Inaugural Address to the Twenty-First Session
Inaugural Address to the Twenty-First Session
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第二十一届会议开幕词
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10.1093/jrma/21.1.1-s
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J. Stainer
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在请爱德华兹先生宣读他的论文之前，我们有一项愉快的任务，即祝贺我们自己。音乐协会已经存在了二十年，现在进入第二十一个年头。许多人可能会想到，在一个社会的历史上，二十年并不是一个很长的时期;但是，另一方面，大量类似的协会还没有达到我们年龄的一半，而且还必须记住，我们没有壮观的建筑物来吸引公众的目光，我们没有皇家宪章，使我们能够通过在我们的名字后面添加字母来满足我们的虚荣心。明智的社会同有思想的个人一样，抓住其存在的一个里程碑的机会，以便回顾过去，展望未来：我们今天将这样做。在过去的二十年里，音乐协会做了它应该做或可以做的一切吗？它的基础是否足够牢固，以确保其持久性？正如你们大多数人所知，这个协会的最初想法是在牛津大学，在已故博士的房子里。在与科尔夫博士和波尔博士的一次有趣的谈话中，我对音乐家们没有任何组织来鼓励和收集与我们的艺术有关的特殊主题的信息或论文表示遗憾。我被告知不应该忽视这样一个计划，当我发现自己在伦敦安顿下来时，我第一次尝试建立它，召集了一个会议，出席这次会议的有许多杰出人士，其中包括已故的威廉·斯波蒂斯伍德先生、埃利斯先生、惠斯通教授、廷德尔教授、乔治·麦克法伦爵士、胡拉博士、威廉·查佩尔先生、斯通博士、约翰·戈斯爵士、亨利·格里斯巴赫和托马斯·赫尔莫尔。对我们来说幸运的是，秘书一职由查尔斯·萨拉曼先生担任，他
BEFORE calling upon Mr. Edwards to read his paper, we have the pleasant task of congratulating ourselves. The Musical Association has existed for twenty years, and now enters on its twenty-first year. It might occur to many that twenty years is not a very long period in the history of a society; but, on the other hand, a vast number of similar associations do not attain to half our age, and it must be remembered too that we have no imposing buildings to catch the eye of the public, and we have no royal charter enabling us to flatter our vanity by adding letters after our names. Wise societies, like thoughtful individuals, seize the opportunity of having reached a landmark in their existence for the purpose of reviewing the past and looking forward into the future: we will do so to-day. Has the Musical Association done all that it should or could have done during the past twenty years? and is its basis sufficiently firm to ensure its permanence? As most of you know, the initial idea of this Association was started in Oxford, in the house of the late Dr. Corfe. During an interesting conversation with Dr. Corfe and Dr. Pole, I expressed a regret that musicians did not possess any organisation for encouraging and collecting information or papers on special subjects connected with our art. I was told I ought not to lose sight of such a scheme, and when I found myself settled in London I made the first attempt at establishing it by calling together a meeting, which was very influentially attended, there being present, amongst many other distinguished men, the late Mr. William Spottiswoode, FRS, Mr. AJ Ellis, FRS, Professor Wheatstone, Professor Tyndall, Sir George Macfarren, Dr. Hullah, Mr. William Chappell, Dr. Stone, Sir John Goss, J. Henry Griesbach, and Thomas Helmore. Fortunately for us, the secretaryship was undertaken by Mr. Charles Salaman, whose