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Contors VERNON HANDLEY,
On behalf of the Rotary Club,
Guildford.
The Rotary Club have asked us to make a special plea for
your support at
this
concert.
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BAX AND ALL THAT . NOVEMBER 14th
Wnen the posters announcing the first of the Season's "Enterprising"
Concerts went up on the bill-boards some Elders of the Town,
noticeably winced and looked elsevhere.
the
on passing them,
Alderman Barry Ficklin,
present at
concert in his official capacity, must have been reassured at the sight
of the huge and eager audience.
With the platform equally crowded and studded
with some of the finest orchestral players in Europe, the semse of occasion
was almost palpable.
Audience reaction at the end of the
described as an ovation.
concert can be fairly
These notes ave written in advance of press and other
oritical motices but we shall not be disarming the pundits by saying that some of
the individual performances were virtuoso.
The younger members of the sudience,
whose interests in music may be shared betwsen neo-classiciem snd modern jazz,
must have been startled and captivated by the clarinet playing in tte Blacher.
There was at least one miniature score of the Bax Symphony fluttering in the
audience, but no such visual aid vas necessary to appreciate the technical
accomplishment of somo of
the oboe passages.
As for the Stravinsky,
we read
somewhere beforehand of some speculation as to how the Festival Choir,
firmly