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V O L X X X I V . N o . 9 . Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York, March 1,1902.
AMERICAN PATRIOTIC LYRICS.
44
A MERICAN patriotic literature is lo-
cal solely, rather than local and gen-
eral. Without doubt there is a historical
hint in this fact. The peeople grew into a
nation so quickly and under such conditions
that the intensely personal element in the
patriotism was naturally reflected in the na-
tional literature. Some of the Ajnerican
poets translated from other tongues, but few
wrote directly of the patriotism of another
people. Bayard Taylor, the traveled poet,
is an interesting exception in his sympathetic
treatment of the Crimean incident in his
poem, 'The Song of the Camp.' He also
added to the literature of American patriot-
ism.
"Let us consider some American poets on
American patriotism:
does also 'Hail Columbia,' by Joseph Hop-
kinson.
"The much disputed national song 'Ameri-
ca' is the heritage of the nation. The Rev.
Samuel Francis Smith wrote the song when
young and, one critic says, hastily. It how-
ever shows few signs of haste, and the youth
of the author finds expression in its fresh-
ness and enthusiasm."
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GEORGE ELIOT AND MUSIC.
r EORGE ELIOT has several things to
say about music as it was practiced
in Middlemarch and its vicinity, and it is ,as
certain that, like Miss Austen, she knew what
she was talking about, as it is that Middle-
march was a real place, and that the Brookes,
and Vincys, and Cadwalladers, and Chattams
were real people. We like Mr. Brooke all
J*
the better for not carrying his "advanced"
DR. HANCHETT'S ESCAPE.
views into the region of musical art. "A
P ) R . HENRY G. HANCHETT, one of woman should be ablcto sit down and play
New York's most talented pianists and you or sing you a good old English tune;
pedagogues, had a very narrow escape from that is what I like, though I have heard most
flames last week. He was practicing alone things—been at the opera in Vienna, Gliick
in Adelphi Hall when he stepped upon a par- and Mozart, everything of that sort. But
lor match, which set fire to the curtains. Dr. I'm a conservative in music; it's not like
1 (anchett fought the flames as best he could, ideas; I stick to good old tunes." Neither
but was finally forced to call upon the fire Dorothea nor Mr. Casaubon cared about mu-
department.
"William Cullen Bryant—'America, O Mother of
sic, and George Eliot, evidently taking some
a Mighty Race,' 'The Song of Marion's Men,' etc.
Notwithstanding several burns, bruises, and such view as Mr. Austen Leigh, forgives
"J. R. Drake—'The American Flag.'
the severe shock to his nerves, Dr. Hanchett Dorothea on the ground of the "small tink-
"R. W. Emerson—The Concord Hymn."
"Bret Harte—Caldwell of Springfield.'
gave a recital and lecture of tremendous ling in which domestic art chiefly consisted
"Henry Morford—'The Spur of Monmouth.'
"O. W. Holmes—'The Flower of Liberty,' 'The breadth before a large audience on Lexington
at that dark period." In Middlemarch it
Hudson.'
avenue and Eighty-sixth street, in the course was the fashion to sing comic songs "in a
"Bayard Taylor—'Rio Sacramento.'
"Joaquin Miller—'Th« Plains."
which he is giving under the auspices of rhythmic way, leaving you to fancy the tune,
"John Howard Paine—'Home, Sweet Home.'
the Board of Education. He has just re-
"Then comes Henry Wadsworth Long- turned from a series given in the West and very much as if you were tapping a drum."
fellow, a descendant of a Pilgrim Father, who South which added many laurels to those al- No doubt the "Humors of Bartlemy Fair"
is peculiarly the American poet. In fact, this ready gained by this talented musician. Dr. and the "Skein of White Worsted at Flint's"
scholarly man has given us a history, a fine, Hanchett holds some very interesting ses- were in the Middlemarch repertoire, as well
simple, earnest, beautiful, poetic history of sions at his studio on Fifth avenue, where as "So Miss Myrtle is Going to Marry'' and
the country, to which, as an apotheosis, large classes avail themselves of his analyti- the "Musical Wife."
It is hardly remembered now that George
stands the conclusion of 'The Ship of State.' cal and interpretative talks.
Eliot's husband, G. H. Lewes, wrote novels.
" 'Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with theo,
He loved music as well as she did, and in
Q SCAR HAMMERSTEIN declares that
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
his "Ranthorpe" and "Rose, Blanche, and
Our faith triumphant over fears,
^ ^ when he inaugurates his French opera
Are all with thee, are all with thee.'
Violet," his young ladies sing Paisiello and
"The ringing, swinging 'Yankee Doodle' season at the Victoria he will show America Rossini, some of them going so far as to
is hardly perfect poetry. Moreover, we bor- for the first time just how light opera is done adore Beethoven, who was not at that time
rowed it, probably from England, although in Paris.
so popular a favorite as in these days of sym-
First of all he announces that each opera in
for some unexplained reason, Mr. Fitzgerald
phony concerts. Indeed, one of them makes a
calls it the typical American song. Its ori- the list will be presented exactly as if the reference to the well-known story of the Phil-
gin is another disputed question. It is said Victoria were a theatre in Paris. There will harmonic Orchestra bursting into laughter
that it was once sung in Holland, but the be none of the modifications which in the the first time they played his composition.
weight of evidence goes back of that, to Oli- past have been considered fitting in giving
ver Cromwell, for whom, it seems, it was French opera to the American public, but in- /Wl ANY candidates are offering themselves
stead the performances will have the dash
for the directorship of the Roman
used as a taunt.
and
audacity
that
is
popularly
associated
with
Academy
of Santa Cecilia, a post left vacant
"In striking contrast," says Margaret Jen-
the
Paris
stage.
by
the
death
of Marchetti, the composer of
kins, in Werner's Magazine, "is the Ameri-
An
orchestra
of
thirty-six
musicians
will
"Ruy
Bias."
It is said that the Government
can poem of patriotism, majestic, perhaps at
be
brought
from
Paris
especially
for
the
Vic-
favor I Metro Mascagni, who, if appointed,
times a trifle florid; a poem of old-fashioned
eloquence and devotion, called 'The Ameri- toria engagement. There will be twenty-one would give up the direction of the Rossini
principals in the company, including a fam- Institute at Pesaro. By the way, the house
can Flag,' written by Drake:
ous prima donna, a celebrated tenor, a come- of Ricordi has just made a contract with
"When freedom from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
dian, and two chanteuses of international rep- Mascagni for two new operas. It is said
She tore the azure robe of night
utation, who have been recently engaged in that the composer is to receive $8,000 for
And set the stars of glory there."
" 'Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,' by D. Paris by Mr. Hammerstein's representative each work, together with forty per cent, of
T. Shaw, comes in for popular affection, as in that citv.
the profits.
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