The Washington times., 1922-05-11
fine MAKER Of
PROGRAM LINKS
ART AND PEOPLE
Must Be Near Heart Of Conn
poser as Well as In
+ terpreter.
BY JESSIE MacBRIDE.

The making of program Is sure
~ very near the heart of composer.
II is where the creative artist and
the interpretative artist meet.
This thought was brought to mind
BY a rare privilege the writer had
recently, of spending several hours
with that highly -sensitized musician
and composer. Mrs. II. H. A. Beach,
who has first and foremost given
the perfect" musical setting to
the perfect spring poem, Robert
Browning's "The Years at the
the Spring" E...
=, For whoever does not know
"Pippa" Of Robert Browning-these
May days-does not know how
blithely a poem may 80 singing
down the world and how much
the song Of Pippa as she passes, all
unaware. through lives Of the great
or the simple-a ministering angel
Of fine, fair womanhood.
A highiy-sensitized maker-of-a'
program here in Washington has
constructed q June 1 recital pro-
gram very much in sympathy win
the spirit OF Mrs. Bach, complet-
Ing the circle Of thought that links
Interpreter and composer to-
gether.
June and Roses.
This same sympathy for poems
and songs has been shown by Mrs.
Edna Bishop Daniel IN assembl ng
the music for her Music Week song
recital, to be given by two Of her
pupils at the Wilson Normal School,
June I. at 8 d. m.
A song lyric needs not only a
story but q big human emotion to
give its music a field for expression.
June and roses bring that fresh.
hess of melody to mind that Gustav
Hinrichs Is showing this week IN
his MERRY Wives Of Windsor" over
ture. inspired by the Shakespeare
comedy.
1t is odd how words insist upon
making a certain type Of music.
shakespeare lyrics, put to music in
Mrs. Daniels program, find the uni
versal poets own favorite tune to be
the ancient melody, Light o Love"
Then since he 10 a poet of tender
set to an ancient melody, with DIR.
Arne's music for when Daisies Pied
and Violets Blue bit Of a Jest
from Loves Labors Lost"
Mrs. Daniel opens and closes this
program with two duets by our own
American composer. Charles Glib sTt
Epross. They are "A Song OF
Roses" and June Is But Name for
Roses" to give the 10y Of June as
she expresses It..
Drama In Words.
But programs demand contrast,
g., dra -, fi< pnnaic f0nr nm
usual poems for four big songs, show
how the poet may furnish gems for
great musical settings.
Hear Robert Herrick's THE Has.
that Cecil Burleish has set to music
tn his very individual style:
The haE 10 astrfds ....
This night for to ride.
Through thick and through thin,
Now out and then In.
Though ns'er 50 foul be the weather.
ehe takes for . spur.
with . lash and . scramble she
Through brakes ana through briers,
Der bitches and mtres
sh. follows the spirit that ruides
now,
Fh. storm will avis.
And trouble the skies;
Thts night. and more tn. wonder.
The ghost from the tomb,
Affrigbtened shall come,
Called out by the clap Of the thunder.
How Il gallops along, in sheer mo-
nentum of words!
Cecil Burieigh has a genius for
discovering poems. Listen to q few
lines Of The Cowboy"
49,
What cares the. world OF The life We
L,ttI. they feok Of tb. .h.dswi.., plains.
rhe sheltsrless mesa. the sun and the
rhs wild. fra. ne. as, the winds that
blow.
How Il breethes the broad plains
and the strength of Amorics!
Mrs. Beach's Hermit Thrush.
Mrs. Beach told fascinating
story OF a summer spent IN that
haven for creative artists, the MAC.
Dowell Colony" perpetuated Ey the
widow Of tho greatest OF American
composers that his fellow artists
may find some months Of isols ton
for creative work.
To Peterborough. the. MscDowell
Colony, Mrs. Beach went one sum-
hner. But there, importuning her
morning and night, was an 'impu.
dent and noisy hermit thrush--the
little bird % the wilderness that one
can seldom see, so safe is he made
with his feathers the color Of the
woods.
He lived In the Deep Woods" of
which MacDowell tells In music
Mrs. Beach possesses, too, the very
essence of such environment in her
music.
And so, OF course, she found that
Nature had brought her a msssa ge
more important than her own.
Day by day she listened TO her
bird messenger. She noted each tiny
variation in his carol. He would
sing three notes, then stop, then a
roulade, then six notes. He varied
his song with the time OF dsv. HIS
intonations were so pure and fine