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2 iii)ff. ir J AlfiPil IVnnlnKtoii iliiodor of the Scrcnton Oonsrrva- 5;
'CT linj of Music anil orKiinlst of Kim l'.irk church, hns cor.vcntcil to re- ,.
ll'ln the P.m.iilay Trlln nc to Miit'stlons concernlnrc mutlc mm mupl- ;
ICi 1.1I toplc-t a?KtJ ny Ti.lumc nailirs. Kmv rentier lnteri-fteil In music .
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II V. T. Saint '"ccllla Is .iIimijh
ri'iU"entnl In pi tuns as plalu,,
upon an iiiuiiii niul is t illoil the pa
11011 H.1I11I ot 1'iui-li i'l nou ple.iM
le me witnc llifn 111.1II011 H'Riirtlllw
hei in the (Jim-lion l!i"
Answer. Siilnt tllu was a yuuiiK
Itoman lady of nobl lilitli. who. helni;
iluctiU'il in tin- I'luMlau faith, vowed
to lead a llf devoted ellthely to the
service of lellKlon. She '.ls. however.
ininpolUii by liei paieiits to marry a
ouiik Itoman nolile and ti l'.iKan.uhom
she jierHimcled, alone with his loothei,
I 1 aicept the lulstlan lalth They
WLte seized Ullil lilullKlit tiefole the
I'iKdii authorltlis and lommiinded to
abjuie their lalth. (in tle-li lefusul to
In so the Inotheih wen- deeapltattd
ml Cecilia was plana In .1 dr bath.
with llle tiudeineath. ThH tallilltC to
teunlnate her e.lMenci as laplilly us
her persecutors desii.-cl. tiny had liei
beheaded. AiiniilhiK t" most liters
these eunln oecinicd ai Koine about
j;i. altllollKll othei put llle date soiii"
time between ITU and 1M. Mer house
at Home, wheie slic was put to death,
was convened Into a chinch, or ,1
1 hutch was built over it, to which, In
SJ1 her leinalns. along with those of
lier husband and othei mails is, were
removed
It Is not known how 01 when Saint
''ec Ilia's nume Hist heK.m to be asso.
elated with iniish. Kaily wiltets niiiko
no mention of her skill in music Then
is a tiaditiou thill an aimel hv whom
she wns ''Isltnil was attuuted to eaith
by the charms o lp'i s'neliiK, but when
It origlnatid Is eipially unknown
November 'J.' Is eallt-J Salnl IVi Ilia's
day. ami It Is ciiHtnm.it y Ir many
plat-CH to have a musical test. Mil in her
honor on that date. At 1'aiis, for ex
ample, in the ancient ilumh of Vtlut
Kufetache, It Is uisloniaiy to have ev
ery year on that day a solemn .imm
puns with ornan, full oichestia, inl
nent soloists anil united choirs. The
muss is usually a new one which lias
Just been composed by some eminent
oomnosei. An admission tie Is
charped exactly us if It vveie a conceit
but the tellKloiis ei lemony of the mass
Is Kiveu with tin music piedsely as If
It were, n nKtilur ihnich seivlce.
W. V. U-Whni l tin- i--.i im.iio'l
of leainhu; how to iti mioiUc on tlie
oiKau?
Answoi. The only way to leuin to
extemporize, or Improvise, Is to make
an exhaustive study of hatmony and
musical form. UxtempoilzlnB' tit any
length is un extremely dlllleult thliu;
to tlo, and only those should attempt
it who havo mastered the theory of
chords and chord relations, the fotma
tlon of musical phrases, sentences and
periods. Moreover, lie who would ox-
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214 Wyoming Avenue,
SCRANTON, PA.
temporize In public must, or at least
should, practice in piivate to Mich an
extent that his lingera can instantly
eei lite the musical thoughts evolved
by the bialn, but he should be suie
that he thinks musically; that is, that
when his thoughts uie tiansferred to
the keyboaid they should be worth
hearing Kvery oiganlst needs to be
able to extemporize sulllclently to con
nect one pan of the church service
with another, but further than that
very few Miould attempt. There nie
so-i ailed oiganlsts who never think of
attempting to leain set pieces which
havo been written bj capable com
powers, but suing together a lot of un
meauingless chords in the crudest man
ner, without thyme or reason, and as.
destitute of musical Ideas as the desert
of Sahuia Is of water, the result they of.
fer as voluntailes, offertories, post-
ludes. This they do not only occasion
all, but every Sunday thioughout the
ir. It is dlllleult enough tor one with
ample time ami deliberation to wilto
something worth hearing, but the
woik of tin usual cxteiupoilzer has not
been Inaptly termed by Mis I'ar ting
ton. In 11 letter to her 4-011 John, "111,1
ladamizlng on the oigan."
