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| Leave for Norwich—Travelling music master—Arrive at Norwich—Professor Whittleny introduces himself—Singular personage—'Music Vale'—A greater amateur of whiskey than of music—New London—Ratio of churches—Questionable taste—Leave Philadelphia for Baltimore—Madam Variani, Edward Hoffman—Richard Hoffman—'Dwight's paper'—A bilious reservoir—Required by the musical profession—En route for Baltimore—Noisy soldiers—Their vulgar behaviour—On furlough—Officers say no right to control them—Bad effects of whiskey—Concert at Baltimore—Love for Baltimore and its people—Their love for art—Concert at Washington—Swedish Minister, Count Pieper—Been to Alexandria—Desolation everywhere—Concert—Adventure on road back to Washington—Strakosch and the German sergeant—Concert at Washington—The President and his lady—Mrs. Lincoln—Lincoln does not wear gloves—Mrs. B and daughter—Concert at Washington—Lieutenant-General Grant and staff—Grant made Lieutenant-General—Madam Variani sings 'Star Spangled Banner'—Encored by gallery filled with soldiers—Parterre, boxes, and orchestral stalls abstain from demonstration—Sympathize with South—Leave for Harrisburg—Been prevented seven or eight times from giving concerts there—Description of Harrisburg—Concert at Court-house—Complexion of the ladies—Pianists, beware!—Charming audience—Civilization outraged by the gong—A regiment of veterans—Adventure of Mademoiselle Vestvali, 'the superb'—"He never plays but his own music"—Like the white man in the midst of negroes—An afflicting gift—What Berlioz said—Criticism—Rachel—Mr. De Cordova—Description of Lancaster—Chubby-faced children—German manners—Change of weather—Concert at Harrisburg—Governor and Secretary of State present—Observation—Difference between East and West—Pennsylvania more polite than some of her brilliant sisters—Bethlehem—Villages, towns in miniature—Magnificent concert—Moravian church and seminary—A wager—A professor of music!—But little swearing and drunkenness | 242 |
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| Concert at Easton—Artists' room—Ladies and gentlemen of Bethlehem accompany me—'Cradle Song' sung in the train—Patti singing high tenor—Young girls dancing to late hour—Leave Bethlehem—Waving of handkerchiefs from seminary—Sad sights at station—Contingent of conscripts—Sad partings—The German conscript—"Dear Catherine, God, God bless thee"—The right of these fatherless families upon us all—Arrived at Baltimore—My good friends the Curletts—Sunday at high mass—'Agnus Dei' sung by Mrs. —An old maid who did police duty—The mischievous one—Scapegraces—Fortress Monroe—Oath of fidelity—How taken—Shoemaker stationer and music seller—Mawkish English songs developed by the war—Melodies adapted to them absurd—Norfolk ruined, spared the 'Maiden's Prayer'—A confession—'The Battle Cry of Freedom' ought to become our national air—Sadly heroic—Certain judgments, how formed—Slander and calumny—The first falls, the latter nursed by the jealous—Mazzolini—Ovation to Brignoli—Beethoven as symphonist, as composer for the piano—Beethoven imperfectly knew the piano—Raphael—A most singular, incomprehensible, and most disagreeable thing—Captain Clark—An absurd accusation—The colonel with a voice of a hippopotamus—The Captain Clarks are numerous—O the sword!—Third concert—O poor muse!—Major Darling—General Butler and his family—Interior of Fortress Monroe—Arrival at Baltimore—Concert of amateurs—Reading, Pennsylvania—Good concert—Gas goes out—Shoemaker of the town plays fantasy on the flute to his own and the public's satisfaction—Knights of the Golden Circle—Leave for Williamsport—Pennsylvania the richest of the States—Feel hungry—Behrens and Delmonico—Arrive at Williamsport—Despatch to Strakosch—Public will be cheated this evening | 254 |
