After a month's interruption of its activities during June, the Municipal Orchestra will open' the Summer Open-Air Concert Season in Jessfield Park to-morrow with a special grand concert, at which the two famous soloists: Mishel Piastro, violinist, and Joseph Schuster, cellist, will appear in solo and ensemble numbers.
This will be a splendid opportunity to hear amid the beautiful surroundings of Jessfeld Park these two artists who have already won the highest appreciation of Shanghai's music-loving public at their two concerts given in the Nanking Theatre, and in a programme composed of the most celebrated and familiar works of the violin and cello repertoire.
Mishel Piastro, the assistant leader of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, is considered in America as one of the most brilliant exponents of the violin, and his renditions are known for beauty of tone and impeccability of technique. At tomorrow's concert, accompanied by the orchestra under the baton of Maestro Paci, Piastro will thrill the public by playing the familiar "Gypsy Song" by Sarasate and the Suite by Sinding. The cellist, Schuster, the young solo-cellist also of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, will play the popular Concerto by Saint-Saens with the Orchestra. In the second part of the programme, he will delight the audience with a group of short and familiar pieces with piano accompaniment Line Mr: Kennedy said that the Dollar Line owed the Government $15,000,-
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