On calm summer img we enter a place of worship and held our mood to the plaintive chords—idly invoked.
In the opening hymn the organist sounds his congregation and transposes the key to suit " preponderance of men, women, or children.
Thou the minister's rich baritone is heard in prayer, in solo and unison, subduing his hearers to his own reverent tone, The Psalms denote the organist's opportunity. He selects chants with popular. tuneful airs that " child can follow; it is but the "motif" for the ex-n of his brilliant execution and the capabilities of his instrument.
And what a wealth of description the Psalms cent The pastures and valleys—hills, trees, birds, beasts—thunders and lightnings relieved by ripe cornfields that laugh and sing! With a lilt, in solemn imposing measures, terrific reverberations sinking to mute pathos, the whole gamut of contrast be two abject restraint and wild abandonment the King of Instruments portrays. Some rejoice in bells and drums. These are dispensable, but to successfully achieve the foregoing result, the "composition" stop is imperatively necessary.
The performer's mind is filled with rendering correct harmonies—his hands ied with three rows of ko while his limbs dance a tarantella requi ing no small exertion. In these exigent cies, ove stop has been devised which, automatically makes possible the bunebing of 50 stops, singly or in their cube of combinations! Truly the seat snd. soul of antiphonetic services! Yet today, an ardent organist of Cathedral graciously extended me an obvious demonstration that something was " out of order"—a creaking incompetence was the response to show how long the incomparable's joints had Lain unexercised.
Doubtless since the flaw has been dis covered the wherewithal to effect the repair will be speedily forthcoming, for who knows how much that has been laid to the charge of those non-attendants will be cancelled wit: the renovation of. the defective " composition" stop
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.