The Shanghai Choral Society has already established itself in the favour of musieslover interest will to be given on December 11 when for the frst time the Society will attempt jocular work in a programme cot sisting of Handel's "Acis and Galate: and Mendelssohn's "The First. Wal-urges." Handel wrote the music for "Acis and Galatea" when he was in the service of the Duke of Chandos Edgware and when the London amateur used to travel to Edgware to hear the Ducal conductor's music, In the early eighteenth century that was 4 real pilgrimage of musical devotion. Mendelssohn merits attention just now because it was in 1835—a_ hundred years ago—that he reached the highest position then attainable in the German mu steal world by appointment as Director of the Gewandhaus concerts at Leipzig. His first concert in that capacity was given on October 4, 1835, when hig overture "Die Meerestil was presented, British Shanghailanders have good reason to show honour to these two German composers for both were great favourites. with English audiences. Indeed George Frederick Handel became a naturalized Englishman in 1726 when he was 41 and he ig. buried in Westminster Abbey. However, the programme to be given by the Choral Society may be commended purely on the artistic merits of the selections made and on the rep-Utation which the Society "has been fable to establish under the baton of ts honorary conductor, Mr. W. J. Dexter. of native mine products was established at Wuchow, Kiangsi, on Sunday. The headquarters will frst handle wood all, wolfram, lead and other mine exports. Branches will be established in Canton and Hongkong.
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