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"Take us somewhere," says she. Marmaduke laughed. "Your father objects to public amusements. Where does he want to go to?" Felicia took up the newspaper. "There is an oratorio at Exeter Hall," she said; "my father likes music." He turned to me. "You don't object to oratorios, sir?" "I don't object to music," I answered, "so long as I am not required to enter a theater."
Masses and oratorios are beyond the capacity of all but the most cultivated singers; and we suppose that the very prevalence of these collections which aim to please an average order of taste may, after all, furnish to large numbers a pleasure which the rigid classicists would deny them, without in any way filling the void.
Frank hummed the familiar apostrophe 'Be not afraid. 'Is that a bit of "St Paul"? said Mrs Hopgood. 'Yes, it goes like this, and Frank went up to the little piano and sang the song through. 'There is no fault to be found with that, said Madge, 'so far as the coincidence of sense and melody is concerned, but I do not care much for oratorios.
Besides this work, she composed two other oratorios, a successful mass, a four-part Miserere, a number of psalms for four and eight voices, with orchestral accompaniment, several motets, and many other pieces of a religious character. The list of her works does not end here, but comprises symphonies, overtures, and other orchestral numbers, including several piano concertos.
The woman whose father or husband adjusts her expenses and expenditures cannot by any possibility be the kind of woman that the one is who chooses her own things, and spends her money absolutely to suit herself. When a man buys cigars or fishing-tackle, his wife may prefer to buy oratorios and golf-clubs.
Of course He told her that he did not like to say he positively objected. He wished they had chosen an oratorio, or lecture, or anything more in keeping with the necessity it was to relieve. 'But, said she impatiently, 'people won't come to oratorios or lectures! They will crowd to comedies and farces. 'Well, I cannot dictate to Budmouth how it shall earn the money it is going to give us.
No blunders could do much to mar my pleasure. There first I heard the concertos of Corelli; but also, which far more profoundly affected me, a few selections from Jomelli and Cimarosa. With Handel I had long been familiar, for the famous chorus singers of Lancashire sang continually at churches the most effective parts from his chief oratorios.
From all this you will see that, for a musical reconstruction of the chorus, it would be necessary to make experiments in the style of the first two epochs; and this might be accomplished by means of quite short oratorios. Weimar, June 1, 1805. Since writing to you last, I have had few happy days. I thought I should die myself, and instead I lose a friend, and with him the half of my being.
It is evident that as Handel could not secure the great Italian singers for his oratorios he felt obliged to offer his public some other display of virtuosity, and his own performance on the organ seems to have been considered a very powerful attraction.
As to music, we learn, with regret, that it is out of season for concerts, oratorios, or any thing worth hearing. Wednesday, August 10. Dresden to Berlin. Drove to Charlottenburg, and saw the monument of Queen Louisa. Thursday, 11. Visited the Picture Gallery, and various stores and shops. Saturday, August 13. Berlin to Wittenberg, two hours' ride.
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