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Fleming rendered the accompaniments to Elsie's violin pieces and Meg's songs with a delicacy of touch that revealed the true musician. "I wish you'd play something to me," begged Diana one day when the girls' practising was over and their mother was rising from the piano. "I, my dear child! I never play now." "Why not?" "I gave up my music long ago, when I got married."
'Yes, ma'amselle, replied Dorothee, 'that music is still heard, but the musician has never been found out, nor ever will, I believe; though there are some people, who can guess. 'Indeed! said Emily, 'then why do they not pursue the enquiry? 'Ah, young lady! enquiry enough has been made but who can pursue a spirit?
Petersburg quartet was founded in 1868, and became one of the leading musical organisations of the Russian capital, until the death of Davidoff, the violoncellist, who was one of its members, in 1890. Auer has been very active in the musical life of St. Petersburg, and is very highly esteemed both as a man and as a musician, teacher, and performer.
"But that letter never came; and about ten days later I knew why, for I saw in the papers that the famous musician, Signor Vanucci, had been knocked down by a motor-car when crossing a street near his house, and though not much injured, had died a few hours after from the shock."
When the rough Apennines at last lay behind me, I reached the renowned city of Florence." "And can you deny it your approval?" asked the musician.
The women were induced to go to the church to listen to an organ which had been brought out from France, while one of the priests, who was a good musician, instructed them in the art of singing.
Since it has fallen to our lot to survive them, we wish at least to express the sincere regret we feel for their loss. We deem ourselves bound to offer the homage of our deep and respectful sorrow upon the grave of the remarkable musician who has just passed from among us.
Evarts Kent is minister and was teaching them how rightly to use the talents with which God had so richly endowed them. Accordingly, in the year of grace 1888, the Atlanta Constitution publishes the astounding fact, and calls the world to heed it, in conspicuous head lines: Then followed the whole sad story. The musician had been interviewed and investigated.
Essentially different from Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, or even Weber, with whom he has some affinities, he stands a unique figure in the history of art, an original both as man and musician. Gioacchino Rossini was the son of a town-trumpeter and an operatic singer of inferior rank, born in Pesaro, Romagna, February 29, 1792.
I supposed you were a poor, struggling musician, and I was really afraid you would starve to death if I didn't help you out, so I borrowed Teddy's typewriter and went to work." "Give it back to me," he commanded; but she was too quick for him, and a dozen scraps of paper fluttered into the fire. "It's the end of that old story," she announced briefly.
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