TO YEARS OF MUSIC.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 33, 21 January 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

TO YEARS OF MUSIC.

A CHAT WITH DR. CUMMINGS. ’ Few men «h- »«ar’i the age «f four- i iwore year* ar* .*>!»' t»> h'ok back over * •l». h a di-tingui ! • i rife »* i' Dr. Mil- I Fam Hayman rammings. alio recently j ret: reel from his p .silion of Principal of the Lardon < mMh-ill School of Music. It is tft «n ><• r~ s nc” he was ap- ! pointed to tti* •M. th- functions ‘i which ’e* ate i s tilled with eminent ►acre s it i- v e-* than M>veuty-three sears since he first entered the musical aiena. Ho w . p r*«»n.i ly ai-quaitited with most <f lite Z’l-at composers of the last rrn’iirv. ;:nd. as a boy. ho was pitted kindly «m the head by Mendels oh n. "I nas <n v -oven year* old. J/r. Cummings i:o n -•• •> London press repn-e .tn iv . " hoi I came tip_ to London fro ■ sid urv n Devonshire, where 1 '■■ ' torn, to enter for a «-*»mp- , titio- :. the < ho. i-ters school of St. Panl s Cid: draJ. To n>y great delight I pros d -ncce-sfnl. hut «hen. on mv admi'si. n. I was sent to liv ■ wit i William Hrra r.t 7. .Vl-lphr Terrnc* - wh-rc th- avag.' Club now meets 1 be.;nn to *.ri-t life not altogether a bed of roses

RID* V. Wil! P RVIE

’•Ros.d nr th r- we e eight <hnri> ters of St Pa d’* Cathedral and bn Tit- ft. e I Rosal. and the whol? of ti e <!- I ‘ ; di* -raeefully lax ’Tc’ s W'• 'tJ.I our S hoot-time th. t,i. « ..th 1.1.-o' minister onr ■ - w |,,| r . we. m «»o*s ot a !■• h - ’ , - p j, v pulling rvr-ron I pnrrot. «?.<> • on". th’ in'trucnon we * r d :''7 i ; n" ‘and’nridim'n’ir com-g-Ti,,' h e „,h„ .h. ■; 1 -x! ;,:S7/5 we were >« j >e oro ns that lire ar<l •• • p n r s nn d we t»'k i* .a t.landaff. the milted it to tie-. Ih> J 4trv . In Dean. L” I'" 1 -" nt in n t h., hummer we «“ I t j house largo cider >at W t .h* <|rink . wh ch end <’f it all was that mg-water’ Hie er. * . tho | fell down,« ■'* ‘" rP iH ’ I liever returned to the < haHist Ih * t < ( ., h ‘ r ’l < * rnu™ " ,th pik - C4 ' to,rhe* and flag*. . omh.rt d "7m-.st“them. I ?’ ' ' »b ' «as connected with nmrst .n • g.'’• we were bit undi-iu.beil. , MEMOP. !F< OF MENDEISSOHN

In. I*l’ 1 win* n. th choir school Tib ihnvgh an order t he One .by a mnUcman ll on the Yffc: ‘Ln 5u ord a-H the J!., -'.o' replkd the visitor. «nthoritaihey: l -K I, mrtted. ’Smrv. 7 U ''. a . \ sbcrtly. Kt t - ant h- a low. d. ' sn * ’ I ‘, *" LLt 1 " hrmiLh the .hLr. ! oL- ’. f th. cn-t- di.m's frionda V nntered it- D’ von know who diat wasF rsket th ‘ rew mwr Ao. • wood tl 100. .eepr. bit of all Hee imp’,!»• C’— —’. pndenceP gasped hi* ’ that tap I’rinr*' • It , : .s n 1-17 th’ Mpn ; dr.’«o*>n. As n toy nmmb.’r <f the P er d Ha>-mo-i ‘ ty. I wa, assist- , ff in E. te H ’’d »’ ’ rehearsal oi bis nritmio, Fii ah. whch »e were to »n e tiofoe the Qi..n an 1 I Consort, when a di.-rt. _* 'got little man with no ciidanc.’ <>t black hair, entered the h inkling. I bad often s ea the grow’ r.-,.,. r « S e.’s .ngrav.-l portrait in the Wi.r.'.a ->i hi- • nh. s», r. nnrt. ►tar’inE »o > y trot. I ert <1 oct in vrdnnt >n’v. M-r i-1 sahn . •For a moi. rnt. nil pandemnnintn. At length. Mend D<ohn took the condnetor’-- r.-t «e. and «e rm tear sed under bi, dim t » He v.a* a very fine conductor and v.rv ox ,tab.o. At eno passage, f r nv oi’cr. he looked tip wldenly t- |p ontanist. ami c-.-d oit. 'wrong, wrong, wionr’ Y-"i hr* th’ ", ro ?' stops on th.. jclaH? It should ho sixteen feet!' Airt th •« hoppine oft the platform, he d. rte 1 in and out among the ,► rf-rii.c'.s like a t nttorflv. and np t<> the organ, po-h.-d Miller off hi< M-.it. and showed. linn how ho war ted tie’ p’—ag* played. •‘Five rear* alt -r th:* cime the death nfrthe Ihik« of Wellington and 1 sang in the choir m St. Paid - when the funeral t.s p’.i.-. 1 . Tit • whole «>f t i-a irt.ri-' r ii a- <lrn r *.'*i in htaek ra.tli. and <«j'vcinl music a. ■ arr.an.cd and compaetl for th '• <■ --ion by Co- Tli<-’-r> «.-»s a in lit r-. Kind tn the cathedral, in addition to the organ. WHEX THE DVC K* CHIMED IN.

