Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-03
The Musical w ord
Nv Genevrn JOhnstone- bishop

z WONDER how many people Know
mat January has a meaning? 1t
i GETS its name from Janus" and
"Janus'' was the old Roman divinity III
+7eir owes he was the god of the peslh-
ming of things. He presided over the
omen door of all undertakings ne Hau
two faces-one looking backward ana the
other forward-and you ma MS heau vi
many of the old Roman COINS
Could anv symbol be more appropriate
for the beginning of new year,
Ianuarv's birthstone Is the garnet ana
nrettv little song has just been pub
lished. set to these words;
by her who in this month be born
No gems save garnets should be worm
They will insure her constancy'
True friendship and fidelity
GUY A. Durand gives an Interesting
articIe on Longevity of Musicians IN
the Musician. 1t is of interest:
LAS a result of reading articles regard
ing the lives of musicians one is hkely
10 derive the impression that as class
they are short-lived individuals put we
discover. on reviewing the biographies oil
eighty of the most prominent musicians
that about 76 per cent of that number
reached a. least GO years of age, ana that
over 10 per cent of them lived longer imam
the allotted three score years and ten
the average age being 67 years. To be
more definite: Six died between the ages
of 30 and no. four between 40 ana %, nine
between so and 60, nineteen between 10
and N. thirty-one between 20 and so and
eleven between so and 80. The lowest age
being 81 years, attained by Schubert, and
the greatest age being SO years, arrived
at by Auber. MI
while it is true that Bellini, Bizet,
Chopin. Mendelssohn, Mozart and Schu-
bert did not reach the age of 49, 1t Is
also a matter of record that Ardiu,
Auber. Cherubini, Cramer Sir George
Grove. Ambrose Thomas, Verdi Spindler
and Loeschhorn lived to reach double
that age Among those being considered
are three who are still living-Patti, in
her sixty-fourth year, Saint-Saens. who
is eight years her senior and Madame
Marchesi, who has reached her eighty
first milestone.
"Among the youngest were Schubert,
who died at the age of 81, as before
stated. Bellini at a. Mozart at 80, Bizet
at 81, Mendelssohn at 3S and Chopin at
49, At 40 years of age Louis Gottschalk,
Fthelbert Nevin and Carl Weber passed
to the great beyond. and Schumann de-
parted with an additional six years. Con.
cone died at 50, Donizetti at 81, Leopold
Damrosch at SO, Delibes at So. Beethoven
at 81, Joseph Barnby, Paganini and Sir
Arthur Sullivan at So and Audran at SO.
Sixty years of age was reached by Raft.
Ct by Offenbaeh and Sir John Stainer, 81
by Balfe, Sc by Berlioz and Dvorak, "a by
Brahms, Buow, Theodor Kullak and
Rubinstein. s. by Johann Sebastian Bach,
e6 by Abt Czerny, Kohler and Alessandro
Scarlatti, 81 by Jenny Lind, So by Franck
and 60 by Conradin Kreutzer.
"Exactly a full allotment of years was
allowed ole Bull, Richard Wagner and
Theodore Thomas; Jadassohn and Flotow
| lived one year Nicolo Piccinni two years
and Gluck, Heller and Meyerbeer, three
years over this period. C. P. E. Bach
Costa, Handel, Pleyel, Sir George Mac
farren and Rossini reached the age OF
"a. Gounod, List, Mercandante, Hen
self, Spohr and Suppe died at the age OF
70, Hauptmann and Josef Joachim at the
age of 76. Between this age and the age
of so we find Diabelli, Franz and Haydn
at n, Bertini and Cristofori at rs. and
Palestrina and Kirchner at 10. When
we come to those who lived ten or more
| years beyond the allotted time. the
names are found Of Grove and Clement
who died at so, Cherubini at SO. Ambrose
Thomas at 50. Loesehhorn at &c. CrameI
at 81, Verdi and Spindler at IS, and as
above mentioned, Auber at 49,
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Miss EsteHe Carpenter Is a bright up
to-date San Francisco vocal teacher in the
public schools there. She has given an
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