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This penultimate volume of here: "We must admit the need

On Jan. 29, 1723, "The Beggar's for some real principle of har Opera" was first performed at "Graves Dictionary of Musle and

monic synthesis, nay more, woRich's theatre in Lincoln's Inn- Musicians," edited by Mr. H. Cmust acknowledge, If we are fields. John Gay, "a little, round Colles, is even more closely pack- honest, that the burning question French abbe of a man, sleek, soft-

and soft-hearted," ed with information than its pre- for the music of to-day is, Where handed,

I can such a principle be found? Thackeray describes him, was decessors. It may be that the pre-The sixteenth century, as we have quivering with excitoment. His sent generation does not require seen, found its own answer to the host of friends in the house were just so much of the information question, and in that answer we anxious. The piece was such a that Mr. Colles has been at such too, can find truth if we try, as novel experiment.

we should always try, to penetrate pains to retain regarding the com- positions and the lives of Schubert beyond the letter into the spirit tion of a play with malefactors an informing the letter. A chord

principal characters "A Newgate (fifty-four pages) and Schumann is an assemblage of intervals and

pastoral might make an odd, pretty (thirty-nine pages) as in the pre-it, in turn, is more or less consort of thing.". But when shown vious volume he did with Men-cordant according as the more or the project in process of writing he delssohn (fifty pages), even though the leas concordant intervala pre- did not much like what Gay made ponderate in Its composition. the article in the last-named was

of it Colley Cibber immediately And a composer will therefore

rejected it for Drury Lane. Con-- "retained as a masterly prezenta- choose more concordant or less tion of the view of Mendelssohn concordant assemblages from mo- greve read over the manuscript, and accepted when his reputation stood ment to moment, according as he declared oracularly that "It would elther take greatly or be damned highest." The present generation wants his different voices to blend

confoundedly." The Duke of may delve in the new "Grova" and or to assert their separate selves. Queensberry said truly, "This is a It is not a matter of theory, but discover much concerning must-

of plain psychological fact, ground very odd thing, Gay; it is either a a very bad cians whose works are dead ased in the very nature of what we

very good thing or thing." mutton; in it may be found,

may call our aural consciousness

According to Macklin, the actor, example, short blographies of Pace, the way in which we hear who was present, it was not until chierotti, Pacelli, Pacini, Padbrue, music." Padilla-y-Ramos, Panjeron, Panof-

Some Moderns. ka, Pasterwitz, Pechaczek, Piozzi, Platel, Raif, Raoul Rembt, Rietz,

First-rate criticism is to be Riotte, Angelo de Santi, Schebest, Scherer, Schimon,. Schindelmeisser, found in the articles on Schonberg Anton Schmid, Schobert, Schreyer, by Edwin Evans, on Purcell and Schubaur, and many others whose Dame Ethel Smyth by Mr. Calles, names are unfamiliar even to atu- on Sibelius and Cyril Scott by dents of musical history. Each of Eric Blom, and these musicians played his part in Respighi by Mr. Bonavia.

less Rosa Newmarch his own day, with more Gr Guccess, Whether as editors, his- study of Scriabin in these excel- torians, singers, instrumentalists, lent words: "Whether, as Safonov the writer, or composers,. they have, no doubt, once prophesied to

Hogarth's famous picture of the helped to keep the flame of art Scriabin would have strangled his burning from their own epoch to creative gift in the noose of his scene where Polly kneels to her the next. More vital to the in- self-made formulas, or whether in father, to intercede for the life of a more her husband, shows the stage and quiring mind are some of the new his passionate zeal for articles on old subjects. That on supersensitised art he would, in the original players exactly as they Palestrina, by the Rev. J. R. Milno, his upward fight, have drop- were. Captain Macheath, in frons of those hierophantic in the centre, was acted by Tom may be taken as the last authori-ped some tative word

artist whose pretensiona and complexities which Walker.

