Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1903 — Hard on the Rose. [ARTICLE]

Hard on the Rose.

An American composer xvas talking to a friend who had just come from a concert given by the students of a conservatory of music. It xvas one of those recitals, says Harper's Weekly, xvhich are usually avoided by musicians. The friend said: “I have Just heard one of the pupils, a little girl of eight, play your piece, ‘To a Wild Rose.’ ” The musician sighed and said: “I suppose she pulled It up by the roots.”