Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-15
0LE BULL HELD
IN REVERENCE BY
THE N0RWEGIANS
Bennett Writes Of Visit to Is
land Villa of Great Music
MASTER House Full of Me-
mentoeS and Relics.
nv JAMES oDoNNELL KENNETH

(Ry JAMES O'DONNEIL BENNETT
Copyright 1915 BY The Chicago TrlbuneD
Iysoekloster. Norway. July 12.-ln
Moorish villa that stands on tiny
Norwegian island there hangs a time
dimmed concert program which con-
tsins this announcement.
Ole BULLS FARENEIL con-
CERTS IN AMERICA
The First and Only Grand Concert
of Ole Bull in Buffalo will take
place on Monday evening,
Nov. Is. 1858.
Tor which occasion he has engaged
Signorlna Adclina Patti. the musical
phenomenon only s years old.
This extraordinary child sings the
songs of Malibran, Pasta. Jenny Lind,
Madame SOntag, Catherine HAYES.
ParOdi, Albani. and Madame Bishop
exactly as composed for them with
Incredible ease and perfection.
Maurice StrakOsCh. Musical
Director and Conductor.
He was a great master. my boy, a
very great master, and he brought us
superb musicianship at a time when
we didn't hear as much of that kind
Of music making as we do today"
America have / heard some such trib-
ute 10 the Norwegian violinst ole
Bull. dead now these five and thirty
years The truth is, though that his
vcrtable farewell concerts in Amer
lea were given long after the 'year
named on the Buffalo program, for
he. Ike the musical phenomenon
only years old, seems to have found
!, a
was able TO bear it more than once.
He was only as years old in 1853 and
he visited our shores for the last time
at a much more advanced age. Dur
ing the last ten years of his life he
lived much in America, and the city
of New York bestowed on him an
honorary citizenship.
Idol of All Glasses.
IL don't suppose there ever was a
man musician from abroad who took
greater hold on the imagination of
our people than this virtuoso from
the Norwegian trading town of Ber-
gen or who stood higher in their at
fecuons, For this man was a must
elan who Won a place as a popular
idol without recourse to charlatanry.
He was both a celebrity and a mas
ter and he was one of the very few
public performers who have been
adored by the multitude and at the
same time respected by profound mu-
sicans. Tricks and Alterations he de-
spsed
His personality is said to have pos
sessed a certain picturesque grandeur,
but his life was simple. To win strang-
ers to him he did not have - 10
SNOWY His gifts were great and his
nature was essentially sweet and gem
erous. What he was as master and
what he was as a man combined to
entrance the minds and reach the
hearts of all who came under his
spell, The NorWegians did not wait
until he was dead to acclaim him a
national hero
Had Broad Culture.
His culture was much more general
and much sounder than that of most
musicians Ibsen was his protege and
Biolnson his helper in the great work
he launched at Bergen in the cause
of Norwegian drama. The young
est of his great contemporaries owed
MIN not less than did the oldest, for
Edward Grieg found in him a good
friend and wise counselor. ole
Bornemann Bull appears indeed, to
have been one of those altogether ex-
eepuonal beings who went through
The world doing precisely what he
pleased, but without abusing the large
privileges which the world accorded
him
If in his middle life he wanted to
rush In from the country and play his
violin IN the market place of Bergen,
he did it, and all the people stood in
silence while he was playing Ii they
were not silent he would not play any
more.
There are living in Bergen today
many Old ladies' whose eyes light up
When they recall these impromptu
concerts Of his in the broad Torval-
menning or down by the fish market,
"here the old Hanscatic warehouses
lurch tpsily toward the water
Fourteen Years ago. when the veil
ihg flag dropped away from Stephan
olhdings bronze statue of ole Bun
lhese old people, who had known
thelr great townsman in his prime,
cried 20. he was much more beauti-
lul than that
Engaged in Many Projects.
His career was vital and varied He
was always making and losing for
tunes The son Of Bergen apothe-
cary he studied law and theology but
gave up both for music Projects of
colonization and plans for national
academies and theaters-fOr anything
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