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White-Smith Music Publishing Co., Boston.
Voice : '' Jessie, The Star Of Glengore,'' by Qeo.
Howard, a pretty Scotch dialect song; "Irene
Slumbers, " words by Wm. Hill, music by Theo.
H Northrup, fervent and sweet; "The Soft
Night Wanes," Ellis Walton, H. Lane Wilson,
a glowing Indian serenade. Piano: " Mephisto
Dance," S. G. Cook, weird but graceful ; " La
Belle Creole Menuet," Theodore Moelling, an
elaborate composition ; " Chrysanthemum Valse
De Concert," D. L. White, flowing and grace-
ful; " Chummy And I March," D. L. White,
brisk and rhythmical. Banjo : " Red Rose
Schottische," George C. Dobson, unique and
effective.
Oliver Ditson Company, Boston. Voice :
Like Gloomy Dreams, " " Upon A Meadow All
Alone (The Violet)," "How All Things Were
Bright And Fair," " When First On My Bosom,''
selections from German poets translated by Jas.
B. Gribble and Sidney Whitman, musical set-
tings by John Carver Alden ; "The Shower Of
Blossoms," R. Herrick, L. Heritte Viardot;
" Birdling, Where Have You Flown, " J. Barker,
Edward Hoist, all melodious and meritorious.
Piano : " Gladys Waltz, " A. E. Greely, arranged
for four hands by Roily King, well adapted for
young players; "The Serpentine Dance Cap-
rice," Oscar Lang, bright and pleasing ; " T h e
Shepherd's Reverie," arranged by G. A. Sum-
ner, sweet and pleasant.
Geo. Molineux, ro East 14th street, New York.
Voice : "Te Deum " (in G) ; "Jubilate Deo "
(in A) ; "Jubilate Deo " (in B flat) ; " Cantate
Domino " (in C) ; " Benedic Anima Mea " (in
D) ; "Jubilate Deo " (in C) ; " Te Deum Lauda-
mus, " "Softly Now The Light Of Day, " all by
the well-known composer, Juan Alzamora. The
music of these sacred selections is uncommonly
well composed and admirably adapted to the
devotional character of the words. The ac-
companiments thoroughly sustain the voice,
and while they are not intricate they are varied
in a manner that displays excellent taste and
judgment.
Out.
EDUCATION AMONG THE COLORED RACE RE-
SULTS IN NEGLECT OF MINSTRELSY.
younger negroes, born in freedom, have
*€? a loathing for everything that pertains to
slavery. They regard the old slaves with con-
tempt, and because the younger ones can read
and write they set the older ones down as being
too ignorant to be considered, forgetting that
they were once efficient workers and averaged
superior in morals and manners to their descen-
dants. One of the results of this is the dying
out of the rich, melodious negro songs—not the
songs of the '' negro minstrel '' type, which
were totally unlike the real article. This the
Boston Transcript regards as a very great pity,
as these songs were wild and charming beyond
comparison.
In slavery times the negroes were encouraged
to sing. The wheat was reaped to the singing
of the reapers, and the best singer generally
headed the row. The ones who could pick the
banjo or scrape the fiddle were peculiarly privi-
leged. Here is a strange piece of folk lore :
For many years, even long before the war, the
fiddle playing and banjo playing had been dying
out among the negroes, owing to a superstition
that "de devil is a fiddler." The very old
people have noticed this. The master of the
mansion says : " In my father's time, and when
I was a boy, there were very few regular musi-
cians, and at parties, unless it was a grand
affair, a lady played the piano, accompanied by
a gentleman on the violin, and monstrous jigs
and reels they played, too. But when it got too
much like work almost anybody's carriage
driver could be sent for out of the kitchen who
could fiddle enough to dance the Virginia
reel by. But when I grew up negro fiddlers
were scarce among the plantation hands, except
the ' professionals,' who were free negroes.
They have been growing scarcer owing to this
superstition about old Pluto.
'' Among the city negroes the piano is the
favorite instrument, as it is so much easier to
acquire a certain proficiency on it than on the
violin. In the country, though, it is generally
thought unbecoming, at least for a ' church
member,' to play the violin, if not actually an
audacious communication with Satan himself.
But it involves neither deadly sin nor any spiri-
tual risk whatever to play the accordion or the
' lap-organ,' as they call it. The ' cor'jon,' con-
sequently, is a very popular instrument.''
Miss Marie Wichmann, a young singer who
has been distinguishing herself at the Cyril
Tyler concerts, has a contralto voice of great
range, nearly three octaves, which is pure, well
cultivated, and which she uses in a most sym-
pathetic manner.
The band of Southbridge, Mass., are to have
a new set of instruments.
St. John's drum corps has been organized at
St. John's rectory, Watertown. Conn., by Father
O'Donnell. President, Bart Flynn ; secretary,
Jas. Collins. Steps will be taken at once to
secure instruments and teachers.
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