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He was inclined to believe that he had not been very much set up by the pomp they made for him. At all events, that day at Winter Harbor had been beautiful, full of the laughter of friends and music; for there was a musicale at the Casino in the afternoon.
So together they attended a soiree musicale at the Ratignolles'. Monsieur and Madame Ratignolle made much of the Colonel, installing him as the guest of honor and engaging him at once to dine with them the following Sunday, or any day which he might select.
Barbellion had asked her to play at a 'soirée musicale' which he gave one night in the ball-room of his hotel, and she had performed Tschaikowsky's immense and lurid Slavonic Sonata; and the unparalleled Otto, renowned throughout the British Empire for Otto's Bohemian Autumn Nightly Concerts at Covent Garden Theatre, had happened to hear her and that seldom played sonata for the first time.
Suffering antiseptics! everybody with a different remedy, from snake poison to soothing syrup but it cured the grip. Now all I have to do is to cure the medicine. Say! did you ever stray away from home of an evening and go to one of those parlor riots? Friend wife called it a musicale, but to me it looked like a session of the Mexican congress in a boiler factory. They pulled it off at Mrs.
I hastened to announce this good news to Chopin, who quietly said to me: "I should have liked better if it had been you." "What are you thinking of my dear friend! An article by Liszt, that is a fortunate thing for the public and for you. Trust in his admiration for your talent. These few words speak volumes. But here is what Liszt wrote about the concert in the "Gazette musicale" of May 2, 1841:
She referred to the "Social Parlors," to the "Monday Evenings," to Miss Dennis' "Musicale," to half a dozen themes about which the bewildered gentlemen within hearing knew nothing. Could it be that the low-voiced, gentle lady was trying to give them a lesson as well as to talk with Dirk? Finally she made an appointment for the next afternoon.
"She shall have all that Nan and I can do for her here. But don't be foolish about her. I suspect you could be with a woman because of your dear old heart.... If she can't sing a note, she'll make a hit with her looks, Nan says!" So the musicale was arranged. There were mostly women in Mrs. Lawton's smart little music room when Mrs. Conry rose to sing a series of introductory songs.
But if the musicale is held in the evening, and supper is served, the guest who remains must also remain for the card games as a matter of courtesy and politeness. If he does not wish to play he may watch the others and join in the conversation during the intervals between games. The one important rule of conduct at the musicale is to maintain absolute silence during the selections.
So, as his little money was speedily gone, he had to live for a while on what his relatives and friends could give him, and afterwards by what he could earn by writing for Schlesinger's Gazette Musicale. This is what Meyerbeer's introductions were worth. However, he found and made friends, some, though not all, as poor as himself.
Shadd, rising and kissing Henriette good-bye. "That's the best way out of it. If we did we'd be the laughing-stock of all Newport. But some day in the distant future Tommy Dare would better look out for Pauline Shadd, Mrs. Van Raffles." And so it was agreed, and Henriette successfully landed Mrs. Shadd's musicale. Incidentally, Jockobinski was very affable and the function went off well.
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