. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. are attendingdivine service rather than a concert. And really such musicought to be thus listened to. They adore Bach, and believe inhim, without supposing for a moment that his divinity could everbe called into question. A heretic would horrify them, he isforbidden even, to speak of him. God is God and Bach is days after the performance of Bachs chef d\vuvre, theSinging Academy announced Grauns ^ Tod Jesu.^ This is anothersacred work, a holy book; the worshipers of which are, however,mainly to be found in Berlin, whereas
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. are attendingdivine service rather than a concert. And really such musicought to be thus listened to. They adore Bach, and believe inhim, without supposing for a moment that his divinity could everbe called into question. A heretic would horrify them, he isforbidden even, to speak of him. God is God and Bach is days after the performance of Bachs chef d\vuvre, theSinging Academy announced Grauns ^ Tod Jesu.^ This is anothersacred work, a holy book; the worshipers of which are, however,mainly to be found in Berlin, whereas the religion of Bach isprofessed throughout the north of Germany. MUSIC AS AN ARISTOCRATIC ARTFrom the Autobiography DRAMATIC art in the time of Shakespeare was more appreciatedby the masses than it is in our day by those nations whichlay most claim to possess a feeling for it. Music is essen-tially aristocratic; it is a daughter of noble race, such as princesonly can dower nowadays; it must be able to live poor and un-mated rather than form a o m % \^O CO WH ^ HECTOR BERLIOZ iSir THE BEGINNING OF A «GRAND PASSION »From the Autobiography I HAVE now come to the grand drama of my life; but I shallnot relate all its painful, details. It is enough to say thatan English company came over to perform Shakespearesplays, then entirely unknown in France, at the Odeon. I waspresent at the first performance of and there, in thepart of OpheUa, I saw Miss Smithson, whom I married five yearsafterward. I can only compare the effect produced by her won-derful talent, or rather her dramatic genius, on my imaginationand heart, with the convulsion produced on my mind by thework of the great poet whom she interpreted. It is impossible to say more. This sudden and unexpected revelation of Shakespeare over-whelmed me. The lightning-flash of his genius revealed thewhole heaven of art to me, illtmiinating its remotest depths in asingle flash. I recognized the meaning of real grandeur, r
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