ORGAN RECITAL
I'll© items for the programme for tho organroDital 'to bo given to-night at tlie Town Hall combiiio simplicity and attractiveness. Wagner's beautiful work, "Siegfried Idyll," will again be performed. This .work was written na a surprise to the composer's wifo after tlio birth of his son Siegfried in 1869, and it is a work which has always proved a great favourite of music lovers. Tho' "Question and Answer" will be played for'tho first time by Mr. Page. Tlioy aro'fijl-o charming little works by the eminent' blind organist Wolstcnholme, Tint they are too well known to rcquiife description. Two very modern composers figure on to-night's pro-gramme,-»svjz., Karg-Elert and Max Reger. They are both powerful and individual typjfes, and yot tliero is a marked difference between their_ compositions. The popular Prelude in C Sharp Minor by itachamaninoff which was originally written for tho piano, is to he played, also,,tlie great fugue on the name of Bach by Schumann, which Mr. Page played at'his inaugural recital in this city. The lasfc item will favourite Finale in B Flat by Wolstenholme..
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2175, 13 June 1914, Page 6
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179ORGAN RECITAL Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2175, 13 June 1914, Page 6
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