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He made Chicago his home in 1882, afterward moving to New York, where he served as a musical critic on one of the daily papers for many years. Of his ballads, "Oh, Promise Me" has a few opening notes that remind one of "Musica Proibita," but it was a taking lyric that stuck in the public heart. His setting of Eugene Field's "Little Boy Blue" is a work of purest pathos and directness.
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