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Updated: May 28, 2025
Wonderful to tell, they sang not "ragtime" and "college songs," but the chorus of the "Rheintoechter," and Schubert's "Auf dem Wasser zu singen", and other music, unknown to Thyrsis, exquisite almost beyond enduring. It pierced him to the heart; he sat with his hands clenched, and every nerve of him a-quiver, and the hot tears raining down his cheeks.
Purty soon Mis' Kenner set down to the piano and sung some coon songs that tickled him most to death, and then she got to playing ragtime say, believe me, Bill, when she starts in on that rag stuff she can make a piano simply stutter itself to death.
On winged feet she flew back through the hedge-gap and ordered Ragtime saddled once more; yet when she touched that splendid beast with the crop and sent him at a gallop down the drive, there was no longer any sting in the lash.
Therefore, they listen best to music who hear the best continually. The assertion is often heard that a person must be educated up to an enjoyment of high class music. Certainly, one who has heard nothing else must be educated down to an enjoyment of ragtime, with its crude rhythms. "We know a true poem to the extent to which our spirits respond to the spiritual appeal it makes," says Dr.
It will be frightfully loud in the cabin, but it's better than the sound of the storm." She didn't dream that this wilderness man would choose any other kind of music than ragtime. She was but new to the North, otherwise she would have made no such mistake. Superficiality was no part of these northern men.
The procession now is a procession of clerks to their homes when their day's work is over; and the music is a ragtime selection by the Band of the Madras Guards on the Marina, close by, with ayahs and children around. We are in the twentieth century; but for a moment we have lived in the past.
A young soldier was playing the mandolin to two comrades. "All the latest ragtime," said one of them with a grin. So we paddled on our way, glimpsing every now and then over the parapets at the German lines a few hundred yards away, and at a village in which the enemy was intrenched, quiet and sinister there. The water through which we waded was alive with a multitude of swimming frogs.
"Jack's in town," she informed them placidly, when the ragtime spasm ended. "He telephoned that he was going to snatch a few minutes between important business confabs to run out and see me." "I could have told you that half an hour ago, my dear," Mrs. Abbey responded with playful archness. "Mr. Fyfe will dine with us this evening." "Oh," Stella feigned surprise.
I've always been sorry since that I didn't make him take it back it never did anything but harm to me. But he had his way. He laid it on the table and said he wouldn't feel right, and took my hand and I just didn't care. "Well, what do you think I did after he'd gone? I went and played a piece on the piano, and I never can bear to hear that ragtime to this day. I couldn't seem to feel anything.
Behind the books on her little shelf was a paper of chocolate creams; in the music rack, back to back with Grieg and Brahms, was an impertinent sheet of ragtime which Floss had persuaded her to learn as an accompaniment. And deeper and darker and falser than all was a plan which had been fermenting in her mind for days. In a fortnight the school term would be over.
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