Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-06-23
THE GO2ING SYMPHONY.

The man looked up from the dSsh anu
held his busy pen idly in his hands Tor
some moments. Before him was a large
sheet of manuscript music, the ink still
wet at the place where he had left OIL
He was listening now, not writing.
From a room adjoining his the strains OF
a violin could be heard, the notes sound
mo in plaintiye air which penetrated
through the WALL But after few min
utes the music ceased, and taking up the
pen once more the man proceeded slowly
to place certain notes upon the page in
front Of him.
1t was laborious work, yet it was
plainly task that entirely absorbed him,
until everything around him was COM
uletely shut out and forgotten. Presently
with a sigh he put aside the pen and
leaned back in his chair, CHANGING with a
keenly critical eye over the page he had
been scoring.
The music written there was the music
to which he had been listening-the music
played by the unknown violinist who
dwelt in the next house. And yet there
was a marvellous difference between the
airs-original work Goring had at once
recognized it TO be-which had sounded
in the Afternoon stiffness and those same
airs captured and held for ever prisoners
upon paper The former had been little
snatchcs of tunes, melodic ghosts, struck
off the violin with careless touch.
But staring up at Edward Goring from
the page before bin were those same
melodies. yet so finished were they and
so ,eyerly elaborated that there was
hardly any resemblance in them to their
original.
Goring was a musician himself, de-
pendent. indeed. upon his skill at the
piano to earn his living in a music hall
orchestra. but for the last two weeks
the latter building had been closed for
structural alteration, and in consequence
he had Temporarily been without employ
ment until it shcnld be reopened.
1t was during this enforced holiday
that his attention had first been attracted
by this player OF unpublished melodies.
The music was still sounding in his
ears at this very moment as he walked
through tie crowded streets, and instead
of paying proper attention to the dircc-
ton his steps We're taking, he was hold
ing an imaginary discussion with an
eminent conductor as to the way in which
certain movements of the great work
SHOULD he PLAYED when the sound of peo-
ple's voices raised in a shout brought
him to his senses.
But the warning came too late. He
had a confused vision of heavily laden
omnibuses and carts bearing down upon
him. and, starting back in vain en-
deavor to reach the pavement he had
inst quilt he was caught by the shaft
of fleet hanson Gnd knocked down. the
! frightened horse indicting a severe kick
upon his PROSTATE body.
lie felt that he must have passed
through centuries of time before he com
pletely regained consciousness. His eyes
| blinking once more at world to which
they mad been so long Indifferent, fell
IYpon walls which they knew to be those
of hospital ward. He rapidly regaineC
! his strength. and n week later was able
to receive visitor, a close friend of his
man VINO played in the same orchestra
| as h,ns,lf.
I've got glorious news for YOU" ex
claimed Arthur Mills, his pleasant, good
| humorcd face smiling down at the in
valid. you'll never guess what Nv,
done for you, old chap. But I'd bette
/ tell ou straight away. While you'v,
been lyi,e here, lost in the land of con
cussion Of the brain ! have been maxim!
Your name. and opened the way for yol
| to make Your fortune as soon as you ar
we'll enough to work once more.
Three weeks ago the symphony
found on your desk was played for Thu
first time at Queens Hall concert an,
hailed by critical audience as Il worl
If absolute genius
Good heavens! This symphony whicl
his friend had given to the world unde
Goring's name was partly the work o
another man! Goring decided that whel
he was well again he would put the mat
ter right-would publicly remove tn
laurels which had been placed upon hi
own unworthy brow and hand them owe
to the man to whom by right they be
longed.
Vet. even when he had fully recovered
Gormg, although his character was no
naturally Il weak one. shirked the un
J
those rewards which he had won fror
the world with a single composition, par
/ OF which was not his own
He felt it to he a matter of commo
honesty to proclaim the truth. and We
he temporized and finally decided that
rs am initial step in this direction. h
would place an advertisement in tn
agony column OF the daily papers, an,
thus endeavor to trace the mvsteriou
composer. Such inquiries rs he had :,
far made had been fruitless. But Will
the advertisement appeared regularly
twice a week, no answer came To il an,
as each day passed it became incrcas
insIy difficult for Goriug to stand for
ward self branded as a plagiarist.
Six months had gone by. and the SYM
phony had won its reputed composer
wider fame