PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2145, 11 May 1914, Page 2

PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRA.

' MR, BLDY RESUMES. After, a six Himitlis' silence, the Woliington i Professional Orcbcstritj which earned a line'reputation, for gowl honeat work in a- class of music under the batoM of Mr , , Ilerbart Bley n, EOiiplo of years ago, made its ri?Tippc.ai-a»co .last evening before a- Itsrge atidiemee at His Majesty's Theatre. )>'or o-v° : »' ft: ?' e5 - r P ast tbo conductor lifts to?n h i-iirtift'emit 'health, and during last whiter his diities devolved upon Mr. Christian H-oUeinaun. Tho j'cgwd in which 'Mr. )51ot- is held by the puttie was deniomstratod on. his ap*. j.ieai'anco last evening, when he. .was giv-eii a cor'tlial welcome back to tho rostrani. The performanoe, thoMgll gh-eii some disiulvnntageous. eireiimstances owing to the absence from their old places of soii>« 6f the best iiistransentalrsts, sh.ow-ei,? that Mr. Bloy had tost itoho of Iris oW pwyet tacomminid the best ttwt was i» his' oi'-c-k'stra, and. opoiii»g concert, the- result was efttiwwy satisfactorryr- j)hiisowort4iy, in fact, when the difficulties of some'of the BtiftI bars on the pn-optraininA aro-taken into consideration. It was with ploasiire that oiifl listened oiic» Wore to the j graphic "Ballade" itt A miiior of C'ol-er-i'd'ge Taylor, it Work of striking clpaxes, ity,. sharp contmsts, stirring .climaxes, richly prelißs-trated aioimcl tv.-o meiodi- I ous "t]iemes t-hat are treated with iii- I gajio-y.s cvi-cli©sti'al liiwe is « I spieiuitd epoiitaneity awl virility about the "Ba'Wc", which help, as nrticli as nnytlivng OteiMge Taylor wt« fer yic orchestra, to keep lij's lnbmery green, j Anobker. rare, treat,syas tho Biiapsodio" <n-f Frtettomansi, a _ richly* coloured cemposltitM, aii«> with ■ thfi spirit of the' Slav,.marked by characteristic)- acdetei'aiKlos a«d imospectetl pauses. It ,corai?ii»?s all the passion, the 1 poetry, and thn reekto.ss ltilaHty of the j B-nssj mid co-iioliklos with ivvJvkl.-dancn movement tbftfe brightens. the- eyo aiitt qwi.ck.ens tlio prts.e. The;• -"Bbapsodlc" was raptttfou«lj?..'roneiyi!(l. . It should prove ii. papular'a'dilitipu to the orek-s----tra's repertoire. The overture to. "Raynioud" (Thomas), -a«. old favourite of which one iiovor tires, was played with 'fine spirit, tliantis to the eowluctpr s lively lHternretatioii <lf the work. The orelicßtrn also played the Hungarian Mtirch, "Torek Magyar" (T,. de Uedeorl, T)v-or»Vs "H'tnnoi-QsUe" (treatoO with iVfeflcy and rrfifismeMtK th<* "Orfiani" h-nm Mascas'ni's opera, "AVHliain .Karlcliff," and Taubovt's "I.nvo Srtig." in wlik-li occurs an attractive obefl solo (ijayod by Mr. Leon Culwit), .'Utd some delicate pixzicato passages, for the Btrings. ■ Tlio whole concert only lasted na hour, anil'many think that "\VeHington can t]o villi many moro of the same <lo»ctame phavneter! Amonß t-hoss present were the "Sot. A.-L. Hnrdman. M.?., pros!. d"nt of the ordif-M-m, rjnit Jlrltlo. Afitonia Dolores, the distinguished ei-"S M '- ... , :