Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
TELEGRAPH CRITIC
HEARS CANNED MUSIC
Undaunted by Weather Delights in
Another Pianola- -Victrola
Recital

NO weather could be less alluring
than that of last night to attract peo-
pie from the warm rooms at home and
attempt the attacks of the Icy fingers
OF Jack Frost and the slippery pave
ments, and it might be mentioned that
when yesterday morning broke the
weather was only two degrees above
nothing. The weather, however, did
not dlsmay those muSic-lovers who
gathered at the music room of c. M.
Sigler 80 North Second street, to
listen to piona-victrola recital, which
in common. ordinary English means
music extracted from two kinds of
machines.
The concert opened with two solos
by George Sutton, a well-known bari
tone, who first gave the 1.-TWO Grena-
diers," and followed it with Down
Among the Dead Men, an old English
Jacoblte song, which, under the swing
CT his glorious baritone voice, made
one see pictures of the gay roysterers
VINO looked upon life with the care
Iessness to be stimulated with was
sail and song.
While Mr.. Sutton sang he was ac-
compan1ed by c. e. Bard upon a
pianola, which 1oks like a piano. but
the performer produced the sounds
by working his feet, after the manner
OF good housewife at sewing ma
chlne, and used his hands on divers
levers TO give that expression which
Shows the difference between a real in
terpreter of piece of music and the
mechanical technique of an unframed
amateur.
The victrola resembles an old
iasnloned hamper, and as one read
on the program that Pryor's Band
would give q selection from Tannhau-
ser he felt in sympathy with the young
freshman whom the upper classmen
were hazing and was faced by the
conventional ghost clad in white, who
SAID in sepulchral tones, II am thy
fathers ghost" to which the freshman
replied, But rather a second-class
shote of a liar as my father is not
dead"
When the attendant gave several
tWirls to the crank and the strains of
music burst forth, il only needed to
close ones eyes and Pryor's Band ap-
peared before him with Pryor waving
MS patton to show the times when the
pand should rise to crescendo and then
fall to diminuendo. These musical
phrases are introduced here to show
that the critic can rise fortissimo, IL
necessary, and persons who do not ex-
actly grasp the meaning can attend
the next concert where they can learn
L.
Squeers of Dotheboy's Hall. After
Mr., Squeers explained to boy that
the proper spelling of the aperture
covered with glass that admits light to
an apartment is ''winder," he admon-
lshed the youth to go wash the win
dows in the kitchen, and he would not
forget the lesson, upon which the
pedagogue sagely observed: Thus
is taught at the same time lessons in
in lYte et-xr
From the pianola the active feet of
Mr.. Bard produced a rendition by
Paderewski of "Minuet Op. IA, No. l."
and by going through the blind mans
method mentioned in connection with
Pryor, one could picture the frowzy
head of the pianist as he wove the
notes on the score into the most de-
lightful music. 1t never was plain
what "Op." meant but possibly in this
case you had fourteen options to de-
eide whether you like the piece.
The whole program was a pleasant
one and thoroughly enjoyed, the last
treat being the playing of a Harris
burg instrument, that is one made en-
tirely in Harrisburg, piano in which
is built player that is operated me-
chanically by the feet. The cunning
restauranteur places signs of "home
cooking" around his walls as an at
traction, and therefore a homemade
piano should be of, interest to the citi-
zens of Harrisburg. The growing
daughter of the family can sit down
to 1t, and with her hands bring out
those discordant notes that distin-
guish the early playing of childhood,
and after father has heard enough he
can sit down at the instrument and
with his feet and the adjunct levers
architecturally construct rendition
of the finest composition IN a way
that will make the rendition of the
same piece by the hands of the aver
age amateur look as undesirable as Z,
plate of "cold buckwheats" compared
to waffies and chicken fresh from the
cook.
Mrs. David Horn, Jr., of the Don
aldson apartments, left yesterday for
Philadelphia to be the guest of Dr.
and Mrs. Archibald Campbell Eglin