Phere was a crowded assembly at the Cathedral on Monday night to take part in the Jubilee Organ Recital, which varied from the ordinary run of these functions inasmuch as the congregation were invited to join in no less than three of the numbers. The first of these was the old German hymn Now thank we all our God," but we missed the heartiness which characterises its performance in the Vaterland.
th the exception of Hesse's Fantasia on God Save the Queen" which has not been heard in Shanghai for many a long day, the organ music, as befitted such an occasion, was of a well-known and popular character, the "Cornelius" March, a Pastorale, Guilmant, with its quaint reed melodies, the ever welcome Andante in G., Batiste, and the popular Grand Offertnire, 'Wely, being the selection. In the Fantasia, on the National Anthem the listener found it @ifficult to decide whether most to admire the charm of some of the movements, or to wonder at the' extraordinary effects into which 'a scientific niusician can torture a popular air. There could however be no two opinions as to the brilliancy of the organist's exectition in this and the other instrumental numbers. " Neither is it possible to speak in too high terms of Jansen's rendering of the Caratinu by Bohm. Having taught Shanghai audiences to expect great things from her, Miss Jansen never fails in satisfying them.
'The single vocal solo, Mr. Crompton's own setting of 'Praise my soul the king of Heaven," fell to Mr. Clapp'slot. Thougi not in his best voice, he ssu in giving a very pleasing' rendering of this admirable composition, and was, it is needless to say, most sympathetically accompanied on the organ by the composer.
The choir sang two anthems, Gounod's "Sent out thy light," and Stainer's Let every soul be subject," accompanied, while Mr. Crompton conducted, by one of his organ pupils, Mr. G. F, Lanning.
An enthusiastic rendering of the National Anthem brought this successful recital to a fitting close.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.