Mr. Crompton's last recital for this season was given on Wednesday night, and was in several respects the best of the series, besides being varied by a couple of vocal items that were not on the list."
After the well-worn but ever welcome, "March from Athalie," there were four short pieces from Mr. Crompton's own pen, in all of which the composer's good Tate in an apparent as is his technical sll, The Andante Alla Marcia strikes us as being the best of the quartet. It is needless to say that they were played with excellent feeling and effect, the imitative passages in the Andante being particularly charming.
the grand offertoire in C, by Wely, burst Alter these light and_piguant-moreeav, in with strong contrast. ' Notwithstanding the beauty of some of the passages in this composition, it is not "taking" as a whole, and falls far behind its successor, the well-Known offertoire in G, in popularity. A Mendelssohn "Song without Words"
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