MUSICIAN'S ROMANTIC VOW.
Mr. Augusta Van Biene, the woll-knowi 'cello player, reoently .played in several London .tfcoughfares and • collected -lSsij. Sd., • which, with a."£3..rioto r liO 'Bentio .the Musiar-.;: ;; hall Benevolent l''und. : ■ The .musician's.- action;- was ; the fulfilment of a tow made forty years ago.. On November 18, 1865,. a starving .boy of seventecr-. was discovered playing, in Hanover. Squara., - by Sir Michael Coatn, who,, remarking; tlio .boy's. ; woriderful pow.er, asked why he wan., ... playing in the gutter. / "Because 1 am v hungry," JVah Bicno replied in Frenon. - /Sir Michaol-took him homo ,and, after, hearing , him play; gave him a place as -a-....... 'cello player in the Covent Garden orchestra, :• Ho then vowed that on every anniversary of his deliverance from starvation.he .would go back to the streets and play ): and he bus never, broken his vow. .-. .
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 2
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137MUSICIAN'S ROMANTIC VOW. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 2
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