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Walter Damgosch’s Or
chestra Renders “Ne
gro Symphony.”
Washington, Nov/ 2,—lndica
tive of a tendency to remove from
Antonin Dvorak's E. Minor Sym
phony (New World) of its negroid
motif. The Post prints a critique
of Walter Damrosch’s recent in
terpretation of that classic here,
and says it “was characterized by
its adherence to the old Bohemian
melodies, regardless of the fact
that it teems with Nero and Indi
an tunes. There is a heterogene
ous combination of the “allegro
con fucco" that bespeaks the rest
lessness and seething business of
the new nation.”
This point of view would be
hardly arrestive, except that it re
dacts the temper of the times td
ejeminate everything negroid diren
from the gentler arts, and in this
regard it is quite a heroic thrust
at the very history of the great
composition. The patent vanda
lism is so pronounced that it is e
nough to make Dvorak restless in
kis. grave. It will be remember/
ed that the famous master chose
for the motif of his E. Minor clas
sie the wonderful Negro planta
tion ‘’"hymn, “Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot,” and loved to refer to it
among his friends, including Will
Marion Cook, Henry Thatcher
Burleigh, Theodore Drury and Dr.
C. Sammer Wormley, as “The Ne
gro Symphony.”
When Demrosch rendered it on
a notable program in the audito
rium of Central High School in
this city last week, none of the
colored votaries of music in the
national capital was present to
hear it
THB ATHENS REPUBLIQUE
Remember The “Colored”
BoysJJf 'lB '
Patiotic Meeting Proposed tit
at J cruel Baptist Inst.
Saturday, Nov. 10th, will be cel
ebrated as Armistice Day (the e
leventh falling on Sunday.) Far
beyond than a million men of our
race vouchsafed their all in the
great universal struggle, obeying
the call of the president, that the
world might be safe for Democra
cy. They boarded the ships with
songs in their mouths and sailed a
way to a land unheard of by many
of them in obedience to the man
| dates of our government. Great
promises regarding equality before
the law and consideration in oth
er departments of life were made
them as they bade farewell to
their loved ones, many of them
never to return again.
If the dominant race has failed
to keep its pledges to these men ;
if they have accorded to them ev
en less consideration than they did
before the war, let us—-their own
flesh and blood —show these men
all the honor due to blood-stained
warriors who returned from the
battle fields with palms of victory
in theirhands. Let us enbourage
them to take, in all things, the
manly stand that they took on the
battle fields. Let us refer often
to the srcrifice thtt they made that
our children will grow up with an
immortal reverence of their ar
dour. Let us give them every op
portunity that the race can afford
to make them worthy and respect
ed citizens, and thus help many a
one of them who is stolid, ship
wrecked forlorn—to take a new
lease upon life.
It has been proposed that a pa r
triotic meeting be held at Jeruel
Baptist Institute Saturday night,
November 10, 1923 to do honor to
these valiant men.
The public should turn out in
large numbers to this meeting.
EMILY. P. LINCOLN: BUILDER
In the death of Mrs. Emily P.
West, the Indians of New York
have lost the earthly presence of a
faithful friend of many years.»
For more than twenty years Mrs.
J
Lincoln superintendent of the
Thomas Indian School at Iroquois,
N. Y., having succeeded her hps
band George Ivory Lincoln, who
died in the service of the school
more than a score of years ago.
When matron of the school,
Mrs. Lincoln labored with her
/
husband in the seemingly impos
sible task of completely replacing
the old wooden buildings nf the
institution with modern, sanitary,
brick structures. The adminis
tration building had scarcely
Completed when Mr. Lincoln died.
The task of finishing the work was
then placed upon Mrs. Lincoln’s
t
shoulders by the Governor of the
State, who was not slow in recog
nizing her unusual ability as an
executive.
With mother sympathy, Nfrs.
Lincoln instituted a new system of
discipline, the honor of the pupil
being relied upon instead of the
rigid rules enforced by fear cf the
rod. The children were taught to
love the school; it was their home
and not a place of confinement.
The lawn, the orchard, the fields,
the brook and fishing pond were
all theirs, and the two hundred
Iroquios boys and girls reveled in
a new freedom.
Her monument stands, not on-
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