SCHUBERT CENTENARY FESTIVAL

Evening Star, Issue 19892, 14 June 1928, Page 5

SCHUBERT CENTENARY FESTIVAL

“This, this is my end,” said Schubert as he lay dying, but it was but the beginning of a fame that will never die. His friends were overwhelmed with grief; and one of them, the painter to whose house ho used to go to try over his compositions, for he did not possess a piano of his own, said in a letter to Schubert’s friend, Schober: “ 1 have wept for him as for a brother; but now I see that it is well that ho died in his greatness - ; and is free from all his troubles. Tho more I now see what ho was, the more 1 realise what ho must have suffered.” Tho world owes the discovery of some of the longlost Schubert manuscripts to two Englishmen—Sir George Grove and Sir Arthur Sullivan. It is duo to their thoroughness that tho beautiful ‘ Bosamundo’ music—some of which will ho played by Mr J. A. Wallace at Tuesday’s concert—was saved from possible oblivion. The programme abounds in the glorious creations of the master. This evening, from 8 till !), in tho Bristol Concert Chamber, Mr G. W. Johnstone will lecture, giving interesting details about the songs to he sung, and illustrations of tho genius displayed in the accompaniments. AH interested are cordially invited to be present.