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Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.
1. It happened at Bonn. One moon
light winter’s evening 1 called upon
Beethoven, for 1 wanted him to take a
walk, and afterward sup with me. In
passing through some dark, narrow
street, he paused sudde lv. **flush!
he said—“what sound is that? It is
from my sonata in F!" he said, eagerly.
“Hark! how well it is played!”
2. It was a little, mean dwelling, and
w T e paused outside and listened. The
player went on; but in the midst of the
finale there was a sudden break, then
the voice of sobbing. “I cannot play
any more. It is so beautiful, it is utter
ly beyond my power to do it justice.
Oh, what would I not give to go to the
concert at Cologne!”
“Ah, my sister,” said her companion,
“why create regrets, when there is no
remedy? We can scarcely pay our
rent.”
3. “You are right; and yet I wish for
once in my life to hear some really
good music. But it is of no use.”
Beetlioven looked at me. “Let us go
in,” he said.
»” T ovolaimoH “What CUD
“Go in’” I exclaimed,
we go in for?”
“I will play to her,” he said, in an
excited tone. Here is feeling—genius
understanding. I will play to her, and
she will understand it.” And. before I
could prevent it, liis hand was upon
the door.
4. A pale young man was sitting by
the table, making shoes; and near
him, leaning sorrowfully upon and old-
fashioned harpsicord, sat a young girl
with a profusion of light hair falling
oyer her bent face. Both were cleanly
but very poorly dressed, and both
started and turned toward us as we
entered.
“Pardon me,” said Beethoven, “but I
heard music, and was tempted to enter,
but I am a musician.”
5. The girl blushed, and the young
man looked grave—somewhat annoyed.
‘‘I—I also oyerheard something of
what you said, ’ continued my friend.
“You wish to hear—that is, you would
like—that is— Shall I play for you?”
6. There w as something so odd in the
whole affair, and so comic and pleasant
in the manner of the speaker, that
the spell w r as broken in a moment,
and all smiled involuutarily.
“Thank you!’- said the shoemaker;
but our harpsichord is so wretched,and
we have no music.”
“No music!"echoed mj T friend. “How,
then, does the Fraulieu—”
7. He paused, and colored up, for the
girl looked full at him, and he saw that
she was blind.
“I— 1 entreat your pardon!” he stam
mered. “But I had not perceived be
fore. Then you play by ear?”
“Entirely.”
“And where do you hear the music,
since you frequent no concerts?”
“I used to hear a lady practicing
near us, when we lived at Brtihl two
years. During the summer evenings
her windows were generally opeu, and
I walked to and fro outside to listen to
her.”
8. She seemed shy; so Beethoven said
to wander along the keys, the very
tone of the instrument began to grow
sweeter and more equal.
9. The brother and sister w’ere silent
with wonder and rapture. Tjie former
laid aside his w’ork; the latter, with
her head bent slightly forward, and
her hands pressed tightly over her
breast, crouched down near the end of
the harpsichord, as if fearful lest even
the beating of her heart should
break the flow of those magical, sweet
sounds. It was as if we were all bound
in a strange dream, and only feared to
wake.
10. Suddenly the flame of the single
candle wavered, sank, flickered, and
went out. Beethoven paused, and I
threw open the shutters, admitting a
flood of brilliant moonlight. The room
was almost as light as before, and the
illumination fell strongest upon the
piano and player. But the chain of his
ideas seemed to have been broken by
the accident. His head dropped upon
his breast; his hands rested upon his
knees; he seemed absorbed in med
itation. It was thus for some time.
11. At lenth the young shoemaker
rose, aud approached him eagerly, yfct
reverently. “Wonderful man!” he
said, in a low tone, “who and what are
you?”
The composer smiled as he only
could smile, benevolently, indulgently,
kingly. “Listen!” he said, and he
played the opening baTs of the sonaia
in F.
A erv of delight and recognition
burst from them both, and exclaiming
“Then you are Beethoven!” they cov
ered his hands w r ith tears and kisses.
He rose to go but we held him back
with entreaties.
“Play to us once more—only once
more!”
12. He suffered himself to be led
back to the instrument. The moon
shone brightly in through the window'
and lit up his glorious, rugged head
aud massive figure. “I will improvise
a sonata to the moonlight!” looking up
thoughtfully to the sky and stars.
Then his hands dropped on the keys,
and he began playing a sad and infinite
ly lovely movement, which crept gen-
tly^over the instrument like the calm
flow 7 of moonlight oyer the dark earth.
13. This was followed bj 7 a wild
elfin passage in triple time—a sort of
grotesque interlude, like the dance of
sprites upon the sward. Then came a
swift agitato finale—a breathless, hur-
rying.trembling movement, descriptive
of flight, and uncertainty, and vague,
impulsive terror, w 7 hich carried us
away on its rustling wiDgs, and left us
all io emotion and wonder.
“Farewell to you!” said Beethoven,
pushing back his chair and turning
toward the door—“farewell to you!”
“You will come again?” asked they, in
one breath.
14. He paused and looked com
passionately, almost tenderly, at the
face of the blind girl. “\~es, yes,” he
said, hurriedly, “I will come again, and
erive the Fraulein some lessons. Fare
well! 1 will soon come again!” They
pomp
’8 Club.
Musical section. Time, Thursday,
January 5th, 1899, 3 p. m. Place, Sem
inary Parlor. Subject, Italian Music,
Verdi and “II Trovatore.” Mrs. Annie
Sanford Cochrane, chairman.
1. Characteristics of Italian music—
Mrs, Irvine.
2. Short biograph ieail sketch of Ver
di, the Man—Mrs. Guy Clopton.
3 Verdi, the Musician—Mrs. Kendall.
4. Italian Opera as illustrated by
Adelina Patti—Miss Mattie Hudson.
5. Argument and Plot of “II Trova
tore”—Mrs. Logan.
Questions on Verdi:
1. Where is Verdi’s home? .
2. What of his abhorence of
and vanity?
3. What is his age?
4. Which great composer has
phrased his Rigoletto?
5. Have the scores written by him
when an octogenarian surpassed those
written in the vigor of middle age?
6. Name some of his best operas.
7. Are tone workers like Verdi rare?
8. Has his career been remarkable?
Reading before each selection show
ing what connection it has with the
opera—Mrs. Bloomstein.
1. Piano duet, “II Trovatore Fan-
tasie”—Miss Moreno and Miss Johnston.
2. Vocal duet. Home to our Moun
tains—Mrs. John Hynds and Miss
Wheeler.
3. Aria, “If love like this, etc”—Miss
Georgia Gaston.
4. Vocal solo, “Ah, I’ve sighed to
rest me—Miss Minnie Dunlap.
5. Yocal solo, “On rosy wings of love
depart”—Miss Wheeler
para-
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no more, but seated himself quietly be- j followed us in silence more eloquent
fore the piano, and began to play. He
had no sooner struck the first chord,
. than I knew what would follow—how
grand he would be that night. And I
was not mistaken. Never, during all
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“Let us make haste back,” said
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