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FAMOUS SONGS
Princess Louise had long been dead, and new faces, new interests, had taken the place of Did ones. But the closed book of the past was to be re-opened by a sudden and unlooked for touch. It was a gala evening at Mossy Mead. The state apartments were thrown open, and invitations had been sent by the Abbess to guests from far and near, at the head of whom were Prince George of Dessau and his youthful countess. A concert was the occasion of this brilliant assembly, a concert to celebrate the opening of a fine chamber-organ that had just been placed in the chapter-room, and several eminent musicians, not only from Dessau but from Dresden, were to be the chief performers. " The Prince led the Abbess to her place, the organ was disclosed to view, and the concert began. . . . The last number on the programme was a song by the leading tenor of the Dresden Opera. It received a rapturous encore, and the singer, after a moment's hesitation, once more stepped forward and made a sign to the accom-panist Then, amid deepest silence, the first notes of Beethoven's wonderful song rose upon the air. Never had those strains been more exquisitely rendered. The audience seemed spell-bound. But when the singer breathed the last low, lingering, passionate appeal, 'Ade-IL-S 65 |
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