“T tnnt from :h. liriroriral tn the lighter *i‘lc of mu* • • hundr'd- of people who rer.’t .-ine an atom lir.ve. from time t<> tit.-;' during my ■arrr. ripplin'! tn p’-- for rvti'l I rom* .» ! -r on-' 'e - v rib Fan wli«> b-o’ight ins #>n ♦o m - . .•ml a-L- dr•• » ■ trv li.s voi'-e. The v.'U-.e man. w’u> lm<l bc'.t -t->dy- • r»'» for three VMP in Milni. rb’ti favnnr •! r-o vith e - >n.p - of Ins vor.il po - 'r-<. lint he s",ng -•• 5 a ily »i<! so terriblv ent ci tune that I c.>iild ooh h’s eav a» !.ope!e,s. Six months later father and “on tiimed np :« nin hot I t > rcrieit kiv former ’•errltc'. The father «a< ti'twh di.s--t res-rd. “’This ; s ,i u i =t-ri--ns matter. Mr. Camming ’m «I.■« T;»r <•. 'We nui-t do ■ MsdLni* with the I, »y, and !•<•’» n-» cmn! nt o r : . It ■; I'll t 'll sol vl -.t." !«• a ’■’ *1 es .*■ lia.it id- i tl ••''•«' tirx-ii him. '-i> - I* •*« i>o rood st --i.-rnut. W'T’ n>"'l him t' th- Rev) A-'.nr!'»>iv <>»' :int a n-rupr*. r . t ’ iai'' *O. toitr*-' ». •> ■•! '>.>•% . • • triClient® l.ir-■* eorm- b f< i>. trp jo nir in.' - ’<. • r-l’ b I Dr. ( nsv: >r * ’ i-*-.- .* In: I riirt‘% •; >’e t’. • •- ; hr 1 r> i; Orem r<'.| o Pi-- - - : ;• I, ; ,-t n where I -ing-ng, \ J.- ria wys delivering a m-.’o in : I >|i . i.t the market t «"is i-s ’ t <!■v. ■ml •’•> fw-nltrv ba* imt .■■> : oeo ...1 Th - _ws m>.» o* N"‘-o ;’s, end. th ■ lr. .d, - i b>. '.i< •! t "‘I sen D’t : -e- fere. !:|t fr . r .. l( . f 10-o- J hoard. It V ;< r-l p 'be t pf a t» aiitifiii I ;rd - ’ stH t l --’ «!»:<’”.■. <’>••;) tor,>■■. <■’! Kobe up. n»’«> delivered s ’ ..4 -Qnnc*; tftiac . <«T?ar’. T''-* r- «»r 'jn vr r«‘v-~ J2T tt » tlwr #n lit h'« «i- '2-*'* HA.XDEL> UA"HIV<; LHL D. Cumrnp i« >h.- p,>e<r of 1 m.a„nifttv:it mn-. •al !i rnr-.. (>■.-> vI. >ime. formerly th> property of Handel contains on one of the Wren nn antograph washing-bill cf the greatest of

oratorio composers! It reads as follows: “Twelve shifts. I three aprons, one hnod, seven rotnn ng-cloths. fivy pairs eistr. two have 'A"**™ 1 strings. '*WL r - Handel.