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MUSIC-LOVERS
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Attendances
at
the
events
of
the
¢ fourth annual Gulldford Summer
i1 Music Festival are providing a com"plete answer to those who felt that,
: in choosing a large propertion of
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Mr.
known,
popularly
not
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DirecBorough
the
Clitheroe,
r. Crossley
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of
Music,
was
jeopardising
sup-
port.
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The County Technical Coljege Hall
yy Was filled for Saturday's percormance
of the Bach Mass in B Miner, there
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5, Was another satisfactory audsence for
iq the string concert in St. Mary's
ie Church on Monday, although the pro-
‘e Sramme
was
composed
la*gely
of
~~
js Seldom-heard works by contemporary,
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the Wednesday, concert
m composers;
as drew an audience double th size of
ig the event on the same evering last’
iyear;
and
the
lunch-hour
chamber,
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‘music at Guildford House on Tuesday
ag and Thursday was enjoyed by many
yn business people, who took théir eane-7 1H
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to Wiches with them.
q-. Last (Friday) evening's event was
je a lecture-recital on the music of;
1e Brahms and Liszt, and the Festival
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tg Will reach its climax to-morrow, when...
»q Mr. Crossley Clitheroe will share the
iq rostrum at the afternoon concert at an |
ul] the Odeon with Dr. Arthur Bliss. The tne
‘great composer will conduct his own)
‘compositions,
including
his plano.) 488
at forte concerto, in which Sbulamith Tue:
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iq Shafir will be the soloist.
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Both the
Orchestra
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SRAM AF = he ERNE
Municipal
and
the
Philtarmonic
Chotr,
Festival
conducted by Crossley Clitheroe, distinguished themselves in the performance of the B Minor Mass, and
Parry Jones was notable among the
soloists.
A notice of this event ap-
peared in the mid-week “Surrey Ad'vertiser,” together with a notice of|
‘the concert at St. Mary’s Church, at
which two of the composers whose
works were played, Newell Wallbank
‘and William Wordsworth, ware pre-
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sent.
On Wednesday the orchestra and
<i
performed
p>»
the smaller Philharmonic Choir pro‘vided an interesting contrast with the
‘Bach
Mass
they
when
‘Fauré’s Requiem.
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Here again was devotional music of)
great beauty, but intimate, personal
‘and dramatic as against the massive
splendour of the Bach. This neglected example of French 19th:century
music was presented with a “awlessness in execution and an intinsity of
feeling which showed it as the master.
niece it is—a thing of grace Without
‘floridity, of passion without grandi-
‘he choir, singing with fine con-
loquence.
itrol, brought the work to ® superb
iolimax in the agonised “Libera Me,”
jfollowed by! the soaring
cadences of)
“In Paradisium,” and in the former)
Fielden Buckley, the bass soloist, sang
with real dramatic power, despite the
; fact that his voice was ratheyr light.
18-years-old schoolgirl, Pamela)
» was an excellent ch
‘the soprano solo
“Pie Jesu." for it)
‘called for a bell-like purity of tone}
Jand expression—the ethereal quality
lof a perfect treble.
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EXACTING TEST
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gramme
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ly Mozart
6: comprised one of the
eee tend 27 in G—with a
and
4
7: Peau ant second movement
rather dull third; the adagietto move-
‘ment from Mahler's Fifth Symphony.
‘and Elgar's Serenade for Strings.
"The Mahler was a real test for the
conductor
orchestra,
and
passed it fees Segneeds
and
they
Not only
‘were the extreme technical difficulties
imastered, but the work was’ ie bet
q with appreciation for thé smoulder, ing emotional fire which characterpiises the work of ® composer who
‘thought of himself, with a certain
Beethoven's
lamount of justice, as ce
schieved
i, successor. The performan
Miso much more than mere competence
lS that even those who already recogYnised that Guildford had something
out of the ordinary in proviricial or-
SaoOem.
eOQGSm,
e te
Boe*
nced
\.-\chestras were left with an renha
ine
th
he
it
ne
y
e respect, Obviousl the conduvytor nor
y, sight and vision of
k the range of the orchestra limit programme selection at Guildford.
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NEW QUARTET
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at the first of the two lunch-hour
yirecitals
the
artistes
were Peggie)
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Sampson (‘c. ello)AtandtheResec
ond (on
(pianoforte)
-~
rsday) the Meinardi String Quarof
Thu
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tet were unable to appear becaus
I*\an accident to their leader, and their),
i making one of thetr first public ap-)
e-
pearances.
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They are proteges of the famous
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e them, live
91/Griller Quartet, and, lik
ir lives to the
altogether and devote the
st form of -musical
re|service of this pureplaye
d quartets by
a expression. They
al|Haydn and Mozart. and made @ very
n)
favourable impression indeed. Whe
the)
,
officially launched next yeérach
ieve
sly
“a Gibbs Quartet will obviou
in
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tio
uta
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considerable
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the world of chamber music.
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