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SOME OF THE RECENT WORKS
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BRIGHTON MUSIC.
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Brighton-Brighton Musical Fes- tival concludes with a very heavy programme of brass band, string Instruments, and elocution competi tions.
Great success has attended. the festival. Not only were the 1,500 entries a 60 per cent. increase on last year, but public interest in the various events, as reflected by the large and enthusiastic audi- ences, has shown a most encourag- ing advance.
Country dancing and eolcution contests were judged respectively by Mr. Douglas Kennedy and Mr. Alexander Watson. Mr. Kennedy said that he had been
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1928.
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It is too much to expect that opera, bamused as it is with the
[By Herbert Hughes,] cruder emotions and the purple pas-
No one, not even Debussy him- sages of life, should have attemptself, has been more successful in ed to embrace gastronomy in its would-be synthesis of the arts. But putting musle to the verae of Faul Verlaine than Poldowski. (A pity when one remembers that eminent that one may not write Poldowska, composers have not Infrequently so that one might, without effort, been epicures Rossini and Wagner refer ta, Lady Dean Paul's creative being two conspicuous examples self in the proper gender!) A set- and that signers are notorious for ting of "A Clymene" is lasued by their addiction to the pleasures of J. and W. Chester (who also publish the table, it is rather surprising that the characters of opera, on the a number of instrumental pieces by rare occasions when they are per- the same composer), and that ex mitted to dine, have to do so with quisite poem is, so to speak, launch-
ed on a new career. Ouly the pleased with the dancing he had such conspicuous discomfort. :
"Not only," he said, There is Scarpia, for instance, French school, could have produced witnessed. He has the makings of a gourmet, music of this type-so "juste" in its has it been good in itself, but it has and in a less troublous world than relation to the verse-as only been marked by the country danca Puccini's he might have been able France could have produced Ver- spirit of good fellowship, a working to follow the quiet gleam which aine. The music goes slowly and together with a certain amount of sapidity sheds on its votaries, sub- quietly, practically keyless until the intensity and concentration, and yet duing the baser passions and ensur-end, reproducing the inflection of with a basis which is purely light- the speaking voice and giving to it hearted. I hope the dancers from ing that your true gastronomer
a subtle and evanescent harmonic the Sussex villages I have seen are shall rise from the table a better as background. It is all so effortless representative of a large number well as a stronger man. But he is never given a chance, poor fellow! and so restrained, and so beautiful- of people who are dancing in the Puccini loads the dice against ly proportioned, that one is tempted districts from which they come. him from the very beginning of that to call it classical in essence. A That, after all, is the purpose of the fatal suppor.
He is told, for in- "Pastorale" for clarinet (in C) and festival movement-to get the mass stance, to show agitation and dis- piano, a short piece, shows the same of the people, as. distinguished quietude, and to look at his watch mastery of the medium in hand, and from professionals, to dance and from time to time. Could there be is as truly classical as a Greek vase, sing and play, a more inauspicious start for any though the idiom is of the present day. A "Study," a "Sonatine," and meal? Yet he is sufficient of a con- The Hall of Machinery-Wem- noisseur to dialike music whilst he sups-where Don Giovanni faila bley" are for piano solo; the first a sadly--and he rises to shut the win brilliant prestissimo, the second dow when the Gavotte from the neo-classical, the third a daring essay in impressionism. There is personality in all these things.
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MUSIC JUDGES' HIGH PRAISE.
Bournemouth. High praise was given to the competitors in the elo- cution classes by Mr. Acton Bond and Miss Katle Thomas, who adju dicated in these contests at the Bournemouth Musical Competitions There were 225 entries Festival.
things he shows that petentialities
To the Chester Library have been of finer living were his-he wipes his glass Bordeaux fashion, only to added a "Rhapsody" for flute and spoil the gesture by drinking Span- plano, and an "Idyll" and "Elegy" ish wine, and he admits to the for flute and string quartet (or curiosity which the gourmet shares piano) by Arthur Barclay, the musi with all other Seekers in asserting cian who has for many years past in the eight elocution classes, and that he wishes to taste of as many done such excellent work at the Mr. Bond sald that the average Oratory. Good' flautists are few, standard was high throughout and of the "opera divina" as he can, though here he is not confining him and their repertory is limited. They a great improvement on last year. self to food and drink, as the hon-will welcome these well-written Miss Thomas had special praise for pieces. Chestere also issue a "Pre-{ the competitors in the sight reading ourable epleure should do.
Scarpia fails, and it is better not lude-Caprice" and a "Prelude-Nor- classes for juniors_under_14. Of to waste sympathy on auch an unturne" by Sellm Palmgren, "Ballade the winner, Uraula Stratton, of No. 2," by Josef Holbrooke, Bournemouth, she said she had not pleasant creature. All the same, he might have been capable of bet- "Swifts," by Lealle Bridgewater, ter things, as he shows in his half- "La Croix de Granit," by Yves aside, after Mario has been taken Goeau, and a clever yolume called "Enfance" by Len Kok--all for away: "My poor little supper has piano solo; and a "Cueca" for two been interrupted."
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"In Honour of the City" is the title of a new Fantasia for Chorus and Orchestra by George Dyson
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Many little children endure miseries when teething, In the hope of casing these sufferings Bome parents unwisely "administer from a poem by William Dunbar teething powders, sleeping draughter(c. 1,500), a unean in praise of Lon-
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heard better reading from adults,
Sir Richard Terry judged the first batch of adult choral classes and, speaking of the women's institute choirs from the villages, said that while their technique was in its early stages, he thought women's institute choirs could be made a great musical factor in this coun try.
Under the direction of Clifford
Hamilton that celebrated play, "The
Unknowa Warrior" began a provin-
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clal tour at the Opera House, Blackpool. Later it visited Man- chester, Sheffield, Brighton, East or soothing mixtures, all of which don and her "most delectabic lusty bourne, Harrogate, and other towns. contain poisons, are therefore in- indies bright," her-prelates, her Mr. Hamilton had been lucky jurious, and only give temporary merchants, her commerce, rellef by inducing unnatural, un-churches, her river, bridges, walls, enough to secure the services of Maurice Browne in his original role, healthy sleep.
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