PICTORIAL MUSIC

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 49, 20 June 1930, Page 11

PICTORIAL MUSIC

LJSTENERS-IN to 4YA on Friday, June 27, will have

the pleasure of hearing Mr. Max Scherek, a very accomplished pianist, playing Debussy’s faseinating composition "The Submerged Cathedral."

Ea a a aE a i Very many listeners, it is certain, now enjoy Debussy. To some, he was introduced recently as one of the "New Friends in Music,"

to others, he has long been a welcome friend whose fresh and piquant observations come

from a mind full of happy inspira- tion:

There could not be a better example of his power of using the pianoforte to suggest a picture and evoke a mood than the piece based on that Breton legend about the

Cathedral of Ys, that was buried beneath the sea. Ona calm day, the peasants.used to declare, the tolling of the

bells and the chanting ot a phanitom congregation could be heard, faint and sweet, from the depths. lan a me me tO a