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MUSICAL NOTES.

RECENT GRAMOPHONE, RECORDS: A REVIEW.

[BY ALLEGRO]

Norman Ling' singing The Morn- tag and Norah Blancy's revival of Oh Mr. Porter are both amusing So is a dramatic sketch in which Sybil Thorndyke appears, called Təl * Sheet the King; true, it la not supposed to be funny, but just listen to Sybil in the first half and Bes': whether you can suppress i D smile

The best Columbia dance record

Hackneyed Works,

ACCOUNTANT ABSCONDS?

ENTRUSTED WITH LARGE SUM TO PAY BILLS.

IN AID OF THE M.C.L.

for rhythm is probably Cupid's A report he been made to the In reviewing gramophone records Army, and Tell Me Darling, played Police to the effect that a man of all sorts, and picking out the by the Berlin Danes Orchestra; an best of cach kind for commendation, interesting and unusual feature is named Lam Kai Foon, the account it is diloult to prevent one's per that the choruses are sung in ons of the import and export firm sonal prejudices from getting the German. I like also Don. Fabricio, of Cheung Yun Hong of Bonham upper hand. For instance, I have an Argentine Tango, which is Strand who was entrusted with n' bine in favour of 'orchestral 'one of many interesting tungo re- music, concertos, plane or violin cords sent for review.

225,000 to pay some bills yesterday, solos, vocal gems and selections

has since been discovered missing. from musicni comedies, Billy

It was stated that the man was Mayer syncopations, catchy, "clever" dance tunes and good humorous It did not secta possible that the earning a salary of $80 per month; Tocords. I am very suspicious of Gramophone companies would bring and he was sent operatio arias sung by vocal gym out any more versions of the morning with the sum mentioned tout early in the nnats am not keen on military Londonderry Air. This melody has. bands, and have a rooted dislike for been played to death. HM.V and above to pay certain bills, How- stunt organ solos, banjo, cornet Columbia alone have recorded it ever, he failed to return to the and concertina items, yodelling, thirteen times. You can hear it shop up till a late hour last even- sacred songs, Haiwaiian music played by two orchestras, an octet, and noisy American dance records sextab, two quartets, a trio, an ing when the matter was reported Consequently, it is very difficult for organista violinist and two to the police, no to praise anything done by, any, cellists it has also been sung by a brass band or concertina player. soprano and a contraits to some - If I do admit that such-and-such adapted words under titloof record might be good of its Danny Boy. But this month it has kind," "I still feel there may be burst forth again. It now appears on same who would hear it and wonder, forth again. It now appears on how! I could so far perjure my soul the harp, which is not, a satisfao But what is one man's meat is an- tory instrument; the tone sounds other's poison. It is my intention, thin, while the harmonies are poor. whenever reviewing of recent re- If anyone, nowadays still wants to corda is

On Thursday, October 22, the undertaken in these buy version of the Air, he would committee of the May Road branch columns, to try to pretend I am an advised to buy in preferense to of the H.R.W.C. & M. Cave a Average listener who has no special the Harp record, almost any other Bridge and Gold Drive at the Shek tastes but likes good recordings, of the thirteen renderings available. Į and judge the records in that Another hackneyed favourite O Country Club" when a sum of light.

which has surely been recorded, 500.40 was collected. more than enough is the Barcarolle The committee consists of Mrs. from The Tales of Hoffman Apart J. T. Bagram, Mrs. C. R. Benson, from the HM.V. orchestral and Mrs. Gordon Duclos, Mrs. D. J. cello recordings, you can get it on Fraser, Mra Frank Maitland and Columbia sung twice as a dues, and Mrs. A. L. Shields. played by orchestra, organ, trio, Prizes were given by Mrs. Bolero (Basel) Jack Payne and Guards band, octet, oello (twice) Harold Creasy, Grays Yellow Lan Orchestra, Ravel's Botero is a and cornet and trombone. As if term Shops and the committee. navelly, combining incessant rhythm this were not enough, it is now! The committee are indebted to with a gradual crescendo from rendered on the organ. On the the Board of Directors of the Shel pp to, as more and more in- other side of the diso 38 the O Country Club for the use of the strumentsioin in to swell the interment from "Cavalleria Rusti- Chub House and grounds, to the volume. When I first heard the cana," of which eight recordings British American Tobacco Company work I could not make up my mind, have already been made.

