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principal residence of each station, to decorous
and attentive audiences; each of his auditors
contributing a small coin on entering or leaving the
concert room. He evidently performs the same
function here as his fellow countrymen and
professional brethren in England, who at the close of
the opera season in London form themselves into
travelling companies and give select concerts in
the provinces. “Reserved seats, 7s. 6d.; unreserved
floor, 2s. 6d.; galleries, one shilling.” His organ
barrel, like their stock programme, is set with
operatic selections, including the most simple and
melodious morsels, that all, excepting the soulless
musical pedant, can appreciate and enjoy.
Believing as I do in the elevating influence of
good music, and having a profound respect for
street organs, I was delighted to meet this
missionary of southern melody carrying bis
educational machinery so far north. His “box of
whistles” is carefully tuned; his music, although
somewhat bald and mechanical, is at any rate
correctly and consistently rendered; his audiences are
not condemned to listen to drawing-room slaughter
of elaborate compositions by performers incapable
of understanding the intent of the composer; nor
the melancholy murder of sweet melodies by
ill-taught singers, who imagine that drawling and
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