LIEDERTAFEL CONCERT.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18416, 24 June 1925, Page 7

LIEDERTAFEL CONCERT.

♦ • Tlio venerable institution known as the Liedertafel smoke concerts continues to prosper. Their rigorously sortedout battalions of the male persuasion felt last night- as happy as ever in the gonial, specially reinrorced atmosphere or tho bcouisii society's rooms, which seems to uivour uie yeuerouij provision ol sympathetic music worked up to a line iojiii. Jiiis verdict applies 111 the xirst instance to the cnural work uuuer Jir Alfred \N orsloy s direction, almost uniformly meritorious. \\ hat a ricii, weli-blendi'i body of. harmony they can send lortn, was again notably e.\euipiuu:d 111 the "Stein song," t>y jjuliard, as 111 l'uliard s "Voice of the .torrent." But also in the finer tints and gradations they are isteadily progressing, as could be heard in lteiss Igor's ' \\ hen the liu-es of 'lwiligiit Fade'' and UtLo's "Earth and Heaven Are Husiied." A very appealing performance of the lovely so 10 and chorus from Goetz's "\Yatnr Lily" was given by both choir and the soloist. Mr E. V,'. Bartlett, except for one somewhat unsafe excursion into space. Quite a number of "Da Capos" (Da Capos) wore demanded and complied with.

The soloists sent Mr T. Beckett first into the field, who sang with spirit Shield's ' Let Fame Sound the. Trumpet." and contrasted it well with "Melisando.'' Following him, Mr G. E. March gave an impassioned interpretation of the song '"The Presence," by Allitsen, with all the lure of hio voice, adding as encore with true feeling Schumann's '"Thou Art Liko a Lovely Flower." In fact', quite a wave of fvehumann songs flooded last night's programme. Mr J. S. Bowie sang two of them. "Evening.Song" and "The Cottage," with the better result in the seennd. and subsequently Mr A. L. Cropp produced a very fine effect with one of Schumann's greatest songs. "I Will Not Grieve,'' inspiring a double encore.

An infusion of instrumental mueic- ; made tho.concert fill the more inter- ! esting. Firstly. Mr 1.. Lewin and Dr. Leslie Crooke played very smartly in style and execution as a piano duet one of Grieg's quaint "Norwegian Dances" that drifts quite inexplicably I into a melancholy mood, as if in the midst of it he were trembling for : Amundsen's safety, and jolly again when relief came. Subsequently Messr.i i A. Worsley. J. B. Riordan, and M. F. ! Wcstwood combined their skill in the | reading of a very bright movement- | from one of Mozart's pianoforte trios I with pleasurable effect. ' Mr L. Lewin gave, as usual, excel- | lent sendee as accompanist, i The proofs of the enjdyment of the | concert by the large audience wore I manifest and numerous.