Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-05-21

iguliloince, to fade into a mere sha-
dow T.: the strong light that radiates
from the music Itself which has been
'gi,eu 70 ne world by MIS-. II. II. A.
'oacB, The eminent American born
comp0sCl. For Mrs. Beach writes
both like a man and like a woman.
Her music manifests feminine traits
q dell acy and tenderness scarcely
attalnable by a masculine nature
and me r.ine traits az genuine and
ririie rs any man could exhibit. She
mmunjs the strongest artistic vir
( ;Ues Y. omankind. and does no.
+ wholly escapes some Of the weakness
! Of her brother artists.
Mrs. II. II. A. beach (nee Amy
Marcy Cheney was born in Henni-
ker, n. IL. Though her early musi-
cal education was carefully conduct
ed. especially her studies IN piano-
: forte technique by her mother and
later by some OF the most distin-
guished. teachers In New England,
the development of her very uncom-
mon talent for composition has been
almost wholly achieved by her own
effort, unaided, save In purely rudi-
mentary' theory, by an Instructor;
upaided, but also unbiased.
/ In consequence of this somewhat
unique fact, she has succeeded III
preserving her individuality to rare
degSee. What she gives Is peculiarly
I herself. The technique of tone-com-
bination and the whole established
system OF formal arrangement, style
and orchestral color-blending, which,
elaborate aud scientifically grounded
though 1t surely Is, might be termed
! the universal "conventionality" OF
! the art, Mrs. Beach learned,-as any
persistent and observant student may
learn them, from textbooks,
but directly from the living master
works themselves.
Mrs. Beach has accomplished more
than any woman has ever done In
music In such works as the Cadenza
to Beethoven's C minor concerto. her
Mass in Il fiat, the Gaelic Sym
phony," the FESTIVAL Jubilate" (for
the dedication of the Woman's Build
ing, at the Chicago Worlds Fair),
the "Pianoforte Concerto" op. 40,
and the Sonata for piano and vio-
lin" Oh. "a. Her songs Ga hundred
or more) are equal to the best that
! have ever been written.
j. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, in Wo'
} mans Journal thus writes OF the
} performance of the Mass by the Han
del and Hadyn Society in Boston:
! "The occasion was altogether a
} memorable one, and the eternal wo
manly cited by Goethe, received q
! new and most happy illustration
Referring to romnn for violin ano
: piano, w. s. Il. Mathews writes:
Z THE musical spirit is unquestion'
able, the technique of developing
Ideas that of Il well-trained artist
| and the writing for the instrument
! that of an accomplished pianist. AT the
same time, Mrs. Beach makes no or
: fort to be boIsterous and to prove
) that she is "a man by the brute force
. necessary to play her works.
1, From Neue Musikalische Presse
. Vierpa, April ., 1898, we quote thu
1 following:
1 Nothing in these characteristic
pieces, op. 2S. by Mrs. II. IL. A
Beach worthy compositions, woult
imply woman's hand, unless 1t b'
: the exquisite neatness. Everything
r is polished and pointed with thu
: greatest attention. A brooding spi
: rit sounds in them; tender, pal'
: themes are well worked out, though
0 overladen with dissonances. 1t i
: ungallant, but one Is astonished tina
0 woman can do so much"
e 1t is the annual custom of Mrs
o Beach to recall to mind to an init
u mate public that she was u planis