected from
many who are glad to testify to Miss
Murray's charming personality and
ability to perform all she promises: Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land, Mrs. Laurence Hutton, Princeton.
N. J., Sir A. c. Mackensie, Roval Acad-
emy of Music, London, Rev. DR.. Henry
VanDyke, Princeton University.
After DR.. w. H. Drummond, the
,, Canadian folklore poet, heard Miss
Murray he wrote her as follows:
Your rendering of the Auld Scots
Sangs reminds me of Neil Munro's sum-
! ming up of piper's qualifications; To
the make of a piper go seven years OF
his own learning and seven generations
before, and if it is in, it will out, as the
: Gaelic old.word says
: You, Amy Murray, Judging by the
> manner in which you render the songs
: of Albainn, possess the hereditary advan
= tages of the seven generations before,
;, otherwise you could not make the Celtic
! heart vibrate to every note you sing
II But with you it is in, therefore, it must
! out"
i The press is loud in praise Of Mis-:
e Murray. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
says: Her deep sympathy with tht
songs she sings, her thorough knowledge
of their history. and her perfect mastery
of all the details of the work which sht
s has set out to do. make her singing. de
J.. lightful. She moved the large company
from laughter to tears at will.
We give herewith a specimen program
l. "My Love She's James Hogg. "Th
Yet" - 177o-1s35
q Plaid" 18th Centur,
. "The Flowers o. y Lament after tn
D the Forest" Field- 162ol
o "saw Ye Johnnie Comm" Old Polk Som
My Ny so@e5ody anfsEt i s%F RoefFs f75s hrT9 n79
If Bonnie Earl of ! Traditional
Moray" 1892
'"Tweedside," Lord Yester-1645-171
GThe melody ascribed by popular tradi-
tions to David Rizzio-ob. 1861
k The Barrin o. the Door,"
"a Chuthag DIR. Maclachlai
o (The Cuckoo, of Rahoy
y "Taladah From Isle
d (Old Fairy Lullaby, Harris
-, ISung to the "Clarsach" the ancient
, Celtic harpl
of "Wha'll Be King But Charlie" Jacobite r
If "Hey Johnnie Cope" belion, 174S
"Young L,ochinvar," | Sir Walter Sco
le -1771-1S32
$. Adapted to the old melody of Both
ut wick Braes" by Miss Murray1
Id The tickets, 25, 35 aud SO cents, Al
he on sale at Bingham's and Gordon drr
store and at the door.