Those who make a pinetlce of x
tempoilzlng throughout a chinch st
viio do so for two reasons; either they
have not the ability to lea in set com
positions or they do not take the time
to leatn them, or, if should add a
thlid reason, they consider their wtak
and formless exteinpoii-zutlons of
Bl later Intel est than the citlefulb
written compositions, of acknowledged
masters.
It Is intereiMIng to know that the
muster of masters in the dlllleult ait of
extemporization, Alexandre (lulhiuim,
of Paris, very rarely extemporizes in
a church service, but plays Invariably
from Iris own pi luted compositions or
from those ot other composers,
1 do not by nny means dlspaiage the
prat the of cxtempoiizatlon in private,
It should be constantly piaetlced, pin
vlding It is founded, as I have said,
upon a tlioioiigh and piactical knowl
edge ot harmony and musical 101 in.
Thorn aie times when a certain amount
of cxtciupoi button Is u necessity.
K. K hit Is Ucriholil Tom-, 1)10
lomposer of chinch music"
Answer.- Ileithold Tours was born
Dec. IT. Sas, at Uotteidam. Holland,
lie studied music In Lelpslo and Hrus
sels, making the violin his specialty.
Itr lt6t he settled in London, where ho
resided until his death, which occurred
(l few yeais nco, the exact date 1 nm
unable to give. In 1878 ho became
musical adviser and ditor to the fa
mous music publishing house of No
vella, Kuer & Co., London. lit wroU
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large uumbct of sor.gs and composi
tions tin the piano and other rnsiru
inents. but his best wotk is to be louril
In ids hymn tunes, anthems and ser
vices for the Kngllsh church.
Double-. How Is the vvctid "baton "
the iiiuiiii given to the rilck uteil by a
conductor In dlu cling a moms or oi
chestia, pronouuec-dy Is ' uuiu-nn" llle
proper luniiunrlntlun.'
Answer "K.Uon" Is a French word
meaning slick and Is pronounced .hj
cordliig to the rules for French pro
nunciation, it is lmpo;slhlo to exact
ly indication t li nnmum lutlon on pa
per. Pronounce It "bat-ton." The "a"
as In cat. The "on" Is a Fieuch nasal
sound. Start to vigorously pronounce
the word "long" and stop befoio glv ug
the "ng" sound. Now leave oft the"! '
and you have tin French "on." Ho'lr
Sllables In baton have about eiiutil
emphasis. The woid is sometimes an
glicized and It you uie doubtful of your
French pronunciation you may pro
iiounce it "bat-ton" with the accent in
tho last syllable, and 'on" Just as It
is In Nnulifch. Tho pronunciation you
havo Indicated Is not correct.
MUSICAL GOSSIP.
Hector Jamos, of South Sumner ave
nue, has organized n choir of nrale
voices ftoin among employes of tiro
Delaware, I.aekiiwanna and Western
machine shops ami rehearsals utv al
ready under way The choir will com
pete in the eisteddfod which the oung
people of the I'irsjt Welsh Congrega
tional chim h will conduct la tire
v Lurch Jan. .'. 1S9S, The competitive
piece is the 'Kalloi's Choru"," 'j.v I'ar
ly, for which a prlxo of $12 is ou'ered.
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Miss Susie lilac k, solo suprano at
Second J'lesbyterian eliuieh. sang at
the Simpson Methodist Episcopal
v lunch concert on Thuisday evening
and delighted the audience by her ar
tistic work. Mlm Iilack is oid of tho
most promising young vocalists in this
vb inlty and will doubtless be heard
from elsewhere in the future.
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The national edition of the ' Musical
Courier" is out. and is undoubtedly tit
handsomest musical publication of tho
year. U contains atr interesting his
tory of opera In New York which will
bo most convenient as u, work of ref
erence, and contains portraits arrd
sketches of many of the principal
American musicians as well as much
other Interesting matter.
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The curient number of "Music" eon
tains nr frontispiece a full-page por
ttalt of David lllspliam, and an articles
by him. Mr. Ulspham, besides singing
with the Metropolitan Opera house
company, recently guve a very inter
esting song recital at Mendelssohn hall,
New Vork.
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Among the novelties proposed dur
ing the current season ot opera at the
Metropolitan Is a revival of Ualfe'.s
"Uohemlarr (.Jill" in English. This
would make four languages in which
opera will have ben sunir there this
winter. The Hist production ot
"Faust," which cannot rrow be ions
delayed, will almost certainly be In
French the language in which tho
opera wus Jlrst sung, and the native
language of the composer Oounod AVe
have already had his "1'omeo and Ju
liet" In French, and Wuuner's "Tann
lrauser" In Herman and Ilosslnl's "Bar
ber of "Seville" In Italian. Next week
"Die Walkuie." "Carmen" unci "Lo
hengrin" will bo presented, but no
singers not already heard this season
will appear.
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