title: The Pathetick Musician: Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence
author: Bruce Haynes
description: <br>Baroque oboists Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess established reputations as authorities on the history of their instrument with their co-authored book The Oboe, voted an outstanding achievement by the American Music Instrument Society. Haynes' writings, notably The End of Early Music, are known for pioneering new approaches in historical performance practice and inspiring healthy debate among scholars and performers of early music. Burgess, an instructor at the Eastman School of Music, recently published Well-Tempered Woodwinds: Friedrich von Huene and the Making of Early Music in a New World, which combines the biography of a leading manufacturer of historic instruments with a history of the emerging early music scene in America. Bruce Haynes passed away in May, 2011.<br>
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  The Wooing of the Senorita  
    
  
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  # The Wooing of the Senorita
  
  
  ### Mary Austin
  
  
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  MILLARD TRAVIS was a man of ideas; he was also very young. This was not so bad
  as it might have been, for his
  
  
  ideas were of the toy pistol sort, — a nuisance to everybody, but only
  occasionally hurtful to the holder. The idea
  
  
  which made Travis particularly odious to his fellow men was less original than
  unexpected. He merely held that all
  
  
  this peep-show performance of modern affairs was a progression towards
  emptiness, that there was nothing sound
  
  
  or wholesome, but naked, unblushing savagery, and his vade mecum was "our
  progenitor, Adam."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  As he was born in Boston of a long line of Doctor-of-Divinity and Professor-
  of-Moral-Science ancestry, it may be
  
  
  inferred that his opportunities for observat