MARIE HALL CONCERTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2144, 29 July 1907, Page 4

MARIE HALL CONCERTS.

A Canadian contemporary’s tributo to Miss Mario Hall: “(Silence. N

“As she crosses the stage and comes down to the footlights through tho great! hush of the packed house, whose crowds quiver with expectancy. “The girl raises the violin quietly a .ii draws the bow sharply cross the strings. And with that simple motion the air becomes glorified with pulsating intonations- never to bo forgotten. The essence of life is crystallised into sound; fresh-throat-ed new birds sing—little soft-nestling babies crow and gurgle—love—love; the air is warm, heavy wnith fragrance, drowsy with summer sunshine and the droning of lazy blundering lees and beetles; there is a rustle of a crisp green- leaf against its neighbor, tlie murmuring of a fine forset, tin.- lapping of creamy little waves on hard white sand. Faster! Sharper! Shrieks of laughter and calls of romping, rollicking children —playtime— dance time; you are laughing aloud -—no, vou are sobbing! The wind is eoly, it is growing flqsk—frightened children whimper and cry in the dark —there is the hiss of wind-driven rai n —tho trees drip—the surf booms sullenly—there is the long moan of the bitter cold night. Faster, faster, faster! The world is mad, fear is abroad, a lost soul is swept by in the blackness —someone is hurt —is dying —is dead ; wail upon wail of .women in anguish—the slow throb of the las; march for the soldier—dead—the cold filled grave anrl the lonely rainwrshed hillside.

“A blare of golden trumpets—the hosannas of a thousand glad voices I life, light, warmth, perfume, color, a i-i then softer, fainter, more exquisite in the swiftly lengthening distance there float hack the carols of a hau l of little children trudging away down the dusty sunlit road and over th 1 hiii into the distance. “Marie Hall has played.”