MR, POTTS'S ORGAU RECITAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 118, 20 May 1907, Page 7

MR, POTTS'S ORGAU RECITAL.

_ A Gnb player and s.ti altfactivo programme wore not sufficient, in tho lace cf tho bleak and repellent weather of Saturday night, to attract a large audience, but thoso who braved Iho oldmerits on the occasion of Mr. A. M. Potts's second recital 'were iccompcuscd for. thoir uelf-dcnial. • Mr. Potts's selection was of a class both dignified and popular. He does not, apparently, go in search cf recondite music, even of the great inasteis ho interprets, nor does he strive after Ihc catchy stylo of music which is not invariably brilliant in proportion to tho manual 'dexterity it domands. There was no trcmendour, music on Saturday, and the name" cf Wagner was not on the programme ; but Iho masters, old and modern* wore represented, from Bach to- Lemare. The opening piece, Sii-^R. P. Stewart's fim Fantasi.i in D' a new piece so far a 2 the Town 'Hall ol'gau is concerned, w.as admirably interpreted and fully pppreciatcdi Threebracketed pieces by • Henry Smart — Andantino con moto in A, Pastorale in G. and Minuet in C — appealed, as melodious work sly.-ays does, to Iho popular as well as to tho raoro distinctively musical clement in the audience. Bach's " ITugao in G-minor h ahvr.ys a favourite, but tho Fantasia by which it ia proceeded is less known, •iiid is characteristic of tho composer ill ,his brightest mood. The haunting melodies of Lomare's Amlautino in Dflat went familiar in this city before the composer himself had paid us~ si visit, and this favourito number, as woll as the Allegretto in B-tniv.or by tho samo hand, was placed on tho programmo by special request. The '•Salufc d'Ainour'' (Elgar), airangcd by tbe performer, elicited an cn,coro, and with, it \va3 bracketed Ambroise Tb'omas's graceful Gavotte from *'Mignon;" Widor's Allegro Cantabile in F-minor and tho popular overture of "Zampa" closing the programme. As before, the organ music was varied by violin soloa by the accomplished young porfotmor, Miss Selina Smith, who gave celections from Wicniawski's Second Concerto in t>. To «•» general encore, she responded -with Sullivan's "Lost Chord," tho familiar melodies of which appealed to the audience oven mora strongly than tho lino selection by which it had been preceded.

The Mayor, Hon. T. W. Hislop, has promised to preside at tho Anti-Homo Rule address to be given at the Concert Room, Town Hall, to-morrow evening by Rev. Mr. Watt..