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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 26 May 1904, Page 15

Writing of the Elgar Festival in London in March, the ' Tablet ' says : — ' It is not too much to say that Dr. Elgar has now established himself as the greatest composer that this country has yet produced. The name of Purcell, of course, rises up to challenge this assertion. There is no need to draw comparisons between two composers whose conceptions of their art and whose places in history are so far apart. Purcell died When Bach was a boy ; the Catholic composer of today is essentially a disciple of Wagner. But tins we may say : that Purcell 's was a small and fragile, though withal a beautiful genius • Dr. Elgar's is unquestionably a grave and wide and exalted one, as the recent Festival has conclusively shown. The attendance was indeed remarkable. The huge auditorium of the Opera House was full on each of the three evenings, and was crammed to overflowing when Dr Elgar's setting of Dr. Newmans poem, " The Dream of Gerontius,' received a magnificent rendering. The King and Queen were present on Monday and Tuesday, and the Queen also on Wednesday. We also noticed such celebrities as Dr. Joachim, Mr. Henry Wood, and Mr. Sargent. The gatherings were in every sense representative, and Dr. Elgar was enthusiastically summoned and applauded at the end of each performance.'

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