The Washington times., 1917-02-23
Song Recognized as Worlds
Only International
Language.
ANTHEM STIRS DAMRoScH
die Wacht Am Rhein" Brought
Fears to Talented Bel
gian Violinist.

national language" has been proving
its worth through the troublous days
of the past years. The United States
has freely accorded its recognition
and its good will to the srt-works of
all lands. Yet out of it all seems to
come a deeper recognition of the in
dividuality thus expressed by the
separate nations. We are quick, now,
to emphasize the distinctive note of
nationality, and to cherish 1t as an
expression of the inherent right OF a
people to its own.
Walter Damrosch, our deeply-loved
dean of American music, gave q new
proof of loyalty to the country of his
adoption recently. when, upon hearing
OF President Wilson's dismissal of
the German ambassador, he made an
| impromptu address to an audience of
5000 assembled at Carnegie Hall to
hear the young Peoples Concert"
As Mr.. Damrosch stepped upon the
conductors stand the entire orches-
ira of q hundred men arose and rev.
erently played 1.-THE Star-Spangled
Banner" The audience rose; and ap-
plauded and cheered with enthusiasm.
At the end of the anthem Mr.. Dam
rosch turned, and facing the audi
ence, said:
"My dear young friends: One OF
the noblest functions OF music is TO
arouse patriotism. Our national an
them symbolizes to us the country
we love, the United States OF Amer
| lea. This comprises the North and
| the South, the East and the West;
there is no dividing line. Whether
we were born here or thousands OF
miles away, this Is the country oil
our choice, and for which you and
I must be ready at any moment to
make any sacrifice. 1 want you,- my
young friends, to remember that what
the flag symbolizes to the eye, the
national anthem symbolizes to the
ear, and through the ear to the hear,
demonstrating the great power oil
music to awaken our deepest emo
lions and to ennoble us in the
awakening"
This same question OF nationality Is
touched upon by "Mephisto" in his
musings" in Musical America. lie
has just been giving David Bispham
his proper place as q full-hedged
| American, born in Philadelphia, when
he concludes with the remark: How
ever, IL is a common error to bunch
all musicians, whether they are Ger
mans, or Austriens, or Bohemians, or
lHungarians, under the general head o;
Germans; whereas, as ! said, there q
a vast dieffrence.
Not All Germans.
MANY of the great composers. con
ductors, pianists, were not Germans
as they are designated, but Hungar
ians or Bohemians."
In Barrie's latest play, "a Kiss for
Cinderella" in which Maude Adams rs
appearing, 1t is said that one of the
most conspicuous examples of the
charm of old, half-forgotten songs Is
furnished in the music which Pau
Tietjens has done for this last Barrie
whimsy.
Tunes Of Old England.
The ballroom scene is a typical Bar
RE fantasy. at takes place in little
Cinderella's head" says Musical
America, land the songs and dance
tunes with which the English street
child has become familiar through the
medium OF the hurdy-gurdy follow
her in her dreams to Cinderella's ball
The tunes OF The Roast Beef OF Ole
England John PEEL Knocked EN-
in the Old Kent Road and What Car
the Matter Be? have been woven into
a background of dream music
. through which the Cinderella motif
appears like moonlight on city streets
"A Kiss for Cinderella portrayi
more effectively than any of its fore
runners the essential relation OF the
incidental music to the finished struc
ture of a play" Thus 1t is that music
may furnish the right Psychologist
background that must obtain in al
things, II the influences on the outel
world are to register their full value
| Edouard Deru, the violinist, who 81
? charmed an audience of the Friday
. Morning Music Club by the beaut,
and the exquisite fineness Of his art
has told in a New York Times inter
view of some interesting and sad con
/. ditions of the musicians of his nativ,
II Belgium, emphasizing again the ma
) tional speech of music.
Belgian Musicians ExIIed.
There are still some concerts ant
, audiences, he points out, in the othe
: nations at war; but Belgium is tn,
: only sovereign nation whose mu
3 sicians are exiled or without hearer
! as a whole, the places where Abe!
once held forth now being occupie,
! by alien invaders.
: Edouard Deru is the court Violinis