Last Sunday evening's programme jat the Town Hall, being devoted jexelusively to the works of Tschai kow sky, "perforce had a special Jappeal to one section of the community, and these were not slow to take advantage of the offering.
Mr. P, Selivanof, whose excellent, voice has been heard more than on jin conjunction with our symphony] Jorchestra, found audience sympathetically responsive to hi rendering of excerpts from "Euger JOnegen" and "Jolanta.
The two movements for string Jquartette, in D major, were delight. fully performed. Messrs Foa, Fedoroff, Podushke, and Shevtzoff, fare as one man in their playing, s0 Jaccustomed have they become to functioning as a quartette.
The "Pathetique" was noteworthy] for the inclusion of the the fourth movement, the Adugio lamentoso. There is no question but that, supervening as it does upon the distinctly triumphal Allegro, it is something of aa anti-climax, plunge Ing the hearer once more into uncomfortable melancholy. Its value, Jorchestrally, however, is such as to forbid its exclusion from any performance of this symphony.
Altogether an interesting concert, perhaps a bit on the heavy side, Dut nevertheless appealing strongly to the believer in strict adherence to formal concepts RRL.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.