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MIRACLES OF MEMORY.

SOME FAMOUS FEATS OF GREAT MUSICIANS.

This is regarded a pre-eminently an age of stunts, but so far as music at least is concerned, it is to the past ruber than to the present that one mast kok" for the most memorable achievements, of this khudi. Certainly one never hears of any modra musicians doing things of the astonishing sort recorded so freely in the lives of the ohl màsters.

Take the matter of improvisation, for instance. Thus of Bach one reads that his powers in this respect were unlimited-the inexhaustible flow of his invention bein combined invariably with the most rigorous regard for form. Schweitzer tells us that if he improviset for as long as two hours together, the theme remained the sund from beginning to endl

HANDEL AND "HE MESSIAN."

The well known story of his performing before Frederick the Great may be recalled in this connection. The old king, hims-li keen music-lover, conuing the daily list of arrivals in the capital, anounced, with glee. "Gentlemen, old Bach come:" and the great composer had to present himself forthwith at Potsdam... without having time wees to change hi travelling clothes, and there delighted and astonish all hearers he is marvellous} extemporizatious, on themes furnished by the king..

No les famous in the same way was Bach's great contemporary, Handel. It is recorded that when pressel for time he did not even trouble to write out the solo parts in his organ concertos, trusting entirely to his powers of improvising to provide what was required when the time came.

But Handel's most memorable achiev ment-perhaps in its way the most astoun

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To paddle a 45-foot operi canoe across the English Channel is the daring inten tion of Lieut. George Smyth, who arrived at Plymouth recently in the Cunard liner Zemestrin. Lieut. Smyth has already paddled his tiny craft from Sydney, Nova Scotia, to New York.

DOWS THE THAMES.

In au interview with a Press represen tative Licut, Smyth said already he had ing in all musical history-was, of course, covered over 1,300 miles in his canoe, hav the writing of The Messiah" in littling paddled from Sydney, Nova Scotia. over three weeks! The thing would indeed to New York City. That is the first leg be almost unbelievable it it were not attested of my journey. Now, after crossing the beyond dispute by the dates on the Atlantic in the Lacustria, I propese to autograph score now preserved in Bucking-paddle down the Thames in my cockle ham Palace, which show the work to have shell cruit, been begun on August 22nd, 1741, and completed on September 14th.

It may be assumed, of course." that

Handel had given thought to the music and worked it out to some extent beforehand. There are indeed, some preliminary sketches in the Fitzwilliam Museum which prove this. And also he borrowed from some of his previous works for four or five numbers. But allowing for all this, it was none the less a truly amazing tour de force to per the entire score-and what a score-in o brief a period.

By comparison with this achievement, Mozart's famJus feat of writing the over- ture to" Dan Giovanni" on the night before the first performance might be reckoned almost of small account espe. cially cs in this case it may be quite cer tainly taken for granted that the music was finished in the composer's head down to the smallest detail before he set pen to paper, for this was Mozart's invariable practice.

MARTELLOCH MEXDEL BORN. Everyone will remember the story, which, of course, has not lacked romantic embel lishment-to the effect that his faithful wife sat up with him plying him with punch and keeping him from falling asleep by telling him fairy tales and so on. to the main fact that the overture was actually written at the very last moment there appears to be no doubt.

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Mr. Smyth explained that after pad-1 ding down the Thames he will make his way around the coast to Dover, and there wait for a comparatively calm day, in which to make a dash across the Channel to Calais. Thence he will travel France vi Paris, Dijon, Lyons. Valence, and Marseilles to the Mediterranean. Rome being the ultimate destination. By that time he will have paddled 3,000 miles.

I have two months in which to make the trip." said Mr. Smyth, in response to our representative's inquiry as to the time schedule, and I have no doubt about A the matter of fulfilling my bargain. friend of mine said it could not be done, so I am just showing him."

When Mr. Smyth left Sydney, Nova Scotia. last July he had a great send-off but few expected that his heavily-laden canor with food and gear weighing over 300lbs, would accomplish the trip to New York. After the first thirty miles the wealther compelled him to haul nshore to the shelter of a farmhouse. A week later- angry seas obliged him to seck, a landing on a rock-bound cœtust. «

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I landed kneedeep in swirling foam, and got my stuff ashore as best I could," Fortune said the venturesome sailor., favoured me, and all I lost was a bag of potatoes.

"A search for firewood followed, and in the darkness my torch was of great assistance, but so damp and green was the fuel that I could not get a tire going. A meal of ship's biscuit washed down with the contents of my Thermos Bank! was my only comfort; and then i slept under my upturned carce, as did fre- quently before and after."

And, eedless to say, this was one only of any equally astonishing performances ascribed to one of the most marvellously gifted of all musicians. Another for ins tance, was his feat of memorizing the whole of the famous hlberere of Allegri after hearing it once only in the Sistine Chapel at Rome. This he did during Hdly Week of 1770, when he was paying his first visit to Italy as a boy of fourteen!

His worst experience was off the coust Subsequently Mendelssohn, who perhaps most closely resembled Mozart in his almost of New Brunswick, when he had to re supernatural musical endowment as a youth, main afloat for 52 hours at a stretch dur performed the same feat, paying special ing a dense fog. He snatched sleep by attention in this case to the " Abbellincati," spreading his sleeping bag along the bottom of the canoe. At dawn he found or decorative details of the music, which he himself close up to a 300-foot pile of rocks reproduced with the most astaishing topped by a lighthouse, the keeper giving

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raft 1,300 miles trip from Nova Scotia to New York occupied 43 paddling days, and Mr. Smyth is now confident that the most arduous portion of his adventure now lies behind him, *

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