The Life and Work of R. L. Pearsall Author(s): Hubert W. Hunt and R. L. Pearsall Source: The Musical Times, Vol. 63, No. 953 (Jul. 1, 1922), p. 510 Published by: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/908869 Accessed: 29-12-2015 02:46 UTC

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This content downloaded from 202.28.191.34 on Tue, 29 Dec 2015 02:46:36 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 51o THE MUSICAL TIMES-JULY I 1922

THE LIFE AND WORK OF R. L. PEARSALL SIR,-Will you kindlyallow me the use of your columns to make a request? For some six or seven years I have beengathering material for an accountof the life and work From the Musical Times of July 1, 1862: Lucas I been fortunate of Robert Pearsall. have especially AT in some respectsin securingoriginal MSS., &c., but wish THE GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL to make myessay as completeas possible. THE CRYSTAL PALACE For thisreason I shouldbe glad to hear fromany of your readerswho may possess any MSS., eitherin musicor letters, This part was wound up by the laughing or any early publications such as those by Goulding, solo and chorus 'Haste thee, nymph,' from D'Almaine & Co., Messrs. Schott,&c., if they would send Mr. Weiss had kindly undertaken to me several of these L'Allegro. particulars. I might mention that the short which was too for his earlypublications appear under the initialsonly, R. L. P., sing solo, high in whichway Pearsall oftensigned his letters.-Yours, &c., voice, but he made up withcomic vigourfor any HIUBERT W. HUNT little deficiency of compass. The male chorus 14, Belgrave Road, . (Musical Directorofthe Bristol acted well up to its part in the followingjoyful Society). May I8, 1922. Madrigal sounds, but the ladies were deficient in the vis comica,and their laugh gave one no idea that 'THE BALLAD IN AMERICA' they were any of them holding both their sides. SIR,-It is curious to see how a certainkind of mind It was now half-pastthree, and no wonder if they workswhen brought into contact with one thathas different to standardsfrom it. Because I do most not consider required somethingsubstantial support them; certainly for hours the songs of Charles WakefieldCadman anythinghigher it is no laughing matter to sing two thanthe salad of commonplaceand clichdthat is turnedout and a half withoutnourishment. by the ton by English ballad purveyors,Mr. Porte thinks that perhaps I, being a modernist(!), despiseanything so a concert took at weak as what of be reaches MANCHESTER.-On June 18, place melody. By process reasoning Henshaw's Blind underthe directionof Mr. Hiles, this conclusionI cannotthink. in the Asylum, alarming Why name the musicalinstructor of the Institution. During the last of Mr. Porte should be waitingfor a 'general Baphomet half-year,twenty-three concerts, alternatelysacred and verdict'on mySonata as good as thatreceived by Cadman's but I think: it is of him to secular, have been given, at which there have been work cannot any way, verynice say few the and both but I cannot see what conceivable connection repetitions,proving ability perseverance so, again of the teacherand his blind pupils. existsbetween my firstPianoforte Sonata (ci sono tre!) and Americansong recitalprogrammes. Now for Mr. Porte's 'white Englishmen and white WORCESTER.-The Festival Choral Society appeared in Americans': I am sorrythat your space shouldbe takenup public for the first time as an independent body on withethnological details, but nonsensecannot expect to go June 13, when they performedthe Creation in very unchallengedmerely because it appearsin a musicalpaper. good style. The principalsingers were Madame Vining, Of ' whiteAmericans' (I am toldby well-informed Americans Mr. Mason, and Mr. Briggs. Pianist,Mr. Tirbutt; har- themselves),the numberof those of other descent than monium,Mr. Caldicott. The oratoriowas conductedby Britishnow greatlyexceeds those of the latterand includes Mr. Done. specimensof every race in Europe. Are all these your 'cousins'? 'White Englishmen' is an expression that TO CORRESPONDENTS. interestsme. Are there other colours in stock? Men CONSCIENCE is. 6d., being the amount which MoNEY.-Received us some time from Persia and India, like myself,are of course quite oughtto have beenfaidfor musicfurchasedfrom since,ufon afalse refresentationthat it was obtainedfor a #ro- accustomedto the perennialdisplay of indecentignorance fessional musician. which calls us 'black men.' Someone once congratu- lated me-it was an Englishman,of course-on being a compatriotof Coleridge-Taylor!-Yours, &c., anb 175, Clarence Gate Gardens, KAIKHOSRU SORABJI. Sbarp flati Regent's Park, N.W.I. Themore the moredeadening 1922. beautifullychoirboys sing, May 31, to truereligion do theybecome. Theirvery existence as P.S.-I observe that your excellent Viennese corre- choirboyslends an air of unrealityand indevotion to their spondent,Paul Bechert, whom I had the pleasure of Rectorof St. Ethelburga's,Bishopsgate. after referredto me with some performances.--The meeting, having approach Wherea and well-trainedchoir of boys' voices.can to as a Persian in the Musical now good accuracy Courier, be obtained, such voices are without doubt peculiarly speaks of me as being of the left wing of Britishmusic! suitablefor the musicof theChurch.-The It not to be now for me to insiston the rendering ought necessary of Lincoln. fact that neither race, ideals, aims, or method by thought, I the violin The Ex-Crown Prince. have I anything whatever in common with anybody play occasionally.- whateverof the modernEnglishmen.-K. S. I distinctlysaw six people in the stalls.-G. Bernard Shaw. the PEROSI: A CORRECTION You could have drivena carriageand pair through stalls. -Sir Landon Ronald. SIR,--In yourlast numberthere appears a passage which a calls for correction. It is as follows: 'The eminent You mustexpect it ifyou give oratorioon hot afternoon at thistime of the . . out tennis composer,Perosi (who is, it appears,about to secede to the year People go playing and in search of other outdoorenjoyment and recreation, Waldese Protestants)',&c.-' Musical Notes fromAbroad' and I do not know that I them . . . Let the choir have it on that Dr. blame (' Rome,' p. 439). I good authority come in the winter,and I am sure will go to hear Perosi is insane,and has been so for some years. Lately people he much worse. he is at them.-Sir FrederickBridge. got Consequently presentquite forthe irresponsiblefor his actions,and I considerit to be takinga There is somethingto be said, on coolerreflection, veryunfair advantage of the unfortunateman if importancepublic that day . . . Afternoons and oratorios never go is attached to he do. This the well together . . . All things considered, London did very anything may places must remarkof yourRoman correspondentin a differentlight.- well-in sending six payingpeople-I am sure there Yours,&c., have been that many-to the stalls.-Ernest Newman. Bishop's House, , A. J. POWER Canterburyhas to some extent made amends for the June 16, 1922. (Precentor of Plymouth ). shamefulbehaviour of London.-Alfred Kalischk.

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