The Little Book Of Louis Moreau Gottschalk PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... senza forte. "In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon: All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream." Tennyson in the spring of 1857, Mr. Gottschalk writes from Havana to a friend in New York of a brilliant entertainment given him there by the captain-general, at which banquet six hundred guests were present. His first concert was to be given the following night at the Tacon Theatre. Maretzek, who at that time occupied the house with his Italian opera troupe, resigned the use of the theatre in favor of him for one evening. To the brilliancy and success of this entertainment the journals of the day bear ample witness. A few extracts from a letter to a friend will show how earnestly he enjoyed himself. "The sky, the air, the flowers, the fruits, are full of music to me; and, although I cannot say as much for the. ranque, unsympathetic voices of the people, I find enough pensively-melancholy beauty in some of the faces I see to keep me in the minore you love so well. Especially children. How dreamily beautiful they are! Such eyes! you can look into them, and fairly lose yourself in a labyrinth more bewitching than the one owned by that cruel papa of Mademoiselle Ariadne! By the way, study the orchestration of ' Ariadne.' To me it is full of soft, seductive wiles; you can lose yourself in untying the silken braids of harmony; and when untied, and you hold them in your comprehension, it is nothing but womanly love which can weave them again. Now I recall the criticism you made on a similar harmony. Do you remember that matinee at the academy (the day the little lame boy brought me the tuberoses, and said he wanted to give them to me because 1 was Louis Gottschalk, ...