Readers of yesterday's Mubicipal Gazette may hare noticed with special interest that the concert o2 Sunday afternoon will be again what we may call one man concert and that th one man will be Tschsikowsky. The programme consists of four items, two of which, the "1812" overture' and two movements of the Pathétique Symphony, will be heard for the first time at these concerts, while two hitherto unbeard numbers will be added to the Casse-Noisette Suite, It is a thoroughly representative selection; and while the tinker of Kweichow Road, as announced elsewhere, has been squared, it is to be hoped that sickness will deal lightly with the orchestra. For if aay composer needs a fall complement of instruments it is Techaikowsky, if the tone-colour in which be is so rich is to be traly rendered. In many respects a Lechaikowsky concert should prove wore interesting than one exclasi deawa from Wagner, certainly thoo Mendelssohn concert.' Techaikowsky is still something of an aoknown book so far as the Town Hall concerts are concerned. As a composer be is, perhaps, more characteristically Russian than any other, if we except the less well-known and far lest melodious Balskireff, Rabinstein, through whose in-fence Tschaikowsky took to music as professional career, has been described rightly enough as diggaised German and the same applies to Glazsunow. At. his worst (and this part of him certainly does not appear la Sunday's programme) Techsikowsky is simply mediocre. At hia best, he is warely to be ranked with the immortals. Personality shows so strongly in music, perhaps more than in soy other art, that one can hardly refrain from finding a reflexion of Techaikowaky's life in his masic. He failed repeatedly before he won success his married life was mysterious and anbappy; once he tried to commit suicide; and it is noticeable that his operas to which he most passionately devoted himself were with the exception of Eugen Onegin, by no means the most meritorious of his work. Can these events be traced in his music?
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