ORGAN RECITALS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13728, 17 March 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

ORGAN RECITALS.

For bis mit-als at the School cs-i Mush: on Sahn-dav, Mr John Tait gave v programme from the works of Hanciei. i\lo/-art, Mendelssohn, Wagner,. GuHr.'iant and Unbois, showing Uiat true- art has a unity which, rises- superior to lutionis-l conflir.i's. An outstanding it-cm was the prelude U> "Parsifal." In a note oil the programme ihe organist writ .sard that many would be .clad to make the- acquaintance ot this orchesfcc-il piece even as an organ <-oli>. Mr Tait also played! the following compositions : —Concerto in F nuiior 010. 4) (-HiM'-do]), Adagio in O maior (,\*ozß?b), Prshido and iruguo in 1) minor (MenuelsseJiri), "Funeral ViarcJi :in-d J-ivnui nf U-o Seraphs (I'-'rihnont-), Toccata in G major (i>uix>ir). The audierioys at hotii porformjmmts ?)t'«rri :«:!:o noUMvortliy selections pijr^-i in u.n e-xcallc'-nt uianneE. Iho •«-,-,iUjOtk>?ir-; v-,v.-t! i'or- disli-osscd UnI'oijs and Ht'.i^'i'.r'o. Tiie af'-ernoon col-it'f-i'ioa t-oki]!' .1 C 2 2k 3d, and that in Lhvevc--niti-r i'l as 9<l. An autiienf- oi pood si/,e asscmolcd ;.:!t the SehooJ of Musifi <>n Saturday ::i^Vit for the scci|n«l of the organ recit:i'i.Tarrange? by Mr John 'Inlt in aid of Hio British ;r;f' jV'.^i.-ui Kclioc Fund. ri!it> '.•,•;!.!• i* i!;>i>:vmoKt in everyone's I'KHi.'Jchtr-;, rmd it was nppiopnato that tlio oY^aniM should wulny \\p his part oiithe omii,;urr.mi> with iteim> l>v English a>:d B<"ii2,mn ccrs'.poirers. I!o played thy toilowing tiircr-s: —Aridaiito in E minor (Henry Smo?t\ 'sHpnnu Song" (Aifreci Hoi]ins), "Thr- Answer" ("VV. Wolstenholir.e). "Air cut Dauphin" (J. L. iloiH-kd). a* arr.".»ged by \V. T. Best, and Triumphal .March (Loirimenir). Jji© lioilins nuir.lwr was iucliu'.ed in the listbv request. Mr Tait ,-renth- plpased the axidk-v.ev. and was warmly apjvlauded esiK'ciallv at tlip end of the rich roiling; .Marrli. For the K'c-ond part ot the j>7-o!j;ramine there; was v recital by Miss Jean Martin of tiio I'irst Canto ot: ''The Lady of tho Lake.'' This part of Sir "Waiter Scott's poem contains the description oi the sta»' hunt which skirted the ru^ed base of .Ben Venue, tiie meeting of Kllou and the Stranger on the shores oi Loch Katrine, with FitflJiimes's dri-aui and the vjvid delineations of sconery wli:c-h malce th-j poom an intlisptusable mutoe-book i'or those who visit the Tro.ssacUs. iliss Martin v.-a.s letter perfect, nnd gare tho poetry with spirit and discernment, but it is to be feared that in ihe large hall, with many people sitting at the hack, she was not well heard by thorn all. FJdr interpretation of Ellen's.song "Soldier, rest!" was entirely beautiful. Tho collection made during tPto evening realised £1 10s. At the lirst lf-iital of tins series £4 7s 6d was collected. Thesa sums, less expenses, go to the abovenamed fund.