Holy Trinity Cathedral, gave an organ recital at St' Andrew's Church on Thursday. The programme was in two distinct parts, old English Masters, and modern Russian and Scandinavian masters. and this arrangement gave material for interesting comparison. The seventeenth century music of John Stanley, Charles Wesley, John Bennet, Thomas Adams, John Christopher Smith, T. A. Arne, and Maurice Greene, was almost primitive in conception and appeal compared with the modern vague and haunting search for emotional effect, characteristic of the Melody in E. (Rachmaninoff), the Valse Triste (Sibelius), Tschaikowsky's "Andantino," and that almost perfect incarnation of the mournful, Grieg's "Death of Ase." The contrast in style suggested sudden transformation from the easy and comfortable assurance of ''Cran-ford" to the fretful, unhappy "City of Dreadful Night" to which James Thompson gave a beauty tinged with sadness and a consolation rooted in despair. If the old com-vasers knew anything of this, they very strictly refrained from putting into their music.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.