| Show MUSIC LOVERS TO CELEBRATE Chickering Centennial Will Be Observed This Year Celebration ct or the Jonas Chick Chick- Chickering ChIckering Chick erine ering Centennial at Boton Boston Mass Mas Masson on April 21 will III be one of o the Ille stellar musical features ot or the count countr according to announce announce- announcements announcements ments menta recoiled in Ogden George Geors- GeorgeS S Glen president of ot the Glen Eros Bros Roberts company has b been en as one of o the guests of tile n e nt I Courtenay Guild has been ben an- an announced an announced flounced as ns toastmaster with l Ice President Coolidge and Richard V L Lawrence rence as ns speakers Musi- Musi cal col Interest centers In the concert to I be e given riven b b me toe Boston DOston Sym Sym- Symphony phony orchestra and the Handel handeland Handeland and Haydn society together ether with soloIsts In Ogden the centennial is be- be beIng be being ing led celebrated to some extent to- to tonight to night to-night night bi b the tho lit si-it It I-It of Daisy Jeso Je the instrumental soloist who ap- ap appears appears ap appears pears at nt the tabernacle and who will b be accompanied by the Am- Am pico Am-pico one of the outgrowths of genius G vm-s vm ISIT A little more than one hundred sears cars a ago aeo o Jenny Lind was born In S Sweden Seden eden Ju Just t one hundred sears ears ago Jonas whoso whose and whole lifelong con con- consecration con consecration to hil his work won him the title of or the the father of Ame Amei can l l- l can pianoforte making turned out iut his first Instrument In n his lit little lIe tle lc shop hop in Bo Boston Boton ton A good deal or Df a water ater ater passe I 1 under tho the Charles Charls River bridge before Jon Jonis mido m the hie pianos on 01 o- o which Richard Hoff- Hoff man u-in u played when he lIe appear appeared with the Swedish Ish nightingale In Iner her er s sensational tour in this coun coun- country coun- coun country try my under tI the management of oC P PT Pr PT T r Barnum in 10 18 0 That to Ir wa vas the most Important musical sent in America up to that time but iut though Jonas factory hal ronn n in SIze z s he was still spend spend- spending 1 log ing og most of his bis days davs at hl his work worb workbench bench One can ran imagine with Ith 1 what ahat hat emo emo- emotions erno- erno emotions ions with his rever rever- reverence ence nce for mu music ic met Jenny when he his factory as record recorded ed d in the Boston Transcript of 30 10 ISoO Did he Ita hae time Imo to take talle his apron oft off before he ie greeted her For Tor unless Mrs or one of the clerks clerics I got hold of him before Her lal I ial al he lie certainly had it on Hoff Hoff- Hoffman man Hoft-man man in his Musical Iu ical Recollections Recollection of oC nifty Years Tears records that th when as a boy of 16 1 G just Jut landed In America he was nas taken taen to the Chickering and Intro Intro- Introduced Introduced to the one grand piano they had old Jonas met me in his working apron ron with his tools In lila his hand 1 Jenny Lini i and Richard Hoff- Hoff Hoffman Hoffman man man manere were ere glorious precursors of that pilgrimage of European s I isis to this country which has haq grown ron until now it is no I I for a ship news reporter to 10 fin find finda a score or so of them on almot I an any large Incoming steamship as the Iho season nears During lat last I rY ebru In- In In New York alone there were 64 61 performances of grand opera and more mere than concerts and recitals ls It is Iq curi eurl- curious pus ous to think of ot the e lous thit th shook ew ow York when hen the I little S S Atlantic drew In at her herdock herdock herdock dock at ot the foot root of or Co Canal nil I street t herI The Swedish girl with aith the tho wonder I throat steppe teppe beneath bD ath the o h arches erected In her hr h r hono hono- and was to the Ining aI a I I hotel that fell Cell b before roro the wreck wrecker er or long ago There she w was sore sere I by musicians and 20 10 I I companies of or firemen hearing torch torches How low would our 1923 fire tre fir firemen men like lIe it if IC in addition to theIr other thc the ban har ba 1 Co j meet ar- ar nr rh ruing songbirds The Tho tire fire de- de department de department se seems ms to have irive been pop pop- popular popular pop popular ular at nt musical affairs In the old lays days 1 here was a quaint print In rank Trank Leslie's Weekly tonic some SOI SO i years vears ago or so 0 d depicting lIes Bos Boton Boston I ton fire tire fighters with lIh is hammers hammersand hammersand and real anvils taking a thunder thunder- thunderous thunderous ous Otis part in a performance or of the the nil chorus with Jon Jonas I Chick Chick- pring pring then president of or the Ue Han Han- Handel Handel Handel del and nod Haydn society ty conducting CItE anE Nen York would be too busy to I I toI make m the same fuss over Jenny JennyLind JennyLind JennyLind Lind now non no but hut her name lives In our memory and Jonas ing though there thore have been ben many ling fine Cine piano makers maers since his bis manyI day I was vas the one chosen to represent lila Ills trade In the tIle company of ot 1 statues of In placed in th Industries building at the St LouIs orld II a fair Cair air He stood Howe Bessemer Watts Watt dark Clark Hoe lIoe Goo Goodyear year and Colt Coil the expression e of ot humanity s q sense of or the greatness of ot music and of hl his sen ice to music Ant now that tho the centenary of o his en entrance entrance entrance trance into the piano industry ha-c ha come come music 10 losers ers era are oro again pay pay- payIng pay paying ing inn tribute to him bun A nallon- nallon nation nation Ide celebration has been n planned cen- cen cen centering In Boston Doston with nih It It Erno Dolt Dolt- Doh the pianist t and composer c coming to participate lit In It as the of oC musi musi- musical muSi- muSi musical cal cat Europe and a large commit commit- committee committee tee including Senator HeRr Cabot Lodge United States Com Corn Commissioner missioner ot of E John J I Mrs Thomas G Winter president of o the National lion of or Women's clubs Otto It II Kahn of New ew York Fritz Kreis Kreisler r the conductors of all the greL grea symphony orchestras in the cou- cou coutry try coca try and arid CaRlo Calvin Coolidge thel the l ice e president who ho Is LI chairman Somehow it seems appropriate to link Jenny Lind and Jonas They both bolh had pro profound profound I found Cound devotion otton to music though the man expressed ed hi his throng I pieces piece of o wood and Iron and ste ter and felt relt Both were acre ere born Int inte I rather plain an and simple hom honts ll lland and with each it was an accident ii I happening that started them ii h hI their life work Jenny was heard hear hearda I a tiny girl by th the maid mall of o I a Su dancer MIle singing to her cat and Mile Lund Lund- Lundberg Lundberg berg ber put h hr her r In the way of or t I tra training In In Jonas n be being apprentice I 1 Ito Ito to a in 1 e I 1 New ew was sent to mendI mend the broken brohn CO COer er of tho the only piano I in the little town and the sight of the instrument the first he ha had him the de- de deSire desire de desire e eer er seen stirred in sire to make pianos Doth Both oring ering and Jenny Lind lAnd were ere getter gen r-ous r ous The proceeds proc of J nn's I A American concert at CI Castle car car- carden gar Iden ar- ar den on Sl September 11 1850 1650 10 10 10 she ga to ga e to charit But sh she isas as constantly doing ies less spectacular Spectacular ular things When hen she was tol that a girl had been overheard to toRaY say RaY that she had paid hilt halt her months month s wages to hear Jenny Tin sing Ing she spared no trouble to fin fini 1 I the tho girl and present her with thu Iho I price of or the ticket The b I Lions of Old Old Jonas were en een c more silent and hidden It I ridiculous by the way to call hi I v vI I Old Jonas since he was but A I when alien he died and the final year yar of f his life liCe was spent in erecting a aDew anew I new Dew factory which at was the bIg bIg- bIggest test gest building In the tho United States Slate at it that time excepting the capitol nt at tt Washington ton It just seems ns as asit If r a man who crowded so much In- In Into to In-to to 0 his life ife and whose firm in- in 1 I I I I IC ow must ha ham used Hied h pd a Ion long time r S D s iG Chickering s a roily people pe the great factory on mont street Boston Vo when ahen hen it was eras hum built In 1852 the facto y In WashIngton street treet wa was This was considered a II remarkable I in Us lis time and here hero Jonas Jonas labored in his own private I shop sometimes doing the small small- smallest smallest smallest est jobs su such h as ns covering some hammer that tha must be ready for a piano in the making and some seine sometimes sometimes times working out problems ot of scale drawing drawing- or perfecting his hI It was isas Jonas ali II made possible the sonorous grani Tan j pili piano no of o y dey bv by perfecting tho th Cull iron plate which bears rs the strain of the strings s and it w s she he who Invented the first practical cal method ot of that thatIs I 1 setting the strings not side aide by bv side but In t two 0 banks bank a t space and bringing tho the has bass strings directly over the tho most res- res resonant res resonant part ot of the tho soundboard rd A ariter in the New York Musical World orld and Times of ot December I is described the factory and thu th way Its onner O managed work stork workmen m men n and turned out 1300 1309 pianos t quietly car doing e everything so AO quiet quIet- Iv ly one hard hardly knows that an- an an thing is done at lit all at-all all |
