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Charles Young and Family Author(s): William H. Cummings Source: The Musical Times, Vol. 54, No. 847 (Sep. 1, 1913), pp. 586-587 Published by: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/908049 Accessed: 14-12-2015 05:34 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp 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. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 129.96.252.188 on Mon, 14 Dec 2015 05:34:28 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE MUSICAL 586 TIMES.-SEPTEMBER I, 1913. Montaigne,a Rousseau, a Cellini, or a Casanova, his paper it is writtenon.' Mr. Boughton was a London autobiographywould have been one of the marvelsof criticwhen this pamphlet was written,so we are left to its kind. HIe was, as Nietzschesaw, too weak forthat. wildly as to the identityof the remainingsix. are speculate But we who do know what mannerof man he was The Festival of the future,according to Mr. Boughton, not to be affected the by average Wagnerite'sholding is to combine competitionand to give concerts, a plan of the hands in horrorat the that up mere suggestion long ago adopted at Kendal and elsewhere. The occasionallyin ' ein Leben' he suppressedthe full facts would not with the event is to be a public holiday in the district or city, when he thoughtthey square local resources are to be and the best local legend of himselfthat he was anxious to establish employed, forall time. ERNEST NEWMAN. composer is to be commissioned to compose a choral work, opera, or musical pageant. Here we pause to reflect. For further we must refer Mr. Rutland Boughton has writtena pamphlet on particulars inquirers 'The death and resurrectionof the Musical Festival' to the pamphlet itself. (William Reeves). He traces the alleged decay of 'Triennials,' the rise of competition Festivals and In an 'Occasional Note' in our last number (p. 514) the need for some reforms, and forecasts the we commented on the unconventional harmonizations Festival of the future. As to the best known of to be found in Mr. Cyril Scott's 'Old Songs in a New the triennial events, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Guise.' We timidlysuggested that a certain A natural and Norwich, he has much to say that has been should be A flat,and as to this the publishers inform said for years. Their appeal is confessedly not us that the A natural is a misprint. In view of what to the democracy but to the well-to-do, whereas was perpetrated elsewhere how were we to know? the competition Festivals practically reverse this, We are also informedthat in an article contributed to and set every class of the community, including the Monthly Musical Record for June this year, Mr. almost the lowest,working at music-makingand critical Scott defends his treatmentof these and other songs. listening. The antithesis is striking and suggestive. We have read this article, but are still unconvinced But does it really point to the advisability of the that any body may do any thing-a doctrine which, it abandonment of the customary Festivals ? Surely they seems to us, is Mr. Scott's practical contention. have done much for musical progress, and deserve a more generous testimonial than Mr. Boughton in his desire for literary effectgives them. He sneers at CHARLES YOUNG AND FAMILY. the the 'Golden and 'Elijah,' 'Redemption,' Legend,' By WILLIAM H. CUMMINGS. other works produced at the Festivals as 'polite stuff.' Mr. own have Mrs. Delany, writingto her sister on August 8, 1758, Boughton's imaginative compositions and a of been on several Festival occasions, and we said: 'Mrs. Arne and Miss Bayly sing, girl performed them on the viewed as they are not so polite. nine years old accompanies harpsichord ; presume that, 'stuff,' Arne's the race the s All the have shared the fairly common she is a niece of Mrs. ; of Young same, they and dismal fate of Festival novelties in not being heard are born songsters musicians.' The she referredto were indeed again. family songsters and musicians, but all published biographies, including make a In dealing with the formation and training of the revised edition of Grove's 'Dictionary,' Festival and their effect local musical sad muddle of their relationship. Whilst writingthe choirs, upon " organizations, Mr. Boughton has much to say that is historyof 'Dr. Arne and Rule, Britannia,"' recently I had access to numerous pertinentand true. But we demur to the statement published by Novello & Co., the that the choir that can properlyinterpret the Judaistic documents which enabled me to