Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Pacific Monthly: December, 1907
One afternoon, at the old club in Sacra mento Street, a few of us sat listening to music rendered by volunteers. Signor Mor ley had been singing and Charlie Vivian whose song Ten Thousand Miles Away had made him popular in three continents - was entertaining us with a delightful monologue in which he showed surprising versatility. Suddenly Herr Mulder, director of the mulder-fabri Opera Company, said: Give me the titles of three popular songs. We gave him Dixey, Hail Columbia and The Last Rose of Summer. These titles he wrote upon a slip of paper, and placed it upon the music rack of our small upright piano. Then, seat ing himself at the instrument, he played each of the airs in turn in a manner so masterly that he actually produced an orchestral effect; this was the prelude to an improvisa tion that followed in which the several songs were disintegrated and hopelessly mingled; recognizable fragments came to the surface as the various components of a salad appear, only to disappear in a moment during the process of making and mixing. Sometimes we were regaled with several familiar bars and these we seized upon, as a drowning man his straw, only to be submerged in a maze of melody where ?oated the ?otsam of the triple theme with which Herr Mulder was toying as the juggler toys with a bottle, an egg and a cannon ball while he keeps them revolving in the air.
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