Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 29, 2025
A composer of a genial gaiety, one who has written a good minuet and an "Evening Song" that is not morose, is Benjamin Lincoln Whelpley, who was born at Eastport, Me., October 23, 1863, and studied the piano at Boston with B.J. Lang, and composition with Sidney Homer and others. He also studied in Paris for a time in 1890.
For a time there were merely journeys to and fro, at first more especially to Chicago, then to Fargo, where his transported secretary, Walter Whelpley, was managing under his direction the construction of Fargo business blocks, a short street-car line, and a fair-ground.
If the thing would work at all, almost any kind of refuse fuel could be burned sawdust, tan, cinder heaps, organic rubbish of all kinds. The only condition is that it be fine enough. Attempts in this direction have been made by Mr. T.R. Crampton, by Messrs. Whelpley and Storer, and by Mr.
B.J. Lang at Chickering Hall, Boston, MacDowell's first concerto was played by Mr. B.L. Whelpley. "The effect upon all present," wrote Mr. W.F. Apthorp in the Transcript, "was simply electric." The concerto "was a surprise, if ever there was one. The impression it made upon us, in other respects, is as yet rather undigested... But its fire and forcibleness are unmistakable."
MAYO-SMITH, Emigration and Immigration. For more extended reading: GROSE, The Incoming Millions. STEINER, On the Trail of the Immigrant. WHELPLEY, The Problem of the Immigrant. Reports of the United States Commissioner-General of Immigration. On Chinese Immigration: COOLIDGE, Chinese Immigration.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking