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Show TSCHAIKOWSKI AND GLOOM, BY DR. FLUB-DUBBE From his studio window Dr. Crltl-cus Crltl-cus FlubDubbe gazer wearily at the leaden sky and I lie grit and srluie of our comparably dlrly city. "And this week," c-aJd he, turning to tho Program Study Class, "we have T.ch alkowsky's 'Pathetic' symphony. Pathetic Pa-thetic Is a mild term" "I love It," said Mrs. Glvu A. Pa );. "Don't you love It. Miss Pants?" "I rould expire while the last movement Is playing," declared Put-la, clasping her hands. "I sympathize," pursuer! Dr. Dubb?, "with a lady vvbo writes me that she-is she-is so gloomy that r-he Is leaving town this week for fear she might go to hear the symphony; for. she says. 'I1 I heard il I should Just howl.' Yes, the 'Pathetic' Is the climax of all loonj. and should b: played In the full, when we are fresh and strong, and not In the late winter or spring, when our vitality Is running low." "But, ah, such he.ienly melancholy,'' melan-choly,'' murmured Mrs. Roren-Styffe. "Such celestial mumps," said Miss Gay Votte. "Just at the last movement, adagio lamenioso, Is the cl.imlx of all gloom," said L'r. Dubhe, "so the chord of the augmented six-five Is tho climax of the climax of the dolorous theme, and the pedssant E harp Is the climax of the chord. One might say that K sharp was the keynote of Esr'nal wokswy's life." J "Why should the augmented six five be so bad?'" asked Mrs. Fuller-Prunes. Fuller-Prunes. "Berause In this care the sixth I, omitted," replied tho Doctor. "Tho aegini hted slx-flvo is a very pee ullar chord. It derives from two tonics, and hence is a Teutonic or German chord, and not a French chord, a- some have maintained. " "But why Is the E sharp In tti-3 chord rf the augmented six-five to anguUhlul?" Inquired Miss Sara Band. "Because it Is the sharpest lone," said Dr. Dubbe. I shall go Into thU matter more detailfully, r-o that an infant in-fant will be able 10 understand It." "I am sure. Doctor, that you have already stated It wilh admirable clarity," clar-ity," said Mrs. Glvu A. Payne "As plain as a church seen by a flash of lightning," contributed Mir Gay Votte. "That, I hen," said the Doctor, "ia a tribute to your perspicacity rather than to my powers .f ekcldation." Chicago Tribune. 'iKcstffl. q&.Buao |