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I will go and tend my geese!" So the Aldermen took the high-Soprano Singer, and they consulted the Wise Woman again. She was taking a nap this time, and the Singer had to sing up to B-flat before she could wake her. Then she was very cross, and the Black Cat put up his back and spit at the Aldermen.
In 1781 Clementi, the great pianist and composer, visited Vienna. He made the acquaintance of Haydn, was introduced at court, and Emperor Joseph II brought him and Mozart together in a trial of skill at playing and improvising. Among other things Clementi played his own sonata in B-flat, the first movement of which begins thus:
To accuse Ransom, the mysterious hirer of a B-flat trombone virtuosity, without sufficient proof upon which to base even a claim of cross-examination, would be to block his own game then and there, for Ransom could, and very likely would, go away, leaving no trace. Who was Ransom, anyway? And what relation, if any, did he bear to Linder?
Not once did she falter and only once, in the last song where her contralto voice had to take b-flat above middle c, was there a hint of strain. More than rare harmonies and melodies and rhythms were coming to David. Player and singer, though they did not know it, were giving themselves to him.
I have never," said the old lady with conviction, "seen such a frazzled lot of folks as B-flat trombone players." "The person who inserted the advertisement ?" "Has left. A month since." "Could you tell where he went?" "Left no address." "His name was Telford, wasn't it?" said Average Jones strategically.
She herself took to playing the less difficult of the Chopin nocturnes with a languorous over-accentuation of their softness which she was careful to keep from the ears of old Reinhardt. But one evening he came in, unheard, listened to her performance of the B-flat minor nocturne with a frown, and pulled her away from the piano before she had finished.
I hear a noise in the larch house on the corner," replied the musician dully. The policeman grabbed his arm. "Come along back. You fer a witness! Come on; you an' yer horn." "It iss not a horn," explained the German patiently, "'it iss a B-flat trombone."
In taking the glissandos shown near the middle of the top line, the upper tone is sung about half way between B-flat and B-natural. There is some abandon in the rhythm also. The group of six notes marked with an asterisk are trilled on the semitone interval. Dawak This song is doubtless the invention of the singer.
So you might find them at Epworth League socials, Sunday school class doings, in the Sunday school orchestra violin and b-flat cornet respectively and, most significant of all in its effect on all the later years, they went through Win-My-Chum week together. The hand of the pastor was in that, too. Marty was not a Christian.
The contralto aria describing the Lord's turning and looking upon Peter is followed by the orchestra with a lament in B-flat minor, introducing the bass aria of the repentant and remorse-stricken disciple, "O God, my God, forsake me not."
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