A VISITOR'S COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2149, 15 May 1914, Page 3

A VISITOR'S COMMENTS

ON ORGAN RECITALS. A visitoi .'from Sydney, Miss M. A. M. Gibson, .writes to the Tottij Clerk (Mr. J. li. Palmer) as follows:— "As a visitor fwim Sydney, may 1 take this opportunity of expressing my very great pleasure derived from last night's (last Saturday's) organ recital. If one can. single out any piece from a programme of such merit, it wmtld bo tlio '/Drtuso Macabre." 1 have not heard such ait .interpretation excelled won by tjiiit fine organist Wiegaud. One can oi.il.y resret thai -the attqtuliineo was smVforthy of tlio .occasion. VVflitld it be out of keeping to suggest one or two points tor .votjr conskleratiou in this respect? l Over in Sydney, tlio Sunday afternoon recitals have hwai larsely attended. Saturday cveiiiiiit, betns■ essentially tlis pcoplo's niglrt out, lias enme to bo pretty well devoted to popular pieces. • This strictly classical ptogranuno is that presents! at the inatitics recitals <m Wednesday afternoon, and then at lunsh hour on Monday there is another short programme pJnyoj).' "Yon will, I trust, pardon my saying that tlio liijhting is altogether out of keepiiHi with sinch a fnift buikliijjj. For ono thing, when tilt 4 centre lights aro on their undue height greatly lessens tlit'if ('f-C'cth-c'nees. Then, I cannot fommetid thf dim tvrilijtht, , flue to the loworine of the litrlits immediately the music hegins. Tt is, to say flic- least, depressing, and to ask an audience tn sit out a ten-miiHitf interval in sr-mi-darknoss is littlft short of miiiiicipal twslmon.v. ..." BespoctinK th-e ahoy, it shmild be stiited that it is ncnpirtecl here !»ilrl in vttdih other places tlif.f, organ mnsip ran \i" bettor mwirpciatod in r , 1- ■•■Miffllt. tlw" the full trliro (;f "a.l litrJits on." That (tie \\aUs "'cw »iof. Gwifcrli«d on d»i'in?r the interval st lost Satufflflv pvpniiig'K iTCttal was duo fe p. niisrakiilatinn of tl»o nmc 'n - thu piertrici'-'n. A= a nil?, tlift lights 'arefull 013 rlorinn: all intervals.