Musical entertainments in Shang-hal so seldom include British artists, good and sufficient reason that of other nationalities have ly better claims to attention, that the appearance of-Clifford Huntsman at the Municipal Orchestra's Symphony Concert on April 25 deserves notice. This journal's musical critic has said enough of Mr. Huntsman's debut to justify the expectations founded on private reports {rom England and public accounts of his successful tour in other Eastern countries prior to his arrival here. Mix. 0. M.'Green, whose own prod dency at the plane makes his opi-lon. worthy of attention, has paved the way for Mr. Huntsman with some extremely "pleasant tributes. In the course of last week—at the Cathay "Hotel on Friday evening to be exact—Mr, Huntsman gave a recltal in which Shanghai musie-lovers had a fuller taste of his quality.
a musician has declared, Mr. Huntsman's extremely tender' and Gelicate touch is specially suitable to the intimate conditions of a solo fecltal.. His exceptional talents therefore were most favourably disclosed at the recital 'Apart 8 a musician he is personality who has the modern artist's aptitude for tak-Jing a wide vision of men and affairs outside his" particular metier, His jert thus gains in depth, insight and breadth of appeal, not' always. dis~ cernible in executants who stick too rigidly to their last.
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