PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 103, 17 May 1901, Page 2

PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.

TO THE EDITOR. Siu, —With the sudien appeirance o f tlio comet io tho stnr-i]lumii>cd vault of heaven the musical firmament has been brightened by the adveut of asiar o' me'eoric hril'iancy, viz., the critic, " Clarion." Amateur soci«ti-s have fo long bfi9n acr.uslomfd to tie c d lie o? he Pr< ss Mid the public tba L it must e qni'e refreehing to receive the candid (rot candied) crit'Vsras of one who, in he in'e'etfsof "Culture," is prepared !o administer the sj'imbok freely, or to use the forcible language *if the Rtrcet Arab, "deal out stooch " to his dearest fiirnd, Probably " Cla> ion " is a stranger to New Plymouth, *nd is nofc seiz'd of the fact f >hMi an orchestral organisation flourishes n this town poFS-ssed (f many of the chaims he finds so painfully lacking in th« orchestra of tho Philharmonic So'•ie<y. When the {.entle shades of evrn descends on the precincts of Amb try's corner, the dulcet strains of this do'lv 'hous con f edrralion p'rmrato the circumambient air. There and tlvn we "iivo pi e entcd to our ravished eirs th« " e'a-?," 'I all-lujah, the " vfcrve, " ballelujth, "the abS'nc.i of f. eblenf s* " slsh. Top hoi ps and the drum which the music il sou'of " Clnrion " yearue'h I'lft i' ni h such a mij;!ty yearn are no'-er absent, hut as the ratu-e of the omp sition may require " blare out •hi bom of gladn'ss or strike the |fuH»ral not<," couW you, Mr. Editor, m the inter sts of 'igh art and cf the unsophis'ioated butmu«ic loving public, induca your correspond© .t "UUriou"

to bring the same critic il discrimination to bear on one of the performances of ihis orchestw, and in the anms ungrudging spirit bestow the result on the giatbful populica. Joyfully awaiting.—l am, etc., I " Loo Natic.