SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1924
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
silly, and his sad places do not give would probably have displayed them- RQBERT BRIDGES
ne the impression that all hope is selves had he chosen a better piece. (Continued from Page One)
II ~ ~ fl~ lest nor that what heSas to us at;
says It said in the notes on the program uninteresting stuff. But is is not so.
the time is the last word ever to be
said. And as for his melodies, where that the Symphonic Poem is an ex- Each unit, as such, is wonderfully
is there one that is over-sentimental, ample of tone-painting. If this is satisfying and complete,ta whole con-
or, on the other hand, one that is n3- true, the piece would correspond to.te larger
i apealig? chumnn hs a en- whole. One needs to quote but a few
appealing? Schumann has an en- a water-color p ainting, for it seems lines to discredit the notion that the
tirely original style marked by sin- much too light to be called a tone- i
c01 ty nd sundess.Theorchstr- ssequence motif makes each sonnet
cerity and soundness. The orchestra- painting. The music is quite enchant- subservient, or lends an objectionable
tions of the Schumann symphonies ing, and Hercules' motive is indeed sbrit. e bjecionae
are, by nearly all conductors, well heroic. fat The the ong in
{'nigh radically altered.. Mr. Stock's Mnesoniilwy noe n fact, from which the following lines
das Mendelssohn is always enjoyed and are taken, reminds one of nothing so
entire reorchestration of the Third particularly any music from "Mid- much as a Shakespearean Johnsonian
ORLANDO BEEDE Symphony is in itself a masterpiece. sme ih' ra. hsShrsn:
ORLANDO BEEDE Nig'hlvesse frstsecase.
The fault is not that Schumann soughtt zo is all fairy lightness from begin- .
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra subtle effects and did not attain thems .. .Shelovesme firstbecauseI
under Ossip Gabrilowitsch made its but he failed to have a sense of bal-ng to end. Mendelssohn's, like Web- ~ love her, then
final appearance recently. Arthur ance; hence, the frequent messy spots er, was a natural-born orchestrator; Loves me for knowing why she-
Shattuck was the pianist. Though when his Symphonies are perfor and n addition to his music, itself, should be loved,
peculiarly balanced, the program perfImte being great, it is excellently orches- And that I love to praise her, loves
was interesting. The first half from the originalscore. It must be trated. In no place is one bewildered, again.
consi'ted of the Bach-Abert Prude thatr.tn G uabriitcheem he ory nor does there seem to be prepon- So from her beauty both our loves
C lofthe erhun'chestration adequate, for his only h deranc f any choir. are moved,
Cho 'ale and Fugue, Schumnann's i were aredn moved, fl
FifthdCon-ing ofIntperorming the"LaGzaLda
that it is necessary for them to learn. terialistic soul-
Now the Observer readily admits that ialistic souls, he
a reader of the daily press and the same element in
Red Book and American might read- Sandburg's "C
ily get such an idea and hold it as comes enthusias
logical, but he also admits that many Pigeons," and t
folks who want to sell stories do little. And if. so
even worse writing than Eddie Guest er admires Don
and E. Phillips Oppenheim. Not much doubtful if even
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_worse, maybe, but just enough to from they Observ
A4.V $e vic.. queer their chances for making a author of "MesE
The Observer's own struggles with nor A. van Rensselaer take stock in sale. And without sales there is no Observer, you see
editors, and his observation on the the correspondence school literature business in writing, by his gods.
large number of stamped and self- of Success (the schools write. it Suc-1 Mess1. Holliday and Van Rensse- Byrne's latest 1
addressed envelopes that tire used by cess, using upper case) and in THE laer do not try to tell one how to LING, AND OTH
his friends, have convinced him of BUSINESS OF WRITING, A PRACTI- write; that would be a waste of time., Century Co., $2)
one thing; that the business of writ- CAL GUIDE FOR AUTHORS (Geo. But they do give a quantity of infor- pronouncement o
ing is no snap. He reached this con- H. Doran Company, $2.00) they give' mation about marketing written wares, bell that "Mr. By
viction and has held it, in spite of plenty of reasons for their skepticism. the approaching of editors, prepara- of that rare and u
Z Jekly circulars from Correspond- Indeed, were the Observer to review tion and handling of manuscripts, and without which on
enee Universities 'offering to put him all of their arguments he would be- rights of various sorts, that to the The Observer doe
among the writers of best sellers, come so depressed that he could not Observer seems very desirable. Most he feels that a
within a month. Now the Observer, even observe-and to such a failure I of it he already found out . . and Byrne's wizardry
has not the tiniest intention of writ- the publishers might object-at least, the manner of that finding has given he does write w
ing a Best Seller; his contempt for such of them as have supplied books him acute pain and embarassment. folks but use the
the class quite disappears at the for the Observer's perusal. This book is neither painful nor con- not the question.
