ORGAN RECITAL
•Mr. Bernard P. Page (city organist) gaviv a recital in the big Town Ball on Saturday evening that entertained and uplifted'ton nudienco a littlo lavfjer than the average. Tho programme included 'once more. tlio entrancingly romantic Adagio (the dream) from Alfred Hills string quartet (No. 2) in G minor, which go far we liuvo not befell siven tho op*, portunitv of hearing as written. If the wholo of the quartet is, as delicately imaginative as the Adagio it must .lie a work of some distinction. Once liiore Mr. I'kro played tho medieval Concerto i» E Plat" of William Fellim, which Ims musical qualities out of Uio commonplace. A charming _ Wolstenholmo was nicely registered.. ilie strength and imaginativo fancy ol Cesar Fninck were well represented by his "Fantasic in A." Hooltiimnn h well It now n and highly reverential ' buite Gothiqno" always has its admirers, and ifi organ music in the pure; whilst lovers of orchestral music were entered [or by a fino exposition of the 'pwjltido to the first act; of Wagner's "Wan and Isolde" (the "Romeo and Juliet of tlio grand opernfl).
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 41, 12 November 1917, Page 9
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185ORGAN RECITAL Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 41, 12 November 1917, Page 9
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