Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-05-30
COMPOSERS AND POETS
AT NORFOLK CONCERT
First Choral Union Concert
VIII Be Given Tuesday
Evening.

| the MUSIC Sned are george w. Cnau-
wick, Horatio Parker and David Stan
ley Smith, composers, John Jay Chap
man and John Ingham, poets. The
composers will wear red rosettes in
the lapel of their coats and the poets
white rosettes. "A
The first concert will open as usual
with the singing of the festival Choir
ale by Robbins Battell, in whose hon
or the union was founded, followed
by the new work which Horatio Par
ker has composed Off this occasion,
"The Dream of Mary" a morality.
| The old morality plays were given in
primitive fashion and Parker has not
departed from this plan. The small
number of actors, if they may be call
ed so, sit in the audience and go on
the stage whenever their part calls
and then return to their seats again.
The only actor who remains on the
stage during the whole performance
of the work, is in this case the reader
called in the aext Gan Angel" The
popular idea of the angels, is that of
a heavenly apparition in white bat
the angel in this moality is not one
of death or resurrection bat ofannun-
citation. The pre-Raphael painters al
most invariably have painted the an
gel of annunciation as wearing red
gown and standing before back
ground OF midnight blue. 1t has
been suggested that theseancient
artists knowing of the effect of a
rapid passage through the air on
meteor, may have conceived that it
would have the same effect on an an
81, Civinc: Il tic fame red colbr and
these cCc:ct~ WI lie r~cd1ccd in thc
representation G. I'aEkcr'5 H;or!:<
Th::$ cc:7" Hosit:2:1 is something en-
t:rc!y r?w III Musical a.-t and is SIRE
G.: s,-ccere. 1 he r7zeii@ Is. spiritual ard
elevated Il the Last degree end as one
of cuthcrity recently remarked, l. l.
of the kind which the great Bach
would have written if he had been
alive today. The music is simple and
more in the style Of the composers
"Hora Novissima," than any of his
recent compositions. 1t would be
difficult to mention any one of the
chorus or chorale as being especial
~ prominent in this work, but per-
haps the "Hosanna" chorus might
be pointed out and among the solos
which are all beautiful, the exquisite
trio for boys voices.
John Jay Chapman, who wrote
the text for "The Dream of Mary"
is native of New York. He was
graduated from Harvard university
studied law and admitted to the bar,
from which he retired in 1898. He
has paid much attention to literature
and of late years has been active in
the art. Among his best known works
are: Emerson and other Essays"
causes and Consequences" "Prac-
teal Agitation" Four Plays for Chill
dren," "The Maids Forgiveness"
"a Sausage from Bologna" Comedy
in verse;, Benedict Arnold" (trag-
edy in verse;, Learning and other
essays" "Neptune's Isle" which con-
tains also "The Dream of Mary" Will
liam Lloyd Garrison" "Homeric
Scenes" Memories and Milestones,"
''Notes on Religion" "Greek Gen
luses and Other Essays" Mr.. Chap
man married in 1899 Elizabeth Chan
Ter, a. member of we'll known New
York family. Mr.. Chapwan's son
was a noted aviator and was killed
in the service of the French repub-
lie, being one of the first to offer
his services to our ally before our
own declaration of war.
Symphony.
This is Prof. Smiths second SYM
phony and is divided into three move
ments. A complete description of this
work, written by the composer, who
will also conduct his work, will be
found on the program. 1t may be
stated briefly that the whole work is
in an optimistic mood and quite diff
ferent from many of the pessimistic
musical works which have been
brought forth by the war.
David Stanley Smith was born in
Toledo, Ohio, in 1877. He is at pres
ent professor of music at Yale uni
versity, being Prof. Parker's assist
ant in the teaching of the theory of
music. His education in music was
pursued under Parker and before
entering his duties as teacher he
studied for two years abroad. He
has received from Yale the degree
of bachelor of music. In 1909 he
was awarded the Paderewski prize
for his work for chorus and orches-
ira, "The Fallen Star" His COM
positions cover a wide range from
theh smaller forms up to symphonies
and operas. Among his more i'm
portant compositions for orchestra
are Overture Joyeuse," "Symphon-
ic Ballad" "ymphony No. l." Cover
ture Prince Hail." all of which have
been played by the principal orches-
tras in the country and within a short
time have been finding their way
to Europe. Recently new work has
been completed entitled Impressions