ORGAN RECITAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 61, 5 December 1917, Page 6

ORGAN RECITAL

Owine to the Town Hall having bee°n comuTandeered by the Mayor and City Council for the entertainment of. the soldiers on Saturday evenings the City Organist's recitals have been fixed . to take pta on Tuesday evenings. The first of the Tuesday recitals was gwe» last owning, but it is regrettable to record that the attendance was no Te numerous than it usuaUy wU ou Saturday evenings. %>**?§■ specific 85 persons had paid 6d. end i . if by 8 20 p.m., which represents an amount under that usually taken on a Fh by Wm. Felton, an eighteenth cenury cleric-composer, a very mi ieallv Md well-varied number *d >ch ha stno merit ofgracehd moody and happily-contrasted, movements. 1» Sr three, "by requests ?> were rt m £ s w^t^t€ San in heroic music. It was the startH lg muicte"th6C,rtryofthegod no Walhalla," from 'Das Rheingold -"bold, dazzling imaginative picture in music that cannot bo hoard without a thrill, and which the organ is capable of execrating grandly. The second half consisted of the Prelude, Faeno, and variation (OP. 18). and the Finale in B Flat (On. 21), of Cesar Franck, music that is dignified, lofty in spirit, and admirable in its constructive symmetry. Another recital will be:given in the Town Hall on Tuesday next.