MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 675, 27 November 1909, Page 9

MUSIC.

(Br Treijm! Cr,Er.) A New Tenor, Madame' Ada Crossley lias introduced to' Mr. "William Boosey. .a n.ew tenor from 'Australia in tile person of. Mr. :Janics Hay. , .Mr. Boosey was so delighted • witliMr. Jlay's voico and. cultured' method that ho immediately engaged ■him: for ■ tlio' Antumn-Wintoi'; seasoli of Chappell Ballads. Madame Crosiiloy 'lias' also , engaged Mr.'. Hay .for the latter', part 'of her tour, beginning in October,. through Great Britain -(says "The British-Australasian "). : Mr.' Hay has been in London three weeks, having come .direct -from 1 his - teacher, M. Jean do lteszke,; with whom lie has been, studying for , the lust IB months. '' . Paderev/slti's New Symphony. . Mr,' Paderewski's new symphony was to; be performed for the. first -timoin -England- on November 8,. at the. second of the series of symphony concerts.. given by the London Symphony! Orchestra, at Queen's Hall,. Tho work is in B minor, and has three, movements, headed (1) Adagio 'maestoso—Allegro 'Fuoco; (2) Andante con moto;. and (3) Allegro vivace. Tho work'is scored for.the usual'strings, thrco flutes, three oboes - (one interchangeable . with cor . anglais), three clarinets (ono- interchangeable with bass clarinet),: two bassoons, contra bassoon, 1 three 1 sarrusophones, - four trumpots, four horns, three. trombones, ono. ,bass • ,tuba, htirp, organ, kettle drum, side drum, cymbals, triangle, tam-tam, tambour de basque, tonituone, the last-named being an instrument .of petcussion invented by Mr. Padercwski to givo' effect to far distant thunder. -According.to tho Boston programme book:, "The symphony . is written as' a, patriotic tvib\tto.-6f' the'composer to his' native -country;-and:it \v t as; directly <in-' spirediby the fortieth anniversary, of tlio''revolution ;;of 1803-41 There is no absoluto'•>• programme' for the , first, and. second •'movements, lint inj.tho third movement :Mr. Paderewski lias followed a defined-programme.; It is a symphonic poem, and is peculiarly in memory, of the revolution, ■ '