ORUAN RECITAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 823, 23 May 1910, Page 7

ORUAN RECITAL.

Dr. Kington Fyffe presided at the grand organ in the Town Hall on Saturday evening—Mr. Maughan- Barnett, the city organist, being out of town —and gave a very enjoyable recital. Prior to the commencement of the rccital, the organist played tho "Dead March" (Handel's "Saul"), while the audience stood; in silence, as a tribute to tho memory of lii 6 late Majosty. The organist gave to this famous march a very fine interpretation. Tho rccital proper opened with Elgar's brilliant "Imperial March." Then followed a series of judiciouslylelected numbers. An appropriate item was an andante study (Tschaikovsky), based on a movement from a piano sonata, in the form of a funeral march. Three charming numbers, exquisitely interpreted by the organist, were an ai!(lant ( -o con inoto of F. Archer's, a delicate idyll, "At Evening" (Dudley Buck), and Godard's "Berceuse 'de Jocelyn" (setting of tho well-known song "Angels Guard theo"). Tho modern Russian school of organ music was represented' by Horoivski's_ "First Sonata," a characteristic work, in three movements, in fr'hich occur somo beautiful melodic passages. Tho recital consluded with Sir Michael Costa's arrangement of the British National Anthem.