THE LOST CHORD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 82, 8 April 1937, Page 20

THE LOST CHORD.

Sullivan said he was struck by the words in 1864, and tried his hand at music for them, but could not satisfy himself. Later on, while watching by the bedside of a dying brother in Dublin, he spent the time one night in. another attempt, and the eong as it stands was the result . . . The music publisher did not care for Sullivan's and reluctantly consented to have it put on the programme of a concert. This was done, and it became the rage. Sullivan offered to sell it outright for £50, but, fortunately for him, his offer was declined, and he retained the copyright, out of which he got a very large sum from first to last. One curious thing he mentioned with regard to the song. There is an absurd blunder in it. The words arc: "I struck one chord of music like the sound of a great Amen." Now Amen is a word of two syllables, so that there must ha.ve been two chords. He did _no£ notice this, he said, until after the tpomg had been aung in public, and he wa* terribly afraid he would get laughed *t for, it* Strange to say, nobody ever seemed to€iave f ound-itout.