thought of checks they are suppd'seda Briefl v, the stand taken by thefusing, for it cannot laugh at the Don Byrne is
to bring in.. Nevertheless, he has not gentlemen in question is that even reader's ignorance. So for this rea- rcmanticist. And
become convinced of the great ease of for those who know how to write, son, as well as its completeness, the' it is needed than
writing. 'the job of writing pays poorly, and is;Observer recommends it to his as- stories. Taken
And now come two acknowledged desperately uncertain unless carried piring friend. At the very least itdont amount to
authorities to bolster up his convic- on a side-line to some reliable job. willsave heart-ache and stamps. changing of a n
tion, and to broadcast it to all who; And unfortunately, most folks do not - - woman in approv
will read. Neither Robert C. Holliday know how to write, and have no idea In general the Observer is a ma- the discovery by
stidying at home
roving. The Obs(
Fourth Symphony, and the Fifth Con-birass section in one place and in an- In performing the "La Gaza Ladra"
certo of Saint-Saens. After the inter- other the omission of all the 'cellos ex- }Overture. Gabriloitsch lowered him-
mission followed Saint-Saens' Sym- cept the first. self to the lowest class of listener.
phonic Poem, "Omphale's Spinning It is a foolish, noisy piece with in-
, The Saint-Saens Concerto, which numerable exact repetitions. At any
Wheel atSchrzo "om endlssohnam'' folowed, ought never to have been rate, there is no excuse for ending his
musi oi's" Gz NightaDr"e-written. It is very rarely heard, and season with about the cheapest kindi
an1d RZossini's "La Gia/zza Ladra" Over-!sao
ture. apparently there is a justifiable rea- of music played by any orchestra of
turc " ;son for it. Why Mr. Shattuck chose its type or conducted by any man of
The Bach-Abert work need hardly this piece is a question. Perhaps he Mr. Gabrilowitsch's calibre.
be discussed, except for the mention did so for the sake of the last move- Mr._Gabri__witschsca __bre._
that it was well played. Mr. Gabrilo- ment which affords opportunity for;
witsch's brass section has, of late, a technique display. The first and -
not been as perfect as it was several especially the second movements are;
years ago. It was particularly no- "interminable and intolerable," as a
ticed in the two recent performances .critic expressed it after the con~Cirt. B
in Detroit of Beethoven's Ninth Sym- There occurs one long and common-
phony. But last Tuesday, as coon place tune after another, connectedf
as the concert commenced, one could by a series offoolish, meaningless
notice a decided change in the arpeggioes. There is nothing to the.
brasses. The Chorale and Fugue, par- music-nothing tangible nor that one'
ticularly, require absolutely clear could remember after having left the
tones and perfect intonation and, such all. The last movement, however,
there were, i was of interest. It is not as com-
Schumann is undoubtedly a very monplace as the first two and it at
great genius, for though his Symphon least is pianistic. This was practical-
ies are badly orchestrated, they are l the only opportunity one had toj
nevertheless, impressive. This Sym- form an opinion upon Mr. Shattuck's
phony, like all other of his great ilaving: He seems to possess a bril-
works, is absolutely honest, sound, liant technique. His scale and arpeg-
and straight-forward stuff. Schumann gio passages are unusually clear, and ThisBuovAWATcHcombinesex-
had a great sense of perspective; he his tone is large without being hard. quisite beauty with guaranteed ac-
curacy. It has aniS Kt. 2 5 year white
never lost his head nor became over- He is of a nervous temperament, and gold case and a guaranrw$35
enthusiastic. His immensely vigorous as a result of that, his agitato playing teed 17 Jewel MovementX35
passages have a meaning instead of, filled one with animation.. Mr. Shat- Wehavemany other BULOVA Watch4
suggesting just mere physical move- tuck has been accredited with many
ment. His lively passages are not favourable characteristics which
SC1LAiNDE1ER & SEI
EGO 3 So. Mai
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how very generally we believe that we--who have eyes ,too,--are a race
of 'white' persons; and that the promises of 'the Marriage Ceremony are
such as may be made rationally; and that it is a matter of course arrange-
And by her-beauty are susain'd; nor
when,
Setting Away
To a. Good
Start
good start does not always insure
a successful finish, but it helps
mght-v in putting you under the
tape a winner.
