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Updated: June 7, 2025
He knew there would come a time, in the inevitable advancements of that new era of scientific 'prudence' and forethought which it was given to him to initiate, when all this sober historic exhibition, with its fearful historic earnest, would read, indeed, like some old fable of the rude barbaric past some Player's play, bent on a feast of horrors some Poet's impossibility.
Herr Schubert puffed and blew, and "The Erlking" pranced and thumped. Now and then he stumbled and fell, and the fugitives flew fast ahead. The player's face was grave beyond belief, filled with a kind of fat melancholy, and tinged with tragic intent. The faces watching it passed from question to amusement, and from amusement to protest.
The players who repeat every word correctly, adding their description of the eagle, remain "genteel," but those who make a mistake become "horned" instead of "genteel." The leader has charge of the "horns" which may be toothpicks or pieces of paper twisted up tight. For every mistake a "horn" is tucked in the player's hair.
And Alice was not, nor was Miss Brown. That is, as regards the extra player's trespassing on the grounds about the farmhouse. But he was of the kind that is persistent, and on several occasions, when the duties of the girls brought them near to where Whitlow was acting, he smiled and smirked at them.
"To fathom the depths of character, to trace its latent motives, to feel its finest quiverings of emotion, to comprehend the thoughts that are hidden under words, and thus possess one's-self of the actual mind of the individual man" such was Macready's definition of the player's art; and to this we may add the testimony of Talma.
What is it in the way of social alterations which the player's imagination could conceive of, which his scruples have prevented him from suggesting here? But the mad king goes on with those new and unheard-of political and social suggestions, which his madness appears to have had the effect of inspiring in him Lear. Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? Gloster. Ay, sir. Lear.
So complete may be the player's unconsciousness of the attention he is giving, and the brain power he is exerting, that we may find it difficult to awaken his attention to any particular part of his performance without putting him out. Indeed we cannot do so.
The following is a copy of them, procured with the greatest difficulty: At which words the bard whipt off the player's wig, and received the approbation of the company, rather perhaps for the dexterity of his hand than his head. The player, instead of retorting the jest on the poet, began to display his talents on the same subject.
He attempted a compliment on her truly exceptional character. As when the player's finger rests in distraction on the organ, it was without measure and disgusted his own hearing.
I have been as much moved by some piano playing I have heard as by the violin playing of some of the greatest violinists. "And variety, nuance in expressive playing, is largely a matter of the player's mental attitude. Bach's Chaconne or Sicilienne calls for a certain humility on the part of the artist.
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