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30, 1902. 22 THE SAN- FRANCISCO (^LL, SUNDAY^MARCH gall: HUNEKER ASSERTS STRAUSS the <sm Bmmmimm HAMLETIS TOO EASY, SAYS JOHN SPR ECKELS, Proprietor. Address Communications to W. b. LEAKE, Manager IS THE MOST INTELLECTUAL D. MORGAN, BUT NEXT SUMMER Sunday .............^. ;i........ .....-. v.;-7..:...:....... :. ......: ...........;; .........march 30, 1902 OF THE LIVING MUSICIANS MAY SEE HIM IN SHYLOCK Office; Third, Publication *^^®^^^ ......;...... ... ...:..... Market and S. F • BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON. BY GUISARD. THE OI-,EliFtIO^.I-, IDElwfl:-A.OOC3-XJE. the evil ways into which restless and ill-balanced orators ""of the church too readily stray is that of playing the demagogue and the agitator in times'of popular' ex- citement. Eager for the glory of leadership and feeling, no sense of responsibility to the AMONGduties of their hign calling, such men rush to the front at meetings where discontented men are gathered, and with something of frenzy^in word and manner they rouse and madden the more reckless or more sensitive of the mob until some of them, as ill-balanced as the clerical ora- tor himself, but more prone to blows than to speech, rush away to the*commission of crime. The power of oratory over excited minds is well known. When a whole community is dis^ turbed, when for a time respect for law wavers and men begin to believe that lawlessness may be justifiable, when bitterness increases daily between contending factions, when the reckless are stimulated by the contagious influences of large crowds,' then the duty of an orator becomes a most serious and responsible one. Aninflammatory speech uttered by one having some show of authority may set fire to the spirits of the mob and precipitate a riot, when calmer and wiser •words might have restored respect for law, and re-established th*e harmony that is necessary for Of all orators at such, times those who are most, dangerous are the clerical demagogues who feeling they will not be involved in the fighting, and having nothing to lose by anything that may happen, give free rein to,the on-rushing wildness of their eloquence and urge;per^ suade, exhort and impel excitable men to open riot or secret crime. The very dignity of his call- " ing which should have been a restraint upon the clerical demagogue is used by him as a means 1 to make his. words more dangerous. With cunning skillhe weaves into his harangue !quotations from Holy Writ, speaks now as a pastor of the people and now as a revolutionist, owpg allegi- ance to nothing r The unreflecting listeners, burning with the flaming blaze of lurid rhetoric,' cannot distinguish between the pastor and the demagogue, the ;Bible and blasphemy. They ac- cept all as the teaching of an institution they have been taught to revere from childhood; and in a whirl of passion are led to violate the long established and well-known precepts of the / ,church by the very distortions which the clerical agitator ntakes of his clerical influence. The evils wrought by the wild utterances of these seekers after mischief and notoriety are far-reaching and affect many, but they work their direst wrong and harm in .the households, of CLEVER SOUND ARTISTE WHO those are most susceptible to the mad teaching. wives, WILL BE HEARD IN CONCERT who Mothers! sisters and children^have AT SHERMAN & CLAY HALL. had bitter cause to repent and mourn that the men of their families have been too ready to act there Is no suggestion declamatory of such orators. Many a weeping of provincialism that .one repels upon the utterances woman has seen some loved more vigorously than that of early one away to prison, knowing rising, both for one's self and one's there to become director of the Munich hurried into crinie and borne inher heart that the real guilt rested Therefore, Court Theater, leaving that post in 1890 adored San Francisco. not with the excited man who struck the blow, but with the vindictive', malignant, PERHAPSMorgan's irreproachable six at a call from Weimar. Later he became reckless dem- when E. J. Court Kapellmeister at the Berlin opera, agogue in clerical garb whose words roused him to madness and impelled. him crime. feet strode Into the Columbia Theater at and has done much brilliant conducting to. 1 p. m. the other day to meet me. In other fields, —for which detail Iam In- Nor is it strange that outbreaks of violence should so frequently follow the harangue's of Imanaged quite a decent smothered to Up to date yawn, to match his of the very genuine debted again Mr. Huneker. church, apologetic, the published list of Strauss' works the irresponsible agitators who leave the pulpit and the peace of the to enjoy the/thrill Gotham variety. Profusely last Morgan ex- included eleven orchestral compositions: and