TO-NIGHT'S ORGAN RECITAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2007, 14 March 1914, Page 3

TO-NIGHT'S ORGAN RECITAL.

The City Orgflivis't will gire. another organ recital at tlje -Jbvris Hal] to-night. The programme includes the follmving works:—Suite ■ (SoHaway): ' 'lilis is a suite in four m.ovemetits, which opens with a very imposing disrate, \ftW leads to an old dance-ftrtffi oafled "Cfttoantc." The third movement is a.very i lio.airtiful duet, and tho fiuak of the siiito is written in,- fugal tern, and iropre-E-ses tho opening chorale, and is 'a, very fitting close to a suite tluvt. VriU ..bo. readily appreciated by lovers of' Old World music. Tho second m-ovenienl of the '•'■'Sympfoonie t'athetiqnej" by Tchaikowsky, Will: bo repeated by special request.,, Special stteuUoß is drawn to tho 'wouderful "Toccata," which forms, the finale to'the'fifth symphony, by • WWm. Of. the whole of the eleven symphonies, which have been written -hy, this oeippossr, tho fifth has always- been loolted ~upoii as ' the favourite,'' ivn'd undoubtedly this svrapHdny , 'dives its popularity to this exhilarating "Toceata. ,f Tho "Toccata and Fugue in D S%w" (IBacK) is tho first w'orb- .6f • f tMs*r>*f'w . eonipas&r .plajc'd in XV'ollirig'tofi b-v Mr. Page- The 'organist ->U ''p'layi^ '« Interm«z-20 l)V',Wolsteiiholme,' thji. English organ, 'ist. It is givon-tihe feiirieus title ftf a and the who-te character of the^fiicce. has an Oriental atmosphere.: -v..-.Th»-.c»n!p{isws of, tue other items to be played tlus cvcfling are Saint-Saeuis, Ford, aui feaknic