unravel tangled religion of Elijah will be quite unable to get at the thread of their pedigree. heart of Bach's 'Passion' music. The emotions of a Charles Young, senior, was born not later than be the case because in good choir are as expansive and comprehensive as the 1688. I assume this to 1709 emotions of the man who trains them. But it may be he would have attained the age of twenty-one,in which admitted that Festival choirs have, as a rule, far more year he married,as is proved by the officialcertificate : that Charles music allotted to them than they can in a short time 'These are to certifywhom it may concern in the of assimilate and sing with self-expression. Festival Young, of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, County Martin's-in- choirs are oftenmuch too large for some of the music Middlesex, and Elizabeth Carter, of St. in the Parish Church of they sing, and this being so the true remedy is the-Fields, were married division of labour and concentration of sections on All Hallows, Barking, London, on the 23rd of June, the Book of the a limited programme. 1709, as does appear by Register said Parish. Witness my hand this 2oth day of Gaskarth, Minister.' Mr. as critics now January, 17Io--John Boughton sees, many other see, The bridegroom, Charles Young, was appointed the great potentialitiescompetition Festivals have in organist of All Hallows', Barking, four years later, liftingup the whole community. We are glad to note a /'20 he had Mr. and trustthat he will use with salary of per annum; probably Boughton's conversion, Mr. who He has a keen deputised for his predecessor, Bryan, may his ability to serve the movement. also have been his teacher. It has been suggested vision for the existence of which all imperfections, that Charles Young was a son of Anthony Young, who immersed in the work will admit, but he is not very was the organist of St. Clement Danesv; but this is suggestions. The fact is the helpful in constructive impossible. AnthonyYoung was one of the choristers Competitive Festival movement is just now passing of the Chapel Royal, under Dr. Blow ; and there is a through some throes, inasmuch as it is sufferingrecord in 'The * dated 29, somewhat from the well-meant advice of critics who King's Musick,' September 1700, of a 'grant of cloth for Anthony Young and have not fullyexplored the paths which it has forged, John Reading, two boys of the Chapel who have and which to a large extent it must continue to follow. left on account of their voices having broken.' A some remarks on adjudication and Mr. Boughton has boy who ceased to be a chorister in I700 could not, adjudicators, with which we deal in the ComlJeti/ionin the nature of things,be the fatherof a man married Festival Record. And he has a tilt at the London in I709. The probabilityis that Charles Young and musical critics. He says that there are not more than Anthony Young were both about the same age. seven (half a score are allowed for all England, three being in the provinces) 'whose opinion is worth the *' The King's Musick,' by H. C. De Lafontaine (Novello). This content downloaded from 129.96.252.188 on Mon, 14 Dec 2015 05:34:28 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE MUSICAL TIMES.-SEPTEMBER I, 1913- 587 Two yearsafter their marriage Charles Young and Nantwich,Cheshire, and died in 1755,it is said ofgrief his wife,Elizabeth, were blessed with a daughter,at the deathof a son,John, who was a verypromising Cecilia, born in 1711. She developed into a fine Westminsterscholar. Charles Young, junior, had soprano vocalist, and in 1736 married Thomas thirteenchildren, but we are only interested in a daughter, AugustineArne. She longsurvived her husband, Dr. Mary,born in 1751,who became a veryaccomplished Arne, and died in 1789. A second child, also a musician,both singer and player. She was only daughter, was named Isabella. She became an fouryears old when her fatherdied, and was then expert soprano singer, and marriedJohn Frederic adoptedby heraunt, Mrs. Arne,and thuscame under Lampe, thewell-known and successfulcomposer; she the notice of Mrs. Delany, as narratedabove. She outlivedher husband forty-four years, dying in 1795. had continuousinstruction from her aunt, and constant It is worthyof note that their son, Charles John practicein her art in public. She sang in a Pastoral Frederic Lampe, succeeded his grandfather,Charles sketch at Drury Lane Theatre on October 22, 1762, Young,as organistof All Hallows',Barking, in 1758, and four years after (in 1766) married Francis an appointmenthe held until his deathin 1769.