Make good those resolutions you
made a couple of weeks ago to
"work harder next semester." It
isn't on record how many such reso-
lutions have been made-_-also
promptly broken when the new se-
mester arrived, but the number is
great.
Save yourself frenzied hours of
cramming, low marks, and fatalities
in activities. The cure is a little
more consistent work now. -
There's another good lesson in the
same thought.
_ .
ment to pay taxes, for the privilege of retaining what confessedly belongs-
to you; and that it preserves justice to execute a murderer, on the principle]
that two homicides constitutes a maintenance' of what one of them upsets;
and: that' it is humorous to mention certain towns, such as Oshkosh and
Kankakee; and is somehow an excellent joke on anyone to have a baby or
a inother-in-law;" . ."
With such a discouraged attitude towards humankind he utters, ". . .
I am afraid the truth is being forced upon us that man, after age has
bred discernment (but some of us never feel the effect& of age!), can get-
but little delight from the company of his fellows when in his sober senses+
" This from a man: who lives at Dumbarton Grange, Virginia!
I am forced to wonder what the morose-shade of his tone would be if he
lived in a place like this, to which I have dropped. All I can do is to utter
in abject misery those verses of Edna St.Vincent Millay's from a poem
called "Departure" in her last volume of poems, The Harp-Weaver and
Other Poems:
"It's little I care what path I take,
And where it leads it's little I care;
But out of this house, lest my heart break,,
I must go, and off somewhere.
A
np
them, doesn't bel
which their arg
doesn't even beli
a creative writer.
and therein lies a
His soul, belonigi
feels truth in ti
untouched by the
zsche and H. L.
Mr. Byrne weave
tiful things, patt(
tures irk stm'ange
'romance.
Really, Don By
writing prose.
core-the sort of
the late middle
beauty without ti
details. The Obs
lieve him, but he
of his work. Wh
Mr. Byrne, expec
If Mr. Byrne i
believes in thing
Ludwig Lewisohn
believes in preci
the past, present,
ohn is ra critic'
likes a few thing
of them he des
ancient and wort]
ment the Observer
so that he greatly
ohn.
Having stated
its cause, the Ob
to quarrel with a
DON JUAN (Bon
written by one Jn
first place, Mr. I
justice to the pro
he says that Don
for a fair review
youngsters like
to know that the
notice Mr. Lewis
youngsters in spi
and that in thi
professional revi<
But this is not
cipal cause for
it seems that Mr.
the whole purpos
seems to think tb.
Lewisohn, tried
a story, and prote
cause the effort
Now to the Obser
right stupid, and
urge is no good
tion's" review cc
is not a novel, it
written by a ma'
a pamphleteer, as
self has insisted.
a tract advocatin
divorce: it is a ha
0
"It's little I know of what's in my heart,
What's in my mind it's little I know,
But there's that in me must up and start,
And it'slittle I care where my feet go,
"I wish I could walk for a day .and a night,
And find me at dawn in a desolate place,
With never the rut of a road in sight,
Nor the roof of a house, nor the eyes of a face.
"I wish I could walk till my blood should spout,
And drop me never to stir again,
On a shore that is wide, for the tide is out,
And the weedy rocks are bare to the rain.
"But dump or rock, where the path I take
Brings up, it's little enough I care;
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