The performers will assuredly! cree that this year's cancer, has fallen below the standard usually. In the first piece the work selected 's itself poor. Why does a second rate musician selec the Passion as a subject for composition? He ought urely to realize that he must put self in competition with Bach, Vandel, Gounod, not to name others. Imagine a second rate literary men selecting Paradise Lost as the sub-Sect of a new poem. Mr. Sonervell Seems as incapable of giving any fresh form of musical beauty to the thoughts of the Passion as he would be in the literary field had he entered the lists agains, Milton. Even the selection of words is poor. least three times we are biden to examine ourselves to see whether' on those "poor men", the runaway Giseiples, the question seeming to vake it for granted that we ourselves ere rather a poor lot, nor do the prayers attached to the first end second confession ge; us any great benefit. At any rate, we are "as you were" for the third self-investigation. What - does a man mean by such words as these?:
To Thee would I offer In trues, devotion My pride and my anger Selt-pity, self love
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