sources of pure Hippisley was Peachum, Hall, work is of perpetual interest, and threatened the more widely cultivated now than musical inspiration, must, because Lockit, Mrs. Egleton Lucy. Lavinia A Fenton, not strikingly beautiful, ever. The author corrects the old of his untimely death, remain

was of debatable question. It seems but with pretty face and figure and tradition that Palestrina very humble origin, pointing out probable that when his theoso- "silvery plaintive voice," made a are forgotten" perfect Polly Peachum, arrayed in that it has now been discovered phical programmes that his parents, Sante Pierluigi some of his music will still appeal Quaker simplicity. Her appearance, and Maria Gismondi, occupied a because of its winged ecstatic her acting, her singing won enthus- fairly good social position in the quality and a joyousness rare in lastic tributes. Her portrait in little cathedral town of Palestrina the art of his period-and these mezzotint, with that of Walker as as owners of houses and lands, aspects are most subtly expressed Machenth, was in every print shop.

Lavinia Fenton was the first Much research work stands behind by him through the medium of the

actress to capture a coronet. In this succint biography, in which plano."

Amongst the omissions of the Hogarth's picture, among the one may read all there is to be

are the pianist fashionable figures in the boxes told about his youth, his early present volume training, the beginning of his Schnabel, the conductors Serahn along each side of the stage is the career he was appointed organist and Sokoloff, and the French critic, Duke of Bolton. He is the nearest and choirmaster of the cathedral in Prunierca. And it is incorrect to to the spectator on the right, array- his native town at the age of 19 state that Miss Margaret Sheridan, ed in wig, velvet coat, gold lace, -his marriage to a lady, Lucretia the Irish singer, "met with conal-blue riband and star. He attended success. It made Rich gay and Gay de Goris, who brought him com-derable success" at the Chicago many of the performances, and be- rich, as the popular saying had it. official rela-Opera House in 1923-4. That came so infatuated with Polly that, The third, sixth, ninth, and fifteenth parative wealth, his

"benefits" than one Pope, charming prima donna has not yet living apart from his wife, he in- nights were

of the tions with more

duced, her at the end of the season author, who, according to usage, his work at St. John Lateran, and crossed the Atlantic.

to leave the stage to live under his got the net receipts, aggregating at St. Peter's, and a simple, un- biased, scholarly account of his

protection, and when he could do so £693 18s. 6d. Gay wrote to Swift: The sectional ar-

he married her. compositions.

"To-night le the fifteenth time of rangement of the matter-as in all

Many of the political allusions acting the "Beggar's Opera," and it' the major articles in the new edi-

were Intentional; many more wore is thought it will run a fortnight a vast m tion is excellent and

invented by the public. Macklin longer. I made no interest, either provement on

Bald Sir Robert Walpole was never for approbation or money, nor hath the old volumes, wherein one often found it difficult

able to be at ease when he attended any one been pressed to take tickets to see the wood for the trees.

a performance, because of the con- for my benefit, notwithstanding tinued allusions the audience insist- which I shall make an addition to ed on perceiving. There was signi- my fortune of between six and

Peachum, seven hundred pounds." ficant laughter when enumerating the

gang, came to "Robin of Bagshot, alius Bluff Bob, alias Carbuncle, alias Bob Booty." Lockit's song, referred to in Swift's letter, runs:

on an

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"giving encouragement' not only to On the twenty-first night, the vice, but to crimes, by making a King, Queen, and Princesses were highwayman the hero and diamfas- present. After thirty-six performing him at last unpunished." ances Rich had profited to the ex-The protests of the pseudo- tent of nearly £4,000, and still it moralists, of course, packed the ran on, drawing crowded houses. house fuller than ever. Swift de- It was taken to Dublin, and ran for fended its morality as "placing all more than twenty nights. "We are kinds of vice in the strongest and as full of it," wrote Swift, "as most odlous light. To expose vice London can be continually acting and make people laugh with inno- and houses crammed, and the Lord- cence does more public service than Lieutenant several times there all the Ministers of State, from Laughing his heart out."

Adam to Walpole." Gibbon had the fantastic notion that it tended to "the refinement of highwaymen.” The proprieties pretended to be Dr. Johnson expressed the common startled, declaring the play was sense of the matter in his blo- Immoral. Sir John Fielding, the graphy of Gay: "It was plainly magistrate, said that "fresh cargoes written, only to divert, without any of highwaymen" were brought be- moral purpose, and is therefore not a consequence of the likely to do good; nor can it be con- The piece had an unprecedented fore him as

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