Mr. Bohus Ulmann, pianis Prague in Czecho-Slovakia, was troduced to a section of Shanghai's musical public at the Navy Y. C. A. last Priday evening, Reveal a certain catholicity of taste in music, Mr, Ulmann betrays traordinary powers of interpretation, playing with the meticulous attention to theoretical require ment exhibited by all who are thoroughly instructed in the use of a given instrument.
He chose to be heard, first, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata which he made to convey the effect of luna endeavouring to penetrate storm clouds, rather than the benign effulgence commonly conceived to have been the basic idea of the master, In the Liszt nocturne that followed, he was somewhat more happy.
Mr. Ulmann's own "Thema con 'Variazioni a Fuga," which, we are informed, won the first prize in the' Natio Musical Competition of 1924 Gzecho-Slovakia, conforms f to a composition in polyphonic style, Tt reminiscent of much that is best in musie, proving the composer to we been well-grounded by his structors. In the second half of the evening, Mr. Ulmann essayed the First Scherzo of Chopin, as well as an Hungarian Rhapsody of t, in which last, the soloist's. Pronounced tendency to fortissimo was not unpleasing.
Dr, E. L. Hal ted by Mrs. T. G. McConnelt, a sympathetic accompanist, was heard in "Go Not, Happy Days' from Benjamin Whelfley's song cycle based on Tennyson's "Mau "and later, in "The Two Grenadiers." very pi ing light baritone won him hearty applause,
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