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Dinner to Sir Frederick Bridge Author(S): C Dinner to Sir Frederick Bridge Author(s): C. Santley Source: The Musical Times, Vol. 60, No. 915 (May 1, 1919), pp. 222-225 Published by: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3702013 Accessed: 18-04-2016 18:39 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Musical Times Publications Ltd. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Musical Times This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Mon, 18 Apr 2016 18:39:30 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 222 THE MUSICAL TIMES.-MAY 1, I9I9. DINNER TO SIR FREDERICK BRIDGE. the authorities of the Abbey at that time, to put the matter On April I, at the Connaught Rooms, the Music on its lowest ground, had not recognised the truth of what Pope put into a couplet, that Club gave a dinner in honour of Sir Frederick Bridge. The Right Hon. the Lord Ernle, Minister of Agriculture 'Some to Church repair, and Fisheries, was in the chair, and the large and Not for the doctrine, but the music there,' representative gathering included Lady Bridge, Sir and the Dean of Westminster of that day, Dean Stanley, Alexander Mackenzie, Sir Frederic Cowen, Prof. H. P. was not a lover of music. His favourite instrument-I have Allen, the Very Rev. The Dean of Westminster, Dr. heard him say so himself-was the big drum; and I also J. C. Bridge, Sir Charles Sykes, M.P., Dr. Clifford B. well remember that Sir Frederick Bridge, in adapting Edgar, M.P., Mr. Alfred Davies, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. himself then, as I have no doubt he has done since, to the Ben Davies, and many others well known in the tastes of his Dean, used to produce from the organ when musical world. playing the Dead March in ' Saul' such a roll of drums as made the Dean's frail figure vibrate with ecstasy. Well, we The following sent messages of regret for their have passed to-day far away from that position in 1875. enforced absence :-Madame Clara Butt, the Earl of To-day music, as we all know, holds a definite, assured, Shaftesbury, The Earl Howe, Sir Edward Elgar, Sir legitimate place among the arts. It is recognised as the one Walter Parratt, Sir Charles Stanford, Sir Charles medium for the direct expression of the complex emotions of Santley, Mr. Justice Younger, Sir Homewood Crawford, a complicated age. It has asserted for itself and secured Sir Henry Wood, Dr. Charles Pearce, and Messrs. for all time an educational and beneficent influence on Rudyard Kipling, Edward German, and Landon the development of our national life, and its value has Ronald. been found not merely for the expression or excitement of emotion, but above all for its discipline, its control, and its The toast of 'The King' having been honoured, relief. The place of music to-day is assured and definite. THE CHAIRMAN said: Ladies and Gentlemen,-I must Now in that movement, that progress of music in the last apologise for the dress in which I appear here to-night. I fifty years, our guest to-night, Sir Frederick Bridge, has am like, I feel sure, a peahen among a whole drove of played a distinguished part. He has played it as organist peacocks; but the explanation is that I was detained up to of Westminster Abbey, as a composer, as an historical the very last moment in the House, and I could not get researcher, and so wide and varied has been his life that away except by coming straight here in my ordinary working I must imitate his own nimbleness and rapidity of clothes. I apologise. Now, in a representative gathering movement in the rest that I have to say. Of his tenure like this of the musical world I cannot pretend to think for of Westminster Abbey I shall say nothing except this, one moment that it is as a musician that I am asked to take that a small boy who in I852 insisted upon tolling the bell the chair. Neither do I suppose that it is in my capacity as at the Duke of Wellington's funeral has lived to take a President of the Board of Agriculture. I think in common prominent part in many of the stately ceremonials with speech and thought we are accustomed to link music with which we have seen our illustrious dead consigned to the many things, but I never heard of its being linked with grave in Westminster Abbey. The Dean of Westminster fertilisers, and indeed, when I come to think of it, the only himself is going to speak to you of his (Sir Frederick's) work animal that is inseparably connected with music of a at the Abbey. I will only say this: that he has worthily mechanical type is the monkey, and that is not an animal followed the traditions of the greatest of his predecessors, which is included in the live-stock of a farm. So, then, Henry Purcell. As to his merits as a composer, I cannot Ladies and Gentlemen, it is neither as a musician nor as speak with the critical knowledge and understanding which a farmer that I take the chair to-night; but I think that many of you ladies and gentlemen may possess, and will only there are three grounds why I should propose the toast lay stress upon the strength and solidity which are the of the evening, the health of Sir Frederick Bridge. One characteristics of his music, of his noteworthy setting of of them is the ground common to all of us-a warm Tennyson, of the dignity of music written for special admiration for his work and his character. The second occasions-like that for the Jubilee of 1887-of the admirable ground is this, a friendship of forty-five years: it is spirit with which he has caught the very essence of Kipling's about that time since he came from Manchester to take up ballads, and of the humorous side of his music which is his responsible duties at the Abbey. And the third ground presented to us to-night, both in 'The Goslings' and in is the link that there is between him and me because of his 'Bold Turpin.' As a teacher and a lecturer he has friendship for my father, to whom, as I believe, he owed the influenced thousands; and he has infused them with possession in the first instance of his charming house in something of hi; own infectious enthusiasm, and the Littlington Tower, one of the most beautiful spots in old young men and women whom he has trained for their London. These, then, are the reasons why I propose the work are further centres of influence wherever they are toast. Music in our history has had its ups and downs. I working to-day. There are thousands who have attended have a sort of recollection that Shakespeare tells us that the his lectures who carried away with them a higher appreciation man that has no music in himself is not to be trusted. That of music, and also a gratitude to the lecturer for the fact that represents the 'ups.' I also remember, though I do not his sense of humour has often not only sustained but has profess to quote the words accurately, a passage in aroused their interest. And then there is his sterling value Darwin's 'Descent of Man,' that represents the feeling in researches. He has made known to the public the prevalent in I875 among the majority of English-speaking history of music in Westminster Abbey. I should like to people. Darwin said: 'The capacity for enjoying music dwell upon many other things that he has done, but outside and for producing musical notes is not of the least direct the Muniment Room at Westminster Abbey let me say that use to men in the ordinary habits of life.' It always used he has placed under a debt of eternal obligation every lover to amuse me when I read that passage. In what perhaps of Samuel Pepys; and behind all these varied activities of was appropriately called the 'Descent of Man' there his life there is the man himself. Shrewd, practical, full occurred this passage: 'Musical notes seem to have been of humour, he has beneath that surface a deep, rich vein acquired by the first male or female progenitors of mankind of artistic feeling-enthusiastic, almost effervescent, full of for the sake of attracting the opposite sex' ;. and I remember vivacity, with interest and zest in many forms of life. He in my youth I used to think that if, many years ago, is a fisherman of no mean prowess, and as a shot he has at the art of producing musical notes assisted in attracting least made a considerable noise in the world. He has lived the opposite sex, it was of very practical use in one of the among us for fifty years that generous, frank, and genial life ordinary habits of mankind. But with that possible excep- which makes for a happy and genial old age; and to speak tion, in 1875, in spite of a great deal of promise on all of old age in connection with Sir Frederick is to speak a sides, music was relegated to the limbo of useless arts.
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