the excitements of the stump and the mob. Such have been to taiim but Ifear still hungry. Mr. Festival March, op..1;. Serenade for wind orators known and plained—he was a little late— that he had instruments, op. 7; First Symphony,, op. sting American audiences by teliing them they are ruled over by domineering plutocrats; that been annexing a cup of coffee In a nearby- 12; From Italy, op. 16; Don Juan, tone restaurant and the clock was slow. poem. op. 20; Macbeth, tone poem, op. £3; they are being robbed of their earnings, forced into serfdom, lashed into subjection, brutalized, That It was tremendously early—wasn't Tod u. Verklarung, tone poem, op. 24; on slavery cowardice, a It? Iagreed, with patriotic forgetfulness TillEulenspiegel. op. 2S; Alsosprach Zara- trampled and crushed into and and reduced to condition worse than that of the plebeian stretch of sunny hours STRAUSS is a man cf thustra, op. 30; Quixote, op. 35, and lay But San Francisco tumultuous, Don of the slaves of old Rome by a money power more greedy and more 'heartless than N,gro. that behind me. jjenius; perverse, rad- Heiden'eben,' op. 40.- Then there are did get up a little earlier than New York? ical, morbid, by wrong- course, bitten eighty-five songs, some with orchestral Throwing exaggeration to the winds and resorting to direct falsehoods, the clerical dema- Still, it was a "bully" place. Of WELL-KNOWN ACTOR .WHO headed theories— yet a genius. But accompaniment; sonata piano, op. one had one's chief meal old, brief ar- .a for In New York SAYS "HAMLET" IS TOO S6 years he has in his 5; a violin and piano sonata, op. 18; a gogue screams out that the employers of laborin America are seeking to turn wage earning into after the performance and that meant a RICHARD up all schools, all tistic life summed 'cello and piano sonata, op. 8, and a con- slavery and reduce the mass of the people want, political degradation. couple of hours for the process of assimi- styles, and has planted victorious stand- for violin and piano. There,' are to to wretchedness and With lation—usually conducted at the Lambs* Pre- certo ards on new ambiguous territory. three sets qf piano compositions, five vehement fury he calls upon the idle to, rise, to strike a blow, to fight. He tells them it is cow- Club, or any of a dozen other places, and cocious as Mozart or as Chopin. Strauss pieces, op. 3; Stimmungsbilder, op. 9, and that meant. He must own Shylock are both tre- Individualityuntil his keep peace, that it 1knew what them. and Macbeth' nevertheless lacked Burleske for piano and orchestra, op. 49. ardice to the will be valor to break the law. being -a "night owl" he supposed, but mendously different" . ¦ , . -,•? -; though signs not to ... twentieth opus; were There is a concerto for the French horn, to Iwould forgive his lateness? and with a "How about Romeo?" lacking in the early compositions to as- string seven choruses, After listening such an inflammatory harangue some man goes forth and strikes a blow particularly smile the week's The actor's slightly contemptuous shrug that a two quartets, male attractive eure the acute, interested critic and lastly an opera, "Guntram," and a at his fellow-man. Arrest, trial condemnation up. John Storm made hjs peace. was sufficient answer, ana then Itold hand. Von Bulow felt and follow. Two homes have been broken In v new man was at "melodrama" for voice and piano, "Enoch Beyond what Laura Jean calls an "in- him of our encouraging Shakespeare sea- the paw of the young lion when he saw Arden." one there is lamentation for a husband slain; in the other a heart-broken weeps son year. instru- * • • mother over a teresting pallor,",'. Mr. Morgan does not Ia3t Opus 7, the serenade for wind a night There is a "That the advantage of San Fran- ; Bitter, recognizing son whose life.has been flighted 'by. the commission of crinie and goes td a felon ? s doom. look at all like owl. is. ments and Alexander Up to now we have had here In San who good six feet of him and a proportionate cisco, bully place!" he said. "In New the gifts of the youth, pointed out to him exactly one song out this eye that York one can only produce Shakespeare ar- Francisco of all Meantime, the excitement having blown over, the clerical demagogue whose falseand flaming or- breadth, a light, clear blue the way wherein he would prosper wealth, a given by Mme. Nor- surprisingly with darkness of luxurious circumstances. Not force we call "Serenade" crime, comes the 'inder most tistically. The interior dica. This week somewhat repairs the atory fired the spirits that:.committed the sits in his study, fat, 'rosy, whistling, well pleased his brown hair, and lips o? a Rossettl that the best is too good for nimrbut the Goethe his daemon, A here, genius, which named deficiency.

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