Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-10-30
GRAND OPERA.
GoIdsboro Has The lInpend.
ing Opportunity Of
Hearing Such.
After Reading This Article Phone to
j. HI. Hill 6 Sons Drug Store
and Give Your Name
for Tickets.

It was an act from the old opera
Martha" The place the big Madison
Square Garden, New York. There was
an audience of perhaps ten thousand,
and the Mabel Mckinley Company
was on the stage. had heard the IA
miliar air, Last Rose of Summer
since commenced to- hear music.
Now the soprano of the company
stands before the big audience. She
the princess in disguise, who has with
her companion in burst of girl1sh
spirits hired out as servant in this
farmhouse. The tenor farmland has
fallen in love with her: She, the
princess, cannot listen to the suit of
one SO beneath her. It is sorrowful
scene as she refuses him and. he hands
her the rose. She looks into the
depths of. the flower and her own
heart melts. Slowly pulling off the
petals and dropping them on the floor,
she breaks, out into song. 1t is the
Last Rose of Summer" AS her won--
derful voice rises higher and her own
passionate yearning for the farmer
boy is discovered, the tears roll down
her cheeks. It is her heart that is
singing each note that floats out over
that. vast audience and fingers long
like a caress. The people are moved
to tears. have never seen musi,
have such a power on its hearers.
At last the song is ended. The prin-
cess stands with bowed head on the
stage, silent and overcome. There is
a profound hush. That grand audi
ence scarcely breathes. Presently the
singer is gone and only then comes
the mighty burst of applause that
calls her back. Again and again she
comes back, until both she and hear
ers are exhausted by the Intensity of
their emotions Such is the, power OF
few notes, which are only the skele-
ton. The artistic breathes life inte
them, clothes them with flesh and setS
the heart beating. I had never before
really heard that song, only the notes
Every town is full of musicians who
measure their proficiency, by the num-
| Der of lessons they have taken. They
tell you they have finished if they car
point to diploma on the wall, ant
they know they are musicians because
they: can count their time and play
grade six: They play softly when it is
marked on the paper, and hit every
crash just like the music machine
They have practised so many hour
by the clock for so many years. Sure
Soio foe
| ious folks that tell you that the public
doesn't care for classical music
lon't care for classical music the wa.
automatic players execute it. Blu
sometimes sit when I can hear som<
xoung girl or boy playing scale o
oracticing some technic, and 1 ar
charmed because there is a hear
playing behind the fingers. It is tn
leart that furnishes the real music
not the fingers. I was the guest of 1
musician this summer, and asked hil
20. play Mendelssohn's Spring sons
.sut. he said he was not in the moe.
| % play that He could only play; Il
ie felt. Our correspondence schoe-
| artists in any town will cheerful
play everything in one sitting, fror
agtime to Bach, and tell you abou
the gowns worn at the party last nigh
while tearing it off,. The world pre-.
| luces only a few artists each genera
ion. Mabel Mckinley is one of ther
| Hunt Franklin in New York Music
| or1d-
The lovers of the better class
music. can assist in bringing this BIZ
New York soprano to Goldsboro ar
near her, and her excellent compan,
sing grand opera, by sending by maj
i .rs phone the number Of tickets the
will want to Hills drug store, as. the.
only come on guarantee. The date
will. be November e.