Sims Reeves, His Life and RecollectionsSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1888 - 285 sider |
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Andante appeared Arthur artistes audience Ballad baritone bass Beautifully Illustrated Brass Band cantata Charles charming chorus Claxson Claxson Bellamy Composer Dapuis donna Dreams Edgardo Edward Oxenford engagement English Ernani Erskine Allon father festival Fred Fugue Full Orchestra G. F. Handel Gavotte George Staker Gerard F girl Gustave Lange Handel Harry Dancey heard heart Henry J. E. Webster John La Sonnambula Lady Laura Leigh Lloyd Longfellow Madame Majesty's Theatre March Mary Mdlle melody Military Band Miss mother Name of Piece never night Norah Norton Lovelace obbligato oratorio Packer performance pianoforte accompaniment pitch prima donna Robert MacHardy Robin Hood rose Rubini Scarsbrook scene seemed Septett Sherstone Signor Mario Sims Reeves sing singer Sir Michael Costa solo Sonnambula stage SUCCESSFUL SONGS-continued sung tenor Théâtre des Italiens Theatre Royal Thomas Hood Valse violin Violoncello Vocal vocalists voice W. F. Taylor Waltz wife Willard Williams Words
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Side 193 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Side 1 - For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
Side 18 - Purcell, whose genius, though less cultivated and polished, was equal to that of the greatest masters on the continent. And though his dramatic style and recitative were formed in a great measure on French models, there is a latent power and force in his expression of English words, whatever be the subject, that will make an unprejudiced native of this island feel, more than all the elegance, grace, and refinement of modern Music less happily applied, can do.
Side 252 - ... In his autobiography Mr. Reeves writes : " Many as have been . my successes in Italian opera and oratorio, I never achieved a greater triumph than that which I obtained at the end of 1878 and the beginning of 1879 at Covent Garden, in The Beggar's Opera, The Waterman, and other English works of the same class." " On the occasion of playing Captain Macheath in The Beggar's Opera, the house," wrote Punch, " was literally crammed from floor to ceiling by an audience whose enthusiastic temperature...
Side 238 - Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank. Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared!
Side 19 - ... accompaniments to his songs and choruses; and even in the general melody of the airs themselves : yet, in the accent, passion, and expression of English words, the vocal music of Purcell is, sometimes to my feelings, as superior to Handel's as an original poem to a translation.
Side 19 - Handel, who flourished in a less barbarous age for his art, has been acknowledged his superior in many particulars; but in none more than the art and grandeur of his choruses, the harmony and texture of his organ fugues, as well as his great style of playing that instrument; the majesty of his hautbois...
Side 254 - tol de rol' with a true cockney chick-a-leary twang, when addressed to the vulgar Lucy Lockit, is a clever idea, most artistically carried out; and then his dance up the stage while singing, giving his last note good and true to the end in spite of this unaccustomed exertion, as with a jump he seats himself in a natural, devil-may-care style on the table, was followed by an encore so momentous, that even he, the anti-encorist, was fain to comply with the enthusiastic demand ; so he repeated the...
Side 19 - English words, whatever be the subject, that will make an unprejudiced native of this island feel, more than all the elegance, grace, and refinement of modern music, less happily applied, can do ; and this pleasure is communicated to us, not by the symmetry or rhythm of modern melody, but by his having tuned to the true accents of our mother-tongue, those notes of passion, which an inhabitant of this island would breathe in such situations as the words describe.
Side 278 - Israel,' and ' Judas,' demand, as at Sydenham. They were, with small exceptions, so wrought on by the magnificence of the scene, as to rise far nearer to the point indicated than they ever rose before ; and one in particular (Mr. Sims Reeves), has written his name beneath that of Handel in the golden book of musical renown, to be read a hundred years hence, when new singers arise and new celebrations are projected.