for cigarettes, to the ladies who whether I liked it or not, but it Want is the matter with the gave cakea and sweets and to the improves on acquaintance and has Gramophone Companies? Can they following for donations of money t

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Victor Records,

Marek Weber and his Orchestra provide two potpourris of Johand Strauss

For those who really enjoy the gales of a record of this kind1 Duggan, Mr. E. C. Fredericks, piece, the obvious course je to nur- may say that the dealers who Mrs. J. T. Bagram, Mrs. H. E. chase the full work on two 12 inch have to sell these records, make Goldsmith, Mrs. H. R. Taylor, records (LX 48/9). But there are so secret of their annoyance when Mine, A. Rollin, Mrs. E. Cock, Mrs. people who find this too mono- they find more versions of these over D. M. Biggar, Mrs. J. A. Pluminer tonous. (My mother, writing from played piepes making their appear and Mrs Edwin Taylor: England while the wireless was once. turned on, referred to a terrible thing coming over the air, called Bolero, in which the drums had Good old Tschaikowsky! How he been doing the same thing for ten loved a noiset, But he wrobe some minutes) Jack Payne's condensed very beautiful works, and his Gypay Songs and Dances. What a melodies and Russian version of it rises from ppp to fff Francesca do Rimini came to me a pity we hear "such a little of each on one side of a record, and for a revelation. It is played by the melody 1. That is the drawback of once I cannot quarrel with this London Symphony Orchestra on these potpourris. Just na you are drastia aatting-down of the originate two dises, and is the best Victor enjoying a tune, it breaks into I recommend the Payne record and release of the month. In July, 1876, something else. This is the kind suggest that listeners should play it Tchaikousky wrote to a friend of music that forms an excellent through at least four times before Early this morning I read through background for dinner-time gossip passing final judgment upon it. the fifth canto of Dante's Inferne, and the pleasantries of cocktail-

On the other sido is niece call- and was beset by the wish to com- time. en Entraure of the Little Faune, pose a symphonic poem, Fran- : When it was suggested to the cerca da Rimini. The work wasis Carroll Gibbon's playing of the My favourite of the whole batch Columbia dealer that the little completed by November. Wagner's Moonbeams Dance from Rookery frann apparently had hiccoughs, he influence is manifest in this work, Nook (piano, accompanied by anid that someone else had beep as particularly in the introduction." pleased as Punch over this item, The Victor String Ensemble play were sold on the day of arrival violin and saxophone). Six discs hut "couldn't stand the Bolero the first movement of the Moonlight and it is now necessary to order Which only shows that, one man's Sonata, and Godard' Adagio fresh ones through Moutries'. The

pembuka Pathetique, both complete with bell

effects, which for some reason the record a B2347, and you can order

ment.

Bach lovers will enjoy his Second Ensemble love to introduce. Both without hesitation, quan Suit for Flute and Strings, wecord-are played well, though the Beeth ed by Mengeiberg and his Amater oven is given rather leavy treat dam Orchestra. Lese satisfactory ment.

name.

Puzzle" Records.

The other good records are: The sold by Raie da Costa, and a dance *Mutch Purale, "a syncopated piano is the Paris Orchestre Symphoni- The only vocal record received is one, Out of Nowhere, by Ambrose que's performance of Danse Maca Giali's Musica Proibita, composed, and his Orchestra. bre, which sounds laboured, and antess my eyes deceive me, by Flick falls fan short of the other record- Flock S. Gastaldon, whose musio inga.

sounds better than his

H.M.V. have now started bring- The B.B.C. Wireless Military Gigli's voice is more like Caruso's ing out records with three tunes Band has made a good record of than any living tenor's, and its on one side. They call them The Funeral March of a Marionette, richness is faithfully reproduced on On the other side is Sinding's his records UN Bustle of Spring, which wan It s difficult to enthuse over any written for piano and always of the monthly batches of American sounds mord satisfactory in the dance numbers, and fortunately, I solo instrument...

