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She was a wonderful accompanist rarest of gifts and when, at the end of the song, the restrained, well-bred applause broke out, Peter Mallory's share of it was offered as much to the accompanist as to the singers themselves. "Stay where you are, Nan," cried Kitty, as the girl half rose from the music-seat. "Stay where you are and play us something."

The lady pianist will now oblige with something very refined. When in the name of 750,000 gods of reason will I ever learn enough to stay at home and go to bed instead of searching kittenishly for diversion in neighborhood movie and vaudeville houses? No. Wrong. The lady is not a pianist. She is merely an accompanist. She is going to accompany something on cares?

He can pick out the spirit of old songs, even when, as then, he hears them for the first time, and make his concertina interpret them to wood and wind and sky. Indoors he is a mere accompanist, and in polite society his muse is dumb. But in the open, given fair excuse and the opportunity, he can make such music as compels men's ears and binds their hearts with his in common understanding.

As he held the door open for her to pass out into the street, some one ran quickly up the steps, pausing on the topmost. "Ha, Olga!" exclaimed Baroni, beaming. "You haf returned just too late to hear Mees Quentin. But you will play for her many times yet." Then, turning to Diana, he added by way of introduction: "This is my accompanist, Mees Lermontof."

Most of them were probably the property of the Huguenots, who after the edict of Nantes went to Holland and thence to South Africa, to which place they were banished by the Dutch government. It was related by Remenyi that when he was a young man in Hamburg, in 1853, he was to appear at a fashionable soirée one night, but at the last moment his accompanist was too ill to play.

I'd like a baton, only I should beat the accompanist with it, before I was half through a programme." The boy's color came. "When another man accompanies you, I shall be dead, or incapable," he returned briefly. "I do not forget." "Nor I. But do you also remember the last time we did this in Germany?" "At my home? To Katarina?" Thayer nodded. "It is my song, you know. I am superstitious about it."

One or two complimentary remarks were made in his hearing about Miss Pynsent's playing; but he took them to apply to the sandy-haired Miss Pynsent whom he had seen at dinner, and only made a silent cynical note of the difference with which the violinist and the accompanist were treated.

And now too or was it his fancy? on seeing him in the front row she seemed delighted, seemed to flush, and again gazed intently at him. Then, without turning round, she stepped away a couple of paces in the direction of the piano, at which her accompanist, a long-haired foreigner, was sitting.

It almost seemed as though the projected change of accompanist were distasteful to her. Max laid his own hand over hers an instant. "Please let me play for you," he said simply. There was a note of appeal in his voice rather as if he were seeking to soften her resentment against him, and would regard the permission to accompany her as a token of forgiveness.

During his travels he was made chamber virtuoso to the Czar Alexander, and on his return to France he became first violinist of the royal chamber musicians of Louis XVIII., and musical accompanist to the Duchesse de Berry. Lafont's career came to a sudden end by the overturning of a carriage while on a concert tour in the south of France in 1839.