1913-12-08 — Page 9

COMPOSER. AS RACONTEUR.

Sir Frederic Cowen's Racy' Stories.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

EXTRA

HONGKONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1913, 4.30 P.M.

THE NEXT ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION,

the point of being closed. This verses ant to me in case I should would not do for Paderewski, sobe doomed to read about the we induced the manager, at the inevitable little child, with a risk of losing his license, to allow faded flower in its hand, occupy- na to play sub rosa. The shutters ing a prominent sest among the were shut, the door was looked; angels'

It is good to know that Sir and we played on until sloes upon Those who imagine that the 5 o'clock in the morning. Frederic is of opinion that the musician's life is all toil and In telling of merry evenings present-day ballad is a great ecstasy, conflict and passion, will spent in cosy dinner parties and improvement on the Victorian find some delightfully surprising at Bohemian clube like the type.. pages in Sir Frederic. Cowen's Savage and the Oasis, Sir Fre reminiscences, just published, derio apologises good humoured- under the title of My Art and ly to any "hypermusical" read- My Friends. Of Sir Frederic's ors who may think "innocent genuine distinction as a composer frivolity "beneath the notice of and conductor the world hardly the autobiographer. Note the needs to be reminded. But laas, he has some capital stories throughout his rich narrative of to tell of the pranks of George a long, busy, and brilliant career and Weedon Grossmith, of Toole there shines 3 temperament and Byron, cf impromptu concerts that is proverbially rare among with the tongs and comb, of jug-

Mr J. Foster Steakhouse, the eminent musicians-the tempera-gling feats with tumblers and ment of the cheery philosopher, wine glasses, in which Trebelli, commander of the next British taking life's rough with it the famous prima doons, disting Antarctic expedition, outlined his smooth, seeing the bright side guished herself, parlour games at plans in an interview with a Con- Sir Francis Burnand's dinner tral News representative for the even of disaster.

table, where on one occasion the exploration of King Edward the present Lady Bancroft tied with Seventh Land. Captain Scott the late Linley Sambourne in a sighted the land in 1902, but no "blindfold - pig" competition. human foot has yet trodden it, "It was no doubt very childish," and its one thousand miles of un- writes Sir Frederio, "but it did us charted coast line have to be trac- good and kejt our hearts young.'ed. Mr Stackhouse is prepared to spend two or, if necessary, three Musl·lans' Puns.

winters in the drifting pack-ice.

and

Explorer's Explanation of his Plans."

remain at the base,

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To be sure, Sir Frederic makes no pretence of being anything else but disappointed that no single one of his four operas has been quite a success. He sola it down partly to the want of good librettiate and partly to our national lack of patriotic en- thusiasm whero music in onn-

Lest anyone should think that

Mr Stackhouse is well under cerned. But Le none the less reals content at last with the Sir Froderie's fellow-musicians many triumphs that fortune and are themselves lacking in the forty. He is a member of the good work have brought him-comic epirit, he gives us quite a Society of Friends, and Captain with his six symphonies, his choice little collection of music Scott had a great regard for him suites and oratories, his in- iaus jokes: "My friend Alexander sud would gladly have taken him Mackenzie (who is, perhaps, the on his last expedition had he been numerable cantatas and songs, and his splendid service to mort inveterate jker of us all) free at the time to go, English music as conductor of once said to me, with reference setting out on his last expedition the Philharmonic Society, and to an oratorio by Parry, when to the South Pole," Mr Stokhouse the Handel and Cardiff Festivals. there was a question as to wheth-Boid, "my friend the late Captain Not least, he has been happy in er the work should be performed Soott urged me to undertake the his friends. In the 60 years that at the Albert Hall or the Queen's duty of commanding a scientific have passed since Piccolomini Huli, "I think it ought to be expedition to King Edward the dose at the later place, for Seventh Land to explore and took him up and kissed brim na a baby boy, Sir Frederic has been what can be more appropriate survey the coast line, and as much than to give 'King Saul' in of the interior as possible and at in every part of the world-from Queen's all!"""

the same time to determine the Australia to Canada-met every-

Here is one of Elgar's tuas. currents and drifts of the ice in body who was worth meeting. When his overture" Cockaigne

this unknown region. The duty and made friends everywhore When he was only eight years old was produce i I asked him which laid upon me has led to the form- was the correct way to write the ation of the British Antarctic Ex- he bad already composed au operatta which he was allowed word, as, some people spelt it pedition, 1914, which will leave Chicken, Kai Chai

othere England next August, accompani Capons, Large, Small-Sin Kai "Cockaigne " ceremoniously to present to

to which he reed by efficient officers, scientists, Ducks,Ap Cookayne: Garibaldi in a box at a gala per-

and crew, and fully equipped with Doves,-Pan Kau formance at the old Her Majesty' plied: "Ob, it's ether 1"

Some of the jokes were uncon all the necessary scientific instru- Egga. Hen-Kai Tan Theatre. As a young student in!

Hainan, Hoi Nam Kai Berlin he played to the Empress scius, as, for instance, in the ments. The first objective will Fowls, Canton, Kai Frederick (then Crown Princess), Case of the great Richter, at be the eastern extremity of King and "one of the young Princes time when his English was not Edward the Seventh Land in Geoee,Ngoi

Having Geese, WildBhai, Shang-ho Yea Ngoi longitude 80, west. Agent: (it may have been the present

"Oude, when he was rehearing, reached this point the ship will Musk Deer,Wong Kong..... Kaiser himself) would insist on

he said to the orchestra, with make her way westwards, and Hare, Shanghai,Tu Chai interrupting my performance, and was carried out of the room regard to some pizzicato passage: winter in the pack ice. Sledging Partridge, Che Khoo..."

