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The tones of the organ are said to produce a most striking effect. We sent for the organist, but he was nowhere to be found; so we had to content ourselves with the echo of our own voices. We went from this place to the old royal castle built by Queen Margaret in the sixteenth century. The castle is so dilapidated inside that a tarrying in the upper chambers is scarcely advisable.
He wished to order dinner before he left, and pulled a broad worsted-work bell-pull to summon his landlady. For some little time he had been aware of the sound of a fiddle, and as he listened, waiting for the bell to be answered, the intermittance and reiteration of the music convinced him that the organist was giving a violin lesson.
He made many other excursions into literature which are hardly remembered, and ended his days as a country squire at the age of eighty. Novelist, dau. of Dr. Charles B., a musician of some distinction, was b. at Lynn Regis, where her f. was organist.
He'll be sober then," said the priest, looking down longingly at his work. But Ann had another case. "The choir's busted." Father Murray put down his book. Here was disaster indeed. "Again?" "Yes, ag'in. The organist, Molly Wilson, is insulted." "Who insulted her?" "Ye did. She says ye didn't appreciate her music for the Confirmation." "But I did." "But ye didn't tell her so, the hussy."
"Then you know where Mr Goodwin lives, I suppose?" said Anna. "Which of 'em?" said the farmer. "There's Mr Goodwin, the baker; and Mr Goodwin, the organist at Saint Mary's." "Oh, the organist," said Anna. "To be sure I do. He lives in Number 4 Back Row. You can't see it from here; it's an ancient part of Dornton, in between High Street and Market Street.
Joy had been a heroine in her great sorrows, but now in the undeserved loss of her position as church organist, she felt herself unable longer to cope with Fate. "There's no place for me anywhere," she said to herself.
Since his uncle died, and that money came to him, he doesn't care a straw how things go. He was copyist to the cathedral, and he gave that up last week. I have asked Sandon, the lay-clerk, if he will take the copying, but he declines. He is another lazy one." The organist hurried off. Arthur strove to detain him for another word or two, but it was of no use. So he continued his way to Mr.
When Handel arrived in Hamburg in the summer of 1703 the biblical operas had long come to an end, and the theatre was under the management of Reinhold Keiser. Keiser was a musician of remarkable genius. His father was a disreputable organist, and his mother a young lady of noble family who had been hastily married at the age of sixteen.
His mother died when he was nine years old, but with Bachic haste his father remarried; the new wife was a widow and seemed to be in the habit of it, for she buried J. Ambrosius two months after the wedding. The boy Sebastian was put in charge of an uncle. At eighteen he was organist at Arnstadt at twenty-one he went on foot fifty miles to Lübeck to hear the great Buxtehude play the organ.
The violin was his first love, and at the age of eight he was playing in public. He took up the piano and organ also, and in his fourteenth year was a church organist. The organ and composition he studied with O.F. Jacobsen and Max Braun. With the exception of a musical pilgrimage in 1887, Bartlett has not come nearer the advantages of Europe than study here under men who studied there.
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