puzzle" recorda. It is dificult to find any attraction in them. There are three grooves, and it is absolutely a toas-up which tane you are going to hear when you pat don't have ito. But when there is the needle un the record. By chance" Special mention must be made of one that is distinctly superior, "it I heard two different tunes in two Huberman's violin solos, La Pre-is worthy of montion. This time attempts, but it was quite a time ejeuse (Elgar) and Chopin's Vale it is the High Hatters' Come to in C sharp minor," which are very Me, composed by the Da Sylva well played and recorded, and Mur-} Brown-Henderson combination, who doch's rendering of two Rachmani have written any enthy tunes hoff Preludes, in which his piano 1.tone is better than usual,

(Need-

Inse to say, one of them is The " Prelude; yet Rachmaninoff wrote forty preludes, most of which are never played, nt all)."

H.M.V. Records, "...

before I was able to discover the third. This puzzle, is, I suppoAL, their justification, but when you are looking for one tune and con- tinually get another (one you are surely more tempted to break the record than chortle over its dovelty. The H.M.V records received are. It is not as though the tunes were usually of the lighter variety, for really worth hoaring when very few of their celebrity records through to them. find their way out here.

J'ou

get

Noel Coward and Gertrude Law- Messrs. Andersons have received

We stem to be- inundated with rence have recorded two short scenes some more sets of In a Persian excerpts from the White Horas qut of the former's play, "Privato Thero' are vocal gems by Lives," in which the talking parts Garden, Liza Lehmann's Song Inn. Cycle, aung by four well-known the Light Opera Company, songs are excellent. Unfortunately, half British singers. This is a most by Winnie Melville and Derek of the record consists of senti- popular work containing such Oldham-J Song of Love and mental ballads they sing to one favourites as "Myself When Young Your Eye and fox-trot and walls another. and neither of them sings and Moon of my Delight." The medleys by Jack Hylton and Orwell, Noel Loward's singing may recording is good and the set can be chestra. Personally, I find this" get over by, sheer fores of per thoroughly recommended:

musia very ordinary," not nearly sonality in the theatre," but on a The quartettes Three for Jack and so attractive as that of "Bitter record we are conscious only of a Four Jolly Saileremen stand cut Sweet," "The Girl Friend," The voice and a very adenoidy" one among the best, Norman Allen Lovo Race, etc. The prettiest at the

AGENT always records, well, and those who piece is probably Your Eyes, which In fact, this alan is a "puzzle" love to hear a deep haas voice de appears also among the vocal gems record. It is a puzzle to anyone seonding gradually from the chest rather unusual sen shanty rosho has not been fortunate-though- to the abdomen will welcome his cord, reminiscent of the West to edo Noel Coward, how be can rondering of The Diver and Asleep minster Glen Bingers has been appear as a singer at 13 with f in the Deep. to pack made by John Goss and the Cathevoice so inadequately, trainod. - 31 Bonga of a different order are dral Male Quartet There is some have a record of his, intended, to sung und aung well-by Gerald thing incongruous in Cathedral ho serions on which he ain Adams on a Regal teminch: The Quartet singing Whisky is the Lorelei. ont of Thin Year of Walt For Saved For Me and Life of Man" and "Whisky gave Grace? On, listening to it one Springtime Reminds Me of Tom this red nose." There is some wonders hi ha bos the norve to Out of a very mediocre batch of thing unreal, too, about the choris-zing at all, let alone hereetarate Layton and Johnson songs one-ters putting their money on his warbling on a remord. But it Pardon Afe. Pretty Babystands Sally Brown because he drinks us much maintended merriment. out as a winner. It has a very rum and chews tobsode The shan If you don't tell your audienos catchy lanez This can also be heard ties are well interpreted and quite what it represents, they sometimer, as a dust on a Regal disc but the amusing. I midtake it for a hilar ffort of Columbin one is better.

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