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At the Unlversallst church Sunday
afternoon the audience was the larg
est yet, filling both galleries and ev
ery accessible corner. There were two
solos, one by Mr. Charles Hagenow, the
Andante from De Berlot's violin con
certo, the other a vocal solo by Mr. Ket
tering, "From the Depths," by Cam
pana. Mr. Charles Hagenow's solo two
weeks ago showed fine tone and ex
pression but called for a little command
of rapidity and technique. DeBeriot's
concerto made more demand and Mr.
Hagenow gave an increased impres
sion of technical skill and artistic con
trol. The tone seemed a little thin,
lacking In richness: It had, however,
great sweetness and fine singing qual
ity. In the more difficult passages the
technique was very brilliant.
Mr. Kettering's voice is the voice of
a singer. It has faults, among which
is the exasperatingly persistent tremolo
of most Lincoln singers. But it does
sing. It gides; It does not like too
many voices we hear walk, and walk
"apparently over rough ground. It de
livers not separate notes, but a sustain
ed and unified song. It is one of the
most lyric male voices in the city, a
voice that can rouse, a voice that one
can look forward to hearing.
Another soloist, not on the program,
should be named. That is Miss Hage
now. Her piano playing in the Mozart
quartet, while, of course, lacking the
power that will come only of maturer
strength, showed sympathetic musical
Insight and musical intelligence that
might well be envied by some of the
quick-fingered virtuosos who robust
iously bluster through passages quite
as unintelligible to them as to their
open-mouthed audience. Understand
ing is the important thing. Miss Hage
now has it.
The Rubinstein Molto Lento, "The
Music of the Spheres," was delicately
dreamy, particularly in contrast to the
stormy allegro, with its peculiarly rest
less theme. The Schubert Ave Maria,
too, was peaceful, full of the mood that,
whether worship, or love of nature, or
quiet love for man, we recognize as
spiritual rest. The Beethoven Minuet
with Its suggestion, to the irreverent,
of the "Buy a Broom Waltz," was arch
ly amusing, and Haydn's "Hey-day,
Hey-day," ended the program excel
lently. It is a pity that congregations cannot
sing hymns with some life, some force.
It is not that some do not sing. The
trouble Is that those who do sing seem
to have the wrong Idea of the task
that is set before them. Hymns are not
bad music, unless they are really badly
written psalm-tunes, or Gospel Hymns.
Most of our graver church hymns are
excellent music. Many have melody,
but their chief strength does not lie
in melody. It lies in the deep chords.
In their rich, rolling strength, their
slow procession through simple, but
massive, cadences. They are chorales,
and one who has ever heard a chorale
well sung by a great chorus knows
what force it may have. But how are
they sung in most of our churches? In
the first place, the time drags. It is
meant to be slow, but it is also meant
to be steady, not to go slower at each
step. Then, to make it worse, every one
sings the whole melody, after the sim
ple fashion of a negro prayer meeting.
So the chief merit of the hymn. Its har
mony, is lost sight of, and to make it
worse, doubled thirds, consecutive oc
taves, all the bugbears of the mu
sician, abound everywhere. Let sopra
nos, contraltos, tenors and baritones,
each keep to their own part of the score.
Then the music will have the weight,
the mass that It needs. At present we
sing our chorales as a child would strum
them, playing the air and the accom
paniment in octaves. It is time for our
contraltos, tenors and baritones to
learn a little Independence, and a little
about harmony.
Mr. Martinus Sieveklng played in Bos
ton last Saturday at the concert of the
Boston Symphony orchestra. He played
the Saint Saen piano-forte concerto No.
2, In G minor. As the Boston Symphony
recognizes only the greatest of artists,
it is evident that Mr. Sieveklng is
thought a little more of in Boston than
In Lincoln. The trouble, while he was
with us, was that our people decided
that, since he was with us he couldn't
be so very great, and they stuck to this
till he went. It is the old story of the
man who offered the dollar for fifty
cents and found no purchaser.
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Remember that the
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