OCEAN SYMPHONY
The first movement begins with a soft murmur away off in the distance but soon we come to most beautiful melodies. It is as if the sea were again peopled by the mermaids of ye olden time and lapped in its soft embrace, they sang to each other of their loves.
As the movement progresses strange sea-forms rise out of the depths and greet us. Great mysterious monsters just appear and then are gone, the distant music of the T. ingal’s [?] cave is mingled in the harmonies and at times we hear the sighing chant of the sad-voiced lotus eaters. Then comes suddenly a thunder clap, the sea rises in its might and all its myriad inhabitants fearfully seek the vast quiet depths beneath.
in hand and anon applauding violently.
Before long this vehement individual is requested to make herself a perfect blank while some-one practices on her as an automaton.
Next she finds herself with a complicated apparatus strapped across her breast to register her breathing, her finger imprisoned in a steel machine and her arm thrust inmovably into a big glass tube. She is surrounded by a group of earnest youths who carefully watch the silent record of the automatic pen on the slowly revolving drum.
Strange fancies begin to crowd upon her, she feels that the silent pen is writing on and on forever. Her record is there she cannot escape it and the group about her begin to assume the shape of mocking fiends gloating over her imprisoned misery. Suddenly she starts, they have suddenly loosened a metronome directly behind her, to observe the effect, so now the morning’s work is over.