Gentlemen, you must not play parties will strike inland-wherev-Pheasant,Shan Kai by his nurse."

Haibow ---Hoi How Pak-Kup, Later on Sir Frederic was to the with the nails of year fingers, er possible, while the ship will Pigeons, Canton, Pak Kup

Quai Um Chun It is calculated that McMurdo Rio Birds Wo Fa Cheul have the privilege of an interview but with the most.

"Another time he and his wife with Queen Victoria, and to be

Sufpe Sa Choy one of a small company which were invited to stay in the coun- Sound in Victoria Land should be included Irving-to hear they with some friends; he had to reached in two years, but pro-Turkeys, Cock-Phor Kai Kung

Hoo Queen of Romania read one of return to town the same evening, visions will be carried for a longer her own plays, with a view to but his wife was to remain there period in case of delay," On wild Drake, S'hai-Shang hoi BuiTMÁp;

for some days. When going to ronching McMurdo Sound the ox Teal, i Ap Chai, the booking-office at the station pedition will return to England Wild Ducks Canton-Sang-Shing Sui Ap... Paderewski at Billiards

he said: I vant two ticketts by way of New Zealand. The But the heart of the book is the to, one for me to come back, distance from Charcot Land to genial camaraderie that it reveals and one for my wife-not to the Great Barrier is about eleven As the whole of hundred miles. both in the social and the musical come back!".

Among the trials that Sir the region is altogether unknown Barbel,-Ka Yu world. Sir Frederic is equally capable of entering into the epirit Frederio has survived, it is to be it is impossible to predict what

Bream,Bin Yu of the scene, whether he is dining noted that he classes the burden discoveries of importance may he Canton Freak Water Fish, Hoi Sin Yu with Baron Rothschild in Vienna, of fame that has come to him as made affecting our knowledge of

Carp,--Li Y... when "Princesa Metternich a sentimental song writer - the geography, oceanography,

Ohik Yu... Cubish "I had the misfortune to write geology, and biology of the world, Cash Mun Ya.... smoked two or three big cigara during the wing," or whether a song for Antoinette Sterling, and its magnetic influences. The

Crabeni he is playing duets with Liszt, or called The Better Land. It has possibilities are almost unlimited. Cattle Fish Mak Ya discovering Brahms and Bulow like a Frankenstein monster, We shall fake neither dogs nor "drinking their beer"in a cafe haunted me ever since. When I ponies. All our sledging will be Dab, Se Mang Yu which was "not exactly fashion have wanted to be quiet a cornet man-hauled, and the ship will Dace,Wong Mei Lan... able." "I had an introduction has played it in the street. When remain permanently at her base," Dog Fishit Tu Sa.... Mr Stackhouse said that $30,- Eels, Congor, Hoi Mann to Brahms," says Sir Frederic, I have thought to read a nice

Freshwater, Tam Sin Yu "but I did not think it was quite aulogiam on myself in the papers 000 was necessary for the ex

Lola, Tellow-Wong Sin the moment to make myself it has been the chief topic of the pedition. Generous support had

Frogs-Tien Kai article. And to add to my in- already been promised and given, Garoupa, Bek Pan..._... known."

Here is a glimpse of Padero farios, while the fiend was still and be hoped that the expedition Gadge,--Pak Kup Yu wski, away from the concert hall. in his infancy I parted with would find itself broad-based on Herrings, Two Fak...

We would sometimes go and his copyright Over this last the public interest. The pro-Halibut Cheung Kwan Kup

a game of billiards together, circumstance I ought, perhaps, gramme," he added, "calls for have or else occasionally be would come not to grumble, as I received £300 the display on the part of the Labras, Wong Fa Yu

Loach,-Wa Ya to my house, and leave behind for the song-not a bad sam for members of the expedition of the

finest qualities of British endur-Lobsters-Lang Ha him not only lasting memories of about an hour's work."

Mackeral-Uhi Ya... his wonderful piano playing, but Hardly lees ou lesome was ance. It remains with their Monk Fish, Mong Yu ...

countrymen to make it financially Wallet-Chai Yu more expensive ones in the form anther, equally famous- of jarred strings and broken ham-

"One song I wrole. The possible for the expedition to set

Rysters,Sang Hoo mers. He was not accustomed to Children's Home,,, was, I think, forth on its enterprise.

Barrotfish-Kai Kung Yu Mr Robert Evans, the honorary Perch,Iau Loo the touch and mechanism of a responsible for more musical small Broadwood grand. passings away and transportations secretary of the expedition, states Piko,a Paw Foong

"Next to his art, keeping late to heaven of little children than all chequea intended for the funds hours and playing billiards were any severe epidemic of measles of the expedition should be made Plaice,Pan Yu his favourite occupations and in real life ever could be. For a payable to Mr J. Foster Stack Pomfret, Black,-Hak Ubong probably are so still. I recollect long while afterwards nearly all house, and sent to Sardinia Pomfret, White,-Pak Chong one evening, in a provincial hotel, the songs were cast in this infan-House, Kingaway, London, W.C., Prawns, Ming Ha... ...

Day Pai Pa Sa when several of us adjourned to ticidal mould, and I was always the headquarters of the ex-Pock Fiah Bek Ka Kang the billiard room, to find it on afraid of opening any acts of pedition.

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