Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1914-05-14
Bohu1nir Kryl
and His Band
This Great Genius and Master
Of Music is i'm a Class All to
HimseIf--He Has No
Equal

ing birds before the brow of a storm
cloud, and above all, Oh! sweet en-
ough to woo a soul from purgatory,
sounding clear and limpid above thu
ocean roar of chorus and instruments
the voice of God Himself speakin,
through His handiwork, and at last WI
knew what the Greeks sought to ex
press when they made their myth o1
Orpheus, who
with his lutte made trees
And the mountain tops that freeze
Bow their heads when he did sing"
We are glad we never had heard
this till now, when we are over forty
Such music is not for the young. 1t
speaks in all it's fullness and power
only to those who have drunk deep of
both pleasure and renunciatfon, who
have felt the keenneSs of both personal
sorrow and spiritual joy and the pang OF
both sickness of body and of heart. 1t is
not simple, as life books when we are
twenty, but wonderfully complex, as
| life looks when we are forty-fve. The
mystery and labyrinthine dimness of
the universe come with years. And
Bohumir Kryl interprets life, vague
striving, tangled; light wrestling with
darkness, as in the sublime anvil
chorus, and yet, somehow, to the sense
of God and of Genius, unutterably
sweet.
And, Oh, the singing of ''The Last
Rose of Summer"! Why the singer
and the song and the rose; the grace
and the sentiment and the beauty Of
the flower, so blended and harmonized
it was If some fair goddess of Greece
had risen from the dust of centuries
and had come back singing through
the balmy May night, while the per-
fume from the petals of the rose she
scattered SO gracefully at her feet
pinioned the sweet notes through the
lambent air.
And as for "Dixie"-well, we just
know Professor" Kryl never knew all
the power of that song and tune before
until he heard the spontaneous and
prolonged and wild applause with
which it was greeted here by his great
audience.
Dixie! 1t is the best tune in the
world!
Audiences that remain apathetic
through infinite ragtime and senti-
mental airs will applaud when the band
plays the Southern classic.
1t does not seem to make any diff
ference whether people are from Dixie
land or not. Northerners, New Eng
landers, Westerners somehow seem tc
warm up as responsively as one bred
in old Kentucky when the lively strains
of the inimitable melody begin.
When it comes to striking the bulls
eye of sentiment "Annie Laurie, "The
Suwanee River" "The Last Rose of
Summer" and even Home, Sweet
Home" and ''The Star-Spangled Ban
ner," are distinctly outc1assed. Dixie"
is hors concours-meaning the others
are mot in it,
The old South is gone, but it had a
certain beauty that "the world does
not willingly let die" It's high spirit
of chivalry, it's keen sense of honor.
is vivid loyalty to it's convictions, these
are fine favors in the garden Of hu-
man feeling.
We pay unconscious tribute to them
when we applaud Dixie"
we lh0 DlAI0 because we IKE IL.
1t is original; there was never a
tune like it.
1t is lively. There is sunshine in it
and laughter, the tinkling of banjos
the pat-juba of clapping hands. There
is joy in it, cosmic, elemental joy of
life.
There is home in it, and love and
loyalty, and the glee of "our folks
And it is human. It grips the heart.
It gets into the feet 1t stands the
test Of tunes, for you want to keep
whistling it and it makes you twitch
to dance.
When it is played it seems to say
''Why can't everybody just be happy?"
God bless "Dixieland", forever!
AS we so to press this afternoon
Senator Frank J. Cannon has the Ilat-
form, and tonight the great Reno, ma
gician and the Farinelli Company will
be the entertainers. And tomorrow
the closing day, the program will be
as published elsewhere in this issue.
Goldsboro responded promptly and
gladly and nobly last night when Mr.
Dickey extended his call for guaran-
tees for next years ChautauQua. On
the first call he got enough subscrip.
tions to secure a return date.
That's "the Goldsboro way
We've got The Best Town in the
State.