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72 Youth:}s Golden Gleam |
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voice of the audience at the TRIAL CONCERT., Monday evening, September 6."
Stephen probably remembered Andrews and he was not much taken with the ice-cream parlor idea. As a friend recorded, he "at first expressed a dislike to appear under such circumstances."10 He finally sent along to Morrison his song, "Away Down South."10
Morrison maintained that, at the trial concert, the audience "gave the applause and the approval to Stephen's song, but the prize, as usual, went to one of the troupe, for a vulgar plagiarism without any music or poetry in it."12
Otherwise was the version of the Pittsburgh Daily Commercial Journal, September 8, 1847 (perhaps so reported by Kneass):
Ten songs were offered to the audience, some of them exceedingly clever. The audience, by a large majority, awarded the prize to a song written and set to music by Mr. Holman, the tenor singer, whose vocal talents we have had occasion heretofore warmly to commend. It should be a satisfaction to the disappointed to know that they, at least, Rave been defeated by a gentlemanly and excellent man, aside from his professional merit. . . . Mr. H's song was entided the "Iron City."* |
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* The copy of "Wake Up Jake, or the Old Iron City" in the |
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